In the media: The topic of our workshop on Ethics in NLP is covered by an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. On bias in machine learning for NLP and AI on April 22nd, 2017, in the science program Die Profis at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.
Short paper accepted at ACL '17: Nafise Sadat Moosavi and Michael Strube: Lexical Features in Coreference Resolution: To be Used With Caution.
Long paper accepted at EACL '17: Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube and Chin-Yew Lin: Trust, but Verify! Better Entity Linking through Automatic Verification.
March for Science on April 22nd, 2017, in Heidelberg. Within three minutes I tried to talk about computational linguistics and computer science, their relevance for our society and our responsibility as scientists. My script in German and (roughly translated to) English. For impressions on the event, see here. As a follow-up I got invited to participate in a panel discussion on May 18th, 2017, at DKFZ Heidelberg on the future of the movement.
Recent public talks: May 15th, 2017, at the DAI Heidelberg in the series "Digitalität@Heidelberg". May 10th, 2017, at the Medienforum 2017. November 14th, 2016 at the University of Braunschweig in the series Zukunftsfragen kontrovers: Big Brother liest mit: Informationstechnologie zwischen Überwachungsstaat und gesellschaftlichem Nutzen . December 6th, 2016 at the University of Heidelberg in the series Gegenwartsliteratur und Zeitdiagnostik: Dave Eggers' Roman »The Circle« (2013). Segen und Fluch der Transparenzgesellschaft.
Recent invited talks: At the journalists' conference Netzwerk Recherche 2017 on the "Dark Side of NLP ... At the LSDsem '15 and the CORBON '16 workshops: "The (Non-)Utility of Semantics for Coreference Resolution" (LSDsem, CORBON Remix). At the University of Mannheim, School of Business Informatics and Mathematics (and a few other places ...): "The Dark Side of NLP: An Introduction into Natural Language Processing for Spooks, Stalkers, and other Scoundrels" (PDF, Announcement). At the University of Edinburgh, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation: "Issues I Don't Understand About Coreference and Coherence".
Teaching winter term 2016: The Dark Side of NLP: Gefahren automatischer Sprachverarbeitung in the CL Department at the University of Heidelberg.
(This isn't really news ...) According to Google Scholar the AAAI '06 and AAAI '07 papers Simone Paolo Ponzetto and I co-authored are the most cited papers of the top conference in AI (Google Scholar query for AAAI 2006 and AAAI 2007)!