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NEWS

I am area chair for Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics at ACL '09.

Paper accepted at EMNLP '08 co-authored by Katja Filippova and myself: "Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression" (PDF).

Paper accepted at AAAI '08 co-authored by Vivi Nastase and myself: "Decoding Wikipedia Categories for Knowledge Acquisition" (PDF). This is the third year in a row that we got a paper accepted at AAAI!

I teach an class on Automatic Text Processing in the CL Department at the University of Heidelberg in the winter term 2008. -- Together with Anette Frank I also lead the Computational Linguistics Colloquium and a PhD colloquium there.

Two new projects in the NLP group:
1. A project on semantic-driven synchronous generation of language and 3D scenes funded in the framework of the Innovation Fonds for Frontier Research of the Excellence Initiative at the University of Heidelberg. We work together with the Computational Linguistics Department and the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing at the University of Heidelberg.
2. JUMAS -- Judicial Management by Digital Libraries Semantics. An IST-STREP project funded by the European Commision.

Interested in old news?
 
Work Information

I am group leader of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at EML Research gGmbH. There, I am involved in NLP related projects, advise the computational linguists who work at EML Research, and supervise a number of students.

I am a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and of ACL's and ISCA's Special Interest Group for Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial).

 
Research Interests
  • Linguistics:
    • Text and Dialogue
    • Pragmatics
  • Natural Language Processing:
    • Multi-modal Dialogue Systems
    • Anaphora and Deixis in Spoken Dialogue
    • Anaphora Resolution and Generation
    • Models of Attentional State
    • Discourse and Dialogue Structure (though I don't believe in it)
  • Multimedia:
    • Hypertext and Literature
 
Publications

Publications in Journals and Books, Conference Proceedings, Workshop Proceedings, and Complete List of Publications

Search for my publications at Google Scholar.

Send me email if you want to get a copy of a paper not linked on these pages (in those cases we had to transfer the copyright to the respective publishers; maybe linguists should follow the good example of JAIR and start to publish in open access journals).

A Few Recent Publications

  • Filippova, Katja; Strube, Michael (2008).
    Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression
    In: EMNLP '08, to appear. (PDF)
  • Nastase, Vivi; Strube, Michael (2008).
    Decoding Wikipedia Categories for Knowledge Acquisition
    In: AAAI '08, pp.1219-1224. (PDF)
  • Zirn, Cäcilia; Nastase, Vivi; Strube, Michael (2008).
    Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy
    In: ESWC '08, pp.376-387. (PDF)
  • Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2007).
    Knowledge Derived from Wikipedia for Computing Semantic Relatedness
    In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 30, pp.181-212. (PDF)
  • Filippova, Katja; Strube, Michael (2007).
    The German Vorfeld and Local Coherence
    In: Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 16(4), pp.465-485.
    (locked up at Springer's page, accessible maybe to you, but not to me)
  • Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2007).
    Deriving a Large Scale Taxonomy from Wikipedia
    In: AAAI '07, pp.1440-1445. (PDF)
  • Filippova, Katja; Strube, Michael (2007).
    Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses
    In: ACL '07, pp.320-327. (PDF)
  • Strube, Michael; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo (2006).
    WikiRelate! Computing Semantic Relatedness Using Wikipedia.
    In: AAAI '06, pp.1419-1424. (PDF)
  • Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2006).
    Exploiting Semantic Role Labeling, WordNet and Wikipedia for Coreference Resolution.
    In: HLT-NAACL '06, pp.192-199. (PDF)
 

Biographical Information

I completed my Ph.D. in the (now defunct) Computational Linguistics Group at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in December 1996 (the group moved to Jena). Between 1997 and 1999 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. In January 2000 I joined the European Media Lab in Heidelberg, Germany, as a researcher. Since January 2001 I am group leader of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group which is now part of EML Research gGmbH.

 

Some Addictions

  • Literature
  • What is Jazz?
  • Running
  • Photography
Michael Strube, lastname at eml-research.de, 2008/11/12


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