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RESUME  Melanie Siegel

Personal Information:

Name:	Prof. Dr. Melanie Siegel
Born:	13.10.1965 in Halle/Westf., Germany

Education

1972-1976	Primary school in Halle/Westf.
1976-1985	Grammar school in Halle/Westf. - Abitur
1985-1986	German studies, history and sociology, University of Bielefeld
1986-1991	Linguistics, literature and history
1991	Magister Artium in Bielefeld (Prof.Dr.D.Metzing). The title of the thesis is: "Aspekte der Generierung japanischer Wegbeschreibungen" (Aspects of generation of Japanese route descriptions).
1996	Ph.D. in Linguistics in Bielefeld (Prof.Dr.D.Metzing). The title of the thesis is: "Die maschinelle Übersetzung aufgabenorientierter japanisch-deutscher Dialoge. Lösungen für Translation Mismatches." (The machine translation of task-oriented Japanese German dialogues. Solutions for translation mismatches.)
2007	Habilitation in Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Bielefeld. The title of the thesis is: " JACY - A Grammar for Annotating Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Written and Spoken Japanese for NLP Application Purposes."

Stays Abroad

April 1988 -February 1989	Japanese language studies at the Reitaku University in Kashiwa-Shi.
August 1992 -September 1992	Two months research in Japan, founded by the Japan Foundation.
July 2001 - August 2001	Project work at YY Technologies, Mountain View, California.
November 2004 - December 2004	Two months collaborative research at NTT, Kyoto, Japan.

Professional Career

Since 2012	Professor for Information Science at Hochschule Darmstadt
2006 - 2012 2006        2004 - 2006	Computational Linguist at Acrolinx. Deputy Director Japan for the International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research organizing research cooperation initiatives between Germany and Japan Senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Projects SmartWeb, "Mobile Broadband Access to the Semantic Web", MAJO, "Multiple-Purpose Applied Japanese Open-Source Grammar Project" and  ACRO-CHECK (Style checking for technical documentation).
2002 - 2004	Acquisition and coordination of  the project 'DeepThought', Hybrid Deep and Shallow Methods for Knowledge-Intensive Information Extraction, Saarland University. Local Project leading (3 researchers, 5 student assistants) and international coordination (6 international partner institutions).
2001 - 2002	Acquisition and coordination of the project 'JACY' (HPSG for Japanese in an automatic email response application), industrial project for YY Technologies, Mountain View, CA. DFKI Saarbrücken
2000 - 2001	Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Projects 'Whiteboard' (shallow and deep processing) and 'Skate' (Grammar Checking).
1997 - 2000	Project 'VERBMOBIL', Japanese syntactic processing, Saarland University. Acquisition and project leading.
1995 - 1996	Project 'VERBMOBIL', Japanese syntactic processing, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken
1993 - 1994	Project 'VERBMOBIL', pre-studies for the Japanese language processing in Bielefeld. Acquisition and project leading.
1992 - 1993	Research assistant at the faculty of linguistics and literature of the University of Bielefeld (teaching)

Teaching

Winter Term 1997/1998: Saarland University, Department of Computational Linguistics: Phänomene der Topikalisierung (phenomena of topicalization), graduate course.

Winter Term 1998/1999: Saarland University, Department of Computational Linguistics: HPSG für das Japanische (HPSG for Japanese), graduate course.

Summer Term 2001: Saarland University, Department of Computational Linguistics: Probleme der Verarbeitung des Japanischen (problems of processing Japanese), graduate course.

Summer Term 2002: Saarland University, Department of Computational Linguistics: Block course on 'Practical Grammar Engineering Using HPSG'

Summer Term 2004: Saarland University, Department of Computational Linguistics: Block course on 'Practical Grammar Engineering Using HPSG'.

Winter Term 2005: Saarland University, Python for Computational Linguists.

Summer Term 2005: Bielefeld University, Einführung in die Maschinelle Übersetzung.

Winter Term 2008: Hannover University, Multimodale Integration von Wissen.

Summer Term 2009: Bielefeld University, Maschinelle Übersetzung

Winter Term 2009/2010: Saarland University, Language Checking

Winter Term 2009/2010: Hannover University, Wissensbasierte Systeme

Summer Term 2010: Hochschule Karlsruhe, Technische Dokumentation für den Internationalen Markt

Language Skills

German (native), English, Japanese, French, Latin.

Events, Participations, Talks

April 1999: Program committee member of the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 99) .

February 2000: Invited talk given at the Tsujii laboratory at Tokyo University ., "Particles in an HPSG for Japanese Spoken Language".

April 2000: Invited talk given at CSLI , "Particles in an HPSG for Japanese Spoken Language".

August 2000: Tutorial at ESSLLI , course by Dan Flickinger and Stephan Oepen, "Advanced Grammar Engineering using HPSG".

March 2002: Program committee member of the 9th International Conference on HPSG.

February 2002: Co-authored project proposal DEEP THOUGHT - Hybrid and Shallow Methods for Knowledge-Intensive Information Extraction, Commission of the European Union.

October 2002: Invited talk at CMU Pittsburgh, ""HPSG Processing of Japanese".

June 2003: Review for IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.

July 2003:  Reviewing for the First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2004).

August 2003: ESSLLI Workshop "Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development", organized in cooperation with Emily Bender, Dan Flickinger and Frederik Fouvry.

November 2003: Member of the Scientific Committee for the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004).

February 2004: Reviewing for the "Journal of Natural Language Engineering."

March 2004:  Member of Program committee of "20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics" (Coling 04).

June 2004:  Member of Program committee of "TMI-2004 - The 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation".

June 2004: Invited talks at NTT research, Japan, "JACY: A Japanese HPSG in a multilingual and application-oriented context" and "The "Heart of Gold" core architecture for hybrid language processing in the "DeepThought" project.

Aug. 2004: Reviewing for a special issue of the Journal of Computer Speech and Language on Multiword Expressions.

Aug. 2004: Invited talk at NTNU Trondheim: JACY and the Heart of Gold.

November 2004: Invited talk at NTT research, Japan, "JACY".

December 2004: Invited talk at Tokyo University, Japan, "HPSG Processing of Japanese".

December 2004: Invited talk at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, "HPSG Processing of Japanese".

December 2004: Invited talk at Kobe Shoin Women's University, Japan, "Implementing the Syntax of Japanese Numeral Classifiers".

February 2005: Member of Program committee of the 2nd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications.

May 2005: Reviewing for the Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing IJCNLP 05.

Nov. 2007: Review for “Brain and Language“ (Elsevier).

Aug. 2008: Panel on "Learning updated information about European localization and the near future of European TC.", JTCA, Tokyo.

Aug. 2008: Panel on "Localization for Japan", tekom Frühjahrstagung, Wiesbaden.

Jan. 2009: Member of the Scientific Committee for EACL 2009.

Sept 2011: Invited talk at W3C days Berlin.

Nov. 2011: Member of the Scientific Committee for LREC 2012.

Aug. 2012: Member of Program Committee for PACLIC 2012.