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 18.04.2017 | postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Vera Demberg's group. |
| Since 01.05.2026 | I 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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