Paper accepted as spotlight presentation at NeurIPS '21: Federico López, Beatrice Pozzetti, Steve Trettel, Michael Strube and Anna Wienhard: Vector-valued distance and gyrocalculus on the space of symmetric positive definite matrices. (PDF)
Paper accepted at ICML '21: Federico López, Beatrice Pozzetti, Steve Trettel, Michael Strube and Anna Wienhard: Symmetric spaces for graph embeddings: A Finsler-Riemannian approach. (PDF)
I am co-organizer for the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, CODI 2021 at EMNLP '21 held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 10-11, 2021 (the first conference which actually happens after the plague!).
I am also co-organizer for the CODI-CRAC 2021 Shared-Task: Anaphora Resolution in Dialogues at CODI '21.
Teaching winter term 2021: Discourse Processing in the CL Department at the University of Heidelberg.
I was named Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2019.
(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)!