Kolloquium SoSe 2017
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann
Universität Hamburg, Language Technology - Antrittsvorlesung
When: 19.06.17, 17:15
Where: Room B-201
Topic
Adaptive Language Technologies
Abstract
Vita
Chris Biemann obtained his doctorate in Computer Science / Natural Language Processing in 2007 from the University of Leipzig, before joining the San-Francisco-based semantic search startup Powerset, which was acquired by Microsoft to form the Bing.com search engine. In 2011, he got appointed as assistant professor for language technology in the computer science department at TU Darmstadt; since October 2016, Chris is professor for language technology at the University of Hamburg. His current research is focused on adaptive natural language processing in the cognitive computing paradigm, web-scale statistical semantic methods, machine learning from crowdsourcing signals and on applications in the humanities and social sciences.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Tilo Böhmann