Miriam Butt - Curriculum Vitae#

Professor, General and Computational Linguistics

HIGHER EDUCATION

• 1991 - 1993 PhD, Stanford University, Linguistics
  
• The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu, Supervisor: Peter Sells
  
• 1988 - 1991 M.A., Stanford University, Linguistics
  
• 1984 - 1987 B.A., Wellesley College, Double Major, Language Studies and Computer Science

• 2019 - current Professor (W3), General and Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz
  
• 2003 - 2019 Professor (C3), General and Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz
  
• 2002 - 2003 Lecturer, Computational Linguistics, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
  
• 1997 - 2002 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research Scientist), Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz. Project: Complex Predicates: synchronic and diachronic perspectives on the lexicon. Umbrella project: SFB471 - Variation and Change in the Lexicon. Project leader: Aditi Lahiri
  
• 1995 - 1997 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research Scientist), IMS (Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung/Natural Language Processing Institute), Universität Stuttgart. Project: ParGram. Developed a large-scale grammar for German within the XLE parsing/generation grammar development platform. Project leader: Christian Rohrer
  
• 1993 - 1995 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research Scientist), Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Abteilung Computerlinguistik, (Dept. of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Section), Universität Tübingen. Project: Verbmobil. Designed and implemented a Reichenbachian approach for an analysis of tense and subsequent target language realization (German → English) in cooperation with a larger tense/aspect group

• 2009 - 2010 Advisory Board, NSF Project: A Multi-Representational and Multi-Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu, University of Colorado
  
• 2005 - 2007 Collaborator/Consultant, NWO-DFG Project on Incremental Interpretation of Case and Prominence, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Phillips University Marburg
  
• 2003 - 2004 Consultant, CRULP (Center for Research on Urdu Natural Language Processing), Lahore, Consulted on the development of a machine translation system for Urdu
  
• 1996 - 2003 Consultant (No-Fee), PARC (until 2002 at Xerox PARC), California. Part of an LFG Parallel Grammar Development effort using the XLE parsing/generation grammar development platform