Research

UKP has participated in a number of research challenges and competitions.  Please follow the links below for detailed descriptions of the tasks and our results.

In 2012, UKP participated in the  Wikipedia Quality Flaw Prediction Task in the  PAN Lab at  CLEF 2012. According to  the official results, our system placed first in terms of precision and second in terms of recall and F1-measure.  You can read further details on the task and about our system.

In 2012 UKP participated in the  Prepositions and Determiners Task of  Helping Our Own, an ongoing shared task in text correction.  According to   the official results, our system achieved modest performance in some of the nine tasks, placing as high as 9th among the 14 systems.  You can read further details on the task and our system.

UKP participated in the  Semantic Textual Similarity Task for  SemEval-2012, to be held at  *SEM (the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics) on 7–8 June, 2012 in Montreal, Canada.  According to  the official results, our system (baer/task6-UKP-run2_plus_postprocessing_smt_twsi) was ranked first in two evaluation measures, and second in the third evaluation measure.

UKP participated in the  Cross-lingual Link Discovery Task (CrossLink) at the  9th NTCIR Workshop (NTCIR-9) held on 6–9 December 2011 at the National Center of Sciences in Tokyo, Japan.  Our system came first in the English-to-Chinese and the English-to-Korean File-to-File with manual assessment and Anchor-to-File with Wikipedia ground truth assessment evaluations using Mean-Average-Precision (MAP) measure.  You can read further details about the task and about our system.

In 2011 UKP participated in  Helping Our Own, an ongoing shared task in text correction, whose pilot run took place as part of the  2011 Generation Challenges.  Our system achieved the best detection scores for 8 out of 13 error classes (among 6 participating systems). You can read further details about the task and our system.

UKP participated in the  Multilingual Opinion Analysis Task (MOAT) at the  7th NTCIR Workshop, held on 16–19 December 2008 in Tokyo, Japan.  Our system ranked 2nd out of 9 systems in the opinionated sentence classification subtask and 3rd out of 5 systems in the polarity classification subtask.  You can read further details on the competition and our system.