Wolfgang Menzel

Research interests:

• Integration of Speech and Language Processing,
• Robustness in NLP,
• Diagnosis in Language Tutoring Systems

Running Projects:

Finished Projects:

Address: Universität Hamburg, FB Informatik, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, D-22527 Hamburg

Phone: 49-40-42883-2435

Fax: 49-40-42883-2515

E-mail: menzel@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Room: F 207

Curriculum vitae:

• 1971-1978 Student and Research Student, Department of Information Technology, Technological University Dresden
• Speech-Language-Interface in Speech Understanding Systems
• 1979 Doctor's Degree (Dr.-Ing.) Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technological University Dresden
• 1978-1990 Central Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences, Berlin
• Text-to-Speech-Synthesis
• Morphological Analysis
• Syntactic Parsing
• Error Diagnosis for Language Learning
• 1991-1992 Research Group for Computational Linguistics, Berlin
• Error Diagnosis for Language Learning
• Lexical Ressources in Spoken Language Systems
• 1992-... Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
• Architectures for Speech and Language Processing
• Resource-Constrained Language Analysis
• Robust Parsing
• Systems and Tools for Foreign Language Learning

Publications:

2003

• Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder: Robust Parsing with Weighted Constraints. to appear in Natural Language Engineering.
• Michael Daum, Kilian A. Foth, Wolfgang Menzel: Constraint Based Integration of Deep and Shallow Parsing Techniques. Proc. 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2002, Budapest.
• Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel: Subtree Parsing to Speed up Deep Analysis. Proc. 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, IWPT 2003.

2002

• Wolfgang Menzel: Parsing mit inkonsistenten Grammatiken, Kognitionswissenschaft, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 175-184
• Ingo Schröder, Horia F. Pop, Wolfgang Menzel, Kilian A. Foth, Learning the constraints weights of a dependency grammar using genetic algorithms. In: Evolutionary Methods for Design, Optimisation and Control with Applications to Industrial Problems, K. C. Giannakoglou, D. T. Tsahalis, J. Periaux, K. D. Papaillou and T. Fogarty (Editors), CIMNE Barcelona, 2002, pp. 243-247.
• Wolfgang Menzel: System Architecture as a Problem of Information Fusion. Proc. Int. Symposium Natural Language Processing between Linguistic Inquiry and Systems Engineering, Hamburg, 2002, p. 74-84.
• Michael Daum, Wolfgang Menzel: Parsing Natural Language using Guided Local Search. In F. van Harmelen (ed.): ECAI 2002. Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lyon, France. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002, p. 435-439.

2001

• Ingo Schröder, Horia F. Pop, Wolfgang Menzel, Kilian A. Foth: Learning Grammar Weights Using Genetic Algorithms. Proc. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP-2001, Tsigov Chark, p. 235-239.
• Wolfgang Menzel: Zur Geschichte der Computerlinguistik. In: K.-U. Carstensen, Chr. Ebert, C. Endriss, S. Jekat, R. Klabunde, H. Langer, M. Schielen (Hrsg.) Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie - Eine Einführung. Spektrum-Verlag, Heidelberg, S. 1-9.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Daniel Herron, Rachel Morton, Dario Pezzotta, Patrizia Bonaventura, Peter Howarth: Interactive Pronunciation Training. ReCall, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 67-78.
• Wolfgang Menzel: Dependenzgrammatik und Semantische Netze (Entwurf). Erscheint in: V. Agel, L. M. Eichinger, H.-W. Eroms, P. Hellwig, H. J. Heringer, H. Lobin (Hrsg.) Dependenz und Valenz - Ein Internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.

• E. Atwell, P. Baldo, R. Bisiani, P. Bonaventura, D. Herron, P. Howarth, W. Menzel, R. Morton, C. Souter, H. Wick: User-Guided System Development in Interactive Spoken Language Education. Natural Language Engineering, vol 6, no. 3/4, p. 229-241
• Ingo Schröder, Wolfgang Menzel, Kilian Foth, Michael Schulz: Modeling dependency grammar with restricted constraints. Traitement Automatique des Langues (T.A.L.) Special Issue on Grammaires de dépendance, vol. 41, no. 1, p. 97-126.
• Wolfgang Menzel: Fehlerdiagnose und Feedback in einem Aussprachetrainer für den Fremdsprachenerwerb. Proc. 10. Arbeitstreffen der GI-Fachgruppe 1.1.5/7.0.1 Intelligente Lehr- und Lernsysteme, Hamburg, 1.-2.12.2000, S. 69-75.
• Patrizia Bonaventura, Daniel Herron, Wolfgang Menzel: Phonetic rules for diagnosis of pronunciation errors. Tagungsband 5. Konferenz Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache, Konvens 2000, Ilmenau, S. 225-230 .
• Wolfgang Menzel, Daniel Herron, Patrizia Bonaventura, Rachel Morton: Automatic detection and correction of non-native English pronunciation. Proc. Workshop Intergrating Speech Technology in the (Language) Learning and Assistive Interface, InStil 2000, Dundee (UK), p. 49-56.
• Patrizia Bonaventura, Peter Howarth, Wolfgang Menzel: Phonetic Annotation of a non-native speech corpus. Proc. Workshop Integrating Speech Technology in the (Language) Learning and Assistive Interface, InStil 2000, Dundee (UK), p. 10-17.
• Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel, Horia F. Pop, Ingo Schröder: An experiment on incremental analysis using robust parsing techniques. Proc. 18th Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken 2000, p. 1026-1030.
• Wolfgang Menzel: Überblick Sprachverarbeitung. Kapitel 15 in: G. Görz, C.-R. Rollinger, J. Schneeberger (Hrsg.) Einführung in die künstliche Intelligenz. R. Oldenbourg Verlag München, 2000, S. 627-649.
• Wolfgang Menzel:Theory and applications in Computational Linguistics - Is there common ground?  Proc. Symposion "Computerlinguistik: Divergenz oder Synergie", Heidelberg, 21.-22.7.2000.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Eric Atwell, Patrizia Bonaventura, Daniel Herron, Peter Howarth, Rachel Morton, Clive Souter: The ISLE corpus of non-native spoken English, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-2000, p. 957-963.
• Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder: A transformation-based parsing technique with anytime properties. Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Parsing Technologies, IWPT 2000, Trento, Italy, p.89-100.

• Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder: Error Diagnosis for Language Learning Systems. ReCALL, special edition, May 1999, p. 20-30.
• Daniel Herron, Wolfgang Menzel, Eric Atwell, Roberto Bisiani, Fabio Daneluzzi, Rachel Morton, Jürgen A. Schmidt: Automatic Localization and Diagnosis of Pronunciation Errors For Second-Language Learners of English. Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Eurospeech 99, Budapest, vol. 2, p. 855-858.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1998) Constraint Satisfaction for Robust Parsing of Spoken Language. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 77-89.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder (1998) Constraint-based Diagnosis for Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems. Fachbereich Informatik Universität Hamburg, Bericht Nr. FBI-HH-B-208-98.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder (1998) Constraint-based Diagnosis for Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems. Proc. IT&KNOWS, XV. IFIP World Computer Congress, Vienna/Budapest 1998, pp 484-497.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder (1998) Model-based Diagnosis under Structural Uncertainty. Proc. 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'98, Brighton UK, p. 284-288.
• Johannes Heinicke, Jürgen Kunze, Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder (1998) Eliminative Parsing with Graded Constraints. Proc. 17th Int. Conference on Computational Linguistics. Montreal, Canada, pp. 526-530.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder (1998) Decision Procedures for Dependency Parsing Using Graded Constraints. Proc. Coling-ACL Workshop on Processing of Dependency Grammars. Montreal, Canada, pp. 78-87.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1998) Sehen und Verstehen: Der Beitrag bildlicher Information zur robusten Sprachverarbeitung. Tagungsband 28. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Magdeburg, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 161-170.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Jan Amtrup (1998) Werkzeuge, Modelle, Problemlösungen: Eine Konzeption für die Nebenfach-Informatik. Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Informatik, Mitteilung Nr. FBI-HH-M-280-98.
• Wolfgang Menzel, Ingo Schröder (1998) Error Diagnosis for Language Learning Systems. Proc. Int. Conf. Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications, NLP&IA'98, Moncton, Canada, 45-51.
• Damir Cavar, Wolfgang Menzel (1998) Verbmobil: A Speech-to-Speech Translation System. Proc. Jezykove Tehnologije za Slowenski Jezik, ISJT'98, Ljubljana.

• Wolfgang Menzel, J. Joachim Quantz (1997) Linguistische Verarbeitung im Maschinellen Dolmetschen. KI, vol 11, no. 4, S. 19-25.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1996) Constraint satisfaction for Robust Processing of Spoken Language, ECAI-96 Workshop on Non-Standard Constraint Processing, Budapest (Hungary).

• Wolfgang Menzel (1995) Robust Processing of Natural Language In: Proceedings 19th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bielefeld, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 981, Springer, Berlin etc., pp.19-34.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1994) Parsing of Spoken Language under Time Constraints. Proc. 11th Europ. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI-94, Amsterdam, pp. 560-564. Appeared also as Verbmobil-Report no. 26.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1993) Antizipationsfreie Fehlerdiagnose für Sprachlehrsysteme. 6. Arbeitstreffen der Fachgruppe Intelligente (Tutorielle) Lernsysteme, Oldenburg, S. 94-104.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1993) ASL: Architectures for Speech and Language Processing. Proc. 5th Twente-Workshop on Language Technology, Enschede, Netherlands, pp. 81-88.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1992) Modellbasierte Fehlerdiagnose in Sprachlehrsystemen. Sprache und Information, vol. 24, Niemeyer, Tübingen.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1992) Constraint-Based Diagnosis of Grammatical Faults. Proc. ICALL Workshop, UMIST, Manchester, pp. 89-101.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1990) Anticipation-Free Diagnosing of Structural Faults. Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics, Coling-90, Helsinki, pp. 416-418.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1990) Intelligente Lehrsysteme für den Fremdsprachenunterricht, In: Lenk, D. (Hrsg.) Computer in Lehre und Forschung für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Prag, pp. 44-51.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1990) Antizipationsfreie Diagnose von Kongruenzfehlern. Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Bd. 27, Nr. 3, pp. 172-179.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1990) Whither "Intelligent" Systems for Language Learning, Wiss. Zeitschrift der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität Rostock, G-Reihe, Bd. 39, Nr. 9, pp. 87-92.

• Koch, Sabine; Küstner, Andreas; Menzel, Wolfgang; Rüdiger, Barbara (1989) Heuristic Morphological Analysis of German. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, vol. 52, pp. 5-23.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1988) Error Diagnosing and Selection in a Training System for Second Language Learning. Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics, Coling-88, Budapest, pp. 414-419.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1988) Diagnosing Grammatical Faults - A Deep-Modelled Approach. Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. AI - Methodology, Systems, Applications, AIMSA-88, Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 319-326.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1988) Wissensbasierte Lehrsysteme für den Fremdsprachenunterricht. In: Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 579-591.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1988) Model-based Diagnosis of Constraint Violations in Natural Language Utterances. In: Fum, D.; Tasso, C. (eds) Papers of the Int. Workshop on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Trieste, pp. 49-63.

• Wolfgang Menzel und Ingrid Starke (1987) Wortformenanalyse und Schrifttext-gesteuerte Sprachsynthese. In: Tillmann, H. G. und Willee, G. (Hrsg.) Analyse und Synthese gesprochener Sprache. Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim etc., pp. 10-17.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1987) Automated Reasoning about Natural Language Correctness. Proc. 3rd Meeting of the EACL, Kopenhagen, pp. 46-51.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1984) Data Optimization in Natural Language Based Systems. Proc. Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Information Control of Robots, Smolenice, CSSR, pp. 247-250.
• Wolfgang Menzel (1984) A Grapheme-to-Phoneme Transformation for German. Computers and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3, pp. 223-243.

• Wolfgang Menzel (1979) Verarbeitung von Phonemsymbolstrukturen durch Wortformenanalyse. Dissertation A, TU Dresden.
• Wolfgang Menzel und Klaus Püschel (1979) Korrektur fehlerhaft erkannter Phonemsymbolketten. Nachrichtentechnik/Elektronik, vol. 29, pp. 33-35.