Mark-Matthias Zymla

Mark-Matthias Zymla is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz's Department of Linguistics specializing in computational linguistics. His work bridges theoretical linguistic frameworks with practical computational implementations, focusing on semantic representation and processing.

His primary research interests include computational semantics, the syntax/semantics interface, formal and computational pragmatics, with particular expertise in tense and aspect systems, argumentation theory, discourse particles, and rhetorical questions. He develops computational tools like LiGER (Linguistic Graph Expansion and Rewriting) that integrate syntactic analyses from LFG and Universal Dependencies with semantic annotations using Glue Semantics.

Zymla has taught numerous courses at the University of Konstanz including Computational Semantics, Lexical Functional Grammar, Large Language Models, and Grammar Development across multiple semesters since 2015. His research is supported by projects like CUEPAQ (Visual Analytics for Argument Quality), VALIDA, and tense/aspect research funded by the Nuance Foundation.

He actively participates in the ParGram community, co-organizing meetings in Rochester (2023) and Groningen (2022), and co-founded the 'SuP' reading group on semantics and pragmatics at Konstanz. His publications demonstrate strong interdisciplinary work connecting computational linguistics with visual analytics, argumentation studies, and cross-linguistic semantic annotation.