Peter Adolphs

I am a researcher at the Language Technology Lab at DFKI Berlin. I have studied Computer Science and Linguistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Stages of my studies include a one-semester visit to the Department of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University and the participation in several summer schools for Computional and General Linguistics (e.g., ESSLLI 2003, FFL 2002, ESSLLI 2001, ESSLLI 2000, among others).

My general theoretical research interests are linguistically adequate computational models for the most basic levels of linguistic analysis of written text, namely morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. I have worked on morphological models and their implementation, HPSG grammar engineering and parsing and the automatic acquisition of linguistic resources from text corpora. I am furthermore interested in utilizing computational models of natural language for building applications that help to solve real-world problems. My current focus of work lies in the development and improvement of information access and knowledge management solutions by leveraging linguistic analyses at various levels and applying them to large amounts of data, for arriving at an application-specific semantics with minimalized human efforts, using Information Extraction, Question Answering and Semantic Web technologies.

Publications (BibTeX)

Forthcoming:

• Klüwer, Tina; Adolphs, Peter; Xu, Feiyu & Uszkoreit, Hans. 2012. Evaluation of the KomParse Conversational Non-Player Characters in a Commercial Virtual World. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012). Istanbul, Turkey.

Published:

• Adolphs, Peter; Xu, Feiyu; Uszkoreit, Hans & Li, Hong. 2011. Dependency Graphs as a Generic Interface between Parsers and Relation Extraction Rule Learning. Proceedings of the 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2011). Berlin, Germany.
• Adolphs, Peter; Benz, Anton; Bertomeu, Nuria; Cheng, Xiwen; Klüwer, Tina; Krifka, Manfred; Strekalova, Alexandra; Uszkoreit, Hans & Xu, Feiyu. 2011. Conversational Agents in a Virtual World. Proceedings of the 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2011). Berlin, Germany.
• Adolphs, Peter; Theobald, Martin; Schäfer, Ulrich; Uszkoreit, Hans & Weikum, Gerhard. 2011. YAGO-QA: Answering Questions by Structured Knowledge Queries. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC 2011). Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• Klüwer, Tina; Adolphs, Peter; Xu, Feiyu & Uszkoreit, Hans. 2011. A Dialogue System for Conversational NPCs. Proceedings of the IWSDS2011 Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Granada, Spain.
• Klüwer, Tina; Adolphs, Peter; Xu, Feiyu; Uszkoreit, Hans & Cheng, Xiwen. 2010. Talking NPCs in a Virtual Game World. Proceedings of the System Demonstrations Section at ACL 2010. Uppsala, Sweden.
• Adolphs, Peter; Cheng, Xiwen; Klüwer, Tina; Uszkoreit, Hans & Xu, Feiyu. 2010. Question Answering Biographic Information and Social Network Powered by the Semantic Web. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010). Valletta, Malta.
• Cheng, Xiwen; Adolphs, Peter; Xu, Feiyu; Uszkoreit, Hans & Li, Hong. 2009. Gossip Galore: A Self-Learning Agent for Exchanging Pop Trivia. In Kreutel, Jörn (ed.). Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session at EACL 2009. Athens, Greece, Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Xu, Feiyu; Adolphs, Peter; Uszkoreit, Hans; Cheng, Xiwen & Li, Hong. 2009. Gossip Galore: A Conversational Web Agent for Collecting and Sharing Pop Trivia. In Filipe, Joaquim; Fred, Ana & Sharp, Bernadette (eds). Proceedings of the First International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2009). Porto, Portugal.
• Crysmann, Berthold; Bertomeu, Nuria; Adolphs, Peter; Flickinger, Dan & Klüwer, Tina. 2008. Hybrid processing for grammar and style checking. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008). Manchester, UK.
• Adolphs, Peter; Oepen, Stephan; Callmeier, Ulrich; Crysmann, Berthold; Flickinger, Dan & Kiefer, Bernd. 2008. Some Fine Points of Hybrid Natural Language Parsing. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco.
• Adolphs, Peter. 2008. Acquiring a Poor Man's Inflectional Lexicon for German. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco.
• Lüdeling, Anke; Walter, Maik; Kroymann, Emil & Adolphs, Peter. 2005. Multi-level error annotation in learner corpora. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2005. Birmingham, UK.

Professional Experience

• since May 2007: Researcher at DFKI Language Technology Lab
  • Project MEDIXIN
  • Project taraXÜ
  • Project THESEUS Alexandria for Media
  • Project KomParse
  • Project RASCALLI
  • Project Checkpoint
  • contributions to the development of the PET parser for high-efficiency HPSG parsing
• October 2002 – March 2005: student assistant at the working group for Corpus Linguistics by Prof. Anke Lüdeling and General Linguistics by Prof. Manfred Krifka
  • main developer for a web-interface to the Corpus Query Processor (CQP)
  • participation in the development of an annotation infrastructure for the stand-off learner corpus Falko
  • introductionary talks about corpus linguistics in general and CQP in particular
  • tutorial for truth-conditional sentence semantics
• October 2000 – August 2001: student assistant at Semantic Edge
  • development of a graphical editor for HPSG lexicons
• Januar – December 2000: student assistant for Project X-ING at the Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Miscellanies

Over the past years, DFKI has given birth to many successful spin-off companies. One of the latest is yocoy, an offspring of our Language Technology lab, which offers the smart translation assistant and phrase book for mobile devices called i-You. i-You currently supports to-and-fro translations between Chinese, English and German. 我要去买个iphone先   o(╯□╰)o

Contact

DFKI GmbH
Projektbüro Berlin
Alt-Moabit 91c
10559 Berlin
Germany

Tel: +49 (0)30 / 238 95 - 1826

Email: Peter.Adolphs@dfki.de