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Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar
http://complin.blogspot.com.br

Universidade Federal do Ceará-UFC, Fortaleza/CE
Brazil

Professor in the fields of Generative Grammar, Computational Linguistics, and German as a Foreign Language (DaF) at the Federal University of Ceará, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics Master's & PhD Program since 2004. Obtained the doctoral degree (Dr. phil.) in Linguistics from the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2003. Concentrations: Contrastive Grammar, Formal Syntax and Semantics, Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface, Language Typology. CAPES postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Konstanz in 2013. Successfully completed supervisions of eight master's theses and four PhD dissertations. Ongoing supervision of two master's students and four doctoral students. Founder and coordinator of the CompLin Research Group on Natural Language and Computation (http://complin.blogspot.com.br/). Present research interests: Interface between Generative Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Finite State Morphology, Syntactic Parsing, Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), Grammar Development, and Corpus Linguistics.
Author of the corpus annotation tool Aelius (http://aelius.sourceforge.net/). Recently published a book on computational grammar development within LFG using the Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE), a joint work with Christoph Schwarze (University of Konstanz):

Schwarze, Christoph; de Alencar, Leonel F. Lexikalisch-funktionale Grammatik. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Französischen mit computerlinguistischer Implementierung (Lexical-Functional Grammar: A French-based Introduction with Computational Implementation). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2016. 281 pp. Stauffenburg Einführungen, 30. ISBN 978-3-95809-411-6.