Invited Talks

"Interaktive Entitätennetzwerke zur Informationserschließung". Universität- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Germany, Workshop „Was ist Forschung?“, November 2019
"Interactive Entity Networks for Information Access to Text". 2nd FORTEXT Workshop, U Hamburg, Germany, July 2019
"Sprachtechnologische Ansätze zur automatischen Erkennung psychologischer Merkmale und psychischer Krankheiten". With Dirk Johannßen. Ringvorlesung Gesundheit verstehen – Digital Humanities im Dialog, U Hamburg, July 2019
"Interpretable Adaptive Language Technology". Dialogue Conference Keynote, Moscow, Russia, May 2019
"Deep Learning, Neuronal Networks and Word Embedding for Computer-Aided Psychometric Text Analysis". With Dirk Johannßen. CAPTA Workshop, Nordakademie, Hamburg, Germany, April 2019
"User-Adaptive Interpretable Language Technology", U Heidelberg, ILCC Seminar, Germany, January 2019
"User-Adaptive Interpretable Language Technology", Universität Edinburgh, UK, Research Seminar, November 2018
"User-Adaptive Interpretable Language Technology", Universität Copenhagen, Denmark, COASTAL Seminar, November 2018
"Adaptive Interpretable Language Technology", Invited Keynote Speech @IC2IT 14th International Conference on Computing and Information Technology, Chiangmai, Thailand, July 2018
"Adaptive Interpretable Language Technology", Leuphana-U Lüneburg, Research Seminar, June 2018
"Adaptive Interpretable Language Technology", INRIA Lille, MAGNET seminar, May 2018
"Argumentation in Comparative Question Answering (ACQuA)", SPP-RATIO Kickoff Meeting, Bielefeld, April 2018
"Semantic Models for Semantic Annotation", Forschungskolloquium E-Humanities, U Hamburg, November 2017
"Was ist Künstliche Intelligenz?", Keynote, Bitkom TechTouch: Digitale Assistenten und künstliche Intelligenz, Berlin, November 2017
"Data Extraction and Interactive Visualization of Unexplored Textual Datasets for Investigative Data-Driven Journalism - Network of Searchable Leaks". SciCAR, Dortmund, September 2017
"A Cognitive Computing Approach to Language Technology", Hamburg AI meetup, May 2017
"Adaptive Natural Language Processing with Graph-based Distributional Semantics". University of Pisa, Italy, March 2017
"Let your Computer Evolve its Language!". Social Media Week Hamburg, February 2017
"Adaptive Natural Language Processing", U Tübingen, January 2017
"Vectors or Graphs? On Differences of Representations for Distributional Semantic Models", CogALex-V 2016: COLING Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, Osaka, Japan, December 2016 (slides)
"Context-Adaptive Natural Language Processing", Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (A.v.Humboldt Foundation), Potsdam, Germany, October 2016
"WebAnno3: Semantische Annotation für Digital Humanities", CLARIN-D F-AG7 Meeting, Heidelberg, June 2016
"Adaptive Methoden in der Sprachtechnologie", Vortragsabend "Suche ist nicht gleich Suche!" GI/ACM-Regionalgruppe Rhein-Main, June 2016
"Natural Language Processing with Cognitive Computing", Sino-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (A.v.Humboldt Foundation), Shenzhen, China, April 2016
"The rise of the thinking machines" Panel, Hub Conference, Berlin, Germany, December 2015
"Adaptive Natural Language Processing", GSCL 2015, Duisburg-Essen: Invited Talk, September 2015
"Distributionelle Semantik", Hochschule Würzburg, Cognitive Computing Talk Series (GI), May 2015
"Cognitive Computing – Segen oder Fluch?", TU Darmstadt, Forum interdisziplinäre Forschung, May 2015
"Textverstehen mit Distributioneller Semantik", University of Hamburg, Germany, April 2015
"JoBimText – Statistische Semantik in Theorie und Praxis TU Dresden", 5. Korpuslinguistik- und Digital Humanities-Tag, Februar 2015
"Adaptive Natural Language Processing", IBM’s Cognitive Systems Institute External Speaker Series, January 2015
"Language Technologies and Watson for Education", Cognitive Computing – TU Darmstadt, November 2014
"Adaptive Sprachtechnologie, oder: Semantik aus dem Wasserhahn", Fraunhofer IAIS, Bonn, September 2014
"Textverstehen mit Distributioneller Semantilk", IBM Watson Workshop, Ehningen, Juli 2014
"Textverstehen mit Distributioneller Semantik", Universität Bonn, Juni 2014
"JoBimText – Text Understanding by Distributional Semantics", IBM's Academic Days Conference, Milano, Italy, May 2014
"Statistical Semantics in Theory and Practice", Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, March 2014
"Language Model Processes", Universität Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2013
"Annotation textueller Ressourcen – Die Annotationsplattform „WebAnno“". 2nd CLARIN-D F-AG Disseminationsworkshop - Digitale Ressourcen, Anwendungsszenarien und 'Best Practices', Mediencampus Leipzig, September 2013
"WebAnno - A flexible, web-based, and visually supported system for distributed annotation", CLARIN-D M24 Workshop, Nijmegen, NL, June 2013
"The JoBimText Project: Linking Distributional Semantics to Ontologies", Fak. für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsmathematik, Universität Mannheim, May 2013
"Quantifying Semantics and Contextualizing Distributional Similarity", IIT Kharagpur, India, December 2012
"Structure Discovery in Natural Language – unsupervised language-independent methods", The Language Archive, MPI Nijmegen, NL, November 2012
"Text: Now in 2D! - From Distributional To Contextual Similarity", Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA, September 2012
"Text: Now in 2D! - From Distributional To Contextual Similarity", ETS, Princeton, NJ, USA, September 2012
"The JoBim Text - From Distributional Semantics to the Web of Knowledge", IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA, September 2012
"Lexical Substitution using Crowdsourcing", IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA, July 2011
"Lexical Substitution using Crowdsourcing", UKP lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany, November 2010
"Structure Discovery in Natural Language in application to lexical substitution", TU Darmstadt, Germany, November 2010
"Lexikalische Substitution mit Hilfe von Crowdsourcing". University of Regensburg, Germany, November 2010
"Similarity and Ambiguity in Language Graphs". Microsoft Research, Mountain View, California, USA, January 2010
"Unüberwachtes Strukturlernen auf Sprachgraphen in der Anwendung für lexikalische Substitution". University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 2009
"Crowdsourcing WordNet". Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, Sept. 2009
"Invited Talk: Visual Aspects of Semantic Search on Wikipedia". Mediencampus Leipzig: Workshop Visual Document Analytics. Juni 2009
"Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation at Powerset". Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India, February 2009 "Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation at Powerset"
"A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants". Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India, February 2009
"Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation at Powerset". Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, Sept. 2008
"Unsupervised and Knowledge-free Natural Language Processing in the Structure Discovery Paradigm", University of Wolverhampton, UK, Sept. 2007
"Unsupervised and Knowledge-free Natural Language Processing in the Structure Discovery Paradigm", University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Sept. 2007
"Unsupervised and Knowledge-free Natural Language Processing in the Structure Discovery Paradigm", ILLC, UvA Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 2007
"A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants and Language Evolution". SFB-Kolloquium Universität Bielefeld Germany, June 2007
"Korpuslinguistische Methoden im Projekt Deutscher Wortschatz" Kolloquium im Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine und Neurokognitive Psychologie, FU Berlin, Germany, Dec. 2006
"Unsupervised Part-of-speech Tagging" Workshop Web-based Corpora and Lexicology, University of Regensburg, Germany, Sept. 2006
"Language-independent methods for enriching monolingual corpora". New York City NLP-Forum, USA, June 2006
"Obtaining semantic relations from text corpora in an unsupervised way". Aksis, University of Bergen, Norway, Dec. 2006
"The Wortschatz Project - Language-independent Methods for Enriching Corpora". Aksis, Universität Bergen, Norway, Oct. 2005
"Finding homogeneous word sets. Towards a dissertation in NLP". Tekstlaboratoriet, University of Oslo, Norway, Oct. 2005
"The Wortschatz Project - Language-independent Methods for Enriching Corpora". Tekstlaboratoriet, University of Oslo, Norway, Oct. 2005
"Using Statistics to Grasp on Semantics". Oberseminar AIFB Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2005
"SemanticTalk - der Innovationsbeschleuniger", LINTEC AG Hausmesse, Leipzig, Germany, June 2004
5 Lectures on statistical NLP, KAIST, Daejon, South Korea, March 2004
"Lernen durch Suche und Verifikation - Extraktion von semantischen Relationen aus großen Textkorpora". TaCoS studentische Tagung zur Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie, Giessen, Germany, June 2003

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