[nl-uiuc] AIIS talk by Sandra Kuebler - Friday at 2pm April 22nd

[Yonatan Bisk]

-- 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.

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