Dr. Frederik Hartmann
University of North Texas
Linguistics
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Education

PhD, The University of Konstanz - Germany, 2021.
Major: Linguistics

Professional Memberships

Society for German Linguistics. (June 2023 – Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CSCE 4290, Introduction to Natural Language Processing, 1 course.
CSCE 5290, Natural Language Processing, 4 courses.
CSCE 6290, Advanced Topics in Human/Machine Intelligence, 1 course.
INFO 6660, Readings in Information Science, 1 course.
INFO 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 2 courses.
LING 4140, Computational Linguistics, 2 courses.
LING 4900, Special Problems, 2 courses.
LING 5410, Computational Linguistics 1, 2 courses.
LING 5412, NLP in Linguistics, 1 course.
LING 5415, Computational Linguistics II, 1 course.

Non-Credit Instruction

Workshop, University of California, Los Angeles, 8. (October 2023 – October 2023).

Workshop, University of North Texas, 20. (May 2023 – May 2023).

Workshop, University of Potsdam, 15. (April 2023 – April 2023).

Directed Student Learning

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Linguistics. (January 2023 – Present).

Major Professor,"How MUSE Models Language: An Evaluation of MUSE’s Formation of Multilingual Semantic Spaces," Linguistics. (January 2023 – May 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book
Hartmann, F. (2023). Germanic phylogeny. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hartmann, F. (2020). The Vandalic Language - Origins and Relationships. Heidelberg: Winter.
Book Chapter
Bäumler, L., Hartmann, F., Elissa, P., Van den Berghe, C. Q., Weiland, V. (2023). Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish Acoustic vowel analysis using multilevel regression models. Corpus dialectology. 106 – 132. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Book Review
Hartmann, F. (2020). Review of Edgar Büttner (Hrg.) (2017). Unser vrouwen klage / Der Spiegel. (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek 124), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Hartmann, F. (2020). Review of Rudolf Schützeichel (2012). Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch. 7., durchgesehene und verbesserte Auflage, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Conference Proceeding
Hartmann, F. (2019). Predicting historical phonetic features using deep neural networks: A case study of the phonetic system of Proto-Indo-European.
Journal Article
Hartmann, F., Jäger, G. (2023). Gaussian process models for geographic controls in phylogenetic trees.
Hartmann, F. (2022). Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems. Lingua. (273), 103308.
Hartmann, F. (2022). Methodological problems in quantitative research on environmental effects in phonology.
Pustka, E., Heiszenberger, E., Hartmann, F. (2022). Pronunciation in progress: A longitudinal study on the development of obligatory liaison in French as a foreign language.
Hartmann, F., Riegger, C. (2022). The Burgundian language and its phylogeny – A cladistical investigation.
Luo, J., Hartmann, F., Santus, E., Barzilay, R., Cao, Y. (2021). Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior.
Hartmann, F. (2021). Old Frisian breaking and labial mutation revisited.
Hartmann, F. (2021). The phonetic value of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals - A computational study using deep neural networks.
Webpage
Hartmann, F. (2017). Gotisch-Lernmodul.

Presentations Given

Invited Talk

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Workshop at the University of Potsdam, Workshop: Statistik neu entdecken (‘Workshop: discover statistics’), University of Potsdam, Germany. (2023 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Workshop at the University of Vienna, Intensivkurs gemischte Modelle (‘Intensive course: mixed models’), University of Vienna, Austria. (2022 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Workshop at the University of Vienna, Statistische Methoden für Linguisten (‘Statistical methods for linguists’), Austria. (2021 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Old Frisian Summer School, Computational Models for Language Contact and Language Shift, Netherlands. (2021 – ).

Keynote/Plenary Address

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 7th workshop of the SimPhon network, Is sound change predictable? Deep learning and diachrony, Germany. (2019 – ).

Oral Presentation

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Thirty-Fourth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC), Simulation Models of Wave-like Diversification: A Novel Tool for IndoEuropean Cladistics?, United States of America. (2023 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), Analysing the early development of the Germanic family using Bayesian phylogenetics and agent-based models, Canada. (2023 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Linguistics Colloquium, Methodological pitfalls in research on environmental effects in phonology: a computational investigation, United States of America. (2023 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Third AMC symposium: Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different?, Syntax vs. phonology in language relatedness, United Kingdom. (2022 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Linguistics Colloquium, Agent-based models of language diversification and language change, Germany. (2022 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25), An agent-based modelling approach to wave-like diversification of language families, United Kingdom. (2022 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP5), Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems, United Kingdom. (2021 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Nichols, J. (Author & Presenter), Workshop on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Diedrich Westermann, org. by Tom Güldemann, The greater Sahara in the historical linguistic geography of Africa, Germany. (2021 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Proto-Indo-European Reconstruction: Problems, possibilities and new perspectives, Cambridge, Prospects of computational internal reconstruction: machine learning and phonological predictability, United Kingdom. (2021 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Germanic phylogeny: computational simulations and phylogenetics, Germany. (2021 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 10th Conference on Frisian Linguistics, Old Frisian breaking revisited - Context and chronology of a complex change, Netherlands. (2019 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Tomaschek, F. (Author), Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung (P&P), Sound change in German verbs: effects of paradigmatic and lexical confusability, Germany. (2019 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Vandalisch – Versuch einer Analyse (‘Vandalic – An analysis attempt’), Germany. (2019 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), RUSE symposium, Investigating the phonological predictability of sound change using deep neural networks, United Kingdom. (2019 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Nomen et Gens Tagung 2019, Neues zu einer alten Sprache — die Korpuslinguistik und das Vandalische (‘News from an old language – corpus linguistics and the Vandalic language’), Germany. (2019 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, The phonetic value of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals, Germany. (2019 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Why does language change? Approaches and discussions: a dialogue between linguistics and philosophy, Germany. (2019 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Research colloquium, Die Germanen – Herkunft und Entwicklung aus linguistischer Perspektive (‘The Germanic peoples – Origins and developments from a linguistic perspective’), Germany. (2018 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), Linguistics colloquium, E-Learning: Lernmodule für Gotisch und Althochdeutsch (‘E-learning: units for Gothic and Old High German’), Germany. (2017 – ).

Poster

Luo, J. (Author & Presenter), Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior, United Kingdom. (2020 – ).

Hartmann, F. (Author & Presenter), 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Predicting Historical Phonetic Features using Deep Neural Networks: A Case Study of the Phonetic System of Proto-Indo-European, Italy. (2019 – ).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Xiao, T. (Principal), Ding, J. (Co-Principal), Albert, M. V. (Supporting), Alam, Z. S. (Supporting), Hartmann, F. (Supporting), Wang, Y. (Supporting), Liang, L. (Supporting), Chen, H. (Supporting), Du, J. (Supporting), Azad, R. K. (Supporting), "NSF REU site: Beyond Language: Training to Create and Share Vector Embeddings across Application," Sponsored by NSF, Federal, $403547 Funded. (2023 – 2025).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2024 – Present).

Committee Member, Computing Committee. (2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Graduate Admissions Commitee. (2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Hiring Committee. (2023 – Present).