Rachel Fournier's  Curriculum Vitæ



     Education

 

2002-2008

PhD in Linguistics at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands

1991-1998

Master's degree in German Linguistics and Literature (major: Linguistics; minors: Literature and Computer Science) at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, with two semesters at FU Berlin, Germany.
Master's thesis on the use of prosody in automatic speech recognition (Prosodie als Hilfsmittel für die automatische Spracherkennung)

1985-1990

Primary school teacher training at the Ecole Normale du Valais Romand in Sion, Switzerland


Additional Courses

July-Aug. 2001

Mandarin Chinese course at the Beijing Language and Culture University in Beijing, China

Aug. 1994

Spanish course in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Sept.-Dec. 1990

German course  (Deutschkurs für Ausländer bei der Universität München) in Munich, Germany



     Work Experience

 

Jan. 2008 -

Postdoc at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands: investigating Regional variation in the intonation of Dutch

July  2002 - Oct. 2002

Research assistant at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands: programming in Praat (small tools for linguistic corpus analysis)

Dec. 1999 - Aug. 2000

PC teacher at Lloyds TSB Bank in Zurich, Switzerland (part-time: 30%): courses and support on MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) to about 50 employees of the bank.

Mar. 1999 - June 2000

Research assistant in the Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (part-time: 60%): systematic evaluation of an experimental answer extraction system, a tool designed to process and retrieve information written in natural language.

Oct. 1996 -  June 1997

Teaching assistant in the Department of  Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland: redaction and correction of exercises on automatic speech recognition.

 

     Skills

 

Languages

French (mother tongue), German (fluent), English (fluent), Dutch (fluent), Spanish (good), Italian (basic), Mandarin Chinese (very basic)

Programming /
Scripting languages

Pascal, LISP, Prolog, Perl, Praat, Csh



     Publications

 

  • Fournier, R. (2008): Perception of the tone contrast in East Limburgian dialects. PhD Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (= LOT Dissertation series 196).
  • Fournier, R., J. Verhoeven, M. Swerts & C. Gussenhoven (2006): Perceiving word prosodic contrasts as a function of sentence prosody in two Dutch Limburgian dialects. Journal of Phonetics Phonetics, 34, 29-48.
  • Fournier, R., J. Verhoeven, M. Swerts & C.  Gussenhoven (2004): Prosodic and segmental cues to the perception of grammatical number in two Limburgian dialects of  Dutch. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan, 713-716.
  • Mollá, D., R. Schwitter, M. Hess, R. Fournier (2000): ExtrAns, an Answer Extraction System. T.A.L., special issue on Information Retrieval oriented Natural Language Processing, 495-522.
  • Schwitter, R., D. Mollá, R. Fournier, & M. Hess (2000): Answer Extraction: Towards better Evaluations of NLP Systems. Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems. ANLP-NAACL, Seattle, Washington, 20-27.

 

    


Last update: 20.10.2008