| Miriam Butt |
| Fri 20 Nov 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
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Abstract:
The talk features innovative visual analyses for text and speech data that allow linguists a comparative analysis of the underlying structure of languages by: a) processing vast amounts of data automatically; b) have a snap shot overview; c) drill down to individual data points; and d) interact dynamically with the visualizations. The visual analyses include pixel and sunburst visualizations as well as self-organizing maps. The examples are drawn from language change, pragmatics and prosodic analysis.
Bio:
Miriam Butt is Professor for Theoretical and Computational Linguistics at the University of Kontanz. Her research interests include morphosyntax, historical linguistics, computational linguistics and Visual Analytics for Linguistics. The bulk of her research is on South Asian languages, with a special emphasis on Urdu. She has written and edited several books on syntax, semantics and computational linguistics, including a textbook on theories of case.