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Helmut Weldle

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room: 03007
phone: +49 761 203 4940
fax: +49 761 203 4938
e-mail: helmut.weldle"at"cognition.uni-freiburg.de

Center for Cognitive Science
Institute of Computer Science and Social Research
Friedrichstr. 50

D-79098 Freiburg, Germany

 

Sprechstunde

  • Telefonisch, nach Vereinbarung

Research interests

  • Psycholinguistics (frequency effects in language, sentence processing, anaphora resolution, reference assignment, language comprehension, eyetracking)
  • Connectionism, connectionist modeling of human language processing, acquisition, and comprehension, vision-language integration
  • Embodied Cognition, embodied language processing and comprehension

Projects

  • Scholarship holder of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg: Connectionist Modeling of human language comprehension, syntax processing and integration of visual and linguistic information
  • For additional information, visit the Psycholinguistic Research Lab

Teaching

  • WS 09/10, Projektseminar: Konnektionistische Sprachverarbeitung
    Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg
  • WS 08/09, Projektseminar: Konnektionistische Sprachverarbeitung
    Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg
  • SS 08, Hauptseminar: Embodied Cognition
    Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg
  • SS 04, Teaching Assistant (Proseminar): Introduction to modern german linguistics
    Institute for German Linguistics and Literature, University of Freiburg
  • WS 03/04, Teaching Assistant (Proseminar): Introduction to modern german linguistics
    Institute for German Linguistics and Literature, University of Freiburg

Vita

  • 1999-2005  Study at the University of Freiburg: German Linguistics, Cognitive Science, European Ethnology
  • 2002  Study at the University of Ulster at Coleraine (Northern Ireland) with the Sokrates-Erasmus program
  • 2005  Graduation (Master of Arts) at the University of Freiburg in German Linguistics, Cognitive Science and European Ethnology
    Master thesis: “Konnektionistische Modellierung syntaktischen Sprachwandels” (connectionist modeling of syntactic change)
  • since 2006  PhD-student at the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Freiburg
  • 2007-2010  Scholarship holder of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg

Publications and Presentations

publications(forschungsdatenbank)

  • Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S., Müller, D., & Baumann, P. (accepted, 2010). Anaphors and Local Coherences. Talk to be presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland (Oregon).
  • Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S. A., & Baumann, P. (2010). Emergence of language comprehension from multiple task integration – a connectionist investigation. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, March 2010. 
  • Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Wolfer, S. A., Baumann, P., & Müller, D. (2010). Local syntactic coherences violate structural binding domains in on-line anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, March 2010.
  • Konieczny, L., Haser, V., Müller, D., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S. A., Baumann, P., & Hemforth, B. (2010). Grounding of anaphora in pointing gestures. In Proceedings of the 23d Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, March 2010.
  • Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Baumann, P. (2010). Grounding und Emergenz von Spracherwerb und Sprachverarbeitung: Ein konnektionistischer Ansatz. In Frings, C., Mecklinger, A., Wentura, D., Zimmer, H.D. (eds.). Beiträge zur 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, 22.-24. März, Saarbruecken (Germany).
  • Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Haser, V., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Baumann, P. (2010). Anaphern sind in Zeigegesten verankert - der Pointing-Compatibility Effect. In Frings, C., Mecklinger, A., Wentura, D., Zimmer, H.D. (eds.). Beiträge zur 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, 22.-24. März, Saarbruecken (Germany).
  • Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., Müller, D., Feldmeth, A.K., Kühner, D., Teske, M. (2009). Local coherences interfere with on-line anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the 15th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), Barcelona (Spain), September 2009.
  • Müller, D., Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., Feldmeth, A.K., Kühner, D., Teske, M. (2009). Local syntactic coherences interfere with anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements, Southampton (UK), August 2009.
  • Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., Baumann, P. (2009). Language acquisition and processing in integrative connectionist models. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing, Rotterdam (NL), July 2009.
  • Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., Baumann, P. (2009). Connectionist modeling of situated language processing: language and meaning acquisition from an embodiment perspective. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.). Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, NL (pp. 827-832). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Weldle, H., Baumann, P., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., Konieczny, L. (2009). Connectionist modeling of syntax and anaphora resolution. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis (USA), March 2009.
  • Weldle, H. (2009). Anaphernresolution in dynamischen Modellen der Sprachverarbeitung. Talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Freiburg (Germany), February 2009.
  • Weldle, H. (2008). Syntax und Referenz in dynamischen Modellen der Sprachverarbeitung. Poster presented at the Opening of the Hermann-Paul-School for Language Sciences, University of Freiburg (Germany), November 2008.
  • Schwarzkopf, S., Müller, D., Weldle, H., Konieczny, L. (2008). Grammatical person controls perspective taking in embodied simulation semantics. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP), Cambridge (UK), September 2008.
  • Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S., Müller, D. (2007). Ein konnektionistisches Modell der Integration von Syntax und Semantik. Ein Werkstattbericht. Talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Freiburg (Germany), July 2007.
  • Weldle, H. (2007). DiscourseNet. Konnektionistische Modellierung von Sprachverstehen und Diskursrepräsentation. Poster presented at the Opening of the Hermann-Paul-Centrum for Linguistics, University of Freiburg (Germany), May 2007.
  • Weldle, H. (2006). Ansätze zur Innovation von HCI aus kognitionswissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Talk at the Innovationsworkshop “Innovationen zur Neugestaltung der Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle für das Navigationsinstrument OrthoPilot®”, Aesculap AG & Co. KG, Tuttlingen (Germany), March 2006.
  • Weldle, H. (2006). Syntaktischer Sprachwandel aus konnektionistischer Perspektive. Talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Freiburg (Germany), January, 2006.
  • Weldle, H. (2005). Konnektionistische Modellierung syntaktischen Sprachwandels. Magisterarbeit zur Erlangung der Würde des Magister Artium, vorgelegt an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (unpublished masters thesis, University of Freiburg).
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