current phd students

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Angela Fahrni, since March 2010 in the CoSyne project, research topic: (depending on your perspective:) word sense disambiguation, entity disambiguation, or cross-document coreference resolution

Viola Ganter, since December 2008 in the JUMAS project, research topic: detecting vague and manipulative language

Yufang Hou, since May 2011 PhD. scholarship holder, research topic: knowledge extraction, bridging resolution

Cai Jie, since June 2008 PhD. scholarship holder, research topic: coreference resolution

Sebastian Martschat, since September 2011 PhD. scholarship holder, research topic: coreference resolution

Darla Shockley, since April 2010 PhD. sholarship holder, research topic: text-to-text generation, automatic summarization

Cäcilia Zirn, since October 2010 PhD. student at the Computer Science department at the University of Mannheim, research topic: fine-grained sentiment analysis (co-advised by me)

 

graduated phd students

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Katja Filippova, PhD 2009 (TH Darmstadt): Dependency Graph Based Sentence Fusion and Compression, now at Google Research, Zürich, Switzerland

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, PhD 2009 (Uni Stuttgart): Knowledge Acquisition from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopedia, now at University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Margot Mieskes, PhD 2009 (Uni Erlangen): Exploring Methods for the Automatic Summarization of Meetings, now at European Media Lab, Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph Müller, PhD 2008 (Uni Tübingen): Fully Automatic Resolution of 'it', 'this', and 'that' in Unrestricted Multi-Party Dialog, now at objective partner AG, Weinheim, Germany