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Winter Term	Summer Term
2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 2010/2011 2009/2010 2008/2009 2007/2008	2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

Summer Term 2023

Time	Lecturer	Title

23. May 2023	Moritz Plenz ICL, Heidelberg University	Graph Language Models Abstract
13. June 2023	Xiyan Fu ICL, Heidelberg University	Exploring Continual Learning of Compositional Generalization in NLI Abstract
20. June 2023	Mark A. Finlayson Florida International University	TLEX: An Exact Approach to Timeline Extraction from Natural-Language-Derived Temporal Graphs Abstract
27. June 2023	Haixa Chai Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Investigating Multilingual Coreference Resolution by Universal Annotations Abstract
04. July 2023	ACL Dry Runs ICL/HITS	-
25. July 2023	Yi Fan Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Tbd.

Winter Term 2022

Time	Lecturer	Title

25. October 2022	Shimei Pan University of Maryland Baltimore County	Bias in NLP: Intersection of AI and Society Abstract
08. November 2022	Juri Opitz ICL, Heidelberg University	SBERT studies Meaning Representations: Decomposing Sentence Embeddings into Explainable Semantic Features Abstract
15. November 2022	Andrea Pedrotti Department of Computer Science at Pisa University	What’s In An Action? A benchmark for Video-and-Language models through the lens of change-of-state verbs
29. November 2022	Wei Liu Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Annotation-Inspired Implicit Discourse Relation Classification with Auxiliary Discourse Connective Generation Abstract
13. December 2022	Frederick Riemenschneider ICL, Heidelberg University	Homer meets BERT Abstract
10. January 2023	Xiyan Fu ICL, Heidelberg University	SETI: Systematicity Evaluation of Textual Inference Abstract
17. January 2023	Julius Steen ICL, Heidelberg University	With a Little Push, NLI Models can Robustly and Efficiently Predict Faithfulness Abstract
24. January 2023	Phillip Richter-Pechanski ICL, Heidelberg University	Section Classification in German Discharge Letters using Few-Shot Learning and Prompting Abstract
14. February 2023	Wei Zhao Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Geometric Machine Learning in Graph Domains Abstract

Summer Term 2022

Time	Lecturer	Title

May 3, 2022	Xiyan Fu ICL, Heidelberg University	Modularized Neural-Symbolic Reasoning for Structural Explanation Abstract
May 10, 2022	Sungho Jeon Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Local Coherence Modeling and Compositionality Abstract
May 17, 2022	ACL2022 dry runs: Letitia Parcalabescu / Juri Opitz ICL	See abstracts for more details Abstracts
May 24, 2022	Break: Conference	ACL2022
May 31, 2022	Haixia Chai Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Incorporating Centering Theory into Neural Coreference Resolution Abstract
June 7, 2022	Emanuele Bugliarello University of Copenhagen	Towards Multilingual Vision-and-Language Models Abstract
July 5, 2022	Julius Steen ICL, Heidelberg University	How to Find Strong Summary Coherence Measures? A Toolbox and a Comparative Study for Summary Coherence Measure Evaluation Abstract
July 12, 2022	Break: Conference	NAACL 2022
July 19, 2022	Phillip Richter-Pechanski ICL, Heidelberg University	Text classification using few-shot prompt learning: Detecting angina pectoris descriptions in German cardiovascular discharge letters Abstract
July 26, 2022	Mehwish Fatima Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Cross-lingual Summarization for Science Journalism: Learning to Select, Simplify and Rewrite Summaries for Non-expert Readers Abstract
August 2, 2022	Moritz Plenz ICL, Heidelberg University	Conditioned Shortest Path Graphs: a Method to connect Sentences with Commonsense-Knowledge Abstract

Winter Term 2021

Time	Lecturer	Title

October 26, 2021	Philipp Wiesenbach ICL, Heidelberg University	Towards Building an AMR-based Argumentation Knowledge Graph with Dual Encoding of Text and AMR -
November 16, 2021	Kevin Alex Mathews Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Textual Entailment as a Framework for Differentiating Metonymy from Metaphor Abstract
November 23, 2021	Federico López Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Vector-valued Distance and Gyrocalculus on the Space of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices Abstract
December 14, 2021	Wei Liu Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Revisiting Graph Pattern Based Text Coherence Modeling with Corpus Level GCN Abstract
December 21, 2021	Wei Zhao Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	BERTCoherence: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT and Discourse Coherence Abstract
January 11, 2022	Julius Steen ICL, Heidelberg University	Coherence Measures do not Predict Summary Coherence Abstract
January 25, 2022	Xiyan Fu ICL, Heidelberg University	Explainable and Generalized Event Reasoning Abstract
February 1, 2022	Juri Opitz ICL, Heidelberg University	Explanatory Argument Similarity Measurements with Abstract Meaning Representation and Generated Conclusions Abstract
February 8, 2022	Letitia Elena Parcalabescu ICL, Heidelberg University	VALSE: A New Foiling Benchmark for Vision and Language Models Abstract
February 15, 2022	Phillip Richter-Pechanski ICL, Heidelberg University	Medical information extraction from German discharge letters from the cardiovascular domain Abstract

Summer Term 2021

Time	Lecturer	Title

May 18, 2021	Kevin Alex Mathews Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Revisiting met* Abstract
May 25, 2021	Sungho Jeon Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Neural Coherence Modeling: An Entity-based Approach Abstract
June 1, 2021	Federico López Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Symmetric Spaces for Graph Embeddings: A Finsler-Riemannian Approach Abstract
June 8, 2021	Break: Conference	NAACL21 -
June 15, 2020	Haixia Chai Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Coreference Resolution on a Downstream Task: From Rule-based to State of the Art Abstract
June 22, 2021	Mehwish Fatima Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Spektrum Data for Cross-lingual Summarization Abstract
June 29, 2021	Wei Zhao Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Canceled -
July 6, 2021	Julius Steen ICL, Heidelberg University	Canceled -
July 13, 2021	Juri Opitz ICL, Heidelberg University	Towards better understanding of cross-lingual AMR (parsing): A strong baseline and improved evaluation Abstract
February 2, 2021	Letitia Elena Parcalabescu ICL, Heidelberg University	Seeing past words: Testing the cross-modal capabilities of pretrained V&L models Abstract

Winter Term 2020

Time	Lecturer	Title
October 14, 2020	EMNLP20 dry runs: Angel Daza / Sungho Jeon ICL / HITS	See abstracts for more details Abstracts
November 3, 2020	Esther van den Berg ICL, Heidelberg University	Context in Informational Bias Detection Abstract
November 5, 2020	COLING20 dry runs: Sungho Jeon / Esther van den Berg HITS / ICL	See abstracts for more details Abstracts
November 10, 2020	Federico López Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Hyperbolic Knowledge Graph Embeddings for User Interests Abstract
November 17, 2020	Break: Conference	EMNLP20 -
November 24, 2020	Maria Becker ICL, Heidelberg University	Revealing Implicit Knowledge in Form of Single- and Multihop Commonsense Knowledge Paths in Texts Abstract
December 1, 2020	Mehwish Fatima Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	A Simple and Effective Hybrid Model for Cross-lingual Summarization of Long Texts Abstract
December 8, 2020	Break: Conference	COLING20 -
December 15, 2020	Haixia Chai Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Coref-QA: Towards More Applicable Coreference Resolvers Abstract
January 12, 2021	Julius Steen ICL, Heidelberg University	Best Practices for Linguistic Quality Evaluation in Summarization Abstract
January 19, 2021	Kevin Alex Mathews Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Impact of Context on End-to-end Metonymy Detection, and Metonymy Detection for Entity Linking Abstract
February 2, 2021	Letitia Elena Parcalabescu ICL, Heidelberg University	Seeing past words: Testing the cross-modal capabilities of pretrained V&L models Abstract
February 9, 2021	Sungho Jeon Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)	Improving Centering-based Neural Coherence Modeling Abstract
February 16, 2021	Juri Opitz ICL, Heidelberg University	From measuring similarity between meaning representations to measuring similarities between generated texts Abstract
February 23, 2021	Debjit Paul ICL, Heidelberg University	Dual Learning: Generate Contextualized Inference Rules and Narrative Story Sentences Abstract

Summer Term 2020

Time	Lecturer	Title

Winter Term 2019

Time	Lecturer	Title
October 22, 2019	Sungho Jeon HITS, Heidelberg	Neural Lexical Cohesion in English (Abstract)
October 29, 2019	EMNLP dry runs: Angel Daza, Julius Steen LiMo Leibniz ScienceCampus / ICL, Heidelberg University	Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Semantic Role Labeling / Abstractive Timeline Summarization (Abstract)
November 5, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
November 12, 2019	Bhushan Kotnis NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH	Predicting the present using the future and other such crazy ideas (Abstract)
November 19, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
November 26, 2019	Michael Wiegand LiMo Leibniz ScienceCampus	Recent Experiments on Abusive Language Detection (Abstract)
December 3, 2019	Daniel Dahlmeier SAP	Developing NLP applications in industry (Abstract)
December 10, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
December 17, 2019	Haixia Chai HITS, Heidelberg	TBD (Abstract)
January 7, 2020	Julius Steen ICL, Heidelberg University	Using Coreference Information to Improve Neural Multi-Document Summarization (Abstract)
January 14, 2020	Juri Opitz ICL, Heidelberg University	TBD (Abstract)
January 21, 2020	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
January 28, 2019	Esther van den Berg LiMo Leibniz ScienceCampus	TBD (Abstract)
February 4, 2020	Maria Becker ICL, Heidelberg University	TBD (Abstract)

Summer Term 2019

Time	Lecturer	Title
July 5, 2019 - 11:00, SR10, INF 205, (Mathematikon)	Gerard de Melo Rutgers University	TBD (Abstract)
March 13, 2019 - 14:00, Konferenzraum, INF 205	Graeme Hirst University of Toronto	Who decides what a text means? (And what the answer implies for computational linguistics) (Abstract)
April 16, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
April 23, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
April 30, 2019	Mehwish Fatima HITS, Heidelberg	Multilingual SMS-based Author Profiling & Cross-lingual Single-document Abstractive Text Summarization for Science Journalism (Abstract)
May 7, 2019	Angel Daza ICL, Heidelberg University	Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling (Abstract)
May 14, 2019	Federico Lopez HITS, Heidelberg	Fine-Grained Entity Typing in Hyperbolic Space (Abstract)
May 28, 2019	NAACL dry runs	TBD (Abstracts)
June 4, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
June 11, 2019	Eva Mújdricza-Maydt ICL, Heidelberg University	Semantic Role Labeling for Semantic Role Labeling (SRL4SRL) (Abstract)
June 18, 2019	Ivan Sekulic HITS, Heidelberg	Predicting mental disorders from social media text (Abstract)
June 25, 2019	Michael Pleyer University of Koblenz-Landau	Becoming Language-Ready: A Short Introduction to the Evolution of Language (Abstract)
July 2, 2019	Kevin Alex Mathews HITS, Heidelberg	Why is Switzerland too expensive? Leveraging selectional preferences for metonymy detection (Abstract)
July 10, 2019 - 18:15-20:00, INF 205 / SR 11 (5th floor)	Maria Becker ICL, Heidelberg University	Leveraging Commonsense Knowledge Relation Classification to Improve Argument Analysis (Abstract)
July 16, 2019 - Heidelberger Center for American Studies - 19:00 - 20:00	Public Panel HCH19: 'Mixed Methods in the Making'	Working with Social Media Data: Methodological, Legal, and Ethical Issues (Abstract)
July 23, 2019	Letitia Parcalabescu ICL, Heidelberg University	What are you talking about? An unsupervised approach for phrase grounding. (Abstract)
July 24, 2019 - INF 205 / SR 11, 5th floor	ACL dry runs	See abstracts. (Abstract)

Winter Term 2018

Time	Lecturer	Title
October 19, 2018 - INF 205, Konferenzraum (5th floor)	Yufang Hou IBM	Computational Argumentation: A Personal Journey (Abstract)
October 23, 2018	Ivan Sekulic HITS	EMNLP dry-run: Not Just Depressed: Bipolar Disorder Prediction on Reddit (Abstract)
October 30, 2018	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
November 6, 2018	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
February 5, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
November 20, 2018	Todor Mihaylov ICL, Heidelberg University	Combining text and external knowledge for question answering (Abstract)
November 27, 2018	Kevin Alex Mathews HITS	Metonymy Resolution using Selectional Preference Embeddings (Abstract)
December 4, 2018	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
December 13, 2018 18:15 - 19:45, SR 11, INF 205	Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada	The Search for Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language (Abstract)
December 18, 2018	Mahdi Mohseni HITS	Modeling Syntactic Features for Abstractive Sentence Summarization (Abstract)
December 25, 2018	Break
January 1, 2019	Break
January 8, 2019	Esther van den Berg ICL, Heidelberg University	Objectively verifiable attributes and entity framing (Abstract)
January 15, 2019	Nils Reiter University of Stuttgart	SANTA: Annotation Scheme Development in a Shared Task (Abstract)
January 22, 2019	Julius Steen ICL, Heidelberg University	Abstractive Timeline Summarization (Abstract)
January 24, 2019 - 18:00-20:00	Chris Biemann Universität Hamburg	User-adaptive, interpretable language technology (Abstract)
January 29, 2019	Isabelle Augenstein University of Copenhagen	Natural Language Understanding with Limited Training Data (Abstract)
February 5, 2019	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
February 12, 2019	Bich-Ngoc Do ICL, Heidelberg University	Parsing with Subcat Frame Information and Domain Adaptation for Parsing Twitter Data (Abstract)

Summer Term 2018

Time	Lecturer	Title
April 24, 2018	Ana Marasović ICL, Heidelberg University	SRL4ORL: Improving Opinion Role Labeling Using Multi-task Learning With Semantic Role Labeling [NAACL dry run] Abstract
May 03, 2018 SR 10 (Mathematikon 5th floor )	Mohsen Mesgar ICL, Heidelberg University	A Neural Local Coherence Model Applied to Readability Ranking and Essay Scoring (Abstract)
May 08, 2018	Ana Marasović ICL, Heidelberg University	A Mention-Ranking Model for Abstract Anaphora Resolution (Abstract)
May 15, 2018	Ekaterina Shutova University of Amsterdam	Modelling metaphor with linguistic and visual features (Abstract)
May 22, 2018	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
May 29, 2018	Federico Lopez HITS	An overview on Entity discovery and linking systems (Abstract)
June 05, 2018	TBD	TBD (Abstract)
June 12, 2018	Angel Daza ICL, Heidelberg University	Generating Training Data for Semantic Role Labeling in German (Abstract)
June 19, 2018	Maria Becker ICL, Heidelberg University	Commonsense Knowledge Relation Classification (Abstract)
June 26, 2018	Mark-Christoph Müller HITS	TBD (Abstract)
July 03, 2018	Éva Mújdricza-Maydt ICL, Heidelberg University	Predicate Generalization in and for VerbNet-based SRL As a Use Case for German (Abstract)
July 24, 2018	COLING dry-runs by Juri Opitz, Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer	4 talks (Abstracts)

Winter Term 2017/2018

Time	Lecturer	Title
24.10.2017	Nafise Mosaavi HITS, Heidelberg	Reconciling Coreference Resolution with Traditional Knowledge Sources [Abstract]
27.10.2017, 10:00-11:30, 5.104, INF 205 (Mathematikon)	Ed Hovy CMU,Pittsburgh	Making Sentiment Analysis Nontrivial and Interesting [Abstract]
31.10.2017	special federal holiday (Reformationstag 2017)
07.11.2017	Alex Judea HITS, Heidelberg	Event Argument Identification on Dependency Graphs with Bidirectional LSTMs [Abstract]
14.11.2017	Ioana Karnstedt-Hulpus Data and Web Science Research Group , Uni Mannheim	Using external knowledge graphs to enrich texts and images with background knowledge [Abstract]
21.11.2017	Sanja Stajner Universität Mannheim	Automated Text Simplification: the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Existing Systems [Abstract]
28.11.2017	Sebastian Martschat Universität Heidelberg	Evaluating and Predicting Timelines [Abstract]
05.12.2017	Benjamin Heinzerling HITS, Heidelberg	Named entity recognition with recursive and non-recursive convolutional auto-encoders [Abstract]
12.12.2017	Carlo Strapparava Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento	NLP for creative language [ Abstract]
26.12.2017	winter break
02.01.2018	winter break
09.01.2018	TBD	TBD
16.01.2018	Winrich Löhr and Christopher Nunn TS, Universität Heidelberg	Augustinus 2.0? Digitale Verfahren in patristischer Anwendung [ Abstract]
23.01.2018	Zeerak Wassem Sheffield University	What did you just call me? Computers versus Abusive Language [ Abstract]
30.01.2018	Bich Ngoc Do Universität Heidelberg	Improving German dependency parsing with a labelling history and subcat frame information [Abstract]
06.02.2017	Esther van den Berg Universität Heidelberg

Summer Term 2017

Time	Lecturer	Title
May 02, 2017	Ana Marasovic Universität Heidelberg	SRL4ORL: Semantic Role Labelling for Opinion Role Labelling [Abstract]
May 05, 2017 10:15–12:00 SR 7, INF 325	Claire Cardie Cornell University	Ventures in Opinion Extraction and Summarization [Abstract ]
May 09, 2017	Sebastian Riedel University College London	Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations [Abstract]
May 16, 2017	Todor Mihaylov Universität Heidelberg	Enhancing Reading Comprehension with External Knowledge [Abstract]
May 23, 2017	Maria Becker Universität Heidelberg	Implicit Knowledge in Argumentative Texts [Abstract]
May 30, 2017	Sebastian Martschat Universität Heidelberg	Structured representations for coreference resolution [Abstract]
June 13, 2017	Andrea Breard (Cluster Asia and Europe); Beatrix Busse/Kirsten Gather/Ingo Kleiber (Anglistik) Universität Heidelberg	"How formulaic is a mathematical algorithm expressed in natural language?" [Abstract] ; HeidelGram: Network analysis of grammarians' references in 19th-century British grammars – a corpus-based pilot study [Abstract]
June 20, 2017	Mohsen Mesgar HITS	Troubleshooting with Neural Networks [Abstract]
June 30, 2017 9:30–11:00 SR 6, INF 327	Amber Boydstun UC Davis	The Conditional Effects of Media Tone on Public Opinion [Abstract]
July 04, 2017	Bhushan Kotnis Universität Heidelberg	Automated Knowledge Discovery from Scientific Articles[Abstract]
July 25, 2017	ACL dry runs	TBD [Abstract to come]

Winter Term 2016/2017

Time	Lecturer	Title
Nov 08, 2016	Bernd Bohnet Google	Generalized Transition-based Dependency Parsing and the Paradigm Change to Neural Networks [Abstract]
Nov 14, 2016 (Mon) SR 19, INF 306	Simone Teufel University of Cambridge	"Let Alone" sentences and enthymeme reconstruction [Abstract]
Nov 22, 2016	Feifei Peng HITS, Heidelberg	Abstractive Summarization with Deep Learning [Abstract]
Nov 29, 2016	Benjamin Heinzerling AIPHES	Assassinating Lady Gaga with a banana? A practical model of fine-grained selectional preferences and its application to coreference resolution[Abstract]
Dec 6, 2016	Alex Judea HITS, Heidelberg
Dec 13, 2016	Michael Wiegand (18:00 Uhr s.t.) Saarland University	Recent developments in Sentiment Analysis: Categorization of Sentiment Views and Opinion Compounds [ Abstract ]
Dec 20, 2016	Eva Mujdricza-Maydt ICL, Heidelberg University	Semantic Role Labeling Frameworks -- a low-resource task with straightforward cases and open challenges [Abstract]
Jan 17, 2017 18:00 Uhr s.t.	Sabine Schulte im Walde Universität Stuttgart
Jan 24, 2017	Nafise Moosavi HITS, Heidelberg	How meaningful are the recent improvements in coreference resolution? [Abstract]
Jan 31, 2017	Ngoc Do	Improving parsing German by addressing the unknown word problem [Abstract]
Feb 07, 2017	Thomas Haider Universität Heidelberg	A functional stylistics for text genre and register classification [Abstract]

Summer Term 2016

Time	Lecturer	Title
Apr 28, 2016	Ana Marasovic ICL, Heidelberg University	tba.
Mai 19, 2016	Maria Becker Leibniz ScienceCampus	tba.
Mai 31, 2016	Manfred Stede Universitat Potsdam	Argument mining: Annotation and parsing of short user-generated texts [ Abstract ]
Jun 02, 2016	Jennifer Sikos ICL, Heidelberg University	Implicit Semantic Roles in a Multilingual Setting [ Abstract ]
Jun 09, 2016	Guillaume Bouchard	tba.
Jun 30, 2016	Mohsen Mesgar HITS, Heidelberg	tba.
Jul 14, 2016	ACL Probevorträge und Posters Todor Mihaylov Juri Opitz Ana Marasovic	tba.
Jul 28, 2016	ACL Probevorträge und Posters Maria Becker Nafise Sadat Moosavi Jennifer Sikos	tba.

Winter Term 2015/2016

Time	Lecturer	Title
Okt 15, 2015	Nate Chambers United States Naval Academy	Learning Event Schemas and their Temporal Relations [ Abstract ]
Nov 05, 2015	Omer Levy Bar-Ilan University	Understanding Word Embeddings [ Abstract ]
Nov 19, 2015	Daraksha Parveen HITS, Heidelberg	Topical Coherence for Graph-based Extractive Summarization[ Abstract ]
Dez 03, 2015	Alex Judea HITS, Heidelberg	Extracting Events and Entity Mentions[ Abstract ]
Dez 10, 2015	Barbara Plank University of Copenhagen	Improving Language Technology with Fortuitous Data[ Abstract ]
Dez 17, 2015	Benjamin Heinzerling HITS, Heidelberg	tba.
Jan 21, 2016	Diarmuid O Seaghdha Apple	Unsupervised learning of rhetorical structure with un-topic models [ Abstract ]
Jan 28, 2016	Nafise Moosavi HITS, Heidelberg	Efficient Mining of Discriminative Features from Large Imbalanced Data Sets [ Abstract ]

Summer Term 2015

Time	Lecturer	Title
April 23, 2015 18:15–20:00	Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh	Large-scale Semantic Parsing without Question-Answer Pairs [Abstract]
April 24, 2015 10 Uhr c.t. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Karolinenplatz 3 64289 Darmstadt	Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh	Movie Script Summarization as Graph-based Scene Extraction - Eröffnungsvortrag DFG-Graduiertenkolleg AIPHES [Abstract]
May 21, 2015	Michael Haas & Yannick Versley ICL, Heidelberg University	Subsentential Sentiment on a Shoestring [Abstract]
June 11, 2015	Alexis Palmer ICL, Heidelberg University	Situation Entities and Discourse Modes [Abstract]
June 18, 2015	Ines Rehbein Potsdam University	Processing urban youth language [Abstract]
June 25, 2015	Parvin Feizabadi ICL, Heidelberg University	Implicit Semantic Role Labeling [Abstract]
July 2, 2015	Mohsen Mesgar HITS, Heidelberg	Graph-based Coherence Modeling for Assessing Readability [Abstract]
July 9, 2015	Eva Mujdricza-Maydt ICL, Heidelberg University Benjamin Heinzerling HITS, Heidelberg	Investigating Winograd Sentences - Hard Cases for Coreference Resolution [Abstract] Visual Error Analysis for Entity Linking
July 16, 2015	Daraksha Parveen HITS, Heidelberg Sebastian Martschat HITS, Heidelberg	Integrating Importance, Non-redundancy and Coherence in Graph-based Extractive Summarization Plug Latent Structures and Play Coreference Resolution
July 23, 2015	Tri-Duc Nghiem ICL, Heidelberg University	Event Coreference Resolution - More Experiments and Error Analysis [Abstract]
Sep 3, 2015	Te Rutherford Brandeis University	Neural Network for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification [Abstract]
Sep 10, 2015	Daraksha Parveen HITS, Heidelberg Sebastian Martschat HITS, Heidelberg	Topical Coherence for Graph-based Extractive Summarization Latent Structures for Coreference Resolution

Winter Term 2014

Time	Lecturer	Title
October 30, 2014	Nafise Moosavi HITS, Heidelberg	Automatic Extraction of Precise Rules for Coreference Resolution [Abstract]
November 06, 2014	Noah Smith Carnegie Mellon University	Machine Learning about People from their Language [Abstract] Room: SR25, INF328
November 13, 2014	Michael Strube HITS, Heidelberg	The Dark Side of NLP [Abstract] Room: SR25, INF 328
November 20, 2014	Daraksha Parveen HITS, Heidelberg	Summarization using bipartite graphs [Abstract]
November 27, 2014	Katerina Ovchinnikova ICL, Heidelberg University	ILP-based Abduction for Natural Language Understanding [Abstract]
December 18, 2014	Alex Judea HITS, Heidelberg	Event Extraction and Frame-semantic Parsing [Abstract]
January 08, 2015	Peter Hellwig ICL, Heidelberg University	How to Program a Dependency Parser. The PLAIN Tools. [Abstract]
January 22, 2015	Sebastian Martschat HITS, Heidelberg	Latent Structures for Coreference Resolution [Abstract]
January 29, 2015	Tri-Duc Nghiem ICL, Heidelberg University	tba.
February 05, 2015	Éva Mújdricza-Maydt ICL, Heidelberg University	tba.

Summer Term 2014

Time	Lecturer	Title
April 24, 2014	Laura Jehl ICL, Heidelberg University	Source-side Preordering for Translation using Logistic Regression and Depth-first Branch-and-Bound Search [ Abstract ]
	Angela Fahrni HITS, Heidelberg	A Latent Variable Model for Discourse-aware Concept and Entity Disambiguation [ Abstract ]
Wednesday, June 04, 2014, INF 306, HS2	Jackie C.K. Cheung Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto	Towards Large-Scale Natural Language Inference with Distributional Semantics [ Abstract ]
June 05, 2014	Benjamin Börschinger Macquarie University	Exploring the Role of Stress in Bayesian Word Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars[ Abstract ]
June 12, 2014	Nils Reiter IMS, University of Stuttgart	Discovering Structural Similarities in Narrative Texts using Event Alignment Algorithms [ Abstract ]
June 19, 2014		Holiday
June 26, 2014	Britta Zeller ICL, Heidelberg University	Semantic validation of a German derivational lexicon [ Abstract ]
July 03, 2014	Yufang Hou HITS, Heidelberg	Bridging anaphora resolution [ Abstract ]
July 10, 2014	Olga Nikitina ICL, Heidelberg University	Hybrid text simplification [ Abstract ]
July 17, 2014	Parvin Sadat Feizabadi ICL, Heidelberg University	Implicit Role Labeling using a predicate-argument graph [ Abstract ]
July 24, 2014	Mohsen Mesgar HITS, Heidelberg	Normalized Entity Graph for Computing Local Coherence [ Abstract ]

Winter Term 2013

Time	Lecturer	Title
September 20, 2013	Thomas Bögel Institute of Computer science, Heidelberg University	A Joint Inference Architecture for Global Conference Clustering with Anaphoricity
October 01, 2013	Dan Roth University of Illinois	Better Natural Language Analysis and Amortized Integer Linear Programming [ Abstract ]
October 31, 2013	Felix Hieber ICL, Heidelberg University	Learning to translate for Cross-Language Information Retrieval [ Abstract ]
November 21, 2013	Yannick Versley ICL, Heidelberg University	A graph-based approach for implicit discourse relations [ Abstract ]
November 28, 2013	Daraksha Parveen HITS, Heidelberg	Topic based multi-document summarization [ Abstract ]
December 05, 2013	Michael Roth ICL, Heidelberg University	Inducing implicit arguments via Cross-document Alignment. A Framework and its application [ Abstract ]
December 12, 2013	Nafise Moosavi HITS, Heidelberg	Unsupervised Coreference Resolution using feature distributions [ Abstract ]
December 19, 2013	Julia Hockenmaier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Describing images in natural language: towards visually grounded semantics [ Abstract ]
January 16, 2014	Sebastian Martschat HITS, Heidelberg	Recall Error Analysis for Coreference Resolution [ Abstract ]
February 12, 2014	Hinrich Schütze CIS, Munich	Formal Semantics & Distributional Semantics: A Survey of Chance and Challenge [ Abstract ]

Summer Term 2013

Time	Lecturer	Title
May 23, 2013	Felix Hieber, Laura Jehl ICL, Heidelberg University	Task Alternation in Parallel Sentence Retrieval for Twitter Translation
June 6, 2013	Yufang Hou HITS
June 13, 2013	Britta Zeller ICL, Heidelberg University	DErivBase: A derivational morphology resource for German
June 27, 2013	Bonnie Webber ILCC, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh	Reflections on the Penn Discourse Treebank
July 04, 2013	Katharina Wäschle, Patrick Simianer ICL, Heidelberg University	Methods for Online Adaptation for Computer-Assisted Translation
July 11, 2013	Parvin Sadat Feizabadi ICL, Heidelberg University
July 18, 2013	Olga Nikitina ICL, Heidelberg University

Winter Term 2012

Time	Lecturer	Title
September 9, 2012	Lauri Karttunen and Annie Zaenen CSLI, Stanford	Semantics of Clausal Complements [ Slides ]
October 25, 2012	Angela Fahrni HITS	Joint Concept/Entity Disambiguation and Clustering
November 8, 2012	Ivan Titov Saarland University	Monolingual and Crosslingual Unsupervised Induction of Shallow Semantic Representations
November 22, 2012	Jannik Strötgen Heidelberg University	Event-centric Search and Exploration in Document Collections
November 29, 2012	Serge Thill	On the role of grounding in human language
December 06, 2012	Jan Snajder University of Zagreb	Modeling inflection and derivation of a morphologically rich language [ Slides ]
December 13, 2012	Olga Nikitina Heidelberg University	Subordination vs. coordination: a corpus study
January 24, 2013	Nils Reiter Heidelberg University
January 31, 2013	Sebastian Martschat HITS

Summer Term 2012

Time	Lecturer	Title
April 19, 2012	Justin Washtell University of Leeds	tba
April 26, 2012	Benjamin Börschinger Macquarie University	Improving Particle Filtering for Bayesian Word Segmentation using Rejuvenation
May 10, 2012	Katja Filippova Google Research Zürich	Making Sense of the YouTube Comments: Video Categorization, Demographics, and Language Change [ Abstract ]
May 24, 2012	Evandro Gouvêa Carnegie Mellon University	Hybrid speech recognition for voice search [ Abstract ]
May 29, 2012	Sung-Hyon Myaeng Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Activity-based Experience Mining [ Abstract ]
May 31, 2012	Katharina Wäschle Heidelberg University	Cross-lingual Textual Entailment with SMT Features
June 14, 2012	Parvin Sadat Feizabadi Heidelberg University	Locational Inference
June 28, 2012	Yufang Hou HITS	Bridging Resolution
July 05, 2012	ACL/EMNLP Dryruns	tba
July 12, 2012	Olga Nikitina Heidelberg University	The Role of Syntactic Relations (between Predicates) in/for Discourse
July 19, 2012	Felix Hieber und Laura Jehl Heidelberg University	Twitter Translation Using Translation-based Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
July 26, 2012	Eva Sourjikova Heidelberg University	Automatic Detection of Fine-Grained Named Entity Classes

Winter Term 2011/2012

Time	Lecturer	Title
October 27, 2011	Chris Biemann TU Darmstadt	I. Lexical Substitution using Crowdsourcing II. Graph Measures for the Quality of Language Models [ Abstract ]
November 10, 2011	Johannes Fürnkranz TU Darmstadt	Preference Learning by Pairwise Decompositions [ Abstract ]
November 17, 2011	Galina Tremper Heidelberg University	Semantic Relations between Verbs
December 01, 2011	Darla Shockley	A Machine Translation Approach to Abstractive Summarization
December 15, 2011	Katja Markert Humboldt-Scholar at H-ITS	Information Status and Anaphora beyond Coreference
January 12, 2012	Stefan Evert TU Darmstadt	Web N-Grams as a Resource for Corpus Linguistics [ Abstract | Slides | Handout ]
January 26, 2012	Sebastian Martschat H-ITS	Models for Coreference Resolution
February 2, 2012	Michael Roth Heidelberg University	Improving Discourse Coherence using Parallel Text Fragments
February 15, 2012	Iryna Gurevych and Judith Eckle-Kohler TU Darmstadt	UBY – A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF [ Abstract ]

Summer Term 2011

Time	Lecturer	Title
May 12, 2011	Kathrin Spreyer Heidelberg University	Does it have to be trees? [ Abstract ]
May 26, 2011	Anna Kazantsevai with Stan Szpakowicz University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Text Segmentation Using Affinity Propagation [ Abstract ]
June 16, 2011	Gerhard Kremer Heidelberg University	A Crow's Beak is not Yellow - Investigations on Cognitively Salient Concept Properties [ Abstract ]
July 19, 2011	Benjamin Börschinger (with Bevan K. Jones and Mark Johnson) Macquarie University	Reducing Grounded Learning Tasks To Grammatical Inference [ Abstract ]
	Matthias Hartung (with Anette Frank) Heidelberg University	Exploring Supervised LDA Models for Assigning Attributes to Adjective-Noun Phrases [ Abstract ]
	Matthias Hartung (with Anette Frank) Heidelberg University	Assessing Interpretable, Attribute-related Meaning Representations for Adjective-Noun Phrases in a Similarity Prediction Task [ Abstract ]
July 20, 2011	Prof. Mark Johnson Macquarie University	Adaptor Grammars: A framework for Bayesian non-parametric grammatical inference [ Abstract ]

Winter Term 2010/2011

Time	Lecturer	Title
October 20, 2010	Adam Kilgarriff Lexical Computing Ltd.	Corpora for the coming decade [ Abstract | Slides ]
December 9, 2010	Aoife Cahill University of Stuttgart	Information Status in Generation Ranking [ Abstract] | Slides ]
January 13, 2011	Martin Volk University of Zurich	The Automatic Translation of TV Subtitles. A Machine Translation Success Story. [ Abstract]
January 20, 2011	Frank Keller University of Edinburgh	Incremental, Predictive Parsing with Psycholinguistically Motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar [ Abstract] | Slides]
February 3, 2011	Preslav Nakov National University of Singapore	The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compound Syntax and Semantics [ Abstract] | Slides ]

Summer Term 2010

Time	Lecturer	Title
May 27, 2010	Stefan Riezler Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University	Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs [ Abstract | Slides ]
June 10, 2010	Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Carina Silberer Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University	Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation Using Multilingual Co-occurrence Graphs [ Abstract | Slides ]
June 24, 2010	Sebastian Rudolph Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	The Matrix Has You – A Unified Compositional Model of Language [ Abstract ]
July 14, 2010	Dr. Wendell Piez Mulberry Technologies, Inc.	Experiments in overlap: lessons from implementing the LMNL model in XML [ Abstract ]
July 19, 2010	Prof. Junzhong Gu East China Normal University, Shanghai	Context Aware Computing and Middleware [ Abstract ]
July 20, 2010	Saif Mohammad National Research Council, Canada	Emotions Evoked by Common Words and Phrases: Using Mechanical Turk to Create an Emotional Lexicon [ Abstract ]

Winter Term 2009/2010

Time	Lecturer	Title
September 3, 2009	Joel Tetreault Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey	The Ups and Downs of Preposition Error Detection (Slides)
September 24, 2009	Katja Filippova EML Research, Heidelberg	Dependency graph-based sentence fusion and compression (Abstract)
October 22, 2009	Noah Bubenhofer & Klaus Rothenhäusler Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg	Sprache oberflächlich: Datengeleitete Analyse komplexer Muster in Textkorpora für sozialwissenschaftliche Anwendungsbereiche (Abstract) (Slides)
October 29, 2009	Asif Ekbal Department of Computer Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and Seminar für Computerlinguistik, Universität Heidelberg	Named Entity Recognition, Classification and Transliteration in Bengali (Abstract) (Slides NERC) (Slides Transliteration)
November 19, 2009	Mirella Lapata School of Computing, University of Edinburgh, Scotland	Vector-based models of semantic composition (Abstract) (Slides)
November 26, 2009	Yannick Versley Universität Tübingen	Multilingual Coreference Resolution with BART (Abstract) (Slides)
February 4, 2010	Anoop Sarkar School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada	Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role Labeling (Abstract)
February 10, 2010	Prof. Dr. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India	Classification of Verbs - Towards Developing a Bengali Verb Subcategorization Lexicon (Abstract) (Slides)
February 11, 2010	Sabine Bergler Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada	BioEvent extraction and hedge classification (Abstract) (Slides)

Summer Term 2009

Time	Lecturer	Title
April 2, 2009	Henriette Slogsnat (geb. Engelken) EML Research, Heidelberg	Semantic processing of biochemical compound names (Abstract)
April 30, 2009	Simone Paolo Ponzetto Heidelberg University	Large-Scale Taxonomy Mapping for Restructuring and Integrating Wikipedia (Abstract) (Slides)
May 28, 2009	Catherine Legg Waikato University, New Zealand	All You Can Eat Ontoloqy-Buildung: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc (Abstract)
June 18, 2009	Robert Dale Macquarie University, Sydney	Referring Expression Generation: What Can We Learn From Human Data? (Abstract) (Slides)
July 2, 2009	Pascal Denis INRIA Rocquencourt, University Paris 7	Specialized Rankers and Global Models for Coreference Resolution (Abstract) (Slides)
July 8, 2009	Abdelhadi Soudi University of Rabat, Marokko	Issues in the Generation of Arabic (Abstract)
July 9, 2009	Alina Tokarczyk Heidelberg University	Cross-Lingual Projection of LFG F-Structures: Resource Induction for Polish

Winter Term 2008/2009

Time	Lecturer	Title
October 9, 2008	David Milne University of Waikato	Knowledge-based Information Retrieval with Wikipedia (Abstract) (Slides)
Oct 16, 2008	Martin Forst Palo Alto Research Center	Grammatical Machine Translation II (Abstract)
Nov 6, 2008	Rainer Osswald	The FUH Approach to Deep Semantic Analysis and its Lexical Resources (Abstract)
Nov 13, 2008	Johan Bos Università di Roma "La Sapienza"	Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering (Abstract) (Slides)
Nov 20, 2008	Caecilia Zirn	Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy (Abstract) (Slides)
Nov 24, 2008	Ian Witten University of Waikato	Introducing the Greenstone Digital Library Software (Abstract)
	Stan Matwin University of Ottawa	Experience with a Deployed Text Mining System (Abstract)
Nov 27, 2008	Johannes Knopp, Carina Silberer, Wolodja Wentland	HeiNER - the Heidelberg Named Entity Resource (Abstract)

Summer Term 2008

Time	Lecturer	Title
April 10, 2008	Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford	Nominal coordination and numeral modifiers (Abstract) (Slides)
May 8, 2008	Paola Merlo, Université de Genève	Lexical and Structural Constraints in Semantic Role Labelling (Abstract) (Slides)
June 12, 2008	Wiebke Wagner, Universität Heidelberg, Alumna	Semantische Agenten im Information Retrieval Eine Studie über Semantic Web-Technologien (Abstract)

Winter Term 2007/2008

Time	Lecturer	Title
Dec 10, 2007	Paul Buitelaar DFKI Saarbrücken	Ontologielernen aus Texten - Hintergründe, Stand der Forschung und Herausforderungen (Abstract)
Dec 20, 2007	Josef van Genabith Dublin City University	Parsing and Generation with Treebank-Based Wide-Coverage Probabilistic LFG Grammars (Abstract) (Slides)
Jan 17, 2008	Alex Fraser IMS, University of Stuttgart	Improved Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation (Abstract) (Slides)
Jan 24, 2008	Jette Klein-Berning doctronic GmbH, Bonn und Alumna, Univ. Heidelberg	Wege aus der vernetzten Sprachverwirrung - ein Ansatz mit Latent Semantic Indexing GLDV Award für die beste studentische Abschlussarbeit des Jahres 2007 (Abstract)