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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

Paper accepted at EMNLP-CoNLL 2012: Michael Roth and Anette Frank: Aligning Predicates across Monolingual Comparable Texts using Graph-based Clustering.

Paper accepted at *SEM 2012: Carina Silberer and Anette Frank: Casting Implicit Role Linking as an Anaphora Resolution Task.

Another paper accepted at *SEM 2012: Michael Roth and Anette Frank: Aligning Predicate Argument Structures in Monolingual Comparable Texts: A New Corpus for a New Task.

Journal article submitted: Galina Tremper and Anette Frank: A Discriminative Analysis of Fine-Grained Semantic Relations including Presupposition: Annotation and Classification,
submitted for Dialogue and Discourse, Special Issue on Annotating Pragmatic and Discourse Phenomena, edited by Stefanie Dipper, Heike Zinsmeister, and Bonnie Webber.

Journal article accepted: Frank, A., Bögel, T., Hellwig, O., and Reiter, N. (2012): Semantic Annotation for the Digital Humanities - Using Markov Logic Networks for Annotation Consistency Control. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 7. CSLI Publications.

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 the summer term: Thursdays, 14:00 - 15:45
• Please read this information on Office Hours/Sprechstunde und Anmeldung zur Prüfung
• Shortlist of currently offered thesis topics (in continuous update, pwd on request)
• 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
• Information about my courses.

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)