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 and member of the Editorial Board of the Computational Linguistics Journal (2018 -- 2021).
Office Hours and Teaching
- Office hours: Please write an email for appointment!
- Writing a thesis or homework:
News
I am Area Chair for the ACL 2019 Conference in Florence. Looking forward to a great conference!Selected new publications
- Juri Opitz and Anette Frank (2019): Automatic Accuracy Prediction for AMR Parsing, (*SEM 2019), to appear.
- 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), to appear.
- Debjit Paul and Anette Frank (2019): Ranking and selecting Multi-Hop Knowledge Paths to Better Predict Human Needs, NAACL 2019, to appear.
- 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).
- Todor Mihaylov and Anette Frank (2018): Knowledgeable Reader: Enhancing Cloze-Style Reading Comprehension with External Commonsense Knowledge, ACL 2018, Melbourne (Volume 1: Long Papers).
- Angel Daza and Anette Frank (2018): A Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Semantic Role Labeling, RepL4NLP@ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia.
- Ana Marasović and Anette Frank (2018): SRL4ORL: Improving Opinion Role Labelling using Multi-task Learning with Semantic Role Labeling, NAACL 2018, New Orleand, LA.
- Ana Marasović, Leo Born, Juri Opitz and Anette Frank: A Mention-Ranking Model for Abstract Anaphora Resolution. EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Maria Becker, Michael Staniek, Vivi Nastase and Anette Frank: Enriching Argumentative Texts with Implicit Knowledge, NLDB 2017, Liege, Belgium.
DFG accepts new project on Knowledge-based Argumentation Analysis
The new project ExpLAIN: Between the lines -- Knowledge-based Analysis of Argumentation in a formal Argumentation Inference System is funded within the DFG priority program RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines.The project will be jointly conducted by Prof. Anette Frank and Prof. Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim) and their associated research groups.
The project will
- uncover missing explanatory links in argumentative texts,
- fill in automatically acquired knowledge that makes the structure of the argument explicit, and
- will establish and verify the knowledge-enhanced argumentation structure with a combination of formal reasoning and machine learning.
Within the priority programme RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines we will contribute to community actions, shared tasks and evaluation efforts.
Current Projects
- Between the lines - Knowledge-based Analysis of Argumentation in a formal Argumentation Inference System (SPP RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines) (2018 - 2021)
- Leibniz ScienceCampus: Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Learning (2015 - 2019)
- DFG Graduiertenkolleg: Adaptive Informationsaufbereitung aus Heterogenen Quellen (2015 - 2019)
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)
