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

Education

Publications

1. Raphael Schumann and Stefan Riezler

   Analyzing Generalization of Vision and Language Navigation to Unseen Outdoor Areas

   Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Dublin, Ireland, 2022

   pdf | bib

   @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}
   }
   

2. Raphael Schumann and Stefan Riezler

   Generating Landmark Navigation Instructions from Maps as a Graph-to-Text Problem

   Association 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)}
   }
   

3. Raphael Schumann, Lili Mou, Yao Lu, Olga Vechtomova and Katja Markert

   Discrete Optimization for Unsupervised Sentence Summarization with Word-Level Extraction

   Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Seattle, WA, US (virtual), 2020

   pdf | bib

   @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}
   }
   

4. Raphael Schumann and Ines Rehbein

   Active Learning via Membership Query Synthesis for Semi-supervised Sentence Classification

   Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Hong Kong, 2019

   pdf | bib

   @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}
   }
   

5. Raphael Schumann and Pongtep Angkititrakul

   Incorporating ASR Errors with Attention-based, Jointly RNN for Intent Detection and Slot Filling

   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, 2018

   pdf | bib

   @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}
   }
   

6. Marilisa Amoia, Frank Diehl, Jesus Gimenez, Joel Pinto, Raphael Schumann, Fabian Stemmer, Paul Vozila and Yi Zhang

   Scalable Wide and Deep Learning for Computer Assisted Coding

   Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Industry Track (NAACL-HLT), New Orleans, LA, US, 2018

   pdf | bib

   @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}
   }