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Career

· Professor of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University2024–
· DFG Research Fellow, Columbia University2006–2007
· Visiting scholar, ICCS, University of Edinburgh2000–2000
· Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Saarland University1999–2004
· Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Saarland University1999–2006
· Research assistant, Project CHORUS (Prof. Manfred Pinkal)1998–1999
· Intern, SRI International, Cambridge, UK1998–1998
· Research assistant, Project OMEGA (Prof. Jörg Siekmann)1996–1997
· Vordiplome (≈ B.Sc. degrees) in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics, Saarland University1996–
· Research assistant, German Research Centre for AI (DFKI)1995–1995
· Student assistant, SAP AG, Walldorf1995–1995
· Diplom (M.Sc.) in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University1994–1999
· Diplom (M.Sc.) in Computer Science, Saarland University1994–1999

Publications (207)

Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2020
1,176
cited
Exercise as cardiovascular therapy.
Circulation · 1999
550
cited
The Constraint Language for Lambda Structures
Journal of Logic, Language and Information · 2001
177
cited
Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2010
157
cited
We're Afraid Language Models Aren't Modeling Ambiguity
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
140
cited
50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Conference Volume 2: Short Papers
2012
103
cited
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2017
94
cited
Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2)
International Conference on Natural Language Generation · 2010
82
cited
Short-term metreleptin treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa: rapid on-set of beneficial cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects
Translational Psychiatry · 2020
79
cited
Generation as Dependency Parsing
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2002
77
cited
Incremental, Predictive Parsing with Psycholinguistically Motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar
International Conference on Computational Logic · 2013
73
cited
EXPERIENCES WITH PLANNING FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
International Conference on Climate Informatics · 2011
67
cited
The GIVE-2 Corpus of Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation · 2010
67
cited
Computing Locally Coherent Discourses
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2004
66
cited
Report on the Second Second Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2.5)
European Workshop on Natural Language Generation · 2011
64
cited
Report on the First NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE)
European Workshop on Natural Language Generation · 2009
63
cited
AMR dependency parsing with a typed semantic algebra
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2018
62
cited
An efficient graph algorithm for dominance constraints
J. Algorithms · 2003
56
cited
Referring Expressions as Formulas of Description Logic
International Conference on Natural Language Generation · 2008
56
cited
Dominance Constraints: Algorithms and Complexity
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics · 1998
55
cited
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