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About

Academic Bio

B.A. in Spanish "with Highest Distinction" and Honors in English (University of Arizona USA)
PhD in theoretical Linguistics, "Syntax and Word Formation" (Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA)
since 2007 PostDoc, English Linguistics, RWTH Aachen

Former Activities

Lecturer English (RWTH Aachen, FH Aachen)
CEO IAL Automation & Logistik GmbH, Roetgen
Research and development of mobile systems, Standard Elektrik Lorenz

Other

Committee member for RWTH Aachen for the city partnership Aachen & Arlington e.V.

 

Research Interests

English-German Translation
SFL Applications in Language Teaching
Grammatical Structures

Supervision of Bachelor/Master Theses on these or related topics

 

Projects

HumTec Boost Fund Project e-cosmos

LingUnite

ISFC 2015 (finished)

ETS Blended Learning Fördermittel: e-tests im Basismodul Sprachkompetenz (finished)

LEAR (finished)

 

Teaching

Summer Term 2018 (preliminary)

Cultural Studies: USA (Seminar)
Advanced Course B (Exercise Course)

Winter Term 2017/2018

Advanced Course B (Exercise Course)
Basic Course A (Exercise Course)
Basic Course B (Exercise Course)

 

Selected Publications

As Editor

Neumann, Stella, Rebekah Wegener, Jennifer Fest, Paula Niemietz and Nicole Hützen (eds.). 2017. Challenging Boundaries in Linguistics: Systemic Functional Perspectives. Peter Lang: FFM.

Book Chapters

Niemietz, Paula, Jonas Freiwald and Stella Neumann. 2017. "Theme and word order variation in English-German translations." In Stella Neumann, Rebekah Wegener, Jennifer Fest, Paula Niemietz and Nicole Hützen (eds.) Challenging Boundaries in Linguistics: Systemic Functional Perspectives. Peter Lang: FFM.

Serbina, Tatiana., Paula Niemietz, and Stella Neumann. 2015. "Development of a keystroke logged translation corpus." In New directions in corpus-based translation studies (Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing 1), C. Faninuoli & F. Zanettin (eds.). Berlin: Language Science Press. 11-34.

Conference Proceedings

Couto-Vale, Daniel, Stella Neumann & Paula Niemietz. 2016. "Automatic Recognition of Linguistic Replacements in Text Series Generated from Keystroke Logs." In Proceedings of the 10th LREC Conference. Portorož, Slovenia.

Serbina, Tatiana., Paula Niemietz, M. Fricke, P. Meisen, Stella Neumann. 2015. “Part of Speech Annotation of Intermediate Versions in the Keystroke Logged Translation Corpus.” In Proceedings of The 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, held in conjunction with NAACL 2015, 102–11. Denver, Colorado, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics. PDF

Vaegs, T., P. Niemietz, C. Tummel, A. Richert, C. Beecks, M. Haberstroh, M. Hassani, T. Meisen, M. Priesters, H. Vieritz, T. Seidl, I. Mittelberg, S.Neumann, S. Jeschke. 2014. "Fostering Interdisciplinary Integration in the E-Humanities." In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technology EDULEARN14, Barcelona, Spain. 2244-2251.

 

Selected Talks

"Contrastive Differences and Variation in Translation." 45th International Systemic Functional Congress. Boston College, USA, July 2018.

"On the Process of Choosing in Translational Logogenesis." European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference. University of Salamanca, Spain, July 2017.

"Lexico-grammatical Modification and its Triggers during Keytstroke logged logogenesis in Translation." European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference. University of Salzburg, Austria, July 2016.