Natural language research announcements

[Yonatan Bisk <bisk1 AT illinois.edu>]

-- please _email_ me ( bisk1 AT illinois.edu ) or rsamdan2 AT uiuc.edu your availability if you
are interested in a meeting --

When:       This _Friday_  @ 2pm - April 22nd.

Where:      3405 SC

Speaker:   Sandra Kuebler  ( http://jones.ling.indiana.edu/~skuebler/ )

Title: Multilingual NLP: Parsing German & Multilingual Coreference 

Resolution

abstract:

In the last two decades, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has almost 

exclusively worked on English. However, when we apply the methods 

developed for English to other languages, at best, the performance is 

significantly below the results for English, but in many cases, the 

methods cannot be applied at all. This talk will concentrate on two 

problems, syntactic parsing and coreference resolution. For parsing, 

we will look at results for two German treebanks, which have a 

similar textual basis but different annotations schemes as well as 

strikingly different results. In the second part of the talk, I will 

present first results in multilingual coreference resolution, with a 

focus on markable extraction.

bio:

Sandra Kübler is an Assistant Professor and the Director of 

Computational Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana 

University. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the 

University of Tübingen and an MA from the University of Trier, both 

in Germany. Before she moved to Indiana, Kübler spent time at the 

University of Tübingen and the University of Duisburg. Her main 

research areas are dependency parsing, parsing for morphologically 

rich languages (mostly German), and machine learning for 

Computational Linguistics problems (e.g. for anaphora resolution or 

word sense disambiguation). She is interested in how to integrate 

linguistic information into machine-learning approaches to 

Computational Linguistics.

- Yonatan -