Janne Bondi Johannessen

Professor

General Linguistics

See also official departmental page: http://www.hf.uio.no/ilf/om-ilf/ansatte/jannebj/index.html

 

Postal address:

Department of Linguistics
University of Oslo
POB 1102 Blindern
0317 Oslo, NORWAY

 

Office: Henrik Wergeland's house, room 531
Phone: (+47) 228 56814
E-mail: jannebj@hedda.uio.no

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Interests

Janne Bondi Johannessen's interests are in two different areas: theoretical linguistics (syntax and morphology) and language technology.

Her linguistic research has focussed on coordination, negation and negative polarity items, compounding, and topics related to these, such as correlative adverbs and word order more generally. The languages she has looked at in particular, have been Norwegian and the other Scandinavian and Germanic languages, and Modern Greek, but she has also done work in a wider cross-linguistic perspective.

Her language technology interests are closely linked to her role as head of the Text Laboratory, and her work here is very much part of a collaborative effort. The projects include: part of speech tagging, named entity recognition, corpus (text and speech) and interface development, grammars and treebanks, grammar checking, grammar games, statistical methods, computational lexicography.

Areas of supervision

Theoretical linguistics: Syntax (minimalism), morphology.
Language technology: a wide range of topics related to Text Laboratory projects.

Projects / Ongoing Research

See the link Prosjekter on the Text Laboratory homepage: http://www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab/

 

 

 

Refereed articles for for these  journals 1997-2005:

 

Evaluated applicants for academic positions at these institutions 1999-2004:

 

 

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,

Studia Linguistica,

Nordic Journal of Linguistics,

 Lingua,

 Linguistic Inquiry.

University of Lund,

University of Southern Denmark, 

University of Bergen,

University of Oslo, 

University of Stockholm,

University of Uppsala,

University of Troms¿,

University College of Stavanger.

 

 

Evaluated applications for these national and international funding bodies 1999-2004:

Evaluated PhD dissertations at these institutions 1999-2004:

 

University of Oslo (Faculty of Arts)

The Dutch research council: NWO

The Nordic Research council: NOS-H

The American research council,:The National Science Foundation

University of Gothenburg

University of Bergen

University of Southern Denmark

Institute for Foreign Languages and English, Hyderabad.

 

Selected Publications

2005. The syntax of correlative adverbs. Lingua, vol. 115, 4, p.419-433. http://folk.uio.no/jannebj/Correlatives.pdf

2005:  With Kristin Hagen, sne Haaland, Dimitris Kokkinakis, Paul Meurer, Eckhard Bick, Dorte Haltrup, Andra Bjšrk J—nsdottir, Anders N¿klestad:  Named Entity Recognition for the Mainland Scandinavian Languages.  Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 20, issue 1. (12 pages)

2005: With Kristin Hagen and Janne von Koss Torkildsen: Grammatikkspill og treanalyser for skoleelever. Norskl¾reren,  nr. 1, 2005 (10 pages)

2004: With Lars Nygaard: SearchTree - A User-friendly Treebank Search Interface. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2004), TŸbingen. (Editors: Sandra KŸbler, Joakim Nivre, Erhard Hinrichs, Holger Wunsch.

2004: Named Entity Recognition in Scandinavian: The Nomen Nescio Project. In H. Holmboe (ed.) Nordisk Sprogteknologi 2003, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, K¿benhavn, 149-158.

2004: With Kristin Hagen: PaNoLa: Norwegian work in 2003. In H. Holmboe (ed.) Nordisk Sprogteknologi 2003, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, K¿benhavn, 183-190.

2003: Edited book: PŒ sprŒkjakt. Problemer og utfordringer i sprŒkvitenskapelig datainnsamling. [Language hunting. Problems and challenges in linguistic data collection] Unipub forlag, Oslo.

2003: Forord. In Johannessen (ed. 2003), pp.1-4.

2003: Innsamling av sprŒklige data: Informanter, introspeksjon og korpus. In Johannessen (ed. 2003), pp. 133-172.

2003: Negative Polarity Verbs in Norwegian. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, Department of Scandinavian Languages, University of Lund, 33-73.

2003: With Kristin Hagen: Parsing Nordic Languages (PaNoLa) norsk versjon. Nordisk Sprogteknologi 2002 (ed. Henrik Holmboe). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, K¿benhavns universitet, 89-96.

2003: Nomen Nescio – Nettverk for en automatisk navnegjenkjenner for norsk, svensk og dansk. Nordisk Sprogteknologi 2002 (ed. Henrik Holmboe). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns universitet, 327-330.

2002. With Meurer, P. Automatisk gjenkjenning av vanskelige navn. In Moen, I., H.G. Simonsen, A. Torp og K.I. Vannebo (red.) MONS 9, Novus forlag, Oslo, s. 141-149. (ps)

2002:    With Kristin Hagen and Pia Lane. The performance of a grammar checker with deviant language input.  In Shu-Chuan Tseng: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan, 1223-1227.

2002:    Nomen Nescio-prosjektet: Bakgrunn og aktiviteter. I H. Holmboe (red.): Nordisk Sprogteknologi – Nordic Language Technology. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, København, s.133-140.

2002:    TalemŒlskorpus ved Universittetet i Oslo. I H. Holmboe (red.): Nordisk Sprogteknologi – Nordic Language Technology. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, København, s.51-54.

2002:    Review of Hans-Olav Enger og Kristian Emil Kristoffersen: Innføring i norsk grammatikk - morfologi og syntaks. Oslo: Landslaget for norskundervisning (LNU)/ Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, 20-1, 81-86.

2001:    Nynorsk oversettelsesprogram - review. Språknytt, 29-3, 13-15.

2001: Sammensatte ord. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, 59-92.

2001:    Anmeldelse av ¯ystein Nilsen: the Syntax of circumstantial adverbials. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 19-2, 295-300.

2000:  A Web-Based Advanced and User Friendly System: The Oslo Corpus of Tagged Norwegian Texts. Med Anders Nøklestad og Kristin Hagen. I Gavrilidou, M., G. Carayannis, S. Markantonatou, S. Piperidis og G. Stainhaouer (red.) Proceedings, Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000), Aten, 1725-1729 . (ps)

2000:    With Anders Nøklestad. Mot et maksimalt brukervennlig korpus. I Byrman, G., H. Lindquist og M. Levin (red.) Korpusar i forskning och undervisning. Rapport från ASLAs höstsymposium Corpora in  research and Teaching, Växjö, 11.-12. november 1999., Växjö universitet, 4-18. (ps)

2000: Oslo-korpuset av taggede, norske tekster. Med Anders Nøklestad. Nordlyd 28: Working papers on Language & Linguistics, 164-176. Universitetet i Tromsø,. (ps)

2000: The shortcomings of a tagger. Med Kristin Hagen og Anders Nøklestad. . I Nordgård, T (red.) Nodalida '99 Proceedings form the 12th "Nordiske datalingvistikkdagar", Lingvistisk institutt, Universitetet i Trondheim. (ps)

2000: A Constraint-based Tagger for Norwegian. Med Kristin Hagen og Anders Nøklestad I Lindberg, Carl-Erik og Steffen Nordahl Lund (red.): 17th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication 19, 31-48, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. (ps)

1998: Disambiguering uten syntaks. Med Kristin Hagen. I Faarlund, J.T., Mæhlum, B. og T. Nordgård (red.) MONS 7, s. 68-79, Novus forlag, Oslo. (ps)

1998: Negasjonen ikke: Kategori og syntaktisk posisjon. I Faarlund, J.T., Mæhlum, B. og T. Nordgård (red.) MONS 7, s. 80-94, Novus forlag, Oslo. (ps)

1998: Elektroniske hjelpemidler - leksikografisk fornying. Norskrift. nr 97, p. 43-68.

1998. Tagging and the case of pronouns. Computers and the Humanities 32, p. 1-38.

1998:An automatic analysis of compounds. Med Helge Hauglin. I Haukioja, T. (ed.): Papers from the 16th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Turku/Åbo, Finland 1996 : 209-220. (ps)

1998: Coordination. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

1998: Bokanmeldelse: Birgit Wesche, Symmetric Coordination. An Alternative Theory of Phrase Structure. Linguistische Berichte 173.

1997: Subjects in Modern Greek Subjunctive Clauses. I Drachman, G., A. Malikouti- Drachman, J. Fykias og C. Klidi (red.) Greek Linguistics '95. Proceedings from the 2nd International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Universitetet i Salzburg. W. Neugebauer Verlag GmbH, Graz, s. 493-504. (ps)

1996: DENNE. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 14-1, p. 3-27.

1996: Partial agreement and coordination. Remarks and Replies. Linguistic Inquiry, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

1995: Word order in Modern Greek subjunctive clauses. In Moen, I., H.G. Simonsen og H. Lødrup (red.): Papers rom the XVth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Oslo.

1995: Coordination. A minimalist approach. Thesis abstract in GLOT International 1, 10-11.

Review of thesis by Jan-Wouter Zwart, p. 11-13.

1994: A configurational theory of coordination. In Adger, D. , C. S. Rhys, and A. von Klop (eds): Working papers in cognitive science 8, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh.

1994: Coordinate-alpha. Konferanseforedrag tykket i Ackemaa, P. og M. Schoorlemmer (red.) Console 1 Proceedings, s. 99- 114, Holland Academic Graphics, Haag.

1993: Coordinate-alpha and unbalanced coordination. Konferanseforedrag trykket i Kathol, A. og M. Bernstein (red.) ESCOL '93, s. 153-62, Cornell University, Cornell.

1993: Conjunctions as heads. (Til publisering) Konferanseforedrag fra The XIVth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics and The VIIIth Conference of Linguistics (16-21. August 1993), Universitetet i Gøteborg, Gøteborg.

1990: Is two-level morphology a morphological model? I Pind, J. and E. Rögnvaldsson (red.): Papers from the Seventh Scandinavian Conference of Computational Linguistics, Reykjavik 1989, s. 51- 60, Universitetet i Reykjavik.

1990: Unbalanced coordination - barriers, binding and thematic relations. Research report 44, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh.

1990: Automatisk morfologisk analyse og syntese. (Publisert hovedfagsoppgave) Novus forlag, Oslo.

1989: Klitika - en avgrensning. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 2, s.117-147, Oslo.

1988: Coling '88, Budapest. Conference report. I Humanistiske data 3, s. 163-174, Bergen.

 

In the press

 

  1. Tavle-analyse ut - data-analyse inn (Aftenposten desember 1999)
  2. Det Œpne laboratoriet (Apollon nr. 2 2000)
  3. NΠskal PC'en rette grammatikken din (Aftenposten april 2001)
  4. Ned fra ElfenbenstŒrnet? (Uniforum mai 2001)
  5. Norsk grammatikksjekk i Office XP tar slurvefeilene (digitoday.no 28. mai 2001)
  6. Norske forskere kontrollerer grammatikken i Word (digitoday.no 28. mai 2001)
  7. Forsker pΠBig Brother (Uniforum 20. september 2001)
  8. Forsker pŒ sprŒket i "Big Brother" (Aftenposten 20. september 2001)
  9. Fra Nodalida-konferansen pΠReykjavik, 2003 (Morgunbladid 2.juni 2003)
  10. L¾rer mest med spill (Aftenposten 21. oktober 2003)

Photos from some project events

Nordic Treebank Network, Fefor, Norway September 2003 (photos by Koenraad de Smedt):
- The whole group
- Janne and Joakim Nivre
- Janne

Nomen Nescio Network, Fefor, Norway January 2003 (photo by Hercules Dalianis)
- Janne and Lilja ¯vrelid skiing

Nomen Nescio Network, Fefor, Norway March 2002
- Janne, Anders and Kristin skiing



Research papers etc.

Search for Janne Bondi Johannessen in the official research database Frida

Links

  1. The Text Laboratory
  2. Projects at the Text Laboratory

 

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