I joined the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen in October 2004. I am working as a junior researcher in the field of Computational Linguistics. My research focusses on user interfaces for corpus query tools and the visualization of linguistic information. I am currently working on the project PAISÀ (Piattaforma per l'Apprendimento dell'Italiano Su corpora Annotati). In addition, I am carrying out my dissertation project on the user-centered evaluation of corpus query tools with special focus on the potential of visualizations for exploratory corpus analysis. Furthermore, I am involved with the project bistro, and participated in the project LexALP.

Background

• (1999) high school degree in Germany
• (2000 - 2003) studies of Computational Linguistics with minor in Informatics, Universität Potsdam/Germany
• (2002) intermediate degree in Computational Linguistics
• (2002) teaching assistance for an introductory course in Semantics, Universität Potsdam
• (2003 - 2004) master's course in Speech and Language Processing, University of Edinburgh/Scotland
• (2007 - ) PhD project on "User needs concerning corpus querying environments", supervisor: Stefan Evert, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

master's thesis in the area of Speech Recognition

degree: MSc in Speech and Language Processing, University of Edinburgh

Publications

Culy, C., Lyding, V., and Dittmann, H. 2011c. "Visualizing Dependency Structures" In: Proc. of the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (GSCL), Hamburg, Germany, 81-86.

Culy, C., Lyding, V., and Dittmann, H. 2011b. "xLDD: Extended Linguistic Dependency Diagrams"  in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV2011, 12, 13 - 15 July 2011, University of London, UK. 164-169. 

Culy, C., Lyding, V., and Dittmann, H. 2011a. "Structured Parallel Coordinates: a visualization for analyzing structured language data" In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, CILC-11, April 6-9, 2011, Valencia, Spain, 485-493.

Culy, C. and V. Lyding. 2011. "Corpus Clouds - Facilitating Text Analysis by Means of Visualizations" in Human Language Technology: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, Zygmunt Vetulani (ed.). Berlin:Springer. 351-360.

C. Culy & V. Lyding. 2010."Double Tree: An Advanced KWIC Visualization for Expert Users" In: Information Visualization, Proceedings of IV 2010, 2010 14th International Conference Information Visualization, 26-29 July 2010 London, United Kingdom, 98-103.

C. Culy & V. Lyding. 2010. "Visualizations for exploratory corpus and text analysis". In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics CILC-10, May 13-15, 2010, A Coruña, Spain, pp. 257-268.

C. Culy & V. Lyding. 2009. "Corpus Clouds - facilitating text analysis by means of visualizations". In: Proceedings of the 4th Language & Technology Conference, November 6-8, 2009, Poznan, Poland, pp. 521-525.

Lyding, Verena (ed.) (2009): LULCL II 2008 - Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics. Bozen-Bolzano, 13th-14th November 2008. Bozen-Bolzano: EURAC. http://www.eurac.edu/Org/LanguageLaw/Multilingualism/Projects/LULCL_II_proceedings.htm

Lyding, Verena (2008): "Applying the Corpus Encoding Standard to a quadrilingual corpus of legal texts." In: Witt, A. / Sasaki, F. / Teich, E. / Calzolari, N. / Wittenburg, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the LREC Workshop 2008 "Uses and usage of language resource-related standards", 27th May 2008, Marrakech, Morocco. 47-54.

Lyding, V., Anstein, S. & Petrakis, S. (2008): „Aspekte der Interdisziplinarität beim Einsatz von Korpora in der Fachtextanalyse" in Heller, D. (ed.) Formulierungsmuster in deutscher und italienischer Fachkommunikation. Intra- und interlinguale Perspektiven, Bern: Peter Lang, 51-74.

Lyding, Verena & Ties, Isabella (2008): 'Computerlinguistische Anwendungen zur Nutzung normierter terminologischer Daten', in Chiocchetti, Elena & Voltmer, Leonhard (eds.), Normierung, Harmonisierung und Sprachplanung, Bolzano/Bozen: Eurac, p. 75-95.

E. Chiocchetti & V. Lyding: "Multilingual Corpus for Terminology Work" in Andrea Abel/Mathias Stuflesser & Magdalena Putz (eds.) (2006) Multilingualism across Europe: Findings, Needs, Best Practices. Proceedings [pdf]. 24th–26th August 2006, Bolzano/Bozen. Bolzano/Bozen: Eurac, 505-513.

V. Lyding, E. Chiocchetti, G. Sérasset & F. Brunet-Manquat (2006): "The LexALP Information System: Term Bank and Corpus for Multilingual Legal Terminology Consolidated" [pdf]. Proceedings of the MLRI-Multilingual Language Resources and Interoperability workshop, 23rd July 2006, Sydney (AUS). 

Oliver Streiter, Leonhard Voltmer, Isabella Ties and Verena Lyding (2005). Structuring Terminological Data: The BISTRO Proposal, In: Terminology Science and Research (TSR), Volumne 16, 2005.

Presentations

Lyding, Verena (2012b): "Rolle von Visualisierungen linguistischer Informationen in Forschungsumgebungen" presented at the CLARIN-AT - DARIAH-AT Tagung: Europäische Forschungsinfrastrukturen in den Geisteswissenschaften, ICLTT, Vienna, 21-22 February 2012. [slides]

Lyding, V. and Dittmann, H. (2012a): "Interactive Visualizations for Linguistic Analysis" presented at the Colloquium 'Interpreting Linguistic Data' at the institute for Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting at Universität des Saarlandes, 6 February 2012. [slides]

Lyding, Verena (2009a): "Usability engineering for corpus query tools: Evaluating the use of visualizations." presented at the Workshop Usability Aspects of Hypermedia Systems, Tagung der Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik. Potsdam. October 2009. [slides]

Culy, C. and V. Lyding (2009b): "Visualization as Part of the Linguistic Processing Pipeline" presented at the Linguistic Processing Pipelines Workshop, Tagung der Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik. Potsdam. October 2009. [slides]

Culy, C. and V. Lyding (2009c): Tutorial/Discussion on "Visualization of Linguistic Information" at 37. Österreichische Linguistiktagung. Salzburg. December 2009. [slides]