Dr. Alexis Dimitriadis
C ONTACT
Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands
www.uu.nl/staff/ADimitriadis
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C URRENT P OSITION
Senior researcher and Assistant Professor (permanent) at the Utrecht institute of Linguistics
OTS, Utrecht University, since 2005.
Functions include research in linguistics; teaching, supervision, curriculum development; and
oversight for development and utilization of linguistic databases and digital resources.
E DUCATION
Ph.D., Linguistics, 2000. University of Pennsylvania.
Dissertation Title: Beyond Identity: Topics in Pronominal and Reciprocal Anaphora.
Supervisors: Anthony S. Kroch and Maribel Romero.
Areas of concentration: Semantics, syntax, discourse analysis, computational linguistics.
M.A., Mathematics, 1992. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
Title of M.A. Thesis: Modeling Time Series With Auto-Regressive Markov Models.
Areas of concentration: Statistical modeling, abstract algebra, topology.
B.A., Biology, 1986. Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
Honors Thesis involved development of computer software for the analysis of experimental
data in molecular genetics (restriction endonuclease digests).
Other: Girona International Summer School in Linguistics, Girona, Spain, 1994.
R ESEARCH I NTERESTS
Theoretical linguistics: Anaphora in semantics, syntax, and discourse; argument structure;
semantics and typology of reciprocals; language typology.
Descriptive linguistics: Corpus linguistics; the Artificial Language Learning experimental
paradigm; methodology for data collection, typological databases, experimental design.
Computational: Typological databases; digital environments for linguistics and the humanities; information structure for linguistic documentation; issues in aggregation, discovery,
usability, and sustainability of linguistic data; information technology for small research
groups and individuals (without dedicated IT personnel).
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PAST P OSITIONS
Rutgers University. Visiting faculty, Linguistics Department. January–May 2010.
Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam.
Research associate. May 2004–December 2009.
Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS. Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer. December 2000–
2005.
LearnWare, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Software developer. Designed and implemented parts of
an interactive language learning application. 1997–1998.
Rutgers University. Part-time lecturer, Linguistics Department. Spring 1997.
Greek National Army. Term of service required of all male citizens of Greece. 1986–1988.
C OMPUTATIONAL E XPERTISE
Academic and commercial experience. Use and development of annotated text corpora, database design, exploratory statistical modeling (numerical and linguistic domains); user interface
design; usability and data discovery approaches and technologies; ontologies, web technologies, and service architectures.
Programming experience on Windows and Unix/Linux/OS X operating systems. Proficient in
C, C++, Python, PHP, Perl, Java, SQL, and other programming languages and scripting tools;
HTML/CSS, website design and administration; computer security.
Extensive knowledge of the LaTeX document preparation system; developed several widely
used packages for linguistics (qtree.sty, drs.sty, linquiry.bst).
L ANGUAGES
Greek (native language)
English (very-near-native)
Dutch (NT-2 state certificate)
German (professional working proficiency)
French (elementary proficiency)
Some knowledge of Swahili
R ESEARCH P ROJECTS AND S CIENTIFIC C OOPERATION
Between logic and common sense 2013–2015.
Principal Investigator: Yoad Winter.
This interdisciplinary research program draws together formal, psycholinguistic and computational methods. It attempts to enrich formal semantics with ideas from the study of common
concepts, and to exploit interactions between word meaning and logical meaning for the
automatic treatment of reasoning (particularly textual entailment) in natural language.
Learnability of morphology: Insights from artificial language learning
Principal Investigators: Alexis Dimitriadis, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam)
Partially supported by a grant from the NetWordS project.
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We use the Artificial Language Learning paradigm, which exposes experimental subjects to
an extremely simple artificial “language” and tests whether they are implicitly aware of the
statistical regularities under study, to compare the learnability of agglutinative and fusional
morphology.
Universals and the typology of reflexives 2008–2012.
Principal Investigators: Martin Everaert, Eric Reuland, Alexis Dimitriadis.
Funded by NWO grant 360–70–330.
The project utilizes fieldwork and broad crosslinguistic data collection for the analysis of
the phenomena of reflexivity and reciprocity. Co-supervised the project’s two Ph.D. students
and several internships, and served as technical expert for its database and data collection
methodology.
Anaphora in the African languages (Afranaph) Project member since 2008.
Principal Investigator: Ken Safir (Rutgers University).
This NSF-funded project conducts detailed studies of anaphora and other phenonena in African
languages. I provided the database software and design, and contributed to the design of the
Afranaph questionnaires and survey methodology.
Scientific cooperation on databases
I contribute to a number of projects as a technical expert on databases and data collection
protocol. Many of them use a database design and associated web application that I have
developed as a generic solution to the needs of crosslinguistic surveys. A partial list:
Structure and Linearization in Disharmonic Word Orders
Principal Investigators: Ian Roberts (Cambridge), Anders Holmsberg (Newcastle)
Anaphora in the African Languages
Principal Investigator: Ken Safir (Rutgers University)
Uniformity of Linguistic Variation
Principal Investigator: Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University)
TDS Curator 2010–2012.
Principal Investigator: Alexis Dimitriadis
Supported by a grant of EUR 60.000 from CLARIN-NL.
The project migrated the data collection of the Typological Database System, along with the
necessary software infrastructure, to an archival environment and a services architecture with
prospects for long-term continued availability. In partnership with the Max Planck Institute
for Psycholinguistics, the NWO’s Data Archiving and Networking Services, and the Meertens
Institute.
A typology of reciprocal markers: analysis and documentation 2005–2009.
Principal Investigators: Ekkehard König, Martin Everaert, Volker Gast, Alexis Dimitriadis.
Funded jointly by the NWO (EUR 75.000) and the DFG (approx. 200.000).
A joint program with the Institut für Englische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin. The project
developed survey methodology, conducted surveys of reciprocal morphology and semantics,
and created an internet-accessible database with data on 110 languages.
The Typological Database System 2004-2008.
Principal Investigators: Kees Hengeveld, Martin Everaert, Alexis Dimitriadis, Menzo Windhouwer.
Funded by NWO grant INV–03–12 (EUR 650.000).
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The project developed a unified web interface to diverse, independently created typological
databases, based on an integrated ontology. As project manager, I coordinated the work of
the project’s three post-docs and occasional interns and student employees, and was closely
involved in the design and linguistic content of the system.
Integration of Data Resources for the Study of Language Diversity 2009.
Principal Investigators: Martin Everaert, Alexis Dimitriadis
Funded by the NWO (EUR 40.000)
Organized the workshop “Small tools for crosslinguistic research”, which brought together
developers of computational tools targeted to the “ ordinary working linguist.”
Anaphora in the languages of India
Principal Investigators: K. V. Subbarao, Martin Everaert.
Funded by the Gonda Foundation (EUR 20.000)
The project is collecting and analyzing data on reciprocals and reflexives in the languages of
India.
Language Typology Resource Center 2001-2004.
Principal Investigator: Martin Everaert
Funding: European Union 4th Framework Program. (EUR 250.000)
The LTRC is a thematic network comprising 20 institutions. Its goal was to facilitate the
development of computational tools and resources for linguistic typology, and to encourage
their wider accessibility over the internet. As co-coordinator of the project I was responsible
for various activities and outputs, and directed the creation of its website.
Anaphora resolution in English texts (CAMP Project, University of Pennsylvania). 1997.
Principal Investigator: Breck Baldwin.
Scientific programming on an experimental system for natural language processing. I worked
on the identification of noun phrases, common noun anaphora, discourse status, system support
tasks.
Modeling and reconstruction of chaotic time series 1990–1992.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Andrew Fraser, Systems Science Ph.D. Program, Portland State
University.
I developed and implemented an algorithm to train a new type of autoregressive Hidden
Markov Models. Also worked on automatic feature detection for speech recognition.
T EACHING
1. Courses taught at the B.A. level
Undergraduate Minor in Digital Humanities
Four-course program, new in 2013-14. Topics: Information technology and digital literacy for
the humanities; new media and computer-enabled communication; applications to learning
and research.
Worked with colleagues from linguistics, history, and media studies to formulate the goals and
course content for the Minor. Co-teaching one course, Digital Tools and Methods.
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Computational Linguistics
Co-taught since spring 2014. Elements of NLP, programming in python and speech processing.
Semantics
Co-taught since spring 2014. Introduction to formal semantics, lambda calculus and Montague
grammar.
Introduction to Computational Linguistics
Spring 2011.
Coordinated and taught part of this student-designed, undergraduate honors course under the
SIRIUS Programme for Excellence in Dutch Higher Education. See also Supervision.
Meaning in Context
Taught in 2006-2007.
An undergraduate introduction to natural language semantics, from the basics of logic and
truth tables to extensional model-theoretic semantics and context-dependent meaning.
Taught elsewhere:
Language Typology
Spring 2010.
Senior-level undergraduate course at Rutgers University. Students were introduced to the aims,
core concepts and methodology of the linguistic subfield of language typology, and exposed
to the diverse grammatical structures found in the world’s languages (and their unifying
characteristics).
Introduction to Formal Semantics
April 2006.
Two-week intensive course at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.
Computational Linguistics (Introduction to Automata Theory)
Fall 1999 to Spring 2000.
Continuing education course at the College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Introduction to Linguistics
Spring 1997.
Rutgers University Linguistics Department, New Jersey. An introduction to linguistics and its
major subfields.
2. Courses taught at the M.A. level
Foundations of Meaning
Since winter 2013.
Introductory M.A. course, co-taught with Joost Zwarts. Covers formal semantics (semantic
models, type theory and lambda notation, generalized quantifiers); pragmatics (implicature,
presupposition, and speech acts, as well as the role of anaphors and connectives); and topics
in corpus-based semantics of text (scalar expressions, exclamatives, bare nouns in PPs).
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Foundations of Syntax
Since fall 2013–14.
Introductory M.A. course co-taught with Eddy Ruys. Covers topics in generative syntax, plus
an introduction to linguistic data analysis.
Comparative Psycholinguistics
Since fall 2013–14.
M.A. course co-taught with Sergey Avrutin.
Conceptual Semantics
Spring 2013.
M.A. course in the Cognitive Artificial Intelligence program, co-taught with Paola Monachesi.
Introduction to the study of concepts, their philosophical and psychological foundations, and
their application in information extraction, automated classification, and the semantic web.
Language Variation
Fall 2012.
Second-year M.A. course, co-taught with Prof. Sjef Barbiers. Main topics: The core concepts
and insights, central research questions and methodology of typological and micro-comparative
research. A secondary theme of the course is the comparison of the generative and functional/
typological research perspectives.
Linguistic Data Analysis
Taught 2011–2013.
An introduction to the use of computers and information technology for linguistic research.
Main topics: using existing corpora, databases and other linguistic resources; writing scripts
to manage, tag and analyze text corpora; theory and practice of database design.
Language Typology
Taught 2002–2010.
This M.A. course had three goals: introduction to the aims, core concepts and methodology of
the linguistic subfield of language typology; exposure to diverse grammatical structures found
in the world’s languages (and their unifying characteristics); and comparison of the generative
and functionalist /typological approaches to linguistics. Students were introduced to the use of
typological databases, and to data collection through questionnaires and/or interviews with
native speaker consultants.
Semantics Tutorial
Taught in 2005, 2006.
An introduction to natural language semantics, for the Research M.A. program in Linguistics,
taking students from a general introduction to truth-conditional semantics to elements of
extensional model-theoretic semantics, lambda calculus, and a selection of theoretical topics.
Generalized Quantifiers
Taught in 2004.
An introduction to formal extensional semantics for natural language, with a focus on the
theory of Generalized Quantifiers.
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3. Ph.D.-level courses
Typology of Reflexives and Reciprocals
January 2011. LOT Winter School, University of Amsterdam,
Short course for the Ph.D. Winter School of the Dutch National Graduate School in Linguistics
(LOT). A cross-linguistic overview of reciprocals and reflexives, their interpretation and morphological realization, and the theoretical questions that they raise or help answer. Primarily
typological focus, without neglecting the extensive body of work within generative linguistics.
Graduate Seminar on Argument Structure
Spring 2010. At the Rutgers University Linguistics Department, New Jersey.
Semester-long course co-taught with Ken Safir. Topics included the architecture of the language
faculty and the semantic foundations of the Theta System, a theory of the interface of concepts
and lexical argument structure (Reinhart 2003, Dimitriadis 2012).
Introduction to Database Design for Linguists
September 2009. NordLing Ph.D. School on Databases and Typology, Tartu University,
Estonia.
Short course on the principles and fundamentals of database design.
4. Supervision
I list here some recent research for which I was the only or primary supervisor.
Peter Dekker, 2014. Determining Dutch dialect phylogeny using Bayesian inference.
B.A Thesis, Program in Artificial Intelligence. Co-supervised with Martin Everaert.
An exploration of the effectiveness of applying Baysean inference to construct a phylogenetic
tree of Dutch dialects.
Hannah Tops, 2013. The predictive power of tweets: An exploratory study.
M.A. Thesis, Program in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (Utrecht).
Topic: Determining event time from a corpus of Twitter messages. Co-supervised with Antal
van den Bosch (Nijmegen).
Kate Backhouse, 2013. Investigating Co-occurrence as a Measure of Causality.
B.A. Thesis, University College Utrecht.
Topic: Extraction of causal relationships from a corpus of scientific abstracts. In connection
with an internship at TNO.
Emiel van Miltenburg, 2013. Functionalism and formalism: Two approaches to the study of
language.
M.A. Term Paper, Utrecht institute of Linguistics.
Treatments of reflexives from the generative and functional perspectives are compared and
contrasted, with focus on the assumptions and goals of each approach.
Bambang Kartono, 2013. A survey of reflexivity in some languages of Indonesia.
M.A. Internship, Utrecht institute of Linguistics.
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Co-supervised with Martin Everaert, Eric Reuland. Using a questionnaire for the project
Universals and the typology of reflexives, Bambang collected data for eleven languages of
Indonesia, analyzed it and entered it into the project’s database.
Willeke van der Kallen, 2013. Reflexivity in English Prepositional Phrases.
B.A. Thesis, Department of Modern Languages, English Division.
A corpus study of pronouns and reflexives in prepositional phrases (PPs), in constructions that
syntactically permit a free choice between the two. The frequency and conditioning factors
were coded and analyzed for statistical significance.
Atanu Saha, research supervision. 2011.
A Ph.D. student from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), who visited Utrecht
University for three months under the Utrecht University Short Stay Fellowship program.
We met regularly to discuss his work, I guided him through a tutorial introduction to formal
semantics, and we organized a Ph.D.-level reading group on Japanese reciprocals.
Thari Diefenbach, 2011. Issues in programming a bigram tagger.
Individual project for SIRIUS student-led undergraduate honors course.
Creation (from scratch) and evaluation of a statistical part-of-speech tagger.
Roeland van Beek, 2011. Automatic Summarizaton of Movie Plots Using the TextRank
Algorithm.
Individual project for SIRIUS student-led undergraduate honors course.
S ERVICE
External Evaluation: Member of the external evaluation committee for the School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (December 2013). Member of the external evaluation
committee for the Department of Philology, University of Crete (December 2011).
Scientific organizations: Board Member, GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World):
Website Manager.
Conference Organizing: Organized or helped organize conferences, workshops and workgroup meetings, including: the Association for Linguistic Typology workshop on RDF (Resource Description Framework), 2013; the workshop Small Tools for Cross-Linguistic Research, 2009; two workshops on reciprocals and anaphora typology in Utrecht, 2002, 2007;
the conference Reciprocals Cross-Linguistically, Berlin, November 2007; annual meetings of
the Language Typology Resource Center, 2002–2004; etc.
Journal Reviewer: Linguistic Inquiry (since 2002; Associate Editorial Board member since
2008); Journal of Cross-Linguistic Databases, Editor since 2013. (An incipient open access
journal.) Journal of Semantics (2011); Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2008, 2009);
Linguistics and Philosophy (2003); Computational Linguistics (1999); OTS Yearbook (2002,
2007); U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (to 2000).
Conference and other reviewing: Since 2011: Linked Data in Linguistics (program committee); German Cognitive Linguistics Association; Incontro di Grammatica Generativa;
Amsterdam Colloquium. Other: U.S. National Science Foundation (2008); Penn Linguistic
Colloquium (1994–1999).
Editor: Managing editor, U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (1996–2000); managing
editor of The Quest, the student-run newspaper of Reed College (1985).
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Electronic resources: Co-author of the NLTK interface module for CHILDES, the Child
Language Exchange System for child language acquisition data; created widely used linguistic
style packages for the LaTeX document preparation system (qtree.sty, drs.sty, linquiry.bst);
maintainer of gb4e.sty, another popular LaTeX style.
P UBLICATIONS
Dimitriadis, Alexis. In preparation. Reciprocals and reciprocity. Contracted for publication
with Cambridge University Press. Book ms., expected completion in 2015.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, and Martin Everaert. 2014. How many theta roles in a reflexive verb?
Acta Linguistica Hungarica 61:247–269.
Everaert, Martin and Alexis Dimitriadis. In preparation. Reciprocals. In Thomason, Sally, et
al., Oxford Handbooks Online. www.oxfordhandbooks.com.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2012. An event semantics for the Theta System. In The theta system:
Argument structure at the interface, ed. Marijana Marelj Martin Everaert and Tal Siloni,
308–353. Oxford University Press.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2010. Matching needs and resources: How NLP can help theoretical
linguistics. In Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common
Ground, ed. Fei Xia, William Lewis, and Lori Levin, 22–24. Uppsala, Sweden: Association
for Computational Linguistics. URL http:// www.aclweb.org/ anthology/ W10-2104/ .
Everaert, Martin, Simon Musgrave, and Alexis Dimitriadis, ed. 2009. The use of databases in
cross-linguistic studies. Number 41 in Empirical Approaches to Language Typology. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, and Min Que. 2009. The doubly marked reflexive in Chinese. In Anaphora
processing and applications, ed. Sobha Lalitha Devi, António Branco, and Ruslan Mitkov,
number 5847 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 80–90. Berlin: Springer. Proceedings of
the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2009), Goa, India,
November 2009.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, and Simon Musgrave. 2009. Designing linguistic databases: A primer
for linguists. In The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies, ed. Martin Everaert, Simon
Musgrave, and Alexis Dimitriadis, number 41 in Empirical Approaches to Language Typology,
13–75. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Musgrave, Simon, Alexis Dimitriadis, and Martin Everaert. 2009. Introduction. In The use
of databases in cross-linguistic studies, ed. Martin Everaert, Simon Musgrave, and Alexis
Dimitriadis, number 41 in Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 1–12. Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, Menzo Windhouwer, Adam Saulwick, Rob Goedemans, and Tamás Bı́ró.
2009. How to integrate databases without starting a typology war: the Typological Database
System. In The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies, ed. Martin Everaert, Simon
Musgrave, and Alexis Dimitriadis, number 41 in Empirical Approaches to Language Typology,
155–207. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2008a. The event structure of irreducibly symmetric reciprocals. In Event
structures in linguistic form and interpretation, ed. Johannes Dölling, Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow,
and Martin Schäfer, 327–354. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2008b. Irreducible symmetry in reciprocal constructions. In Reciprocals
and reflexives: Theoretical and typological explorations, ed. Ekkehard König and Volker Gast.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Windhouwer, Menzo, and Alexis Dimitriadis. 2008. Sustainable operability: Keeping complex
resources alive. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on the Sustainability of Language
Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, Menzo Windhouwer, Adam Saulwick, Rob Goedemans, and Tamás Bı́ró.
2007. Managing differences: The TDS approach. In Proceedings of the E-MELD workshop
“Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources” (E-MELD 2007), ed. Arienne Dwyer and
Helen Aristar-Dry. Position paper.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2006. Distribution over symmetric events. In Proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Greek Linguistics.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, Marc Kemps-Snijders, Peter Wittenburg, Martin Everaert, and Stephen
Levinson. 2006. Towards a linguist’s workbench supporting eScience methods. In Proceedings
of the Second IEEE Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science ’06), ed. Patrick
Kellenberger, 131. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Conference Services. URL http:// csdl.computer.
org/ dl/ proceedings/ e-science/ 2006/ 2734/ 00/ 27340131.pdf .
Dimitriadis, Alexis, Adam Saulwick, and Menzo Windhouwer. 2005. Semantic relations in
ontology mediated linguistic data integration. In Proceedings of the E-MELD Workshop on
Morphosyntactic Annotation and Terminology: Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories for
Linguistic Resources.
Saulwick, Adam, Menzo Windhouwer, Alexis Dimitriadis, and Rob Goedemans. 2005. Distributed tasking in ontology mediated integration of typological databases for linguistic
research. In Proceedings of the CAiSE ’05 Workshops: International Workshop on Data
Integration and the Semantic Web (DISWeb ’05), ed. J. Castro and E. Teniente, 303–317.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, and Martin Everaert. 2004. Typological perspectives on anaphora. In
Collection of Papers from the International Symposium on Deictic Systems and Quantification
in Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, ed. Pirkko Suihkonen and
Bernard Comrie, 51–67. Iževsk: Udmurt State University. (Iževsk, Russia, 2001).
Seidl, Amanda, and Alexis Dimitriadis. 2003. Statives and reciprocal morphology in Swahili.
In Typologie des langues d’Afrique et universaux de la grammaire, ed. Patrick Sauzet and
Anne Zribi-Hertz, volume 1. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Dimitriadis, Alexis, and Paola Monachesi. 2002. Integrating different data types in a typological database system. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Resources and Tools in
Field Linguistics, Las Palmas, Spain, ed. Peter Austin, Helen Dry, and Peter Wittenburg.
Monachesi, Paola, Alexis Dimitriadis, Rob Goedemans, Anne-Marie Mineur, and Manuela
Pinto. 2002. A unified system for accessing typological databases. In Proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 3). Paris: ELRA.
Monachesi, Paola, Alexis Dimitriadis, Rob Goedemans, Anne-Marie Mineur, and Manuela
Pinto. 2001. The Typological Database System. In Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on
Linguistic Databases, ed. Steven Bird, Peter Buneman, and Mark Liberman, 181–186. IRCS,
Philadelphia.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2001. Function domains in variable-free semantics. In Proceedings of
11th Annual Meeting on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 11), ed. Rachel Hastings,
Brendan Jackson, and Zsofia Zvolenszky. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
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Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2000. Beyond identity: Problems in pronominal and reciprocal anaphora.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1999a. On clitics, prepositions and case licensing in Standard and
Macedonian Greek. In Studies in Greek syntax, ed. Artemis Alexiadou, Geoffrey Horrocks,
and Melita Stavrou, number 43 in Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 95–112.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1999b. Reciprocal interpretation with functional pronouns. In Proceedings
of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, ed. Paul Dekker, 97–102. University of Amsterdam.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1999c. Reconciling dependent plurals with each other. In Proceedings of
SALT 9, ed. Tanya Matthews and Devon Strolovitch. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
Baldwin, Breck, Tom Morton, Amit Bagga, Jason Baldridge, Raman Chandraseker, Alexis
Dimitriadis, Kieran Snyder, and Magdalena Wolska. 1998. Description of the University of
Pennsylvania CAMP system as used for coreference. In Proceedings of the 7th Message
Understanding Conference (MUC-7).
Seidl, Amanda, and Alexis Dimitriadis. 1997. The discourse function of object marking
in Swahili. In CLS 33: Papers from the Main Session, April 17–19, 1997, ed. Kora Singer,
Randall Eggert, and Gregory Anderson. Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1996. When pro-drop languages don’t: Overt pronominal subjects and
pragmatic inference. In CLS 32: The Main Session, ed. Lise M. Dobrin, Kora Singer, and Lisa
McNair, 33–47. Chicago Linguistic Society.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1995a. Dative clitics and Case licensing in standard and Macedonian
Greek. In Papers from the 31st Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Parasession on Clitics, ed. Audra Dainora, Rachel Hempbill, Barbara Luka, et al., volume 2, 91–104.
Chicago Linguistic Society.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1995b. When pro-drop languages don’t: On overt pronominal subjects in
Greek. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 2:45–60.
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1994a. Clitics and island-insensitive object drop. In Proceedings of
FLSM 5. (Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 24:2).
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1994b. Clitics and object drop in Modern Greek. In Proceedings of the
Sixth Student Conference in Linguistics (SCIL-6). (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 23).
Dimitriadis, Alexis. 1993. Events and quantification. In Papers from the Fifth Student
Conference in Linguistics (SCIL–5), 51–66. (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 20).
Dimitriadis, Alexis, and Andrew M. Fraser. 1993. Modeling double scroll time series. IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing 40:683–687.
Fraser, Andrew M., and Alexis Dimitriadis. 1994. Forecasting probability densities by using
Hidden Markov Models with mixed states. In Time series prediction: Forecasting the future
and understanding the past, ed. A. S. Weigend and N. A. Gershenfeld, 264–281. AddisonWesley.
S ELECTED DATABASES AND OTHER OUTPUTS
Dimitriadis, Alexis and Menzo Windhouwer. 2012, TDS Curator: An interface to the Typological Database System. http:// tds2.dans.knaw.nl/
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Dimitriadis, Alexis. 2012. lotdiss.cls: A style for dissertations at the Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap (LOT). Version 1.3. http:// www.hum.uu.nl/ medewerkers/ a.dimitriadis/
latex/
Nagano, Tomonori and Alexis Dimitriadis. CHILDES module for the Natural Language
Toolkit. In Bird, Steven et al., Natural Language Toolkit. http:// www.nltk.org
Everaert, Martin, Ekkehard Kon̈ig, Alexis Dimitriadis, Volker Gast, Thomas Hanke, Carola
Emkow. 2008. Database of the project “A typology of reciprocal markers: Analysis and
documentation.”
http:// languagelink.let.uu.nl/ burs/
S ELECTED TALKS
“Where is the subject? Reflexives and pronouns in locative prepositions.” Workshop on
personal pronouns, Utrecht. November 13, 2013.
“Formal and functional explanation in reflexive marking.” Workshop Challenging Reflexive
Strategies, 46th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split, September 18–21,
2013.
“Characterizing reflexivization: Semantic and syntactic perspectives.” Dimitriadis, Alexis and
Martin Everaert. Workshop Perspectives on Argument Alternations, 35th Annual meeting of
the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS 2013), Potsdam, March 12–15, 2013.
“Questionnaires from a generative/typological perspective, with special reference to reflexives.”
Invited talk at the workshop Questionnaires in Linguistic typology. Jena University, 26 April,
2012.
“The Typological Database System as a web service.” Invited talk at the Workshop on RDF in
typology. MPI Leipzig, 14–15 March, 2012.
“Form and frequency in the encoding of reflexivity.” World of Reflexives Workshop, Utrecht
University, August 27, 2011.
“Typology of reflexives: Unity in variation.” Alexis Dimitriadis, Martin Everaert, Eric Reuland, Dagmar Schadler & Anna Volkova. Association for Linguistic Typology 9th Biennial
Conference, Hong Kong, July 23, 2011.
“Matching needs and resources: How NLP can help theoretical linguistics”. 48th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Workshop on NLP and Linguistics,
July 16, 2010.
“The Doubly Marked Reflexive in Chinese.” Dimitriadis, Alexis and Min Que. 7th Discourse
Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2009), Goa, India, November 5-6,
2009.
“An Extensible Design for Linguistic Survey Databases.” Eighth Biennial Conference of the
Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 8), Berkeley, California, July 2009.
“What cross-linguistic survey databases have in common (and what they do not).” Workshop
Small tools for cross-linguistic research, Utrecht, June 2009.
“Reciprocals, Symmetry, and the Discontinuous Reciprocal Construction.” Invited lecture at
the Linguistische Arbeitskrieg, Cologne University, April 2009.
Dr. Alexis Dimitriadis
Curriculum Vitae – 13
“Sustainable Operability: Keeping Complex Resources Alive.” Windhouwer, Menzo and
Alexis Dimitriadis. LREC Workshop on the Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools
for Natural Language Processing, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
“Counting symmetric events.” Conference Reciprocals Cross-Linguistically, Berlin, 1 December 2007.
“Integrated access to diverse linguistic databases with the Typological Database System.”
Dimitriadis, A, M. Windhouwer, A. Saulwick, T. Bı́ró, R. Goedemans, and K. Hengeveld.
Association for Linguistic Typology - 7th Biennial Meeting (ALT7), Paris, France, September
25-28, 2007.
“Symmetric and non-symmetric reciprocals in Serbo-Croatian.” Dimitriadis, Alexis, and Tanja
Milićev. Paper presented at the conference on Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages (FDSL
6.5), Nova Gorica, Slovenia, December 2006.
“Architecture and procedures for the integration of linguistic databases in the Typological
Database System.” Saulwick, A, R. Goedemans, A. Dimitriadis, M. Windhouwer. 28th Annual
meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS 2006), Bielefeld, Germany, February
22-24, 2006.
“Typological Database System: Ontology mediated integration of typological databases for
linguistic research.” A. Dimitriadis, R. Goedemans, A. Saulwick, M.A. Windhouwer. Presented
at the 8th International Protégé Conference (Protégé 2005), Madrid, Spain, July 18-21, 2005.
“Distribution over symmetric events”. September 2005. Paper presented at the 7th International
Conference on Greek Linguistics, York, United Kingdom.
“Metadata for resource discovery and resource utilization.” Meeting of the Language Typology
Resource Center network, September 2002, Utrecht.