Publications page of Detmar Meurers

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2024

Books

Glass, Lelia, Dickinson, Markus, Brew, Chris & Meurers, Detmar. 2024. Language and computers. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 14). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12730906

Journal articles

Deininger, H., Pieronczyk, I., Parrisius, C., Plumley, R. D., Meurers, D., Kasneci, G., Nagengast, B.,Trautwein, U., Greene, J. A., & Bernacki, M. L. (2024). Using theory-informed learning analytics to understand how homework behavior predicts achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000906
Bear, E., Chen, X., Souto, D. V., Ribeiro-Flucht, L., Rudzewitz, B., & Meurers, D. (2024). Designing a task-based conversational agent for EFL in German schools: Student needs, actions, and perceptions. System, 126, 103460.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2024.103460.
Leifheit, L., Loefflad, D., Belschner, S., Beuttler, B. , Winkelmann, J., Meurers, D., Holz, H. (2024): KI im Unterricht – Entwicklung von Lehrveranstaltungen für Lehramtsstudierende der Sprach- und MINT-Fächer. Ludwigsburger Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik – LBzM 24, 1–19. http://doi.org/10.21240/lbzm/24/08.

Peer reviewed articles in edited volumes

Ruiz, S., Rebuschat, P., Meurers, D. (2024). Supporting Individualized practice through Intelligent CALL. In Y. Suzuki (Ed.), Practice and automatization in second language research: Perspectives from skill acquisition theory and cognitive psychology. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003414643-7
Preprint available at: https://purl.org/dm/papers/Ruiz.Rebuschat.Meurers-24.pdf

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

Colling, L., Kholin, M., & Meurers, D. (2024). A Learning Analytics Dashboard for K-12 English Teachers-Bridging the Gap Between Student Process Data and Teacher Needs. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 538-548).
https://doi.org/10.1145/3631700.366522

2023

Journal articles

Hui, B., Rudzewitz, B., & Meurers, D. (2023). Learning processes in interactive CALL systems: Linking automatic feedback, system logs, and learning outcomes. Language Learning & Technology 27(1), 1–23. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73527 with data and R scripts available at https://osf.io/39v4z/.
Riemenschneider, A., Weiss, Z., Schröter, P.& Meurers, D. (2023) The interplay of task characteristics, linguistic complexity, and language proficiency in high-stakes EFL writing. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3254
Holz, H., Ninaus, M., Beuttler, B., Brandelik, K., & Meurers, D. (2023). A digital game-based training improves spelling in German primary school children–A randomized controlled field trial. Learning and Instruction 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101771

Peer reviewed articles in books

Weiss, Z. Woerfel, T. & Meurers, D. (2023). Intelligente digitale Werkzeuge in der sprachlichen Bildung Chancen und Herausforderungen. In M. Becker-Mrotzek, I. Gogolin, H.-J. Roth & P. Stanat (Hrsg.), Grundlagen der sprachlichen Bildung (S. 185–197). Münster: Waxmann. CC BY-ND 4.0

2022

Journal articles

Chen, X., Meurers, D., & Rebuschat, P. (2022). ICALL offering individually adaptive input: Effects of complex input on L2 development. Language Learning & Technology, 26(1), 1–21. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73496.

De Kuthy K, Kannan M, Santhi Ponnusamy H and Meurers D (2022) Exploring neural question generation for formal pragmatics: Data set and model evaluation. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5:966013. doi: 10.3389/frai.2022.966013

Weiss, Z., Lange-Schubert, K., Geist, B. & Meurers, D. (2022). Sprachliche Komplexität im Unterricht. Eine computerlinguistische Analyse der gesprochenen Sprache von Lehrenden und Lernenden im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht in der Primar- und Sekundarstufe [Linguistic complexity in the classroom. A computational-linguistic analysis of the spoken language of teachers and learners in science education in primary and secondary schools] Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 50 (1). https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2022-2052

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

Chen, X., Bear, E., Hui, B., Santhi-Ponnusamy, H., Meurers, D. (2022). Education Theories and AI Affordances: Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning System. In: Rodrigo, M.M., Matsuda, N., Cristea, A.I., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium. AIED 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13356. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_120
Heck, T., & Meurers, D. (2022). Parametrizable exercise generation from authentic texts: Effectively targeting the language means on the curriculum. Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022), 154-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.20
Weiss, Z., & Meurers, D. (2022). Assessing sentence readability for German language learners with broad linguistic modeling or readability formulas: When do linguistic insights make a difference?. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) (pp. 141-153). https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.19.pdf

2021

Journal articles

Riemenschneider, A., Weiss, Z., Schröter, P., & Meurers, D. (2021). Linguistic complexity in teachers' assessment of German essays in high stakes testing. Assessing Writing, 50, 100561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asw.2021.100561
Weiss, Z., Meurers, D. (2021). Analyzing the linguistic complexity of German learner language in a reading comprehension task: Using proficiency classification to investigate short answer data, cross-data. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7 (1), 83-130. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.20006.wei
Holz, H., Meurers, D. (2021). Interaction Styles in Context: Comparing Drag-and-Drop, Point-and-Touch, and Touch in a Mobile Spelling Game. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2020.1848160
Andreessen, L. M., Gerjets, P., Meurers, D., Zander, T. O (2021). Toward neuroadaptive support technologies for improving digital reading: a passive BCI-based assessment of mental workload imposed by text difficulty and presentation speed during reading. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. 31, 76-104. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11257-020-09273-5

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Ponnusamy, H. S., & Meurers, D. (2021). Advancing Neural Question Generation for Formal Pragmatics: Learning when to generate and when to copy. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Integrating Perspectives on Discourse Annotation (pp. 31-40).https://aclanthology.org/2021.discann-1.6
Kannan, M., Ponnusamy, H. S., De Kuthy, K., Stein, L., & Meurers, D. (2021). Exploring Input Representation Granularity for Generating Questions Satisfying Question-Answer Congruence. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (pp. 24-34). https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.3
Dawidowsky, K., Holz, H., Schwerter, J., Pieronczyk, I., & Meurers, D. (2021). Development and Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Reading Fluency Test for Primary School Children. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 1-17). https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3447526.3472033
Santhi Ponnusamy, H., Meurers, D. (2021). Employing distributional semantics to organize task-focused vocabulary learning. Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. https://aclanthology.org/2021.bea-1.3
Weiss, Z., Chen, X., Meurers, D. (2021). Using broad linguistic complexity modeling for crosslingual readability assessment. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 177: 38–54. https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4call-1.4.pdf
Quixal, M., Rudzewitz, B., Bear, E., & Meurers, D. (2021). Automatic annotation of curricular language targets to enrich activity models and support both pedagogy and adaptive systems. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2021). Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 177: 38–54. https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4call-1.2.pdf
Chatzipanagiotidis, S., Giagkou, M., Meurers, D. (2021). Broad Linguistic Complexity Analysis for Greek Readability Classification. Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. https://aclanthology.org/2021.bea-1.5

Handbook articles

Alexopoulou, T., Meurers, D., & Murakami, A. (2021). Big Data in SLA: advances in methodology and analysis. To appear in: Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Technology. http://purl.org/dm/papers/Alexopoulou.Murakami.Meurers-22.pdf

2020

Journal articles

Gabriella Daroczy, Detmar Meurers, Jürgen Heller, Magdalena Wolska, Hans-Christoph Nuerk (2020). The Interaction of Linguistic and Arithmetic Factors Affects Adult Performance on Arithmetic Word Problems. Cognitive Processing. 21 (1), 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-019-00948-5
Maria Chinkina, Simón Ruiz, Detmar Meurers (2020). Crowdsourcing evaluation of the quality of automatically generated questions for supporting computer-assisted language teaching ReCALL 32 (2), 145-161. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0958344019000193

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., Meurers, D. (2020). Towards automatically generating Questions under Discussion to Link Information and Discourse Structure. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). 5786–5798. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.509

Peer reviewed articles in books

Detmar Meurers: Natural Language Processing and Language Learning. The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, edited by Carol A. Chapelle. Wiley. 2020. 817-831.

2019

Journal articles

Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, Florian Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai: Scaling up intervention studies to investigate real-life foreign language learning in school. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190519000126
Simón Ruiz, Xiaobin Chen, Patrick Rebuschat, Detmar Meurers: Measuring individual differences in cognitive abilities in the lab and on the web. PLoS ONE 14(12): e0226217. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226217
Marije Michel, Akira Murakami, Dora Alexopoulou, Detmar Meurers: Effects of task type on morphosyntactic complexity across proficiency: Evidence from a large learner corpus of A1 to C2 writings.Instructed Second Language Acquisition 3 (2), 124-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/isla.38248
Simón Ruiz, Patrick Rebuschat, Detmar Meurers: The effects of working memory and declarative memory on instructed second language vocabulary learning: Insights from intelligent CALL. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168819872859.
Karin Berendes, Wolfgang Wagner, Detmar Meurers, Ulrich Trautwein: When a silent reading fluency test measures more than reading fluency: academic language features predict the test performance of students with a non‑German home language. Reading and Writing 32 (3), 561-583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9878-x
Christoph Kühberger, Christoph Bramann, Zarah Weiss, Detmar Meurers: Task Complexity in History Textbooks. A Multidisciplinary Case Study on Triangulation in History Education Research. History Education International Research Journal (HEIRJ) 16 (1). Special Issue on Mixed Methods and Triangulation in History Education Research, 16 (1), 139-157 https://doi.org/10.18546/HERJ.16.1.12

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

Ramon Ziai, Florian Nuxoll, Kordula De Kuthy, Björn Rudzewitz, Detmar Meurers: The Impact of Spelling Correction and Task Context on Short Answer Assessment for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2019), September 30 2019, Turku Finland (No. 164, pp. 93-99). Linköping University Electronic Press.
Sabrina Dittrich, Zarah Weiss, Hannes Schröter, Detmar Meurers: Integrating large-scale web data and curated corpus data in a search engine supporting German literacy education. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning. Turku, Finland, September, 2019, pp. 41-56.
Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai, Florian Nuxoll, Kordula De Kuthy, Detmar Meurers. Enhancing a Web-based Language Tutoring System with Learning Analytics. Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Learning Analytics: Building bridges between the Education and the Computing communities (LABBEC) held at Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2019, Montréal, Canada.
Zarah Weiss, Detmar Meurers: Analyzing Linguistic Complexity and Accuracy in Academic Language Development of German across Elementary and Secondary School. Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) at ACL 2019. 380-393.
Zarah Weiss, Anja Riemenschneider, Pauline Schröter, Detmar Meurers: Computationally Modeling the Impact of Task-Appropriate Language Complexity and Accuracy on Human Grading of German Essays. Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA) at ACL 2019. 30-45.

Peer reviewed articles in books

Zarah Weiss and Detmar Meurers: Broad Linguistic Modeling is Beneficial for German L2 Proficiency Assessment. In Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Verena Lyding & Lionel Nicolas (eds.): Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected Papers from the Fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference.

Other Articles

Franziska Locher, Maximilian Pfost, Zarah Weiss, Detmar Meurers: Herausforderungen und Probleme bei der Analyse von Zusammenhängen zwischen Textkomplexität und lesebezogenen Kompetenzen [Challenges and difficulties in the analysis of relations between text complexity and reading competences]. Arbeitspapier, Lehrstuhl für Empirische Bildungsforschung, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-46461
Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, Florian Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai: KI zur Lösung realer Schulherausforderungen: Interaktive und adaptive Materialien im Fach Englisch. Schulmanagement-Handbuch 1/2019, 65-84.

2018

Journal articles

Xiaobin Chen and Detmar Meurers: Linking text readability and learner proficiency using linguistic complexity feature vector distance. Computer Assisted Language Learning.
Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, Verena Möller, Florian Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai: Digitale Differenzierung benötigt Informationen zu Sprache, Aufgabe und Lerner. Zur Generierung von individuellem Feedback in einem interaktiven Arbeitsheft [Digital Differentiation requires information on language, task, and learner. On generating individual feedback in an interactive workbook.]. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (FLuL) 47 (2). 64-82.
Karin Berendes, Sowmya Vajjala, Detmar Meurers, Doreen Bryant, Wolfgang Wagner, Maria Chinkina and Ulrich Trautwein: Reading demands in secondary school: Does the linguistic complexity of textbooks increase with grade level and the academic orientation of the school track? Journal of Educational Psychology. 110(4), 518-543.
Xiaobin Chen and Detmar Meurers: Word frequency and readability: Predicting the text-level readability with a lexical-level attribute Journal of Research in Reading. 41 (3), 486-510.

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

Zarah Weiss, Sabrina Dittrich and Detmar Meurers: A Linguistically-Informed Search Engine to Identify Reading Material for Functional Illiteracy Classes. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) at the 7th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Ramon Ziai, Bjoern Rudzewitz, Kordula De Kuthy, Florian Nuxoll and Detmar Meurers. Feedback Strategies for Form and Meaning in a Real-life Language Tutoring System. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) at the 7th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Heiko Holz, Zarah Weiss, Oliver Brehm, Detmar Meurers: COAST - Customizable Online Syllable Enhancement in Texts. A flexible framework for automatically enhancing reading materials. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 89-100.
Zarah Weiss and Detmar Meurers: Modeling the Readability of German Targeting Adults and Children: An empirically broad analysis and its cross-corpus validation. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). (pp. 303-317).
Heiko Holz, Detmar Meurers, Manual Ninaus, Alexandra Kirsch: Validity and Player Experience of a Mobile Game for German Dyslexic Children. Proceedings of CHI PLAY’18 Extended Abstracts, October 28–31, 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-5968-9/18/10.
Ramon Ziai and Detmar Meurers: Automatic Focus Annotation: Bringing Formal Pragmatics Alive in Analyzing the Information Structure of Authentic Data Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT). 117-128.
Chinkina, Maria, Ankita Oswal & Detmar Meurers: Automatic Input Enrichment for Selecting Reading Material: An Online Study with English Teachers. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA). 35-44.
Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy, Verena Möller, Florian Nuxoll & Detmar Meurers: Generating Feedback for English Foreign Language Exercises. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA). 127-136.
Heiko Holz, Zarah Weiss, Oliver Brehm & Detmar Meurers: COAST-Customizable Online Syllable Enhancement in Texts. A flexible framework for automatically enhancing reading materials. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA). 89-100.

2017

Journal articles

Jens Jirschitzka, Joachim Kimmerle, Iassen Halatchliyski, Julia Hancke, Detmar Meurers and Ulrike Cress: A Productive Clash of Perspectives? The Interplay between Articles' and Authors' Perspectives and their Impact on Wikipedia Edits in a Controversial Domain. PLOS One. 2017.
Patrick Rebuschat, Detmar Meurers and Tony McEnery: Language learning research at the intersection of experimental, corpus-based and computational methods (Introduction to the Special Issue)Language Learning 67 (S1). 7-14. 2017.
Detmar Meurers and Markus Dickinson: Evidence and Interpretation in Language Learning Research: Opportunities for Collaboration with Computational Linguistics. Language Learning 67 (S1). 67-96. 2017.
Theodora Alexopoulou and Marije Michel and Akira Murakami and Detmar Meurers: Task effects on linguistic complexity and accuracy: a large-scale learner corpus analysis employing Natural Language Processing techniques. Language Learning. 67 (S1). 181-209. 2017.
Nicole Ziegler, Detmar Meurers, Patrick Rebuschat, Simón Ruiz, José L. Moreno-Vega, Maria Chinkina, Wenjing Li and Sarah Grey: Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of CALL, NLP, and SLA: Methodological implications from an input enhancement project. Language Learning 67 (S1). 201-232. 2017.

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

Heiko Holz, Katharina Brandelik, Jochen Brandelik, Benedikt Beuttler, Alexandra Kirsch, Jürgen Heller, Detmar Meurers (2017). Prosodiya–A Mobile Game for German Dyslexic Children. In Games and Learning Alliance: 6th International Conference, GALA 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, December 5–7, 2017, Proceedings (pp.73-82). Springer, Cham.
Maria Chinkina, Simón Ruiz and Detmar Meurers: Automatically generating questions to support the acquisition of particle verbs: evaluating via crowdsourcing. In Borthwick, Kate; Bradley, Linda; Thouësny, Sylvie (Eds), CALL in a climate of change: adapting to turbulent global conditions – short papers from EUROCALL 2017 (pp. 73-78). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2017.eurocall2017.692
Maria Chinkina and Detmar Meurers: Question Generation for Language Learning: From ensuring texts are read to supporting learning. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA). Copenhagen, Denmark.
Xiaobin Chen and Detmar Meurers: Challenging Learners in Their Individual Zone of Proximal Development Using Pedagogic Developmental Benchmarks of Syntactic Complexity. Proceedings of the Joint 6th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) and 2nd Workshop on NLP for Research on Language Acquisition (NLP4LA) at NoDaLiDa 2017. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 134: 8–17.
Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers: Developing A Web-based Workbook for English Supporting the Interaction of Students and Teachers Proceedings of the Joint 6th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) and 2nd Workshop on NLP for Research on Language Acquisition (NLP4LA) at NoDaLiDa 2017 . Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 134: 36–46.
Adriane Boyd and Detmar Meurers: Normalization in Context: Facilitating Automatic Analysis of Learner Language. Learner Corpus Research 2017, Book of Abstracts. pp. 29-30. Bozen, Italy.

Peer reviewed articles in books

Doreen Bryant, Karin Berendes, Detmar Meurers and Zarah Weiss: Schulbuchtexte der Sekundarstufe auf dem linguistischen Prüfstand. Analyse der bildungs- und fachsprachlichen Komplexität in Abhängigkeit von Schultyp und Jahrgangsstufe, In: Linguistische Komplexität – ein Phantom?, Mathilde Hennig (ed.), Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.

2016

Journal articles

Martí Quixal and Detmar Meurers: How can writing tasks be characterized in a way serving pedagogical goals and automatic analysis needs? CALICO Journal 33 (1). 19-48.

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings

Xiaobin Chen and Detmar Meurers: CTAP: A Web-Based Tool Supporting Automatic Complexity Analysis Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC), COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.
Sowmya Vajjala, Detmar Meurers, Alexander Eitel and Katharina Scheiter: Towards grounding computational linguistic approaches to readability: Modeling reader-text interaction for easy and difficult texts Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC), COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.
Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Merers: Advancing Linguistic Features and Insights by Label-informed Feature Grouping: An Exploration in the Context of Native Language Identification Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Osaka, Japan.
Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai, and Detmar Meurers: Focus annotation of task-based data: a comparison of expert and crowd-sourced annotation in a reading comprehension corpus. In Proceedings of the 10th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož, Slovenia. 3928--3935.
Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy, and Detmar Meurers: Approximating Givenness in Content Assessment through Distributional Semantics. In Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Berlin, Germany. 209--218.

Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai, and Detmar Meurers: Focus annotation of task-based data: Establishing the quality of crowd annotation. In Proceedings of the 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), Berlin, Germany. 110-119.



Maria Chinkina, Madeeswaran Kannan, and Detmar Meurers: Online Information Retrieval for Language Learning In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics System Demonstrations, Berlin, Germany. 7-12.



Brian MacWhinney, John Kowalski, Anke Lüdeling, Uwe Springmann, Detmar Meurers, Zarah Weiss: CLARIN Resources for Classical Latin and Historical German. Proceedings of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2016, Aix-en-Provence.



Maria Chinkina and Detmar Meurers: Linguistically Aware Information Retrieval: Providing Input Enrichment for Second Language Learners. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), San Diego, CA, USA. 188-198.



Xiaobin Chen and Detmar Meurers: Characterizing Text Difficulty with Word Frequencies. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), San Diego, CA, USA. 84–94.

2015

Journal articles



Theodora Alexopoulou, Jeroen Geertzen, Anna Korhonen and Detmar Meurers: Exploring large educational learner corpora for SLA research: perspectives on relative clauses. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1 (1). 96-129.



Karin Berendes, Wolfgang Wagner, Detmar Meurers and Ulrich Trautwein: Grammatikverständnis von Kindern unterschiedlicher sprachlicher und sozioökonomischer Herkunft. Frühe Bildung 4 (3). 126-134.



Gabriella Daroczy, Magdalena Wolska, Detmar Meurers and H-C. Nuerk: Word problems: a review of linguistic and numerical factors contributing to their difficulty. Frontiers in Psychology 6 (348). https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00348



Handbook articles



Detmar Meurers: Learner Corpora and Natural Language Processing. The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research, edited by Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier. Cambridge University Press.



Other publications



Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers: Readability-based Sentence Ranking for Evaluating Text Simplification. Technical report, arXiv:1603.06009 [cs.CL].



2014

Journal articles



Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers: Readability Assessment for Text Simplification: From Analyzing Documents to Identifying Sentential Simplifications. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Special Issue on Current Research in Readability and Text Simplification edited by Thomas François and Delphine Bernhard.



Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings



Robert Reynolds, Eduard Schaf and Detmar Meurers: A VIEW of Russian: Visual Input Enhancement and adaptive feedback. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on NLP for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) at the 5th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Uppsala University, Sweden.



Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Meurers: Exploring Syntactic Features for Native Language Identification: A Variationist Perspective on Feature Encoding and Ensemble Optimization. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Dublin, Ireland.



Ramon Ziai and Detmar Meurers: Focus Annotation in Reading Comprehension Data. Proceedings of the 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VIII) held at COLING 2014. Dublin, Ireland.



Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers: Assessing the relative reading level of sentence pairs for text simplification Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-14). Gothenburg, Sweden.



Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers: Exploring Measures of “Readability” for Spoken Language: Analyzing linguistic features of subtitles to identify age-specific TV programs Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR) held at EACL-14. Gothenburg, Sweden.



Peer reviewed articles in books



Detmar Meurers, Julia Krivanek and Serhiy Bykh: On the Automatic Analysis of Learner Corpora: Native Language Identification as Experimental Testbed of Language Modeling between Surface Features and Linguistic Abstraction. Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Studies edited by Alexandro Alcaraz Sintes and Salvador Valera. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 285-314.



Michael Hahn and Detmar Meurers: "On deriving semantic representations from dependencies: A practical approach for evaluating meaning in learner corpora". Dependency Theory edited by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner. Frontiers in AI and Applications Series. IOS Press, Amsterdam.



Julia Krivanek and Detmar Meurers: "Comparing Rule-Based and Data-Driven Dependency Parsing of Learner Language". Dependency Theory edited by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner. Frontiers in AI and Applications Series. IOS Press, Amsterdam.



Peer reviewed articles based on project collaboration



Andrea Abel, Katrin Wisniewski, Lionel Nicolas, Adriane Boyd, Jirka Hana, Detmar Meurers: A Trilingual Learner Corpus Illustrating European Reference Levels . RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di lingue, letterature e cultura moderne. 2 (1), 111-126.



Adriane Boyd, Jirka Hana, Lionel Nicolas, Detmar Meurers, Katrin Wisniewski, Andrea Abel, Karin Schöne, Barbora Štindlová, Chiara Vettori: The MERLIN corpus: Learner language and the CEFR. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).



Koenraad De Smedt, Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers, Inguna Skadina, Bolette Pedersen, Costanza Navarretta, Núria Bel, Krister Linden, Marketa Lopatkova, Jan Hajic, Gisle Andersen, Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz: CLARA: A New Generation of Researchers in Common Language Resources and Their Applications. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).



2013

Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings



Julia Hancke and Detmar Meurers: Exploring CEFR classification for German based on rich linguistic modeling. Learner Corpus Research 2013, Book of Abstracts. pp. 54-56. Bergen, Norway.


Julia Krivanek and Detmar Meurers: Word Formation Variation as Features for Native Language Identification. Learner Corpus Research 2013, Book of Abstracts. pp. 83-85. Bergen, Norway.


Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers: On The Applicability of Readability Models to Web Texts. Proceedings of the Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR), ACL 2013.



Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai, Michael Hahn, and Detmar Meurers: CoMeT: Integrating different levels of linguistic modeling for meaning assessment. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), Atlanta, GA, USA.



Serhiy Bykh, Sowmya Vajjala, Julia Krivanek, and Detmar Meurers: Combining Shallow and Linguistically Motivated Features in Native Language Identification. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Atlanta, GA, USA.



Andrea Abel, Lionel Nicolas, Jirka Hana, Barbora Štindlová, Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Meurers: A Trilingual Learner Corpus illustrating European Reference Levels. Learner Corpus Research 2013, Book of Abstracts. pp. 3-5. Bergen, Norway.


Katrin Wisniewski, Karin Schöne, Lionel Nicolas, Chiara Vettori, Adriane Boyd, Detmar Meurers, Andrea Abel, Jirka Hana: MERLIN: An online trilingual learner corpus empirically grounding the European Reference Levels in authentic learner data ICT for Language Learning 2013, Conference Proceedings. Libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni, Firenze, Italy.



2012

Books



Markus Dickinson, Chris Brew and Detmar Meurers: "Language and Computers". Wiley-Blackwell.


Peer reviewed articles in books



Detmar Meurers: "Natural Language Processing and Language Learning". Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, edited by Carol A. Chapelle. Blackwell.



Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers: Focus projection between theory and evidence. In Sam Featherston and Britta Stolterfoth (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory. De Gruyter.


Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai and Detmar Meurers: "Creation and Analysis of a Reading Comprehension Exercise Corpus: Towards Evaluating Meaning in Context". In Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner (Eds.), Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis. Hamburg Studies in Multilingualism (HSM). Benjamins.


Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings



Serhiy Bykh and Detmar Meurers: Native Language Identification Using Recurring N-grams - Investigating Abstraction and Domain Dependence. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Mumbai, India.



Julia Hancke, Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers: Readability Classification for German using lexical, syntactic, and morphological features. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Mumbai, India.



Michael Hahn and Detmar Meurers: "Evaluating the Meaning of Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions: A Semantics-Based Approach". Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA7), Association for Computational Linguistics. 2012.



Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott and Detmar Meurers: "Short Answer Assessment: Establishing Links Between Research Strands". Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA7), Association for Computational Linguistics. 2012.



Sowmya Vajjala and Detmar Meurers: "On Improving the Accuracy of Readability Classification using Insights from Second Language Acquisition". Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA7), Association for Computational Linguistics. 2012.



Adriane Boyd, Marion Zepf and Detmar Meurers: "Informing Determiner and Preposition Error Correction with Hierarchical Word Clustering". Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA7), Association for Computational Linguistics. 2012.



Peer reviewed conference abstracts



Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers: "Definiteness Effects as Epiphenomena of Information Structure". AG 9: Definiteness Effects. 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.



2011

Journal articles



Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott, and Stacey Bailey: "Integrating Parallel Analysis Modules to Evaluate the Meaning of Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions" Special Issue on Free-text Automatic Evaluation. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL). Vol. 21, No 4, 2011. 355-369.



Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers: "On Using Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning in Real-Life Foreign Language Teaching and Learning". ReCALL. Vol 23, No 1. 2011.



Luiz Amaral, Detmar Meurers and Ramon Ziai: "Analyzing Learner Language: Towards A Flexible NLP Architecture for Intelligent Language Tutors". Computer Assisted Language Learning. Vol 24, No 1. 2011.



Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings



Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers: "Integrating GIVENness into a structured meaning approach in HPSG". Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford, CSLI Publications.



Adriane Boyd and Detmar Meurers: "Data-Driven Correction of Function Words in Non-Native English". Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG) - Helping Our Own (HOO) Challenge. Nancy, France.



Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott and Janina Kopp: "Evaluating Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions in Context: Results for German and the Role of Information Structure". Proceedings of the TextInfer 2011 Workshop on Textual Entailment at EMNLP, Edinburgh.



Michael Hahn and Detmar Meurers: "On deriving semantic representations from dependencies: A practical approach for evaluating meaning in learner corpora". Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011), Barcelona.



Julia Krivanek and Detmar Meurers: "Comparing Rule-Based and Data-Driven Dependency Parsing of Learner Language". Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011), Barcelona.



Maria Tchalakova, Dale Gerdemann, and Detmar Meurers: Automatic Sentiment Classification of Product Reviews Using Maximal Phrases Based Analysis. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA) at ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, Oregon.



2010

Journal articles



Niels Ott and Detmar Meurers: "Information Retrieval for Education: Making Search Engines Language Aware" Themes in Science and Technology Education. Vol 3, No 1-2. Special issue on "Computer-aided language analysis, teaching and learning: approaches, perspectives and applications" edited by George Weir and Shin'ichiro Ishikawa, 2010.



Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Detmar Meurers, Salvador Valera, and Holger Wunsch: "Towards interlanguage POS annotation for effective learner corpora in SLA and FLT". Language Forum. Vol 36, No 1-2. Special Issue on New Trends in Language Teaching, edited by Carmen Pérez Basanta, 2010.



Peer reviewed articles in conference proceedings



Anas Elghafari, Detmar Meurers, Holger Wunsch: "Exploring the Data-Driven Prediction of Prepositions in English". Proceedings of COLING 2010, Beijing.



Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Luiz Amaral, Adriane Boyd, Aleksandar Dimitrov, Vanessa Metcalf, Niels Ott: "Enhancing Authentic Web Pages for Language Learners". Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, NAACL-HLT 2010, Los Angeles.



Ekaterina P. Volkova, Betty Mohler, Detmar Meurers, Dale Gerdemann, Heinrich M. Bülthoff: "Emotional Perception of Fairy Tales: Achieving Agreement in Emotion Annotation of Text". Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text, NAACL-HLT 2010, Los Angeles.



Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers: "Focus in German: Towards a Corpus-based study". Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010.



Detmar Meurers, Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai: "Compiling a Task-Based Corpus for the Analysis of Learner Language in Context". Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010.



Detmar Meurers and Holger Wunsch: "Linguistically Annotated Learner Corpora: Aspects of a Layered Linguistic Encoding and Standardized Representation". Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010.



2009

Journal articles



Detmar Meurers: "On the Automatic Analysis of Learner Language. Introduction to the Special Issue". CALICO Journal. 26 (3). 2009.


Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers: "Little Things With Big Effects: On the Identification and Interpretation of Tokens for Error Diagnosis in ICALL". CALICO Journal. 26 (3). 2009.



Peer reviewed chapters in edited books



Detmar Meurers and Stefan Müller: "Corpora and Syntax". Chapter 42 in Lüdeling, A. and Kytö, M. Corpus Linguistics. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK), Volume 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2009.



2008

Journal articles



Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers: "From Recording Linguistic Competence to Supporting Inferences about Language Acquisition in Context: Extending the Conceptualization of Student Models for Computer-Assisted Language Learning". Computer Assisted Language Learning. 21 (5). 2008.


Adriane Boyd, Markus Dickinson and Detmar Meurers: "On Detecting Errors in Dependency Treebanks". Research on Language and Computation. 6(2). 113-137. 2008.


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Stacey Bailey and Detmar Meurers: "Diagnosing Meaning Errors in Short Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions". In Proceedings of the Third ACL Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA3). Association for Computational Linguistics. 107-115. 2008.



Adriane Boyd and Detmar Meurers: "Revisiting the Impact of Different Annotation Schemes on PCFG Parsing: A Grammatical Dependency Evaluation". In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Parsing German. Association for Computational Linguistics. 24-32. 2008.



2007

Journal articles



Detmar Meurers. "Advancing Linguistics Between the Extremes: Some thoughts on Geoffrey Sampson's Grammar without Grammaticality" Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3(1), 2007.


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Adriane Boyd, Markus Dickinson, and Detmar Meurers: "Increasing the recall of corpus annotation error detection". Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007). Bergan, Norway.



Adriane Boyd, Markus Dickinson, and Detmar Meurers: "On representing dependency relations - Insights from converting the German TiGerDB". Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007). Bergan, Norway.



John Pate and Detmar Meurers: "Refining Syntactic Categories Using Local Contexts - Experiments in Unlexicalized PCFG Parsing." Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007). Bergan, Norway.


Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers. "Conceptualizing Student Models for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning". Cristina Conati and Kathleen F. McCoy (Eds.): User Modeling 2007: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Wien, New York, Berlin: Springer.


2006

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books



Robert D. Levine & Detmar Meurers. "Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Linguistic Approach, Formal Foundations, and Computational Realization". Keith Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.



Robert D. Levine & Detmar Meurers. "Declarative Models of Syntax". Keith Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Stefan Müller and Detmar Meurers. "Corpus Evidence for Syntactic Structures and Requirements for Annotations of Tree Banks". Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Universität Tübingen, 2006.



2005

Journal articles



Detmar Meurers: "On the use of electronic corpora for theoretical linguistics. Case studies from the syntax of German". Lingua Volume 115 (11).


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: "Prune Diseased Branches to Get Healthy Trees! How to Find Erroneous Local Trees in a Treebank and Why It Matters". Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2005). Barcelona, Spain.


Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: "Detecting Errors in Discontinuous Structural Annotation". Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05). Ann Arbor, Michigan.


Chris Brew, Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: "Language and Computers: Creating an Introduction for a General Undergraduate Audience". Proceedings of the Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing And Computational Linguistics, held at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05). Ann Arbor, Michigan.


Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: "Detecting Annotation Errors in Spoken Language Corpora". Proceedings of the Special session on treebanks for spoken language and discourse at the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA-05). Joensuu, Finland.


2004

Journal articles



Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers & Shuly Wintner (Eds.). "Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation". Special issue of Research on Language and Computation, Volume 2 (2). Dordrecht: Kluwer.


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: "GIDLP: A Grammar Format for Linearization-Based HPSG". Proceedings of the Eleventh Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp. 93-111.


Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: "A grammar formalism and parser for linearization-based HPSG". Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004). Geneva.


2003

Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: "Detecting Inconsistencies in Treebanks". Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2003). Växjö, Sweden.


Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: "The secret life of focus exponents, and what it tells us about fronted verbal projections". In Proceedings of the Tenth Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.


Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: "Dealing with Optional Complements in HPSG-Based Grammar Implementations". In Proceedings of the Tenth Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.


Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: "Detecting Errors in Part-of-Speech Annotation". Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-03). Budapest, Hungary.


Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy & Vanessa Metcalf: "Modularity of grammatical constraints in HPSG-based grammar implementations". Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2003 Workshop "Ideas and strategies for multilingual grammar Engineering". Vienna, Austria.


2002

Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: "Improving the Efficiency of Parsing with Discontinuous Constituents". In Shuly Wintner (ed.): Proceedings of NLULP'02: The 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming. pp. 49-68.


W. Detmar Meurers, Gerald Penn & Frank Richter: "A Web-Based Instructional Platform for Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms and Parsing" In Dragomir Radev and Chris Brew (eds): Proceedings of the Workshop "Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL" held at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 7.-12. July 2002. pp. 18-25


Frank Richter, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Beata Trawinski & Detmar Meurers: "Interactive Graphical Software for Teaching the Formal Foundations of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar"In Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn and Shuly Wintner (eds): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2002. July 2002. pp. 137-148.


2001

Books and journal issues



Detmar Meurers & Tibor Kiss (Eds.). Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford: CSLI Publications.


Peer reviewed chapters in edited books



Tibor Kiss & Detmar Meurers. Introduction to Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford: CSLI Publications.


Detmar Meurers & Kordula De Kuthy: "Case Assignment in Partially Fronted Constituents". Christian Rohrer, Antje Rossdeutscher and Hans Kamp (Eds.): Linguistic Form and its Computation. Stanford: CSLI Publications.


Journal articles



Detmar Meurers: "On Expressing Lexical Generalizations in HPSG". Nordic Journal of Linguistics 24:2.


Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: "On Partial Constituent Fronting in German". Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 3:3, 2001.


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Detmar Meurers: "To flip or not to flip: On the nature of irregularities in the German verbal complex". Frank van Eynde, Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beerman (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications.


2000

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books



Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers. "From Argument Raising to Dependent Raising". In Ronnie Cann, Claire Grover, and Philip Miller (Eds.): Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Frederik Fouvry & Detmar Meurers. "Towards a platform for linearization grammars". In Hinrichs/Meurers/Wintner (2000).


E. W. Hinrichs, D. Meurers, and S. Wintner (Eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation. ESSLLI-2000, Birmingham, UK.


1999

Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Argument raising meets adjuncts-as-dependents and traceless extraction. Proceedings of the "Sixth Int. Conference on HPSG´´. Edinburgh, Scotland.


Theses



Detmar Meurers: Lexical Generalizations in the Syntax of German Non-Finite Constructions. Phil. Diss., Universität Tübingen. Available in 2000 as Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Nr. 145.


Other publications



Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: On Partial Constituent Fronting in German. In: Valia Kordoni (Ed.), Tübingen Studies in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Nr. 132.


Detmar Meurers: Raising Spirits (and assigning them case). In: Werner Abraham (Ed.), Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik, 43.


1998

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books



Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Incomplete Category Fronting in German without Remnant Movement . In: B. Schröder et.al.: Computers, Linguistics, and Phontetics between Language and Speech (Proceedings of KONVENS 98). Frankfurt a.M.:Lang.


Detmar Meurers: German Partial-VP Fronting Revisited. In: Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol (eds.): Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, CSLI. (revised version of the paper presented at the 3rd Int. Conference on HPSG, Marseille, May 1996)


Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: Off-line Constraint Propagation for Efficient HPSG Processing. In Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol (eds.): Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, CSLI. (revised version of the paper presented at the 3rd Int. Conference on HPSG, joint session with TALN, Marseille, May 1996)


Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: The importance of being lazy - Using lazy evaluation to process queries to HPSG grammars. In: Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol (eds.): Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, CSLI. (revised version of the paper presented at the 3rd Int. Conference on HPSG, joint session with TALN, Marseille, May 1996)


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Towards a General Theory of Partial Constituent Fronting in German. Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Categorial Grammar (FHCG-98). Saarbrücken, Germany.


1997

Journal articles



Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: A Computational Treatment of Lexical Rules in HPSG as Covariation in Lexical Entries. Computational Linguistics, 23 (4).


Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Detmar Meurers: Using lexical principles in HPSG to generalize over valence properties. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Formal Grammar. Aix-en-Provence, France.


Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: Interleaving Universal Principles And Relational Constraints over Typed Feature Logic. ACL/EACL 97. Madrid, Spain.


Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: The ConTroll System as Large Grammar Development Platform. ENVGRAM ACL-Workshop 97. Madrid, Spain.


Other publications



Thilo Götz, Detmar Meurers & Dale Gerdemann: Documentation of the ConTroll System (Draft of 17. Sept. 1997 for ConTroll v.1.0b and XTroll v.5.0b).

The ConTroll Manual. ( .ps 3.7Mb / .ps.gz 280Kb)

ConTroll Reference Card ( .ps 112Kb / .ps.gz 43Kb )


Detmar Meurers: Statusrektion und Wortstellung in kohärenten Infintkonstruktionen des Deutschen. In Hinrichs/Meurers/Richter/Sailer/Winhart (Eds.): Ein HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. Teil 1: Theorie. Number 95 in Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340.


1996

Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Detmar Meurers: German Partial-VP Fronting Revisited - Back to Basics. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on HPSG, May 1996, Marseille, France.
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Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: Off-line Constraint Propagation for Efficient HPSG Processing. In: Proceedings of TALN 96 (joint session with the Third International Conference on HPSG). May 1996, Marseille, France.
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Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: The importance of being lazy - Using lazy evaluation to process queries to HPSG grammars. In: Proceedings of TALN 96 (joint session with the Third International Conference on HPSG). May 1996, Marseille, France.
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1995

Peer reviewed conference proceedings



Detmar Meurers: Towards a Semantics for Lexical Rules as used in HPSG. Revised version of the paper presented at the Conference on Formal Grammar, Barcelona, Spain, at the Tübingen HPSG workshop, and the ACQUILEX II Workshop on Lexical Rules, Cambridge, UK.


Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: Compiling HPSG type constraints into definite clause programs. ACL 95. Boston, USA. https://aclanthology.org/P95-1012


Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: A Computational Treatment of HPSG Lexical Rules as Covariation in Lexical Entries. Presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming. Lisbon, Portugal. 1995. Proceedings version.
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1994

Theses



Detmar Meurers: On Implementing an HPSG theory - Aspects of the logical architecture, the formalization and the implementation of head-driven phrase structure grammars. Master's thesis, Universität Tübingen. Appeared as Part 2 of SFB Report Nr.58


Other publications



Detmar Meurers: A modified view of the German verbal complex Handout of a talk given on 7. October 1994 at the HPSG Workshop in Heidelberg, Germany.
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1993

Other publications



Detmar Meurers & Frank Morawietz: An Alternative Approach to ID/LP - SUP Grammars. Paper presented at the 1st International Workshop on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar held in Columbus, Ohio
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1992

Other publications



Detmar Meurers: A graphical notation for HPSG-style sort hierarchies.


A six page description of the notation
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A graphical representation of the signature defined in the appendix of Pollard and Sag (1994).
Since for some obscure reason, the postscript-file doesn't print on certain printers, there are two versions: one which works on the Apple Laserwriter and possibly on other printers ( .ps / .ps.gz ), and a second for those printers on which nothing happens when the first file is printed ( .ps / .ps.gz ).