AI Agents. LBBW Trend Days 2025, Mainz, May 7, 2025.
KI Agenten: Intelligente Systeme zwischen Autonomie und Kontrolle. Ethische Fragen der Künstlichen Intelligenz, rtwe, online, May 5, 2025.
Mit Sprache Rechnen! Warum ChatGPT & Co plötzlich so gut mit Sprache können. Lange Nacht der Mathematik, Karlsruhe, April 4, 2025. [video (youtube)]
Temporal Text Data Analytics. Data Skills für KMU (DSKMU) @ Institut für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung, April 1, 2025.
Sprich mit mir! Möglichkeiten durch Natürliche Sprachinteraktion. LBBW Trend Days 2024, Stuttgart, November 13, 2024.
Sprich mit mir! Möglichkeiten durch Natürliche Sprachinteraktion. LBBW Trend Days 2024, Karlsruhe, November 6, 2024.
Auf dem Weg zu domänen-robuster Informationsextraktion bei Bosch. Hochschule Esslingen, AnalyzES AI Lab, Esslingen (remote), June 16, 2021. (invited by Prof. Dr. Dorothee Brauner)
Towards Domain-robust Information Extraction at Bosch. Merck, Text Mining Lecture Series, Darmstadt (remote), February 12, 2021. (invited by Harsha Gurulingappa)
Towards Domain-robust Information Extraction at Bosch. NEC Labs, NEC Talk Series, Heidelberg (remote), February 5, 2021. (invited by Kiril Gashteovski)
Towards the Bosch Materials Science Knowledge Base. Qurator Conference, Berlin, Germany, January 20, 2020. (invited by Dr. Georg Rehm)
Time for Natural Language Processing. KIT, Kolloquium Angewandte Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 15 , 2018. (invited by Prof. Dr. Harald Sack)
Time for Natural Language Processing. Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany, November 29, 2017.
Time for Text Mining and Information Retrieval. MPI-INF/MPI-SWS Joint Lecture Series, Saarbrücken, Germany, January 11, 2017. (invited by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum)
Natural Language Processing, Responsibly. Dagstuhl Seminar "Data, Responsibly", Dagstuhl, Germany, July 21, 2016.
Temponym Tagging, Comprehensive Tagging of Textual Phrases with Temporal Scopes. StatNLP Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany, June 8, 2016. (invited by Prof. Dr. Stefan Riezler, Prof. Dr. Michael Gertz)
Zeit für bessere Suche. GI Dissertationspreis 2015 Kolloquium, Dagstuhl, Germany, May 2, 2016. (nominated by Heidelberg University)
Temporal Tagging for Text Mining Applications. Bosch Corporate Research, Renningen, Germany, July 28, 2015. (invited by Dr. Michael Hanselmann)
Event-centric Information Retreival. MPI, Saarbrücken, Germany June 23, 2015. (invited by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum)
"Literjahrtur" - eine Kalender-App für Android mit Daten aus einem weltliterarischen Korpus. DARIAH-DE Workshop "Warum nicht mal mobil? Apps in den Digital Humanities", Darmstadt, Germany, April 24, 2015. (invited talk, together with Frank Fischer)
Multilingual and Domain-sensitive Temporal Tagging for Text Analytics. SAP Innovation@SSI&SolMan Presentation Series, April 29, 2015. (invited by Michael Laux, SAP)
Domain-sensitive Temporal Tagging for Event-centric Information Retrieval. UKP Colloquial, Darmstadt, Germany, April 16, 2015. (invited by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych)
Domain-sensitive Temporal Tagging for Event-centric Information Retrieval. NLP Lab at DFKI, Berlin, Germany, February 2, 2015. (invited by Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit)
Domain-sensitive Temporal Tagging for Event-centric Information Retrieval. WBI Forschungsseminar, HU Berlin, Germany, June 24, 2013. (invited by Prof. Dr. Ulf Leser)
Event-centric Information Extraction and Retrieval to Explore Document Collections. Guest Lecture: Web Search and Information Retrieval, Mannheim, Germany, May 7, 2013. (invited by Prof. Dr. Simone Paolo Ponzetto)
Event-centric Information Extraction and Information Retrieval to Explore Document Collections. DIMA Colloquium, Berlin, Germany, July 9, 2012. (invited by Prof. Dr. Volker Markl)
Multilingual and Cross-domain Temporal Tagging with HeidelTime. LOEWE Colloquium, Frankfurt, Germany, June 28, 2012. (invited by Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler)
Annotating Spatio-Temporal Information in Documents. Workshop on Name Classification and Grounding in Multilingual Corpora, Zurich, Switzerland, June 8, 2010. (invited by Prof. Dr. Martin Volk)
Area Chair
PC member / reviewer
TempWeb, Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
Top Reviewer 2018
EMNLP, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015)
Outstanding Reviewer 2020, 2019; Best Reviewer Award 2018
CIKM, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (2018, 2017)
SIGIR, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2018)
NAACL-HLT, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies, (2018)
LaTeCH, Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (2017, 2016)
Drift-a-LOD, Workshop on the Detection, Representation and Management of Concept Drift in Linked Open Data (2017, 2016)
Teach4DH, Teaching NLP for Digital Humanities Workshop (2017)
IDEAS, International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (2016, 2015, 2014)
SemEval, International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2015, 2013)
SIMBig, International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data (2015)
Award Committees
ECIR, Best Demo Award Committee (2021)
Journal reviewer
NLE, Natural Language Engineering (2018)
TGIS, Transactions in Geographic Information Systems (2018)
TALLIP, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2017, 2014, 2013)
IPM, Information Processing & Management (2015, 2014)
AI, Artificial Intelligence Journal (2011)
TCBB, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2010)
Book reviewer
Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan & Claypool Publishers (2017)
External Reviewer
Workshop organizer
KONVENS Teaching for NLP Workshop 2023 (with Annemarie Friedrich, Margot Mieskes, Christian Wartena, Stefan Gruenewald).
Guest editor
Special issue of Information Processing and Management journal on "Time and Information Retrieval" with Leon Derczynski, Ricardo Campos, and Omar Alonso (CfP, Introduction to the Special Issue).
Conference tutorial lecturer
DHd 2016 tutorial on "CATMA - Eine Plattform zum kollaborativen und automatisierten Annotieren und Analysieren von Texten" with Thomas Bögel, Evelyn Gius, and Marco Petris (description)
DH 2014 tutorial on "A Collaborative, Indeterministic and partly Automatized Approach to Text Annotation" with Thomas Bögel, Evelyn Gius, and Marco Petris (description, accompanying material)
Reviewer for funding agencies