Sascha Wolfer, M.A.
Personal homepage of Sascha Wolfer
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Research interests
- Text comprehension research
- Comprehension and processing difficulity
- Optimizing of texts
- Statistical models of text complexity
- Eyetracking corpora
- Impaired word identification, letter-by-letter readers
- Embodied Language and Sentence Processing
- Anaphora resolution and the "pointing sentence compatibilty effect"
- Negation scope
- Connectionist modeling and empirical inspection of anaphor resolution
- Connectionist modeling of sentence comprehension and scence perception
- Local coherences in spoken language comprehension
- Theory of Mind and language
- R
Projects
- Optimizing comprehensibility of terminological texts, based on decisions by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
(Verständlichkeitsoptimierung von fachsprachlichen Texten ausgehend von Urteilen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts)- Partners: Lars Konieczny, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Sandra Hansen
- A diagram of the project workflow
- The project's homepage (in German) at the University of Mainz
- pop-sci: Understanding Science: Cognitive and linguistic studies on the optimization of knowledge representation and knowledge transfer in popular science writing, in cooperation with the University of Mainz and the German Linguistics department at the University of Freiburg
- Alexia and eyetracking - Investigations on letter-by-letter reading
- A connectionist model of scene perception and embodied sentence comprehension
- ELoC (Interpretation of Local Syntactic Coherences)
- Embodied anaphora resolution and the pointing action sentence compatibility effect
Teaching
- Wintersemester 2006 / 2007:
- Center for Cognitive Science: Empirical research methods (Teaching Assistant)
- Wintersemester 2007 / 2008:
- Hermann Paul Centre for Linguistics (HPCL): Statistische Methoden in der Linguistik (Statistical Methods in Linguistics)
- Center for Cognitive Science: Formale Methoden und Programmierung (Formal Methods and Programming)
- Sommersemester 2008:
- Deutsches Seminar 1 (Germanistische Linguistik): Statistische Methoden in der Linguistik (Statistical Methods in Linguistics)
- Wintersemester 2008 / 2009:
- FH Offenburg: Einführung in statistische Methoden (Introduction to statistics)
- Sommersemester 2009:
- Center for Cognitive Science / Germanistische Linguistik: Text & Discourse
- Wintersemester 2009 / 2010:
- Center for Cognitive Science / Germanistische Linguistik: Text und Bild (Text-picture integration)
- Germanistische Linguistik / Research Training Group GRK DFG 1624/1: Statistische Methoden in der Linguistik (Statistical Methods in Linguistics)
- Research Training Group GRK DFG 1624/1: Statistics using R
- Sommersemester 2010:
- Research Training Group GRK DFG 1624/1:Workshop on Connectionist Modeling
- Wintersemester 2010 / 2011:
- Center for Cognitive Science: Psycholinguistisches Eyetracking (Psycholinguistic eye tracking)
- University of Basel, Doktoratsprogramm Linguistik: Statistische Verfahren der linguistischen Datenanalyse (Statistical methods of linguistic data analysis)
Vita
- 2002 - 2007: Studies of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Political Science at the University Freiburg
- 2007: Magister Artium (M.A.), Thesis: Semantische Verarbeitung in konnektionistischen Netzwerken (Semantic processing in connectionist networks)
- 2007 - 2009: Graduate Assistant for the Center for Cognitive Science at the University Freiburg
- 2007 - 2010: Graduate Assistant for the German Linguistics Department at the University Freiburg
- since 2008: Associated member of the research training group "Empirical Linguistics" at the Hermann Paul School for Language Sciences at the University Freiburg.
- 2008 - 2010: Scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann foundation
- 2010 - 20XX: Research assistant for the project pop-sci (Optimization of comprehensibility of popular science writing, in cooperation with the University of Mainz and the German Linguistics department at the University of Freiburg) funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung.
Publications
Journal articles
- Hansen-Schirra, S., Hansen, S., Wolfer, S., & Konieczny, L. (2009): Fachkommunikation, Popularisierung, Übersetzung: Empirische Vergleiche am Beispiel der Nominalphrase im Englischen und Deutschen. Linguistik Online 39, 109-118.
Conference contributions
- Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Hachmann, W., & Wolfer, S. (2009): Local syntactic coherence interpretation and its interaction with prosody: Evidence from two visual-world studies. ECEM 2009.
- Bormann, T., Wolfer, S., Hachmann, W., & Konieczny, L. (2011): Blickbewegungsmessungen bei reiner Alexie - sind "schnelle" und "langsame" Reaktionen Ausdruck zweier unterschiedlicher Lesestrategien? Aphasietagung GAB 2011.
- Bormann, T., Wolfer, S., Hachmann, W., Lagreze, W., & Konieczny, L. (accepted): Eye movement studies of pure alexia: The role of the visual field defect and eye movements during 'fast reading'. Poster presented at the 30th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, January, 22-27, 2012.
- Konieczny, L., Hachmann, W., Müller, D., Schwarzkopf, S., & Wolfer, S. (2007): Local syntactic coherence interpretation: evidence from visual-world experiments. In: R. Kliegl & R. Engbert (Eds.): Conference Abstracts. 14th European Conference on Eye Movements ECEM2007.
- Konieczny, L., Haser, V., Müller, D., Weldle, H., & Wolfer, S. (2010): Grounding of anaphora in pointing gestures. CUNY 2010.
- Konieczny, L., Haser, V., Müller, D., Weldle, H., Wolfer, S., Hemforth, B., Bold, A. (submitted): Grounding of anaphora in pointing gestures: Empirical support for the embodied cognition view. DGKL 2012.
- Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Baumann, P., Hachmann, W., & Wolfer, S. (2009): Local syntactic coherence interpretation, and how prosody modulates it. CUNY 2009.
- Konieczny, L., Weldle, H., Haser, V., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Baumann, P. (2010): Anaphern sind in Zeigegesten verankert - der Pointing-Compatibility Effect. In C. Frings, A. Mecklinger, D. Wentura & H. Zimmer (Eds.), Beiträge zur 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Saarbrücken. (22.-24. März)
- Müller, D., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., & Konieczny, L. (2011): Still ambiguous: Statistical properties influence local coherence interpretation - evidence from a visual world experiment and connectionist modeling. AMLaP 2011.
- Müller-Feldmeth, D., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., & Konieczny, L. (2012): A connectionist model of graded effects in local syntactic coherence interpretation. CUNY 2012.
- Weldle, H., Baumann, P., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Konieczny, L. (2009): Connectionist modelling of syntax and anaphora resolution. CUNY 2009.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S. & Baumann, P. (2009): Connectionist modelling of Situated Language Processing: Language and meaning acquisition from an embodiment perspective. CogSci 2009.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Baumann, P. (2009): Language acquisition and processing in integrative connectionist models. ESLP 2009.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Müller, D., Wolfer, S., & Baumann, P. (2010): Emergence of language comprehension from multiple task integration - a connectionist investigation. CUNY 2010.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Wolfer, S., Baumann, P., & Müller, D. (2010): Local syntactic coherences violate structural binding domains in on-line anaphora resolution. CUNY 2010.
- Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Wolfer, S., Müller, D., & Baumann, P. (2010): Anaphora and local coherences. CogSci 2010.
- Müller, D., Weldle, H., Konieczny, L., Wolfer, S., Baumann, P., Feldmeth, A.K., Kühner, D., & Teske, M. (2009): Local syntactic coherences interfere with online anaphora resolution. ECEM 2009.
- Wolfer, S., Hansen, S., & Konieczny, L. (2012): Familiarity and frequency disentangled: An eye-tracking corpus study with German texts. CUNY 2012.
- Wolk, C., Baumann, P., Wolfer, S., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2011): Acquiring English dative verbs: proficiency effects in German L2 learners. CUNY 2011.
- Wolk, C., Wolfer, S., Baumann, P., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2011): Acquiring English dative verbs: proficiency effects in German L2 learners. CogSci 2011.
Talks/Posters at workshops
- Hansen, S., Konieczny, L., Wolfer, S., Čulo, O., Hansen-Schirra, S. (2009): The comprehensibility of expert communication. Product- and process-oriented research on German legalese. Talk at the psycholinguistic colloquium, University of Saarbrücken, January 2009.
- Wolfer, S. (2008): Optimizing and investigating comprehensibility of terminological texts. Poster at the opening of the Hermann Paul School for Language Sciences.
- Wolfer, S. (2009): Local syntactic coherences interfere with online anaphora resolution. Talk at the Workshop Representation and Processing of Language, University of Freiburg, November 2009.
- Wolfer, S. (2010): Verständlichkeitsoptimierung von fachsprachlichen Texten. Talk at the doctoral colloquium of the Friedrich Naumann foundation, Freiburg, April 2010.
- Wolfer, S. & Hansen, S. (2009): "Erkennbare und hinreichend klare gesetzgeberische Entscheidungen": Verständlichkeitsforschung aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Talk at the Studentisches Forum Linguistik, University of Münster, July 2009.