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Digitale Mündigkeit und Bürgerrechte
This content is only available in German. Wissenschaftsministerin Theresia Bauer und netzpolitischer Sprecher Konstantin von Notz (Grüne) zum Informationsbesuch am …
TPDL Paper Accepted
The paper “Semantic Author Name Disambiguation with Word Embeddings” by Mark-Christoph Müller has been accepted as a Long Paper at …
The Dark Side of Natural Language Processing
At the first “Ethics in Natural Language Processing” workshop in Valencia, scientists discussed the opportunities and dangers of automatic speech analysis. …
Article in Süddeutsche Zeitung
The Süddeutsche Zeitung has an article (German only) about Michael Strube and ethics in NLP. This topic will also be …
Publication in Scientometrics Journal
A study entitled “Data Sets for Author Name Disambiguation: An Empirical Analysis and a New Resource” has just been published in …
Another Successful Defense
Sebastian Martschat (second from the right, with his examination committee) has successfully defended his PhD. thesis on “Structured Representations for Coreference …
Dissertation erfolgreich verteidigt
Sebastian Martschat (zweiter von rechts, mit seinem Prüfungskomitee) hat erfolgreich seine Dissertation mit dem Titel “Structured Representations for Coreference Resolution” …
New Scientific Director: Michael Strube
As of January 2017, Prof. Dr. Michael Strube is the new Scientific Director (“Institutssprecher”) of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director …
EACL Paper Accepted
The paper “Trust, but Verify! Better Entity Linking through Automatic Verification” by Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube, and Chin-Yew Lin has been …
EACL Workshop “Ethics in NLP”
Michael Strube, group leader NLP at HITS, will co-organize the upcoming EACL-Workshop “Ethics in NLP”, which will take place on the 4…