Publications

For a mixture of pre-publication versions and unpublished material not contained in the listing below, see Frank's Scholarly Jumble Box.

2025

  • Dirk Buschbom, Pascal Hohmann, Nicolas Lamoure, Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: NPI Bank (DB 20251031_001 v1.0.0, GUI v1.1.0). SFB 1629 Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)

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2015

2014

  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Idiome mit phraseologisierten Teilsätzen: Eine Fallstudie zur Formalisierung von Konstruktionen im Rahmen der HPSG.
    In: Alexander Lasch & Alexander Ziem (eds): Grammatik als Netzwerk von Konstruktionen. Sprachwissen im Fokus der Konstruktionsgrammatik. de Gruyter, Berlin, Boston. pp. 291-312, doi:10.1515/9783110353693.291
  • Glyn Morrill, Reinhard Muskens, Rainer Osswald & Frank Richter (eds): Formal Grammar. 19th International Conference, FG 2014, Tübingen, Germany, August 16-17, 2014. Proceedings.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8612. Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44121-3
  • Laura Kallmeyer & Frank Richter: Quantifiers in Frame Semantics. In: Glyn Morrill, Reinhard Muskens, Rainer Osswald & Frank Richter (eds): Formal Grammar, 19th International Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8612. Springer-Verlag. pp. 69-85, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44121-3_5
  • Jennifer Spenader, Frank Richter & Janina Radó: Experimental Investigations of Licensing Environments for NPIs in English. In: Jack Hoeksema & Dicky Gilbers (eds): Black Book. A Festschrift in Honor of Frans Zwarts. University of Groningen, pp. 301-310

2013

  • Guram Bezhanishvili, Sebastian Löbner, Vincenzo Marra & Frank Richter (eds): 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2011. Kutaisi, Georgia, September 2011. Revised and Selected Papers.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7758. Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-36976-6
  • Johannes Dellert, Kilian Evang & Frank Richter: A Hybrid Trace-Based and Chart-Based Debugging System for Grammar Engineering.
    In: Denys Duchier, Yannick Parmentier (eds): Rapport de Recherche. High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering. ESSLLI 2013 Workshop. LIFO, Université d'Orléans, RR-2013-07, pp. 75-86
    [DellertEvangRichter13.pdf]

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2007

  • Frank Richter & Laura Kallmeyer: Feature Logic-based Semantic Composition: A Comparison between LRS and LTAG
    In: Anders Søgaard, Petter Haugereid (eds): Postproceedings of The 1st International Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars. CST Working Papers, No. 7, København, Denmark. pp. 31-83
  • Frank Richter (2007): Closer to the Truth: A New Model Theory for HPSG
    In: James Rogers and Stephan Kepser (eds): Model-Theoretic Syntax at 10. pp. 101-110
    (Workshop Proceedings of MTS@10, organized as part of ESSLLI'07 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland)
  • Ekaterina Ovchinnikova & Frank Richter (2007): Morph Moulder: Teaching Software for HPSG and Description Logics
    Journal of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logic 15(4), pp. 333-345, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/jigpal/jzm024
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer (eds): Journal of Research on Language & Computation, Volume 5, Number 4. Special Issue on Semantic Compositionality: Introduction, pp. 387-390, doi:10.1007/s11168-007-9042-2

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2003

  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar
    In: Claire Beyssade, Olivier Bonami, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, and Francis Corblin (eds): Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 4. Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris. pp. 155-171
  • Frank Richter: Erfahrungen bei der Erstellung des Web-basierten Kurses 'Grammar Formalisms and Parsing'
    In: Sprache und Datenverarbeitung. International Journal for Language Data Processing Vol. 27(1-2): pp. 95-111.

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Talks

2026

  • Frank Richter: Can Grammars Talk? Conversational agents as operators of linguistic theory laboratories.
    Talk at the workshop Grammar in the Age of Large Language Models in Ullensvang, Norway, July 30th.
  • Frank Richter: AI as Research Infrastructure: LLMs, Coding Agents and Linguistics.
    Talk in the MGK Colloquium at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, July 1st.
  • Frank Richter: What are Negative Polarity Items? Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, March 11th.

2022

  • Frank Richter: Recursive adjectival modification in CLLRS. Invited talk at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, June 7th.

2020

2018

  • Frank Richter: Computational semantics: Representations and reasoning. Invited talk at the Symposium on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2018 at the Department of Mathematics and Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden (August 28-31). August 31st.
  • Frank Richter: The Constraint Language for LRS. A quick tour. Talk at the 5th European Workshop on HPSG in Frankfurt, Germany. June 2nd.
  • Manfred Sailer & Frank Richter: Negation marking in conjuncts: A many-to-one relation? Talk at Workshop 4: One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax and semantics, at the 40th Annual DGfS Meeting, March 7-9, in Stuttgart, Germany. March 9th.
  • Sascha Bargmann, Berit Gehrke, Frank Richter: How to modify idioms. Talk at Workshop 4: One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax and semantics, at the 40th Annual DGfS Meeting, March 7-9, in Stuttgart, Germany. March 8th.
  • Sascha Bargmann, Berit Gehrke, Frank Richter: How to modify idioms. Talk at the 19th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, February 23-26, Poland. February 26th.

2017

2016

  • Frank Richter: Categorematic Unreducible Polyadic Quantifiers in Lexical Resource Semantics. Talk at HeadLex16 in Warsaw, Poland. July 25th.
  • Monica-Mihaela Rizea, Gianina Iordăchioaia & Frank Richter: Negative-polarity Multiword Expressions (NPMWEs). Interpreting Corpus Results and Enriching a Multilingual Resource. Poster at the PARSEME 7th General Meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia. September 26th.
  • Monica-Mihaela Rizea, Gianina N. Iordăchioaia & Frank Richter: A Collocational Approach to Romanian Strong Negative Polarity Items. Talk at the 12th International Conference Linguistic Resources and Tools for Processing the Romanian Language in Mălini, Romania. October 28th.
  • Monica-Mihaela Rizea, Gianina Iordăchioaia & Frank Richter: A Corpus-based Analysis of Negative Polarity Idiomatic Expressions. Poster at the workshop Current Trends in Figurative Language Research in Tübingen, Germany. December 9th.

2015

  • Frank Richter: Henkin Semantics for Reasoning with Natural Language. Invited talk (based on Hahn & Richter, 2015) at the Workshop on Grammar Development, Beit Daniel, Zichron Ya'akov, Israel. June 23rd.
  • Janina Radó & Frank Richter: Complex Sluicing and Focus. Invited talk at the Workshop on Grammar Development, Beit Daniel, Zichron Ya'akov, Israel. June 24th.

2014

  • Frank Richter: A Syntax Semantics Interface for Unreducible Polyadic Quantifiers. Presentation in the Computational Linguistics Colloquium at Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. January 9th.
  • Manfred Sailer, Frank Richter & Beata Trawiński: Expressions with Bound Words. Linguistic Resource and Relevance for PARSEME. Poster presentation at the PARSEME 2nd general meeting in Athens, Greece. March 10th-11th.
  • Laura Kallmeyer & Frank Richter: Quantifiers in Frame Semantics. Talk at Formal Grammar 2014 in Tübingen, Germany. August 16th-17th.
  • Frank Richter: Commentary on Sarah Zobel's talk On the non-uniformity of pronouns: 1st sg, 2nd sg, and impersonal pronouns at Pronouns@Tübingen 2 in Tübingen, Germany. November 7th-9th.
  • Frank Richter: Polyadic "same" and "different". Talk at the 2nd European Workshop on HPSG in Paris, France. November 17th-18th.
  • Manfred Sailer & Frank Richter: Idiomatic Negation Marking: The Case of German "den Teufel tun". Talk at Current Trends in Language Technology and Linguistic Modeling, associated event to TLT 13. Tübingen, Germany. December 11th.

2013

  • Frank Richter: Lexical Resource Semantics: Computation. Presentation in Bob Levine and Manfred Sailer's course Lexical Resource Semantics: Where empirical grounding meets computational tractability in the syntax/semantics interface at ESSLLI 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany. August 9th.
  • Johannes Dellert, Kilian Evang, Frank Richter: A Hybrid Trace-Based and Chart-Based Debugging System for Grammar Engineering. Workshop on High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering @ ESSLLI 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany. August 12th.
  • Frank Richter: 87, 94, 14? The Nature of Linguistic Theory. Invited talk, 20th Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Berlin, Germany. August 22nd.
  • Frank Richter: Green Twigs and the Value of Chanterelles: NPI Licensing in Certain Embedded Clauses. Invited talk, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany. October 1st.

2012

  • Frank Richter: What Is Constraint-Based Semantics Good for? Invited talk, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. March 22nd.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Lexical Effects of Raising Modals on Resolving the Scope of Strong Quantifiers. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. May 12th.
  • Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer & Beata Trawiński: Ein Forschungsportal an der Lexikon-Grammatik-Schnittstelle. GAL-Kongress 2012, Universität Erlangen, Germany. September 19th.

2011

  • Frank Richter: Redundancy and Identity in Semantic Theory and Computation. Invited talk at the Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation in Kutaisi, Georgia. September 27th.
  • Frank Richter: Eine Implementierungsplattform für constraintbasierte modelltheoretische Semantik (An Implementation Platform for Constraint-based Model-Theoretic Semantics). Invited talk, Universität Osnabrück, Germany. October 26th.

2010

  • Frank Richter: Grammatiktheorie und Grammatikimplementierung (Grammar Theory and Grammar Implementation). Two day workshop, Universität Göttingen, Germany. January 21st and 22nd.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Phraseologisierte Teilsätze: Modellierung von partieller Fixiertheit und Flexibilität in nichtlokalen Strukturen. Talk at Konstruktionsgrammatik: Neue Perspektiven zur Untersuchung des Deutschen und Englischen, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany. February 18th.
  • Frank Richter: Modelltheoretische Syntax (Model-Theoretic Syntax). Two day workshop, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. March 24th and 25th.
  • Fabienne Fritzinger, Frank Richter & Marion Weller: Pattern-Based Extraction of Negative Polarity Items from Dependency-Parsed Text. LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta. May 19th.
  • Frank Richter: Lexikalisierte Modelltheoretische Semantik mit Merkmalslogik: Grundideen und Anwendung anhand von Lexical Resource Semantics (Lexicalized Model-Theoretic Semantics in Feature Logic). Invited talk, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. June 2nd.
  • Frank Richter: What is a feature structure, and what does it mean? Invited talk at the workshop on formal frame theories, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. June 26th.
  • Johannes Dellert, Kilian Evang & Frank Richter: Kahina, a Debugging Framework for Logic Programs and TRALE. Poster at the 17th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Paris, France. July 9th.

2009

  • Frank Richter: Negative Polarity Items as Collocations. From Theory to Implementation. Workshop on Grammar Theory and Grammar Implementation, FU Berlin. April 17th.
  • Frank Richter & Janina Radó: Negative Polarity Items and Idiomatic Expressions: Data, Theory and Psycholinguistic Evidence. Talk at the Nyelvtudományi Intézet of the Magyar Tudományos Akadémia in Budapest, Hungary. June 4th.
  • Frank Richter: Tretende Pferde und pfeifende Schweine (Kicking Horses and Whisteling Pigs). Talk in Gerhard Jäger and Wolfgang Sternefeld's Oberseminar at the Universität Tübingen, July 6th.
  • Manfred Sailer & Frank Richter: Phraseological Clauses as Constructions in HPSG. Talk at the 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Göttingen, Germany. July 18th.
  • Gianina Iordăchioaia & Frank Richter: Negative Concord in Romanian as Polyadic Quantification. Talk at the 16th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Göttingen, Germany. July 18th.
  • Gianina Iordăchioaia & Frank Richter: A Typological View on Negative Concord as Polyadic Quantification. Talk at the Cogeti Workshop in Tübingen, Germany. October 9th.
  • Frank Richter & Kilian Evang: Neues von TRALE. Talk at the Cogeti Workshop in Tübingen, Germany. October 9th.
  • Frank Richter: Zur Modellierung Negativ Polärer Elemente (On Modeling Negative Polarity Items). Invited talk, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. October 28th.

2008

  • Frank Richter: Does it Compute? NPIs, Negative Concord, and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Invited talk, University at Buffalo, USA. January 28th.
  • Frank Richter: Lexical Resource Semantics: Combinatorics, Selection, and Computation. Invited talk, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Bordeaux, France. March 10th.
  • Frank Richter: LRS und CLLRS: Von der Semantik zur computationellen Semantik (LRS and CLLRS: From Semantics to Computational Semantics). Invited talk, Universität Bonn, Germany. May 2nd.
  • Beata Trawiński, Manfred Sailer, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Lothar Lemnitzer & Frank Richter: Cranberry Expressions in English and in German. Talk at the LREC 2008 workshop Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008) in Marrakech, Morocco. June 1st.
  • Beata Trawiński, Jan-Philipp Soehn, Manfred Sailer & Frank Richter: A Multilingual Electronic Database of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Lexical Items. Poster presentation at EURALEX 2008 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. July 18th.
  • Frank Richter, Janina Radó & Manfred Sailer Negative Polarity Items: Corpus Linguistics, Semantics and Psycholinguistics. One week course at the 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information in Hamburg, Germany, from August 4th through August 15th.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Simple Trees with Complex Semantics: On Epistemic Modals and Strong Quantifiers. Talk at the ESSLLI'08 workshop What Syntax Feeds Semantics in Hamburg, Germany. August 14th.
  • Frank Richter: Constraint-based Computational Semantics: Connecting Syntax, Semantics and Implementation. Invited talk, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. October 24th.
  • Frank Richter: Constraintbasierte Computationelle Semantik (Constraint-based Computational Semantics). Invited talk, Universität Stuttgart, Germany. November 24th.

2007

  • Frank Richter: Constraintbasierte Computationelle Semantik (Constraint-based Computational Semantics). Invited talk, Universität Bielefeld, Germany. March 22nd.
  • Frank Richter & Gerald Penn: Scaling up with Lexical Resource Semantics. Talk at the workshop Current Trends in Teaching Computational Linguistics in Freudenstadt (June 18th-22nd), Germany. June 21st.
  • Frank Richter: Closer to the Truth: A New Model Theory for HPSG. Talk at the ESSLLI'07 workshop Model Theoretic Syntax at 10 at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. August 17th.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Neg Raising, Negative Polarity Items, and Underspecification. Talk at the workshop on Theoretical and Computational Perspectives on Underspecification in Stuttgart, Germany. November 2nd.

2006

  • Frank Richter & Laura Kallmeyer: Typed feature structures for semantic composition: a comparison between LRS and LTAG. Talk at the Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars at the 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics in Aalborg, Denmark. June 20th.
  • Laura Kallmeyer & Frank Richter: LTAG and LRS: Worlds, Situations, Events. Presentation at the Semantics Workshop Tübinger Welten, Ereignisse, Situationen und Zeiten in Tübingen. June 23rd.
  • Laura Kallmeyer & Frank Richter: Constraint-based Computational Semantics: A Comparison between LTAG and LRS. Poster at TAG+8. The Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms in Sydney, Australia. July 15th-16th.
  • Frank Richter & Laura Kallmeyer: Constraint-based Computational Semantics: LTAG and LRS. Tutorial at HPSG 2006. The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Varna, Bulgaria. July 24th. [Slides]
  • Frank Richter & Jan-Philipp Soehn: Braucht niemanden zu scheren: NPI Licensing in German. Workshop contribution to HPSG 2006. The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Varna, Bulgaria. July 25th.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Modelling Typological Markedness in Semantics: The Case of Negative Concord. Talk at HPSG 2006. The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar in Varna, Bulgaria. July 26th.
  • Ekaterina Ovchinnikova & Frank Richter: Morph Moulder: Graphical Software for Teaching and Visualizing RSRL and Description Logics. Talk at the Second International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic in Salamanca, Spain. September 27th.
  • Frank Richter: Über eine typologische Theorie des Negative Concord in LRS nach CLLRS: Linguistische Theoriebildung und computerlinguistische Implementierung (From a Typological Theory of Negative Concord in LRS to CLLRS: Linguistic Theory and Computational Implementation). Invited talk, Universität Zürich, Switzerland. November 27th.

2005

  • Frank Richter: Semantische Komposition und Satznegation. Invited talk at the Institut für germanistische Sprachwissenschaft of the Universität Jena, Germany, on January 13th.
  • Frank Richter: The Trale system and the LRS implementation in Trale. Invited talk at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, January 21st.
  • Frank Richter: E-learning in Linguistics: Developing and Teaching `Grammar Formalisms and Parsing'. Invited talk at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, June 6th.
  • Frank Richter & Janina Radó: Schinkenbrötchen, roh, vollkorn, 2 Euro 80 - An LRS Analysis. Talk given at the 2nd International Workshop on Constraint-Based Grammar at the Universität Bremen, Germany (July 12th-13th, 2005), on July 13th.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to Strict Compositionality. A one week workshop held at the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information in Edinburgh, Scotland, from August 8th through August 19th.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Zum Kompositionalitätsprinzip in der Semantik (On the Principle of Compositionality in Semantics) and Einführung in LRS (Introduction to LRS). Two presentations belonging to a 4 hour tutorial on current issues in semantics. Universität Bochum, Germany, October 1st.
  • Frank Richter & Gerald Penn: Scaling up with Lexical Resource Semantics. Talk at the Workshop on Semantic Processing, Logic and Cognition in Tübingen, Germany, November 24th - 26th.

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2000

  • Valia Kordoni & Frank Richter: A Comparison of LFG and HPSG. A two week course given at the 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information in Birmingham, England, from August 6th through August 18th.
  • Valia Kordoni & Frank Richter: A Comparison of LFG and HPSG. Course given at the CLaRK Summer School in Sozopol, Bulgaria, August 25th through September 8th 2000.
  • Frank Richter & Manfred Sailer: Three kinds of ``underspecified semantics'' in HPSG. Talk delivered to the workshop on Linguistic Data Structures: Theoretical, Methodological, Descriptive Issues of the University of Tübingen and the University of Pennsylvania in Tübingen on December 19th, 2000.

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