User:Lars Hellan
- Lars Hellan
Professor in Linguistics at NTNU
Email: lars.hellanATntnu.no
Curriculum Vitae
Professor in General Linguistics
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Degrees:
Mag. art. 1971, University of Oslo
Dr. Philos. 1981, University of Trondheim
Positions:
1972-1980, amanuensis, Linguistics Dept, University of Trondheim
1980-1987, 1.amanuensis, Linguistics Dept, University of Trondheim
1987-2015, professor, Linguistics Dept, University of Trondheim, later called NTNU
2015- , professor emeritus, NTNU
Stays abroad:
Spring 1974: Subfaculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
Fall 1974 - Spring 1975: Linguistics Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fall 1979 - Spring 1980: Linguistics Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fall 2000 - Spring 2001: CSLI and Linguistics Dept., Stanford University, Stanford
Spring 2008: Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University
Books and monographs:
Toward an Integrated Theory of Noun Phrases, doctoral diss., Univ. of Trondheim, unpublished, 1981
Toward an Integrated Theory of Comparatives, Gunther Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1981
Topics in Scandinavian Syntax (ed, with Kirsti Koch Christensen), Reidel Publ. Co, Dordrecht, 1986
Anaphora in Norwegian and the Theory of Grammar, Foris Publ., Dordrecht, 1988
Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics (ed. with Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova), John Benjamins Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 1999
Proceedings from the HPSG conference 2001 (ed., with Frank van Eynde and Dorothee Beermann), NTNU, CSLI on-line publications
Proceedings from the TROSS Workshop on Multi-Verb constructions (ed., with Dorothee Beermann), 2003, NTNU, on-line publication
Identifying Verb Constructions Cross-linguistically (with Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu), 2010. SLAVOB series Univ. of Ghana.
Projects:
Central Features of Scandinavian Syntax (”Sentrale trekk i nordisk syntaks”), sponsored by NAVF (The Norwegian Council for Research), 1984-1987
The Trondheim Linguistic Lexicon (TROLL), sponsored by NAVF (The Norwegian Council for Research), the construction of a large scale computational lexical resource for Norwegian, 1986-1991
Reflexive Clitics and Argument Structure, sponsored by NAVF (The Norwegian Council for Research), in collaboration with EUROTYP, 1991-1995.
Site coordinator for a Clitics subproject of EUROTYP, sponsored by European Science Foundation, 1991-1996.
NORDLEX, sponsored by NOS-H, comparative computational lexicography for four Scandinavian languages, including partners from Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, 1992-1995
Computational Lexicography, Typology, and Adult Literacy (“The Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project”) in cooperation with the University of Ghana, sponsored by NUFU, for the periods 1996-2000, 2002-2007, and 2007-2009.
(as subcoordinator) ”The Trondheim-Sofia Corpus of Old Slavic”, 1996-1999
NorSource, a project towards the construction of a large scale resource HPSG grammar and lexicon of Norwegian, built with the engineering platform LKB. Part of DeepThought. Started fall 2001 -, still actively pursued.
Site coordinator in the EU project DeepThought ("Hybrid deep and shallow methods in information extraction"), 2002-2004
Site coordinator in LOGON, cooperation between the universities of Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim on Machine Translation, sponsored by NFR under the KUNSTI programme. 2003-2007.
JaNoGram - cooperation in Norwegian and Japanese Grammar Engineering, especially in Machine Translation Norwegian-Japanese, sponsored by NFR, on the program BILAT. 2006-2007.
MaLEX –“Malawi Lexicon Project", computational documentation of three Malawian languages, in cooperation with the University of Malawi, sponsored by NUFU, for the period 2007-2012.
Acquisition of Nouns for Language Processing, a pilot project towards automatic acquisition of nouns for a computational lexicon, sponsored by NFR on the KUNSTI programme, 2007-2008.
Typology of Prepositions and their Semantic Equivalents, a pilot project towards establishing a library of a computationally usable semantic representations of prepositions and their equivalents cross-linguistically, sponsored by NFR on the KUNSTI programme, 2007-2008.
Recent articles:
2023
Hellan, Lars. A Unified Cluster of Valence Resources. To appear .in: R. Loukanova et al. (eds.), Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021 (LACompLing2021), Studies in Computational Intelligence 1081, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21780-7_13
2022
Hellan, Lars. A Valence Catalogue for Norwegian. In: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence — NLPinAI 2021. Springer Nature 2022 ISBN 978- 3-030-90137-0. s.49-104
2021
Hellan, Lars. Unification and selection in Light Verb Constructions. A study of Norwegian,. I: Light verb constructions as complex verbs. Features, typology and function. De Gruyter Mouton 2021 ISBN 978-3-11-074785-0.
2020
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. Enhancing grammar and valence resources for Akan and Ga. I: West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication. Warzawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2020 ISBN 978-83-235-4623-8. s.166-185
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars; Mihaylov, Pavel; Struck, Anna. Developing a Twi (Asante) Dictionary from Akan Interlinear Glossed Texts. I: Proceedings of the LREC 20201st Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop(SLTU-CCURL 2020). European Language Resources Association 2020 ISBN 979-10-95546-35-1. s.294-297
Hellan, Lars. A Computational Grammar of Ga. I: First workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages(RAIL). European Language Resources Association 2020 ISBN 979-10-95546-60-3. s.36-44
Hellan, Lars. Interoperable Semantic Annotation. I: 16th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. European Language Resources Association 2020 ISBN 979-10-95546-48-1. s.22-31
Hellan, Lars. Syntax and Semantics of Light Reflexives in Norwegian. SLE http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/; 2020-08-26 - 2020-09-01
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German. In: Thetics and Categoricals. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2020 ISBN 9789027207401. s.69-104
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. Thetische Repräsentationen und die Präsentativkonstruktion im Norwegischen und Deutschen. In: Zur Architektur von Thetik und Kategorik. Stauffenburg Verlag 2020 ISBN 978-3-95809-548-9. s.43-66
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee; Bruland, Tore; Aamot, Elias; Haugland, Tormod. Creating a Norwegian valence corpus from a deep grammar. In: Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. 8th Language & Technology Conferene, LTC2017. Springer 2020 ISBN 978-3-030-66526-5.
Quasthoff, Uwe; Hellan, Lars; Körner, Erik; Eckart, Thomas; Goldhahn, Dirk; Beermann, Dorothee. Typical Sentences as a Resource for Valence. In: Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. European Language Resources Association 2020 ISBN 979-10-95546-34-4. s.5276-5281
2019
Hellan, Lars. A multipurpose annotation system in application to constructions in Kwa and Bantu. SLE 2019; 2019-08-21 - 2019-08-24 NTNU
Hellan, Lars. Construction-Based Compositional Grammar. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 2019 Volume 28. s.101-130
Hellan, Lars. How Aspects of Descriptive and Formal Linguistics Can Inform LT for All Languages. Language Technology For ALL; 2019-12-04 - 2019-12-06
Hellan, Lars. Situations in Grammar. In: The grammar of verbs and their arguments: a cross-linguistic perspective. Studies in African Linguistics.. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag 2019 ISBN 978-3-89645-769-1. s.189-232
Hellan, Lars. When a verb has more than one valence frame. In: Valency in Verbs and Verb-Related Structures. Peter Lang Publishing Group 2019 ISBN 978- 3-631-77712-1. s.101-110
Siegel, Melanie; Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. Aspects of Linguistic Complexity: A German – Norwegian Approach to the Creation of Resources for Easy-To-Understand Language. 2019 Eleventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX); 2019-05-05
2018
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. Creation and reusability of digital resources from two related Kwa languages The case of Akan and Ga. SyWAL 2018 (Symposium of West African Languages); 2018-09-26 - 2018-09-29
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. West African serial verb constructions: the case of Akan and Ga. In: The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics. Routledge 2018 ISBN 978-1- 138-22829-0. s.207-221
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars; Haugland, Tormod. Convergent development of digital resources for West African Languages. In: LREC 2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. European Language Resources Association 2018 ISBN 979-10-95546-00-9.
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars; Haugland, Tormod; Ssentanda, Medadi; Quasthoff, Uwe; Goldhahn, Dirk; Eckart, Thomas. Digital Infrastructure for Morpho-syntactic Analysis of Under-Resourced Languages: A Case Study for Luganda. SLE2018; 2018-08-28 - 2018-09- 01
2017
Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp; Hellan, Lars. A labeling system for valency. I: Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017 ISBN 9789027257208. s.113-153 NTNU
Hellan, Lars. A design for the analysis of bare nominalizations in Norwegian. I: Aspect and valency in nominals. De Gruyter Mouton 2017 ISBN 9781501514586. s.181-199 NTNU
Hellan, Lars. The Role of Sense and Valency in the Account of Certain Minor Grammatical Phenomena in Norwegian. I: Proceedings of the Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing2017). 2017 s.67-90 NTNU
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee; Bruland, Tore; Aamot, Elias; Haugland, Tormod. Creating a Norwegian valence corpus from a deep grammar. I: Proceedings 8th Language & Technology Conference. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan 2017 ISBN 978-83-64864-94-0. NTNU
Hellan, Lars; Malchukov, Andrej; Cennamo, Michela. Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017 (ISBN 9789027257208) 476 s. Linguistik Aktuell(237) NTNU
Hellan, Lars; Malchukov, Andrej; Cennamo, Michela.
Issues in contrastive valency studies. I: Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017 ISBN 9789027257208. s.2-24
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Hellan, Lars. 2019.a Construction-based Compositional Grammar. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-019-09284-5.
Hellan, Lars. 2019. b. When a verb has more than one valence frame. In: A. Malicka-Kleparska & M. Bloch-Trojnar (eds) Valency in verbs and verb related structures. Peter Lang.
Hellan, Lars. 2019. c. Situations in Grammar. In Essegbey, J., Kallulli, D. and Bodomo, A. (eds). The grammar of verbs and their arguments: a cross-linguistic perspective. Studies in African Linguistics. Berlin: R. Köppe.
Hellan, Lars and Dorothee Beermann. 2019. Thetische Repräsentationen und die Präsentativkonstruktion im Norwegischen und Deutschen. In: Werner Abraham, Yasuhiro Fujinawa, Shin Tanaka & Elisabeth Leiss (eds) Zur übereinzelsprachlichen Architektur von Thetik und Kategorik. [Studien zur deutschen Grammatik ##]. Tübingen: Stauf¬fenburg.
Beermann, Dorothee, Lars Hellan and Tormod Haugland. 2018. Convergent development of digital resources for West African Languages In: Claudia Soria and Laurent Besacier and Laurette Pretorius (eds) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018).
Beermann, Dorothee, and Lars Hellan. 2018. West African Serial verb constructions: the case of Akan and Ga. In: Agwuele, Augustine, and Adams Bodomo (eds) The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics. London and New York: Routledge. Pg. 207-221.
2018xxx. Grammar as a symbolic system. In: Grammatik der Zukunft. Tübingen: Stauffenberg Verlag. Hellan, Lars, Malchukov, Andrej; Cennamo, Michela (eds.) 2017. Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency. John Benjamins Publ. Co. Amsterdam.
2017. with Malchukov, Andrej; Cennamo, Michela. Introduction: Issues in contrastive valency studies. In Hellan et al. eds. 2017 Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency.
2017. A design for the analysis of bare nominalizations in Norwegian. In: A. Malicka-Kleparska & M. Bloch-Trojnar (eds) Aspect and Valency in nominals. Berlin: Moutob de Gruyter.
2017. The role of Sense and Valency in the Account of Certain ‘Minor’ grammatical Phenomena in Norwegian. In: Proceedings of LACmpL2017, University of Stockholm.
2017. with M.E.K. Dakubu. A labeling system for valency. In: Hellan et al. eds. 2017 Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency.
Hellan, Lars. 2016. Light Verb Constructions as valency modeling. A study of Norwegian. Presented at SLE 2016, Naples. Submitted for proceedings as: Unification and selection in Light Verb Constructions. A study of Norwegian.
2016. with Dorothee Beermann. Switched Control and other 'uncontrolled' cases of obligatory control . HeadLex conference proceedings.
2016 with Dorothee Beermann¹ • Tormod Haugland¹ Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in the work with African Languages LREC 2016.
2016. With: S. Muzaffar • P. Behera • G.N. Jha • D. Beermann: The TypeCraft natural language database: Annotating and incorporating Urdu LREC 2016 . Hellan, Lars and Tore Bruland. 2015. A cluster of applications around a Deep Grammar. In: Vetu-lani et al. (eds) Proceedings from The Language & Technology Conference (LTC) 2015, Poznan.
Hellan, Lars and Dorothee Beermann (2014) Inducing grammars from IGT. In Z. Vetulani and J. Mariani (eds.) Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics. Springer.
2014. With: Girish Nath Jha • Dorothee Beermann • Esha Banerjee: Indian languages on the TypeCraft platform – the case of Hindi and Odia
2014: with D. Beermann, T. Bruland, M.E.K. Dakubu, and M. Marimon (2014) MultiVal: Towards a multilingual valence lexicon. LREC 2014.
2013a: with Tore Bruland, Elias Aamot, Mads H. Sandøy: A Grammar Sparrer for Norwegian. Proceedings of NoDaLiDa 2013.
2013b: with Tore Bruland: Towards a Multingual Database of Verb Valency. Proceedings of NoDaLiDa 2013.
2013c: with Dorothee Beermann and Tore Bruland (2013). A multilingual valence database for less resourced languages. In Human Language Technologies. Poznan: Fundacja Uniwersytetu im. A. Mickiewicza 2013 ISBN 978-83-932640-3-2. s. 50-54, Poznan.
2011: with Dorothee Beermann. Inducing grammar from IGT. In Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics. Proceedings, 5th LTC. Z. Vetulani (ed.), Poznan.
2010: From Descriptive Annotation to Grammar Specification. ACL 2010, Uppsala, Linguistic Annotation Workshop 4 (LAW4).
2009: with Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu. 2009: A methodology for enhancing argument structure specification. In: Proceedings from the 4th Language Technology Conference (LTC 2009), Poznan.
2008a: From Grammar-Independent Construction Enumeration to Lexical Types in Computational Grammars. Paper presented at COLING, Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF), Manchester, August 2008.
2008b: with Dorothee Beermann and Kalyanamalani Sahoo. "What is Argument Sharing? A case study on argument sharing under VP serialization in Oriya", Bayer, Josef, (ed) Festschrift for K. Jayaseelan, Benjamins, Amsterdam.
2007: with Dakubu, M.E.K., and D. Beermann. Verb Sequencing Constraints in Ga: Serial Verb Constructions and the Extended Verb Complex. In St. Müller (ed) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. CSLI Publications, Stanford. (/http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/)
2005a. with Dorothee Beermann. Classification of Prepositional Senses for Deep Grammar Applications. In: Valia Kordoni and Aline Villavicencio (eds.): Proceedings of the 2nd ACL-Sigsem Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications, Colchester, United Kingdom, ACL-Sigsem, 2005
2005b. Implementing Norwegian Reflexives in an HPSG Grammar. In St. Müller (ed) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar . CSLI Publications, Stanford. (/http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/)
2004a: with Dorothee Beermann, Jon Atle Gulla and Atle Prange. Trailfinder: a case study in extracting spatial information using deep language processing. In Ton van der Wouden, Michaela Poss, Hilke Reckman, and Crit Cremers (eds) Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004: Selected papers from the fifteenth CLIN meeting, pp. 121-131, Leiden, Netherlands, 2004.
2004b: with Dorothee Beermann. A treatment of directionals in two implemented HPSG grammars. In Stefan Müller (ed) Proceedings of the HPSG04 Conference, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. CSLI Publications /http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ 357-377.
2004c: with Jan Tore Lønning, Stephan Oepen, Dorothee Beermann, John Carroll, Helge Dyvik, Dan Flickinger, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Paul Meurer, Torbjørn Nordgård, Victoria Rosén, and Erik Velldal. LOGON. A Norwegian MT effort. In Proceedings of the Workshop in Recent Advances in Scandinavian Machine Translation, Uppsala, Sweden, 2004.
2003: with P. Haugereid. The NorSource Grammar - an excercise in the Matrix Grammar building design. In: Emily Bender, Dan Flickinger, Frederik Fouvry, and Melanie Siegel (eds) Proceedings of Workshop on Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Engineering, ESSLLI 2003. Chapter in collective volume
Lingware:
2011 - Norwegian Grammar Sparrer - an online Language Tutoring tool, accessed at http://typecraft.org/tc2wiki/A_Norwegian_Grammar_Sparrer; this tool can give exact diagnosis for grammatical errors present in input sentences, and from the ungrammatical input, generate suggestions for how the sentence submitted should have been formed.
2002 - NorSource – a large computational LKB HPSG Grammar for Norwegian
( http://www.typecraft.org/tc2wiki/Norwegian_HPSG_grammar_NorSource )
2009 - TypeGram – a multilingual LKB system for verb construction types
2009 A package of phenomena-oriented LKB grammars. Class material
2005 GaGramm - a small computational LKB HPSG Grammar for Ga