Curriculum Vitae

Overview - Invited Talks - Events - Other Activities

Overview

Since September 2011: Professor of English Computational Corpus Linguistics at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. [http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/]
October 2005 - September 2011: Juniorprofessor for Computational Linguistics at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany. [http://www.cogsci.uos.de/]
March 2005 - September 2005: Researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany. [http://www.cogsci.uos.de/]
30 August 2004: Dr. phil. in Computational Linguistics (grade: mit Auszeichnung bestanden), IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Thesis: The Statistics of Word Cooccurrences: Word Pairs and Collocations. [http://www.collocations.de/phd.html]. Supervisor: PD Dr. Ulrich Heid. [http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~uli]
September 1999 - February 2005: Research assistant in computational linguistics at the IMS (Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung), University of Stuttgart, Germany. [http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/]
6 July 1999: Diplom in Mathematics (grade: mit Auszeichnung bestanden), University of Stuttgart, Germany. Thesis: Das Verhalten von Lösungen der vektoriellen Helmholtzgleichung in Außenräumen für kleine Frequenzen unter elektrischen Randbedingungen (no joke :-). [http://purl.org/stefan.evert/PUB/Evert1999diplom.pdf] Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Werner. [http://www.iadm.uni-stuttgart.de/LstAnaMPhy/Werner/]
October 1991 - March 2000: Studies in Mathematics (major), English (major), and Physics (minor), University of Stuttgart, Germany. [http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/]
December 1991: Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (grade A pass).
16 May 1990: Abitur (grade: 1,0), Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Marbach am Neckar, Germany. [http://www.fsg-marbach.lb.bw.schule.de/]
13 October 1970: Born in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Invited Talks

Selected invited talks and courses:

Talks on Making Sense of Distributional Semantic Models at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2010) and the Tandem Workshop on Optimality in Language and Geometric Approaches to Cognitions (Berlin, December 2010)
Talks on Association & Word Meaning at the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria, January 2010) and the University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany, March 2010)
Tutorial "Korpuslinguistik mit Online-Ressource - eine interaktive Einführung für Linguisten", DGfS 2010 Conference (Berlin, Germany, February 2010; with Stefanie Dipper and Heike Zinsmeister)
Talk Inside Word Skteches at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW, Berlin, Germany, January 2010)
Talk series on Rethinking corpus frequencies: Understanding and managing non-randomness in corpus data
- latest handout: http://purl.org/stefan.evert/PUB/Rethinking_Corpus_Frequencies_2010.handout.pdf
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Lexicography, Valency and Collocation, University of Erlangen, Germany (December 2010)
- Computational Linguistics Group, LORIA INRIA Nancy, France (June 2010)
- Workshop Ontologien und Wortnetze in Lexikographie und Textwissenschaft, LexicoLux & University of Trier, Luxembourg (December 2009)
- Conference on Diversity in Language Corpora, University of Basel, Switzerland (April 2009)
- Linguistics Department, University of Konstanz, Germany (January 2009)
- Linguistics Department, Lancaster University, UK (December 2008)
- Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam, Germany (May 2008)
Talk Inside the IMS Corpus Workbench at the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain, September 2008)
Talk on The Significance of Corpus Frequencies at the Colloquium of the Chair of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany, January 2008)
Invitation to Expert Meeting on the Dutch Web as Corpus (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie & Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, The Netherlands April 2007)
ERASMUS visiting lecturer at CIMeC, University of Trento [http://www.cimec.unitn.it/] (Rovereto/Trento, Italy, March 2007)
Presentation Towards better association measures for collocation extraction at the Collocations and Idioms 2006 Conference, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin, Germany, November 2006)
Talk on Statistical Association and Natural Language in the Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany, May 2006)
Talk on The Web as Corpus at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden, November 2005)
Course on Statistical Methods for Corpus Linguistics at the European Academy (Eurac, Bolzano, Italy, September 2005)
Talk on Indexing and Interfaces for the Web as Corpus at the Workshop on the Web as Corpus (Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005)
Teacher at TWC seminar on The Case for a Corpus (Tuscan Word Centre, Siena, Italy, June 2005)
Talk on How Random is a Corpus? - The Library Metaphor at the Workshop on The Scope and Limits of Corpus Linguistics (FU Berlin, Germany, June 2005)
Talk on Using the Web as a Corpus: Procedures, Pitfalls, and my Pet Peeve at the LingLit Special Event 2005: Corpus applications in literary studies, linguistics and information technology (TU Darmstadt, Germany, February 2005)
Talk on Sketch of a WWW Interface for Very Large Corpora and Lexical Databases at the Symposium on the Web as Corpus (SITLeC, University of Bologna, Italy, January 2005)
Talk on Intuitive Association Measures (HU Berlin, Germany, December 2004)
Talk on Design Patterns for Richly Annotated Corpora at the Antragskonferenz DDD (HU Berlin, Germany, December 2003)
Consultant on tools for text corpora (GLiCom, UPF Barcelona, Spain, October 2001)
Consultant for the research project Computational Processing of Portuguese (SINTEF, Oslo, Norway, March 2001)
EURALEX tutorial on Tools for Corpus Lexicography with Arne Fitschen and Ulrich Heid (Stuttgart, Germany, August 2000)

Events

Workshop on Semantic Theory and Empirical Evidence, 18-19 September 2009, Osnabrück, Germany (with Carla Umbach and Cornelia Ebert). [http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~empiricalEvidence/]
ESSLLI 2008 Workshop on Distributional Lexical Semantics: Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations, 4-9 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany (with Marco Baroni and Alessandro Lenci). [http://wordspace.collocations.de/doku.php/esslli:start]
The 4th Web as Corpus Workshop: Can we beat Google? (WAC-4) at the LREC Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008 (with Adam Kilgarriff and Serge Sharoff). [http://WebAsCorpus.sf.net/WAC4/]
LREC workshop: Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008) at the LREC Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008 (with Nicole Grégoire and Brigitte Krenn). [http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2008/]
ACL workshop: A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2007) at the ACL Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, 28 June 2007 (with Nicole Grégoire and Su Nam Kim). [http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nicole.Gregoire/personal/ACL07-MWE/]
Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 (QITL-2) in Osnabrück, Germany, 1-2 July 2006 (with Peter Bosch, Graham Katz, Philip Reuter, Bettina Schrader and Carla Umbach). [http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~qitl/]
ACL workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties (MWE-2006) at the ACL/COLING conference in Sydney, Australia, 23 July 2006 (with Diana McCarthy, Suzanne Stevenson, Aline Villavicencio, Begona Villada Moiron). [http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~avillavicencio/mwe-acl06.html]

Other Professional Activities

Referee for various journals (Computers and the Humantities, Language Resource and Evaluation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Speech and Language, Research on Language and Computation, Natural Language Engineering, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Information Sciences), conferences (ACL, EACL, LREC, EURALEX, NODALIDA, etc.), and workshops.
Reviewer for book publishers (Mouton de Gruyter, Springer, CUP) and funding organisations (DFG, ISF)
Member of the ACL SIGLEX Executive Board (2004-2007) and the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (2011-)
Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Cognitive Science Society, the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) and the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology (GSCL)
ERASMUS & international affairs coordinator for the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück (with Sven Walter)
Local coordinator for the ERASMUS student exchange programme at the IMS, University of Stuttgart (March 2001 - February 2005)