Raphael Schumann, M.A.
PhD student at the Statistical NLP Group under supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Riezler.
Link to personal website
News
- 2022 March: Will attend ACL 2022 in Dublin
- 2022 March: Will intern at Amazon in Seattle for 6 month starting in May
- 2022 February: ACL 2022 paper accepted
- 2021 May: ACL 2021 paper accepted
- 2021 February: Will be teaching “Softwareprojekt SoSe 21”
- 2020 April: ACL 2020 paper accepted
- 2019 November: Will attend and present at CoNLL 2019 in Hong Kong
Research Interests
- Vision and Language Navigation
- Grounding Natural Language Processing
- Text Summarization
Teaching
2022 summer | Seminar: Vision and Language Navigation |
2021 summer | Softwareprojekt |
2020 summer | Seminar: Grounded NLP for Spatial Navigation |
Education
2019- | PhD Student Computational Linguistics |
Heidelberg University, Germany | |
2019 | Master Computational Linguistics |
Heidelberg University, Germany | |
2019 | Visiting Graduate Researcher |
University of Waterloo, Canada | |
2015 | Bachelor Computational Linguistics with Minor Computer Science |
Heidelberg University, Germany |
Publications
- Analyzing Generalization of Vision and Language Navigation to Unseen Outdoor AreasProceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Dublin, Ireland, 2022
@inproceedings{schumann2022, author = {Schumann, Raphael and Riezler, Stefan}, title = {Analyzing Generalization of Vision and Language Navigation to Unseen Outdoor Areas}, journal = {Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, journal-abbrev = {ACL}, year = {2022}, city = {Dublin}, country = {Ireland}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13838} }
- Generating Landmark Navigation Instructions from Maps as a Graph-to-Text ProblemAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Bangkok, Thailand (virtual), 2021| bib
@inproceedings{schumann2021, author = {Schumann, Raphael and Riezler, Stefan}, title = {Generating Landmark Navigation Instructions from Maps as a Graph-to-Text Problem}, journal = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, journal-abbrev = {ACL}, year = {2021}, city = {Bangkok}, country = {Thailand (virtual)} }
- Discrete Optimization for Unsupervised Sentence Summarization with Word-Level ExtractionAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Seattle, WA, US (virtual), 2020
@inproceedings{schumann2020, author = {Schumann, Raphael and Mou, Lili and Lu, Yao and Vechtomova, Olga and Markert, Katja}, title = {Discrete Optimization for Unsupervised Sentence Summarization with Word-Level Extraction}, journal = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, journal-abbrev = {ACL}, year = {2020}, city = {Seattle, WA}, country = {US (virtual)}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.452.pdf} }
- Active Learning via Membership Query Synthesis for Semi-supervised Sentence ClassificationConference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Hong Kong, 2019
@inproceedings{schumann2019, author = {Schumann, Raphael and Rehbein, Ines}, title = {Active Learning via Membership Query Synthesis for Semi-supervised Sentence Classification}, journal = {Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning}, journal-abbrev = {CoNLL}, year = {2019}, city = {Hong Kong}, url = {https://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~rehbein/slides/MQS_conll2019.pdf} }
- Incorporating ASR Errors with Attention-based, Jointly RNN for Intent Detection and Slot FillingIEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, 2018
@inproceedings{schumann2018, author = {Schumann, Raphael and Angkititrakul, Pongtep}, title = {Incorporating ASR Errors with Attention-based, Jointly RNN for Intent Detection and Slot Filling}, journal = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing}, journal-abbrev = {ICASSP}, year = {2018}, city = {Calgary}, country = {Canada}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8461598} }
- Scalable Wide and Deep Learning for Computer Assisted CodingAnnual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Industry Track (NAACL-HLT), New Orleans, LA, US, 2018
@inproceedings{amoia2018, author = {Amoia, Marilisa and Diehl, Frank and Gimenez, Jesus and Pinto, Joel and Schumann, Raphael and Stemmer, Fabian and Vozila, Paul and Zhang, Yi}, title = {Scalable Wide and Deep Learning for Computer Assisted Coding}, journal = {Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Industry Track}, journal-abbrev = {NAACL-HLT}, year = {2018}, city = {New Orleans, LA}, country = {US}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-3001.pdf} }