Activities
Research Organizations and Consortia
Editoral activities
Workshops
Invited Talks
- Resolving Abstract Anaphors in Discourse
— Uphill Battles with Neural Networks and Automatic
Data Generation
Keynote at the Final Action Conference of the TextLink COST Action Initiative, Toulouse, March 2018.
- Classifying common sense knowledge relations and using them
in NLP tasks
Keynote at the DGfS Annual Conference, Stuttgart, March 2018.
- Computational Linguistic Methods in Digital
Humanities.
First Summer School of Digital
Humanities. Distant Reading - Potential and Applications,
Heidelberg, September 2017.
- Modal Sense Classification at Large.
60. Studentische Tagung
Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS 2016), Universität Heidelberg, November 2016.
- king – man + woman = queen - Wie man Wortbedeutung berechnen kann.
Akademische Mittagspause der Universität Heidelberg 2016:
Sprechen Sie Mathematik?, Juli 2016.
- Können, müssen, dürfen: Eine computerlinguistische Analyse
der Bedeutungsvariation von Modalverben – im Kontext und in Textgenres.
52. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim,
März 2016.
(Thanks to Alexis Palmer for giving the presentation
in a last minute act!)
- Recollections from SALSA – and beyond.
Symposium for
Manfred Pinkal, Saarbrücken, Oktober 2014.
- Having a cake and eat it. Embedding formal semantics concepts
in a relation classification approach.,
Carpentry-Kolloquium (Geburtstagskolloquium für Thomas
"Ede" Zimmermann, Frankfurt, September 2014.
- Corpus-based Learning of Presupposition Relations between
Verbs.
Guest speaker in the Kolloquium of the Corpus Linguistics
Research Group of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mai 2013.
- Corpus-based Learning of Formal Semantic Concepts:
Genericity and Presupposition.
Invited talk in the Linguistics Department Research Seminar,
University of Geneva, April 2013.
- Annotation of Modal Meanings -- where formal semantics can
help and where it cannot.
Invited speaker of the IWCS 2013 Workshop ``Annotation of Modal Meanings in Natural Languag'', Potsdam, March 2013.
- Corpus-based Learning of Formal Semantic Concepts:
Genericity, Presupposition and more.
Invited talk in the Linguistics Colloquium of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, January 2013.
- Large-Scale Fine-Grained Named Entity Classification: Can we characterise the meanings of Named Entities and their classes distributionally?.
Invited talk at 10. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2010), Saarbrücken, September 7, 2010.
- Syntaktische Variation - aus computerlinguistischer Sicht. Workshop: Korpora und die Grammatik des Standarddeutschen. Institut für Detusche Sprache, Mannheim, June 18, 2010.
- Networks of Linguistic Annotation: The Linguist's Web.
Invited talk at the Workshop ULA: Unified Linguistic Annotation --Transcontinental Perspectives, Bergen, December 5-6, 2007. Abstract.
- Across Languages and Paradigms: New Perspectives for Resource Acquisition, Grammar Engineering and Application,
Invited talk at the ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing, Prague, June 28, 2007.
- Working with Frames: Annotating a German Corpus with Frames -- and using them for NLP.
Invited talk at the Swedish Language Technology Conference Göteborg, Schweden, October 28, 2006.
- Approximating Textual Entailment with LFG and FrameNet Frames. Invited talk at the Edinburgh Friday Seminars Talk Series, School of Computing, University of Edinburgh, March 2006.
An overview of older talks is found
here
Community Services
Reviewing for German and International Research Funding Organisations
Reviewing for Journals
Program Committees and Reviewing for Conferences
(from 2007;
no updates since 2015; then again since 2019)
- Reviewing in 2021 covers EACL 2021,
ACL-IJCNLP 2021 and EMNLP 2021, as
well as HumEval 2021, ALVR 2021,
IWCS 2021 and
MMSR 2021
- Reviewing for ArgMining and COMMA 2020
- Area Chair for EMNLP 2020 (outstanding area chair)
- Area Chair for ACL 2020
- Reviewing for ArgMining 2019
- Area Chair for ACL 2019
- ACL 2015, Beijing, Semantics Track
- IWCS 2015, London
- IWCS 2015 Workshop on Modality Annotation, London
- NAACL Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 10)
- TLT 13, 2014, Tübingen, Germany
- EMNLP 2014, Qatar
- ACL 2014, Baltimore,
USA
- ACL
Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA 9)
- 10th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic
Annotation, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Program co-chair for *SEM 2014, Dublin, Ireland
- *SEM 2013, Atlanta, USA
- ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
- GSCL 2013, Darmstadt
- IWCS 2013, Potsdam
- COLING 2012, Mumbai, India
- ACRH-2,
2012, Lisbon, Portugal
- TLT 11, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
- EMNLP 2012, Jeju, Korea
- *SEM 2012, Montreal, Canada
- NAACL-HLT
2012 Workshop: Building Educational Applications, Montreal, Canada
- ACL 2012 Workshop: The People’s Web meets NLP 2012, Jeju, Korea
- ACL 2012, Jeju, Korea
- LFG 2012, Bali
- ACRH 2012, Heidelberg
- TLT 2012, Heidelberg
- Language Resources and Evaluation: Special Issue on
Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources, 2011
- TextInfer 2011, Edinburgh
- EMNLP 2011, Edinburgh
- ACL-HLT 2011, Redmont
- IWCS 2011, Oxford
- LFG 2011, Hong Kong
- TLT-9, 2010, Tartu
- KONVENS 2010, Saarbrücken
- COLING 2010, Beijing, The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
- NAACL-HLT 2010: Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-5)
- ECAI 2010, Lisbon
- ACL 2010, Uppsala
- LFG 2010, Ottawa
- TLT8 2009, Milan
- GSCL 2009, Potsdam
- EMNLP 2009, Singapore
- LFG 2009, Cambridge
- ECIR 2009: First Geographic Information on the Internet Workshop (GIIW), Toulouse
- ACL 2009: Workshop on Applied Textual Inference and Paraphrasing (TextInfer), Athens
- EACL 2009, Athens
- IWCS-8 2009, Tilburg
- TLT-7 2009, Groningen (Reviewing and Program Chair)
- Konvens 2008, Berlin
- ACL-2008 Workshop on Parsing German, Toronto
- International LFG Annual Conference 2008, Sydney
- Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Textual Entailment, 2008
- Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2008
- Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Interactive Question Answering, 2007
An older overview is found
here