User:Zenogantner

I am looking for native speakers of Spanish, that have a good knowledge of the German language, for proof-reading Spanish-German word lists. It is for a Free software (GPL/GFDL) project, so feel free to contact me if you are interested!

Short bio

My name is Zeno Gantner. I was born in Rosenheim, Bavaria.

The name Zeno is originally from Greece, but because of a Christian saint in northern Italy it spread to the area where the Bavarian dialect is spoken, and to Switzerland. My Bulgarian friends told me that the name is also quite common in Bulgaria (it is definitely not very common in Germany, though).

I like good food, good wine, cool beer, talking, the sun, the summer, the winter, good music (radio FM4 rocks! I do not live near Austria any more, but luckily, I can receive it via ogg livestream).

I do not like segmentation faults. However, I like the ones where I can find out what has caused them.

I study computer science and computational linguistics at Freiburg University in south-western Germany.

Interests

• computer science, a little bit of mathematics
  • software development
  • logic
  • human-computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work
  • computational linguistics
  • Internet applications
• language & linguistics
• Free Software, Open content
• cognitive science
• any combination of the above
• current affairs, politics, society, culture, media
• literature
• history
• music
• food (Well, who is not interested in food?)
• Aikido

Other Wikipedians

I think I like these people - from what I've seen from them on Wikipedia: Ortolan88, AxelBoldt, Danny, Eloquence, Fuzheado, Angela, Fantasy

Articles I have written/contributed to

I am one of more than a hundred administrators in the German Wikipedia, and I am working there most of the time.

Demographics of Singapore (languages & dialects), Georgetown, Penang, Newell (disambiguation page), Penang (some comments), Public Holidays in Germany, Silat, Singlish

Articles I like

Alternative hip hop, Bahasa Indonesia, Judo (plus the kanji signs, some information about Judo federations, and it could be the template for martial arts articles), Sprachbund

Articles that are still missing in Wikipedia

Can I already spend Wikidollars? I do not know whether I have 200 edits, do minor edits count? If yes, then I have, and you will receive one buck if you write a nice article (I decide what is nice ;-) on one of these topics...

General: Hammelburg , Laksa (Chinese-Malay spicy soup), Nell Kimball

CS/Coling/Linguistics: augmented transition network , bigram (meaning in the context of NLP is missing), build tool , Cascade Correlation , DFKI , digram -> bigram (Shannon used this word), ensemble learning , graph pattern , higher-order term rewriting , indexed family, inductive learning , linguistic annotation , Main verb , make (build-tool) , meiosis network , modal verb, morphotactics , n-gram (needs some rework, too), Nixon diamond, PC algorithm , primary verb , radical construction grammar , RDQL , recursive transition network , slot , sorted quantification , System C , type (meaning in lexical analysis/corpus linguistics is missing), Verbmobil .

Mathematics: Directional derivative, ex falsum quod libet , moral graph , provisio (side condition ), reductio ad absurbum (RAA)

Music: Austrian hip hop , Skatalites, Wolfgang Ambros

Persons: Clara Zetkin, Gerhard Gertzen , Indira Varma , Jean-Claude Izzo, Wolfgang Pohrt , Zellig Harris

Languages: Baba Malay, Cristao (Portuguese creole in Malacca)

Links to my user pages at other wikis: meta - test - WikiBooks - WikiTravel - OpenFacts