Selected Presentations
- 3SC - Semantic Search for Science Communication, presentation as part of the DFKI visit of the Summerschool IT Law and Legal Informatics , 17th August, 2022.
- Beyond Chatbot Design - An Overview, presentation at ESR Workshop "Beyond Chatbot Design" organized and financed by LT-Bridge, 12th May, 2022.
- How Deep Learning is Changing Natural Language Processing, presentation at the kick-oof meeting " Nachhaltige ökologische Ressourceneffizienz & Resilienz durch Robot Process Automation & Anwendungen der künstlichen Intelligenz" at TH Aschaffenburg, 1st July, 2021
- Monolingual Text Anonymisation for Electronic Health Records, presentation at the workshop "Anonymisation Training for young Researchers" organized by the EU project LT-Bridge, Online webinar, 25th May, 2021.
- Question Answering Systems - A Brief Overview, presentation at "NLP crash course - Voice Applications, Data Collections and more", organized by GIZ and DFKI, Online webinar, 1st March, 2021.
- KI-basierte Textverarbeitung - Was ist das und für was ist das gut ? presentation at the conference Künstliche Intelligenz: Schlüsseltechnologie der Zukunft, Digitiale Woche Kiel, 9th September, 2019.
- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing ", presentation at AI symposium organized by Vicomtech, 20th June 2019, San Sebastian.
- Towards Open Knowledge Exploration, presentation at KIANA Systems, Saarbrücken, 27th February, 2017.
- Intelligente Informationsextraktion, presentation at the seminar ''Bibliothek und Information in der digitalen Welt'' organized by the The Saarland University and State Library (SULB), Saarbrücken, 24th November, 2016.
- Interactive Text Exploration, presentation at the NII Shonan Meeting Towards Explanation Production Combining Natural Language Processing and Logical Reasoning, Shonan Village Center, Japan, Nov. 23, 2014.
- Textual inference: Methods, open source platform and applications, Joined presentation together with Ido Dagan (BIU), Bernardo Magnini (FBK) and Sebastian Pado (University of Stuttgart) at the Symposium on Semantic Text Processing - Industrial Outlook Bar-Ilan University, Department of Computer Science, NLP Lab, Nov. 18-19 2014.
- Design and Realization of the EXCITEMENT Open Platform for Textual Entailment, Joined presentation together with Sebastian Pado (University of Stuttgart) at the JSSP2013 - Joint Symposium on Semantic Processing, Trento, Italy, November, 2013.
- TechWatch - Technology and Market Observation powered by SMILA, English slides of my presentation at the Theseus SMILA theme conference "SMILA – Das Framework für semantische Applikationen – Überblick und Einsatz" (SMILA - The Framework for semantic Applications - Overview and Usage), THESEUS – Innovation Center, Berlin, Germany, June, 2011.
- Hybrid Information Extraction - A Survey of Methods and Techniques, Conference: 10 Years Verbmobil - Review and Outlook - Multilingual processing of spontaneous speech, Saarbrücken, Germany, November, 2010.
- Textual Entailment - Methoden und Anwendungen, Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany, January, 2010.
- Data-oriented Parsing with Lexicalized Tree Insertion Grammars, NLP seminar, CNRS, Nancy, France, March, 2009.
- Web based Multilingual Question Answering, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, November, 2008.
- Ontology-based Information Extraction and Question Answering – Coming Together, 1st OBIE workshop, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September, 2008.
- The Multilingual and Cross-lingual Web, Symposium on "Human Language Technology in Africa: Status and Prospects" funded by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Rabat, Morocco, June 2008.
- DFKI at QA@clef 2007, Clef workshop 2007, Budapest, September, 2007.
- A multilingual framework for searching definitions on web snippets, KI-07, Osnabrück, Germany, September, 2007.
- Recognizing Textual Entailment Using a Subsequence Kernel Method, AAAI-07, Vancouver, August, 2007.
- Language independent answer prediction from the Web, FinTal'06, Turku, August, 2006.
- Open-domain crosslingual Question Answering, 30th DFKI meeting of the scientific advisory board (SAB), Saarbrücken, April, 2006.
- Open-domain Cross-lingual Question Answering from Unstructured Documents, LCT Colloquium, Free University of Bozen, Italy, June 9, 2005.
- Language technology and the Semantic Web, Habilitation talk, Saarland University, July 2004.
- Mining Answers in German Web Pages, WI-2003, October, Halifax.
- Interleaving natural language parsing and generation through uniform processing, AI Lab Colloquium, MIT, Massachusetts, USA, July 15, 2002.
- Language Technology and Intelligent Information Extraction, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, Germany, 16th May 2002.
- Information Extraction from Real-world German Text, University of Saarland, Germany, April, 2001.
- PARADIME - Parametrizable Domain-Adaptive Information and Message Extraction. Adapting the SMES System to the Soccer Domain, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Feb. 2000.
- A Uniform Architecture for Parsing and Generation of Natural Language, CSLI, Stanford University, November, 1998.
- Data-driven Extraction of Lexicalized Tree Substitution Grammars from HPSG, University of Groningen, Netherlands, November, 1997.