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Three demo papers accepted at ACL 2013

Three system demonstration papers from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP) have been accepted for publication at the 51st Annual Meeting... [more]

LKE/KDSL Reading Group

The LKE/KDSL Reading Group will discuss 2 papers on Tuesday May 21, 11:40-13:10 in S1/03 223. Event: The Language and Knowledge Engineering /... [more]

The People’s Web Meets NLP published

The People’s Web Meets NLP, edited by UKP's Iryna Gurevych and Jungi Kim, has been published by Springer as part of its series Theory and... [more]

Four UKP papers accepted at ACL and EuroVis 2013

Four papers from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP) have been accepted for publication at upcoming conferences. The following paper will... [more]

Invited talk by Simone Ponzetto

On Thursday, April 11, Simone Ponzetto will be giving an invited talk and meeting with interested researchers. The topic of the talk will be,... [more]

Paper accepted for TACL

The paper "Dijkstra-WSA: A Graph-Based Approach to Word Sense Alignment" by Michael Matuschek and Iryna Gurevych has been... [more]

Two-Day Invited Tutorial: Watson and the Deep QA architecture

On Monday and Tuesday, March 18-19, 2013, Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann and Dr. Alﬁo Gliozzo will present a two-day tutorial on the Watson Deep QA... [more]

Prof. Iryna Gurevych speaks at Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag 2013

On 24 January 2013, Prof. Iryna Gurevych of UKP spoke at Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag 2013, an event organized by the Multilingual Europe... [more]

Prof. Iryna Gurevych speaks at the IANUS akademische Viertel

On 30 January 2013, Prof. Iryna Gurevych of UKP will speak at Das Akademische Viertel, an event series organized by Technische Universität... [more]

Launch of the PhD program KDSL

In spring 2013, the PhD program starts. The application procedure is ongoing. See here for application details. [more]

Lecture by Dr. Markus J. Hofmann and Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann

On 14 January, Dr. Hofmann and Prof. Biemann will give a lecture, "Sprachstatistik als Assoziationsmaß in der kognitiven Modellierung," as... [more]

Invited talk by Verena Henrich

On 22 January 2013, Verena Henrich will be giving an invited talk and meeting with interested researchers. The topic of the talk will be:... [more]

Dr. Alexander Fraser gives invited talk at UKP

On 30 November Dr. Alexander Fraser of the University of Stuttgart will give an invited talk at the UKP Lab at the Technische Universität... [more]

Job opening: Scientific Software Engineer (Natural Language Processing for Interactive Linking)

UKP has an opening for a scientific software engineer to create natural language processing (NLP) components for linking unstructured text... [more]

VisADoc: New project for analysis of natural language documents using feature-based visualization

Prof. Iryna Gurevych's project of feature-based visualization and analysis of natural language documents (VisADoc) began in the UKP-DIPF group... [more]

Doctoral scholarships available

In close co-operation with the German Institute for International Educational Research and Educational Information (DIPF) in Frankfurt am Main,... [more]

Job opening: Research or Lead Scientist

The Information Management Group at DIPF's Information Center for Education is seeking to fill a position for a Research Scientist or Lead Scientist... [more]

DKPro Core 1.4.0 released to Maven Central

We are pleased to announce the release of DKPro Core 1.4.0 - a collection of software components for natural language processing (NLP) based on the... [more]

Six UKP papers accepted at COLING 2012

Six papers from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP) have been accepted for publication at COLING 2012, the 24th International Conference on... [more]

Vernetzte Bildungsinformatik

DIPF und TU Darmstadt bringen Fachwissen in neuen Leibniz-Forschungsverbund „Science 2.0“ ein [more]

Ido Dagan gives invited talk at UKP

On 19 October Prof. Ido Dagan of Bar-Ilan University will give an invited talk at the UKP Lab at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The talk,... [more]

Frankfurter Rundschau publishes article about text similarity

The article "Auf der Suche nach Sprachwitz" is based on an interview with Iryna Gurevych about the text similarity project at the UKP lab.... [more]

CLARIN-D: New project for web-based linguistic annotations

Profs. Chris Biemann and Iryna Gurevych's curation project for the implementation of a web-based annotation platform for linguistic annotations began... [more]

Paper accepted at CLEF

The paper FlawFinder: A Modular System for Predicting Quality Flaws in Wikipedia by Oliver Ferschke, Iryna Gurevych, and Marc Ritberger has... [more]

Paper accepted at ISWC

The paper "Evaluation of a Layered Approach to Question Answering over Linked Data" by Sebastian Walter, Christina Unger, Philipp... [more]

Short paper accepted at the 11th "Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache" (KONVENS 2012)

The following short paper has been accepted at the 11th "Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache" (KONVENS 2012) Navigating... [more]

Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Literature

On 2 August 2012 a Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Literature will be held in Darmstadt by the Leibniz Institute for Educational... [more]

ACL 2012 workshop organized by the UKP Lab

The UKP Lab (Iryna Gurevych and Jungi Kim) and Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani from Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR will organize the 3rd... [more]

Prof. Iryna Gurevych to be keynote speaker at MergingLR Workshop

Prof. Iryna Gurevych will be the keynote speaker at the LREC 2012 MergingLR Workshop, organized by PANACEA partners. The title of her talk is: How... [more]

Alliance for Educational Computer Science

Start of cooperation between UKP/TU Darmstadt and DIPF [more]

Job opening "Scientific Software Engineer"

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the Computer Science Department at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) is offering a one-year... [more]

Best Participating System in SemEval-2012 STS Task

The UKP system performed best in the Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) task at SemEval-2012 in two out of three metrics. [more]

Short Paper accepted at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies 2012 (NAACL-HLT)

The following Shortpaper has been accepted at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human... [more]

InCoRe - a new research project

Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych has successfully filed a proposal for a new research project. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding... [more]

UBY 1.0 released

UBY - A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource [more]

Job opening: Research or Lead Scientist

We are seeking to fill a position for a Research Scientist or Lead Scientist. The position is at the core of the new Ubiquitous Knowledge... [more]

Doctoral Scholarship available

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the Computer Science Department at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) is offering a... [more]

DKPro Core 1.3.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of DKPro Core 1.3.0 - a collection of software components for natural language processing (NLP)... [more]

Prof. Iryna Gurevych appointed to DIPF

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (UKP-TUD) is pleased to announce the appointment of its head, Prof.... [more]

JWPL 0.9.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of JWPL 0.9.0 - a free, Java-based application programming interface that allows to access all information... [more]

Invited Talk by Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger

Semantically Enhanced Virtual Research Environment for Historical Research [more]

Four papers accepted at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for computational Linguistics (EACL)

The following four papers have been accepted at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for computational Linguistics... [more]

Student assistant wanted for web corpus project

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab is currently seeking a student assistant (HiWi) for a project to create a large text corpus from web... [more]

Research internships at UKP-DIPF

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information (DIPF)'s Information... [more]

Prof. Iryna Gurevych featured in Deutschlandfunk's Studiozeit

On January 12, 2012 UKP head Prof. Iryna Gurevych was featured in an episode of Studiozeit, a program of German public radio broadcaster... [more]

Book published: "Structure Discovery in Natural Language"

"Structure Discovery in Natural Language" by Chris Biemann has been published in G. Hirst, E. Hovy and M. Johnson (Eds.) "Theory and... [more]

Job announcement at UKP-DIPF

We are seeking to fill Research Scientist and Lead Scientist positions. These positions will establish the new branch of the... [more]

Open position for Associate Professor (Knowledge Mining and Assessment)

The German Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information (DIPF) and the Computer Science Department of the Technische Universität ... [more]

JWPL 0.8.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of JWPL 0.8.0 - a free, Java-based application programming interface that allows to access all information... [more]

EACL 2012 workshop co-organized by the UKP lab

ROBUS-UNSUP 2012: Joint Workshop on Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning in NLP [more]

Book chapter accepted in "Electronic Lexicography", Oxford University Press, 2012

The book chapter "Wiktionary: a new rival for expert-built lexicons? Exploring the possibilities of collaborative lexicography" by... [more]

World Usability Day

November 10 is World Usability Day and there will also be an event at TU Darmstadt (see flyer).We are going to present our UKP flagship project... [more]

UKP @ NTCIR-9 CrossLink

UKP Lab has built and presented a system in the CrossLingual Link Discovery Task at the 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting. The task... [more]

UKP @ HOO Challenge 2011

UKP Lab successfully participated in the 2011 Helping Our Own (HOO) Challenge targeting the correction of errors in scientific papers. Among the 6... [more]

DKPro Core 1.2.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of DKPro Core 1.2.0 - a collection of software components for natural language processing (NLP)... [more]

GSCL Award 2009–2010

Two of the three student theses nominated for the biennial national award of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology... [more]

Paper accepted for "Frontiers in Psychology"

The paper "Remembering words in context as predicted by an Associative Read-Out Model" by Markus J. Hofmann1, Lars Kuchinke, Chris Biemann, Sascha... [more]

Guest lecture by Nicoletta Calzolari: "Language Resources for Language Technologies: A Success Story"

On 8 September 2011 at 13:00, Nicoletta Calzolari of the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR in Pisa, Italy will give a guest lecture... [more]

Paper accepted at the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)

The paper "What Psycholinguists Know About Chemistry: Aligning Wiktionary and WordNet for Increased Domain Coverage" by Christian M. Meyer... [more]

Two former UKP members appointed as professors

Starting from September 2011, two former UKP members have been appointed as professors: Dr. Delphine Bernhard will begin a junior professorship in... [more]

Paper accepted at the GSCL workshop "Sprachtechnologie für ein mehrsprachiges Europa"

The paper Where the journey is headed: Collaboratively constructed multilingual Wiki-based resources by Michael Matuschek and Iryna Gurevych has been... [more]

Two book chapters accepted for "Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources"

The two book chapters "Mining Multiword Terms from Wikipedia" by Silvana Hartmann, György Szarvas, and Iryna Gurevych and... [more]

Paper accepted at the Workshop on Data infrastructurEs for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation (DESIRE) 2011

The paper A Lightweight Framework for Reproducible Parameter Sweeping in Information Retrieval by Richard Eckart de Castilho and Iryna Gurevych... [more]

JWPL 0.7.0 Open Source Release on Maven Central

We are pleased to announce the release of JWPL 0.7.0 - a free, Java-based application programming interface that allows to access all information... [more]

Two papers accepted at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC)

The following two papers have been accepted at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC): "Link Discovery:... [more]

CASED and UKP offer PhD scholarship in NLP and IT forensics

The Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) at the Technische Universität Darmstadt has an opening in its PhD scholarship program in... [more]

Paper accepted at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

The paper "A Reflective View on Text Similarity" by Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych has been accepted at... [more]

LOEWE Workshop "Digital Humanities"

The workshop "Digital Humanities" will take place on July 4th 2011 at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. About 30 participants... [more]

Invited Talk by Marco Büchler

Text Mining in den eHumanities [more]

Nico Erbs is the 2011 Beachvolleyball Champion at TU Darmstadt

In a dramatic evening final, Nico Erbs won the 2011 Beachvolleyball Championship at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Reports... [more]

Niklas Jakob successfully defended PhD thesis

On May 18, 2011, Dipl.-Inform. Niklas Jakob successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Extracting Opinion Targets from User-Generated... [more]

Two papers accepted at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Two papers have been accepted at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language... [more]

Interdisciplinary talk series organized by WeRC in Summer Term 2011 at TU Darmstadt

In this talk series, the Web will be discussed from the point of view of different perspectives and disciplines. The speakers come from... [more]

DFG Round Table „Web Research“

WeRC organizes the DFG Round Table „Web Research“ on May, 19th-20th, 2011 at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. About 50 participants from... [more]

PhD/PostDoc positions available

UKP Lab offers several new positions. You can find their descriptions here: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/inDoktoranden- oder... [more]

WiWeb - a new research project

Prof Dr. Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab, Computer science) and Prof. Dr. Nina Keith (Psychology) have successfully filed a proposal for a new research... [more]

DKPro Core 1.1.0 Open Source Release

We are pleased to announce the release of DKPro Core 1.1.0 - a collection of software components for natural language processing (NLP) based on the... [more]

Paper accepted at CICLing 2011

The paper "Combining heterogeneous knowledge resources for improved distributional semantic models" by György Szarvas, Torsten Zesch and... [more]

Paper accepted at the International Conference on Computational Semantics 2011

The paper "The People's Web meets Linguistic Knowledge: Automatic Sense Alignment of Wikipedia and WordNet" by Elisabeth Niemann and Iryna ... [more]

Article published in Language and Linguistics Compass Journal

The article "Expert-Built and Collaboratively Constructed LexicalSemantic Resources" by Iryna Gurevych and Elisabeth Wolf has been... [more]

1st Symposium Web Research

The interdisciplinary research group Web Research Center Darmstadt (WeRC) of the TU Darmstadt, which has been established in March 2010, organizes... [more]

FiF vor Ort bei UKP

Am 6. Dezember ist FiF vor Ort zu Gast bei UKP. Frau Professor Iryna Gurevych wird folgende 3 Themenschwerpunkte darstellen: Zum einen werden... [more]

“Digital Humanities” - LOEWE proposal successful

The collaborative project proposal „Digital Humanities“ has been approved in the competitive research excellence program LOEWE of the state of Hesse.... [more]

EMNLP 2010 best reviewer award for Dr. Torsten Zesch

86 outstanding program committee members (out of 460) were selected for the best reviewer award at EMNLP 2010. "Best reviewers"... [more]

Open Position as Assistant Professor (W1) in "Language Technology"

The LOEWE Research Center Digital Humanities at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) is seeking to fill the position of an Assistant... [more]

JWPL goes open source

The JWPL Wikipedia API is now available under the GPL v3 license. The main features include: Fast and efficient access to Wikipedia Parser for the... [more]

‚Best Paper Award‘ für die automatische Illustration von Texten

Der Beitrag von Katharina Schwarz, Pavel Rojtberg, Joachim Caspar, Iryna Gurevych, Michael Goesele und Hendrik P. A. Lensch mit dem Titel... [more]

Invited Talk by Michael Heilman

Automatic Factual Question Generation [more]

Invited Talk by Dr. Jana Sukkarieh

Automatic Content Scoring of Free-Text Responses [more]

COLING 2010 workshop organized by UKP will be held on August 28, 2010

The UKP Lab organizes the 2nd workshop on "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" at COLING 2010 in... [more]

Paper accepted at EMNLP 2010

The paper "Extracting Opinion Targets in a Single- and Cross-Domain Setting with Conditional Random Fields" by Niklas Jakob and Iryna... [more]

Open positions

UKP Lab is looking for new staff members as part of the LOEWE Center of Research Excellence "Digital Humanities" [more]

Paper accepted at the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Synonymy

The paper entitled "Beyond the Synset: Synonyms in Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" by Michael... [more]

uimaFIT 1.0.0 has been released

We are pleased to announce the release of uimaFIT 1.0.0 - a library that provides factories, injection, and testing utilities for UIMA. The following... [more]

Invited Talk by Saif Mohammad

Title: Emotions Evoked by Common Words and Phrases: Using Mechanical Turk to Create an Emotion... [more]

UKP Teaching Program in WS 2010/11

UKP will offer the following courses for the students of the Computer Science and other departments at the Technische Universität... [more]

Paper accepted at COLING 2010

The paper entitled "A Monolingual Tree-based Translation Model for Sentence Simplification" by Zhemin Zhu, Delphine Bernhard and... [more]

„Internet- und Web-based Systems“ – a new master program coordinated by UKP

Globale Netzwerke sind nicht nur ein zentrales Charakteristikum komplexer IT-gestützter Systeme, sondern zunehmend integraler Teil der Berufs- und... [more]

The organisation Wikipedia - how and why do we cooperate?

Christian Stegbauer: Die Organisation Wikipedia - wie und warum kommt es zur Kooperation? Termin: Donnerstag, 10.6.2010, 13:00 – 14:15 Uhr Ort:... [more]

Paper accepted at AKBC 2010

The paper entitled "Aligning Sense Inventories in Wikipedia and WordNet" by Elisabeth Wolf and Iryna Gurevych has been accepted at the... [more]

Paper accepted at KES 2010

The paper "Text-to-Video: Story Illustrations from Online Photo Collections" by Katharina Schwarz, Pavel Rojtberg, Joachim Caspar, Iryna... [more]

UKP @ ACL 2010

The following two papers have been accepted at the 48th ACL Conference: "Sentence and Expression Level Annotation of Opinions in User-Generated... [more]

Paper accepted at WebScience 2010

The paper entitled "How Web Communities Analyze Human Language: Word Senses in Wiktionary" by Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych... [more]

Special Issue on Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources

Iryna Gurevych and Torsten Zesch from the UKP Lab are guest editors of a special issue of the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal on... [more]

UKP courses SS 2010

UKP will offer 4 courses in the summer term 2010: a lecture, a project class, a seminar, and an advanced seminar. Lecture: Lexical-Semantic Methods... [more]

UKP in „Impulse für die Wissenschaft 2010“

Read an interview with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych and the presentation of UKP Lab in „Impulse für die Wissenschaft 2010“ recently published by the... [more]

Wikulu Screencast

We have created a brief video demonstrating the current state of the Wikulu project. The video shows how Wikulu helps the user by... [more]

Paper accepted at LREC 2010.

The paper entitled "The More the Better? Assessing the Influence of Wikipedia’s Growth on Semantic Relatedness Measures" by Torsten Zesch... [more]

Invited Talk by Torsten Zesch at the FLaReNet Forum 2010

Torsten Zesch is an invited speaker at the FLaReNet Forum 2010 in the session "Social Networking and Web 2.0 Methods for Language... [more]

Paper accepted at CICLing

The paper entitled "Worth its Weight in Gold or Yet Another Resource -- A Comparative Study of Wiktionary, OpenThesaurus and GermaNet" by... [more]

COLING 2010 workshop organized by the UKP Lab

The UKP Lab will organize the 2nd workshop on "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" at COLING 2010... [more]

UKP at CLARIN workshop

Iryna Gurevych and Richard Eckart de Castilho will present the work of UKP Lab at the CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) workshop in Leipzig.... [more]

2nd UIMA@GSCL workshop programme finalized

The program for the 2nd UIMA@GSCL workshop is now online. [more]

UKP teaching in winter semester 2009: "Natural Language Processing and the Web" and "Semantics in Automatic Language Understanding"

During the upcoming winter semester, the UKP Lab will be teaching the lecture course entitled "Natural Language Processing and the Web" and... [more]

UKP among top performers at CLEF 2009

Two UKP teams participated at this year’s Cross-Language Evaluation Forum competition. Elisabeth Wolf took part in the Robust-WSD track. This... [more]

Paper accepted at WikiSym

The paper entitled "An Architecture to Support Intelligent User Interfaces for Wikis by Means of Natural Language Processing" by Johannes... [more]

Three DAAD internship students at UKP

The DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) annually sponsors a program called RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering). PhD... [more]

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 workshop programme finalized

The program for the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 workshop on "The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" is now online. [more]

Paper accepted at EMNLP

The paper entitled "A Study on the Semantic Relatedness of Query and Document Terms in Information Retrieval " by Christof Müller and Iryna... [more]

Paper accepted at RANLP

The paper entitled "Approximate Matching for Evaluating Keyphrase Extraction" by Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych has been accepted at... [more]

Paper accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2009

The paper entitled "Combining Lexical Semantic Resources with Question & Answer Archives for Translation-Based Answer Finding" by... [more]

UIMA workshop co-organized by UKP Lab at GSCL 2009

The UKP Lab co-organizes the 2nd UIMA@GSCL Workshop at GSCL 2009 in Potsdam. [more]

Double-Award and First Year Anniversary of the Lichtenberg Chair, May 14th, 2009

Two IBM Unstructured Information Analytics Innovation Awards 2008 go to Prof. Dr. Gurevych's Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab in the department of... [more]

Tutorial and paper accepted at AIED 2009

Iryna Gurevych and Delphine Bernhard will be giving a tutorial entitled "Educational Natural Language Processing" at the 14th International... [more]

Teaching in summer semester 2009: "Knowledge management in Web 2.0" and "Natural Language Processing and eLearning"

During the next summer semester, the UKP Lab will be teaching a seminar entitled "Knowledge management in Web 2.0" and a course entitled... [more]

IBM PhD Fellowship Award for Torsten Zesch

Torsten Zesch, a PhD student in the UKP Lab, has been distinguished with an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award. IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards are an intensely... [more]

DKPro Core UIMA components released

The first release of DKPro UIMA components is now available for download here! This initial release, which is called DKPro Core release 1.0, contains... [more]

Ernst von Siemens Doctoral Scholarship for Pinar Wennerberg

A member of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the TU Darmstadt, Pinar Wennerberg, has been awarded an Ernst von Siemens Doctoral ... [more]

Invited talk by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych at the FLaReNet Launching Event

Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych is an invited speaker at the FLaReNet Launching Event (web site: http://www.flarenet.eu/) during the plenary session... [more]

Computers 'learn' from people: software analyzes the knowledge in Wiktionary and Wikipedia

A new press release with further information (in German) can be found here: http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news298843 [more]

JWKTL Wiktionary API released

Lately, Wiktionary has been recognized as a promising lexical semantic resource. If Wiktionary is to be used for large-scale NLP tasks, efficient... [more]

Unstructured Information Analytics (UIA) 2008 Double-Award goes to UKP Lab

IBM announced the recipients of this year’s Unstructured Information Analytics (UIA) 2008 Award. The UKP Lab represented by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych... [more]

New version (v0.45b) of JWPL Wikipedia API released

Main improvements in v0.45b include a major speedup for some important methods and a lot of bug fixes. See the JWPL page for more details. [more]

Die Suche im Internet von morgen - Intelligentes Sprachverstehen bei der Suche nach Dienstleistungen

More information can be found here. [more]

Invited talk at IBM research New York

On November, 13, 2008, Prof. Gurevych gave an invited talk at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. Anthony Levas, Manager,... [more]

PhD positions in lexical semantic processing, question answering and natural language processing for educational purposes

More information can be found here. [more]

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 workshop organized by the UKP Lab

The UKP Lab will organize the workshop "The People's web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" at ACL-IJCNLP 2009 in Singapore. [more]

UKP Lab in Hessen-IT-News

UKP Lab presents textmining technology in the current print version of Hessen-IT-News. The complete article can be found on pages 10/11 of the... [more]

PostDoc and a PhD position in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Ubiquitous Computing for educational purposes

More information can be found here. [more]

New course: "Natural Language Processing and the Web"

The UKP Lab will be teaching a new course entitled "Natural Language Processing and the Web" during the next winter semester. Practice... [more]

SIR Project at CLEF’08 Competition

The Semantic Information Retrieval (SIR) project took part in thedomain-specific Information Retrieval track of this year’s CrossLanguage Evaluation... [more]

Semantic Search and Text Mining in Web 2.0 at “Informatik Akademie - skill:forum”

Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych will give an invited talk at the Symposium “Trends in the Information and Communication Technology” entitled “Semantic... [more]

Demonstration of UKP Lab’s Semantic Search at SuMa e.V. Congress 2008

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab will give a demonstration of its novel search technology employing the knowledge from web-based repositories... [more]

PhD position "NLP-based quality assessment for e-Learning"

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab has an opening for a PhD position in the field of "NLP-based quality assessment for... [more]

Tutorial at COLING 2008

Iryna Gurevych and Delphine Bernhard will be giving a tutorial entitled "Educational Natural Language Processing" at the Coling 2008... [more]

Post-Doctoral/PhD positions in the area of "Natural Language Processing for Wiki-based systems"

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab has openings at the (post-)doctoral level in the area “Natural Language Processing for Wiki-based... [more]

Paper accepted at KnowTech 2008

More Knowledge – More Success. This is the motto of the KnowTech 2008 congress, where the paper “Self-organizing Wikis” by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych... [more]

Two papers accepted at ICSC'08

The two papers: "Using Similarity Measures for Context-Aware User Interfaces" by Melanie Hartmann, Torsten Zesch, Max Mühlhäuser and Iryna... [more]

IBM UIMA Innovation Award presentation at "Tag der Informatik"

On the 27th of June, professor Iryna Gurevych's "Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing" group will receive the IBM UIMA Innovation Award. The... [more]

Meeting of the special interest group on language technologies for eLearning

The second meeting of the GLDV special interest group on language technologies for eLearning (Sprach- und texttechnologische Methoden im eLearning)... [more]

Paper accepted at AAAI'08

The paper "Using Wiktionary for Computing Semantic Relatedness" by Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller, and Iryna Gurevych was accepted at this... [more]

Paper accepted at LREC'08

The paper “Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary” by Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller, and Iryna Gurevych was accepted at... [more]

UKP launches the QA-EL project

Not just searching but finding Researchers at the TU are working on intelligent web search engines within the newly-launched QA-EL project. Read... [more]

Post-Doctoral/PhD positions in NLP applied to web 2.0 / eLearning

Center of Research Excellence (CRE) eLearning 2.0 has an opening (Post-Doctoral or PhD) in the area of NLP applied to web 2.0 / eLearning. The... [more]

Successful DFG-Proposal: The SIR project goes into the second round

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the project Semantic Information Retrieval (SIR) for another two years.The extension project proposal... [more]

Wisdom of Crowds against Wisdom of Linguists - Measuring Relatedness of Words

On November, 22nd, Dr. Iryna Gurevych is giving a talk "Wisdom of Crowds against Wisdom of Linguists - Measuring Relatedness of Words" in... [more]

Student Research Assistants wanted!

We are looking for motivated and highly skilled computer science students to work in the “Darmstadt Knowledge Processing Repository” project. The... [more]

IBM UIMA Innovation Award 2007 for Dr. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Max Mühlhäuser

The "Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing" group in the department of computer science at Technische Universität Darmstadt is one of the... [more]

UKP is distinguished by the DFG as part of the Young Researchers’ Excellence Emmy-Noether Program

The UKP Lab launches the project “Mining Lexical-Semantic Knowledge from Dynamic and Linguistic Sources and Integration into Question Answering for... [more]

Teaching: Projektpraktikum "Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing" in WS07/08

Der automatischen Analyse und Verarbeitung der Semantik von Inhalten kommt zur Zeit eine rasant wachsende Bedeutung zu, u.a. im Information Retrieval... [more]

Paper accepted at ICSC'07: Integrating Semantic Knowledge into Text Similarity and Information Retrieval

The paper “Integrating Semantic Knowledge into Text Similarity and Information Retrieval” by Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych and Max Mühlhäuser was... [more]

Ernst von Siemens Doctoral Scholarship for Pinar Wennerberg

A member of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the TU Darmstadt, Pinar Wennerberg, has been awarded an Ernst von Siemens Doctoral ... [more]

Projects

EduWeb - Educational Web 2.0

In the EduWeb project, we seek to implement our vision of technology enhanced education of the 21st century. A vast amount of content is produced by... [more]

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