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Personal: Name: Éva Sáfár |
Education:
Oct. 1998-Oct. 1999
MSc in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, UK
Thesis: "Language Generation in Hungarian". The thesis describes tactical generation in Hungarian, which is a challenge for generators because of its agglutinative morphology and rather free word order with explicit case marking. The generator is a top-down generator with a dynamic rule base. The chosen grammar formalism is a variant of PATR-II in LISP. Syntax and semantics have a constraint-based representation. In order to handle morphology, morphosyntactic features are added to the grammar, but morphophonology is dealt with in a postprocess.
1994-1999
Ph.D. in German Linguistics, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Thesis: Language-specific strategies of argumentation in Hungarian and German newspapers in the election campaign 1994. A model for analysis of persuasive texts.
Description of the thesis (in German)
1986-91
MA German and English, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Thesis in moral psychology
Jobs:
January 2003 to date
maternity leave/full-time mother
May 2000 - December 2002
School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Senior Research Associate in the Visicast Project working on the English-Text-to-Sign-Languages Translation System. My work involved DRS (Discourse Representation Structures) creation as the representation of meaning of English input texts, pronoun resolution and writing HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar) of British Sign Language for sign generation using HamNoSys (Hamburg Notation System for Sign Languages).
1996-98
Assistant lecturer at Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary, Department of German Studies.
(Courses in Syntax, Textlinguistics, Lexicology, Semantics)
1992-96
Assistant lecturer at Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary. Department of German Linguistics
(Courses on Morphology, German language, Textlinguistics, Orthography, Translation)
1991-92
Teacher of German in Pécs, Hungary, in the Department of German Minorities of Klara Leowey Secondary School.
Activities:
Board Member at School of Information Systems, UEA. 2001
Participation in writing textbooks for language learners at the Goethe Institute, 1997-1998
Participation in writing German-Hungarian Dictionary
Supplying a great number of lexical entries for the German-Hungarian dictionary. Edited by Prof. Regina Hessky. 1997
Seminars, Talks and Tutoring:
Leading of directed study (MSc) in Computational Linguistics. 2001
Workshop on 'Introduction to HPSG'. School of Information Systems, UEA. 2001
Talks in ViSiCAST meetings on 'From CMU to lambda-DRT' and 'HPSG for BSL'. SYS, UEA. 2001
Seminars on Introduction to Disourse Linguistics. Catholic University Péter Pázmány, Piliscsaba, 2000. Content and Literature in German
Giving seminars and lectures on Morphology and Textlinguistics at the Department of German Linguistics of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), Budapest. 1997