TextGraphs-2018

GORAN GLAVAŠ

Goran is an Assistant Professor at the Data and Web Science group, School of Business Informatics and Mathematics, University of Mannheim. Prior to joining University of Mannheim, Goran obtained his Ph.D. and worked at the Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Lab (TakeLab), University of Zagreb. His research efforts have mainly focused on graph-based event extraction and retrieval, lexical and computational semantics, NLP applications for social sciences. Goran has co-organized the TextGraphs-11 workshop and has served as a program committee member / reviewer for several journals and conferences (Information Sciences, Web Semantics, Natural Language Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Review, Expert Systems with Applications, ACL, EMNLP, EACL, AAAI, RANLP).

E-mail: goran (at) informatik (dot) uni-mannheim (dot) de

Webpage: http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/en/people/professors/profdr-goran-glavas/

SWAPNA SOMASUNDARAN

Swapna is a Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service. Her main research areas are sentiment analysis and discourse modeling, and some of her work has specifically focused on extracting, representing and exploiting graphs from the discourse (e.g. opinion graphs and lexical chains). Prior to ETS, Swapna was a Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Research, where she focused on relationship mining on biomedical entities. Swapna coorganized TextGraphs in 2010 and 2017. She has also served as area chair (NAACL 2018, COLING 2016), SRW Faculty Advisor (SRW 2018) handbook chair (EMNLP 2016), and program committee member/ reviewer for several journals, conferences and workshops (e.g. CL, ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP, COLING, LREC, AIED, IJCNLP, SAAIP, TAFC, BEA, LSDSem).

E-mail: ssomasundaran (at) ets (dot) org

Webpage: http://www.somasundaran.net/

MARTIN RIEDL

Martin is a postdoctoral researcher at the “Theoretical Computational Linguistics” group at the University of Stuttgart. Prior to that position, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Darmstadt and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg. His main focus of research is the development of statistical semantic methods, with the special focus on unsupervised methods. Martin has organized the TextGraphs-10 and TextGraphs-11 workshop and has been program committee of several journals, conferences and workshops e.g. NLE, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, IJCNLP, LREC, RANLP, NLDB and TextGraphs.

E-mail: martin.riedl (at) ims (dot) uni-stuttgart (dot) de

Webpage: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/riedlmn/

EDUARD HOVY

Eduard is a Research Professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and the Co-Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence on the Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA). He has also held multiple advisory and adjunct faculty positions in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the Universty of Waterloo, and until 2012, was at the University of Southern California as a Fellow of its Information Sciences Institute (ISI), as Director of the Human Language Group, as Research Associate Professor in USC’s Computer Science Department, and as Director of Research for ISI’s Digital Government Research Center (DGRC).

E-mail: hovy (at) cmu (dot) edu

Webpage: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/˜hovy/