Pius ten Hacken

Please refer to my new homepage. This page gives information about my position at the Universität Basel. In 2003 I moved to Swansea University, where I am based in the Department of Modern Languages (Translation).
Jobs	Research Interests	Teaching	Selected Publications	Sprechstunde

Jobs

• Computational Linguist at the Dept. of Computer Science    (Universität Basel)
• General and Computational Linguist at the School of European Languages (University of Wales Swansea)
  
• WS 2002/03: Guest lecturer for theoretical linguistics at the English Seminar (Universität Basel)

• Coordination of General Linguistics (1995-2000)
• Coordination of the research project " Word Formation as a Structuring Device of the English and Italian Lexicons: A Large-Scale Exploration " (2000-2002)
• Lecturer for scientific communication at "Mensch - Gesellschaft - Umwelt "    (Universität Basel, 2001-2002)
• WS + SS 1998/99: Guest lecturer for English linguistics at the Université de Neuchâtel
• WS 1999/2000: Guest lecturer for computational morphology at the Universität Zürich
• SS 2001: Guest lecturer for computational linguistics at the Università della Svizzera Italiana
• WS 2001/02: Guest lecturer for computational linguistics at the English Seminar (Universität Basel)

Research Interests

• Morphology, esp. generative morphology
• Computational linguistics, esp. computational lexicons, machine translation
• Philosophy of science as applied to linguistics
• History of linguistics, esp. 20th century

Teaching Activities (Basel)

• Computerlinguistik und Formalisierte Grammatiken     [ SS 2004 ]
• Seminar Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaftliche Anwendungen der Informatik
• Wissenschaftliche Kommunikation
• English Seminar: Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar (WS 2002/03)
  
• Former guest lectureships are listed under jobs

Administrative Tasks (Basel)

• Member of the planning committee ( PlaKo ) of Basel University, an advisory committee of the Rektorat (1998-2000)
• President of the Dachverband der Assistierenden of Basel University (1999-2000)

Selected Publications

On the Philosophy and History of Linguistics

ten Hacken, Pius (2002): " Chomskyan Linguistics and the Sciences of Communication ", Studies in Communication Sciences 2/2:109-134.

ten Hacken, Pius (1998), " Chomskyan Linguistics and HPSG as Competing Research Programmes ", in Caron, Bernard (ed.), Actes du 16è Congrès International des Linguistes (Paris 20-25 juillet 1997), Oxford: Pergamon, Paper 0042.

ten Hacken, Pius (1997), " Progress and Incommensurability in Linguistics ", Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 7:287-310.

On Computational Linguistics

ten Hacken, Pius (2001), " Has There Been a Revolution in Machine Translation? ", Machine Translation 16:1-19.

ten Hacken, Pius & Tschichold, Cornelia (2001), " Word Manager and CALL: Structured access to the lexicon as a tool for enriching learners' vocabulary ", ReCALL 13: 121-131.

ten Hacken, Pius & Domenig, Marc (1996), " Reusable Dictionaries for NLP: The Word Manager Approach ", Lexicology 2:232-255.

On Morphology

ten Hacken, Pius (1999), " Motivated Tests for Compounding ", Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 31:27-58.

ten Hacken, Pius (1998), " Word Formation in Electronic Dictionaries ", Dictionaries 19:158-187.

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