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My current research interests are:

• Lexical Semantics
• Wiktionary
• Word Sense Alignment
• Collaborative Lexicography
• Educational Web 2.0
• Inter-rater Agreement

The following wordle is created from some of my publications:

I have been awarded the "GSCL-Preis für die beste studentische Computerlinguistik-Abschlussarbeit 2009-2011" (best student thesis in computational linguistics 2009-2011) from the Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology) at their biannual meeting in 2011 (GSCL 2011).

Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych:
To Exhibit is not to Loiter: A Multilingual, Sense-Disambiguated Wiktionary for Measuring Verb Similarity, in: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Vol. 4, p. 1763–1780, December 2012. Mumbai, India.
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Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych:
Wiktionary: A new rival for expert-built lexicons? Exploring the possibilities of collaborative lexicography, Chapter 13 in S. Granger & M. Paquot (Eds.): Electronic Lexicography, p. 259–291, Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 2012.
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Judith Eckle-Kohler, Iryna Gurevych, Silvana Hartmann, Michael Matuschek, and Christian M. Meyer:
UBY-LMF – A Uniform Model for Standardizing Heterogeneous Lexical-Semantic Resources in ISO-LMF, in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), p. 275–282, May 2012. Istanbul, Turkey.
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Iryna Gurevych, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Silvana Hartmann, Michael Matuschek, Christian M. Meyer, and Christian Wirth:
UBY – A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource based on LMF, in: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), p. 580–590, April 2012. Avignon, France.
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Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych:
OntoWiktionary – Constructing an Ontology from the Collaborative Online Dictionary Wiktionary, chapter 6 in M. T. Pazienza and A. Stellato (Eds.): Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources, p. 131–161, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, February 2012.
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Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych:
What Psycholinguists Know About Chemistry: Aligning Wiktionary and WordNet for Increased Domain Coverage, in: Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), p. 883–892, November 2011. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych:
How Web Communities Analyze Human Language: Word Senses in Wiktionary, in: Proceedings of the Second Web Science Conference (WebSci), April 2010. Raleigh, NC, USA.
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Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych:
Worth its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource — A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet, in A. Gelbukh (Ed.): Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (CICLing), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6008, p. 38–49, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, March 2010. Iaşi, Romannia.
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Christian M. Meyer:
Combining Answers from heterogeneous Web Documents for Question Answering, Master Thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, April 2009.
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Christian M. Meyer:
Motivvariation in komplexen Netzwerken und ihre Auswirkung auf den Informationsgehalt (Variation of motifs in complex networks and its impact on the information processing capacity), Bachelor Thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, August 2006.

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Program Committee:

• 3rd Workshop on 'The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP' (held at ACL 2012), July 12-13, 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

Secondary Reviewer:

• 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), February 20-26, 2011, Tokyo, Japan.

Organizations and Academic Networks:

• DFG-Forschungsnetzwerk "Internetlexikografie" (Associated Member)

06.12.2011: Vernetzungsstrategien und Zugriffsstrukturen in kollaborativ erstellten Lexika. DFG-Forschungsnetzwerk "Internetlexikografie" – 2. Arbeitstreffen, Berlin, Deutschland.
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11.11.2011: What Psycholinguists Know About Chemistry: Aligning Wiktionary and WordNet for Increased Domain Coverage. Fifth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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28.09.2011: Combining Answers from Heterogeneous Web Documents for Question Answering. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Sprach­technologie und Computerlinguistik (GSCL), Hamburg, Deutschland.
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14.01.2011: The People’s Web meets Linguistic Knowledge: Automatic Sense Alignment of Wikipedia and WordNet. Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Oxford, UK.
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18.05.2010: Worth its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource — A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet. First Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC), Grenoble, France.
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23.04.2010: How Web Communities Analyze Human Language: Word Senses in Wiktionary (Lightning Talk). Second Web Science Conference (WebSci), Raleigh, NC, USA.
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22.03.2010: Worth its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource — A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet. 11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), Iaşi, Romania.
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I'm involved in the following courses:

• Summer Term 2012: Lexical-Semantic Methods for Language Understanding
• Summer Term 2010: Lexical-Semantic Methods for Language Understanding

Together with Stefan Radomski, I organize the specialized Master program "Internet- and Web-based Systems" that is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser.

I supervise or have supervised the following students/theses:

• Christian Kirschner (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych): Kombination mehrerer lexikalisch-semantischer Ressourcen durch multiple Alignments von Wortbedeutungen (Combining multiple lexical-semantic resources using multiple word sense alignments). Master Thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, December 2012.
• Bastian Laur (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych): Mining Word Sense Disambiguated Translations from Wiktionary. Bachelor Thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, August 2011.
• Navid Imani (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych): Graph-based Techniques for Automatic Dictionary Alignment. IREP research project with Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Summer 2010.

I hold a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the TU Darmstadt, Germany.

I've recently published a short crime story "Der Tod und die Steuer" at the 1. Zwingenberger Krimiwettbewerb (in German). You might also want to take a look at my personal homepage: http://www.christian-meyer.org.