Supervision

Currently supervised PhD researchers

Completed Dissertations: Supervisor

upcoming: Todor Mihaylov
Defense date: July 2021
Angel Daza: Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling through Translation and Multilingual Learning
Defense date: 27.05.2021
First Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Second Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado
Maria Becker: Building Bridges - Reconstructing Implicit Information in Argumentative Texts using Commonsense Knowledge
Defense date: 28.05.2021
First Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Second Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt
Ana Marasoviç: Deep Learning with Sentiment Inference for Discourse-Oriented Opinion Analysis
Defense date: 24.01.2019
First Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Second Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Michael Strube
External Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
Matthias Hartung: Distributional Semantic Models of Attribute Meaning in Adjectives and Nouns
Advisor and First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Second Examiner: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado
ICL, Heidelberg University, 2015
Nils Reiter: Discovering Structural Similarities in Narrative Texts using Event Alignment Algorithms
Advisor and First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Second Examiner: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado
ICL, Heidelberg University, 2013
Michael Roth: Inducing Implicit Arguments via Cross-document Alignment – A Framework and its Applications
Advisor and First Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Second Examiner: Prof. Dr. Michael Strube
ICL, Heidelberg University, 2013

Completed Dissertations: Second Advisor

Benjamin Heinzerling: Aspects of Coherence for Entity Analysis
Defense date: 22.01.2019
First Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Michael Strube
Second Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Benjamin Börschinger: Exploring human lexical acquisition using Bayesian modelling
Advisor: Prof. Mark Johnson
Second advisor: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Macquarie University and Heidelberg University, 2015
Aljoscha Burchardt: Modeling Textual Entailment with Role-Semantic Information
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal
Second advisor: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
University of the Saarland, 2008
Stefanie Dipper: Implementing and Documenting Large-Scale Grammars -- German LFG
Advisor: Prof. Dr. C. Rohrer
Second advisor: PD Dr. Anette Frank
IMS, University of Stuttgart, 2005

Completed Dissertations: External Examiner

Rik van Noord: Character-based Neural Semantic Parsing
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Johan Bos
External Examinors: Prof. Dr. Michael Biehl, Prof. Dr. Anette Frank and Prof. Dr. Mirella Lapata
University of Groningen, 2020
Viktor Alexander Judea: Global Inference and Local Syntax Representations of Events
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Strube
External Examinor: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Heidelberg University, 2020
Benjamin Heinzerling: Aspects of Coherence for Entity Linking
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Strube
External Examinor: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Heidelberg University, 2018
Parvin Sadat Feizabadi: Strategies to Address Data Sparseness in Implicit Semantic Role Labeling
Advisor: Prof. Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University
External Examinor: Prof. Anette Frank
Heidelberg University, 2018
Chunyang Xiao: Neural-Symbolic Learning for Semantic Parsing
Advisors: Claire Gardent, LORIA, Nancy and Marc Dymetman, Naver Labs Europe, Grenoble, France
External Examinors: Prof. Anette Frank, Heidelberg University and Prof. Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
Nancy, LORIA, France, 2017
Britta Dorothee Zeller: Induction, Semantic Validation and Evaluation of a Derivational Morphology Lexicon for German
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado
External Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Heidelberg University, 2015
Angela Petra Fahrni: Joint Discourse-aware Concept Disambiguation and Clustering
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Strube
External Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Heidelberg University, 2015
Jie Cai: Coreference Resolution via Hypergraph Partitioning
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Strube
External Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Heidelberg University, 2013
Ineta Sejane: Wissensrepräsentation Linguistik. Modellierung, Potenzial und Grenzen am Beispiel der Ontologie zur deutschen Grammatik
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Christiane von Stutterheim
External Examinar: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Heidelberg University, 2010
Nathalie Schluter: Treebank-Based Deep Grammar Acquisition for French
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith
Internal Examiner: Dr. Deirdre Hogan
External Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
Dublin City University, School of Computing, 2010
Silke Scheible: A Computational Treatment of Superlatives
Advisor: Prof. Bonnie Webber
Internal Examiner: Prof. Ewan Klein
External Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
University of Edinburgh, 2009
Gerd Fliedner: Linguistically Informed Question Answering
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal
External Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
University of the Saarland, 2007
Frank H. Müller: A Finite State Approach to Shallow Parsing and Grammatical Functions Annotation of German
Advisor: Prof. Dr. E. Hinrichs
External examiner: PD Dr. Anette Frank
University of Tübingen, 2005

B.A. and M.A. Theses

I supervise a considerable number of student B.A. and M.A. theses.
You find them listed on this page (main supervisor listed first).