Welcome!
I am a DFKI Research Fellow and principal researcher at DFKI. I have studied computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics at the Universities of Regensburg, Koblenz-Landau, and at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. I obtained a Dr. rer. nat. degree in Computer Science in 1994, and the Venia Legendi in Computational Linguistics in 2004, both from the Saarland University.
The core of my research interest is in the field of natural language driven human computer interaction, where natural language is the common interface for extracting, classifying, and talking about information from large-scale unstructured text sources.
Projects and Activities
- Natural language parsing and generation
- Question answering
- Information extraction
- Textual inference
- Machine Learning for language technology
- Internet-based mobile touchable applications (video clip of our iPad application)
Program Committees (2012)
- The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL)
- 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
- 17th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB)
- 8th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
- 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
- 3rd workshop on "The People’s Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP"
- ESWC 2012 Workshop on Interacting with Linked Data
- *SEM - First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics