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Germany
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Research Interests
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| My PhD topic concerns the detection of metaphors in political contexts. For this I have created a metaphor dataset of roughly 500 German online news-headlines, annotated by non-experts. Feel free to check out (or even participate in) the annotation process at http://nlp.h-its.org/annotation/index.php . Previous research concerned deception detection - this work is part of the JUMAS project (http://www.jumasproject.eu/), a European project funded by the ICT programme within the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development activities of the European Commisson; I also worked on hedge detection and was the first one to work on weasel-word detection, taking advantage of corresponding maintenance tags in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Weasel). Other topics I am interested in are sentiment analysis and subjectivity detection, as well as idiom detection, of course, as it is so close to my actual research topic. | ||
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Before coming to HITS (or "EML Research", as it was called back then), I completed my BA in Cognitive Science at the
Universität Osnabrück.
There I got to know the fascinating field of computational linguistics,
which I then pursued to study at Universitet Stockholm
(MA degree in CL) under supervision of
Dr. Martin Volk.
I spent some time at Linköping's Universitet within the Erasmus program, and I studied one semester in Heidelberg as a "Swedish exchange student" (it's a long story). | ||
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