Selected Presentations
- TechWatch - Technology and Market Observation powered by SMILA, English slides of my presentation at the Theseus SMILA theme conference "SMILA – Das Framework für semantische Applikationen – Überblick und Einsatz" (SMILA - The Framework for semantic Applications - Overview and Usage), THESEUS – Innovation Center, Berlin, Germany, June, 2011.
- Hybrid Information Extraction - A Survey of Methods and Techniques, Conference: 10 Years Verbmobil - Review and Outlook - Multilingual processing of spontaneous speech, Saarbrücken, Germany, November, 2010.
- Textual Entailment - Methoden und Anwendungen, Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany, January, 2010.
- Data-oriented Parsing with Lexicalized Tree Insertion Grammars, NLP seminar, CNRS, Nancy, France, March, 2009.
- Web based Multilingual Question Answering, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, November, 2008.
- Ontology-based Information Extraction and Question Answering – Coming Together, 1st OBIE workshop, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September, 2008.
- The Multilingual and Cross-lingual Web, Symposium on "Human Language Technology in Africa: Status and Prospects" funded by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Rabat, Morocco, June 2008.
- DFKI at QA@clef 2007, Clef workshop 2007, Budapest, September, 2007.
- A multilingual framework for searching definitions on web snippets, KI-07, Osnabrück, Germany, September, 2007.
- Recognizing Textual Entailment Using a Subsequence Kernel Method, AAAI-07, Vancouver, August, 2007.
- Language independent answer prediction from the Web, FinTal'06, Turku, August, 2006.
- Open-domain crosslingual Question Answering, 30th DFKI meeting of the scientific advisory board (SAB), Saarbrücken, April, 2006.
- Open-domain Cross-lingual Question Answering from Unstructured Documents, LCT Colloquium, Free University of Bozen, Italy, June 9, 2005.
- Language technology and the Semantic Web, Habilitation talk, Saarland University, July 2004.
- Mining Answers in German Web Pages, WI-2003, October, Halifax.
- Interleaving natural language parsing and generation through uniform processing, AI Lab Colloquium, MIT, Massachusetts, USA, July 15, 2002.
- Language Technology and Intelligent Information Extraction, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, Germany, 16th May 2002.
- Information Extraction from Real-world German Text, University of Saarland, Germany, April, 2001.
- PARADIME - Parametrizable Domain-Adaptive Information and Message Extraction. Adapting the SMES System to the Soccer Domain, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Feb. 2000.
- A Uniform Architecture for Parsing and Generation of Natural Language, CSLI, Stanford University, November, 1998.
- Data-driven Extraction of Lexicalized Tree Substitution Grammars from HPSG, University of Groningen, Netherlands, November, 1997.