Dr Silke Scheible
Research Associate (Computational Linguistics)
Address: 176 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9QQ
Phone: +44 (0) 161 275 3222
Email: Silke.Scheible [at] manchester.ac.uk
Research specialisation
My research interests are in both theoretical and computational linguistics, and include the following:
- Corpus Linguistics
- Corpus development and annotation
- Historical Linguistics
- Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Lexicology
- Text Mining, Question Answering, Sentiment Analysis/Opinion Mining, Word Sense Disambiguation
Publications
Silke Scheible. 2008. Annotating Superlatives [pdf]. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco.
Silke Scheible. 2007. Towards a Computational Treatment of Superlatives [pdf]. In Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Student Research Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic.
Michael Kaisser, Silke Scheible, and Bonnie Webber. 2006. Experiments at the University of Edinburgh for the TREC 2006 QA track [pdf]. In Proceedings of the 2006 Edition of the Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, Gaithersburg, USA.
Silke Scheible. 2006. What's the Difference between a Bat and a Mouse?: A First Step towards Answering Comparison Questions in Open-domain QA [pdf]. In Proceedings of the Student Session of the 18th European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'06), Malaga, Spain.
Silke Scheible. 2005. Upgrading, downsizing and Co.: revitalising a moribund word formation pattern in present-day English? In A.A.A. (Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik) Vol. 23, No. 1-2. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Professional biography
I currently work as a Research Associate on the GerManC project, whose goal is to compile a representative historical corpus of written German for the years 1650-1800. My main responsibility is the development of software necessary for the analysis of the corpus.
PhD in Informatics (2009).
Funded by EPSRC (Doctoral Training Award).
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Supervised by Prof. Bonnie Webber and Dr. Maria Milosavljevic.
Title: "A Computational Treatment of Superlatives"
MSc in Speech and Language Processing (2005).
Funded by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh.
MSc Thesis supervised by Prof. Bonnie Webber.
Title: "Answering Comparison Questions: What's the Difference?"
Staatsexamen in English Language and Mathematics (2004).
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
Thesis supervised by Prof. Christian Mair.
Title: "Upgrade, Downsize & Co.: Revitalising a Moribund Word-Formation Pattern in 20th Century English?"