Letitia Parcalabescu will give an invited talk about her work at heidelberg.ai at the DKFZ.
Former ICL student Laura Zeidler won the GSCL Best Thesis Award for her BA Thesis: “An Interpreted Dynamic Testsuite for the Evaluation of Semantic Similarity Metrics used in Parsing and Generation”. Congratulations!
We are happy to announce six new publications, with partners and colleagues, to be presented in Toronto in July.
Congratulations to all authors!
We celebrate the successful PhD defense of Juri Opitz, for his thesis on Metrics of Graph-Based Meaning Representations with Applications from Parsing Evaluation to Explainable NLG Evaluation and Semantic Search. Congratulations!
Members of the HD-NLP Group at ICL are participating in the 17th IWCS Conference on Computational Semantics in Nancy, with
two publications and an invited talk. Congratulations!
to evaluate textual, graph-based and contextualized NLG evaluation metrics through the lens of Semantic Similarity Rating,
in the *SEM Conference at NAACL 2022 in Seattle.
and Weisfeiler Leman in the Bamboo 
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Event-based Reasoning Natural Language Generation Structured Meaning Representation |
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Meaning representations Explainability Argument Mining |
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Multimodal Learning Vision and Language Multimodal Understanding |
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Argument Knowledge Graphs ACCEPT |
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Low-resource Languages Multilingual Language Models |
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Multimodal Deep Learning Multilingual Embeddings Transfer Learning |
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| Information Extraction from Medical Texts |
The main purpose of language is to encode and communicate information of all sorts.
Our research focuses on semantics — the study of meaning — and how a machine can assign meaning to utterances: words, sentences and texts, as humans can do. Our work is linguistically informed and applies advanced machine learning techniques.
Understanding of language requires knowledge of language and the world, the ability to perform reasoning, and
situational context.
We study how to interface language with knowledge and how to ground language in the visual world. We investigate
what can be left implicit in texts,
given that language and knowledge interact, allowing humans to read between the lines.
For all this, humans and machines need knowledge:
about language, the world, people, social norms and the visual world.
Joint project between Prof. Anette Frank (ICL, Heidelberg University) and Prof. Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld) within the DFG priority program RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines
Joint project between Prof. Anette Frank (ICL, Heidelberg University) and Prof. Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim) within the DFG priority program RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines
The project will uncover missing explanatory links in argumentative texts, fill in automatically acquired knowledge that makes the structure of the argument explicit and establish and verify the knowledge-enhanced argumentation structure with a combination of formal reasoning and machine learning.
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You can find our latest code releases on our Heidelberg-NLP Github page!
Over 23 repositories containing code related to our recent publications.
