Welcome!
I am a PhD student in computational linguistics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. My name is pronounced like this: [ɛstər za͜ɪfərt]
My CV is available here.
Please note: Throughout 2021, I will be working on my PhD thesis. This means that I will be unavailable for email correspondence or meetings on Wednesdays and Fridays. If you need to speak with me urgently, feel free to either contact me outside these days or give me a phone call.
I work in the DFG-financed project Unüberwachte Induktion von Ereignisframes: Hierarchische Beziehungen und komplexe Strukturen in Ereignistypen (F-Ind), together with Prof. Laura Kallmeyer and Dr Younes Samih. The project is concerned with unsupervised semantic frame induction for several languages. It grew out of the DFG-financed SFB 991, project B08, which ended in 2020.
My research focus is on verb alternations and how they relate to (and complicate) frame induction. My thesis is advised by Prof. Laura Kallmeyer, Dr Rainer Osswald, and Dr Kilian Evang.
I'm currently available for supervising Bachelor's or Master's theses for students in the Linguistics or Computational Linguistics programs at HHU. Contact me if you're interested!
In my teaching, I follow a set of guidelines detailed here (in German) and here (in English). If you participate in one of my classes, please read this document at least once and make sure you've understood everything in it.
In 2019, my colleague Benjamin Burkhardt and I received the Heinrich Heine University's €10,000 e-learning award "hein@ward" for our class "Einführung in die Computerlinguistische Programmierung mit Python".
Where to find me
Have you met me? Are you going to? Check out my Events page to see if we've been to the same place at the same time.
Contact details
Email: seyffarth@phil.uni-duesseldorf.de
Until further notice, I will not be spending time in my office on campus. Members of HHU can reach me via RocketChat. My preferred video call platforms are 1. WebEx, 2. Jitsi Meet, 3. Zoom.