Jan Strunk - Publications

Publications

Journal Articles, Conference Papers, Master's Thesis, Preliminary Work on Dissertation Topic, Seminar Papers, Presentations

Journal Articles

Kiss, Tibor, Strunk, Jan (2006): Unsupervised multilingual sentence boundary detection. Computational Linguistics 32(4), 485-525. (Preprint-PDF) (Link)

Conference Papers

Keßelmeier, Katja, Kiss, Tibor, Müller, Antje, Roch, Claudia, Stadtfeld, Tobias und Strunk, Jan, (2009): Mining for preposition-noun constructions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in NLP (NODALIDA 2009) in Odense, Denmark, May 14, 2009.
(Article - PDF) (Slides - PDF)
Strunk, Jan, Snider, Neal (2008): Subklausale Lokalitätsbeschränkungen der Relativsatzextraposition. Presentation at Generative Grammatik des Südens 2008 in Berlin, Mai 03, 2008.
(Slides - PDF) (Handout - PDF)
(Both the slides and the handout are in English - despite the German title)
(Subclausal locality constraints on relative clause extraposition.)
Strunk, Jan, Snider, Neal (2008): Extraposition without Subjacency. Presentation at the workshop on Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective at DGfS 2008 in Bamberg, March 27, 2008. (Slides - PDF) (Handout - PDF)
Strunk, Jan, Silla Jr., Carlos N., Kaestner, Celso A. A. (2006): A comparative evaluation of a new
unsupervised sentence boundary detection approach on documents in English and Portuguese. In: Gelbukh, Alexander (ed.): Proceedings of CICLing 2006, Mexico City, LNCS 3878, pp. 132–143, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg. (PDF)
Strunk, Jan (2005): Pro-drop in nominal possessive constructions. In: Butt, Miriam and King, Tracy Holloway (eds.): The Proceedings of the LFG'05 Conference in Bergen, Norway, July 18, 2005,
pp. 447-467. (PDF) (Complete Proceedings) (Slides - PDF)
Strunk, Jan (2005): The role of animacy in the nominal possessive constructions of modern Low Saxon. Presentation at the PIONIER Workshop on Animacy at Radboud University Nijmegen,
May 20, 2005. (Slides - PDF)
Kiss, Tibor, Strunk, Jan (2002): Viewing sentence boundary detection as collocation identification.
In: Busemann, Stefan (ed.): Proceedings of KONVENS 2002, DFKI, Saarbrücken, pp. 75-82.
(PDF)
Kiss, Tibor, Strunk, Jan (2002): Scaled log likelihood ratios for the detection of abbreviations in text corpora. In: Tseng, Shu-Chuan (ed.): Proceedings of COLING 2002, Taipei, pp. 1228-1232. (PDF)

Master's Thesis

Strunk, Jan (2004): Possessive Constructions in modern Low Saxon. Master's Thesis, Stanford University. (PDF) (PS)

Preliminary Work on Dissertation Topic

Strunk, Jan (2005): Effizientes Parsing extraponierter Phrasen. Manuscript, University of Bochum. (PDF) (Handout - PDF) (in German)
(Efficient parsing of extraposed phrases. Dissertation proposal.)

Seminar Papers

(Spring Quarter 2004): Postnominal modification in Kurdish. (PDF)
(Spring Quarter 2004): Relative clause extraposition in Low Saxon. (PDF)
(Winter Quarter 2004): The missing link? An LFG analysis of the prenominal possessive construction in Low Saxon. (PDF)
(Winter Quarter 2004): A TAG-grammar for “Swiss-style” cross-serial dependencies. (PDF)
(Autumn Quarter 2003): Least-effort noun gender induction for Low Saxon. (PDF)
(Autumn Quarter 2003): Information retrieval for languages that lack a fixed orthography. (PDF)
(Autumn Quarter 2003): The structure of the Kurdish noun phrase. (PDF)
(Winter Semester 2002/2003): Koordination und reguläre Ellipse im Altisländischen. Eine Untersuchung an Hand der Vinlandsagas. (PDF) (in German)
(Coordination and regular ellipsis in Old Icelandic. A study of the Vinland sagas.)
(Summer Semester 2002): Edition und sprachliche Untersuchung eines Teilstückes des Zipser Rechts. (PDF) (in German)
(Edition and linguistic study of a part of the Law of the Zips.)
(Winter Semester 2001/2002): Reparaturphänomene in der gesprochenen Sprache. (PDF)
(in German) (Repair phenomena in spoken language.)
(Summer Semester 2001): Untersuchung zur Pronomen- und Artikelenklise im städtischen Substandard des Ruhrgebiets. (PDF) (in German)
(A study of pronoun and article enclisis in the urban substandard of the Ruhr District.)
(Summer Semester 2001): Die Nominalphrase im Kurmancî. (PDF) (in German)
(The noun phrase in Kurmancî.)

Presentations

(Spring Quarter 2007): Extraposition mythbusting. Talk at the Stanford Syntax Workshop, March 13, 2007. (PDF)
(Winter Semester 2005/2006): Struktur der Nominalphrase. Referat über die Struktur von nominalen Phrasen, die NP- vs. die DP-Hypothese, etc. (PDF) (in German)
(The structure of the nominal phrase. Presentation on the structure of noun phrases, the NP vs. the DP hypotheses, etc.)
(Spring Quarter 2004): Multilingual sentence boundary detection. Presentation in the NLP Reading Group at Stanford University/CSLI on May 7, 2004. (PDF)
Together with Emina Kurtic (Summer Semester 2003): Sprachmodelle. (PDF – Slides only)
(ZIP – With accompanying Perl programs) (in German) (Language models.)
(Winter Semester 2002/2003): Satzgrenzenerkennung. Palmer & Hearst 1997 und Mikheev 2000 und 2002. (PDF) (in German)
(Sentence Boundary Detection. Palmer & Hearst 1997 and Mikheev 2000 and 2002.)

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