About me
From October 2024, I am a postdoctoral computational linguist at the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS) of Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France. My research focuses on semantic parsing, compositional semantics, and developing neural approaches that integrate linguistic structure into natural language processing.
Currently, I am working on the COMPO project, which investigates inductive biases for compositionality-capable deep learning models of natural language, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alexis Nasr.
I completed my PhD at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany (2017-2024) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Petersen. My dissertation developed a frame-semantic parser for English, French, German, and Russian based on Role and Reference Grammar, tree rewriting grammars, and neural networks. This work was part of the TreeGraSP project.
Research Interests
I work at the intersection of computational semantics, grammar formalisms, and neural approaches to NLP. Specific areas include:
Semantic Parsing & Understanding
- Frame semantics and compositional semantics
- Neural semantic parsing and natural language understanding
- Syntax-semantics interface
Grammar Formalisms & Parsing
- Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and Tree Wrapping Grammar (TWG)
- Parsing beyond context-free grammars
- Grammar induction and supertagging
- Role and Reference Grammar (RRG)
Neural & Deep Learning Approaches
- Large language models
- Deep learning for natural language processing
- Text generation with neural networks
Academic Background
- 2024–present Postdoctoral Researcher, Aix-Marseille University, France
- 2017–2024 PhD in Computational Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2010–2013 M.A. in German Studies, University of Düsseldorf, Germany (concurrent with B.A.)
- 2012–2016 B.A. in Information Science and Language Technology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2004–2008 B.A. in German Studies, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia