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Michael Strube

NEWS

Two positions for PhD students in the NLP group available.

According to Google Scholar our AAAI '06 and our AAAI '07 papers are the most cited papers of the top conference in AI (Google Scholar query for AAAI 2006 and AAAI 2007)!

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

Together with Anette Frank I lead the Computational Linguistics Colloquium in the CL Department at the University of Heidelberg and also the PhD colloquium.

I taught classes on Sentiment Analysis in the CL Department at the University of Heidelberg in the summer term 2009 and at the DGFS-CL Computational Linguistics Fall School 2009 in September 2009.

New project in the NLP group:
Cosyne: A project on Multi-lingual Content Synchronization with Wikis -- an ICT-STREP project funded by the European Commision. The project will start in March 2010. More news later!

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

  • Nastase, Vivi; Strube, Michael (2009).
    Combining Collocations, Lexical and Encyclopedic Knowledge for Metonymy Resolution
    In: EMNLP '09, pp.1219-1224. (PDF)
  • Filippova, Katja; Strube, Michael (2008).
    Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression
    In: EMNLP '08, pp.177-185. (PDF)
  • Nastase, Vivi; Strube, Michael (2008).
    Decoding Wikipedia Categories for Knowledge Acquisition
    In: AAAI '08, pp.1219-1224. (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)
    This paper did not receive the best paper award (though it was nominated for it), but appears to be the most cited paper of the 2006 conference (out of 236 published papers)!
  • 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, 2009/10/15


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