Matthias Irmer


Contact

Matthias Irmer
Department of German Studies
University of Leipzig
04107 Leipzig
Germany

mirmer àt uni-leipzig dott de


Education
2010 PhD thesis on “Bridging Inferences in Discourse Interpretation”, University of Leipzig, Examination Board: Johannes Dölling, Anita Steube, Nicholas Asher,
Degree: summa cum laude
2005-2010 PhD studies at the Faculty of Philology, University of Leipzig
2005 Master degree (Magister Artium, M.A.) in Linguistics and Computer Science. Master’s thesis on “Nonmonotonic and abductive inferences in discourse context. Pragmatic inferences in the interpretation of utterances”
1996-2005 Studies of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics at the University of Leipzig, Germany
1996 Abitur (secondary school) with specialization in Russian, Freiberg, Germany
Teaching and Professional Experience
since 2011 Computational Linguist at OntoChem GmbH, Halle (Saale)
2011-2012 Teaching of undergraduate course “Textlinguistik” in the module “Sprachliche Kommunikation”, Department of German Studies, University of Leipzig
2009-2010 Teaching of graduate courses “Textbedeutung” and “Semantik-Kolloquium”, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
since 2006 Assessment of M.A. and Master’s exams in Semantics, Pragmatics and Text Theory at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2007-2008 Research assistant at the Department of English Studies, University of Leipzig; organization of the “Third International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/GCLA-08)”, September 2008
2003-2004 Student assistant of the research group “Linguistic Foundations of Cognitive Science”; design and deployment of the website for the international workshop “event structures 04” at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
2003 Student assistant at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig; preparing and teaching undergraduate courses on “Logic for Linguists”
Grants and Experiences Abroad
2009-2010 Holder of a research scholarship of the state of Saxony
2005-2007 DFG grant for PhD studies in the postgraduate research school (Graduiertenkolleg) “Universality and Diversity. Linguistic Structures and Processes”, University of Leipzig
2006 Participation in the “École d’Automne de Linguistique”, École Normale Superieure, Paris, France, September 18-26, 2006.
2005 Participation in the “European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI)”, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 08-19, 2005.
2000-2002 Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; participation in the Erasmus students exchange programme.