Curriculum Vitae
Jobs
- Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart
- since 07/2020: Privatdozent (≈ Associate Professor in US)
- since 12/2017: Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat)
- 10/2015 - 11/2017: Lecturer (Akademischer Rat)
- 10/2014 - 09/2015: Visiting Professor (Professurvertretung)
- Semalytix GmbH
- 05/2015 - 07/2020: Co-Founder (Exit in 07/2020)
- Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University
- 01/2013 – 09/2015: Post-Doctoral Researcher
- 02/2016 - 12/2021: Coopted by CITEC.
- Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta
- 03/2019: Visiting Lecturer (one week)
- 03/2018: Visiting Lecturer (two weeks, LCT Scholar)
- 03/2017: Visiting Lecturer (two weeks, Erasmus+)
- IESL Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 10/2013 – 12/2013: Visiting Researcher
- 03/2010 – 05/2010: Visiting Scholar
- Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI)
- 01/2011 – 12/2012: Post-Doctoral Researcher
- 08/2006 – 12/2010: Researcher, PhD student
- QuinScape GmbH
- 12/2004 – 06/2006: Software Developer
- University of Dortmund
- 12/2002 – 11/2004: Student Assistant, School for rehabilitation sciences
- 10/2000 – 03/2002: Student Assistant, Hardware design teaching lab
- Yamaha music school, Duisburg
- 02/1997 – 05/1998: Music Teacher
Education
- 07/2020
Habilitation at University of Stuttgart - 08/2006– 12/2010
PhD Student at TU Dortmund University (defense in 05/2011) - 10/1999 – 06/2006
Student of Computer Science with minor subject psychology at University of Dortmund - 05/1999
General qualification for university entrance (Abitur) at Reinhard- und Max-Mannesmann Gymnasium, Duisburg
Awards and Scholarships
- 2022
Runner-up for best paper award at ArgMining Workshop at COLING - 2018
Acknowledged as top reviewer ACL - 2018
Students’ Choice for Excellence in Teaching (Institute for Natural Language Processing) - 2018
NLDB Best Paper Award - 2018
LCT Erasmus Scholarship (University of Malta) - 2017
WASSA-2017 Shared Task on Emotion Intensity, Place 2/21 - 2017
Erasmus+ Scholarship (University of Malta) - 2016
Best innovation and transfer project, SEMANTiCS Conference, with Semalytix GmbH - 2016
Best paper award, Semantic Sentiment Analysis Workshop, ESWC - 2010
PhD Short Term Scholarship, UMass Amherst, DAAD - 2008
ISCB Travel Scholarship for ISMB, U.S. Department of Energy - 2007
Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Task 2 (NER), Place 4/19 - 2006
CIMMACS “Best Student Paper”
Memberships, Activities, Organizer, Chair…
- Member:
- Action Editor:
- ACL Rolling Review 2021–2022
- Senior Area Chair:
- EACL 2023 (Language Resources and Evaluation)
- ACL 2022 (Sentiment, Argument Mining, Stylistic Analyses)
- EACL 2021 (Sentiment and Argumentation Mining)
- Area Chair:
- COLING 2018, 2022
- NAACL 2021
- EMNLP 2020
- ACL 2020
- AKBC 2019
- Senior Program Committee Member
- Program Committee Board of IJCAI/IJCAI-ECAI, 2022-2024
- IJCAI 2016, 2017
- ECAI 2020
- Workshop Organizer:
- ONION 2020, People in language, vision and the mind, with Albert Gatt and Patrizia Paggio
- WASSA 2018, 2019, 2022, Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
- LIDER Roadmapping Workshop on Content Analytics and Linked Data in Healthcare and Medicine, 2015
- Shared Task Organizer:
- IEST Shared Task on Implicit Emotion Recognition 2018
- IGGSA-Shared Task on German Sentiment Analysis (GESTALT) at KONVENS 2014
Reviewer for Funding Agencies
- German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Sachmittelbeihilfen und Forschungsgruppe, https://www.dfg.de/)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch)
- Bayerischer Forschungsstiftung (https://www.forschungsstiftung.de/)
- Vienna Science and Technology Fund (https://www.wwtf.at)
Reviewer in Journals
- Computational Linguistics Journal (ACL, MIT Press), 2022
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL, 2021–2023)
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2020, 2021
- Cambridge Press Natural Language Engineering, 2018-2022
- Corpora, 2019
- Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (Special Issue on Sentiment Analysis, 2018)
- BMC Journal Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2017)
- Chemical Reviews (ACS), 2014, 2017
- Semantic Web Journal, 2016
- Journal of Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals), 2008-2015
- Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), 2015
- Business & Information Systems Engineering, Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2015
- Springer Künstliche Intelligenz, 2015
- Journal of Computing and Information Technology (CIT), 2014, 2015
- Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier), 2014
- Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, IOS Press, 2014
- METHODS (Elsevier), 2013, 2014
- Journal on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2012
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2011
- BMC Bioinformatics, 2009-2014
- Journal of Computational Intelligence Special Issue on Extracting Bio-molecular Events from Literature (Wiley), 2010
Program Committee Member of Conferences and Independent Workshops
- Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2021, 2022
- Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022
- Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it), 2020, 2021
- Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- ACL Rolling Review, 2021
- Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), 2021
- Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018, 2019, 2021
- IJCAI 2021
- COLING, 2016, 2018, 2020
- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2020
- Digital Humanities im Deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd), 2018, 2020
- EurNLP, 2019
- Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017, 2018, 2019
- International Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK), 2017, 2018
- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE, 2018
- Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), 2014, 2018
- Digital Humanities (DH), 2018, 2019
- International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) (PC member), 2015, 2016
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014, 2015
- International Conference of the German Society for Computational Lingustics and Language Technologies (GSCL-Tagung) (PC member), 2013, 2015, 2017
- International Conference on eParticipation (eGov, ePart) (PC member), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM) (PC member), 2016
- BioCreative Workshop, 2013
- IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB), 2009
- North-Eastern Student Colloquium on AI (NESCAI), 2010
Program Committee Member of Workshops at Conferences
- BioNLP, 2022
- Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS), 2019, 2022
- Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- Workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP (Adapt-NLP), 2021
- Workshop on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Meets Machine Learning at NeurIPS, 2020
- Workshop on Computational Modeling of PEople’s Opinions, PersonaLity, and Emotions in Social media (PEOPLES), 2020
- SocialNLP, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA) (PC member), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Ethics in NLP, 2017, 2018
- AKBC Workshop at NIPS, 2017
- ECIR 2017 Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness, 2017
- TextGraphs (Comittee Member), 2016
- IEEE International Workshop on Real Time Data Stream Analytics (RTStreams) (PC member), 2015
- UIMA Workshop at GSCL, 2013
- ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011
- ACL Workshop on Relational Models in Semantics (RELMS), 2011
- NIPS Workshop Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB), 2008