Dr. Frances Yung

Postdoctoral Researcher

Phone: +49 (0) 681 302 70019
frances(at)coli.uni-saarland.de

Saarland University
Computer Science and Computational Linguistics

Campus C7.2, Room 3.09
66123 Saarbrücken / Germany

 
Since 18.04.2017postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Vera Demberg's group.
Since 01.05.2026I have been working in my DFG-funded project SPP 2556 LaSTing based in Prof. Demberg's Chair .
18.04.2017 — 30.04.2026:I was affiliated with the DFG-funded SFB-1102 project "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding" working for project B2 “Cognitive modelling of information density for discourse relations”.

 

My research Interests:

  • Linguistics: discourse relations, pragmatics
  • NLP: discourse parsing, resource construction, annotation aggregation
  • Psycholinguistics: computational modelling, experimental pragmatics

Teaching activities comprise subjects as:

  • Crowdsourcing linguistic annotations
  • Discourse relations: Cognition, Resources and NLP
  • Recent Advances in Discourse Processing

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