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Natural Language Processing
Technical devices are getting more versatile and sophisticated all the time. To make their use more intuitive, the NLP group develops software facilitating the multimodal dialogue between users and machines, applying both statistical and symbolic methods. The group's research focus lies on the semantics and pragmatics of discourse.



ANNOUNCEMENTS

Both our submissions to EMNLP 2008 were accepted! 
Sentence fusion via dependency graph compression by Katja Filippova and Michael Strube, and Topic-driven multi-document summarization with encyclopedic knowledge and spreading activation by Vivi Nastase.

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. -- Interested in a PhD position in this project? See here!

 2. JUMAS -- Judicial Management by Digital Libraries Semantics. An IST-STREP project funded by the European Commision.

We are releasing a taxonomy automatically generated from the network of categories in Wikipedia (RDF Schema format).

We have new papers on transforming the Wikipedia category network into an ontology: Decoding Wikipedia Categories for Knowledge Acquisition at AAAI 08  (track on AI and the Web) by Vivi Nastase and Michael Strube.

Less new news here.
 

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Group Leader

Group Leader, Dr. Michael Strube
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Research Staff
Dr. Vivi Nastase
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Scholarship Holders
Jie Cai
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Katja Filippova
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Bo Li
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Students
Viola Ganter
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Caecilia Zirn
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Interns
Lennert Ritterhoff
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Guest Scientists
David Milne
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Prof. Ian Witten
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