Author Archives: Antonina Werthmann

LiMo at the 40th DGfS Annual Meeting

On March 8, 2018, the Leibniz ScienceCampus LiMo will present its current research projects in a poster session at the 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS):

The DGfS Annual Meeting will take place at the University of Stuttgart (Campus City Center) on March 7 and 9, 2018.

LiMo at the 54th IDS Annual Meeting

On March 14, 2018, the Leibniz ScienceCampus LiMo will  present its current research in a short lecture and in a poster session at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Institute for German Language (IDS, Mannheim).  The IDS Annual Meeting with the title “Neues vom heutigen Deutsch: Empirisch – methodisch – theoretisch” will take place in the Congress Center Rosengarten Mannheim on March 13 and 15, 2018.

Interested persons can view the LiMo posters on March 14, between 16:15 and 17:30 (in Querfoyer in front of the meeting rooms) without IDS Annual Meeting registration.

Best Paper Award at KBCOM 2018

The paper “Analysis of the Impact of Negative Sampling on Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs” by Bhushan Kotnis and Vivi Nastase has received the Best Paper Award at the 1st Workshop on Knowledge Base Construction, Reasoning and Mining (KBCOM 2018) in Los Angeles, California.

The paper will be presented on Friday, February 9, at 15:30.

We congratulate the authors for their excellent work.

Accepted Papers

Five research papers have been accepted for the LREC Conference:

Michael Wiegand, Sylvette Loda, Josef Ruppenhofer: Disambiguation of verbal shifters. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

Vivi Nastase, Devon Fritz, Anette Frank: DeModify: A dataset for analyzing contextual constraints on modifier deletion. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

Vivi Nastase, Julian Hitschler: Correction of OCR word segmentation errors in articles from the ACL collection through neural machine translation methods. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer, Stephanie Köser: Introducing a lexicon of verbal polarity shifters for English. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

Petra Steiner, Josef Ruppenhofer: Building a morphological treebank for German from a linguistic database. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.

 

Congratulations to the authors!

 

Complete publication listing: here.

Knowledge-based Argumentation Analysis – a new DFG-funded project

New project “Between the lines Knowledge-based Analysis of Argumentation in a formal Argumentation Inference System”, funded by the DFG, starts in cooperation between the LiMo under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Anette Frank and the Artificial Intelligence Group at the University Mannheim under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt.
The project aims to uncover missing explanatory links in argumentative texts, to fill in automatically acquired knowledge that makes the structure of the argument explicit and to establish and verify the knowledge-enhanced argumentation structure with a combination of formal reasoning and machine learning.

Best Presentation Award for Maria Becker

Maria Becker has received the Best Presentation Award at the Discourse Lab Workshop “Korpustools im Vergleich” in Heidelberg, October 6, 2017. The award was given for her poster presentation “Peace, freedom, security. Context-sensitive analysis of three concepts in the Bundestag debates from March to July 1983. Analyzes with Python”.

Congratulations to Maria Becker for her achievement!