Supervised
PhD projects at Bremen: present and pastSupervised
PhD projects at Bremen: present and pastThis page provides a listing of the PhD activities I am supervising or have supervised at the University of Bremen since joining the university in 1999. There are three categories: running (up until publication), finished (published) and terminated for other reasons prior to submission. Running dissertations presented in boldface have been submitted.
| Areas | Work can be considered in any of the areas of relevance to the applied linguistics, computational linguistics and multimodal linguistics programmes at Bremen, but work in discourse analysis, computational linguistics, multilingual and multimodal descriptions, computational and formal ontology, and functional grammar is particularly encouraged. |
| Regulations | Carrying out PhD work is subject to the regulations for Promotionen as they apply to either Fachbereich 10 (linguistics) or Fachbereich 3 (informatics) of the University. The current regulations and forms of the University can be downloaded from the site of the responsible university committees, e,g., the Promotionsausschuss, here. Dissertations can be written in English or German. The newly created Graduate Center of the University also has useful information. |
| Funding | There are currently no PhD-Stipends or grants available from my research group or from the Faculty. Such funding needs to be explicitly applied for by the applicant from a regular funding agency, such as the DFG or DAAD, if required. Research positions are occasionally available within funded research projects with specified goals and methods: check the research projects page for vacancies. |
| Start date, End date* | Candidate | Title | Area | Descriptions
and materials |
| 2012-2016 | Dolores Cabrera | The filmic construction of the figure of the vampire in Murnau,
Lang and Méndez through their textuality |
Film | |
| 2012-2015 | Daniel Couto Vale | Interpersonal/interaction ontology for multimodal dialogue systems | Computational Linguistics | |
| 2011-2015 | Vivien Mast | Generating Scene-based, Descriptive Route Instructions for Indoor Environments | Computational Linguistics | |
| 2010-2014 | Linn Gralla | Cognitive Discourse Analysis for Problem Solving | Linguistics | |
| 2009- | David Mautz | Film, Sprache und Musik - wie die Wahrnehmung, Segmentierung und Interpretation von Film und Sprache durch den Wechsel musikalischer Parameter manipuliert werden kann. | Multimodal Linguistics | |
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| Completed Dissertations (including publication details when available) | ||||
| 2009-2013 | Desislva Zhekova | Towards Multilingual Coreference Resolution | Computational Linguistics | |
| 2009-2013 | Nina Dethlefs | Hierarchical Joint Learning for Natural Language Generation | Computational Linguistics | Nina Dethlefs. 2013. Hierarchical Joint Learning for Natural Language Generation. IOS Press / AKA Publishing. In Series Dissertations on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 340. ISBN 978-1-61499-115-1. Amsterdam / Berlin. |
| 2008-2013 | Joana Hois | Modular Ontologies for Spatial Information | Ontology | |
| 2009-2012 | Jonas Koch | Erklärung
und Verstehen fiktionaler Filme: Semantische und ontologische Aspekte (funded by a UniBremen ZF stipendium in the Textuality of Film group) |
Film, Narration, Ontology | |
| 2009-2012 | Janina Wildfeuer | Coherence
in film and the construction of logical forms of discourse: Published as: Film
Discourse Interpretation Towards a New Paradigm for Multimodal Film Analysis,
London: Routledge, 2013. |
Multimodal Linguistics: Film | |
| 2005-2009 | Robert Ross | Situated Dialogue Systems: Agency & Spatial Meaning in Task-Oriented Dialogue | Computational Linguistics | |
| 2004-2009 | Chiaoi Tseng | Cohesion
in film and the construction of filmic thematic configuration : a functional
perspective URL
for published version (available online) |
Multimodal linguistics: film |
Dissertationskolloquium Overheads here © Chiaoi Tseng, 2009
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| 2001-2006 | Guowen Yang | A systemic-functional computational grammar of Chinese with particular attention to the Chinese aspect system. Published as: The Semantics of Chinese Aspects: theoretical descriptions and a computational implementation. European University Studies, Series XXI, Linguistics. Vol. 312. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2007. |
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url of the grammars developed during this work Dissertation defence Overheads here © Guowen Yang, 2006 |
| 2003-2005 | Thora Tenbrink | Localising objects and events: Discoursal applicability conditions for spatiotemporal expressions in English and German Original version
published as Bremen
Univ., Diss., 2005, Mikrofiche (Mikroplanfilm) |
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Dissertationskolloquium Overheads here © Thora Tenbrink, 2005 |
| 1999-2004 |
Chrystalla Thoma | The application of register theory in the translation of Cypriot folk tales into English Published as: Combining Functional Linguistics and Skopos Theory. A case study of Greek Cypriot and British Folkales. European University Studies. Series XXI Linguistics. Vol. 295. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2006. |
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Dissertation defence Overheads here © Chrystalla Thoma, 2004 |
| 1997-2004 | Brigitte Grote | German temporal markers and multilingual text generation URL
for published version |
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Dissertation defence overheads here © Brigitte Grote, 2004 |
| Dissertations Suspended or Completed Elsewhere | ||||
| 2002-2005 [terminated] |
Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla | An investigation of the potential of generation grammars for Computer-Aided Language Learning: Spanish / English A related body of work was published as: Lavid, J, Arús, J. & Zamorano-Mansilla, J. R. Systemic functional grammar of Spanish: a contrastive study with English. London: Continuum, 2010. A dissertation focusing on the Spanish and English temporal aspect subsequently appeared as: Zamorano Mansilla, Juan Rafael 2006. La Generación de Tiempo y Aspecto en Inglés y Español: un Estudio funcional contrastivo. Departamento de Filología Inglesa I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. |
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| 2005- | Tomasz Marciniak | Classification-Based Generation of Route Directions | Computational Linguistics | |
| 2006- | Paolo Dongilli | Natural Language Generation Applied to Intelligent Query Interfaces | Computational Linguistics | |
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