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Natur und Subjekt
(1988)
Natur und Subjekt sind Erzeugnis und Leistung, historisch zu entschlüsseln, aber nicht durch die Magie des Ursprungs zu zitieren. Die hier vorgelegten Aufsätze versuchen, dieser Ausgangslage zu entsprechen. Zwischen den Bezauberungen der Ursprungsmythologien Natur als Schöpfung; Subjektivität als "Wesen" des Menschen- und den Hypertrophien der Subiekt-Philosophie, die in verkürzte Rationalität ihr Zentrum setzt und von dort das Ganze der Natur als ihr Reich wie den Besitztitel eines Souveräns aufschlägt: zwischen diesen ebenso falschen wie wirkungsmächtigen Traditionen war dem historischen (Maulwurfs)-Gang des Subjekts und der Natur nachzugehen. Dieser Wendung zurück in die Geschichte entspricht, daß vorderhand keine Chance darin gesehen wird, Spielräume auf kleinstem gemeinsamem Nenner für die kommunikativen Fähigkeiten des Menschen zu suchen unter den Bedingungen zunehmend perfekterer Technisierung und Medialisierung der sprachlichen und vor allem visuellen Austauschprozesse. Es gibt diese Spielräume, sie sollten auch verteidigt werden, auch wenn sie, beim Stand der Dinge, Luxus einer Minderheit sind Ebensowenig wird in den Hohlräumen und Widerspruchszonen, den Relais- und Steuerräumen der sozialen Systeme nach Bedingungen funktionaler Innovationen, Differenzierungen und Optimierungen geforscht. Darin will jemand, der von der Kunst und Kulturgeschichte her sich der Philosophie nähert, seine Aufgabe nicht sehen.
Ich will zuerst [...] die These vorstellen, daß der Gegenstandsverlust der Germanistik eingebildet ist. Wer seinen Gegenstand verliert, ist selber schuld. Die Literaturwissenschaft, sagt W. Barner zurecht, ist eine Kunstwissenschaft. Dies ist ihr Kern. Diesen zu vernachlässigen, käme einer Selbstliquidation der Literaturwissenschaft gleich. Germanisten, die sich nicht zuerst als Kunstwissenschaftler verstehen, gehören nicht ins Fach oder höchstens zu seinen Rändern. Es gibt für die Legitimation der Germanistik nur zwei Fragen: (warum) muß es diejenige Kunst geben, die wir Literatur nennen? Die Frage gilt historisch und aktuell. Und: warum muß es neben dem primären Gebrauch von Literatur (das Lesen) eine Expertenschicht geben, die sich professionell mit der Erklärung der Literatur beschäftigt? Es gibt zwei Richtungen, in denen der praktische Nachweis für die fragliche Legitimität geführt werden kann. 1. Die bloß historische Faktizitat der Literatur wird mit theoretisch überzeugenden Gründen legitimiert. Will sagen: Die Literatur weist besondere Eigenarten und Leistungen auf, die von anderen wertbesetzten kulturellen Aktivitäten wie z.B. Musik komponieren, Mathematik machen, Stoffe veredeln, bewegte Bilder herstellen nicht oder nur schlechter ersetzt werden können. Das Spezifische der Literatur, das historisch jeweils anders ausdifferenziert ist, bildet den Kern der Legitimiation auch der Literaturwissenschaft. Diese aber gewinnt ihre eigentliche Rechtfertigung nicht deswegen, weil Literatur nicht substituierbar ist, sondern weil man jedenfalls seit der Neuzeit den kulturellen Wert der Literatur nur dann hinreichend entfaltet, wenn man sie professionell erklärt. Man muß also die Erklärungsbedürftigkeit der Literatur erklären, um sich als Wissenschaftler der Literatur zu begründen.
Zu den stupenden Erscheinungen der Naturwissenschaften heute gehört es, daß sie – wie durch Fieberanfälle – an ihren verschiedenen Fronten immer wieder von der Antike heimgesucht werden. Vermutlich überrascht dies weniger Philosophen als die Naturwissenschaftler selbst, die seit Galilei sich im Bewußtsein ihrer Überlegenheit von antiken naturphilosophischen Traditionen abgekehrt haben. Unterdessen gehört es fast zum Rhythmus wissenschaftlicher Reformen, daß diese im Namen des Alten erfolgen. Infolge der überbordenden Destruktionspotentiale moderner Technik wird die regeneratio der Wissenschaft allzu oft als conservatio der noch eben faßbaren Reste verlorener Traditionen gesucht. Ein gutes Beispiel dafür ist die Karriere der Gaia-Hypothese, die seit ihrer Kreation durch den Biosphären-Forscher James Lovelock (1979) und die Mikrobiologin Lynn Margulis (1986) in den USA einen ebenso umstrittenen wie unwiderstehlichen Aufschwung genommen hat. ...
Goethes Erde zwischen Natur und Geschichte : Erfahrungen von Zeit in der "Italienischen Reise"
(1993)
Meine These ist: Goethe vollzieht die Temporalisierung der Naturgeschichte mit. Er tut es allerdings nicht primär zur Erweiterung des empirischen Wissens von der Erdentstehung. Statt sich infinit in steingraue Zeiten zu verlieren, versucht er, diese in sinnlichen Maßen unvorstellbaren, darum im Kantischen Sinn erhabenen Kognitionen zu verbinden mit der allerdings erfahrbaren Spannung zwischen unvordenklichem Seinsgrund und pathischer Existenz. Dafür setzt er den Granit nicht als wissenschaftliches Objekt, sondern als symbolische Form ein, nicht thesei, sondern physei, und bringt ihn derart zur ästhetischen Evidenz. In dieser dialektischen Spannung spiegelt sich bei Goethe die Konfiguration von Geschichte und Natur, von Zeitlichkeit und Seinsgrund, von Subjektivem und Objektivem.
This paper describes the creation and preparation of TUSNELDA, a collection of corpus data built for linguistic research. This collection contains a number of linguistically annotated corpora which differ in various aspects such as language, text sorts / data types, encoded annotation levels, and linguistic theories underlying the annotation. The paper focuses on this variation on the one hand and the way how these heterogeneous data are integrated into one resource on the other hand.
We adopt Markert and Nissim (2005)’s approach of using the World Wide Web to resolve cases of coreferent bridging for German and discuss the strength and weaknesses of this approach. As the general approach of using surface patterns to get information on ontological relations between lexical items has only been tried on English, it is also interesting to see whether the approach works for German as well as it does for English and what differences between these languages need to be accounted for. We also present a novel approach for combining several patterns that yields an ensemble that outperforms the best-performing single patterns in terms of both precision and recall.
When a statistical parser is trained on one treebank, one usually tests it on another portion of the same treebank, partly due to the fact that a comparable annotation format is needed for testing. But the user of a parser may not be interested in parsing sentences from the same newspaper all over, or even wants syntactic annotations for a slightly different text type. Gildea (2001) for instance found that a parser trained on the WSJ portion of the Penn Treebank performs less well on the Brown corpus (the subset that is available in the PTB bracketing format) than a parser that has been trained only on the Brown corpus, although the latter one has only half as many sentences as the former. Additionally, a parser trained on both the WSJ and Brown corpora performs less well on the Brown corpus than on the WSJ one. This leads us to the following questions that we would like to address in this paper: - Is there a difference in usefulness of techniques that are used to improve parser performance between the same-corpus and the different-corpus case? - Are different types of parsers (rule-based and statistical) equally sensitive to corpus variation? To achieve this, we compared the quality of the parses of a hand-crafted constraint-based parser and a statistical PCFG-based parser that was trained on a treebank of German newspaper text.
In the past, a divide could be seen between ’deep’ parsers on the one hand, which construct a semantic representation out of their input, but usually have significant coverage problems, and more robust parsers on the other hand, which are usually based on a (statistical) model derived from a treebank and have larger coverage, but leave the problem of semantic interpretation to the user. More recently, approaches have emerged that combine the robustness of datadriven (statistical) models with more detailed linguistic interpretation such that the output could be used for deeper semantic analysis. Cahill et al. (2002) use a PCFG-based parsing model in combination with a set of principles and heuristics to derive functional (f-)structures of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). They show that the derived functional structures have a better quality than those generated by a parser based on a state-of-the-art hand-crafted LFG grammar. Advocates of Dependency Grammar usually point out that dependencies already are a semantically meaningful representation (cf. Menzel, 2003). However, parsers based on dependency grammar normally create underspecified representations with respect to certain phenomena such as coordination, apposition and control structures. In these areas they are too "shallow" to be directly used for semantic interpretation. In this paper, we adopt a similar approach to Cahill et al. (2002) using a dependency-based analysis to derive functional structure, and demonstrate the feasibility of this approach using German data. A major focus of our discussion is on the treatment of coordination and other potentially underspecified structures of the dependency data input. F-structure is one of the two core levels of syntactic representation in LFG (Bresnan, 2001). Independently of surface order, it encodes abstract syntactic functions that constitute predicate argument structure and other dependency relations such as subject, predicate, adjunct, but also further semantic information such as the semantic type of an adjunct (e.g. directional). Normally f-structure is captured as a recursive attribute value matrix, which is isomorphic to a directed graph representation. Figure 5 depicts an example target f-structure. As mentioned earlier, these deeper-level dependency relations can be used to construct logical forms as in the approaches of van Genabith and Crouch (1996), who construct underspecified discourse representations (UDRSs), and Spreyer and Frank (2005), who have robust minimal recursion semantics (RMRS) as their target representation. We therefore think that f-structures are a suitable target representation for automatic syntactic analysis in a larger pipeline of mapping text to interpretation. In this paper, we report on the conversion from dependency structures to fstructure. Firstly, we evaluate the f-structure conversion in isolation, starting from hand-corrected dependencies based on the TüBa-D/Z treebank and Versley (2005)´s conversion. Secondly, we start from tokenized text to evaluate the combined process of automatic parsing (using Foth and Menzel (2006)´s parser) and f-structure conversion. As a test set, we randomly selected 100 sentences from TüBa-D/Z which we annotated using a scheme very close to that of the TiGer Dependency Bank (Forst et al., 2004). In the next section, we sketch dependency analysis, the underlying theory of our input representations, and introduce four different representations of coordination. We also describe Weighted Constraint Dependency Grammar (WCDG), the dependency parsing formalism that we use in our experiments. Section 3 characterises the conversion of dependencies to f-structures. Our evaluation is presented in section 4, and finally, section 5 summarises our results and gives an overview of problems remaining to be solved.
This paper is concerned with the tagging of spatial expressions in German newspaper articles, assigning a meaning to the expression and classifying the usages of the spatial expression and linking the derived referent to an event description. In our system, we implemented the activation of concepts in a very simple fashion, a concept is activated once (with a cost depending on the item that activated it) and is left activated thereafter. As an example, a city also activates the nodes for the region and the country it is part of, so that cities from one country are chosen over cities from different countries. A test corpus of 12 German newspaper articles was tested regarding several disambiguation strategies. Disambiguation was carried out via a beam search to find an approximately cost-optimal solution for the conflict set of potential grounding candidates for the tagged spatial expression. Test showed that the disambiguation strategies improved accuracy significantly.
Using a qualitative analysis of disagreements from a referentially annotated newspaper corpus, we show that, in coreference annotation, vague referents are prone to greater disagreement. We show how potentially problematic cases can be dealt with in a way that is practical even for larger-scale annotation, considering a real-world example from newspaper text.
We investigate methods to improve the recall in coreference resolution by also trying to resolve those definite descriptions where no earlier mention of the referent shares the same lexical head (coreferent bridging). The problem, which is notably harder than identifying coreference relations among mentions which have the same lexical head, has been tackled with several rather different approaches, and we attempt to provide a meaningful classification along with a quantitative comparison. Based on the different merits of the methods, we discuss possibilities to improve them and show how they can be effectively combined.
In this paper, we investigate the usefulness of a wide range of features for their usefulness in the resolution of nominal coreference, both as hard constraints (i.e. completely removing elements from the list of possible candidates) as well as soft constraints (where a cumulation of violations of soft constraints will make it less likely that a candidate is chosen as the antecedent). We present a state of the art system based on such constraints and weights estimated with a maximum entropy model, using lexical information to resolve cases of coreferent bridging.
In recent years, research in parsing has extended in several new directions. One of these directions is concerned with parsing languages other than English. Treebanks have become available for many European languages, but also for Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese. However, it was shown that parsing results on these treebanks depend on the types of treebank annotations used. Another direction in parsing research is the development of dependency parsers. Dependency parsing profits from the non-hierarchical nature of dependency relations, thus lexical information can be included in the parsing process in a much more natural way. Especially machine learning based approaches are very successful (cf. e.g.). The results achieved by these dependency parsers are very competitive although comparisons are difficult because of the differences in annotation. For English, the Penn Treebank has been converted to dependencies. For this version, Nivre et al. report an accuracy rate of 86.3%, as compared to an F-score of 92.1 for Charniaks parser. The Penn Chinese Treebank is also available in a constituent and a dependency representations. The best results reported for parsing experiments with this treebank give an F-score of 81.8 for the constituent version and 79.8% accuracy for the dependency version. The general trend in comparisons between constituent and dependency parsers is that the dependency parser performs slightly worse than the constituent parser. The only exception occurs for German, where F-scores for constituent plus grammatical function parses range between 51.4 and 75.3, depending on the treebank, NEGRA or TüBa-D/Z. The dependency parser based on a converted version of Tüba-D/Z, in contrast, reached an accuracy of 83.4%, i.e. 12 percent points better than the best constituent analysis including grammatical functions.
This paper profiles significant differences in syntactic distribution and differences in word class frequencies for two treebanks of spoken and written German: the TüBa-D/S, a treebank of transliterated spontaneous dialogues, and the TüBa-D/Z treebank of newspaper articles published in the German daily newspaper die tageszeitung´(taz). The approach can be used more generally as a means of distinguishing and classifying language corpora of different genres.
This paper profiles significant differences in syntactic distribution and differences in word class frequencies for two treebanks of spoken and written German: the TüBa-D/S, a treebank of transliterated spontaneous dialogs, and the TüBa-D/Z treebank of newspaper articles published in the German daily newspaper ´die tageszeitung´(taz). The approach can be used more generally as a means of distinguishing and classifying language corpora of different genres.
This paper presents an approach to the question whether it is possible to construct a parser based on ideas from case-based reasoning. Such a parser would employ a partial analysis of the input sentence to select a (nearly) complete syntax tree and then adapt this tree to the input sentence. The experiments performed on German data from the Tüba-D/Z treebank and the KaRoPars partial parser show that a wide range of levels of generality can be reached, depending on which types of information are used to determine the similarity between input sentence and training sentences. The results are such that it is possible to construct a case-based parser. The optimal setting out of those presented here need to be determined empirically.
Quantitative evaluation of parsers has traditionally centered around the PARSEVAL measures of crossing brackets, (labeled) precision, and (labeled) recall. However, it is well known that these measures do not give an accurate picture of the quality of the parsers output. Furthermore, we will show that they are especially unsuited for partial parsers. In recent years, research has concentrated on dependencybased evaluation measures. We will show in this paper that such a dependency-based evaluation scheme is particularly suitable for partial parsers. TüBa-D, the treebank used here for evaluation, contains all the necessary dependency information so that the conversion of trees into a dependency structure does not have to rely on heuristics. Therefore, the dependency representations are not only reliable, they are also linguistically motivated and can be used for linguistic purposes.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the TüBa-D/Z treebank of written German and to compare it to the independently developed TIGER treebank (Brants et al., 2002). Both treebanks, TIGER and TüBa-D/Z, use an annotation framework that is based on phrase structure grammar and that is enhanced by a level of predicate-argument structure. The comparison between the annotation schemes of the two treebanks focuses on the different treatments of free word order and discontinuous constituents in German as well as on differences in phrase-internal annotation.
The ACL 2008 Workshop on Parsing German features a shared task on parsing German. The goal of the shared task was to find reasons for the radically different behavior of parsers on the different treebanks and between constituent and dependency representations. In this paper, we describe the task and the data sets. In addition, we provide an overview of the test results and a first analysis.
The Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning features a shared task, in which participants train and test their learning systems on the same data sets. In 2007, as in 2006, the shared task has been devoted to dependency parsing, this year with both a multilingual track and a domain adaptation track. In this paper, we define the tasks of the different tracks and describe how the data sets were created from existing treebanks for ten languages. In addition, we characterize the different approaches of the participating systems, report the test results, and provide a first analysis of these results.
Recent approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) generally fall into two classes: (1) information-intensive approaches and (2) information-poor approaches. Our hypothesis is that for memory-based learning (MBL), a reduced amount of data is more beneficial than the full range of features used in the past. Our experiments show that MBL combined with a restricted set of features and a feature selection method that minimizes the feature set leads to competitive results, outperforming all systems that participated in the SENSEVAL-3 competition on the Romanian data. Thus, with this specific method, a tightly controlled feature set improves the accuracy of the classifier, reaching 74.0% in the fine-grained and 78.7% in the coarse-grained evaluation.
Das Chunkparsing bietet einen besonders vielversprechenden Ansatz zum robusten, partiellen Parsing mit dem Ziel einer breiten Datenabdeckung. Ziel beim Chunkparsing ist eine partielle, nicht-rekursive syntaktische Struktur. Dieser extrem effiziente Parsing-Ansatz läßt sich als Kaskade endlicher Transducer realisieren. In diesem Beitrag wird TüSBL vorgestellt, ein System, bei dem die Eingabe aus spontaner, gesprochener Spache besteht, die dem Parser in Form eines Worthypothesengraphen aus einem Spracherkenner zur Verfügung gestellt wird. Chunkparsing ist für eine solche Anwendung besonders geeignet, da es fragmentarische oder nicht wohlgeformte Äußerungen robust behandeln kann. Des weiteren wird eine Baumkonstruktionskomponente vorgestellt, die die partiellen Chunkstrukturen zu vollständigen Bäumen mit grammatischen Funktionen erweitert. Das System wird anhand manuell überprüfter Systemeingaben evaluiert, da sich die üblichen Evaluationsparameter hierfür nicht eignen.
Die Rose und der Winter
(1893)
Leben mit Wölfen : Leitfaden für den Umgang mit einer konfliktträchtigen Tierart in Deutschland
(2007)
Der Wolf (Canis lupus) - eine der umstrittensten Tierarten Europas. Jahrhunderte lang wurde er in Europa verfolgt, in weiten Teilen Nord- und Mitteleuropas ausgerottet. Erst in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren, als die Bestände vielerorts ihren Tiefpunkt erreicht hatten, wurden ihm in einigen europäischen Ländern Schonzeiten oder auch ganzjähriger Schutz zugestanden. Allmählich begannen sich die Populationen in Italien und Spanien, aber auch in Polen zu erholen. In den letzten 20 Jahren kehrten Wölfe sogar wieder in Gegenden zurück, in denen sie vorher ausgerottet worden waren. Norditalien, Frankreich, die Schweiz, Schweden, Norwegen, Finnland und nun auch Deutschland sind solche neuen, alten Wolfsgebiete. Häufig wurde die Rückkehr der Wölfe mit gemischten Gefühlen aufgenommen. Von den Einen als Erfolg des Artenschutzes gefeiert, sahen andere darin einen Rückfall in längst vergangene Zeiten. Das Raubtier Wolf, so glauben viele, hat in unserer heutigen Kulturlandschaft keinen Platz mehr. Selbst Befürworter seiner Rückkehr sind oft unsicher, wie man mit dem nunmehr geschützten Heimkehrer umgehen sollte. Das Comeback der Wölfe und ihre Rückkehr in die unterschiedlichsten Lebensräume verdeutlicht einmal mehr ihre Flexibilität, stellt unsere hingegen auf eine Probe. Wölfe können fast überall leben, wo sie genügend Nahrung finden und wir sie leben lassen. Der einzige einschränkende Faktor scheint der Mensch zu sein. Entsprechend sind die Herausforderungen im Wolfsschutz weniger ökologischer, sondern vor allem soziologischer Natur. Pauschallösungen für den Umgang mit dem Wolf gibt es nicht. Je nach Gegebenheiten müssen jeweils eigene, angepasste Lösungen entwickelt werden. Die Vielseitigkeit der Wölfe und die unterschiedlichen soziologischen und ökologischen Bedingungen machen den Wolfsschutz zu einer einzigartigen Herausforderung.
The purpose of this paper is to describe recent developments in the morphological, syntactic, and semantic annotation of the TüBa-D/Z treebank of German. The TüBa-D/Z annotation scheme is derived from the Verbmobil treebank of spoken German [4, 10], but has been extended along various dimensions to accommodate the characteristics of written texts. TüBa-D/Z uses as its data source the "die tageszeitung" (taz) newspaper corpus. The Verbmobil treebank annotation scheme distinguishes four levels of syntactic constituency: the lexical level, the phrasal level, the level of topological fields, and the clausal level. The primary ordering principle of a clause is the inventory of topological fields, which characterize the word order regularities among different clause types of German, and which are widely accepted among descriptive linguists of German [3, 6]. The TüBa-D/Z annotation relies on a context-free backbone (i.e. proper trees without crossing branches) of phrase structure combined with edge labels that specify the grammatical function of the phrase in question. The syntactic annotation scheme of the TüBa-D/Z is described in more detail in [12, 11]. TüBa-D/Z currently comprises approximately 15 000 sentences, with approximately 7 000 sentences being in the correction phase. The latter will be released along with an updated version of the existing treebank before the end of this year. The treebank is available in an XML format, in the NEGRA export format [1] and in the Penn treebank bracketing format. The XML format contains all types of information as described above, the NEGRA export format contains all sentenceinternal information while the Penn treebank format includes only those layers of information that can be expressed as pure tree structures. Over the course of the last year, more fine grained linguistic annotations have been added along the following dimensions: 1. the basic Stuttgart-Tübingen tagset, STTS, [9] labels have been enriched by relevant features of inflectional morphology, 2. named entity information has been encoded as part of the syntactic annotation, and 3. a set of anaphoric and coreference relations has been added to link referentially dependent noun phrases. In the following sections, we will describe each of these innovations in turn and will demonstrate how the additional annotations can be incorporated into one comprehensive annotation scheme.
Part-of-Speech tagging is generally performed by Markov models, based on bigram or trigram models. While Markov models have a strong concentration on the left context of a word, many languages require the inclusion of right context for correct disambiguation. We show for German that the best results are reached by a combination of left and right context. If only left context is available, then changing the direction of analysis and going from right to left improves the results. In a version of MBT (Daelemans et al., 1996) with default parameter settings, the inclusion of the right context improved POS tagging accuracy from 94.00% to 96.08%, thus corroborating our hypothesis. The version with optimized parameters reaches 96.73%.
The definition of similarity between sentences is formulated on the levels of words, POS tags, and chunks (Abney 91; Abney 96). The evaluation of this approach shows that while precision and recall based on the PARSEVAL measures (Black et al. 91) do not reach state of the art Parsers yet (F1=87.19 on syntactic constituents, F1=77.78 including functionargument structure), the parser shows a very reliable performance where function-argument structure is concerned (F1=96.52). The lower F-scores are very often due to unattached constituents.
The problem of vocalization, or diacritization, is essential to many tasks in Arabic NLP. Arabic is generally written without the short vowels, which leads to one written form having several pronunciations with each pronunciation carrying its own meaning(s). In the experiments reported here, we define vocalization as a classification problem in which we decide for each character in the unvocalized word whether it is followed by a short vowel. We investigate the importance of different types of context. Our results show that the combination of using memory-based learning with only a word internal context leads to a word error rate of 6.64%. If a lexical context is added, the results deteriorate slowly.
In syntax, the trend nowadays is towards lexicalized grammar formalisms. It is now widely accepted that dividing words into wordclasses may serve as a laborsaving mechanism - but at the same time, it discards all detailed information on the idiosyncratic behavior of words. And that is exactly the type of information that may be necessary in order to parse a sentence. For learning approaches, however, lexicalized grammars represent a challenge for the very reason that they include so much detailed and specific information, which is difficult to learn. This paper will present an algorithm for learning a link grammar of German. The problem of data sparseness is tackled by using all the available information from partial parses as well as from an existing grammar fragment and a tagger. This is a report about work in progress so there are no representative results available yet.
This paper presents a comparative study of probabilistic treebank parsing of German, using the Negra and TüBa-D/Z treebanks. Experiments with the Stanford parser, which uses a factored PCFG and dependency model, show that, contrary to previous claims for other parsers, lexicalization of PCFG models boosts parsing performance for both treebanks. The experiments also show that there is a big difference in parsing performance, when trained on the Negra and on the TüBa-D/Z treebanks. Parser performance for the models trained on TüBa-D/Z are comparable to parsing results for English with the Stanford parser, when trained on the Penn treebank. This comparison at least suggests that German is not harder to parse than its West-Germanic neighbor language English.
How to compare treebanks
(2008)
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in developing standards for linguistic annotation, with a focus on the interoperability of the resources. This effort, however, requires a profound knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of linguistic annotation schemes in order to avoid importing the flaws and weaknesses of existing encoding schemes into the new standards. This paper addresses the question how to compare syntactically annotated corpora and gain insights into the usefulness of specific design decisions. We present an exhaustive evaluation of two German treebanks with crucially different encoding schemes. We evaluate three different parsers trained on the two treebanks and compare results using EVALB, the Leaf-Ancestor metric, and a dependency-based evaluation. Furthermore, we present TePaCoC, a new testsuite for the evaluation of parsers on complex German grammatical constructions. The testsuite provides a well thought-out error classification, which enables us to compare parser output for parsers trained on treebanks with different encoding schemes and provides interesting insights into the impact of treebank annotation schemes on specific constructions like PP attachment or non-constituent coordination.
In the last decade, the Penn treebank has become the standard data set for evaluating parsers. The fact that most parsers are solely evaluated on this specific data set leaves the question unanswered how much these results depend on the annotation scheme of the treebank. In this paper, we will investigate the influence which different decisions in the annotation schemes of treebanks have on parsing. The investigation uses the comparison of similar treebanks of German, NEGRA and TüBa-D/Z, which are subsequently modified to allow a comparison of the differences. The results show that deleted unary nodes and a flat phrase structure have a negative influence on parsing quality while a flat clause structure has a positive influence.
Transforming constituent-based annotation into dependency-based annotation has been shown to work for different treebanks and annotation schemes (e.g. Lin (1995) has transformed the Penn treebank, and Kübler and Telljohann (2002) the Tübinger Baumbank des Deutschen (TüBa-D/Z)). These ventures are usually triggered by the conflict between theory-neutral annotation, that targets most needs of a wider audience, and theory-specific annotation, that provides more fine-grained information for a smaller audience. As a compromise, it has been pointed out that treebanks can be designed to support more than one theory from the start (Nivre, 2003). We argue that information can also be added to an existing annotation scheme so that it supports additional theory-specific annotations. We also argue that such a transformation is useful for improving and extending the original annotation scheme with respect to both ambiguous annotation and annotation errors. We show this by analysing problems that arise when generating dependency information from the constituent-based TüBa-D/Z.
Chunk parsing has focused on the recognition of partial constituent structures at the level of individual chunks. Little attention has been paid to the question of how such partial analyses can be combined into larger structures for complete utterances. Such larger structures are not only desirable for a deeper syntactic analysis. They also constitute a necessary prerequisite for assigning function-argument structure. The present paper offers a similaritybased algorithm for assigning functional labels such as subject, object, head, complement, etc. to complete syntactic structures on the basis of prechunked input. The evaluation of the algorithm has concentrated on measuring the quality of functional labels. It was performed on a German and an English treebank using two different annotation schemes at the level of function argument structure. The results of 89.73% correct functional labels for German and 90.40%for English validate the general approach.
In this paper, we investigate the role of sub-optimality in training data for part-of-speech tagging. In particular, we examine to what extent the size of the training corpus and certain types of errors in it affect the performance of the tagger. We distinguish four types of errors: If a word is assigned a wrong tag, this tag can belong to the ambiguity class of the word (i.e. to the set of possible tags for that word) or not; furthermore, the major syntactic category (e.g. "N" or "V") can be correctly assigned (e.g. if a finite verb is classified as an infinitive) or not (e.g. if a verb is classified as a noun). We empirically explore the decrease of performance that each of these error types causes for different sizes of the training set. Our results show that those types of errors that are easier to eliminate have a particularly negative effect on the performance. Thus, it is worthwhile concentrating on the elimination of these types of errors, especially if the training corpus is large.
Prepositional phrase (PP) attachment is one of the major sources for errors in traditional statistical parsers. The reason for that lies in the type of information necessary for resolving structural ambiguities. For parsing, it is assumed that distributional information of parts-of-speech and phrases is sufficient for disambiguation. For PP attachment, in contrast, lexical information is needed. The problem of PP attachment has sparked much interest ever since Hindle and Rooth (1993) formulated the problem in a way that can be easily handled by machine learning approaches: In their approach, PP attachment is reduced to the decision between noun and verb attachment; and the relevant information is reduced to the two possible attachment sites (the noun and the verb) and the preposition of the PP. Brill and Resnik (1994) extended the feature set to the now standard 4-tupel also containing the noun inside the PP. Among many publications on the problem of PP attachment, Volk (2001; 2002) describes the only system for German. He uses a combination of supervised and unsupervised methods. The supervised method is based on the back-off model by Collins and Brooks (1995), the unsupervised part consists of heuristics such as ”If there is a support verb construction present, choose verb attachment”. Volk trains his back-off model on the Negra treebank (Skut et al., 1998) and extracts frequencies for the heuristics from the ”Computerzeitung”. The latter also serves as test data set. Consequently, it is difficult to compare Volk’s results to other results for German, including the results presented here, since not only he uses a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning, but he also performs domain adaptation. Most of the researchers working on PP attachment seem to be satisfied with a PP attachment system; we have found hardly any work on integrating the results of such approaches into actual parsers. The only exceptions are Mehl et al. (1998) and Foth and Menzel (2006), both working with German data. Mehl et al. report a slight improvement of PP attachment from 475 correct PPs out of 681 PPs for the original parser to 481 PPs. Foth and Menzel report an improvement of overall accuracy from 90.7% to 92.2%. Both integrate statistical attachment preferences into a parser. First, we will investigate whether dependency parsing, which generally uses lexical information, shows the same performance on PP attachment as an independent PP attachment classifier does. Then we will investigate an approach that allows the integration of PP attachment information into the output of a parser without having to modify the parser: The results of an independent PP attachment classifier are integrated into the parse of a dependency parser for German in a postprocessing step.
Maschinelles Lernen wird häufig zur effzienten Annotation großer Datenmengen eingesetzt. Die Forschung zu maschinellen Lernverfahren beschränkt sich i.a. darauf unterschiedliche Lernverfahren zu vergelichen oder die optimale größe der Trainingsdaten zu bestimmen. Bisher wurde jedoch nicht untersucht, in wie weit sich linguistisches Wissen bei der Aufgabendefinition positiv auswirken kann. Dies soll hier anhand des Lernens von Base-Nominalphrasen mit drei unterschiedlichen Definitionen untersucht werden. Die Definitionen unterscheiden sich im Grad der linguistisch motivierten Erweiterungen, die zu einer eher praktisch motivierten ersten Definition hinzu kamen. Die Untersuchungen ergaben, dass sich die Anzahl der falsch klasssifizierten Wörter um ein Drittel reduzieren lässt.
This report explores the question of compatibility between annotation projects including translating annotation formalisms to each other or to common forms. Compatibility issues are crucial for systems that use the results of multiple annotation projects. We hope that this report will begin a concerted effort in the field to track the compatibility of annotation schemes for part of speech tagging, time annotation, treebanking, role labeling and other phenomena.
This paper reports on the SYN-RA (SYNtax-based Reference Annotation) project, an on-going project of annotating German newspaper texts with referential relations. The project has developed an inventory of anaphoric and coreference relations for German in the context of a unified, XML-based annotation scheme for combining morphological, syntactic, semantic, and anaphoric information. The paper discusses how this unified annotation scheme relates to other formats currently discussed in the literature, in particular the annotation graph model of Bird and Liberman (2001) and the pie-in-thesky scheme for semantic annotation.
Chunk parsing has focused on the recognition of partial constituent structures at the level of individual chunks. Little attention has been paid to the question of how such partial analyses can be combined into larger structures for complete utterances. The TüSBL parser extends current chunk parsing techniques by a tree-construction component that extends partial chunk parses to complete tree structures including recursive phrase structure as well as function-argument structure. TüSBLs tree construction algorithm relies on techniques from memory-based learning that allow similarity-based classification of a given input structure relative to a pre-stored set of tree instances from a fully annotated treebank. A quantitative evaluation of TüSBL has been conducted using a semi-automatically constructed treebank of German that consists of appr. 67,000 fully annotated sentences. The basic PARSEVAL measures were used although they were developed for parsers that have as their main goal a complete analysis that spans the entire input.This runs counter to the basic philosophy underlying TüSBL, which has as its main goal robustness of partially analyzed structures.
This paper provides an overview of current research on a hybrid and robust parsing architecture for the morphological, syntactic and semantic annotation of German text corpora. The novel contribution of this research lies not in the individual parsing modules, each of which relies on state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques. Rather what is new about the present approach is the combination of these modules into a single architecture. This combination provides a means to significantly optimize the performance of each component, resulting in an increased accuracy of annotation.
A lot of interest has recently been paid to constraint-based definitions and extensions of Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG). Examples are the so-called quasi-trees, D-Tree Grammars and Tree Description Grammars. The latter are grammars consisting of a set of formulars denoting trees. TDGs are derivation based where in each derivation step a conjunction is built of the old formular, a formular of the grammar and additional equivalences between node names of the two formulars. This formalism is more powerfull than TAGs. TDGs offer the advantages of MC-TAG and D-Tree Grammars for natural languages and they allow underspecification. However the problem is that TDGs might be unnecessarily powerfull for natural languages. To solve this problem, in this paper, I will propose a local TDGs, a restricted version of TDGs. Local TDGs still have the advantages of TDGs but they are semilinear and therefore more appropriate for natural languages. First, the notion of the semilinearity is defined. Then local TDGs are introduced, and, finally, semilinearity of local Tree Description Languages is proven.
This paper proposes a compositional semantics for lexicalized tree adjoining grammars (LTAG). Tree-local multicompnent derivations allow seperation of semantiv contribution of a lexical item into one component contributing to the predicate argument structure and second a component contributing to scope semantics. Based on this idea a syntx-semantics interface is presented where the compositional semantics depends only on the derivation structure. It is shown that the derivation structure allows an appropriate amount of underspecification. This is illustrated by investigating underspecified representations for quantifier scpoe ambiguities and related phenomena such as adjunct scope and island constraints.
A hierarchy of local TDGs
(1998)
Many recent variants of Tree Adoining Grammars (TAG) allow an underspecifiaction of the parent relation between nodes in a tree, i.e. they do not deal with fully specified trees as it is the case with TAGs.Such TAG variants are for example Description Tree Grammars (DTG), Unordered Vector Grammars with Dominance Links (UVG-DL), a definition of TAGs via so-called quasi trees and Tree Description Grammars (TDG. The last TAg variant, local TDG, is an extension of TAG generating Tree Descriptions. Local TDGs even allow an underspecification of the dominance relation between node names and thereby provide the possibility to generate underspecified representations for structural ambiguities such as quantifier scope ambiguities. This abstract deals with formal properties of local TDGs. A hierarchiy of local TDGs is established together with a pumping lemma for local TDGs of a certain rank.
Tree-local MCTAG with shared nodes : an analysis of word order variation in German and Korean
(2004)
Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG) are known not to be powerful enough to deal with scrambling in free word order languages. The TAG-variants proposed so far in order to account for scrambling are not entirely satisfying. Therefore, an alternative extension of TAG is introduced based on the notion of node sharing. Considering data from German and Korean, it is shown that this TAG-extension can adequately analyse scrambling data, also in combination with extraposition and topicalization.
In this paper, we present an open-source parsing environment (Tübingen Linguistic Parsing Architecture, TuLiPA) which uses Range Concatenation Grammar (RCG) as a pivot formalism, thus opening the way to the parsing of several mildly context-sensitive formalisms. This environment currently supports tree-based grammars (namely Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and Multi-Component Tree-Adjoining Grammars with Tree Tuples (TT-MCTAG)) and allows computation not only of syntactic structures, but also of the corresponding semantic representations. It is used for the development of a tree-based grammar for German.
This paper proposes a corpus encoding standard that meets the needs of linguistic research using a variety of linguistic data structures. The standard was developed in SFB 441, a research project at the University of Tuebingen. The principal concern of SFB 441 are the empirical data structures which feed into linguistic theory building. SFB 441 consists of several projects, most of which are building corpora to empirically investigate various linguistic phenomena in various languages (e.g. modal verbs in German, forms of address and politeness in Russian). These corpora will form the components of the "Tuebingen collection of reusable, empirical, linguistic data structures (TUSNELDA)". The TUSNELDA annotation standard aims at providing a uniform encoding scheme for all subcorpora and texts of TUSNELDA such that they can be processed with uniform standardized tools. To guarantee maximal reusability we use XML for encoding. Previous SGML standards for text encoding were provided by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (Corpus Encoding Standard, CES). The TUSNELDA standard is based on TEI and XCES (XML version of CES) but takes into account the specific needs of the SFB projects, i.e. the peculiarities of the examined languages and linguistic phenomena.
Existing analyses of German scrambling phenomena within TAG-related formalisms all use non-local variants of TAG. However, there are good reasons to prefer local grammars, in particular with respect to the use of the derivation structure for semantics. Therefore this paper proposes to use local TDGs, a TAG-variant generating tree descriptions that shows a local derivation structure. However the construction of minimal trees for the derived tree descriptions is not subject to any locality constraint. This provides just the amount of non-locality needed for an adequate analysis of scrambling. To illustrate this a local TDG for some German scrambling data is presented.
This paper develops a framework for TAG (Tree Adjoining Grammar) semantics that brings together ideas from different recent approaches.Then, within this framework, an analysis of scope is proposed that accounts for the different scopal properties of quantifiers, adverbs, raising verbs and attitude verbs. Finally, including situation variables in the semantics, different situation binding possibilities are derived for different types of quantificational elements.
This paper presents an LTAG analysis of reflexives like himself and reciprocals like each other. These items need to find a c-commanding antecedent from which they retrieve (part of) their own denotation and with which they syntactically agree. The relation between anaphoric item and antecendent must satisfy the following important locality conditions (Chomsky (1981)).
Relative quantifier scope in German depends, in contrast to English, very much on word order. The scope possibilities of a quantifier are determined by its surface position, its base position and the type of the quantifier. In this paper we propose a multicomponent analysis for German quantifiers computing the scope of the quantifier, in particular its minimal nuclear scope, depending on the syntactic configuration it occurs in.
This paper investigates the relation between TT-MCTAG, a formalism used in computational linguistics, and RCG. RCGs are known to describe exactly the class PTIME; simple RCG even have been shown to be equivalent to linear context-free rewriting systems, i.e., to be mildly context-sensitive. TT-MCTAG has been proposed to model free word order languages. In general, it is NP-complete. In this paper, we will put an additional limitation on the derivations licensed in TT-MCTAG. We show that TT-MCTAG with this additional limitation can be transformed into equivalent simple RCGs. This result is interesting for theoretical reasons (since it shows that TT-MCTAG in this limited form is mildly context-sensitive) and, furthermore, even for practical reasons: We use the proposed transformation from TT-MCTAG to RCG in an actual parser that we have implemented.
This paper sets up a framework for LTAG (Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar) semantics that brings together ideas from different recent approaches addressing some shortcomings of TAG semantics based on the derivation tree. Within this framework, several sample analyses are proposed, and it is shown that the framework allows to analyze data that have been claimed to be problematic for derivation tree based LTAG semantics approaches.
LTAG semantics for questions
(2004)
This papers presents a compositional semantic analysis of interrogatives clauses in LTAG (Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar) that captures the scopal properties of wh- and nonwh-quantificational elements. It is shown that the present approach derives the correct semantics for examples claimed to be problematic for LTAG semantic approaches based on the derivation tree. The paper further provides an LTAG semantics for embedded interrogatives.
This paper addresses the problem ofconstraints for relative quantifier sope, in partiular in inverse linking readings wherecertain scope orders are exluded. We show how to account for such restrictions in the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) framework by adopting a notion offlexible composition. In the semantics we use for TAG we introduce quantifier sets that group quantifiers that are "glued" together in the sense that no other quantifieran scopally intervene between them. Theflexible composition approach allows us to obtain the desired quantifier sets and thereby the desiredconstraints for quantifier sope.
TT-MCTAG lets one abstract away from the relative order of co-complements in the final derived tree, which is more appropriate than classic TAG when dealing with flexible word order in German. In this paper, we present the analyses for sentential complements, i.e., wh-extraction, thatcomplementation and bridging, and we work out the crucial differences between these and respective accounts in XTAG (for English) and V-TAG (for German).
In this paper we propose a compositional semantics for lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar (LTAG). Tree-local multicomponent derivations allow separation of the semantic contribution of a lexical item into one component contributing to the predicate argument structure and a second component contributing to scope semantics. Based on this idea a syntax-semantics interface is presented where the compositional semantics depends only on the derivation structure. It is shown that the derivation structure (and indirectly the locality of derivations) allows an appropriate amount of underspecification. This is illustrated by investigating underspecified representations for quantifier scope ambiguities and related phenomena such as adjunct scope and island constraints.
In this paper, we introduce an extension of the XMG system (eXtensibleMeta-Grammar) in order to allow for the description of Multi-Component Tree Adjoining Grammars. In particular, we introduce the XMG formalism and its implementation, and show how the latter makes it possible to extend the system relatively easily to different target formalisms, thus opening the way towards multi-formalism.
Developing linguistic resources, in particular grammars, is known to be a complex task in itself, because of (amongst others) redundancy and consistency issues. Furthermore some languages can reveal themselves hard to describe because of specific characteristics, e.g. the free word order in German. In this context, we present (i) a framework allowing to describe tree-based grammars, and (ii) an actual fragment of a core multicomponent tree-adjoining grammar with tree tuples (TT-MCTAG) for German developed using this framework. This framework combines a metagrammar compiler and a parser based on range concatenation grammar (RCG) to respectively check the consistency and the correction of the grammar. The German grammar being developed within this framework already deals with a wide range of scrambling and extraction phenomena.
Cet article étudie la relation entre les grammaires darbres adjoints à composantes multiples avec tuples darbres (TT-MCTAG), un formalisme utilisé en linguistique informatique, et les grammaires à concaténation dintervalles (RCG). Les RCGs sont connues pour décrire exactement la classe PTIME, il a en outre été démontré que les RCGs « simples » sont même équivalentes aux systèmes de réécriture hors-contextes linéaires (LCFRS), en dautres termes, elles sont légèrement sensibles au contexte. TT-MCTAG a été proposé pour modéliser les langages à ordre des mots libre. En général ces langages sont NP-complets. Dans cet article, nous définissons une contrainte additionnelle sur les dérivations autorisées par le formalisme TT-MCTAG. Nous montrons ensuite comment cette forme restreinte de TT-MCTAG peut être convertie en une RCG simple équivalente. Le résultat est intéressant pour des raisons théoriques (puisqu’il montre que la forme restreinte de TT-MCTAG est légèrement sensible au contexte), mais également pour des raisons pratiques (la transformation proposée ici a été utilisée pour implanter un analyseur pour TT-MCTAG).
This paper compares two approaches to computational semantics, namely semantic unification in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars (LTAG) and Lexical Resource Semantics (LRS) in HPSG. There are striking similarities between the frameworks that make them comparable in many respects. We will exemplify the differences and similarities by looking at several phenomena. We will show, first of all, that many intuitions about the mechanisms of semantic computations can be implemented in similar ways in both frameworks. Secondly, we will identify some aspects in which the frameworks intrinsically differ due to more general differences between the approaches to formal grammar adopted by LTAG and HPSG.
The work presented here addresses the question of how to determine whether a grammar formalism is powerful enough to describe natural languages. The expressive power of a formalism can be characterized in terms of i) the string languages it generates (weak generative capacity (WGC)) or ii) the tree languages it generates (strong generative capacity (SGC)). The notion of WGC is not enough to determine whether a formalism is adequate for natural languages. We argue that even SGC is problematic since the sets of trees a grammar formalism for natural languages should be able to generate is difficult to determine. The concrete syntactic structures assumed for natural languages depend very much on theoretical stipulations and empirical evidence for syntactic structures is rather hard to obtain. Therefore, for lexicalized formalisms, we propose to consider the ability to generate certain strings together with specific predicate argument dependencies as a criterion for adequacy for natural languages.
In this paper we present a parsing architecture that allows processing of different mildly context-sensitive formalisms, in particular Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG), Multi-Component Tree-Adjoining Grammar with Tree Tuples (TT-MCTAG) and simple Range Concatenation Grammar (RCG). Furthermore, for tree-based grammars, the parser computes not only syntactic analyses but also the corresponding semantic representations.
Multicomponent Tree Adjoining Grammars (MCTAG) is a formalism that has been shown to be useful for many natural language applications. The definition of MCTAG however is problematic since it refers to the process of the derivation itself: a simultaneity constraint must be respected concerning the way the members of the elementary tree sets are added. Looking only at the result of a derivation (i.e., the derived tree and the derivation tree), this simultaneity is no longer visible and therefore cannot be checked. I.e., this way of characterizing MCTAG does not allow to abstract away from the concrete order of derivation. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an alternative definition of MCTAG that characterizes the trees in the tree language of an MCTAG via the properties of the derivation trees the MCTAG licences.
Multicomponent Tree Adjoining Grammars (MCTAG) is a formalism that has been shown to be useful for many natural language applications. The definition of MCTAG however is problematic since it refers to the process of the derivation itself: a simultaneity constraint must be respected concerning the way the members of the elementary tree sets are added. This way of characterizing MCTAG does not allow to abstract away from the concrete order of derivation. In this paper, we propose an alternative definition of MCTAG that characterizes the trees in the tree language of an MCTAG via the properties of the derivation trees (in the underlying TAG) the MCTAG licences. This definition gives a better understanding of the formalism, it allows a more systematic comparison of different types of MCTAG, and, furthermore, it can be exploited for parsing.
In this paper, we will argue for a novel analysis of the auxiliary alternation in Early English, its development and subsequent loss which has broader consequences for the way that auxiliary selection is looked at cross-linguistically. We will present evidence that the choice of auxiliaries accompanying past participles in Early English differed in several significant respects from that in the familiar modern European languages. Specifically, while the construction with have became a full-fledged perfect by some time in the ME period, that with be was actually a stative resultative, which it remained until it was lost. We will show that this accounts for some otherwise surprising restrictions on the distribution of BE in Early English and allows a better understanding of the spread of HAVE through late ME and EModE. Perhaps more importantly, the Early English facts also provide insight into the genesis of the kind of auxiliary selection found in German, Dutch and Italian. Our analysis of them furthermore suggests a promising strategy for explaining cross-linguistic variation in auxiliary selection in terms of variation in the syntactico-semantic structure of the perfect. In this introductory section, we will first provide some background on the historical situation we will be discussing, then we will lay out the main claims for which we will be arguing in the paper.
In der Stadt Wolfenbüttel wurde 1592 am damaligen Hof der Welfenherzöge von Braunschweig und Lüneburg das erste stehende Theater in Deutschland mit einem festen Ensemble gegründet. Das heutige "Lessingtheater" wurde im klassizistischen Stil erbaut und 1909 eröffnet. Es wird als Bespieltheater betrieben. Zur Zeit bietet der "Kulturbund der Lessingstadt Wolfenbüttel e. V." (gegr. 1946) im Auftrage der Stadt ein Programm von 50 bis 70 Vorstellungen jährlich auf dieser Vollbühne (10 m x 8 m) an mit jetzt ca. 600, später dann ca. 500 Zuschauerplätzen. Dieses Programm setzt sich zusammen aus Tourneetheateraufführungen, aus Gastspielen des Nordharzer Städtebundtheaters Halberstadt/ Quedlinburg und der Landesbühne Rheinland-Pfalz. Zu seinem 100-jährigen Bestehen im Jahr 2009 steht eine umfangreiche und umfassende bauliche Erneuerung an, um das Gebäude den Erfordernissen der Zeit in bühnentechnischer wie architektonischer Hinsicht anzupassen. Die Vorstellungen darüber, wie das Theater zukünftig räumlich gestaltet und ausgestattet und welche bühnentechnische Ausstattung dazu eingerichtet werden sollte, werden seit einiger Zeit in Rat und Verwaltung, bei möglichen Geldgebern sowie in der kulturpolitisch interessierten Öffentlichkeit Wolfenbüttels erörtert.
The retreat of BE as perfect auxiliary in the history of English is examined. Corpus data are presented showing that the initial advance of HAVE was most closely connected to a restriction against BE in past counterfactuals. Other factors which have been reported to favor the spread of HAVE are either dependent on the counterfactual effect, or significantly weaker in comparison. It is argued that the effect can be traced to the semantics of the BE perfect, which denoted resultativity rather than anteriority proper. Related data from other older Germanic and Romance languages are presented, and finally implications for existing theories of auxiliary selection stemming from the findings presented are discussed.
Von 560 in Deutschland nachgewiesenen Arten wurden 555 Arten einer Bewertung unterzogen. Danach sind 289 Arten (52 %) bestandsgefährdet. 227 Arten wurden einer Gefährdungskategorie zugeordnet: 25 Arten zu Kategorie 1 ("vom Aussterben bedroht"), 81 Arten zu Kategorie 2 ("stark gefährdet"), 88 Arten zu Kategorie 3 ("gefährdet"), 33 Arten zu Kategorie G ("Gefährdung unbekannten Ausmaßes"); 24 Arten gelten als "extrem selten" (R) und 43 Arten wurden in die Vorwarnliste (V) aufgenommen. Für 17 Arten sind die "Daten unzureichend" (D) für eine Einstufung. Im Vergleich mit der Fassung von 1998 hat der prozentuale Anteil der in die Rote Liste aufgenommenen Arten nicht abgenommen. Nur 37 % der Arten gelten als derzeit nicht gefährdet. Veränderungen zeigen sich vor allem in unterschiedlichen Einstufungen der Arten. Dies ist teilweise durch die andere Einschätzung der Bestandessituation bedingt, teilweise auch durch die neue Vorgehensweise und Anwendung des vorgegebenen Einstufungsschemas. Bei 59 Arten ergab sich eine im Vergleich zu 1998 günstigere Bestandessituation, 36 Arten finden sich nun in einer höheren Kategorie, weil sich ihre Situation schlechter darstellt als vor 10 Jahren. Hauptursache für den gravierenden Rückgang vieler Arten ist die industrielle Landwirtschaft und der damit einhergehende Verlust artspezfischer Nahrungsquellen und Nistplätze.
The period discussed in this work can be defined with absolute precision: it started on June 3, 1907, when the second Duma was dispersed, and ended on July 19, 1914 (August 1 in the Gregorian calendar), when the war against Germany and Austro-Hungary was proclaimed. This period followed right after the first Russian Revolution, which altered the regime: from unlimited autocracy it became half-parliamentary. Although the revolution was aborted and the tsarist government regained control, several important features characterized the period of 1907- 1914. First of all, there was the very existence of the State Duma – the elected lower house of the Parliament with legislative power; second, the establishment of voluntary associations was eased; third, preliminary censorship was abolished. Thus, public life was characterized by a degree of freedom, such as had never existed in Russia before 1905 and would not exist after October 1917. However, the freedom was relative and very narrow; the government tracked all oppositional or near-oppositional activities and did not hesitate to stop them. The basic tension and mutual suspicion between the authorities and society remained intact and eventually brought the collapse of the regime in 1917. But the revolution of February 1917 was not inevitable. In the period under discussion the interest in politics drastically declined, the Russian political forces became more moderate and the majority sought evolution, rather then revolution as the mechanism for change. ...
Vor einigen Jahren habe ich bereits über die Verbreitung und Ökologie der Seidenbiene Colletes collaris Dours berichtet (Westrich 1997). Diese Art ist in Deutschland extrem selten. Ihr aktueller Verbreitungsschwerpunkt liegt im Kaiserstuhl (Westrich et al. 2000). Die Untersuchungen von Pollenladungen von Weibchen aus dem gesamten Areal hatten gezeigt, daß die Art oligolektisch und auf Asteraceae spezialisiert ist. Als Pollenquellen bisher bekannt geworden sind Aster linosyris, Hieracium umbellatum, Picris hieracioides, Senecio erucifolius, Solidago virgaurea und Carduus acanthoides. Im Jahr 2006 machte ich im Kaiserstuhl ergänzende Beobachtungen zum Blütenbesuch, über die ich hier berichte.
Im Winter 1994/1995 wurden in drei Landschilfbeständen am Bodensee (Aach-Ried, Wollmatinger Ried, Konstanz) 294 Schilfgallen von Lipara lucens (Chloropidae) gesammelt. Davon wurden 223 für die Zucht und 82 für den Laborversuch zur Prüfung der Überfl utungstoleranz ausgewählt. Die gefluteten Gallen wurden entweder ½ Tag, 2 Tage oder 4 Tage bei Außentemperaturen im Februar unter Wasser gesetzt und anschließend mit 141 weiteren Gallen (Kontrolle) in Zuchtgläser verbracht. Neben Lipara lucens wurden folgende Arten aus den Gallen gezogen: Apidae (Bienen): Hylaeus pectoralis, Osmia leucomelana; Sphecidae (Grab wespen): Pemphredon lethifer, Trypoxylon attenuatum; Eumenidae (solitäre Falten wespen): Stenodynerus xanthomelas; Gaster up tionidae (Schmal bauchwespen): Gasteruption assectator, Gasteruption phragmiticola; Chrysi didae (Goldwespen): Chrysis cyanea; Eulophidae: Melittobia acasta. Die dominanten Arten waren: Hylaeus pectoralis and Pemphredon lethifer. Die Unterschiede im Artenspektrum der einzelnen Probeflächen waren teils beträchtlich. Insbesondere die Besiedlung durch Hylaeus pectoralis variierte von Lokalität zu Lokalität. Die stark ruderalisierte Probestelle bei Konstanz-Lindenbühl wies das höchste Artenspektrum auf und Pemphredon lethifer hatte hier die höchste Besiedlungsdichte. Dies deutet auf gestörte Verhältnisse im Vergleich zur Probefläche im Aach-Ried hin, einem weitgehend natürlichen Landröhricht. Sowohl aus den Kontrollgallen als auch aus den gefluteten Gallen sind jeweils mehrere Arten, teils in größerer Zahl geschlüpft. Die Unterschiede in der Schlüpfrate (72,4 % bei den Kontrollgallen, 66,7 % bei einer Flutungsdauer von ½ Tag, 69,3 % bei einer Flutungsdauer von 2 Tagen und 51,7 % bei einer Flutungsdauer von 4 Tagen) erklären sich daraus, daß unterschiedlich viele Gallen nicht besiedelt waren. Dies resultiert demnach nicht aus einem möglichen Einfl uß der Überfl utung. Dies hat sich durch ein nachträgliches Öffnen der Gallen bestätigt. Die Gallenerzeugerin Lipara lucens verträgt eine Überflutung ohne Schädigung ebenso wie ihre Parasitoide. Die als Folgesiedler auftretenden nestbauenden Bienen und Grabwespen sind an die Überfl utung dadurch angepaßt, daß entweder ihre Brutzellen mit spezifi schen Materialien ausgekleidet sind (Hylaeus pectoralis) oder daß die winterliche Diapause in selbstgesponnenen Kokons als Ruhelarve überdauert wird (Pemphredon lethifer, Trypoxylon attenuatum). Daraus resultiert: Eine Überflutung im Winterhalbjahr während eines Zeitraumes von ½ Tag bis zu 4 Tagen beeinflußt die Schlüpfrate der Gallenbesiedler nicht. Diese Aussage gilt streng genommen jedoch nur für die Versuchsbedingungen mit sauberem und stehendem Wasser. Belastetes See- oder Flußwasser hat möglicherweise eine andere Auswirkung auf die Gallenbewohner. Stark fließendes Wasser kann die Schilfgallen abknicken und weg spülen. In den zusammengeschwemmten Genisten sind sie erhöhter Feuchtigkeit, stärkerer Verpilzung und damit einer stärkeren Schädigung ausgesetzt.
Das Pollensammelverhalten von Weibchen von Colletes hederae, die in einem Sandkasten eines Kindergartens von Mössingen, einer Stadt in Südwest-Deutschland nisteten, wurde in den Jahren 2006 und 2007 untersucht. Im Jahr 2006 fand die Entnahme der Pollenproben vom 12. September bis 17. Oktober statt, im Jahr 2007 vom 14. September bis 7. Oktober. Insgesamt wurden 169 Pollenladungen gesammelt und lichtmikroskopisch analysiert. In der ersten Hälfte der Flugzeit des Jahres 2006 enthielten die Pollenladungen außer Hedera helix einen vergleichsweise hohen Anteil von Asteraceae, Fabaceae und insbesondere Colchicaceae. Der Pollentyp mit dem höchsten Anteil war der von Colchicum autumnale, einer Pfl anzenart, die der Autor nie zuvor in der Pollenladung einer Wildbiene gefunden hatte. Um den Pollen dieser Pflanze zu sammeln, flogen die Bienen mindestens 700 m weit über das bebaute Stadtgebiet hinweg ins Offenland, wo die Herbstzeitlose in Streuobstwiesen blühte. Colletes hederae scheint beim Pollensammeln in der Hinsicht fl exibel zu sein, daß dann andere Pollenquellen genutzt werden, wenn die artspezifi sche Pollenquelle nicht zur Verfügung steht. Ein solches Verhalten wurde vom Verfasser auch in Südfrankreich und im Kaiserstuhl beobachtet, wo Odontites luteus sowie Solidago canadensis bzw. Solidago gigantea besammelt wurden. Auch an diesen Lokalitäten war der Efeu zum Zeitpunkt der Beobachtungen noch nicht voll aufgeblüht. Bemerkenswert ist vor allem, daß ausnahmslos alle Weibchen der von mir untersuchten Mössinger Population dann zum Efeu als Pollenquelle wechselten, sobald dieser voll aufgeblüht war (2006) bzw. erst gar nicht an anderen Pflanzen zu sammeln begannen, wenn er zum Zeitpunkt des Beginns der Verproviantierung bereits voll blühte (2007). Dies bestätigt erneut das Phänomen der Oligolektie. Allerdings bleibt ungeklärt, ob die Larven den Pollen anderer Pflanzenfamilien in gleicher Weise verwerten können wie Hedera-Pollen.
Es sind bald fünf und zwanzig Jahre, seit die durch den berühmtesten Civilisten in Süddeutschland veranlaßte Streitfrage über die Nothwendigkeit eines allgemeinen bürgerlichen Rechts für Deutschland eine Spaltung unter den deutschen Rechtslehrern erzeugte, in Folge der sich im Norden unseres Vaterlandes eine geschichtliche Schule konstituierte, und als solche den die Grundansichten derselben nicht theilenden Juristen als den Anhängern einer nicht geschichtlichen sich entgegensetzte. ...
Bände: Zoologie I : Säugethiere : mit sechs und vierzig Tafeln : 1852 Zoologie II : Vögel : 15 Tafeln [ca. 1860] Zoologie III : Amphibien : mit drei und dreissig Tafeln, 1882 Zoologie IV : Flussfische : mit zwanzig Kupfertafeln, 1868 Zoologie V : Insecten und Myriopoden : mit fünf und dreissig Kupfertafeln, 1862 Botanik I. Abtheilung : mit acht und vierzig Tafeln, 1862 Botanik II. Abtheilung : mit dreizehn Tafeln, 1864
Cannabis ist die am meisten verbreitete illegale Droge in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ebenso in den meisten Ländern Westeuropas und vielen weiteren Ländern weltweit. In den bundesdeutschen Medien kursieren zum Thema Cannabiskonsum "widersprüchliche und kaum nachvollziehbare Angaben" (Pressemitteilung der Deutschen Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen (DHS) vom 28.07.04). Die Fachstelle Prävention setzt sich mit dieser Informationskampagne zum Thema Cannabis für eine faktenorientierte und sachliche Diskussion ein. ...
Not your day to die
(1995)
Harman Dahl's legacy
(2001)
It was midnight on Friday 31, December 1999. Harman Dahl fell off his seat at the sound of all hell letting loose around him. He held on to the bench on which he had dozed off and wobbled onto his feet. His senses returned, even though he was still tipsy, under the influence of alcohol. He had been drinking with colleagues for most of the day. ...
Analyse morphologique du splanchnocrane chez les primates et ses rapports avec le prognathisme
(1956)
Chez les Mammifères inférieurs, les mâchoire et les cavités orbtitaires sont situées en avant du neurocrâne; chez les Primates, le massif facial se déplace et est en partie situé sous la cavité cranienne; chez l'Homme, non seulement le massif facial est réduit de volume, mais il est logé entièrement sous le neurocrâne. ...
At the conclusion of my student's career at Paris, in the time of Baron Cuvier, my first application of that great teacher's "Laws of Reconstruction of Extinct Animals from their Fossil Remains" was to those of the British Isles, of which study the results, as relating to the Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles, have been published. ...
Del 1718 perordine della beata e d'eterna memoria degna di Sua M-ta Imp-le sono stato spedito per Inuiato al Han di Buharia. ...
Un heureux hasard nous a fait acheter, en janvier dernier, pour une experience, une chevre adulte, qui mourut peu de temps apres de dysenterie coccidienne. Le parasite appartenait à l'espece decrite en 1930 par W. L. Yakimoff et Rastegaieva sous le nom de Eimeria Nina-Kohl-Yakimovi. La description originale des auteurs ne comprenait que celle de l'ookyste. Nous avons pu la completer par celle de son cycle evolutif et des Iesions que cette espece determine. Au cours des investigations bibliographiques que nous avons du entreprendre, nous avons ete gene par une certaine confusion dans les travaux concernant les coccidioses du mouton et de la chevre, confusion qui avait ete remarquee par d'autres. Nous avons cru utile, a l'occasion de l'etude particuliere qui se presentait à nous, d'entreprendre un travail plus general et d'essayer de retrouver et de fixer les bases preeises de la zoologie des parasites qui nous occupent. C'est a dessein, pour eliminer des I'abord une cause de confusion, que nous reunissons les coccidies du mouton et de la chevre.
Beiträge zur Kenntnis der postembryonalen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Genitalorgane bei Lepidopteren
(1911)
In dem Augenblick, in welchem in Bayern die drei ersten Blätter der geologischen Karte des Königreichs im Maßstabe 1 : 26.000 der Öffentlichkeit vorliegen und bald eine Anzahl weiterer folgen wird, scheint es nicht unangebracht, hier einen Überblick über die geschichtliche Entwicklung zu geben, welche dazu führte, daß nunmehr in ganz Deutschland (mit Ausnahme von Mecklenburg) amtliche Kartenaufnahmen in diesem Maßstab veröffentlicht werden. Wenn wir die Entwicklung der geologischen Aufnahmen in Deutschland überblicken, so können mir überall drei Stadien (gewissermaßen Altertum, Mittelalter und Neuzeit) unterscheiden. Das erste ursprüngliche Stadium ist das der zusammenhangslosen gelegentlichen Aunahme, zu welcher Liebhaberei oder praktischer Bedarf des Bergbaues führte. Dann folgte eine zweite Periode, in welcher durch meist staatliche Organisationen in der Regel unter Obhut der Bergbehörden Übersichtskarten in Maßstabe von 1 : 120.000, 1 : 100.000, 1 : 80.000 und 1 : 50.000 herausgegeben wurden. Das dritte Stadium bildet dann die systematische Herstellung von Spezialkarten im Maßstabe 1 : 25.000 durch die geologischen Landesanstalten, welche in der Regel mit Hochschulinstituten in mehr oder minder enger Verbindung standen. Zum Schluß seien dann noch kurz die neuesten Entwicklungstendenzen besprochen.
Tumours involving the cauda equina : a review of their clinical features and differential diagnosis
(1930)
A general survey of the material available in the literature at once draws attention to the fact that it is only in the late and hopeless stages of cauda equina tumours that the classical clinical picture of a lesion of the cauda equina or even a collection of symptoms and signs similar to that produced by a traumatic lesion is encountered. ...
Gli Autori segnalano per il territorio delle Alpi Liguri 144 specie di Molluschi terrestri e 25 specie di Molluschi acquidulcicoli. L'elenco sistematico riporta, per ciascuna specie, eventuali sinonimie, segnalazioni di letteratura e di collezione e i risultati di ricerche di campagna effettuate dagli Autori negli anni 1977-84; inoltre, vengono fornite la geonemia e brevi considerazioni sulla distribuzionc geografica, le caratteristiche ecologichc ed eventuali problemi tassonomici. Segue un esame critico dei taxa di pteseilza dubbia o di incerta collocazione sistematica, ed un breve elenco delle specie presenti nelle aree circostanti l'area in esame, ma assenti in Alpi Liguri. La malacofauna terrestre delle Alpi Liguri (considerate in toto o nei tre Settori del Cuneese, Imperiese e Savonese) viene confrontata con quella di tre settori piu interni delle Alpi Occidentali (Alpi Marittime settentrionali, Alpi Cozie, Alpi Graie), di un settorc alpino meridionale (Alpi Marittime francesi) e di due settori appenninici (Appennino Ligure ed Aipi Apuane), mediante indici di similarit i di tipo binario (presenza-assenza di specie). Vengono inoltre confrontati tra loro gli spettri corologici delle aree sopracitate. L'area studiata non appare uniforme da1 punto di vista faunistico, ma diversamente caratterizzata nei diversi settori. Per la particolare posizione geografica e le peculiari caratteristiche paleoclimatiche, geomorfologiche ed ambientali, il popolamento malacologico delle Alpi Liguri si presenta qualitativamente vario ed ariicchito da correnti rnigratorie di diversa provenienza (alpina, W-mediterranes, appenninicii). Nella caratterizzazione della fauna e degli endemismi, sembra importante il ruolo di area di rifugio assunto dalle Alpi Liguri in epoca glaciale.