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Since the Fall 2002 I have been working at EML Research in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group.

The main object of my research has been generation of natural language route directions. Two major aspects of this broad topic that I have focused on are: modeling the conceptual content of route directions and corpus based linguistic realization, which I define as a mapping between the conceptual content of an expression and its linguistic form. These issues, described in detail in the papers below, form the core of my Ph.D. thesis, which by the current estimations should be ready by the end of this year (2005). My Ph.D. supervisor is Prof. John Bateman from the University of Bremen.

I am a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation (SIGGEN)

• Empirical Natural Language Generation
  
• NLG architectures, methods for integrating NLG tasks
  
• Using corpora as bi-directional resources
  
• Domain modeling, ontologies and knowledge representation
  
• Machine learning, statistical language modeling, operations research (integer programming)
  

• Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube, 2005.
  Discrete optimization as an alternative to sequential processing in NLG.
  In: Proceedings of 10th European Workshop On Natural Language Generation, Aberdeen, Scotland, August 8-10, 2005, pages 101-108. (PS)(PDF) (bib)


• Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube, 2005.
  Using an annotated corpus as a knowledge source for language generation.
  In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation, Birmingham, UK, July 14, 2005, pages 19-24. (PS) (PDF) (bib)


• Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube, 2005.
  Beyond the pipeline: discrete optimization in NLP.
  In: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 29-30, 2005, pages 136-143. (PS) (PDF) (bib)


• Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube, 2005.
  Modeling and annotating the semantics of route directions.
  In: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 12-14, 2005, pages 151-162. (PS) (PDF) (bib)


• Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube, 2004.
  Classification-based generation using TAG.
  In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Brockunhurst, UK, July 14-16, 2004, pages 100-109. (PS) (PDF) (bib)

I come from Lublin, a middle-size city in south-eastern Poland. I went to college there and later studied linguistics at the English Department of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (UMCS). In 2001 I earned my M.A. degree in cognitive linguistics and since then I have been studying computational linguistics at the University of Heidelberg. Since July 2004 I have been a scholarship holder of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. My Ph.D. should be ready by the end of 2005. My résumé can be downloaded from here.

There are a number of activities that I pursue in my spare time. The major one is rock climbing, and recently I've been focusing on its most down-to-earth form, i.e. bouldering (I'll put some pictures here soon). I also run (42KPB=3:20).

People tend to mention their favourite music genres, groups, etc. It tells quite a lot about a person, right? Here are a few tips from me: Tom Waits, Morcheeba, Morphine. I myself play the classical guitar.