Programme

13 Sept. 2017

09:30OPENING: Welcome and Introduction

Welcome and Introduction (Presentation)

GSCL 2017 Chairs: Georg Rehm, Thierry Declerck

GSCL: Heike Zinsmeister (President of GSCL), Torsten Zesch (Vice President of GSCL)

09:45Invited Keynote Presentation

Chair: Georg Rehm

Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research, Paris, France): Learning Deep Representations in NLP

10:45Coffee Break
11:15Session 1: Processing German – Basic Technologies 1
Chair: Gertrud Faaß (Uni Hildesheim)
11:15Michael Wiegand, Maximilian Wolf and Josef Ruppenhofer. Negation Modeling for German Polarity Classification (Presentation)
11:45Leonie Weißweiler and Alexander Fraser. Developing a Stemmer for German Based on a Comparative Analysis of Publicly Available Stemmers (Presentation)
12:15Daniel Dakota. The Devil is in the Details: Parsing Unknown German Words (Presentation)
12:45Lunch Break (please note that lunch is not included in your registration)
13:45Session 2: Processing Scientific Literature
Chair: Lothar Lemnitzer (BBAW)
13:45Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb and Jannik Strötgen: Diachronic variation of temporal expressions in scientific writing through the lens of relative entropy (Presentation)
14:15Andreas Stiegelmayr and Margot Mieskes: Using argumentative structure to grade persuasive essays (Presentation)
14:45Coffee Break + Poster Session
Philippe Thomas and Leonhard Hennig. Twitter Geolocation Prediction using Neural Networks
Georg Rehm. An Infrastructure for Empowering Internet Users to handle Fake News and other Online Media Phenomena
Markus Gärtner, Uli Hahn and Sibylle Hermann. Supporting Sustainable Process Documentation
Kyoko Sugisaki. Word and sentence segmentation in German: Overcoming idiosyncrasies in the use of punctuation in private communication
Judith Fischer. A case study on the relevance of the competence assumption for implicature calculation in dialogue systems
Jessica Sohl and Heike Zinsmeister. Exploring ensemble dependency parsing to reduce manual annotation workload
15:15GSCL Award: Presentations of the Shortlisted Nominees
Chair: Torsten Zesch
Category Bachelor:
15:15Jonas Wacker (TU Darmstadt). Ambient Search – just-in-time document recommendations for speech fragments (Presentation)
15:30Katarina Ragna Krüger (Universität Potsdam). Assessing the Dimensions of Factuality in Biomedical Text (Presentation)
Category Master:
15:45Adam Roussel (Universität Bochum). Automatic Abstract Anaphora Resolution in German (Presentation)
16:05Mathias Müller (Universität Zürich). Treatment of Markup in Statistical Machine Translation (Presentation)
16:30Coffee Break + Poster Session
Philippe Thomas and Leonhard Hennig. Twitter Geolocation Prediction using Neural Networks
Georg Rehm. An Infrastructure for Empowering Internet Users to handle Fake News and other Online Media Phenomena
Markus Gärtner, Uli Hahn and Sibylle Hermann. Supporting Sustainable Process Documentation
Kyoko Sugisaki. Word and sentence segmentation in German: Overcoming idiosyncrasies in the use of punctuation in private communication
Judith Fischer. A case study on the relevance of the competence assumption for implicature calculation in dialogue systems
Jessica Sohl and Heike Zinsmeister. Exploring ensemble dependency parsing to reduce manual annotation workload
17:00GSCL e.V. General Meeting (public)
18:00Reception – drinks and snacks – End: ca. 19:30

14 Sept. 2017

09:30Session 3: Processing German – Basic Technologies 2
Chair: Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (Uni Saarland)
09:30Ankit Srivastava, Sabine Weber, Peter Bourgonje and Georg Rehm. Different German and English Coreference Resolution Models for Multi-Domain Content Curation Scenarios (Presentation)
10:00Felix Burkhardt, Benjamin Weiss, Florian Eyben, Jun Deng and Björn Schuller. Detecting Vocal Irony (Presentation)
10:30Dolores Batinic and Thomas Schmidt. Reconstruction of Separable Particle Verbs in a Corpus of Spoken German (Presentation)
11:00Coffee Break + Poster Session
Sabine Gruender-Fahrer, Antje Schlaf and Sebastian Wustmann. How Social Media Text Analysis Can Inform Disaster Management
Nils Haldenwang, Katrin Ihler, Julian Kniephoff and Oliver Vornberger. A Comparative Study of Uncertainty Based Active Learning Strategies for General Purpose Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Deep Neural Networks
Daniel Claeser, Dennis Felske and Samantha Kent. Token Level Code-Switching Detection Using Wikipedia as a Lexical Resource
Maximilian Köper, Kim-Anh Nguyen and Sabine Schulte Im Walde. Optimizing Visual Representations in Semantic Multi-Modal Models with Dimensionality Reduction, Denoising and Contextual Information
Stefan Thater. Fine Grained POS Tagging of German Social Media and Web Texts
11:30Session 4: Processing German – Named Entities
Chair: Manfred Stede (Uni Potsdam)
11:30Roland Roller, Nils Rethmeier, Philippe Thomas, Marc Hübner, Hans Uszkoreit, Fabian Halleck, Oliver Staeck, Klemens Budde and Danilo Schmidt. Detecting Named Entities and Relations in German Clinical Reports (Presentation)
12:00Bettina Klimek, Markus Ackermann, Amit Kirschenbaum and Sebastian Hellmann. An Investigation of Morphological Complexity and Gold Standard Annotations of German NER Systems (Presentation)
12:30Robert Schwarzenberg, Leonhard Hennig and Holmer Hemsen. In-Memory Distributed Training of Linear-Chain Conditional Random Fields, with an Application to Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition (Presentation)
13:00Lunch Break (please note that lunch is not included in your registration)
14:00Invited Keynote Presentation

Chair: Thierry Declerck

Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK): Automatic Detection of Rumours in Social Media: Methods and Challenges (Presentation)

15:00Coffee Break + Poster Session
Sabine Gruender-Fahrer, Antje Schlaf and Sebastian Wustmann. How Social Media Text Analysis Can Inform Disaster Management
Nils Haldenwang, Katrin Ihler, Julian Kniephoff and Oliver Vornberger. A Comparative Study of Uncertainty Based Active Learning Strategies for General Purpose Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Deep Neural Networks
Daniel Claeser, Dennis Felske and Samantha Kent. Token Level Code-Switching Detection Using Wikipedia as a Lexical Resource
Maximilian Köper, Kim-Anh Nguyen and Sabine Schulte Im Walde. Optimizing Visual Representations in Semantic Multi-Modal Models with Dimensionality Reduction, Denoising and Contextual Information
Stefan Thater. Fine Grained POS Tagging of German Social Media and Web Texts
15:30Session 5: Online Media
Chair: Josef Ruppenhofer (IDS - Mannheim)
15:30Johanna Geiß, Andreas Spitz and Michael Gertz. NECKAr- Named Entity Classifier for Wikidata (Presentation)
16:00Peter Bourgonje, Julian Moreno Schneider and Georg Rehm. Automatic Classification of Abusive Language and Personal Attacks in Various Forms of Online Communication (Presentation)
16:30Darina Benikova, Michael Wojatzki and Torsten Zesch. What does this imply? Examining the Impact of Implicitness on the Perception of Hate Speech (Presentation)
17:00Closing

GSCL 2017 Chairs: Georg Rehm, Thierry Declerck

GSCL: Heike Zinsmeister (President of GSCL), Torsten Zesch (Vice President of GSCL)

Conference summary and GSCL Award Ceremony

19:00Dinner at Frannz (Kulturbrauerei, Schönhauser Allee 36, Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg) – End: 22:00