People

• Linguistic properties of collaboratively created texts
• Quality assessment of collaboratively created texts
• Wikipedia
• Big data analytics in NLP
• Machine learning
• Analysis of web discourse
• Language technologies for eHumanities

•  The Impact of Topic Bias on Quality Flaw Prediction in Wikipedia
  Oliver Ferschke and Iryna Gurevych and Marc Rittberger
  In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013). (to appear), August 2013. Sofia, Bulgaria.
•  A Survey of NLP Methods and Resources for Analyzing the Collaborative Writing Process in Wikipedia
  Oliver Ferschke and Johannes Daxenberger and Iryna Gurevych
  In: Iryna Gurevych and Jungi Kim: The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources, p. 121-160, Springer, 2013.
•  FlawFinder: A Modular System for Predicting Quality Flaws in Wikipedia - Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2012
  Oliver Ferschke and Iryna Gurevych and Marc Rittberger
  In:  CLEF 2012 Labs and Workshop, Notebook Papers, n. pag. September 2012. Rome, Italy.
•  Wikipedia-based Corpora for Analyzing Revisions, Discussions and Text Quality in Collaborative Writing
  Johannes Daxenberger and Oliver Ferschke and Iryna Gurevych
  Workshop on Automatic Processing of Non-Standard Data Soruces in Corpus-Based Research (Extended Abstract), August 2012. Cologne, Germany.
•  Behind the Article: Recognizing Dialog Acts in Wikipedia Talk Pages
  Oliver Ferschke and Iryna Gurevych and Yevgen Chebotar
  In:  Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2012), p. 777-786, April 2012. Avignon, France.
•  Wikipedia Revision Toolkit: Efficiently Accessing Wikipedia's Edit History
  Oliver Ferschke and Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych
   In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. System Demonstrations, p. 97-102, June 2011. Portland, OR, USA.
• Semantic Relations in WordNet and the BNC.
   Oliver Ferschke
   M.A. Thesis, Universität Würzburg, January 2009.
   Full text on OPUS Bayern | BibTeX
 

• Title TBA
  Workshop on user behaviour and content generation on Wikipedia
  Centre for European Economic Research
  Mannheim, 08.11.2013
• Title TBA
  Workshop Virtualisierung von Bildungsprozessen,
  Forum Interdisziplinäre Forschung,
  Frankfurt, 09.07.2013
• Automatic Quality Assessment in Wikipedia
  German Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information, Frankfurt, 27.11.2012

I supervise or have supervised the following theses:

• Discovery and Analysis of Public Opinions on Controversial Topics in the Educational Domain
  Artem Vovk (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych)
  Master Thesis. Computer Science Department, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles
  Nadine Trüschler (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych)
  Bachelor Thesis. Computer Science Department, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Dialogue Act Classification in Wikipedia Discussion Pages
  Yevgen Chebotar (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych)
  Bachelor Thesis. Computer Science Department, Technische Universität Darmstadt

I supervise or have supervised the following student research assistants:

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, MSc. (with Johannes Daxenberger)
• Saurabh Shekhar Verma, MSc.

• SS 2011, Seminar: Text Analytics: Foundations of Statistical NLP

I actively participate in the development of several software projects:

• JWPL - Wikipedia Application Programming Interface
• DKPro - Repository of flexible NLP components based on Apache UIMA
• DKPro TC - UIMA-based Text Classification Framework
• jWeb1T - Java API for text n-gram frequency data

The current state of software development contributions is documented on:  http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/OliFer

I served as a reviewer for the following journals and conferences:

• Journals:  Language Resources and Evaluation
• Books:  The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources
• Conferences:  COLING 2012,  WWW 2013

• I am member of the board of directors of the LOEWE Research Area "Digital Humanities"
• I am the coordinator of all teaching activities at UKP

•  I hold an M.A. in English Linguistics and a teaching degree for secondary (college-preparatory) schools (i.e. first state examination) in Computer Science and English from the Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg, Germany. 
 
• I received a three-year PhD scholarship from the state of Hesse within the research excellence program LOEWE