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I'm currently working on a project funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation:  Wikulu - Self-Organizing Wikis

• Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych:
  DKPro Similarity: An Open Source Framework for Text Similarity
  In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. System Demonstrations, Sofia, Bulgaria, to appear.
• Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych:
  Text Reuse Detection Using a Composition of Text Similarity Measures
  In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 167-184, December 2012, Mumbai, India.
• Sebastian Walter, Christina Unger, Philipp Cimiano, and Daniel Bär:
  Evaluation of a Layered Approach to Question Answering over Linked Data
  In: Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference, pages 362-374, November 2012, Boston, MA, USA.
• Daniel Bär, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych, and Torsten Zesch:
  UKP: Computing Semantic Textual Similarity by Combining Multiple Content Similarity Measures    *Best Participating System*
  In: Proceedings of the 6th Int'l Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, in conjunction with the 1st Joint Conf. on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 435-440, June 2012, Montreal, Canada.
  
• Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych:
  A Reflective View on Text Similarity
  In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 515-520, September 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria.
• Daniel Bär, Nicolai Erbs, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych:
  Wikulu: An Extensible Architecture for Integrating Natural Language Processing Techniques with Wikis
  In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. System Demonstrations, pages 74-79, June 2011, Portland, OR, USA.
• Johannes Hoffart, Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych:
  Discovering Links Using Semantic Relatedness
  In: Pre-proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, pages 314-325, December 2009, Brisbane, Australia.

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Program Committee / Reviewer:

•  9th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013), 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria
•  10th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR 2013), in conj. with the 24th Int'l Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
•  9th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR 2012), in conjunction with the 23rd Int'l Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2012, Vienna, Austria
•  6th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012), in conjunction with the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 2012, Montreal, Canada

I supervise or have supervised the following theses:

• Stefan Laabs (Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych and Daniel Bär). Identifying Semantically Related Content in Wikis. Master Thesis. Computer Science Department, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2010.

• SS 2012: WeRC Doctoral Program Language & Knowledge Engineering: Guest Lectures
• WS 2011/12: WeRC Doctoral Program Language & Knowledge Engineering: Guest Lectures
• SS 2011: Natural Language Processing and eLearning (Practice Class)
• SS 2011: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing (Advanced Seminar)
• WS 2010/11: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing (Advanced Seminar)
• SS 2010: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing (Advanced Seminar)
• WS 2009/10: Semantics in Automatic Language Understanding (Regular Seminar)
• WS 2009/10: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing (Advanced Seminar)

I hold a diploma in computer science from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.