News

Publication in Scientometrics Journal
A study entitled “Data Sets for Author Name Disambiguation: An Empirical Analysis and a New Resource” has just been published in …

Another Successful Defense
Sebastian Martschat (second from the right, with his examination committee) has successfully defended his PhD. thesis on “Structured Representations for Coreference …

Dissertation erfolgreich verteidigt
Sebastian Martschat (zweiter von rechts, mit seinem Prüfungskomitee) hat erfolgreich seine Dissertation mit dem Titel “Structured Representations for Coreference Resolution” …

New Scientific Director: Michael Strube
As of January 2017, Prof. Dr. Michael Strube is the new Scientific Director (“Institutssprecher”) of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director …

EACL Paper Accepted
The paper “Trust, but Verify! Better Entity Linking through Automatic Verification” by Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube, and Chin-Yew Lin has been …

EACL Workshop “Ethics in NLP”
Michael Strube, group leader NLP at HITS, will co-organize the upcoming EACL-Workshop “Ethics in NLP”, which will take place on the 4…

Coling Paper Accepted
The paper “Incremental Global Event Extraction” by Alex Judea and Michael Strube has been accepted for Coling 2016, which will take place …

EMNLP Paper Accepted
A paper by Daraksha Parveen, PhD. student in the HITS NLP group, has been accepted at EMNLP ’16. The title of the …

ACL 2016
A paper by Nafise Sadat Moosavi, PhD. student in the HITS NLP group, has been accepted as a long paper at …

First place at NAACL 2016 Shared Task
Madeline Remse, Master student in the HITS NLP group, finished first place in the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing Shared Task …