Chair of Computational Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Anette Frank

Contact

Institut für Computerlinguistik	email: frank sign cl sign uni-heidelberg sign de
Im Neuenheimer Feld 325	phone: +49-(0)6221/54-3247
D-69120 Heidelberg	sek: +49-(0)6221/54-3245
Germany	fax: +49-(0)6221/54-3242

Research

My research focuses on statistical - nowadays mostly neural - NLP methods for discourse-oriented semantic analysis and information access tasks with the aim of improving computational natural language understanding.

For more information please consult my research and publication pages and the pages of my research group.

I am member of the standing reviewer committee of TACL.

Office Hours and Teaching

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News

I will be Area Chair in the track Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics for ACL 2020 in Seattle. Looking forward to a great conference!
Letitia Parcalabescu and myself are participating in the newly established COST Action Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation, led by Isabelle Augenstein. We are members of the COST Action's management committee as representatives for Germany. Looking forward to collaborating in this great network activity.
Three members of the NLP group will attend EurNLP 2019 in London to present and discuss their research: 
-  Todor Mihaylov: Discourse-Aware Semantic Self-Attention for Narrative Reading Comprehension
- Letitia Parcalabescu: Unsupervised Text to Scene Graph Alignment with WordNet Neighborhood
- Debjit Paul: Graph-based Multi-Hop Commonsense Knowledge

Selected new publications

Angel Daza and Anette Frank: Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling, EMNLP 2019.
Todor Mihaylov and Anette Frank: Discourse-Aware Semantic Self-Attention for Narrative Reading Comprehension, EMNLP 2019.
Ioana Hulpus, Jonathan Kobbe, Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Graeme Hirst, Maria Becker, Juri Opitz, Vivi Nastase and Anette Frank: Towards Explaining Natural Language Arguments with Background Knowledge, SemEx 2019@ISWC.
Juri Opitz and Anette Frank (2019): Dissecting Content and Context in Argumentative Relation Analysis, Argument Mining@ACL 2019.
Juri Opitz and Anette Frank (2019): Automatic Accuracy Prediction for AMR Parsing, *SEM 2019.
Jonathan Kobbe, Juri Opitz, Maria Becker, Ioana Hulpus, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Anette Frank (2019): Exploiting Background Knowledge for Argumentative Relation Classification, Second biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019), *Best Paper Award*.
Debjit Paul and Anette Frank (2019): Ranking and selecting Multi-Hop Knowledge Paths to Better Predict Human Needs, NAACL 2019.
Juri Opitz and Anette Frank (2018): Addressing the Winograd Schema Challenge as a Sequence Ranking Task, International Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models (LCCM).

Current Projects

Completed Projects

CLARIN-D Curation Project: Semantic Annotation for Digital Humanities (2015 - 2016)
CLARIN-D (2011 - 2014, 2014 - 2016)
Coherence in Language Processing: Semantics beyond the Sentence (2011 - 2014)
Ontology Modeling for Ritual Structure Research (2009 - 2013)
The Role of Context in Language Processing (2011 - 2012)
Turkologischer Anzeiger: Creation of a Translingual Database (2009 - 2010)
SightSee: Synchronous Generation of Language and 3D-Scenes (2008 - 2010)
SmartWeb (2006 - 2007)
SALSA II (2004 - 2007; co-project leader, with Manfred Pinkal)
Quetal (2003 - 2005; co-project leader)
WhiteBoard (2001 - 2002; co-project leader)

Former Affiliations

Language Technology Lab, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI, Saarbrücken (2000 - 2007)
Multilingual Language and Technology (MLTT) group, Xerox Research Centre Europe, XRCE, Grenoble (1997 - 2000)
Institute of Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart (1991 - 1997)