New journal articles from LT group members have been published in the last few weeks:
The latest issue of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering features an article describing the main results of the JOIN-T project:
Biemann, C., Faralli, S., Panchenko, A., Ponzetto, S.P. (2018): A...The LREC 2018 conference has accepted 5 papers co-authored by LT members:
Alexander Panchenko, Eugen Ruppert, Stefano Faralli, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Chris Biemann: Building a Web-Scale Dependency-Parsed Corpus from CommonCrawl Alexander Panchenko, Dmitry...We are happy to announce to host the 1st Workshop on Biomedical Information Management: Challenges and Open Problems at the Univeristy of Hamburg on 19&20 Feb. 2018. For details see the following announcement:
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Our project titled "Forum 4.0 - Maschinelle Analyse, Aggregation und Visualisierung von Nutzerkommentaren" has been selected for funding by BWfG. See the full list of projects in the first round of ahoi.digital.
The project...
In this project, we will conduct research on comparative arguments. Our goal is a technology for answering comparative questions in general with reasonable coverage.
To reach this goal, we propose a new approach involving several stages: (1) understanding comparative...
Together with the Language Technology Lab (LTL) from the Universität Duisburg-Essen, we are hosting the GermEval 2017 Shared Task on Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis. In this shared task, we utilize the data, which we annotated as part of the ABSA-DB project with the Deutsche Bahn Fernverkehr AG...
Our collaboration partner Animesh Mukherjee from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur was selected for the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation.
Animesh will spend a total time of 12 months at LT in Hamburg, split into three visits in the next three...
We are happy to announce the start of a new project named "BIMDANUBE: Network of Excellence on Biomedical Information Management in the Danube Region"
In this project, we establish a network of excellence on biomedical information management among some of the Danube States (Germany, Austria...
The paper
Steffen Remus, Manuel Kaufmann, Kathrin Ballweg, Tatiana von Landesberger, and Chris Biemann. 2017. Storyfinder: Personalized Knowledge Base Construction and Management by Browsing the Web. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge...The IJCNLP 2017 conference in Taipei, Taiwan accepted our short paper:
Seid Muhie Yimam, Sanja Štajner, Martin Riedl, and Chris Biemann: CWIG3G2 - Complex Word Identification Task across Three Text Genres and Two User GroupsIJCNLP is a prestigious conference in the area of natural language...
In order to increase usability of our software prototype and to perform extensions to better access content, the VW Foundation has funded an extension to the new/s/leak project.
During the next months, we will extend our leak document...
In this project, we will establish new network of excellence on biomedical information management among the Danube States. The objective of the network is to strengthen collaboration among innovative ICT institutions and SMEs of the region, in accordance with the...
The EMNLP 2017 conference in Copenhagen accepted our demo paper:
Alexander Panchenko, Fide Marten, Eugen Ruppert, Stefano Faralli, Dmitry Ustalov, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Chris Biemann: Unsupervised & Knowledge-Free & Interpretable Word Sense DisambiguationThe paper partially builds on the...
Chris Biemann is speaking at the first meeting of Hamburg AI.
See you at Mindspace, Rödingsmarkt 9!
Agenda:
18:00 Mingle & Drinks
18:30 Official opening/City.AI Introduction
18:35 Machine Learning for Recommender Systems in the Job Market - Fabian Abel, Director Data Science, XING AG
19:00 A...
The German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) has accepted our proposal for a workshop and shared task at GSCL 2017 in Berlin. The workshop is organized jointly between the Language Technology group at UHH and the Language Technology Lab at U Duisburg-Essen.
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The ACL 2017 conference in Vancouver accepted our full paper:
Dmitry Ustalov, Alexander Panchenko and Chris Biemann: Automatic Induction of Synsets from a Graph of SynonymsACL is the flagship conference for Computational Linguistics/ Natural Language processing.
As part of the IBM Watson University Program, five Computer Science Students of TU Darmstadt presented their Movie Character Insights App from March, 20 to 24 at the CeBIT 2017 in Hanover.
The application was developed in summer term 2016 within the „Question Answering (QA) Lab“ of the Language...
