These are the topics that I have been working on:
- Frame semantics / construction grammar
- Argument Structure (in particular null instantiation)
- I’ve tried to work on this both (corpus-)linguistically (with Laura A. Michaelis) and in a computational linguistic mode (with Caroline Sporleder and Philp Gorinski).
- Sentiment analysis (including Modality)
- I’m coming from the lexical and syntactic side but am very interested in the relation between semantics and pragmatics with regard to the understanding of subjectivity.
- One step in that direction, taken together with my colleague Ines Rehbein, was to re-annotate the modals in the MPQA corpus in order to compare a pragmatic annotation with a lexical semantic one. I’m hoping to do more in this vein on that data.
- Negation and polarity sensitivity
- Corpus linguistics
- Lexicography
The overall umbrella for my work is definitely frame semantics and construction grammar.
Here are some professional service activities I’ve performed.