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Chair of Computational Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Anette Frank

Contact

Institut für Computerlinguistik	email: frank sign cl sign uni-heidelberg sign de
Im Neuenheimer Feld 325	phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247
D-69120 Heidelberg	sek: +49-(0)6221/54-3245
Germany	fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

News

TLT 10 and ACRH are over. More than 70 participants from 22 countries visited the joint workshops in Heidelberg. We've had a couple of days of intense discussion and exchange around treebanks, linguistic theories and annotated corpora for the Digital Humanites.
The proceedings of both workshops are available on-line: TLT 10 contributions are published as a special issue of the online journal Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT). ACRH contributions will be published as a special issue of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL).

I received one of the Best Reviewer Awards from EMNLP. Thanks go to the anonymous reviewers of reviewers.

ICL is starting a new 3-year doctoral college entitled Coherence in Language Processing: Semantics beyond the Sentence. The program is jointly run by professors Anette Frank, Sebastian Padó, Stefan Riezler and Michael Strube. Speaker of the college is Sebastian Padó.

A new cooperation project has been established between the Computational Linguistics Department of Heidelberg University (Anette Frank) and the Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia (Mark Johnson), funded by the Global Networks Project of the Excellence Initiative for 2011 and 2012.

Research

The research of my group is focused on developing corpus-based statistical methods for multilingual semantic processing as a basis for advanced applications in language processing.

Our research covers topics in the areas of

• multilingual resource creation
• lexical semantic acquisition and processing
• discourse processing
• ontology-based NLP
• NLP applications

We are also active in interdisciplinary research in the emerging fields of

• multi-modal intelligent system applications, in particular, interaction of language and vision
• NLP for cultural heritage and social sciences

» Find out more about our main research topics

Office Hours and Teaching

• Office hours during term break: 23.2. and 22.3. 14:00-16:00.
• Please read this information on Office Hours/Sprechstunde und Anmeldung zur Prüfung
• Information about my courses.

• Writing a thesis or homework:
  • Leitfaden zur Abfassung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Katarina Klein
  • Leitfaden zur Abfassung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, TU Dresden, Maria Lieber
  • Dos and donts

Current Projects

• Coherence in Language Processing: Semantics beyond the Sentence (2011 -- 2014)
• CLARIN-D (2011 -- 2014)
• The Role of Context in Language Processing (2011 -- 2012)
• Ontology Modeling for Ritual Structure Research     (2009 -- 2013)

Completed Projects

• SightSee: Synchronous Generation of Language and 3D-Scenes     (2008 -- 2010)
• Turkologischer Anzeiger: Creation of a Translingual Database     (2009 -- 2010)
• SmartWeb     (2006 -- 2007)
• SALSA II     (2004 -- 2007; co-project leader, with Manfred Pinkal)
• Quetal     (2003 -- 2005; co-project leader)
• WhiteBoard    (2001 -- 2002; co-project leader)

Former Affiliations

• Language Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI, Saarbrücken (2000 -- 2007) personal homepage
• Multilingual Language and Technology (MLTT) group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE in Grenoble (1997 -- 2000)
• Institute of Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart (1991 -- 1997)