Contact

Email: czulo (at) uni (minus) leipzig (dot) de

A short bio

Oliver is a full professor in Translation Studies at Leipzig University. Until March 2017, Oliver held an Assistant Professor („Juniorprofessor“) position for Translation-relevant Linguistics at the Translation Faculty at Mainz University. He attended Saarland University, where he received his diploma in computational linguistics and his PhD in machine translation. His thesis work focused on developing ways of automatically comparing verb valence between English and German using parallel corpora. During a one-year stay at ICSI at the University of California in Berkeley in 2011 and 2012, he worked with researchers in the FrameNet Project, who are building a lexical database based on frame semantic analyses. He is interested in how grammar and semantics interact in translation.

Stages

• 04/2017 – ongoing: Full Professor in Translation Studies @ IALT, University of Leipzig
• 10/2013 – 03/2017: Assistant Professor for Translation-relevant Linguistics @ University of Mainz, Germersheim
• since 2007 – 10/2013: teaching and research position @ University of Mainz, Germersheim
• 10/2011 – 09/2012 visiting PostDoc researcher @ ICSI Berkeley
• 11/2006 – 06/2011 doctoral student @ chair for Machine Translation, Saarland University
• 2006/2007 research position @ IAI, the Institute for Applied Information Sciences at Saarland University (main website, r&d website)
• 10/2003-02/2004 student @ Centre for Computational Linguistics, Charles University Prague
• 2000-2006 student @ Computational Linguistics at Saarland University
• 1999-2000 student @ Computational Linguistics at University of Heidelberg

A selection of topics taught and supervised

• Contrastive Linguistics
• Translation technologies
• Electronic resources for translators and interpreters
• Blackbox translation: Empirical study of translation
• Grammar theories
• Multilingual corpora in translation studies
• From valency theory to Frame Semantics

Interests

• Multilingual corpora in translation studies & teaching
• Syntax-Semantics interface in translation
• Frame Semantics
• Construction Grammar
• Valence

Affiliations & Memberships

Affiliate of the ReSIST NoE since mid-2007, co-leader of the mini project Organization and retrieval of knowledge in the resilience domain by means of computer-based natural language processing tools in 2008.

Workshops & Conferences

Translation in Transition 2015 conference @ University of Mainz, Germersheim, 29th & 30th January 2015

Contrastive linguistics – Translation studies – Machine translation – what can we learn from each other? @ GSCL 2011, Hamburg, September 27th 2011

Beyond corpus construction: exploitation and maintenance of parallel corpora. @ Corpus Linguistics conference, Liverpool, July 2009

Talks (Highlights)

2014

Contrasting Post-Editing and Human Translation @ MT@Work conference, DGT, Brussels, 5th December 2014. Video (starting at about 1:28:30)

Papers (Selection)

2014

Čulo, Oliver. “Approaching Machine Translation from Translation Studies: A Perspective on Commonalities, Potentials, Differences.” In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), 199–208. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Čulo, Oliver, Silke Gutermuth, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, and Jean Nitzke. “The Influence of Post-Editing on Translation Strategies.” In Post-Editing of Machine Translation: Processes and Applications, edited by Laura Winther Balling, Michael Carl, Sharon O’Brien, Michel Simard, and Lucia Specia, 200–218. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2013

Čulo, Oliver. 2013. “Constructions-and-Frames Analysis of Translations: The Interplay of Syntax and Semantics in Translations between English and German.” Constructions and Frames 5 (2): 143–67.

2012

Oliver Čulo, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Karin Maksymski & Stella Neumann. Heuristic examination of translation shifts. Hansen-Schirra, Silvia; Steiner, Erich; Neumann, Stella (eds.). Cross-linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations. Insights from the language pair English – German.

2011

Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Oliver Čulo & Stella Neumann (eds.). Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition. Special issue on parallel corpora, Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition 1. OpenAccess-Journal, Universität Mainz.

Oliver Čulo, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Karin Maksymski & Stella Neumann Empty links and crossing lines: querying multi-layer annotation and alignment in parallel corpora. Translation: Computing, Corpora, Cognition. Special Issue on parallel corpora. Universität Mainz.

Oliver Čulo. Querying multilevel annotation and alignment for detecting grammatical valence divergencies. Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications Proceedings of the Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011, 63–68. Hamburg.

2010

Oliver Čulo. Automatische Extraktion von bilingualen Valenzwörterbüchern aus parallelen deutsch-englischen Korpora: eine Pilotstudie. Dissertation, Universität des Saarlandes.

Oliver Čulo. Valency, translation and the syntactic realisation of the predicate. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar (LGC), Belgrad. 73-82.

2008

Oliver Čulo, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó, Sabine Schulte im Walde. Comparing and combining semantic verb classifications. Language Resources and Evaluation 42(3). 265-291.

Oliver Čulo, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Stella Neumann, Mihaela Vela. Empirical studies on language contrast using the English-German comparable and parallel CroCo corpus. Proceedings of the LREC 2008 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora. 47-51.

2007

Oliver Čulo, Gintare Grigonyte, Maryline Hernandez, Algirdas Avižienis, Johann Haller & Ruta Marcinkevičiene. Building a thesaurus of dependability and security: a corpus based approach. Proceedings of the 3rd Baltic Conference on Human Language Technology 2007. 71-78.

Dimitra Anastasiou & Oliver Čulo. Using topological information for detecting idiomatic verb phrases in German. Proceedings of the Conference on Practical Applications in Language and Computers 2007. Łodž, Poland.

Michael Carl, Oliver Čulo & Sandrine Garnier. Compiling and managing a bilingual lexicon in METIS-II. Proceedings of the International Workshop on acquisition and management of multilingual lexicons. 19-26.

Mahmoud Gindiyeh, Oliver Čulo, Gintare Grigonyte, Johann Haller, Algirdas Avižienis, Ruta Marcinkevičiene & Vidas Daudaravičius. A document classification tool for the resilience knowledge base of the ReSIST NoE project. Proceedings of the 3rd Baltic Conference on Human Language Technology 2007. 103-110.