I am professor at Hochschule der Medien (university of applied sciences) in Stuttgart, Germany.
Before that, I was lead research scientist at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) and, before that, a postdoctoral researcher in Sebastian Padó's group at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at University of Stuttgart. Before that, I completed my PhD in computer science at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich, under the supervision of Hinrich Schütze.
During my PhD, I was a recipient of the Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Natural Language Processing.
Research Interests
My research interests lie on machine learning methods for natural language processing (NLP), with a particular focus on deep learning methods and on enhancing their robustness (e.g., in low-resource scenarios) and their explainability. Important application areas of my work in the past were speech recognition, information extraction for knowledge graph population, and multimodal scientific text mining. Currently, I have the pleasure to co-supervise two PhD theses on transfer learning for low-resource NLP and NLP beyond sentences.
News / Highlights
Paper accepted at WACV 2024
October 2023: 1 paper accepted for EMNLP main conference + 1 paper accepted for EMNLP findings
September 2023: I was appointed professor for AI for audiovisual media at Hochschule der Medien.
I serve as area chair for EMNLP 2023 and AAAI 2024.
Our paper NLNDE at Sem-Eval 2023 Task 12 is nominated as best system paper!
2023: We are top-ranked at the AfriSenti SemEval shared task on sentiment analysis for African languages!
I will be area chair at ACL 2023 (machine learning track)
I will be senior program committee member at AAAI 2023
2022 and older
I gave a talk at Women in Data Science 2022
I was Area Chair for Semantics at NAACL 2021
I was Demo Chair at EMNLP 2021
2021: We won the MEDDOPROF shared task on Spanish profession name extraction! (see our system description paper for more information)
2019: We won the MEDDOCAN shared task on Spanish document anonymization! (see our system description paper for more information)
I gave a practical session in the RANLP'19 Summer School on Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing (website)