| Name: | Bernhard Fisseni |
| Nationality: | German |
| Address: |
Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| Home page: | http://aeet.korpora.org/bernhard.fisseni |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-8964 |
Professional Life
| since 15/03/2021 | Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), German Linguistics and Medieval Studies, Universität Duisburg-Essen; among others involved in Arbeitsstelle Edition und Editionstechnik (AEET), Korpora.org, a collection of German-language corpora, e. g. the Bonn Corpus of Early New High German (Bonner Frühneuhochdeutschkorpus): technical support and further textual and linguistic processing, Afrikaans research at UDE, and Naproche, a project investigating the semi-formal language of mathematics, which also develops a controlled natural language and corresponding processing tools. |
| 01/09/2018 – 14/03/2021 | Leibniz Institute for the German Language (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, IDS, Department Digital Linguistics), Projects CLARIN-D and CLARIAH-DE (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt) |
| 01/10/2007 – 31/08/2018 | Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 23–27/10/2017 | Visit to Vilnius University in the framework of a DAAD-sponsored partnership between the German departments, teaching on informations structure and corpus linguistics, talk on Überhaupt und sowieso im Niederländischen und Deutschen. |
| 19/10 – 17/10/2016 | Visit to the University of Namibia in Windhoek, in the framework of a DAAD-sponsored partnership between the German departments |
| 02/05/2012 – 15/12/2013 | Universität Hamburg, post-doctoral position, project What makes stories similar? funded by the John Templeton Foundation. |
| 01/11/2011 – 08/02/2012 | University of Amsterdam, post-doctoral position, project Dialogical Foundations of Semantics (DiFoS, in the LogICCC EUROCORES programme of the European Science Foundation) |
| winter term 2006/07 summer term 2007 |
Graduate student scholarship granted by the State of North-Rhine-Westfalia |
| winter term 2005/06 | Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Vertretung einer Assistentenstelle, half-time), Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften, Bonn University |
| summer term 2005 | Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Vertretung einer Assistentenstelle), Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Bonn University |
| 01/01/2004 – 30/04/2005 | Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Project Pragmatic Constraints on Interpretation (Pragmatische Interpretationsconstraints), inter-faculty research group Formats of Knowledge (Wissensformate) Bonn |
| 17/11 – 31/12/2003 | Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Project Medienintensive Lehrmodule in der Computerlinguistik-Ausbildung (MiLCA), developing a web-based visualisation for Automated text-to-speech synthesis. |
| winter term 2001/02 | Tutor, IT concepts (EDV-Konzepte), IKP, Bonn University |
| Oct. 2001 – Oct. 2003 | Studentische Hilfskraft, DFG-funded project Electronic Collection and Distribution of I. Kant's Works (elektronische Erfassung und Bereitstellung der Werke I. Kants), IKP, Bonn University |
| July – August 2001 | Studentassistent in a project developing interactive education software, Utrecht University |
| June – August 2001 | Studentassistent (Tutor) for Inleiding Categoriale Grammatica, Utrecht University |
| Sept. 1999 – July 2000 | Software development for <retivox> GbR |
Studies
| 08/03/2011 | Disputation, PhD graduation (Duisburg-Essen, German Linguistics, ‘Germanistik/Linguistik’) |
| 2008 | changed to Duisburg-Essen |
| from September 2004 | PhD programme Computational Linguistics (Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Computerlinguistik), working title Fokus im Brennpunkt (‘Focus in Focus’) |
| 05/11/2003 | Magister Artium Thesis Development of a markup language for natural language mathematical proofs (Erstellung einer Annotationssprache für natürlichsprachliche mathematische Beweise), as a preparatory work for the project Naproche of the Bonn Exzellenzcluster ‘cluster of excellence’ mathematics |
| 2000/01 | studies at Utrecht University (funded by DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service) |
| summer term 2001 | Intermediate exam |
| 01/10/1998 – 05/11/2003 | Bonn University, MA programme Computational Linguistics (Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Computerlinguistik) with minors Computer Science and German Language and Older German Literature (Deutsche Sprache und ältere deutsche Literatur) |
Civilian Service
| 4/8/1997 – 31/8/1998 | Lebenshilfehaus, home for mentally disabled adults of Lebenshilfe Kreisvereinigung Ahrweiler e.V. in Sinzig |
School
| 01/8/1988 – 31/06/1997 | Grammar School, Rhein-Gymnasium Sinzig, Abitur |
| 1996 | Deutsche SchülerAkademie in Annweiler, course Paradoxien |
| 17/12/1984 – 31/07/1988 | Elementary School, Grundschule Bad Breisig |
| 01/08/1984 – 15/12/1988 | Elementary School, Grundschule Sinzig |
Conferences
| 30/09 – 02/10/2015 | GLDV Conference (German Association of Computational Linguistics), together with Bernhard Schröder, Torsten Zesch |
| 04–06/08/2013 | 2013 Workshop Computational Models of Narrative, Universität Hamburg |
| 30/03 – 01/04/2005 | GLDV Conference (German Association of Computational Linguistics), editor of the proceedings (with H.-Ch. Schmitz, B. Schröder, P. Wagner) |
Teaching
| 29.07.–02.08.2019 | “Culture & Technology” European Summer University in Digital Humanities, Universität Leipzig, Kurs Searching Linguistic Patterns in Text Corpora for Digital Humanities Research. |
| WS 2007/08 – 30.08.2018 | wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, German department, Universität Duisburg-Essen, teaching (mostly two courses per Semester) on text technology, statistics and empirical methods; formal pragmatics and narratology; syntactic theory and grammar; phonetics, phonology, history of German pronunciation |
| 21–26/09/2014 15–20/3/2015 |
Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Kolleg, AG 1 Formale Mathematik (mit Peter Koepke, Bernhard Schröder, Regula Krapf, Marcos Cramer, Veranstaltung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| 18–31/08/2013 | course Digitalisierung und Formalisierung von Erzählstruktur auf der Sommerakademie XV 2013 der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (mit Benedikt Löwe, Marco Petris). |
| Spring 2013 | Course on Information Structure, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Software Projects
| 2018–2020 | TEILicht, Web services for curation corpora of spoken language in a TEI/ISO-conformant annotation format, s. https://clarin.ids-mannheim.de/teilicht/, with a librar and CLI, https://github.com/Exmaralda-Org/teispeechtools, integrated with the WebLicht environment (mainly Java, XSLT) |
| 2018/2019 | Connection of the Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch of the IDS to the CLARIN Federated Content Search (mainly Java) |
| since 2018 | Data curation and repository design, Arbeitsstelle Edition und Editionstechnik der Universität Duisburg-Essen (AEET), Projekt Archiv der Grafen v. Platen |
| 2016/2017 | Retranslating the Bonn Corpus of Early New High German (Bonner Frühneuhochdeutschkorpus), Import modul for ANNIS/PAULA (Python, Java) |
| since 2011 | GEVAES ([ɡəˈfɛːs], Geisteswissenschaftliches LehrVerAnstaltungs-EingabeSystem) for planning teaching at with the time constraint model of the Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| 2007 | Search interface for the Bonn Corpus of Early New High German (Bonner Frühneuhochdeutschkorpus) (Python, Datenbank MySQL) |
| 2001–2003 | Software for annotation of the Bonn Kant Corpus and translating the Bonn Corpus of Early New High German (Bonner Frühneuhochdeutschkorpus) from the 1970s (Perl, Python, XSLT) |
University-Social
| 2017 | revision of the ECTS policy of the German Department, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Orientierungsrahmens zur Vergabe der Kreditpunkte im Germanistik-Studium) |
| 2015/2016 | Member of the University of Duisburg-Essen Commission Lehrbeauftragte for the development of rules for teaching assignments to university-external lecturers |
| 2015–2018 | Member of the Institute Board (Institutskonferenz Germanistik) as a representative of scientific co-workers (Mittelbau-Vertreter) |
| February 2012 – May 2012 |
Member of the Commission for the Improvement of Quality (Qualitätsverbesserungskommission) |
summer term 2010 – end 2011 (dissolution) |
Member of the Board for Maintenance of the Quality of the Organisation of Education and Studies (Prüfungsgremium zur Sicherung der Qualität der Lehr- und Studienorganisation) |
| winter 2001/02 – 11/2003 06/05/2004 – 31/01/2005 |
Member of the Cash audit commission (Kassenprüfungsausschuss) of the Students' parliament |
| End 2002 – 05/11/2003 | Member of the Students' parliament (Studierendenparlament) |
| winter term 2001/02 – 05/11/2003 |
Member of the student representation (Fachschaftsvertretung) Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik / Medienwissenschaften |
Reviewing
Experience in reviewing for conferences, workshops, journals and funding angencies.
Natural Languages
German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Latin, Italian, French, (Spanish, Portuguese)
Programming Languages
Python, Java, XSLT, XQuery, R, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, Bourne/Z Shell, Prolog, Kotlin; Lisps (Common, Emacs, Clojure)
Membership in Professional Associations
Research Interests
- Computational Linguistics, Text Technology, Digital Editions, and Research Data Management
- (Empirical Methods and formal Models for) Formal Semantics und Pragmatics
- (Empirical Methods for) Formal Narratology
- (Formale Models for the) Language of Mathematics
- German Society of Computational Linguistics / Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (GSCL), since 2012 secretary
- German Linguistic Society / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
- German Association for Applied Linguistics / Gesellschaft für angewandte Linguistik
- Deutsche Vereinigung für mathematische Logik und für Grundlagenforschung der exakten Wissenschaften (DVMLG)