Research is what I’m doing

Reseach Interests & Publications

Lexical Semantics; Wiktionary; Word Sense Alignment; Collaborative Lexicography; Inter-rater Agreement; Educational Web 2.0

• List of publications
• List of talks

Awards

I have been awarded the “GSCL-Preis für die beste stu­dentische Computerlinguistik-Abschlussarbeit 2009–2011“ (best student thesis in computational linguistics 2009–2011) from the Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (German Society for Compu­tational Linguistics and Language Technology) at their biannual meeting in 2011 (GSCL 2011).

Professional Activities

Program Committee:

• 3rd Workshop on ‘The People’s Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP’ (held at ACL 2012), July 12-13, 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea.

Secondary Reviewer:

• 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), February 20-26, 2011, Tokyo, Japan.

Organizations:

• DFG-Forschungsnetzwerk “Internetlexikografie” (Associated Member)

Teaching

I'm involved in the following courses:

• Summer Term 2012:
  Lexical-Semantic Methods for Language Understanding
• Summer Term 2010:
  Lexical-Semantic Methods for Language Understanding

I have supervised the following student theses:

• Bastian Laur (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych): Mining Word Sense Disambiguated Translations from Wiktionary. Bachelor Thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, August 2011.
• Navid Imani (with Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych): Graph-based Techniques for Automatic Dictionary Alignment. IREP research project with Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Summer 2010.

Together with Stefan Radomski, I organize the specialized Master program “Internet- and Web-based Systems“ that is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser.