Publications – Rainer Osswald

2025

Shingo Hattori, Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2025. Psycholinguistically motivated Construction-based Tree Adjoining Grammar. In Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025). To be published in the ACL Anthology.
Long Chen, Deniz Ekin Yavas, Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2025. Cococorpus: A corpus of copredication. In Harry Bunt (ed.), Proceedings of the 21st Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21), 31–40. To be published in the ACL Anthology.
Long Chen, Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2025. Primary vs. secondary meaning facets of polysemous nouns. In Gabriela Bîlbîie and Gerhard Schaden: Empirical issues in syntax and semantics: Selected papers from CSSP 2023, 27–56. Language Science Press, Berlin.
Kata Balogh, Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2025. A novel representation of focus structure and non-constituent focus. In Gabriela Bîlbîie and Gerhard Schaden: Empirical issues in syntax and semantics: Selected papers from CSSP 2023, 1–26. Language Science Press, Berlin.

2023

Deniz Ekin Yavas, Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald, Elisabetta Jezek, Marta Ricchiardi and Long Chen. 2023. Identifying Semantic Argument Types in Predication and Copredication Contexts: A Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Approach. In Ruslan Mitkov and Galia Angelova: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2023), 310–320. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2023. Formalization of RRG syntax. In: Delia Bentley, Ricardo Mairal, Wataru Nakamura and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar, 737–784. Cambridge University Press. [preprint]

2022

Long Chen, Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2022. A Frame-Based Model of Inherent Polysemy, Copredication and Argument Coercion. In Michael Zock, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-Yin Hsu and Enrico Santus (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 58–67. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Rainer Osswald and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 2022 The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan). In: Benjamin Fagard and Laure Sarda (eds.), Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, Asymmetries, Constructions, Human Cognitive Processing 72, 209–233. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. [preprint]
Tatiana Bladier, Kilian Evang, Valeria Generalova, Zahra Ghane, Laura Kallmeyer, Robin Möllemann, Natalia Moors, Rainer Osswald and Simon Petitjean. 2022. RRGparbank: A Parallel Role and Reference Grammar Treebank. In: Proceedings of LREC 2022, 4833–4841.

2021

Rainer Osswald. 2021. Activities, Accomplishments and Causation. In: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (ed.), Challenges in the analysis of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface: A Role and Reference Grammar perspective, 3–30. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [preprint (with corrections)]
Kata Balogh and Rainer Osswald. 2021. A frame-based analysis of verbal particles in Hungarian. In: Sebastian Löbner, Thomas Gamerschlag, Tobias Kalenscher, Markus Schrenk and Henk Zeevat (eds.), Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology, Language, Cognition, and Mind 7, 219–237. Springer, Dordrecht

2020

Tatiana Bladier, Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald and Jakub Waszczuk. 2020. Automatic Extraction of Tree-Wrapping Grammars for Multiple Languages. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory, 55–61. ACL.

2018

Tatiana Bladier, Andreas van Cranenburgh, Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer, Robin Möllemann and Rainer Osswald. 2018. RRGbank: a Role and Reference Grammar Corpus of Syntactic Structures Extracted from the Penn Treebank. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory, 5–16. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings.
Rainer Osswald and Laura Kallmeyer. 2018. Towards a formalization of Role and Reference Grammar. In Rolf Kailuweit, Lisann Künkel and Eva Staudinger (eds.), Applying and Expanding Role and Reference Grammar (NIHIN Studies), 355–378. Freiburg: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek.

2017

Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald and Sylvain Pogodalla. 2017. Quantification in Frame Semantics with Binders and Nominals of Hybrid Logic. Journal of Language Modelling 5(2):357–383
Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2017. Modeling Quantification with Polysemous Nouns. In Claire Gardent and Christian Retoré (eds.), IWCS 2017 – 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics – Short papers.
Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2017. Combining Predicate-Argument Structure and Operator Projection: Clause Structure in Role and Reference Grammar. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+13), 61–70.

2016

William Babonnaud, Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2016. Polysemy and coercion: A frame-based approach using LTAG and Hybrid Logic. In Maxime Amblard, Philippe de Groote, Sylvain Pogodalla and Christian Retoré (eds.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, 9th International Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10054, 18–33. Berlin: Springer.
Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald and Sylvain Pogodalla. 2016. For-Adverbials and Aspectual Interpretation. An LTAG Analysis Using Hybrid Logic and Frame Semantics. In Christopher Piñon (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 11, 61–90.
Laura Kallmeyer, Timm Lichte, Rainer Osswald and Simon Petitjean. 2016. Argument linking in LTAG: A constraint-based implementation with XMG. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+12), 48–57.

2015

Rainer Osswald. 2015. Syntax and Lexicography. In Artemis Alexiadou and Tibor Kiss (eds.), Syntax – Theory and Analysis. Volume 3, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, 1963–2000. De Gruyter. [preprint]

2014

Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald, and Wiebke Petersen. 2014. General Introduction. In Thomas Gamerschlag et al. (eds.), Frames and Concept Types, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 94, 3–21. Springer.
Rainer Osswald and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 2014. FrameNet, Frame Structure, and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. In Thomas Gamerschlag et al. (eds.), Frames and Concept Types, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 94, 125–156. Springer.
Rainer Osswald. 2014. Konstruktion versus Projektion: Argumentrealisierung bei Kognitionsverben des Deutschen und Englischen. In Alexander Ziem und Alexander Lasch (eds.), Grammatik als Netzwerk von Konstruktionen, 313–328. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2013

Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2013. Syntax-Driven Semantic Frame Composition in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars. Journal of Language Modelling 1(2):267–330.
Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 2013. Tree Wrapping for Role and Reference Grammar. In Glyn Morrill and Mark-Jan Nederhof (eds.), Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2012 and 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8036, 175–190. Springer.
Hermann Helbig and Rainer Osswald. 2013. Electronic Dictionaries for Question Answering and Natural Language Database Access. In Rufus H. Gouws, Ulrich Heid, Wolfgang Scheickard and Herbert Ernst Wiegand (eds.), Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments with Special Focus on Computational Lexicography, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, 1136–1149. Berlin: De Gruyter

2012

Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2012. An Analysis of Directed Motion Expressions with Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars and Frame Semantics. In L. Ong and R. de Queiroz (eds.), Proceedings of WoLLIC 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7456, 34–55. Springer.
Laura Kallmeyer and Rainer Osswald. 2012. A frame-based semantics of the dative alternation in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars. In Christopher Pinón (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 9, 167–184.
Rainer Osswald. 2012. Standards for the Formal Representation of Linguistic Data: An Exchange Format for Feature Structures. In Jeremy Jancsary (ed.), Proceedings of KONVENS 2012, 486–493.

2010

Rainer Osswald and Thomas Gamerschlag. 2010. Attribute verbs within and across languages. In Pier Marco Bertinetto, Anna Korhonen, Alessandro Lenci, Alissa Melinger, Sabine Schulte im Walde and Aline Villavicencio (eds.), Proceedings of Verb 2010 – The Identification and Representation of Verb features, 175–181.

2008

Hermann Helbig, Ingo Glöckner and Rainer Osswald. 2008. Layer structures and conceptual hierarchies in semantic representations for NLP. In Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 9th International Conference, CICLing 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4919, 171–182. Springer.

2007

Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig, Johannes Leveling and Rainer Osswald. 2007. Automatic Semantic Analysis for NLP Applications. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 26(2):241–266.
Richard Socher, Chris Biemann and Rainer Osswald. 2007. Combining Contexts in Lexicon Learning for Semantic Parsing. In Joakim Nivre, Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek and Mare Koit (eds.), Proceedings of NODALIDA 2007, 175–182.

2006

Constantin Jenge, Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig and Rainer Osswald. 2006. Automatic Control of Simple Language in Web Pages. In Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang L. Zagler and Arthur I. Karshmer (eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs, 10th International Conference, ICCHP 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4061, 207–214. Springer.
Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig, Johannes Leveling and Rainer Osswald. 2006. An Architecture for Controlling Simple Language in Web Pages. eMinds: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction 1(2):93–112.
Rainer Osswald. 2006. On Formal Objects. In Benedikt Löwe, Volker Peckhaus and Thoralf Räsch (eds.), Foundations of the Formal Sciences VI – The History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences, Studies in Logic 3, 183–198. London: College Publications.
Rainer Osswald. 2006. Constructing Lexical Semantic Hierarchies from Binary Semantic Features. In Pascal Hitzler, Henrik Schärfe and Peter Øhrstrøm (eds.), Contributions to the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2006), 131–144. Aalborg University Press
Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig and Rainer Osswald. 2006. Semantic Interpretation of Prepositions for NLP applications. In Boban Arsenijevic, Timothy Baldwin and Beata Trawinski (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, 29–36.
Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig, Johannes Leveling and Rainer Osswald. 2006. An Architecture for Rating and Controlling Text Readability. In Proceedings of KONVENS 2006, 32–35.
Rainer Osswald, Hermann Helbig and Sven Hartrumpf. 2006. The Representation of German Prepositional Verbs in a Semantically Based Computer Lexicon. In Proceedings of LREC 2006, 461–464.
Chris Biemann and Rainer Osswald. 2006. Automatic Extension of Feature-based Semantic Lexicons via Contextual Attributes. In M. Spiliopoulou, R. Kruse, C. Borgelt, A. Nürnberger and W. Gaul (eds.), From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering – Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, 326–333. Springer.

2005

Rainer Osswald and Hermann Helbig. 2005. Derivational Semantics in HaGenLex – An Interim Report. In Stefan Langer and Daniel Schnorbusch (eds.), Semantik im Lexikon, Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik 479, 87–127. Gunter Narr Verlag.
Chris Biemann and Rainer Osswald. 2005. Automatische Erweiterung eines semantikbasierten Lexikons durch Bootstrapping auf großen Korpora. In Bernhard Fisseni, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Bernhard Schröder and Petra Wagner (eds.), Sprachtechnologie, mobile Kommunikation und linguistische Ressourcen – Beiträge zur GLDV–Tagung 2005 in Bonn, Computer Studies in Language and Speech 8, 15–27. Peter Lang.
Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf and Rainer Osswald. 2005. From GermaNet Glosses to Formal Meaning Postulates. In Bernhard Fisseni, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Bernhard Schröder and Petra Wagner (eds.), Sprachtechnologie, mobile Kommunikation und linguistische Ressourcen – Beiträge zur GLDV–Tagung 2005 in Bonn, Computer Studies in Language and Speech 8, 394–407. Peter Lang.
Rainer Osswald. 2005. Assertions, Conditionals, and Defaults. In Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Wilhelm Rödder and Friedhelm Kulmann (eds.), Conditionals, Information, and Inference: International Workshop, WCII 2002, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3301, 108–130. Springer.
Rainer Osswald. 2005. Translations between Concept Hierarchies over Different Attribute Sets. In Radim Bělohlávek and Vaclav Snášel (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA 2005), 92–106.
Rainer Osswald. 2005. A Categorical Framework for Translating between Conceptual Hierarchies. In Pascal Hitzler, Carsten Lutz and Gerd Stumme (eds.), Proceedings of the KI-2005 Workshop on Foundational Aspects of Ontologies, Fachberichte Informatik 9/2005, 17–33. Universität Koblenz-Landau.
Rainer Osswald. 2005. Concept Hierarchies from a Logical Point of View. In Bernhard Ganter, Robert Godin and Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (eds.), Supplementary Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA-2005), 15–30.
Rainer Osswald. 2005. On Result Nominalization in German. In Emar Maier, Corien Bary and Janneke Huitink (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, 256–270. Nijmegen Centre for Semantics (NCS).

2004

Rainer Osswald. 2004. Die Verwendung von GermaNet zur Pflege und Erweiterung des Computerlexikons HaGenLex. LDV-Forum 19(1/2):43–51.
Rainer Osswald. 2004. Eine Werkbank zur Erstellung und Pflege des semantikbasierten Computerlexikons HaGenLex. In Ernst Buchberger (ed.), Proceedings of KONVENS 2004, Schriftenreihe der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence 5, 149–152.
Rainer Osswald. 2004. Two Views on Building Conceptual Hierarchies. In Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Wilhelm Rödder and Friedhelm Kulmann (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Conditionals, Information, and Inference, Ulm, September 21.

2003

Rainer Osswald. 2003. Generic Ontology of Linguistic Classification. In Benedikt Löwe, Wolfgang Malzkorn and Thoralf Räsch (eds.), Foundations of the Formal Sciences II – Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics, Trends in Logic 17, 203–212. Kluwer.
Rainer Osswald. 2003. A Logic of Classification – with Applications to Linguistic Theory. Informatik-Berichte 303 – 9/2003. FernUniversität in Hagen, Department of Computer Science. (PhD Thesis)
Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen. 2003. A Logical Approach to Data Driven Classification. In Andreas Günter, Rudolf Kruse and Bernd Neumann (eds.), KI-2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS 2821), 267–281. Springer.
Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig and Rainer Osswald. 2003. The Semantically Based Computer Lexicon HaGenLex – Structure and Technological Environment. Traitement automatique des langues 44(2):81–105.

2002

Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen. 2002. Induction of Classifications from Linguistic Data. In Proceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Advances in Formal Concept Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 75–84.
Ralf Naumann and Rainer Osswald. 2002. A Dynamic Modal Arrow Logic for the Analysis of Aspectual Phenomena in Natural Language. Dick de Jongh, Marie Nilsenová and Henk Zeevat (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd and 4th International Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. ILLC.

2001

Rainer Osswald. 2001. Classifying Classification. In Geert-Jan Kruijff, Larry Moss and Dick Oehrle (eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL-01), Helsinki, August 10–12.

1999

Ralf Naumann and Rainer Osswald. 1999. Aspects of ‘Until’. In Harry C. Bunt and E. G. C. Thijsse (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Semantics, 191–203. Tilburg University.
Rainer Osswald. 1999. On Conditional Information in Feature-Based Theories. In Proceedings of the 6th Meeting on Mathematics of Language, University of Central Florida, July 23–25, 89–104.
Rainer Osswald. 1999. Semantics for Attribute-Value Theories. In Paul Dekker (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, ILLC, 199–204.

1997

Rainer Osswald. 1997. Grammatisches Sprachkönnen und psychische Realität. In Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (KogWis97), September 24–27, 145–147.

Edited books

Jens Fleischhauer, Anja Latrouite and Rainer Osswald (eds.). 2016. Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Studies in Language and Cognition 3. Düsseldorf University Press.
Annie Foret, Glyn Morrill, Reinhard Muskens, Rainer Osswald and Sylvain Pogodalla (eds.). 2016. Formal Grammar, 20th and 21st International Conferences, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9804. Springer.
Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen (eds.). 2015. Meaning, Frames, and Conceptual Representation, Studies in Language and Cognition 2. Düsseldorf University Press.
Glyn Morrill, Reinhard Muskens, Rainer Osswald and Frank Richter (eds.). 2014. Formal Grammar, 19th International Conference, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8612. Springer.
Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen (eds.). 2014. Frames and Concept Types, Applications in Language and Philosophy, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 94. Springer.