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NEWS

Upcoming presentations this fall:
November 23rd, 2007: ICCS/HCRC Seminar at the University of Edinburgh -- cancelled because of some other seemingly more important obligation on the same day
December 6th, 2007: Computer Science Colloquium at Harvard University

I teach an undergraduate class on Natural Language Generation in the CL Department at the University of Heidelberg this fall. I hope that the students learn as much on NLG as I do as I am not yet an expert on that topic.

Paper published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) co-authored by Simone Paolo Ponzetto and myself: "Knowledge Derived from Wikipedia for Computing Semantic Relatedness" (PDF).

Paper published in the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JoLLI). It is about part of our work in Natural Language Generation, entitled "The German Vorfeld and Local Coherence" and co-authored by Katja Filippova and myself.

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 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 publishers; maybe linguists should follow the good example of JAIR and start to publish in open access journals).

A Few Recent Publications

  • 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)
  • Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2006).
    Exploiting Semantic Role Labeling, WordNet and Wikipedia for Coreference Resolution.
    In: HLT-NAACL '06, pp.192-199. (PDF)
  • Filippova, Katja; Strube, Michael (2006).
    Using Linguistically Motivated Features for Paragraph Segmentation
    In: EMNLP '06, pp.267-274. (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, 11/05/2007


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