DWS Area: Natural Language Processing, Research

The position paper “Automatic Assessment of Conceptual Text Complexity Using Knowledge Graphs” by Sanja Štajner and Ioana Hulpus has been accepted at the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), the premier international conference on Computational Linguistics. 

The Data Mining Cup is an annual data mining competition for students from all over the world. Since 2014, students from Mannheim take part in the competition as an integral part of the Data Mining 2 lecture, held by Prof. Paulheim. In the course of the competition, the students have to solve a data ...

Our paper “Entity-Aspect Linking: Providing Fine-Grained Semantics of Entities in Context” has recently won the Vannevar Bush best paper award at the 2018 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), the top conference in the field of digital libraries! The work, coauthored by Federico Nanni, ...

We have three papers to be presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), the premier international conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Two short papers prepared in collaboration with our colleagues from the ...

Lydia Weiland has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Understanding the Message of Images” today.

We are happy to announce that Jakob Huber and Timo Sztyler reached the 1st place in the Hypo University Challenge that was hosted by Roche Diabetes Care GmbH and powered by IBM.