Teaching

Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing (Oberseminar)

All students interested in latest trends in NLP research are invited to join this course. In a joint session of students and doctoral researchers an in-depth view on modern NLP techniques is given. Students may use this sessions for a talk on the current status of their thesis and what they're planning to do next (Student Status Meeting). UKP's researchers will present interesting conference or journal papers on various topics in the areas of Multilingual Semantic Information Management, Natural Language Processing and Wikis and Educational Natural Language Processing (Reading Group). Of course, there is plenty of time for your questions and discussions.

This seminar has expired. Scientific talks by doctoral researchers and status talks by thesis students are now held as part of the WeRC Doctoral Program Language & Knowledge Engineering.

Schedule

Seminar sessions: Monday, 11:00 - 12:30 (biweekly), Room S2/02/E202

Contact

This class is organized by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych.

For questions or further information, please contact Daniel Bär or Elisabeth Niemann.

Previous seminar classes

July 18, 2011
Student Presentations of the Software Project course:
Multiple Topics
June 20, 2011
Reading Group
Discussed Paper: Utt, Jason & Padó, Sebastian: Ontology-based Distinction between Polysemy and Homonymy, in: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics, pp. 265-274, 2011. Oxford, UK. [PDF]
June 6, 2011
Bastian Laur (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Status Presentation):
Mining Word Sense Disambiguated Translations from Wiktionary
Yevgen Chebotar (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Status Presentation):
Dialog Act Classification in Wikipedia Discussion Pages
May 23, 2011
Reading Group
Discussed Paper: David Vickrey and Daphne Koller (2008). Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labeling. In Proceedings of ACL: HLT, pp. 344-352. [PDF]
May 9, 2011
Alexander Galitzki (Student Talk, Master Thesis Final Presentation):
Extracting Opinions from Newswire to Predict Stock Market Developments
April 11, 2011
Reading Group
Discussed Paper: Y. Xu, G. J. F. Jones, and B. Wang (2009). Query dependent pseudo-relevance feedback based on Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 59-66. [PDF]
March 14, 2011
Reading Group
Discussed Paper: K. C. Park, Y. Jeong and S. H. Myaeng (2010). Detecting Experiences from Weblogs. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1464-1472. [PDF]
February 28, 2011
Tutorial Session
Christian Wirth: Significance Tests for Natural Language Processing
February 14, 2011
Reading Group
Discussed Paper: Milne, D., & Witten, I. H. (2008). Learning to link with Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM '08). [PDF]
January 31, 2011
Alexander Galitzki (Student Talk, Master Thesis Status Presentation):
Extracting Opinions from Newswire to Predict Stock Market Developments
January 17, 2011
Reading Group
Discussed Paper: Gabrilovich, E. and Markovitch, S. (2007). Computing semantic relatedness using wikipedia-based explicit semantic analysis. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1606–1611. [PDF]
January 3, 2011
Mateusz Parzonka (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Final Presentation):
Verbesserte Generierung von Stichwortverzeichnissen mittels Textsegmentierung
December 6, 2010
Stefan Laabs (Student Talk, Master Thesis Final Presentation):
Identifying Semantically Related Content in Wikis
November 8, 2010
Marko Martin (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Final Presentation):
Applying Graph Algorithms to Text Segmentation
Christian Kirschner (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Final Presentation):
(Personalized) PageRank for Aligning Wikipedia Articles and WordNet Synsets
October 11, 2010
Zhemin Zhu:
Anything about Paraphrase (Tutorial from COLING 2010)
October 25, 2010
Prof. Dr. Stefan Riezler, Uni Heidelberg (Invited Talk)
September 27, 2010
Jens Haase (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Final Presentation):
Analysis of the Wikipedia Revision History
Marko Martin (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Status Presentation):
Applying Graph Algorithms to Text Segmentation
September 20, 2010
Michael Heilman, Carnegie Mellon University (Invited Talk)
Automatic Factual Question Generation
September 15, 2010
Dr. Jana Sukkarieh (Invited Talk)
Short Answer Grading
August 16, 2010
Stefan Laabs (Student Talk, Master Thesis Status Presentation):
Identifying Semantically Related Content in Wikis
Christian Kirschner (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Status Presentation):
(Personalized) PageRank for Aligning Wikipedia Articles and WordNet Synsets
Jens Haase (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Status Presentation):
Analysis of the Wikipedia Revision History
July 19, 2010
Dr. Saif M. Mohammad (Fachbereichskolloquium):
Emotions Evoked by Common Words and Phrases: Using Mechanical Turk to Create an Emotion Lexicon
July 5, 2010
Oren Avni (Invited Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Final Presentation):
Text-Watermarking
June 7, 2010
Daniel Bär (Paper Presentations):
D. Widdows and T. Cohen
The Semantic Vectors Package: A Two Year Progress Report in Open Source Research and Development in Distributional Semantics. to be published.
D. Jurgens and K. Stevens.
The S-Space Package: An Open Source Package for Word Space Models. to be published.
Michael Matuschek (Paper Presentation):
Z. Kozareva and E. Hovy.
Learning Arguments and Supertypes of Semantic Relations using Recursive Patterns
To appear in Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sweden, 2010.
May 10, 2010
Ardalan Naseri (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Final Presentation):
Detecting Manipulation in Web 2.0 Communities
Oliver Ferschke (Paper Presentation):
M. Heilman and N. A. Smith.
Question Generation via Overgenerating Transformations and Ranking.
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report, 2009.
Apr 26, 2010
Manuel Wick (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Status Presentation)
Comparison of various Information Retrieval models for Customer Relationship Management data.
Carolin Deeg (Student Short Talk)
Wikulu - A Modular Architecture for Self-Organizing Wikis
Apr 12, 2010
Remaining UKP Workshop talks
Mar 15, 2010
Christian M. Meyer (Paper Presentation):
Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych:
Worth its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource - A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 38-49, Iaşi, Romania, March 2010.
Mar 1, 2010
Fabian Tamin (Student Talk, Diploma Thesis Final Presentation):
Creating Wiki Page Overview Snippets
Ardalan Naseri (Student Talk, Bachelor Status Presentation):
Detecting Manipulation in Web 2.0 Communities
Feb 15, 2010
Joachim Caspar (Paper Presentation):
Inderjeet Mani and Eric Bloedorn:
Machine learning of generic and user-focused summarization
In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on AI AAAI98 (1998), pp. 821-826.
Cigdem Toprak (Paper Presentation):
To be announced
Feb 01, 2010
Benjamin Herbert (Paper Presentation):
Y. Qu, G. Grefenstette, and D. A. Evans:
The Use of Monolingual Context Vectors for Missing Translations in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp. 22-33, Korea, Oct 2005.
Jan 18, 2010
Zhemin Zhu (Paper Presentation):
Katja Filippova and Michael Strube:
Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression
In Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 08). Honolulu, Hawaii, October 25-27, 2008, pp. 177-185.
Elisabeth Wolf (Paper Presentation):
Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg:
Integrating Cyc and Wikipedia: Folksonomy meets rigorously defined common-sense
In Proceedings of the first AAAI Workshop on Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence (WIKIAI'08), Chicago, I.L., 2008.
Dec 7, 2009
Sebastian Kasten (Student Talk, Bachelor Thesis Final Presentation):
Combining WordNet, Wiktionary and Wikipedia for Lexical Substitution
Nico Erbs (Student Talk, Master Thesis Final Presentation):
Extracting the Learner's Opinions: Bootstrapping Extraction Patterns for Sentiment Analysis
Nov 23, 2009 (Invited Talk)
Gerard de Melo (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken):
Towards a Universal Wordnet by Learning from Combined Evidence (CIKM 2009)
Nov 9, 2009
Christian Meyer (Paper Presentation):
R. Artstein and M. Poesio:
Inter-Coder Agreement for Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics 34(4):555-596, Dec 2008.
Johannes Hoffart (Status Presentation):
Link-the-Wiki - Overview and Outlook (INEX 2008/2009)
Oct 26, 2009
Silvana Hartmann (Paper Presentations):
I. A. Sag, T. Baldwin, F. Bond, A. Copestake, and D. Flickinger:
Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–15, 2002.
C. Ramisch, P. Schreiner, M. Idiart, and A. Villavicencio: An Evaluation of Methods for the Extraction of Multiword Expressions
In Proceedings of the LREC 2008 Workshop Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions, pp. 50-53, 2008.
Michael Matuschek (Paper Presentation):
Rani Nelken and Elif Yamangil:
Mining Wikipedia’s Article Revision History for Training Computational Linguistics Algorithms
In Proceedings of the Wikipedia and AI Workshop at the AAAI Conference, Chicago, US, 2008.
Oct 12, 2009
Sebastian Kasten (Student Talk, Bachelor Status Presentation):
Combining WordNet, Wiktionary and Wikipedia for Lexical Substitution
Daniel Bär (Paper Presentation):
A. Islam and D. Inkpen:
Semantic text similarity using corpus-based word similarity and string similarity
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2(2):1–25, 2008.
Sep 8, 2009 (Student Status Meeting)
Nico Erbs (Master): Extracting the Learner's Opinions: Bootstrapping Extraction Patterns for Sentiment Analysis
Fabian Tamin (Diplom): Creating Wiki Page Overview Snippets
Aug 11, 2009 (Student Status Meeting)
Titilayo Craig (Illionois Institute of Technology): Word Sense Disambiguation in DKPro
Valkyrie Savage (Indiana University): Automatic Back-of-the-Book Index Generation
Mathieu Germain (Sherbrooke University): Multi-Document Summarization
July 14, 2009 (Student Status Meeting)
Pavel Rojtberg (Bachelor): Generating Storyboards based on Natural Language Descriptions
Elif Tekes (Diplom): Automatically Generating Resources for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis in German
Nico Erbs (Master): Extracting the Learner's Opinions: Bootstrapping Extraction Patterns for Sentiment Analysis
June 16, 2009 (Student Status Meeting)
Nikolay Georgiev (Bachelor): Using and Evaluating Machine Translation Systems for Monolingual and Cross-lingual Translation
Fabian Tamin (Diplom): Creating Wiki Page Overview Snippets
May 19, 2009 (Student Status Meeting)
Nikolay Georgiev (Bachelor): Using and Evaluating Machine Translation Systems for Monolingual and Cross-lingual Translation
Nico Erbs (Master): Extracting the Learner's Opinions: Bootstrapping Extraction Patterns for Sentiment Analysis
March 24, 2009 (Student Status Meeting)
Hakan Eroglu (Diplom): Trend Analysis in Folksonomies
Christian Meyer (Master): Combining Answers from Several Web Resources for Question Answering