Jakob Prange

Ph.D. student

at the Department of Computer Science
at Georgetown University

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I am a Ph.D. student of Computer Science at Georgetown University. My advisor is Prof. Nathan Schneider.

Having a background in Computational Linguistics, I want to combine methods from Computer Science, Mathematical Logic and Linguistics, in order to explore how human language works and how this can be formalized efficiently. More specifically, I am interested in theories of formal and distributional semantics, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence.

I am also interested in NLP for Hebrew and Arabic, as well as (not necessarily computational) studies of Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite, which were -- not incidentally -- all written with cuneiform script, one of the earliest known writing systems.

I received a Bachelor of Science in Computational Linguistics from Saarland University, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal and Dr. Stefan Thater. The topic of my thesis project was "POS-Tagging of Internet Texts Using Information about Distributional Similarity".

These are some things I am or was involved in:

• Nathan's Excellent Research Team @ Georgetown (NERT)
• Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown (GUCL)
• Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics @ Saarland (2012-'16)
• "Schreibgebrauch" project on writing and orthography habits in German (2013-'16)