(Wernher von Braun)
Research is what I’m doing
when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Research Interests
- Intelligent Information Systems
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Lexical Resources and Databases
- Interactive learning approaches
- Educational Computer Science
- Collaborative Lexicography
- Inter-rater Agreement
Awards
- 2018: Athene-Preis für Gute Lehre,
Carlo und Karin Giersch Foundation - 2018: Best Lecture Feedback Award, Winter 2017,
Computer Science Student Union, TU Darmstadt - 2017: Best Lecture Feedback Award, Summer 2016,
Computer Science Student Union, TU Darmstadt - 2011: GSCL Award for the Best Student Thesis in Computational Linguistics 2009–2011
Publications
I publish in major international conferences and journals and foster reproducible science by publishing research data and code whenever possible.
Five selected publications:
- Preference-based Interactive Multi-Document Summarisation (In: Information Retrieval Journal: Special Issue on Learning from User Interactions, Springer 2020).
- Challenges in the Automatic Analysis of Students’ Diagnostic Reasoning (AAAI 2019).
- MDSWriter: Annotation tool for creating high-quality multi-document summarization corpora (ACL 2016).
- Wiktionary: A new rival for expert-built lexicons? Exploring the possibilities of collaborative lexicography (In: Electronic Lexicography, Oxford University Press 2012).
- UBY – A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF (EACL 2012).
Research Projects
I have vast experience in writing grant proposals and managing research projects. I have been a principal investigator in a research training group, the research manager of a BMBF-funded project and an industry cooperation, and co-applicant of an EU-funded COST Action.
Professional Activities
I am reviewing for top-tier conferences and journals (*ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, WWW, TWEB, etc.) and a member of multiple academic networks and associations. Ini 2013, I have been local chair of an international conference with over 200 participants.
Teaching
I have been engaged in university teaching between 2010 and 2019. Starting from 2016, I continually gave my own lectures on information management and language technology as part of a lectureship (“Lehrauftrag”). In 2016 and 2017, my lectures received the best evaluation awards of the Computer Science department. Since 2018, I hold the “Zertifikat Hochschullehre” (certificate for university teaching).
Public Outreach
- Interview about our a! – automated language instruction research project (L-Pub Language Technology Blog, 05/2018)
- Report about our “Journalism meets Computer Science” workshop (hoch³ 1/2017, p. 19)