Current Research Projects
Coherence in Language Processing: Semantics beyond the Sentence (2011 -- 2014)
ICL received funding by the Landesgraduiertenförderung (LGF) for a 3-year doctoral college entitled Coherence in Language Processing: Semantics beyond the Sentence. The doctoral program is embedded within the joint ICL and HITS doctoral program Semantic Processing.
The new PhD research training group consists of 5 PhD students working on various aspects of discourse-oriented semantic NLP. The program is jointly run by professors Anette Frank, Sebastian Padó, Stefan Riezler and Michael Strube. Speaker of the program is Sebastian Padó.
More information is found here.CLARIN-D: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – Deutschland (2011 -- 2014)
CLARIN-D is a new cooperation project funded by the BMBF that aims at realizing a sustainable research infrastructure offering language resources, tools and services for German language processing, to support research in the Humanities. The CLARIN-D consortium is led by the University of Tübingen.
ICL Heidelberg leads a focused CLARIN-D action group specializing on language resources and tools for research in Applied and Computational Linguistics.
More information is found here and on the official CLARIN-D and F-AG web pages.Ontology Modeling for Ritual Structure Research (2009 -- 2013)
A project funded within the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 619: "Ritual Dynamics"
Joint project of
- Prof. Dr. Anette Frank, Department of Computational Linguistics
- Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels, South-Asia Institute, Department of Classical Indology, University of Heidelberg
Researchers:
- Nils Reiter, Department of Computational Linguistics
- Anand Mishra, South-Asia Institute, Department of Classical Indology, University of Heidelberg
Project Homepage (under construction)
Publications:
- 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, 1-21.
- Reiter, N., Hellwig, O., Frank, A., Gossmann, I., Larios, B. M., Rodrigues, J. and Zeller, B. (2011): Adapting NLP Tools and Frame-Semantic Resources for the Semantic Analysis of Ritual Descriptions. in: Sporleder, C., van den Bosch, A., and Zervanou, K. A. (eds.), Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Foundations of Human Language Processing and Technology, Springer.
- Reiter, N., Hellwig, O., and Frank, A. (2011): Semi-Automatic Semantic Analysis of Rituals: Chances and Challenges. in: Felder, E., Müller, M., and Vogel, F. (eds.), Thematische Korpora als Basis diskurslinguistischer Analysen von Texten und Gesprächen, Korpuspragmatik, De Gruyter.
- Reiter, N., Hellwig, O., Mishra, A., Gossmann, I., Larios, B. M., Rodrigues, J., Zeller, B., and Frank, A. (2010): Adapting Standard NLP Tools and Resources to the Processing of Ritual Descriptions. Proceedings of the ECAI 2010 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH), Lissabon.
- Reiter, N., Hellwig, O., Mishra, A., Frank, A., and Burkhardt, J. (2010): Using NLP Methods for the Analysis of Rituals. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), Valletta, Malta.
Talks:
- Anette Frank and Nils Reiter: Invited talk at the First AMICUS Workshop (Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage and Scientific Communication Texts), Vienna, October 21st, 2010.
Completed Research Projects
The Role of Context in Language Processing (2011 -- 2012)
A new cooperation project between the Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University and the Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia. The project is funded by the Global Networks Project of the Excellence Initiative of Heidelberg University.
Coordination: Anette Frank (Heidelberg University) and Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)
This project aims to combine methods and insights from Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. The focus is on modeling the role of linguistic and extra-linguistic context in (incremental) language processing, as key factors to support the efficiency of human language processing and acquisition. The Global Networks funding supports bi-lateral travels and PhD student exchange in the years 2011 and 2012.
SightSee: Synchronous Generation of Language and 3D-Scenes (2008 -- 2010)
A project funded within the FRONTIER innovation fund of the Excellence Initiative of the University of Heidelberg
Joint project of
- Prof. Dr. Anette Frank, Department of Computational Linguistics
- Dr. Michael Stube, EML Research gGmbH
- Dr. Susanne Krömker, Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing, IWR
- Prof. Dr. Christiane von Stutterheim, Department for German as a Foreign Language
Researchers:
- Michael Roth, Department of Computational Linguistics
- Stefanie Schuldes, EML Research gGmbH
Publications:
- Schuldes, S., Boland, K., Roth, M., Strube, M., Kroemker, S. and Frank, A. (2011): Modeling spatial knowledge for generating verbal and visual route directions. Proceedings of the 15th Annual KES Conference, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, to appear.
- Roth, M. and Frank, A. (2010): Computing EM-based alignments of routes and route directions as a basis for natural language generation. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010), Beijing, China, August.
- Roth, M., Haas, M., Hildebrand, E., and Matios, E. (2010): The Heidelberg GIVE-2 System. Technical report, presented at the Generation Challenges Poster Session at INLG'10.
- Roth, M., Schuldes, S., Frank, A., and Strube, M. (2009): Creating an Annotated Corpus for Generating Walking Directions. in Proceedings of the ACL 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation, Singapore.
- Roth, M. and Frank, A. (2009): A NLG-based Application for Walking Directions. in: Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), Singapore.
Turkologischer Anzeiger: Creation of a Translingual Database (2009)
A project funded within the Excellence Cluster: Asia and Europe in a Global Context
Joint project of
- Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna
- Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Heidelberg
- Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East (Islamic Studies), University of Heidelberg
Publications/Poster/Theses:
- Dustin Heckmann (2012): Citation Segmentation from Noisy Data using Joint Inference, BA Thesis, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University.
- Turkologischer Anzeiger Online, poster presented at the Annual Conference 2009 Flows of Images and Media of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".
SmartWeb (2006 -- 2007)
Publications:
- Paul Buitelaar, Thierry Declerck, Anette Frank, Stefania Racioppa, Malte Kiesel, Michael Sintek, Ralf Engel, Massimo Romanelli, Daniel Sonntag, Berenike Loos, Vanessa Micelli, Robert Porzel, Philipp Cimiano (2006):
"LingInfo: Design and Applications of a Model for the Integration of Linguistic Information in Ontologies"
in: Proceedings of the LREC 2006 OntoLex Workshop: Interfacing Ontologies and Lexical Resources for Semantic Web Technologies, Genoa, Italy.
SALSA II (2004 -- 2007)
Publications:
- Aljoscha Burchardt, Sebastian Pado, Dennis Spohr, Anette Frank and Ulrich Heid (2008):
Formalising Multi-layer Corpora in OWL DL - Lexicon Modelling, Querying and Consistency Control",
in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008), Hyderabad, India. - Aljoscha Burchardt, Nils Reiter, Stefan Thater and Anette Frank (2007):
"A Semantic Approach to Textual Entailment: System Evaluation and Task Analysis",
in: Proceedings of the ACL 2007-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, Prague. - Dennis Spohr, Aljoscha Burchardt, Sebastian Pado, Anette Frank, and Ulrich Heid (2007):
"Inducing a Computational Lexicon from a Corpus with Syntactic and Semantic Information"
in: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, IWCS-7, Tilburg, The Netherlands. - Aljoscha Burchardt and Anette Frank (2006):
"Approximating Textual Entailment with LFG and FrameNet Frames"
in: Proceedings of the second PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Workshop, Venice, Italy, pp. 92--97. - Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Pado and Manfred Pinkal (2006):
"The SALSA Corpus: a German Corpus Resource for Lexical Semantics", in: Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy. - Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, Andrea Kowalski and Sebastian Pado (2006):
"SALTO -- A Versatile Multi-Level Annotation Tool", in: Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy. - Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, and Anette Frank (2005):
"A WordNet Detour to FrameNet"
in: Proceedings of the GLDV 2005 GermaNet II Workshop,
Bonn, Germany, S. 408-421. - Aljoscha Burchardt, Anette Frank and Manfred Pinkal (2005):
"Building Text Meaning Representations from Contextually Related Frames -- A Case Study"
in: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Computational Semantics, IWCS-6,
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, pp. 66-77. - Anette Frank and Jiri Semecky (2004):
"Corpus-based Induction of an LFG Syntax-Semantics Interface for Frame Semantic Processing"
in: Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Stefan Oepen and Hans Uszkoreit (eds):
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, LINC 2004,
Geneva, Switzerland. - Anette Frank, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Berhold Crysmann, Brigitte Jörg and Ulrich Schäfer (2007):
"Question Answering from Structured Knowledge Sources"
in: Journal of Applied Logic, 5(2), Special Issue on Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Amsterdam, pp. 20-48. - Nuria Bertomeu, Hans Uszkoreit, Anette Frank, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Brigitte Jörg (2006):
"Contextual phenomena and thematic relations in database QA dialogues: results from a Wizard-of-Oz Experiment"
in: Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Interactive Question Answering, New York, pp. 1--8. - Kathrin Spreyer and Anette Frank (2005):
"The TIGER 700 RMRS Bank: RMRS Construction from Dependencies"
in: Proceedings of LINC 2005,
Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 1-10. - Kathrin Spreyer and Anette Frank (2005):
"Projecting RMRS from TIGER Dependencies"
in: Proceedings of the HPSG 2005 Conference,
Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 354-363. - Anette Frank, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Berthold Crysmann, Brigitte Jörg and Ulrich Schäfer (2005):
"Querying Structured Knowledge Sources"
in: Proceedings of AAAI-05, Workshop on Question Answering in Restricted Domains,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 10-19. - Anette Frank, Kathrin Spreyer, Witold Drozdzynski, Hans-Ulrich Krieger and Ulrich Schäfer (2004).
"Constraint-Based RMRS Construction from Shallow Grammars"
in Proceedings of the HPSG 2004 Conference, Workshop on Semantics in Grammar Engineering,
CSLI Publications, Stanford, California, pp. 397-417. - Anette Frank (2004).
"Constraint-based RMRS Construction from Shallow Grammars"
In Proceedings of COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland. -
Anette Frank, Markus Becker, Berthold Crysmann, Bernd Kiefer, Ulrich Schääfer (2003):
"Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP meets HPSG",
in: Proceedings of the ACL 2003, Sapporo, Japan. -
Anette Frank, Markus Becker, Berthold Crysmann, Bernd Kiefer, Ulrich Schäfer (2003):
"Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP meets HPSG",
in: Proceedings of the ACL 2003, Sapporo, Japan. - Markus Becker and Anette Frank (2002):
``A Stochastic Topological Parser of German''
in: Proceedings of COLING 2002, Taipei, Taiwan. - Berthold Crysmann, Anette Frank, Bernd Kiefer, St. Müller, Günter Neumann, Jakub Piskorski, Ulrich Schäfer, Melanie Siegel, Hans Uszkoreit, Feiyu Xu, Markus Becker and Hans-Ulrich Krieger, (2002):
``An Integrated Architecture for Deep and Shallow Processing'', in Proceedings of ACL'02. - Anette Frank (2001):
"Treebank Conversion for LTAG Grammar Extraction",
to be presented at: Third Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora ( LINC'01), 29 August 2001, Leuven. - Anette Frank (2001):
"Treebank Conversion. Converting the NEGRA treebank to an LTAG grammar",
in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-layer Corpus-based Analysis, July 30, 2001, Iasi, Romania,
Workshop held as part of the EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources 30 July - 11 August 2001, Iasi, Romania.
Quetal (2003 -- 2005)
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WhiteBoard (2001 -- 2002)
Publications:
International Research Cooperations
PARGRAM/PARSEM (1996 -- 2008)
Parallel Syntax and Semantics in Lexical-Functional Grammar
