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I am a linguist and senior researcher in formal semantics and pragmatics. My main area of interest is information structure (and its effects on prosody and morphosyntax) but I am also interested in other means of discourse structuring, such as tense and aspect. My main goal is to test semantic hypotheses on written and spoken corpus data. Finally, I also develop pragmatic annotation schemata and contribute to computational linguistic applications that depend on an understanding of discourse.
Most recent
- Arndt Riester (in press). Constructing QUD trees. In Malte Zimmermann, Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea (eds.) Questions in Discourse. Vol. 2: Pragmatics. Leiden: Brill.
- Anja Latrouite and Arndt Riester (2018). The role of information structure for morphosyntactic choices in Tagalog. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara and Atsuko Utsumi (eds.) Perspectives on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages. Berlin: Language Science Press, pp. 247-284.
- Arndt Riester and Asako Shiohara (2018). Information structure in Sumbawa: A QUD analysis. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara and Atsuko Utsumi (eds.) Perspectives on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages. Berlin: Language Science Press, pp. 285-311.
- Ina Rösiger, Arndt Riester and Jonas Kuhn (2018). Bridging resolution: Task definition, corpus resources and rule-based experiments. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Santa Fe, NM, US, pp. 3516-3528.
- Arndt Riester, Lisa Brunetti and Kordula De Kuthy (2018). Annotation guidelines for Questions under Discussion and information structure. In Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.) Information Structure in Lesser-Described Languages: Studies in Syntax and Prosody. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 403-443.
- Kordula De Kuthy, Nils Reiter and Arndt Riester (2018). QUD-based annotation of discourse structure and information structure: Tool and evaluation. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, JP, pp. 1932-1938.
- Katrin Schweitzer, Kerstin Eckart, Markus Gärtner, Agnieszka Faleńska, Arndt Riester, Ina Rösiger, Antje Schweitzer, Sabrina Stehwien and Jonas Kuhn (2018). German radio interviews: The GRAIN release of the SFB732 Silver Standard Collection. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, JP, pp. 2887-2895.
Selected publications
Journal articles
- Arndt Riester and Jörn Piontek (2015). Anarchy in the NP. When new nouns get deaccented and given nouns don't. Lingua 165(B): 230-253.
- Stefan Baumann and Arndt Riester (2013). Coreference, lexical givenness and prosody in German. Lingua 136: 16-37.
- Arndt Riester and Stefan Baumann (2013). Focus triggers and focus types from a corpus perspective. Dialogue and Discourse 4(2): 215-248.
Book chapters
- Stefan Baumann and Arndt Riester (2012). Referential and lexical givenness: Semantic, prosodic and cognitive aspects. In Gorka Elordieta and Pilar Prieto (eds.) Prosody and Meaning. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 119-161.
- Kerstin Eckart, Arndt Riester and Katrin Schweitzer (2012). A Discourse Information Radio News Database for Linguistic Analysis. In Christian Chiarcos, Sebastian Nordhoff and Sebastian Hellmann (eds.) Linked Data in Linguistics. Representing and Connecting Language Data and Language Metadata. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 65-75.
Major conferences
- Uwe Reyle and Arndt Riester (2016). Joint information structure and discourse structure analysis in an Underspecified DRT framework. In Julie Hunter, Mandy Simons and Matthew Stone (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial/JerSem), New Brunswick, NJ, US, pp. 15-24.
- Ina Rösiger and Arndt Riester (2015). Using prosodic annotations to improve coreference resolution of spoken text. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP), Beijing, pp. 83-88.
- Aoife Cahill and Arndt Riester (2012). Automatically acquiring fine-grained information status distinctions in German. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial), Seoul, pp. 232-236.
- Arndt Riester and Hans Kamp (2010). Squiggly issues: Alternative sets, complex DPs, and intensionality. In Maria Aloni, Harald Bastiaanse, Tikitu de Jager and Katrin Schulz (eds.) Logic, Language and Meaning: 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin: Springer, pp. 374-383.
- Stefan Baumann and Arndt Riester (2010). Annotating information status in spontaneous speech. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, Vol. 100092, pp. 1-4.
- Aoife Cahill and Arndt Riester (2009). Incorporating information status into generation ranking. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Assocation for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP), Singapore, pp. 817-825.
- Arndt Riester (2008). A semantic explication of Information Status and the underspecification of the recipients' knowledge. In Atle Grønn (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Oslo, pp. 508-522.
- Arndt Riester (2006). Only scalar. In Janneke Huitink and Sophia Katrenko (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th ESSLLI Student Session, Málaga, pp. 64-75.
- Arndt Riester (2005). Context and focus projection. A compositional intonation-based account of focus interpretation. In Emar Maier, Corien Bary and Janneke Huitink (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, Nijmegen, NL, pp. 299-313.
Other
- Arndt Riester and Stefan Baumann (2017). The RefLex Scheme – Annotation Guidelines. Vol. 14 of SinSpeC. Working Papers of the SFB 732. Universität Stuttgart.
- Anders Björkelund, Kerstin Eckart, Arndt Riester, Nadja Schauffler and Katrin Schweitzer (2014). The extended DIRNDL corpus as a resource for coreference and bridging resolution. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavík, pp. 3222-3228.
- Arndt Riester, David Lorenz and Nina Seemann (2010). A recursive annotation scheme for referential information status. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Valletta, Malta, pp. 717-722.
- Arndt Riester (2009). Stress test for relative clauses. In Edgar Onea and Arndt Riester (eds.) Focus at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Vol. 3 of SinSpeC. Working Papers of the SFB 732. Universität Stuttgart, pp.69-86.
Everything
- In reverse chronological order (IMSBib)
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Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Linguistik / Anglistik
- SoSe 2018. Advanced Linguistics (MA level)
Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
- WiSe 2017/18. Co-Reference Resolution (MA level) (mit Ina Rösiger)
- SoSe 2016. Co-Reference Resolution (MA level) (mit Ina Rösiger)
- SoSe 2008. Semantik III (mit Hans Kamp)
- SoSe 2007. Informationsstruktur
- SoSe 2006. Informationsstruktur
- SoSe 2005. Informationsstruktur (mit Hans Kamp)
- WiSe 2004/05. Übungen zu Logik und formale Grundlagen II
26th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
- Annotating Corpora with Information Structure (jointly with Kordula De Kuthy)
Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Linguistik / Germanistik
- SoSe 2015. Pragmatik II (BA level)
- SoSe 2014. Semantik und Pragmatik von Fragen und Aussagen (MA level) (mit Uwe Reyle)
- SoSe 2013. Semantik II: Diskursrepräsentationstheorie, Tempus und Aspekt (BA Level)
- WiSe 2010/11. Pragmatik I (BA Level)
- WiSe 2008/09. Informationsstruktur zwischen Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik (mit Kirsten Gengel und Edgar Onea)
- WiSe 2003/04. Tutorium zu Intonation und Informationsstruktur
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Englische Philologie (SoSe 2012)
- Introduction to Semantic Theory (BA Level)
- Semantics Lab Class (BA Level)
- Tense and Aspect (BA Level)
- Information Structure (MA Level)
since 07/2006 |
Senior Researcher Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Project A6 Encoding of Information Structure in German and French (since 2014) Project A1 Incremental Specification of Focus and Givenness in a Discourse Context (2006--2014) |
02/2017 - 05/2017 |
Visiting Associate Professor Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (東京外国語大学), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa |
04/2012 - 09/2012 |
Interim Professor Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Department of English Language and Literature |
01/2008 |
Doctoral Dissertation in Computational Linguistics / Formal Semantics Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung |
05/2005 - 06/2006 |
PhD Scholarship Universität Stuttgart, Graduate School 609 Linguistic Representations and their Interpretation |
01/2002 - 04/2005 |
Researcher Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung |
09/1998 - 07/2001 |
MA in Linguistics Universiteit van Amsterdam -- Department of Linguistics, and Institute of Logic, Language and Computation |
10/1996 - 07/1998 |
Undergraduate in Linguistics, Computer Science and Psychology Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
10/1994 - 02/1997 |
Undergraduate in Computer Science and Business Studies (Vordiplom) Universität Ulm |
Invited talks | Other talks (selection) |
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When Data Challenges Theory: Non-Prototypical, Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in the Field of Information Structure Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED 7) – The Grammar of Reference and Quantification: Functions, Variation, and Change Universität zu Köln, Institut für Linguistik/Phonetik Workshop on the Interface of Prosody and Information Structure Third International Workshop on Information Structure of Austronesian Languages Universität Konstanz, Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft Second International Workshop on Information Structure of Austronesian Languages Université Diderot, Paris 7 Universität Potsdam, Department für Linguistik Kickoff Workshop VisArgue – Analyzing Political Argumentation Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Linguistik Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLaC) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Phonetik Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft Workshop on Semantic and Pragmatic Annotation of Corpora Workshop Deutsche Intonation: Annotation und Modellierung (DIMA-1) Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft Graz Workshop on Information Structure (GWIS) Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Englisches Seminar Workshop on Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for filosofi, idé- og kunsthistorie og klassiske språk Universität zu Köln, Institut für Linguistik/Phonetik Georg-August-Universität, Seminar für Englische Philologie Universität Potsdam, Department Linguistik Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft Workshop on the Role of Prosody in Structuring Discourse |
27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) Eleventh Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
40th Annual Meeting of the DGfS SFB 732 Final Colloquium Workshop on Prosody and Meaning Workshop on Discourse, Information Structure and Prosody in Corpora Workshop on Questions under Discussion in Austronesian Languages Non-At-Issue Meaning and Information Structure (XPrag Workshop) 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (JerSem) 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP). 7th Meeting of the DFG Network on Questions in Discourse Workshop on Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on the Interrelation of Syntax, Semantics and Prosody Ninth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) Second Graz Workshop on Information Structure (GWIS) 35th Annual Meeting of the DGfS 13th Annual SIGDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialog 34th Annual Meeting of the DGfS Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP 2)
Prosody-Discourse Interface (IDP 2011) 33rd Annual Meeting of the DGfS
Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics VII 7th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 17th Amsterdam Colloquium 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP) 31st Annual Meeting of the DGfS 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL) Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP 1) Sinn und Bedeutung XII Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Workshop on Formal Semantics 2 Sinn und Bedeutung IX |