Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Computational Linguistics Group
Prof. Dr. Anette Frank

Welcome to our research pages!

Our research focuses on corpus-based statistical approaches to semantic and discourse processing and applications built thereon, including NLP for natural
language understanding and information access
and NLP for cultural heritage.

Current research topics

  • Advanced Semantic Analysis and Discourse Processing Methods for NLU
  • Distributional Semantics for Modeling Lexical Meaning
  • Corpus-based Acquisition and Classification of Semantic Relations
  • Fine-grained Semantic Classification of Named Entities
  • Cross-document Semantic Alignment of Events
  • NLP for Digital Humanities Research
Check out our publication pages.

Group members

All PhD researchers are members of the Doctoral Program ''Semantic Processing''

News

New papers accepted:

Michael Roth and Anette Frank (2013): Automatically Identifying Implicit Arguments to Improve Argument Linking and Coherence Modeling. in: Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, *SEM 2013, Altlanta, USA.

Tatjana Moor, Michael Roth and Anette Frank (2013): Predicate-specific Annotations for Implicit Role Binding: Corpus Annotation, Data Analysis and Evaluation Experiments, in: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2013, Potsdam, Germany.

Galina Tremper and Anette Frank (2013): A Discriminative Analysis of Fine-Grained Semantic Relations including Presupposition: Annotation and Classification, to appear in Dialogue and Discourse, Special Issue on Annotating Pragmatic and Discourse Phenomena, edited by S. Dipper, H. Zinsmeister and B. Webber, to appear.

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