October 29th, 2007: Computer Science Colloquium at the CS department of the University of Mannheim

Paper at AAAI'07 in the special track on AI and the Web accepted! The paper is entitled "Deriving a large scale taxonomy from Wikipedia" and co-authored by Simone Paolo Ponzetto and myself (download below).

Paper at ACL'07 accepted! Katja Filippova and myself will report our recent work on natural language generation: "Generating Constituent Order in German Clauses" (download below).

Simone Paolo Ponzetto and myself will participate in a six week JHU Summer Workshop on Exploiting Lexical & Encyclopedic Resources For Entity Disambiguation.

ESSLLI 2007 course on Exploiting Wikipedia for Research in NLP
(Slides: Part 1 (1.3MB), Part 2 (1.4MB), References).