PIs: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank, Prof. Dr. Katja Markert, Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt
Coordinator: Antonina Werthmann, M.A.
Group Leaders:
Area A: Dr. Josef Ruppenhofer
Dr. Yannick Versley (2015 -- 2016)"
Area B: Dr. Ines Rehbein
Area C: Dr. Viviane Nastase
Dr. Alexis Palmer (2015 -- 2016)
PhD students:
Juri Opitz
Esther van den Berg
Ngoc Bich Do
Angel Daza
Maria Becker
Bhushan Kotnis
Published Resources: LiMo Dataverse
Finalized Dissertations
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Juri Opitz (2023):
Metrics of Graph-Based Meaning Representations with Applications from Parsing Evaluation to Explainable NLG Evaluation and Semantic Search.
Advisor and 1st Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
2nd Examiner: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado -
Esther van den Berg (2023):
Corpus-based and Computational Analysis of Entity Framing
1st Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Katja Markert
2nd Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt
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Bich-Ngoc Do (2022):
Neural Techniques for German Dependency Parsing
1st Advisor and Examiner: Dr. Ines Rehbein
2nd Advisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
- Angel Daza (2021):
Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Labeling Through Translation and Multilingual Learning
Advisor and 1st Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
2nd Examiner: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado -
Maria Becker (2021):
Building Bridges – Reconstructing Implicit Information in Argumentative Texts Using Commonsense Knowledge
Advisor and 1st Examiner: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
2nd Examiner: Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt
Selected Publications (with PI and supervisor Anette Frank):
- Opitz, J., Frank, A. (2022). SBERT studies Meaning Representations: Decomposing Sentence Embeddings into Explainable Semantic Features. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2022), Online, 625-638.
- Zeidler, L., Opitz, J., Frank, A. (2022). A Dynamic, Interpreted CheckList for Meaning-oriented NLG Metric Evaluation – through the Lens of Semantic Similarity Rating. In: Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 157-172
- Becker, M., Liang, S., Frank, A. (2021). Reconstructing Implicit Knowledge with Language Models. Proceedings of Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO): The 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Deep Learning Architectures at NAACL 2021, 11-24. ** BEST PAPER AWARD **
- Opitz, J., Daza, A., Frank, A. (2021). Weisfeiler-Leman in the BAMBOO: Novel AMR Graph Metrics and a Benchmark for AMR Graph Similarity. in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 1425-1441.
- Opitz, J., Wiesenbach, P., Heinisch, P., Cimiano, P. and Frank, A. (2021). Explainable Unsupervised Argument Similarity Rating with Abstract Meaning Representation and Conclusion Generation. Proceedings of the Eighth Argument Mining Workshop, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 24-35. ** BEST PAPER AWARD **
- Opitz, J., Frank, A. (2021). Towards a Decomposable Metric for Explainable Evaluation of Text Generation from AMR. Proceedings of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021), Online, 1504-1518.
- Daza, A. and Frank, A. (2020): X-SRL: A Parallel Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Labeling Dataset. The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020), Online.
- J. Opitz, L. Parcalabescu and A. Frank (2020). AMR Similarity Metrics from Principles. In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 8, pp. 522-538.
- Daza, A. and Frank, A. (2019): Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling. in: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-EMNLP), Hong Kong, China, pp. 603–615.
- Nastase, V. and Kotnis, B. (2019): Abstract Graphs and Abstract Paths for Knowledge Graph Completion. Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019), Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 147--157.
- Opitz, J. and Frank, A. (2019): An Argument-Marker Model for Syntax-Agnostic Proto-Role Labeling. Proceedings of The Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019), pp. 224–234, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Daza, A. and Frank, A. (2018): A Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Semantic Role Labeling. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, RepL4NLP@ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 207--216.
- Nastase, V., Fritz, D., Frank, A. (2018): DeModify: A Dataset for Analyzing Contextual Constraints on Modifier Deletion. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.
- Becker, M., Staniek, M., Nastase, V., Palmer, A., and Frank, A. (2017): Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention. Proceedings of *SEM (Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics), Vancouver, Canada.
- Becker, M., Staniek, M., Nastase, V., and Frank, A. (2017): Enriching Argumentative Texts with Implicit Knowledge. Frasinca, F., Ittoo, A., Nguyen, L., and Metais, E. (eds.), Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases (NLDB) - Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
- Becker, M., Palmer, A., and Frank, A. (2017): Semantic Clause Types and Modality as Features for Argument Analysis. Argument & Computation, Special Issue on Language and Argumentation.
- Do, B.-N., Rehbein, I., and Frank, A. (2017): What Do We Need to Know about an Unknown Word When Parsing German. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Subword and Character Level Models in NLP, Vancouver, Canada.
- Becker, M., Palmer, A., and Frank, A. (2016): Clause Types and Modality in Argumentative Microtexts. Workshop on Foundations of the Language of Argumentation (in conjunction with COMMA 2016), Potsdam, Germany, pp. 1--9.
- Becker, M., Palmer, A., and Frank, A. (2016): Argumentative texts and clause types. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining2016), Berlin, Germany, pp. 21--30.
- Sikos, J., Versley, Y., and Frank, A. (2016): Implicit Semantic Roles in a Multilingual Setting. Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2016), Berlin, Germany, 11-12 August, pp. 45--54.
- Marasović, A., Zhou, M., Palmer, A., and Frank, A. (2016): Modal Sense Classification At Large: Paraphrase-Driven Sense Projection, Semantically Enriched Classification Models and Cross-Genre Evaluations. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Special issue on Modality in Natural Language Understanding, Stanford, CA., vol. 14 (2), CSLI Publications.
- Zhou, M., Frank, A., Friedrich, A., and Palmer, A. (2015): Semantically Enriched Models for Modal Sense Classification. Proceedings of the EMNLP 2015 Workshop LSDSem: Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, Lisbon, Portugal, September.
