The annual IT summit, for the first time under the name Digital-Gipfel 2017, will take place on June 12th and 13th, 2017 in the Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region. It aims to provide and promote a platform for information exchange and cooperation across politics, economy, science and society in the era  of digital changes.

The LiMo Project will be presented on the exchange platform of Digital-Gipfel 2017: see link.

Maria Becker won the Best Poster Award at The Summer School on Argumentation: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives with her Poster on „Argumentative Reasoning, Clause Types and Implicit Knowledge“ (pp. 1-2). The Summer School was co-located with the 6th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2016) at the University of Potsdam in Germany.

On September 22nd 2016, the second workshop of IGGSA (Interest Group on German Sentiment Analysis) on the STEPS shared task took place, collocated with the Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2016) in Bochum.  The workshop was organized by Josef Ruppenhofer (LiMo member), Julia Maria Struß and Michael Wiegand with the aim to further and strengthen the research activities in the field of annotation and targeted information extraction from German-language political speeches.

Further information on the event can be found via the link: IGGSA Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches.