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Education

Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics. Faculty of Letters, University of Groningen. Groningen, the Netherlands, 1983. (Promotors: Joyce Friedman and Frank Heny.)

Engineering Degree in Physics. Specialization areas: Computer Science, Information Theory, Auditory Perception. Technological University Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 1970.

Employment History

Professor of Computational Linguistics. Faculty of Humanities & Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1988 - 2010.

Visiting Professor. Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 1990.

Manager of Natural Language Group. Speech and Signal Processing Department / Artificial Intelligence Department, BBN Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 1985 - 1988.

Senior Scientist. Artificial Intelligence Department, BBN Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1984.

Visiting Professor. Artificial Intelligence Department (SWI), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1983-1984.

Research Scientist. Computer Science Department, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 1975-1983.

Research Scientist. Advanced Systems Development Department, Philips Electrologica, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. 1970-1975.

Selected Professional Activities

Advisory Board Member, NWO Pionier Project "Music Mind Machine", NICI, Nijmegen University (KUN).

Theme Group Leader "Probabilistic Natural Language Processing", NWO Priority Programme "Language and Speech Technology", 1991–2000.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Semantics, 1988–1995.

Board Member, Dutch Society for Artificial Intelligence (NVKI), 1981–1984.

    




Research Projects


     Logical semantics
     Discourse Structure
     Data-Oriented Parsing
     Gestalt Perception and Visualization
    Auditory Perception and Music


      


Publications


Arthur Elsenaar & Remko Scha: "Morphology / Face Shift". In: Dmitry Bulatov: Evolution Haute Couture. Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age. Kaliningrad, Russia: National Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2009, pp. 86-87.

Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima'an & Remko Scha: "An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language." Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore 2009.

Jasper Uylings, Arnold Smeulders & Remko Scha: "Real-time Bag of Words, Approximately." ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Santorini, Greece, 2009. [Best Paper Award.]

Jacqueline van Kampen & Remko Scha: "Modelling the steps of early syntax acquisition." In: Rens Bod & Dave Cochran (eds.): Proceedings of Exemplar-based Models of LanguageAcquisition and Use. ESSLI Workshop, Dublin, August 2007.

Remko Scha: "Kunstmatige Kunst." De Connectie 2,1 (April 2006), pp. 4-7.

Remko Scha & Jos de Bruin: "Algorithmix # 6 (Swarte Wech)." In: Cor Wetting (ed.): Passages. Leeuwarden: Sprezzatura, 2005, pp. 16-19.

Remko Scha: "Huge Harry habla acerca de lo 'Artificial'." [With English translation: "Huge Harry talks about 'Artificial'."] In: Umberto Roncoroni (ed.): Artware 3. Exposición internacional de arte digital. Galería Juan Pardo Heeren, Lima, Peru, 2005.

Remko Scha: "Wat is het medium van het denken?" In: M.B. In 't Veld & R. de Groot: Beelddenken en Begripsdenken: een Paradox? Utrecht: Agiel, 2005; pp. 18-28.

Remko Scha: "Het algoritme als kunstwerk." In: Boekman 58/59 (Spring 2004), pp. 45-51.

Detlef Prescher, Remko Scha, Khalil Sima'an & Andreas Zollmann: "On the Statistical Consistency of DOP Estimators." In: B. Decadt, V. Hoste & G. De Pauw (eds.): Proceedings of the 14th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN), Antwerp, 2004, pp. 63-77.

Mehdi Dastani and Remko Scha: "Languages for Gestalts of Line Patterns." Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Vol. 47 (2003), pp. 429-449.

Mehdi Dastani, Bipin Indurkhya and Remko Scha: "Modeling Analogical Projection in Pattern Perception." Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 15, no. 4 (2003).

Rens Bod, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an (eds.): Data-Oriented Parsing. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003 (410 pp.). Contributions by Rens Bod, Remko Bonnema, John Carroll, Jean-Cédric Chappelier, David Chiang, Ido Dagan, Guy De Pauw, Joshua Goodman, Lars Hoogweg, Aravind Joshi, Ronald Kaplan, Yuval Krymolowski, Günter Neumann, Arjen Poutsma, Martin Rajman, Anoop Sarkar, Remko Scha, Khalil Sima'an, Srinivas Bangalore, Andy Way, David Weir and Menno van Zaanen.

[Review by Dan Klein (Computational Linguistics, Vol. 30, Nr. 2, pp. 240-244).]

Rens Bod, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an: "Introduction." In: Rens Bod, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an (eds.): Data-Oriented Parsing. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003, pp. 1-9.

Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "A DOP Model for Phrase Structure Trees." In: Rens Bod, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an (eds.): Data-Oriented Parsing. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003, pp. 13-23.

Remko Bonnema and Remko Scha: "Reconsidering the Probability Model for DOP." In: Rens Bod, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an (eds.): Data-Oriented Parsing. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003, pp. 25-41.

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "Iedereen zijn eigen DJ." Automatisering Gids, June 27, 2003, p. 17.

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "Algoritmische architectuur is toegepaste toevalskunst." Automatisering Gids, April 25, 2003, p. 17.

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "Algoritmische kunst spot met museale waarden." Automatisering Gids, March 14, 2003, p. 15. [Reprinted in: Cees de Boer (ed.): Concrete Kunst & Mathematiek. Reader for an International Symposium at the Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, 25 October 2003.]

Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha: "Electric Body Manipulation asPerformance Art: A Historical Perspective." In: Nicolas Collins (ed.): Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 17-28. [Special issue on Pleasure.] Cambridge, Mass.: the MIT Press. [This paper won the 2003 "Leonardo Award for Excellence".]

Remko Scha: "Computer linguistics and music education." In: Frans Evers, Lucas van der Velden and Jan Peter van der Wenden (eds.): The Art of Programming, pp. 117-120. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press / De Balie, 2002.

Remko Scha: "Readymades, Artificial Art, New Media." In: Annette W. Balkema and Henk Slager (eds.): Exploding Aesthetics. L&B Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, Vol. 16. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001, pp. 40-47.

Remko Bonnema, Paul Buying, Remko Scha and Khalil Sima'an: "Data-Oriented Natural Language Understanding". In: Remko Scha (ed.): NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology. Final Report. The Hague: Dutch National Science Foundation NWO. May 2000, pp. 149-178.

Remko Scha (ed.): NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology. Final Report. The Hague: Dutch National Science Foundation NWO. May 2000. Contributions by Remko Bonnema, Loe Boves, Paul Buying, Danny Kersten, Esther Klabbers, Gertjan van Noort, Remko Scha, Khalil Sima'an, Jacques Terken, M. Theune, and Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten.

Remko Bonnema, Paul Buying and Remko Scha: "Parse Tree Probability in Data Oriented Parsing." In: Alexander Gelbukh (ed.): CICLing-2000 International Conference Proceedings, IPN, Mexico City, January 2000, pp. 219-232.

Remko Bonnema, Paul Buying and Remko Scha: "A New Probability Model for Data Oriented Parsing." In: Paul Dekker (ed.): Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, December 18-21, 1999, pp. 85-90.

Remko Scha, Rens Bod and Khalil Sima'an: "A Memory-Based Model of Syntactic Analysis: Data-Oriented Parsing." Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 11, 3 (July 1999), pp. 409-440. (Special Issue on Memory-Based Language Processing, edited by Walter Daelemans.)

Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "What are the Productive Units of Language Processing? Some Evidence from Data-Oriented Parsing." Proceedings International Conference on Cognitive Science 1999, Tokyo, Japan.

Huge Harry: "De programmerende aap." ["Apes that program."] Psychologie Magazine, October 1999, p. 7.

Huge Harry: "Radio for Everyone; a Computer's Reflections on the Future of Broadcasting." In: Eric Kluitenberg (ed.):  New Media Logbook KUNST.NRW.NL, pp. 28-29. Amsterdam: De Balie, September 1999. [Reprinted in: Michael Fahres and Othmar Schimmel (eds.):  Soundscapes be)for(e 2000, pp. 43-46. Amsterdam: Centre for Electronic Music, 1999.]

L. Boves, J. Terken, J. Landsbergen, R. Scha and G. van Noord: NWO Priority Programme Language & Speech Technology. Progress Report 1997-1998. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Hague, July 1999.

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "A Republic of Information Designers." In: Proceedings of Vision Plus 4, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, March 26-29, 1998, pages 14 - 25.

Remko Scha: "De Bouwkunst." In: W.J. de Ridder (ed.): "Het Nieuwe Rode Boekje. Citaten uit het werk van Mau Tse-Toeng. Citaten uit het Boek 'De Onvermijdelijke Culturele Revolutie'." Den Haag: Stichting Maatschappij en Onderneming, 1998.

Remko Scha: "Naar een Architectuur van het Toeval." In: Hans Konstapel, Gerard Rijntjes and Eric Vreedenburgh (eds.): De Onvermijdelijke Culturele Revolutie. Den Haag: Stichting Maatschappij en Onderneming, 1998, pp. 105-114. [English translation: "Towards an Architecture of Chance."]

Eric Vreedenburgh and Remko Scha: "The Artificial City." In: Flip ten Cate (ed.): De Vrije Ruimte. Nieuwe Strategieën voor de Ruimtelijke Ordening. Amsterdam: Stichting Ontwerpen voor Nederland, 1998, pp. 154-155. [In Dutch.]

Arthur Elsenaar, Huge Harry and Remko Scha: "On the Expressive Potential of the Computer Controlled Human Face." In: Hannes Leopoldseder & Christine Schoepf (eds.): Cyber Arts. International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica. Vienna / New York: Springer, 1997, pp. 134-135.

Yuri Engelhardt, Jos de Bruin, Theo Janssen and Remko Scha: "Spatial semantics: how information is encoded in the structure of graphics." In: Proceedings 1997 Conference on Computer-Human-Interaction.

Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "Data-Oriented Language Processing. An Overview." Technical Report LP-96-13, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 1997. cmp-lg/9611003.

Reprinted in: Geoffrey Sampson & Diana McCarthy (eds.): Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline. London & New York: Continuum International, 2004, pp. 304-325.

R. Bod, R.L. Bonnema, R. Koeling, G.J. van Noord and R.J.H. Scha: Cooperation Data-oriented Grammar-based Natural Language Processing, NWO Priority Programme on Language and Speech Technology, Technical Report nr. 47, Amsterdam/Groningen, 1997.

Mehdi Dastani, Remko Scha and Bipin Indurkhya: "An algebraic method for solving proportional analogy problems involving sequential patterns." In: Tony Veale (ed.): Computational Models of Creative Cognition. Dublin City University, 1997 (15 pp.).

Remko Bonnema, Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "A DOP Model for Semantic Interpretation." Proceedings 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (July 7-12, 1997, Madrid, Spain), pp. 159-167.

R. Bod and R. Scha: "Data-Oriented Language Processing", In S. Young and G. Bloothooft (eds.): Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1997. pp. 137-173.

R. Bod, R. Bonnema and R. Scha:. "Data-Oriented Semantic Interpretation", Proceedings Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics  (IWCS-II, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 1997), pp. 15-25.

Remko Scha: "Exacte Geesteswetenschappen." Athenæum Illustre, 9 (March 1997), pp. 39-43.

Huge Harry: "A Computer's View on the Future of Art and Photography." In: Si Yuill (ed.): STRUT. An Elevator Publication. Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, 1997. (First presented as a lecture at: Still Photography? The International Symposium on the Transition from Analog to Digital Imaging. University of Melbourne, April 1994.)

Remko Bonnema, Remko Scha and Rens Bod: "A Data-oriented Approach to Semantic Interpretation." Proceedings Workshop on Corpus-Oriented Semantic Analysis, ECAI-96, Budapest, Hungary, 1996. cmp-lg/9606024.

Yuri Engelhardt, Jos de Bruin, Theo Janssen and Remko Scha: 'The visual grammar of information graphics'. In: J.C.B. Damski and N.H. Narayanan (eds): Workshop Notes Visual Representation, Reasoning and Interaction in Design, Artificial Intelligence in Design '96, Stanford University.

K. Sima'an, R. Scha, R. Bonnema and R. Bod: Disambiguation and Interpretation of Wordgraphs using Data Oriented Parsing. Report #31, Probabilistic Natural Language Processing, NWO Priority Programme for Language and Speech Technology, Amsterdam, November 1996.

P. Dauvellier, E. Vreedenburgh, W. van den Kamer, R. Scha and H. Scholten: Spelregels en toeval als planningsfactoren (STAP). Rapport aan de Rijksplanologische Dienst. 1995.

Remko Scha: "George Brecht and WATER-YAM." Simulacrum 4, 2 (May 1995), pp. 16-17. [In Dutch.]

Huge Harry: "A Computational Perspective on Twenty-First Century Music." Contemporary Music Review, 14, 3 (1995), pp. 153-159. (Proceedings of the Conference "Leaving the Twentieth Century. Ideas and Visions for New Music", Bretton Hall University College, 28-30 March, 1994.)

Remko Scha and Eric Vreedenburgh: "Vers une autre Architecture." Zeezucht 7, 8 (1994), pp. 6-14. [English translation: "Towards a different architecture."]

Hub Prüst, Remko Scha and Martin van den Berg: "Discourse Grammar and Verb Phrase Anaphora." Linguistics and Philosophy 17 (1994), pp. 261-327.

Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "Prediction and Disambiguation by means of Data-Oriented Parsing." In: L. Boves and A. Nijholt (eds.): Speech and Language Processing. Universiteit Twente, Enschede, 1994, pp. 157-160.

Huge Harry: "Humans and computers; copies and creations." Artis, 's Hertogenbosch. Tools & Tales. January 30, 1994.

Khalil Sima'an, Rens Bod, Steven Krauwer and Remko Scha: "Efficient Disambiguation by means of Stochastic Tree Substitution Grammars." In: D. Jones (ed.): Proceedings of the International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing. University of Manchester, 1994, pp. 50-58.

Martin van den Berg, Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "A Corpus-Based Approach to Semantic Interpretation." In: P. Dekker and M. Stokhof (eds.): Proceedings of the Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 141-160.

[Reprinted with minor additions as Chapter 8 ("Further Extensions of DOP: Semantics, Discourse, Recency") in: Rens Bod: Enriching Linguistics with Statistics: Performance Models of Natural Language (ILLC Dissertation Series 1995-14, University of Amsterdam, 1995), and as Chapter 8 ("An experience-based model for compositional semantic representations") in: Rens Bod: Beyond Grammar: an Experience-Based Theory of Language (CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 1998).]

Remko Scha and Jan Scholtes: "OCR software only good at English." Automatisering Gids, October 1993, p. 15.

Remko Scha and Jan Scholtes: "Old optimism determines Dennett's thinking." Automatisering Gids, January 1993, p. 2. [Review of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained Away. In Dutch.]

Remko Scha and Rens Bod: "Computationele Esthetica." Informatie en Informatiebeleid 11, 1 (1993), pp. 54-63. [English translation: "Computational Esthetics."]

Rens Bod, Mehdi Dastani, Hub Prüst, Remko Scha and Henk Zeevat (eds.): HCI from a Discourse Perspective. ESPRIT report (Basic Research Action P6296). Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh University, 1993.

M. Pinkal, R. Scha and L. Schubert (eds.): Semantic Formalisms in Natural Language Processing. Dagstuhl Seminar Report 57, IFBI, Schloß Dagstuhl, Wadern, 1993.

Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "Deriving optimal network diagrams by means of structural information theory." In: Rens Bod, Mehdi Dastani, Hub Prüst, Remko Scha and Henk Zeevat (eds.): HCI from a Discourse Perspective. ESPRIT report (Basic Research Action P6296). Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh University, 1993.

Remko Scha: "On Art History." In: H. Eberson (ed.): Artificial. Trademark, Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 50-51.

Remko Scha: "Virtual Voices." Mediamatic 7, 1 (1992), pp. 27-42.

Huge Harry: "On the Role of Machines and Human Persons in the Art of the Future." Pose 8 (September 1992), pp. 30-35. [Reprinted in: P. Harmsen, E. Koppelman-Valk and M. Vredeling (eds.): Kunst en Technologie: the Beauty and the Beast? Delft: Eburon, 1992, pp. 67-73.]

Remko Scha: "The Artificial Artist." Natuur en Techniek 60, 7 (1992), pp. 526-539. [In Dutch.]

Henk Zeevat and Remko Scha: "Integrating Pragmatics into Update Semantics." In: A. Ortony, J. Slack and O. Stock (eds.): Communication from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective: Theoretical and Applied Issues. Heidelberg: Springer, 1992, pp. 17-34.

Remko Scha: "Virtuele Grammatica's en Creatieve Algoritmes." Gramma/TTT 1, 1 (1992), pp. 57-77. [Translated into English as: "Virtual Grammars and Creative Algorithms."]

Remko Scha: "Afterthoughts on Collections." In: J. van der Does (ed.): Quantification and Anaphora II, University of Edinburgh, 1991, pp. 53-58.

Remko Scha: "Computer/Language." Mediamatic 6, 2/3, 1991, p. 95. [Reprinted, with a German translation, in: Sandro Droschl, Jan Robert Leegte & Jan Maarten Voskuil (eds.): Unfinished Business. Dutch Abstracts. Vienna: Folio Verlag, 2009, p. 57.]

Remko Scha: "Taaltheorie en taaltechnologie; competence en performance." In: R. de Kort and G.L.J. Leerdam (eds.): Computertoepassingen in de Neerlandistiek. Almere: LVVN, 1990, pp. 7-22. [Translated into English as: "Language Theory and Language Technology; Competence and Performance."]

Hub Prüst and Remko Scha: "A Discourse Perspective on Verb Phrase Anaphora." In: M. Stokhof and L.Torenvliet (eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh Amsterdam Colloquium. ITLI, University of Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 451-475.

Hub Prüst and Remko Scha: "VP Ellipsis Induces Clausal Parallelism." In: R. Bok-Bennema and P. Coopmans (eds.): Linguistics in the Netherlands. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1990, pp. 123-132.

Hub Prüst and Remko Scha: "A Discourse Approach to Verb Phrase Anaphora." In: L. Carlucci Aiello (ed.): Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pitman Publishing, London, 1990.

Remko Scha: "Computer/Art/Photography." Perspektief 37 (1989), pp. 4-10.

Remko Scha: "Music and Mechanics." In: D. Raaymakers (ed.): Anti Qua Musica. The Hague: SDU, 1989, pp. 67-72. [In Dutch.]

S. Boisen, Y. Chow, A. Haas, R. Ingria, S. Roucos, R. Scha, D. Stallard, and M. Vilain: Integration of Speech and Natural Language: Final Report. Report No. 6991. Cambridge, Mass.: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation. 1989.

D. Ayuso, Y. Chow, A. Haas, R. Ingria, S. Roucos, R. Scha and D. Stallard: Integration of Speech and Natural Language. BBN Report No. 6813. April 1988.

Remko Scha: "Natural Language Interfaces." In: M. Helander (ed.): Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Amsterdam: North-Holland. 1988. Pp. 941-956.

Remko Scha and Livia Polanyi: "An Augmented Context Free Grammar for Discourse." In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Budapest, August 1988. Pp. 573-577. [PDF file, 1.5 Mb.]

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "The Interpretation of Relational Nouns." In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the ACL. Buffalo, New York. June 1988.

David Stallard and Remko Scha: "Multi-level Plurals and Distributivity." In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the ACL. Buffalo, New York. June 1988.

Remko Scha: "Artificiële Kunst." Informatie en Informatiebeleid 6, 4 (1988), pp. 73-80. Reprinted in Zeezucht 4 (1991), pp. 29-34, in HTV De IJsberg 12 (November 1996), and in Rob Wiche (ed.): Het Paradoxale van de Oneindigheid, Studium Generale, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, September 1997, pp. 77-82. [English translation: "Artificial Art."]

Remko Scha, Livia Polanyi and Bertram Bruce: "Discourse Understanding." In: S. C. Shapiro (ed.): Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1987, pp. 233-245.

Damaris Ayuso, Erhard Hinrichs and Remko Scha: "The Syntax and Semantics of the JANUS Semantic Interpretation Language." In R. Weischedel et al.: Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing Program: Annual Technical Report. December 1985 - December 1986. Report No. 6522. Cambridge, Massachusetts: BBN Laboratories, June 1987.

Remko Scha: "A.I. Research at BBN." Introduction to the COMTEX Microfiche Edition of BBN technical reports. New York: COMTEX, 1986.

Lance Ramshaw, Remko Scha and Ralph Weischedel: "Research and Development in Natural Language Processing in the Strategic Computing Program." Computational Linguistics 12, 2 (April-June 1986), pp. 132-136.

Livia Polanyi and Remko Scha: "A Syntactic Approach to Discourse Semantics." In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 2-6, 1984. [PDF file, 2.4 Mb.]

Livia Polanyi and Remko Scha: "On the Recursive Structure of Discourse." In K. Ehlich and H. van Riemsdijk (eds.): Connectedness in Sentence, Discourse and Text. Tilburg: Tilburg University, 1983. Pp. 141-178.

Livia Polanyi and Remko Scha: "The Syntax of Discourse." In: J. Hobbs (ed.): "Formal Methods in Discourse Analysis." Text, 3, 3 (1983), pp. 261-270.

Remko Scha: "Muziek in 1983." Eindhovens Dagblad, December 31, 1983.

Remko Scha: Logical Foundations for Question Answering. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Groningen, 1983. (Advisors: Joyce Friedman, Frank Heny.) M.S. 12.331, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Remko Scha: "English Words and Data Bases: How to Bridge the Gap." Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, 1982. Pp. 57-59.

John Latham (ed.): Papers and Proceedings of the discussion held at the Apollohuis Eindhoven, January 16, 1982. [Frank Gribling, John Latham, Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha, Jeffrey Shaw and others talk about art in a social context, with special reference to Latham's Artist Placement activities.]

Remko Scha: "Software." Philips Technical Review, 40, 6/7 (1981/82). Dutch translation: Philips Technisch Tijdschrift, 40, 6/7 (1981/82), pp. 155-160.

Remko Scha: "Distributive, Collective and Cumulative Quantification." In J.A.G. Groenendijk, T.M.V. Janssen, and M.B.J. Stokhof (eds.): Formal Methods in the Study of Language, Part 2. Amsterdam: Mathematisch Centrum, 1981, pp. 483-512.

[Reprinted in: J.A.G. Groenendijk, T.M.V. Janssen and M.B.J. Stokhof (eds.): Truth, Interpretation and Information. GRASS 3. Dordrecht: Foris, 1984, pp. 131-158.
Second reprint in: Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed.): Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. (Vol. III. Noun Phrase Classes.) Chapter 40. Routledge, 2003.]

Wim Bronnenberg, Harry Bunt, Jan Landsbergen, Remko Scha, Wijnand Schoenmakers and Eric van Utteren: "The Question-Answering System PHLIQA1." In: L. Bolc (ed.): Natural Language Question Answering Systems. Munich and Vienna: Hanser. London: Macmillan, 1980. Pp. 217-305.

Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha: "Formal Languages for Semantic Representation." In: S. Allèn and J.S. Petöfi (eds.): Aspects of Automatized Text Processing. Papers in Text Linguistics, 17. Hamburg: Buske, 1979.

Wim Bronnenberg, Jan Landsbergen, Remko Scha, Wijnand Schoenmakers and Eric van Utteren: "PHLIQA1, a Question-Answering System for Data-Base Consultation in Natural English." Philips Technical Review 38 (1978/79); German translation in Philips Technische Rundschau 38 (1979).

R.J.H. Scha: "A formal treatment of some aspects of quantification in English." (Abstract.) In: Preprints of the 7th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Bergen, Norway, 1978.

Remko J. H. Scha: "Visuele patronen volgens formele procedees." In:Paul Panhuysen. Schilderijen, situasies, ordeningssystemen en omgevingsontwerpen. Exhibition Catalogue. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1978, pp. 38-59.

[English translation by Lucas Van Beeck: "Visual patterns according to formal procedures." In: Paul Panhuysen (ed.): Number Made Visible. The story of the magic square of 8 by Benjamin Franklin. Eindhoven: Het Apollohuis / Breda: Tijdschrift # 11, 1997.]

Remko Scha: "Philips Question-Answering System PHLIQA1." ACM Sigart Newletter, 61, 1977.

Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha: "An Outline of the Question Answering System PHLIQA1." Proceedings of the Workshop Logic and Data Bases. ONERA-CERT, Toulouse. November, 1977.

Remko Scha: "Semantic Types in PHLIQA1." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Ottawa, 1976.

Remko Scha: "A Formal Language for Semantic Representation." In L. Steels (ed.): Proceedings of the Workshop Advances in Natural Language Processing. University of Antwerp, October, 1976.

Piet Medema, Wim Bronnenberg, Harry Bunt, Jan Landsbergen, Remko Scha, Wijnand Schoenmakers and Eric van Utteren: "PHLIQA1: Multilevel Semantics in Question Answering." AJCL Microfiche 32, 1975.

Paul B.M. Panhuysen, Jan Lanting and Remko J.H. Scha: "Situasies." Museumjournaal 12, 7 (1967).

R.J.H. Scha: Impulsreeksen met onregelmatige intervallen IV. De juist waarneembare vertraging van één enkele puls. [Pulse trains with irregular intervals IV. The just noticeable delay of one pulse.] Eindhoven: Institute for Perception Research IPO, Report no. 102, June 1967.

R.J.H. Scha: Experimenten over de getalwaarde van het subjectief octaaf. [Experiments on the size of the subjective octave.] Eindhoven: Institute for Perception Research IPO, Report no. 101, June 1967.


      



Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised


Dik Bakker: Formal and Computational Aspects of Functional Grammar and Language Typology. March 17, 1994. (Promotors: Simon Dik, Harm Pinkster and Remko Scha.) Amsterdam: IFOTT, Studies in Language and Language Use 5.

Markwin J. van den Berg: Aspects of a Formal Theory of Music Cognition. September 30, 1996. (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Martin H. van den Berg: Some Aspects of the Internal Structure of Discourse; The Dynamics of Nominal Anaphora. March 7, 1996. (Promotors: Johan van Benthem and Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Jaap van der Does.) ILLC Dissertation Series 1996-3.

Rens Bod: Enriching Linguistics with Statistics: Performance Models of Natural Language. 1995. (Promotor: Remko Scha.) ILLC Dissertation Series 1995-14.

Hannah Bosma: The Electronic Cry. Voice and Gender in Electroacoustic Music. December 11, 2013. (Promotors: Rokus de Groot and Remko Scha.)

Jet van Dam van Isselt: "Her name is – uh dat weet ik niet"; Authenticity in the L2 Classroom. August 27, 1993. (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Mohammad Mehdi Dastani: Languages of Perception. December 9, 1998. ILLC Dissertation Series 1998-05. (Promotors: Remko Scha and Peter van Emde Boas. Co-promotor: Bipin Indurkhya.)

Crist-Jan Doedens: Text Databases. One Database Model and Several Retrieval Languages. Utrecht University, OTS. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. (Promotors: Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha.)

Joris Dormans: Engineering Emergence. Applied Theory for Game Design. January 13, 2012. (Promotor: R. Scha. Co-promotor: j. Brunekreef.)

Jörg von Engelhardt: The Language of Graphics. A framework for the analysis of syntax and meaning in maps, charts and diagrams. September 13, 2002. ILLC Dissertation Series 2002-03. (Promotors: Remko Scha and Peter van Emde Boas.)

Henk Harmsen: These are the words. Procedures for computer-assisted syntactical parsing and actant analysis of biblical Hebrew texts. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Theology. (Promotor: E. Talstra; co-promotors: R. Scha and N. van Uchelen.) 1998.

Christiane ten Hoopen: Perceptions of Sound; Source, Cause and Human Presence in Electroacoustic Music. April 21, 1997. (Promotors: Remko Scha and Rembrandt Wolpert.)

Gabriel Infante-Lopez: Two-level probabilistic grammars for Natural Language Parsing. 2005. (Promotor: Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Maarten de Rijke.)

Samson Tikitu de Jager: "Now that you mention it, I wonder..." Awareness, Attention, Assumption. December 15, 2009. (Promotor: Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Robert van Rooij.) ILLC Dissertation Series Ds-2009-10.

Kwee Tjoe Liong: Programmer's Reflections on Functional Grammar; More Exercises in Computational Theoretical Linguistics. June 13, 1994. (Promotors: Simon Dik and Remko Scha.) Amsterdam: IFOTT, Studies in Language and Language Use, Vol. 8.

Olivia Ladinig: Temporal Expectations and their Violations. October 27, 2009. (Promotor: Remko Scha; co-promotor: Henkjan Honing.) ILLC Dissertation Series DS-2009-09.

Noor van Leusen: Description Grammar for Discourse. December 5, 2007. (Promotors: Rob van der Sandt and Remko Scha.) Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

Christof Monz: From Document Retrieval to Question Answering. December 11, 2003. (Promotors: Franciska de Jong and Remko Scha; co-promotor: Maarten de Rijke.)

Lodewijk Muns: Classical Music and the Language Analogy. January 2014. Philosophische Fakultät III, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. (Gutachter: Hermann Danuser and Remko Scha.)

Markos Mylonakis: Learning the Latent Structure of Translation. January 19, 2012. (Promotor: Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Khalil Sima'an.) ILLC Dissertation Series DS-2012-02.

Hub Prüst: On Discourse Structuring, VP Anaphora and Gapping. December 3, 1992. (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Jan Rietveld: OROC. Online Record linking in Online Catalogues; mogelijkheden om het zoeken op onderwerp te verbeteren. January 20, 1993. (Promotors: A. Kouwenhoven and R. Scha.)

Kirsten Romijn: Hoe doen we het? Verwijzen naar linguistische en cognitieve representaties met het voornaamwoord het. November 29, 1996. Amsterdam: P.J. Meertens-Instituut. (Publicaties van het P.J. Meertens-Instituut, Vol. 27.) (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Jan Scholtes: Neural Networks in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. January 21, 1993. (Promotor: Remko Scha)

Khalil Sima'an: Learning Efficient Disambiguation. March 31, 1999. Utrecht University, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. ILLC Dissertation Series 1999-02. (Promotors: Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha.) FoLLI 2000 Dissertation Award.

Reut Tsarfaty: Relational-Realizational Parsing. March 24, 2010. (Promotor: Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Khalil Sima'an.) ILLC Dissertation Series DS-2010-01.

Jasper Uijlings: The What and Where in Visual Object Recognition. December 7, 2011. (Promotor: Arnold Smeulders. Co-promotor: Remko Scha.)

Dejuan Wang: Studies on the Formal Semantics of Pictures. January 17, 1995. ILLC Dissertation Series 1995-04. (Promotor: Remko Scha. Co-promotor: John Lee.)


    



Selected M.A./M.Sc. Theses Supervised


Michiel E. Baneke: Music Genre Analysis for Algorithmic Composition. University of Amsterdam, 2007.

Remko Bonnema: Data-Oriented Semantics. Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 1996.

Rutger Bückmann: Algoritmische Trance. Een generatief algoritme voor housemuziek. M.Sc. Cognitive A.I., University of Utrecht, 2002. [Supervisors: Remko Scha and Harald Kunst.]

Lars Hoogweg: Extending DOP1 with the insertion operation. Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 2000.

Mike de Kreek: Language Acquisition and Virtual Grammars. On the continuity of cognition. Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 2003.

Joram Schaap: Evolution and Games. (Working with the Formless City.) University of East-London, School of Architecture, 1995.

Andrea Schuch: EBMT Based upon Two-Dimensional Alignment. M.Sc. A.I., University of Amsterdam, 2010. [Supervisors: Anouk Perquin & Remko Scha.]

R.J.M. Verkoulen: Procesmuziek. Een Bronnenonderzoek. M.A. Musicology, University of Amsterdam. [Supervisors: Leigh Landy, Remko Scha and Alcedo Coenen.]

Daan Vreeswijk: Smooth DOP. Creating a DOP Estimator using Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Smoothing. M.Sc. A.I., University of Amsterdam, 2007.

Jakub Zavrel: Neural Information Retrieval. An Experimental Study of Clustering and Browsing of Document Collections with Neural Networks. Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 1995. Research carried out at MSC Information Retrieval Technologies B.V., Amsterdam, in a project directed by Dr. J.C. Scholtes.




Interviews


Anon.: "Computer: droge gesprekspartner." Eindhovens Dagblad, February 1983.

Anon.: "Met een dosis nuchterheid solide vraag-antwoordsystemen ontwerpen." Philips Koerier, 39, 17 (February 24), 1983, p. 2.

Anon.: "Phliqa project." Philips News, April 18, 1983.

Peter-Arno Coppen: "Interview met drie hoogleraren computerlinguïstiek." Onze Taal, 70, 11, pp. 288-290. Herdrukt in: TINFON. Tijdschrift voor informatica-onderwijs.11, 1 (2002), pp. 20-22.

Antje von Graevenitz: "Het museum als een thuis voor de kunst. Tien kunstenaars spreken zich uit over het museum." Wonen-TABK July 1984 (# 12-13), pp. 52-57.

Susan Krieger and Barbara Terhal: "Een goede componist heeft het vermogen zelf een natuurverschijnsel te zijn." Stroom 6, 30 (February 1993), pp. 2-8.

Sjaak Priester: "Denkende computers? De kwestie is dat we er gewoon nog geen bal van begrijpen." Folia 42, 29 (March 17, 1989), pp. 7/9.

Benoît Schaaf: "Remko Scha, hoogleraar Alfa-Informatica." In: Ta! (Nederlands studententijdschrift voor computationele linguistiek) 1, 2 (1993).

Hans Sleurink: "Beleidsbrief Mediawijsheid veel te defensief." Staatscourant, Augustus 2009.

J. Sp.: "In de pen: computermuziek." Folia 46, 14 (November 20, 1992), p. 8.

Niels Wiedenhof: "Alfa-informatica voor toevalskunst, maar ook voor zakelijke software-ontwikkeling. Prof. dr. ir. Remko Scha's nieuwe weg voor kunst en taal." Cursor 34, 32 (April 16, 1992), pp. 12/13.


     





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