
Damir Cavar
Associate Professor, Computational Linguistics
Associate Professor, Computational Linguistics
I am working in linguistics for the last 15 years. My work was in the area of theoretical linguistics, as well as in corpus and computational linguistics, speech and language technology, and psycholinguistics. After my PhD I focused mainly on speech and language technologies, corpora and NLP. In 2010 my wife and I got positions at the University of Konstanz, and from there moved to Michigan, taking over the Institute for Language Information and Technology that hosted The LINGUIST List and various research projects. In 2014 we successfully relocated to Indiana University. Most of my work on language and computation is related to language-related Cognitive Science research, and as for the computational and corpus work, it at least facilitates it. My current projects include: The implementation of an LFG-parser (Lexical Functional Grammar); the implementation of a Parallel Processing Parser as described in Jackendoff’s “The Architecture of the Language Faculty”; the development of a speech corpus infrastructure and speech corpora from as many languages as possible, enough to generate not only acoustic and language models for Forced Aligners and Speech Recognizers, but also for the generation of part-of-speech tagged corpora, parsed and syntactically, semantically and pragmatically annotated corpora, see http://gorilla.linguistlist.org/about/; various other projects relating to visualization of linguistic theories, geographical mapping of language data and information, data and technologies for low-resourced and under-documented languages.
Distributed deletion (2002)
Gisbert Fanselow and Damir Cavar
Theoretical approaches to universals, 65-107
Long head movement? Verb movement and cliticization in Croatian (1994)
Chris Wilder and Damir Ćavar
Lingua, 93 (1), Jan-58
Remarks on the economy of pronunciation (2001)
Gisbert Fanselow and Damir Cavar
Competition in syntax, 107-150
Word order variation, verb movement, and economy principles (1994)
Chris Wilder and Damir Ćavar
Studia linguistica, 48 (1), 46-86
``Clitic Third''in Croatian (1993)
Damir Cavar and Chris Wilder
Long Head Movement?: Verb-movement and Cliticization in Croatian (1994)
Damir Ćavar and Chris Wilder
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt aM, Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur II. (7),
Optimal parsing: Syntactic parsing preferences and optimality theory (1999)
Gisbert Fanselow, Matthias Schlesewsky, Damir Cavar and Reinhold Kliegl
Discontinuous constituents in Slavic and Germanic languages (2000)
Damir Ćavar and Gisbert Fanselow
University of Hamburg and University of Potsdam,
Children's sensitivity to word-order violations in German: Evidence for very early parameter-setting (1998)
Jürgen Weissenborn, Barbara Höhle, Dorothea Kiefer and Damir Ćavar
Split constituents in Germanic and Slavic (1997)
Damir Ćavar and Gisbert Fanselow
International Conference on Pied-Piping, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena,
On cliticization in Croatian: Syntax or prosody? (1996)
Damir Cavar
Aspects of the syntax-phonology interface (1999)
Damir Ćavar
Clitic third in Croatian (1999)
Damir Ćavar and Chris Wilder
Clitics in the languages of Europe. Berlin: de Gruyter, 429-467
Learning Arabic morphology using statistical constraint-satisfaction models (2007)
Paul Rodrigues and Damir Cavar
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE SERIES 4, 289 63
Alignment based induction of morphology grammar and its role for bootstrapping (2004)
Damir Ćavar, Joshua Herring, Toshikazu Ikuta, Paul Rodrigues and Giancarlo Schrementi