Vera Demberg
Vera Demberg | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
| Occupation | Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics |
| Title | Professor |
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| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Processing (2010) |
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| Discipline | Computational Linguist |
| Institutions | Saarland University |
| Website | www |
Vera Demberg (* 1981) is a German computational linguist and professor of computer science and computational linguistics at Saarland University.
Her research interests include cognitive models of human language comprehension, natural language generation, experimental psycholinguistics, multimodal language processing in a dual-task setting, and experimental and computational discourse research and pragmatics.[1]
Career and research
Vera Demberg studied computational linguistics at the Institute for Machine Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart from 2001 to 2006. She then completed a Master's degree in Artificial intelligence|Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh from 2004 to 2005.[1]
She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science there from 2006 to 2010. Her dissertation paper, titled “Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Provcessing”[2], was awarded the Cognitive Science Society's “Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science” in 2011.[3] In her work, she designed a model of human sentence processing that can be used to predict difficulties in processing at the syntactic level.[4]
From 2010 to 2016, Vera Demberg led an independent research group on cognitive models of human language processing and their application to speech Dialogue system|dialog systems in the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” at the University of Saarland.[5]
In 2016, she was appointed there to a professorship in computer science and computational linguistics. Demberg's professorship is in the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science). She is also a co-opted professor in the Department of Linguistics and Language Technology (Faculty of Philosophy).
Since 2020, she has led the ERC Starting Grant “Individualized Interaction in Discourse”. The project conducts research on how to make linguistic interaction with computer systems more natural.[6]
According to Google Scholar, Vera Demberg has an H-index of 30.[7]
Awards
- 2011: Cognitive Science Society Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science[3]
- 2020: ERC Starting Grant “Individualized Interaction in Discourse”[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg". Universität des Saarlandes (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ Demberg-Winterfors, Vera (2010). Broad-coverage model of prediction in human sentence processing. Edinburgh.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Glushko Dissertation Prize". Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ Demberg-Winterfors, Vera. "Précis of Thesis: A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence Processing" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ "Cluster of Excellence | Multimodal Computing and Interaction". Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ "Individualized Interaction in Discourse". Community Research and Development Information Service. 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ "Vera Demberg". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ↑ "Saarbrücker Computerlinguistin erhält Forschungsförderung der EU in Millionenhöhe". Universität des Saarlandes (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2022-11-24.
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