Publications

2024

Vagrant Gautam, Julius Steuer, Eileen Bingert, Ray Johns, Anne Lauscher, Dietrich Klakow
WinoPron: Revisiting English Winogender Schemas for Consistency, Coverage, and Grammatical Case
Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference @ EMNLP 2024

Marius Mosbach, Vagrant Gautam*, Tomás Vergara-Browne*, Dietrich Klakow, Mor Geva
From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP
EMNLP 2024

Arjun Subramonian*, Vagrant Gautam*, Dietrich Klakow, Zeerak Talat
Understanding “Democratization” in NLP and ML Research
EMNLP 2024

Dawei Zhu, Pinzhen Chen, Miaoran Zhang, Barry Haddow, Xiaoyu Shen, Dietrich Klakow
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Translate: Will a Touch of Noisy Data in Misaligned Languages Suffice?
EMNLP 2024

Vagrant Gautam, Eileen Bingert, Dawei Zhu, Anne Lauscher, Dietrich Klakow
Robust Pronoun Fidelity with English LLMs: Are they Reasoning, Repeating, or Just Biased?
Transactions of ACL, 2024 (presented at EMNLP 2024)

Vagrant Gautam, Arjun Subramonian, Anne Lauscher, Os Keyes
Stop! In the Name of Flaws: Disentangling Personal Names and Sociodemographic Attributes in NLP
Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing @ ACL 2024

Miaoran Zhang, Vagrant Gautam, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Xiaoyu Shen, Dietrich Klakow, Marius Mosbach
The Impact of Demonstrations on Multilingual In-Context Learning: A Multidimensional Analysis
Findings of ACL, 2024

Anupama Chingacham, Miaoran Zhang, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow
Human Speech Perception in Noise: Can Large Language Models Paraphrase to Improve It?
Human-Centered Large Language Modeling Workshop @ ACL 2024

Pin-Jie Lin, Miaoran Zhang, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
Exploring the Effectiveness and Consistency of Task Selection in Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning
Student Research Workshop @ ACL 2024

Miaoran Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba O Alabi, Dietrich Klakow
AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness
SemEval-2024 workshop [ Best System Paper Award 🏆 ]

Paloma García-de-Herreros*, Vagrant Gautam*, Philipp Slusallek, Dietrich Klakow, Marius Mosbach
What explains the success of cross-modal fine-tuning with ORCA?
Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP @ NAACL 2024

Dawei Zhu, Sony Trenous, Xiaoyu Shen, Dietrich Klakow, Bill Byrne, Eva Hasler
A Preference-driven Paradigm for Enhanced Translation with Large Language Models
NAACL 2024

AriaRay Brown, Julius Steuer, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
An Interactive Toolkit for Approachable NLP
In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP @ ACL 2024

Florian Dietz, Sophie Fellenz, Dietrich Klakow, Marius Kloft
Comgra: A Tool for Analyzing and Debugging Neural Networks
ICML 2024 Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability

2023

Lakshmi Rajendram Bashyam, Alexander Blatt, Dietrich Klakow
Enabling Noisy Label Usage for Out-of-Airspace Data in Read-Back Error Detection
ASRU 2023

Alexander Blatt, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
Ending the Blind Flight: Analyzing the Impact of Acoustic and Lexical Factors on Wav2vec 2.0 in Air-Traffic Control
ASRU 2023

Vagrant Gautam, Miaoran Zhang, Dietrich Klakow
A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in English
Findings of EMNLP 2023

Aravind Krishnan, Jesujoba Alabi, Dietrich Klakow
On the N-gram Approximation of Pre-trained Language Models
INTERSPEECH 2023

Badr M. Abdullah, Mohammed Maqsood Shaik, Bernd Mobius, Dietrich Klakow
An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Self-supervised Discrete Representations of Speech
INTERSPEECH 2023

Badr M. Abdullah, Mohammed Maqsood Shaik, Dietrich Klakow
On the Nature of Discrete Speech Representations in Multilingual Self-supervised Models
SIGTYP Workshop @ EACL 2023

Julius Steuer, Badr M. Abdullah, Johann-Mattis List, Dietrich Klakow
Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists
SIGTYP Workshop @ EACL 2023

Anaelia Ovalle, Arjun Subramonian, Vagrant Gautam, Gilbert Gee, Kai-Wei Chang
Factoring the Matrix of Domination: A Critical Review and Reimagination of Intersectionality in AI Fairness
AIES 2023

Marius Mosbach, Tiago Pimentel, Shauli Ravfogel, Dietrich Klakow, Yanai Elazar
Few-shot Fine-tuning vs. In-context Learning: A Fair Comparison and Evaluation
Findings of ACL 2023

Dawei Zhu, Xiaoyu Shen, Marius Mosbach, Andreas Stephan, Dietrich Klakow
Weaker Than You Think: A Critical Look at Weakly Supervised Learning
ACL 2023 [ Best Theme Paper Award 🏆 ]

Harry Bunt and Volha Petukhova
Semantic and Pragmatic Precision in Conversational AI Systems.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Language and Computation, Volume 6 – 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.896729

Idris Akinade, Jesujoba Alabi, David Adelani, Clement Odoje, Dietrich Klakow
ε kú mask: Integrating Yorùbá cultural greetings into machine translation
C3NLP Workshop @ EACL2023 and AfricaNLP workshop @ ICLR2023

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Christine Mwase, Odunayo Ogundepo, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Akintunde Oladipo, Doreen Nixdorf, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sana Sabah al-azzawi, Blessing K. Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Brian Odhiambo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Nnaemeka C. Obiefuna, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Saheed Salahudeen Abdullahi, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Idris Abdulmumin, Mahlet Taye Bame, Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Tolulope Anu Adelani, Habiba Abdulganiy Kailani, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Adetola Adeeko, Afolabi Abeeb, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Olanrewaju Samuel, Clemencia Siro, Wangari Kimotho, Onyekachi Raphael Ogbu, Chinedu E. Mbonu, Chiamaka I. Chukwuneke, Samuel Fanijo, Jessica Ojo, Oyinkansola F. Awosan, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Pamela Nyatsine, Freedmore Sidume, Oreen Yousuf, Mardiyyah Oduwole, Ussen Kimanuka, Kanda Patrick Tshinu, Thina Diko, Siyanda Nxakama, Abdulmejid Tuni Johar, Sinodos Gebre, Muhidin Mohamed, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Fuad Mire Hassan, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Evrard Ngabire, Pontus Stenetorp
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages
AfricaNLP Workshop @ICLR 2023 (non-archival)

Cheikh M Bamba Dione, David Adelani, Peter Nabende, Jesujoba Alabi, Thapelo Sindane, Happy Buzaaba, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Perez Ogayo, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jonathan Mukiibi, Blessing Sibanda, Bonaventure FP Dossou, Andiswa Bukula, Rooweither Mabuya, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Amelia Taylor, Godson Kalipe, Tebogo Macucwa, Vukosi Marivate, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Mboning Tchiaze Elvis, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Gratien Atindogbe, Tolulope Adelani, Idris Akinade, Olanrewaju Samuel, Marien Nahimana, Théogène Musabeyezu, Emile Niyomutabazi, Ester Chimhenga, Kudzai Gotosa, Patrick Mizha, Apelete Agbolo, Seydou Traore, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Aliyu Yusuf, Muhammad Abdullahi, Dietrich Klakow
MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
ACL 2023

Dawei Zhu, Xiaoyu Shen, Michael A. Hedderich, Dietrich Klakow
Meta Self-Refinement for Robust Learning with Weak Supervision
EACL 2023

Mohammed Maqsood Sheik, D. Klakow, Badr M. Abdullah
Self-supervised Adaptive Pre-training of Multilingual Speech Models for Language and Dialect Identification
ICASSP 2023

M Li, D Schlangen, D Klakow
Learning Part-whole Hierarchies from the Sequence of Handwriting
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46

Michael A. Hedderich, Jonas Fischer, Dietrich Klakow, and Gilles Vreeken
Understanding and Mitigating Classification Errors Through Interpretable Token Patterns
BlackboxNLP@EMNLP’23, 2023

Julius Steuer, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
Large GPT-like Models are Bad Babies: A Closer Look at the Relationship between Linguistic Competence and Psycholinguistic Measures
CooNLL 3023

J Kudera, I Stenger, B Möbius, T Avgustinova, D Klakow
Phonetic cues in auditory identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish and Russian language of origin
Language and Speech 66 (3), 606-624

I Akinade, J Alabi, D Adelani, C Odoje, D Klakow
Varepsilon kú mask: Integrating Yorùbá cultural greetings into machine translation
C3NLP 2023

B Wiegand, D Klakow, J Vreeken
Why Are We Waiting? Discovering Interpretable Models for Predicting Sojourn and Waiting Times
Proceedings of the 2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)

2022

Janaki Viswanathan, Alexander Blatt, Konrad Hagemann, Dietrich Klakow
Less Stress, More Privacy: Stress Detection on Anonymized Speech of Air Traffic Controllers
Innovation im Fokus 2 – 2022 (DFS)

Sven Bollmann, Jonas Füllgraf, Christian Roxlau, Thomas Feuerle, Peter Hecker, Aravind Krishnan, Simon Ostermann, Dietrich Klakow, Nicolas Großmann, and Stefan Müller-Divéky
Automatic speech recognition in noise polluted cockpit environments for monitoring the approach briefing in commercial aviation
2022 International Workshop on ATM/CNS

Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
Analyzing the Representational Geometry of Acoustic Word Embeddings
BlackboxNLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2022

Mickaël Rigault, Claudia Cevenini, Khalid Choukri, Martin Kocour, Karel Veselý, Jan Černocký, Igor Szoke, Petr Motlíček, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Alexander Blatt, Dietrich Klakow, Allan Tart, Pavel Kolčàrek
Legal and Ethical Challenges in Recording Air Traffic Control Speech
The Legal and Ethical issues Workshop @LREC2022

Badr M. Abdullah, Bernd Mobius, Dietrich Klakow
Integrating Form and Meaning: A Multi-Task Learning Model for Acoustic Word Embeddings
INTERSPEECH 2022

Iuliia Zaitova, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
Mapping Phonology to Semantics: A Computational Model of Cross-Lingual Spoken-Word Recognition
VarDial Workshop @ COLING 2022

Vilém Zouhar, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
Fusing Sentence Embeddings Into LSTM-based Autoregressive Language Models

Vilém Zouhar, Marius Mosbach, Miaoran Zhang, Dietrich Klakow
Knowledge Base Index Compression via Dimensionality and Precision Reduction

Vilém Zouhar, Marius Mosbach, Debanjali Biswas, Dietrich Klakow
Artefact Retrieval: Overview of NLP Models with Knowledge Base Access
Conference paper: Automated Knowledge Base Construction (2021)

Hafiza Erum Manzoor, Volha Petukhova
What Is Going through Your Mind? Metacognitive Events Classification in Human-Agent Interactions
In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC2022, pages 1–9, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.

Jutta Stock, Volha Petukhova, Dietrich Klakow
Assessment of Sales Negotiation Strategies with ISO 24617-2 Dialogue Act Annotations
In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC2022, pages 10–19, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.

Anupama Chingacham, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow
A Data-driven Investigation of Noise-Adaptive Utterance Generation With Linguistic Modification
To appear at IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) 2023.

Josh Meyer, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Edresson Casanova, Alp \”Oktem, Daniel Whitenack Julian Weber, Salomon Kabongo, Elizabeth Salesky, Iroro Orife, Colin Leong, Perez Ogayo, Chris Emezue, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomey Osei, Apelete Agbolo, Victor Akinode, Bernard Opoku, Samuel Olanrewaju, Jesujoba Alabi, Shamsuddeen Muhammad
BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), September 18-22, 2022. 

Alexander Blatt, Martin Kocour, Karel Veselý, Igor Szöke, Dietrich Klakow
Call-sign Recognition and Understanding for noisy air-traffic Transcripts using Surveillance Information
In Proceedings of the ICASSP 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,Speech and Signal Processing

Ali Davody, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Thomas Kleinbauer, Dietrich Klakow
TOKEN is a MASK: Few-shot Named Entity Recognition with Pre-trained Language Models
In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2022), September 6 – 9, 2022

Awantee Deshpande, Dana Ruiter, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
StereoKG: Data-Driven Knowledge Graph Construction for Cultural Knowledge and Stereotypes
In Workshop of Online Abuse and Harms at NAACL 2022

Dana Ruiter, Thomas Kleinbauer, Cristina España-Bonet, Josef van Genabith, Dietrich Klakow
Exploiting Social Media Content for Self-Spervised Style Transfer
In SocialNLP 2022 at NAACL 2022

Dana Ruiter, Liane Reiners, Ashwin Geet D’Sa, Thomas Kleinbauer, Dominique Fohr, Irina Illina, Dietrich Klakow, Christian Schemer, Angeliki Monnier
Placing M-Phasis on the Plurality of Hate: A Feautre-Based Corpus of Hate Online
In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022

Michael A. Hedderich*, Jonas Fischer*, Dietrich Klakow, Jilles Vreeken
Label-Descriptive Patterns and Their Application to Characterizing Classification Errors
To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022)

Miaoran Zhang, Marius Mosbach, David I. Adelani, Michael A. Hedderich, Dietrich Klakow
MCSE: Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings
In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022)

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan, Julia Kreutzer, Xiaoyu Shen, Machel Reid, Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow, Peter Nabende, Ernie Chang, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Freshia Sackey, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Colin Leong, Michael Beukman, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Guyo Dub Jarso, Oreen Yousuf, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Gilles Hacheme, Eric Peter Wairagala, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Benjamin Ayoade Ajibade, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Yvonne Wambui Gitau, Jade Abbott, Mohamed Ahmed, Millicent Ochieng, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Perez Ogayo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Victoire Memdjokam Koagne, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Valencia Wagner, Idris Abdulmumin, Ayodele Awokoya, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing Sibanda, Andiswa Bukula, Sam Manthalu
A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022)

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sebastian Ruder, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Bello Shehu Bello, Monojit Choudhury, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Saheed Salahudeen Abdullahi, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Alipio Jeorge, Pavel Brazdil
NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis
In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022

Dawei Zhu, Michael A. Hedderich, Fangzhou Zhai, David I. Adelani, Dietrich Klakow
Is BERT Robust to Label Noise? A Study on Learning with Noisy Labels in Text Classification
In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP @ ACL2022

En-Shiun Annie Lee, Sarubi Thillainathan, Shravan Nayak, Surangika Ranathunga, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ruisi Su, Arya D. McCarthy
Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation?
In Proceedings of ACL2022 findings

Dawei Zhu, Michael A. Hedderich, Fangzhou Zhai, David I. Adelani, Dietrich Klakow
Task-Adaptive Pre-Training for Boosting Learning With Noisy Labels: A Study on Text Classification for African Languages
At AfricaNLP Workshop @ ICLR2022

Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
Multilingual language model Adaptive Fine-Tuning: A Study on African Languages
At AfricaNLP Workshop @ ICLR2022

Ernie Chang , Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Demberg
Dialogue Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning
At AfricaNLP Workshop @ ICLR2022

Iyanuoluwa Shode, David I. Adelani, Anna Feldman
YOSM: a new Yorùbá Sentiment corpus for Movie reviews
At AfricaNLP Workshop @ ICLR2022

2021

Martin Kocour, Karel Veselý, Igor Szöke, Santosh Kesiraju, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Alexander Blatt, Amrutha Prasad, Iuliia Nigmatulina, Petr Motlíček, Dietrich Klakow, Allan Tart, Hicham Atassi, Pavel Kolčárek, Jan Černocký, Claudia Cevenini, Khalid Choukri, Mickael Rigault, Fabian Landis, Saeed Sarfjoo, Chloe Salamin
Automatic Processing Pipeline for Collecting and Annotating of Air-traffic Voice Communication Data
In Proceedings of the 9. OpenSky Symposium, 2021

Martin Kocour, Karel Veselý, Alexander Blatt, Juan Zuluaga Gomez, Igor Szöke, Jan “Honza” Černocký, Dietrich Klakow, Petr Motlı́ček
Boosting of contextual information in ASR for air-traffic call-sign recognition
In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 30 August – 3 September, 2021, 2021. 

Anupama Chingacham, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow
Exploring the Potential of Lexical Paraphrases for Mitigating Noise-Induced Comprehension Errors.
In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2021. Best student paper award!

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Miaoran Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen, Ali Davody, Thomas Kleinbauer, Dietrich Klakow
Preventing Author Profiling through Zero-Shot Multilingual Back-Translation
In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

Dawei Zhu, Aditya Mogadala, Dietrich Klakow.
Image manipulation with natural language using two-sided attentive conditional generative adversarial network.
Neural Networks. 2021 Apr 1;136:207-17 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0893608020303257)

Svetlana Tchistiakova, Jesujoba Alabi, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Sourav Dutta, Dana Ruiter
EdinSaar@WMT21: North-Germanic Low-Resource Multilingual NMT
In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation

Ashwin Geet D’sa, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr, Dietrich Klakow, Dana Ruiter
Exploring Conditional Language Model Based Data Augmentation Approaches for Hate Speech Classification
In International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue 2021

Ekaterina Saveleva, Volha Petukhova, Marius Mosbach and Dietrich Klakow
Graph-based Argument Quality Assessment
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021)

Fech Scen Khoo, Dawei Zhu, Michael A. Hedderich and Dietrich Klakow
Estimating Formulas for Model Performance Under Noisy Labels Using Symbolic Regression
In Proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2021)

Ekaterina Saveleva, Volha Petukhova, Marius Mosbach and Dietrich Klakow
Discourse-based Argument Segmentation and Annotation
In Proceedings of the 17th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17), Groningen, NL

Volha Petukhova and Hafiza Erum Manzoor
Towards the ISO 24617-2-compliant Typology of Metacognitive Events
In Proceedings of the 17th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-17), Groningen, NL

Michael A. Hedderich, Lukas Lange, Heike Adel, Jannik Strötgen, Dietrich Klakow
A Survey on Recent Approaches for Natural Language Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios
In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL)

Adwait Sharma, Michael A. Hedderich, Divyanshu Bhardwaj, Bruno Fruchard, Jess McIntosh, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Dietrich Klakow, Daniel Ashbrook, Jürgen Steimle
SoloFinger: Robust Microgestures while Grasping Everyday Objects
In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow, Josef van Genabith, Cristina España Bonet. 2021
Integrating Unsupervised Data Generation into Self-Supervised Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages.
In MT-Summit (Research Track). Virtual.

Vanessa Hahn, Dana Ruiter, Thomas Kleinbauer, Dietrich Klakow. 2021
Modeling Profanity and Hate Speech in Social media with Semantic Subspaces. In Association for Computational Linguistics: Workshop of Online Abuse and Harms. Virtual.

Michael A. Hedderich, Benjamin Roth, Katharina Kann, Barbara Plank, Alex Ratner, Dietrich Klakow (Editors)
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Weakly Supervised Learning (WeaSuL)

Marius Mosbach, Michael A. Hedderich, Sandro Pezzelle, Aditya Mogadala, Dietrich Klakow, Marie-Francine Moens, Zeynep Akata (Editors)
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating Real-world kNowledge (LANTERN)

Susann Boy, Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow. 2021
Emoji-Based Transfer Learning for Sentiment Tasks
In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop. Virtual.

Klára Jágrová, Michael A. Hedderich, Marius Mosbach, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow
On the Correlation of Context-Aware Language Models with the Intelligibility of Polish Target Words to Czech Readers
Frontiers in Psychology

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig, Daniel D’souza, Julia Kreutzer, Constantine Lignos, Chester Palen-Michel, Happy Buzaaba, Shruti Rijhwani, Sebastian Ruder, Stephen Mayhew, Israel Abebe Azime, Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Perez Ogayo, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jesujoba Alabi, Seid Muhie Yimam, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Ignatius Ezeani, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Verrah Otiende, Iroro Orife, Davis David, Samba Ngom, Tosin Adewumi, Paul Rayson, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Gerald Muriuki, Emmanuel Anebi, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Nkiruka Odu, Eric Peter Wairagala, Samuel Oyerinde, Clemencia Siro, Tobius Saul Bateesa, Temilola Oloyede, Yvonne Wambui, Victor Akinode, Deborah Nabagereka, Maurice Katusiime, Ayodele Awokoya, Mouhamadane MBOUP, Dibora Gebreyohannes, Henok Tilaye, Kelechi Nwaike, Degaga Wolde, Abdoulaye Faye, Blessing Sibanda, Orevaoghene Ahia, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Kelechi Ogueji, Thierno Ibrahima DIOP, Abdoulaye Diallo, Adewale Akinfaderin, Tendai Marengereke, Salomey Osei.
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL). 2021 (To Appear).

David I. Adelani, Dana Ruiter, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Damilola Adebonojo, Adesina Ayeni, Mofe Adeyemi, Ayodele Awokoya, Cristina España-Bonet
The Effect of Domain and Diacritics in Yorùbá–English Neural Machine Translation
In MT Summit 2021

Badr M. Abdullah, Marius Mosbach, Iuliia Zaitova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
Do Acoustic Word Embeddings Capture Phonological Similarity? An Empirical Study
In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2021

Elizabeth Salesky, Badr M. Abdullah, Sabrina Mielke, Elena Klyachko, Oleg Serikov, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Ritesh Kumar, Ryan Cotterell, Ekaterina Vylomova
SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task: Robust Spoken Language Identification
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP) @ NAACL 2021

Alexandra Mayn, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
Familiar words but strange voices: Modelling the influence of speech variability on word recognition
In Proceedings of EACL 2021, Student Research Workshop

Nicole Macher, Badr M. Abdullah, Harm Brouwer, Dietrich Klakow
Do we read what we hear? Modeling orthographic influences on spoken word recognition
In Proceedings of EACL 2021, Student Research Workshop

David I. Adelani, Dana Ruiter, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Damilola Adebonojo, Adesina Ayeni, Mofe Adeyemi, Ayodele Awokoya, Cristina España-Bonet
MENYO-20k: A Multi-domain English-Yorùbá Corpus for Machine Translation and Domain Adaptation
In AfricaNLP Workshop @EACL 2021 (non-archival).

Kathleen Siminyu, Godson Kalipe, Davor Orlic, Jade Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Sackey Freshia, Prateek Sibal, Bhanu Neupane, David I. Adelani, Amelia Taylor, Jamiil Toure ALI, Kevin Degila, Momboladji Balogoun, Thierno Ibrahima DIOP, Davis David, Chayma Fourati, Hatem Haddad, Malek Naski
AI4D — African Language Program
In AfricaNLP Workshop @EACL 2021 (non-archival).

Marius Mosbach, Maksym Andriushchenko, Dietrich Klakow
On the Stability of Fine-tuning BERT: Misconceptions, Explanations, and Strong Baselines
In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR).

Michael A. Hedderich, Lukas Lange, Dietrich Klakow
ANEA: Distant Supervision for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition
Practical Machine Learning For Developing Countries @ ICLR 2021

Michael A. Hedderich, Dawei Zhu, Dietrich Klakow
Analysing the Noise Model Error for Realistic Noisy Label Data
In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021 (AAAI)

2020

Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Karel Veselý, Alexander Blatt, Petr Motlicek, Dietrich Klakow, Allan Tart, Igor Szöke, Amrutha Prasad, Saeed Sarfjoo, Pavel Kolčárek, Martin Kocour, Honza Černocký, Claudia Cevenini, Khalid Choukri, Mickael Rigault, Fabian Landis
Automatic Call Sign Detection: Matching Air Surveillance Data with Air Traffic Spoken Communications
In Proceedings of the OpenSky Symposium 2020

Badr M. Abdullah, Jacek Kudera, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
Rediscovering the Slavic Continuum in Representations Emerging from Neural Models of Spoken Language Identification
In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) @ COLING 2020.

Dana Ruiter, Josef van Genabith, Cristina España-Bonet. 2020. Self-Induced Curriculum Learning in Self-Supervised Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Virtual.

Moritz Wolf, Dana Ruiter, Ashwin Geet D’Sa, Liane Reiners, Jan Alexandersson, Dietrich Klakow. 2020. HUMAN: Hierarchical Universal Modular ANnotator. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations. Virtual.

Marius Mosbach, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
A Closer Look at Linguistic Knowledge in Masked Language Models: The Case of Relative Clauses in American English
In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

Michael A. Hedderich, David Adelani, Dawei Zhu, Jesujoba Alabi, Udia Markus, Dietrich Klakow
Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages
In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

Marius Mosbach, Anna Khokhlova, Michael A. Hedderich, Dietrich Klakow
On the Interplay Between Fine-tuning and Sentence-level Probing for Linguistic Knowledge in Pre-trained Transformers
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 and Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2020.

Badr M. Abdullah, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
Cross-Domain Adaptation of Spoken Language Identification for Related Languages: The Curious Case of Slavic Languages
In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), October 26-29, 2020. 

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ali Davody, Thomas Kleinbauer, and Dietrich Klakow
Privacy Guarantees for De-identifying Text Transformations
In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), October 26-29, 2020. 

Aditya Mogadala, Xiaoyu Shen and Dietrich Klakow
Integrating Image Captioning with Rule-based Entity Masking 
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop 2020

Aditya Mogadala, Marius Mosbach, and Dietrich Klakow
Sparse Graph to Sequence Learning for Vision Conditioned Long Textual Sequence Generation 
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop, July 18, 2020

Aleena Thomas, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ali Davody, Aditya Mogadala, and Dietrich Klakow
Investigating the Impact of Pre-trained Word Embeddings on Memorization in Neural Networks
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2020), September 8 – 11, 2020

Sourav Dutta, Jesujoba Alabi, Saptarashmi Badyopadhyay, Dana Ruiter, Josef van Genabith. 2020. UdS-DFKI@WMT20: Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT for German-Upper Sorbian. In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation. Virtual.

Ashwin Geet D’Sa, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr, Dietrich Klakow, Dana Ruiter. 2020. Label Propagation-Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Hate Speech Classification. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP. Virtual.

Mossad Helali, Thomas Kleinbauer, and Dietrich Klakow
Assessing Unintended Memorization in Neural Discriminative Sequence Models 
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2020), September 8 – 11, 2020

Xiaoyu Shen, Ernie Chang, Hui Su, Cheng Niu and Dietrich Klakow
Neural Data-to-Text Generation via Jointly Learning the Segmentation and Correspondence
In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages, 7155–7165, July 5 – 10, 2020

Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen, Sanqiang Zhao, Zhou Xiao, Pengwei Hu, Randy Zhong, Cheng Niu and Jie Zhou
Diversifying Dialogue Generation with Non-Conversational Text
In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages, 7087–7097, July 5 – 10, 2020

Volha Petukhova, Firuza Sharifullaeva and Dietrich Klakow (to appear)
Authoring Negotiation Content and Programming Simulated Patients.
Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade. Luis Fernando D’Haro, Zoraida Callejas and Satoshi Nakamura (eds.) Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer.

Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
Adapting the ISO 24617-2 Dialogue Act Annotation Scheme for Modelling Medical Consultations.
In Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-16), pp. 74-86.

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Emer Gilmartin, Catherine Pelachaud, Alex Fang, Simon Keizer, and Laurent Prevot
The ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation, Second Edition.
In Proceedings 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), Marseille.

Vassilakis, C., Kotis, K., Spiliotopoulos, D., Margaris, D., Kasapakis, V., Anagnostopoulos, C. N., … Petukhova, V., Malchanau, A.
A Semantic Mixed Reality Framework for Shared Cultural Experiences Ecosystems.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 4(2), 6.

David I. Adelani, Michael A. Hedderich, Dawei Zhu, Esther van den Berg, Dietrich Klakow
Distant Supervision and Noisy Label Learning for Low Resource Named Entity Recognition: A Study on Hausa and Yorùbá
AfricaNLP and PML4DC Workshops @ ICLR 2020

Iroro Orife, David I. Adelani, Timi Fasubaa, Victor Williamson, Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olamilekan Wahab, Kola Tubosun
Improving Yorùbá Diacritic Restoration
AfricaNLP Workshop @ ICLR 2020

Ernie Chang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Xiaoyu Shen, Vera Demberg
Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation By Pivoting English Data and Self-Training
AfricaNLP Workshop @ ICLR 2020

Jesujoba O. Alabi, Kwabena Amponsah-Kaakyire, David I. Adelani, Cristina España-Bonet
Massive vs. Curated Embeddings for Low-Resourced Languages: the Case of Yorùbá and Twi
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Haotian Mai, Fuming Fang, Huy H. Nguyen, Junichi Yamagishi, Isao Echizen
Generating Sentiment-Preserving Fake Online Reviews Using Neural Language Models and Their Human- and Machine-based Detection.
In the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2020)

2019

Andrew Johnson, Penny Karanasou, Judith Gaspers and Dietrich Klakow
Cross-lingual transfer learning for Japanese named entity recogniation
In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics,  2019

Hartmut Helmke, Matthias Kleinert, Jürgen Rataj, Petr Motlicek, Dietrich Klakow, Christian Kern, Petr Hlousek.
Cost Reductions Enabled by Machine Learning in ATM
Thirteenth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2019), 2019.

Yuri Bizzoni, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow and Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
Some steps towards the generation of diachronic WordNets
In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics,  2019

Marius Mosbach, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova and Dietrich Klakow
incom.py – A Toolbox for Calculating Linguistic Distances and Asymmetries between Related languages
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019),  2019

Dana Ruiter, Md. Ataur Rahman and Dietrich Klakow
LSV-UdS at HASOC 2019: The Problem of Defining Hate
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019),  2019

Sophia Voigtmann, Richard Gerbracht and Dietrich Klakow, Augustin Speyer
Extraposition and Information Density in Early New High German Corpora
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS,  2019

Lukas Lange, Michael A. Hedderich and Dietrich Klakow
Feature-Dependent Confusion Matrices for Low-Resource NER Labeling with Noisy Labels
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP),  2019

Volha Petukhova, Firuza Sharifullaeva and Dietrich Klakow
Modelling Shared Decision Making in Medical Negotiations: Interactive Training with Cognitive Agents. Matteo Baldoni, Mehdi Dastani, Beishui Liao, Yuko Sakurai, and Rym Zalila-Wenkstern (eds). The 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA2019). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.11873, Springer.

Martin Wolf, Volha Petukhova and Dietrich Klakow
Term-Based Extraction of Medical Information: Pre-operative Patient Education Use Case. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Procesing (RANLP 2019), Varna, Bulgaria.

Malchanau A., Petukhova V., Bunt H. (2019) Multimodal Dialogue System Evaluation: A Case Study Applying Usability Standards. In: D’Haro L., Banchs R., Li H. (eds) 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 579. Springer, Singapore DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9443-0_13

Xiaoyu Shen, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui, Hui Su, Dietrich Klakow and Satoshi Sekine
Select and Attend: Towards Controllable Content Selection in Text Generation
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP),  Hong Kong, November 2019

Xiaoyu Shen, Yang Zhao, Hui Su and Dietrich Klakow
Improving Latent Alignment in Text Summarization by Generalizing the Pointer Generator
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP),  Hong Kong, November 2019

Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen, Rongzhi Zhang, Fei Sun, Pengwei Hu, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou
Improving Multi-turn Dialogue Modelling with Utterance ReWriter
In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 22–31, Florence, Italy, July 28 – August 2, 2019

Dominik Stammbach, Azin Zahraei, Polina Stadnikova and Dietrich Klakow
Offensive Language Detection with Neural Networks for Germeval Task 2018

Debjit Paul, Mittul Singh, Michael A. Hedderich and Dietrich Klakow
Handling Noisy Labels for Robustly Learning from Self-Training Data for Low-Resource Sequence Labeling
In Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 201

Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer, and Thomas Kleinbauer
Detection of Abusive Language: the Problem of Biased Datasets
In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pp. 602–608, Association for Computational Linguistics, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2019

Michael A. Hedderich, Andrew Yates, Dietrich Klakow and Gerard de Melo.
Using Multi-Sense Vector Embeddings for Reverse Dictionaries
In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2019) 

Carsten Klaus, Dietrich Klakow and Peter Fankhauser
OCR Post-Correction of the Royal Society Corpus based on the Noisy Channel Model
6. Jahrestagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (Poster)

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau, Alex Chengyu Fang, and Kars Wijnhoven
The DialogBank: Dialogues with Interoperable Annotations.
Language Resources and Evaluation (2019) 53:213–249 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-018-9436-9

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
Towards Integration of Cognitive Models in Dialogue Management: Designing the Virtual Negotiation Coach Application. Dialogue and Discourse 9(2) (2018), published online 2019, p. 35–79, doi: 10.5087/dad.2018.202

Zijian Wang, Scott Hale, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Timo Hartmann, Fabian Flöck and David Jurgens
Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data. In Proceedings of the Web Conference [Best Poster Presentation Award]

Matthias Kleinert, Hartmut Helmke, Gerald Siol, Heiko Ehr, Dietrich Klakow, Mittul Singh, Petr Motlicek, Christian Kern, Aneta Cerna, Petr Hlousek.
Adaptation of Assistant Based Speech Recognition to new domains and its Acceptance by Air Traffic Controllers.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration, 2019.

Rajarshi Biswas, Aditya Mogadala, Michael Barz, Daniel Sonntag, and Dietrich Klakow. Automatic Judgement of Neural Network-Generated Image Captions. In International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, pp. 261-272. Springer, Cham, 2019.

Aditya Mogadala, Dietrich Klakow, Sandro Pezzelle, and Marie Francine Moens. Proceedings of the Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating Real-world kNowledge (LANTERN). In Proceedings of the Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating Real-world kNowledge (LANTERN). 2019.

2018 

Xiaoyu Shen, Hui Su, Wenjie Li and Dietrich Klakow
NEXUS Network: Connecting the Preceding and the Following in Dialogue Generation
In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP),  Brussels, November 2018

Matthias Kleinert, Hartmut Helmke, Heiko Ehr, Christian Kern, Dietrich Klakow, Petr Motlicek, Mittul Singh, Gerald Siol.
Building Blocks of Assistant Based Speech Recognition for Air Traffic Management Applications.
In Proceedings of the SESAR Innovation Days 2018, 2018. 

Matthias Kleinert, Hartmut Helmke, Gerald Siol, Heiko Ehr, Aneta Cerna, Christian Kern, Dietrich Klakow, Petr Motlicek, Youssef Oualil, Mittul Singh, Ajay Srinivasamurthy.
Semi-supervised Adaptation of Assistant Based Speech Recognition Models for different Approach Areas.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2018. (Best Paper

Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Petr Motlicek, Mittul Singh, Youssef Oualil, Matthias Kleinert, Heiko Ehr, Hartmut Helmke.
Iterative Learning of Speech Recognition Models for Air Traffic Control
In Interspeech, 2018. Hyderabad, India.

Marius Mosbach, Maksym Andriushchenko, Thomas Trost, Matthias Hein, Dietrich Klakow
Logit Pairing Methods Can Fool Gradient-Based Attacks
NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Security in Machine Learning, December 2018, Montreal, Canada

Thomas Kleinbauer and Thomas Trost.
Comparing Distributional and Frame Semantic Properties of Words
In Proceedings of KONVENS 2018, Austria, September 2018

Josef Ruppenhofer, Melanie Siegel, Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow
Offensive Language Detection with Neural Networks for GermEval Task 2018
In Proceedings of the GermEval 2018 Workshop, 14th Converence on Natural Language Processing KONVENS 2018 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna September 21, 2018

Nima Nabizadeh, Mittul Singh and Dietrich Klakow.
Outperforming Neural Readers Using Broad-Context Discriminative Language Modeling on the LAMBADA Word Prediction Task
In Proceedings of KONVENS 2018, Austria, September 2018

Natalia Skachkova, Thomas A. Trost, Adam Kusmirek and Dietrich Klakow.
Closing Brackets with Recurrent Neural Networks.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Analysis and Interpretation of Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing, co-located with EMNLP 2018, Brussels, November 2018

Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand and Joseph Ruppenhofer.
Automatically Creating a Lexicon of Verbal Polarity Shifters: Mono- and Cross-lingual Methods for German.
In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2018

Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Rebecca Wilm and Katja Markert 
Distinguishing affixoid formations from compounds. 
In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2018

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Emer Gilmartin, Simon Keizer, Catherine Pelachaud, Laurent Prévot and Mariët Theune
Downward Compatible Revision of Dialogue Annotation.
In Proceedings of the 14th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-14), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2018

Michael A. Hedderich and Dietrich Klakow
Training a Neural Network in a Low-Resource Setting on Automatically Annotated Noisy Data.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
Resources

Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer, Anna Schmidt and Clayton Greenberg 
Inducing a Lexicon of Abusive Words – A Feature-Based Approach 
In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL (HLT/NAACL),

Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand, Joseph Ruppenhofer and Stephanie Köser.
Introducing a Lexicon of Verbal Polarity Shifters for English
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
Towards Continuous Dialogue Corpus Creation: Writing to corpus and generating from it.
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018

Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau, Youssef Oualil, Dietrich Klakow, Saturnino Luz, Fasih Haider, Nick Campbell, Dimitris Koryzis, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Pierre Albert, Nicklas Linz, Jan Alexandersson
The Metalogue Debate Trainee Corpus: Data Collection and Annotations
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018

Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
Multimodal dialogue system evaluation: a case study applying usability standards.
In Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (ISWDS 2018), Singapore, May 2018

Mittul Singh, Arunav Mishra, Youssef Oualil, Klaus Berberich and Dietrich Klakow
Long-Span Language Models for Query-focused Unsupervised Extractive Text Summarization
In Proceedings of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Grenoble, France, March 2018
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Muhammad Ahmad, Ingo Reich and Dietrich Klakow
Coping with limited training data in VP ellipsis detection using active learning.
In Proceedings of theh 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2018), Stuttgart, Germany, March 2018

Volha Petukhova, Desmond Darma Putra, Alexandr Chernov and Dietrich Klakow
Understanding Questions and Extracting Answers: Interactive Quiz Game Application Design
Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. Zygmunt Vetulani and Joseph Mariani (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin

David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, and Vera Demberg.
Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning.
In Proc. of the 11th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), Tilburg, the Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018.
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2017

Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer and Benjamin Roth
Towards Bootstrapping a Polarity Shifter Lexicon using Linguistic Features
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Taipei, Taiwan, November 27 – December 3, 2017.  
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Volha Petukhova and Ye Tian (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2017 – SaarDial), Saarbrücken, 15-17 August 2017.

Volha Petukhova, Tobias Mayer, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
Virtual Debate Coach Design: assessing multimodal argumentation performance.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, November 2017, Glasgow, UK PDF

Valeria Lapina and Volha Petukhova
Classification of Modal Meaning in Negotiation Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 13th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-13), Montpellier, France, pp. 59–70. PDF

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova and Alex Chengyu Fang
Revisiting the ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation.
In Proceedings 13th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-13), Montpellier, France, September 2017.

Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Andrei Malchanau
Computing Negotiation Update Semantics in Multi-issue Bargaining Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 21stWorkshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2017 – SaarDial), Saarbrücken, pp. 114- 124. PDF

Andrea Fischer, Jilles Vreeken, and Dietrich Klakow
Beyond Pairwise Similarity: Quantifying and Characterizing Linguistic Similarity between Groups of Languages by MDL
To appear in Computacion y Sistemas (special issue devoted to CICLing 2017)

Alexander Bentkamp, Jasmin Christian Blanchette and Dietrich Klakow
A Formal Proof of the Expressiveness of Deep Learning
ITP 2017: 8th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (to appear)

Youssef Oualil and Dietrich Klakow
A Batch Noise Contrastive Estimation Approach for Training Large Vocabulary Language Models
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017. 

Yanran Li, Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen, Wenjie Li, Ziqiang Cao and Shuzi Niu
DailyDialog: A Manually Labelled Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset
In Proceedings of the The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pages 986–995, Taipei, Taiwan, November 27 – December 1, 2017

Xiaoyu Shen, Hui Su, Yanran Li, Wenjie Li, Shuzi Niu, Yang Zhao, Akiko Aizawa and Guoping Long
A Conditional Variational Framework for Dialog Generation
In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Short Papers), pages 504–509, Vancouver, Canada, July 30 – August 4, 2017

Xiaoyu Shen, Youssef Oualil, Clayton Greenberg, Mittul Singh and  Dietrich Klakow
Estimation of Gap Between Current Language Models and Human Performance
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017. 

Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Petr Motlicek, Ivan Himawan, Gyorgy Szaszak, Youssef Oualil and Hartmut Helmke
Semi-supervised Learning with Semantic Knowledge Extraction for Improved Speech Recognition in Air Traffic Control
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017. 
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Eustace Ebhotemhen, Volha Petukhova and Dietrich Klakow
Incremental Dialogue Act Recognition: token- vs chunk-based classification
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), pp. 889-893. PDF

Volha Petukhova, Manoj Raju and Harry Bunt
Multimodal markers of persuasive speech : designing a Virtual Debate Coach
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), pp. 142-146. PDF

Mittul Singh, Youssef Oualil and Dietrich Klakow
Approximated and domain-adapted LSTM language models for first-pass decoding in speech recognition
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017.
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Thomas A. Trost and Dietrich Klakow
Parameter Free Hierarchical Graph-Based Clustering for Analyzing Continuous Word Embeddings.
In Workshop Proceedings of TextGraphs-11: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (Workshop at ACL 2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 3, 2017. PDF

Youssef Oualil and Dietrich Klakow
A Neural Network Approach for Mixing Language Models
Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, USA, March 5-9, 2017.

David M. Howcroft and Vera Demberg.
Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking.
In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Valencia, Spain, April 3-7, 2017.
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Julia Dembowski, Michael Wiegand, and Dietrich Klakow
Language Independent Named Entity Recognition using Distant Supervision.
In Proceedings of Language and Technology Conference (LTC), 2017.
best student paper
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Josef Ruppenhofer, Petra Steiner, and Michael Wiegand
Evaluating the morphological compositionality of polarity.
In Proceedings of RANLP, 2017.
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Michael Wiegand, Maximilian Wolf, and Josef Ruppenhofer
Negation Modeling for German Polarity Classification.
In Proceedings of GSCL, 2017.
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Anna Schmidt and Michael Wiegand.
A Survey on Hate Speech Detection using Natural Language Processing.
In Proceedings of the EACL-Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (EACL-SocialNLP), 2017.
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David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, and Vera Demberg.
The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: designing a corpus with variable information density.
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH).
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David M. Howcroft, Jorrig Vogels, and Vera Demberg.
G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information.
In Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG).
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2016

Vera Demberg, Jörg Hoffmann, Dave Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, and Alvaro Torralba,
Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization
KI 2016
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Ottokar Tilk, Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Dietrich Klakow, and Stefan Thater
Event participant modelling with neural networks
EMNLP 2016
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Mittul Singh, Clayton Greenberg, Youssef Oualil and Dietrich Klakow
Sub-Word Similarity based Search for Embeddings: Inducing Rare-Word Embeddings for Word Similarity Tasks and Language Modelling
In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan, December 13-16, 2016.
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Youssef Oualil, Clayton Greenberg, Mittul Singh and Dietrich Klakow
Long-Short Range Context Neural Networks for Language Modeling
In Proceedings of the 2016 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP), Austin, Texas, USA, November 1–5, 2016.
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Youssef Oualil,  Mittul Singh, Clayton Greenberg and Dietrich Klakow
Sequential Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modeling
In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), San Francisco, CA, USA, September 8-12, 2016.
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Stefan Schneegass, Youssef Oualil and Andreas Bulling
SkullConduct: Biometric User Identification on Eyewear Computers Using Bone Conduction Through the Skull
In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, New York, NY, USA, May 7-12, 2016.

Matti Varjokallio and Dietrich Klakow
Unsupervised Morph Segmentation and Statistical Language Models for Vocabulary Expansion
The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2016

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Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
Modelling argumentative behaviour in parliamentary debates: data collection, analysis and test case. 
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Floris Bex, The Duy Bui, Floriana Grasso, Nancy Green, Mohammad Namazi, Masayuki Numao, Mercedes Rodrigo, Merlin Teodosia Suarez (eds.) Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, Berlin, pages 26-46. pre-print PDF

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, David Traum and Jan Alexandersson
Dialogue Act Annotation with the ISO 24617-2 Standard.
D. Dahl (ed.) Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Towards Natural User Interfaces to Everything, Springer, pages 109-135.

Joy Van Helvert, Volha Petukhova, Christopher Stevens, Harmen de Weerd, Dirk Börner, Peter Van Rosmalen, Jan Alexandersson, Niels Taatgen
Observing Coaching and Reflecting: Metalogue – A Multi-modal Tutoring System with Metacognitive Abilities.
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments – Immersive Environments: Challenges, Research and New Developments, volume 16:6, DOI: 10.4108/eai.27-6-2016.151525 Pre-Print PDF

Martin Gropp, Anna Schmidt, Thomas Kleinbauer, Dietrich Klakow
Platon: Dialog Management and Rapid Prototyping for Multilingual Multi-User Dialog Systems
In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic, September 12-16, 2016.
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Mittul Singh, Clayton Greenberg and Dietrich Klakow
The custom decay language model for long range dependencies
In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic, September 12-16, 2016.
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Michael Wiegand, Marc Schulder, Josef Ruppenhofer
Separating Actor-View from Speaker-View Opinion Expressions using Linguistic Features.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL (HLT/NAACL), 2016.
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Michael Wiegand, Christine Bocionek, Josef Ruppenhofer
Opinion Holder and Target Extraction on Opinion Compounds – A Linguistic Approach.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL (HLT/NAACL), 2016.
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Andrea Fischer, Klara Jagrova, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova, Dietrich Klakow, and Roland Marti
Orthographic and Morphological Correspondences between Related Slavic Languages as a Base for Modeling of Mutual Intelligibility
(LREC 2016), Portoroz, May 25-28. ELRA, Paris. PDF

Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau, Alex Fang and Kars Wijnhoven
The DialogBank
In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portoroz, May 25-28. ELRA, Paris. PDF

Volha Petukhova, Christopher Stevens, Harmen de Weerd, Niels Taatgen, Fokie Cnossen and Andrei Malchanau
Modelling Multi-Issue Bargaining Dialogues:Data Collection, Annotation Design and Corpus.
In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portoroz, May 25-28. ELRA, Paris. PDF

Dilafruz Amanova, Volha Petukhova and Dietrich Klakow
Creating Annotated Dialogue Resources: Cross-Domain Dialogue Act Classification
In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portoroz, May 25-28. ELRA, Paris. PDF

Maximilian Schwenger, Álvaro Torralba, Jörg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, and Vera Demberg.
“From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation”
In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan, December 13-16, 2016.
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2015

Tania Avgustinova, Andrea Fischer, Klara Jagrova, Dietrich Klakow, Roland Marti & Irina Stenger
“Reading Polish with Czech Eyes” or “How Russian Can a Bulgarian Text Be?”: Orthographic Differences as an Experimental Variable in Reading Comprehension
Formal Description of Slavic Languages 11, Potsdam, Germany, December 2015 .
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Tania Avgustinova, Andrea Fischer, Klara Jagrova, Dietrich Klakow, Roland Marti & Irina Stenger
The Empirical Basis of Slavic Intercomprehension
Receptive multilingualism: Multilingual resources in service of mutual understanding – REMU 2015, Joensuu, Finland, May 2015 .
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Tania Avgustinova, Andrea Fischer, Klara Jagrova, Dietrich Klakow, Roland Marti & Irina Stenger
Orthography in Language Modelling of Mutual Intelligibility
Receptive multilingualism: Multilingual resources in service of mutual understanding – REMU 2015, Joensuu, Finland, May 2015 .
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Tania Avgustinova, Andrea Fischer, Klara Jagrova, Dietrich Klakow, Roland Marti & Irina Stenger
An Orthography Transformation Experiment with Czech-Polish and Bulgarian-Russian Parallel Word Sets
12th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, Kraków, Poland, September 2015 .
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Andrea Fischer, Vera Demberg and Dietrich Klakow
Towards Flexible, Small-Domain Surface Generation: Combining Data-Driven and Grammatical Approaches
15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), Brighton, United Kingdom, September 2015.
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Youssef Oualil, Marc Schulder, Hartmut Helmke, Anna Schmidt and Dietrich Klakow
Real-Time Integration of Dynamic Context Information for Improving Automatic Speech Recognition
16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2015.
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Hartmut Helmke, Youssef Oualil, Jürgen Rataj, Thorsten Mühlhausen, Oliver Ohneiser, Heiko Ehr, Matthias Kleinert, Marc Schulder,  Anna Schmidt and Dietrich Klakow
Assistant-based Speech Recognition for ATM Applications
11th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar (ATM2015), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2015
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Saeddeh Momtazi and Dietrich Klakow
Bridging the vocabulary gap between questions and answer sentences
Information Processing & Management, Volume 51, Issue 5, September 2015, Pages 595–615

Desmond Darma Putra, Volha Petukhova and Dietrich Klakow
Answer Extraction for Question Answering Game Application.
In: Proceedings of the 7th Language and  Technology Conference (LTC 2015), Poznan, Poland
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Vera Demberg, Jörg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, and Álvaro Torralba.
“Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization Objectives”
Künstliche Intelligenz
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Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Dietrich Klakow 
Multidimensional dialogue management for tutoring systems. 
In: Proceedings of the 7th Language and  Technology Conference (LTC 2015), Poznan, Poland

Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
Modelling argumentation in parliamentary debates.
In: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systmes Conference (PRIMA 2015), Bertinoro, Italy
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Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt, Andrei Malchanau and Ramkumar Aruchamy
Experimenting with grounding strategies in dialogue
In: Proceedings of the GoDial 2015 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Goteborg, Sweden, 24-26 August 2015
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Alexandr Chernov, Volha Petukhova and Dietrich Klakow
Linguistically motivated question classification.
In: Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, Lithuania
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Joy van Helvert, Peter van Rosmalen, Dirk Borner, Volha Petukhova and Jan Alexandersson
Observing Coaching and Reflecting: A Multi-modal Natural Language-based Dialogue System in a Learning Context. 
In: Proceedings of the Intelligent Environments Conference (IE15), Prague, IOS Press
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Peter van Rosmalen, Dirk Börner, Jan Schneider, Volha Petukhova and Joy van Helvert
Feedback Design in Multimodal Dialogue Systems.
In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), Portugal.
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Josef Ruppenhofer, Jasper Brandes, Petra Steiner and Michael Wiegand
Ordering adverbs by their scaling effect on adjective intensity
In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2015.

Michael White and David M. Howcroft
“Inducing Clause-Combining Rules: a Case Study with the SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus”
In: Proc. of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG).
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Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow 
Detecting conditional healthiness of food items from natural language text
Language Resources and Evaluation 49(4)
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Michael Wiegand, Marc Schulder and Josef Ruppenhofer
Opinion Holder and Target Extraction for Verb-based Opinion Predicates – The Problem is Not Solved
In Proceedings of the EMNLP-Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA), 2015.
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Michael Wiegand and Josef Ruppenhofer
Opinion Holder and Target Extraction based on the Induction of Verbal Categories
In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2015.
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Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow
Combining Pattern-Based and Distributional Similarity for Graph-Based Noun Categorization
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing to Information Systems (NLDB), Springer, 2015.
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2014

Steve Renals, Jean Carletta, Keith Edwards, Hervé Bourlard, Phil Garner, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Dietrich Klakow, Andrey Girenko, Volha Petukova, Philippe Wacker, Andrew Joscelyne, Costis Kompis, Simon Aliwell, William Stevens and Youssef Sabbah
ROCKIT: Roadmap for Conversational Interaction Technologies

Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Roadmapping the Future of Multimodal Interaction Research including Business Opportunities and Challenges (RFMIR ’14), pp 39-42, ACM, 2014.

Munir Georges, Stefan Kanthak, and Dietrich Klakow
Accurate client-server based speech recognition keeping personal data on the client
ICASSP, May 2014
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Huijing Deng and Grzegorz Chrupała
Semantic Approaches to Software Component Retrieval with English Queries
LREC 2014

Youssef Oualil and Dietrich Klakow
Multiple Concurrent Speaker Short-Term Tracking Using A Kalman Filter Bank 
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014.
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Youssef Oualil, Rahil Mahdian Toroghi and Dietrich Klakow
Online Unsupervised Overlapping Speaker Detection using Enhanced Classification History-based Features 
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2014.
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Youssef Oualil, Rahil Mahdian Toroghi and Dietrich Klakow
Improving Overlapping Speaker Detection using Multiple Speaker Tracking Information
Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2014.
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Rahil Mahdian Toroghi, Youssef Oualil and Dietrich Klakow
A Multi-Stage, Multi-Channel Processing System for Overlapping Speech Separation in a Real Scenario
Proceedings of the ITG Conference on Speech Communication, 2014.
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Benjamin Roth, Tassilo Barth, Grzegorz Chrupala, Martin Gropp and Dietrich Klakow 
RelationFactory: A Fast, Modular and Effective System for Knowledge Base Population
EACL 2014 
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Jens Illig, Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow 
Unsupervised Parsing for Generating Surface-Based Relation Extraction Patterns
EACL 2014 
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Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow
Automatic Food Categorization from Large Unlabeled Corpora and Its Impact on Relation Extraction
EACL 2014
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Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand and Jasper Brandes
Comparing methods for deriving intensity scores for adjectives
EACL 2014
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Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow
Separating Brands from Types: an Investigation of Different Features for the Food Domain
COLING 2014
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Melanie Reiplinger, Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow
Relation Extraction for the Food Domain without Labeled Training Data – Is Distant Supervision the Best Solution?
PolTAL 2014, Spinger
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Volha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau and Harry Bunt
Interoperability of Dialogue Corpora through ISO 24617-2-based Querying.
In Proceedings 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, May 25-29. ELRA, Paris.

Volha Petukhova, Martin Gropp, Dietrich Klakow, Gregor Eigner, Mario Topf, Stefan Srb, Petr Motlicek, Blaise Potard, John Dines, Olivier Deroo, Ronny Egeler, Uwe Meinz, Steffen Liersch and Anna Schmidt
The DBOX Corpus Collection of Spoken Human-Human and Human-Machine Dialogues,
In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14), Reykjavik, May 25-29. ELRA, Paris.
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Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt
Incremental Recognition and Prediction of Dialogue Acts’. In Computing Meaning, Vol. 4, Harry Bunt, Johan Bos and Stephen Pulman, editors. Springer, Dordrecht.

Volha Petukhova
Understanding questions and finding answers: semantic relation annotation to compute the Expected Answer Type.
In Proceedings of the Tenth Joint ISO – ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-10), Reykjavik, May 26, 2014.
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Spiliotopoulos, D., Petukhova, V., Koryzis, D.
A Pilot Study for Evaluation Scenarios for a Metacognitive Skills Learning Dialogue System, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. Learning and Collaboration Technologies, 22 – 27 June 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Marc Schulder, Eduard Hovy
Metaphor Detection through Term Relevance, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, 26 June 2014, Baltimore, MD, USA

Alexandersson, J., Girenko, A., Spiliotopoulos, D., Petukhova, V., Klakow, D., Koryzis, D., Taatgen, N., Specht, M., Campbell, N., Aretoulaki, M., Stricker, A., Gardner, M.
Metalogue: A Multiperspective Multimodal Dialogue System with Metacognitive Abilities for Highly Adaptive and Flexible Dialogue Management, 10th Int. Conf. Intelligent Environments (IE’14), 2-4 July 2014, Shanghai, China.

Oliver Ohneiser, Hartmut Helmke, Heiko Ehr, Hejar Gürlük, Michael Hössl, Matthias Kleinert, Thorsten Mühlhausen, Maria Uebbing-Rumke, Youssef Oualil, Marc Schulder, Anna Schmidt, Arif Khan, Dietrich Klakow
Air Traffic Controller Support by Speech Recognition, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2014, Kraków, Poland, 19-23 July 2014. Edited by T. Ahram, W. Karwowski and T. Marek.
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Anna Schmidt, Youssef Oualil, Oliver Ohneiser, Matthias Kleinert, Marc Schulder, Arif Khan, Hartmut Helmke, Dietrich Klakow
Context-Based Recognition Network Adaptation for Improving On-Line ASR in Air Traffic Control, Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014), South Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, Dec 7-10, 2014.
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2013

Youssef Oualil, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
An Unsupervised Bayesian Classifier For Multiple Speaker Detection And Localization 
14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2013.
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Youssef Oualil, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
A Fast Cumulative Steered Response Power for Multiple Speaker Detection and Localization 
21th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2013.
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Youssef Oualil, Mathew Magimai,-Doss, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
A Probabilistic Framework For Multiple Speaker Localization 
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013.
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Kenichi Kumatani, Rita Singh, Friedrich Faubel, John McDonough and Youssef Oualil
Joint Constrained Maximum Likelihood Regression For Overlapping Speech Recognition 
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013.
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Mittul Singh, Dietrich Klakow.
Comparing RNNS and Log-linear interpolation of improved Skip-model on four Babel languages: Cantonese, Pashto, Tagalog, Turkish. 
ICASSP 2013.
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Munir Georges, Stephan Kanthak, Dietrich Klakow 
Transducer-based Speech Recognition with Dynamic Language Models 
in Proceedings of 14th Interspeech Conference, Lyon, 2013
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Benjamin Roth, Tassilo Barth, Michael Wiegand, Mittul Singh and Dietrich Klakow 
Effective Slot Filling Based on Shallow Distant Supervision Methods
NIST Text Analysis Conference 2013.

Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow 
Combining Generative and Discriminative Model Scores for Distant Supervision
EMNLP 2013.

Benjamin Roth and Dietrich Klakow
Feature-Based Models for Improving the Quality of Noisy Training Data for Relation Extraction
CIKM 2013.

Benjamin Roth, Tassilo Barth, Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow
A Survey of Noise Reduction Methods for Distant Supervision 
CIKM 2013 Workshop on Knowledge Extraction (AKBC).

Harry Bunt, Alex Fand, Xiaoyue Lin, Jing Cao and Volha Petukhova
Making Switchboard dialogue annotations ISO-compliant. Proceedings of the 9th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-9), Potsdam.

Michael Wiegand, Manfred Klenner, Dietrich Klakow 
Bootstrapping polarity classifiers with rule-based classification
Language Resources and Evaluation 47(4)
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Towards Contextual Healthiness Classification of Food Items – A Linguistic Approach
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) 
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Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer, Dietrich Klakow 
Predicative Adjectives: An Unsupervised Criterion to Extract Subjective Adjectives 
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL (HLT/NAACL) 
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Towards the Detection of Reliable Food-Health Relationships 
Proceedings of the NAACL-Workshop on Language Analysis in Social Media (NAACL-LASM) 
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2012

B. Roth, G. Chrupala, M. Wiegand, M. Singh, D. Klakow.
Generalizing from Freebase and Patterns using Distant Supervision for Slot Filling.
NIST Text Analysis Conference 2012.
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Andreas Beschorner, Dietrich Klakow
ESSV 2012, Continuous Speech Recognition Using Correlation Features and Structured SVM Probability Output 
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Afra Alishahi, Grzegorz Chrupała
Concurrent Acquisition of Word Meaning and Lexical Categories. EMNLP-CoNLL 2012.
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Grzegorz Chrupała
Hierarchical clustering of word class distributions. NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on the Induction of Linguistic Structure.
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Grzegorz Chrupała
Learning from evolving data streams: online triage of bug reports. EACL 2012.
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Todd Shore, Friedrich Faubel, Hartmut Helmke, Dietrich Klakow
Knowledge-BasedWord Lattice Rescoring in a Dynamic Context
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Christian Siegwart, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
Improving the Separation of Concurrent Speech through Acoustic Echo Suppression.
ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, Sep. 2012
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Michael Braun, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
A Comparative Study of Missing Feature Imputation Techniques.
ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, Sep. 2012
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Rahil Mahdian Toroghi, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
Multi-Channel Speech Separation with Soft Time-Frequency Masking.
SAPA-SCALE Conference, Sep. 2012
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Youssef Oualil, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
Joint Detection and Localization of Multiple Speakers Using a Probabilistic Steered Response Power.
SAPA-SCALE Conference, Sep. 2012
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Youssef Oualil, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
A Multiple Hypothesis Gaussian Mixture Filter for Acoustic Source Localization and Tracking.
International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Sep. 2012
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M. Feld, S. Momtazi, F. Freigang, D. Klakow, C. Müller
Mobile Texting: Can Post-ASR Correction Solve the Issues? An Experimental Study on Gain vs. Costs
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Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth, and Dietrich Klakow
“Data-driven Knowledge Extraction for the Food Domain”
In Proceedings of KONVENS, 2012.
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Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth, and Dietrich Klakow
“Knowledge Acquisition with Natural Language Processing in the Food Domain: Potential and Challenges”
In Proceedings of the ECAI-Workshop on Cooking with Computers (ECAI-CWC-2012), 2012.
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Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth, and Dietrich Klakow
“Web-Based Relation Extraction for the Food Domain”
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing to Information Systems (NLDB-2012), Springer, 2012.
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Youssef Oualil, Friedrich Faubel, Mathew Magimai Doss and Dietrich Klakow
A TDOA Gaussian Mixture Model for Improving Acoustic Source Tracking.
20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aug. 2012
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Michael Wiegand, Benjamin Roth, Eva Lasarcyk, Stephanie Köser, and Dietrich Klakow
“A Gold Standard for Relation Extraction in the Food Domain”
In Proceedings of the Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2012), 2012.
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Simon Clematide, Stefan Gindl, Manfred Klenner, Stefanos Petrakis, Robert Remus, Josef Ruppenhofer, Ulli Waltinger, and Michael Wiegand
“MLSA – A Multi-layered Reference Corpus for German Sentiment Analysis”
In Proceedings of the Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2012), 2012.
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Michael Wiegand and Dietrich Klakow
“Generalization Methods for In-Domain and Cross-Domain Opinion Holder Extraction”
In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2012), 2012.
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/E/E12/E12-1033.pdf.

2011

Grzegorz Chrupała
Efficient induction of probabilistic word classes with LDA. In IJCNLP 2011
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D. Povey, A. Ghoshal et al.
The subspace Gaussian mixture model–A structured model for speech
recognition, Computer Speech and Language, vol. 25(2), April 2011.

L. Lu, A. Ghoshal and S. Renals
Regularized Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models for Speech Recognition,
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol 18(7), July 2011.

L. Lu, A. Ghoshal and S. Renals
Regularized Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models for Cross-lingual Speech
Recognition,Proc. IEEE ASRU, December 2011.

D. Povey, A. Ghoshal, et al.
The Kaldi speech recognition toolkit, Proc. IEEE ASRU, December 2011.fileadmin/publications/Interspeech2011.pdfpdf

Najib Hadir, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
A Model-Based Spectral Envelope Wiener Filter for Perceptually Motivated Speech Enhancement.
Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, Aug. 2011
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S. Momtazi, D. Klakow     
Trained Trigger Language Model for Sentence Retrieval in QA: Bridging the Vocabulary Gap   
In Proceedings of International ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Glasgow, UK, 2011 
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Barbara Rauch, Friedrich Faubel and Dietrich Klakow
An Analysis of Nonstationary Variance Estimates in the Negentropy Beamformer.
Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011), May 2011

Friedrich Faubel, Munir Georges, Kenichi Kumatani, Andres Bruhn and Dietrich Klakow
Improving Hands-Free Speech Recognition in a Car through Audio-Visual Voice Activity Detection.
Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011), May 2011
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
The Role of Predicates in Opinion Holder Extraction 
In Proceedings of the RANLP 2011 Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition (RANLP-IEKA-2011) 
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Prototypical Opinion Holders: What We can Learn from Experts and Analysts 
In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2011) 
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Convolution Kernels for Subjectivity Detection 
In Proceedings of the 18th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA-2011) 
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Fang Xu, Stefan Kazalski, Grzegorz Chrupala, Benjamin Roth, Xujian Zhao, Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow
Saarland University Spoken Language Systems Group at TAC KBP 2011 . In Proceedings of TAC 2011.
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2010

Kenichi Kumatani, Liang Lu, John McDonough, Arnab Ghoshal and Dietrich Klakow
Maximum Negentropy Beamforming with Superdirectivity. 
In EUSIPCO 2010, Aalborg, Denmark. 
Arnab Ghoshal, Daniel Povey, et al. 
A Novel Estimation of Feature-space MLLR for Full-covarinace Models. 
In ICASSP 2010, Dallas, USA. 
Arnab Ghoshal, Lukas Burget, Petr Schwarz, et al. 
Multilingual Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition based on Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models. 
In ICASSP 2010, Dallas, USA. 
Arnab Ghoshal, Daniel Povey, Lukas Burget, et al. 
Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models for Speech Recognition. 
In ICASSP 2010, Dallas, USA. 
Arnab Ghoshal, Nagendra Goel, Samuel Thomas, et al. 
Approaches to Automatic Lexicon Learning with Limited Training Examples. 
In ICASSP 2010, Dallas, USA.

Grzegorz Chrupala, Saeedeh Momtazi, Michael Wiegand, Stefan Kazalski, Fang Xu, Benjamin Roth, Alexandra Balahur and Dietrich Klakow. 2010. Saarland University Spoken Language Systems at the Slot Filling Task of TAC KBP 2010. In Proceedings of TAC 2010PDF

Grzegorz Chrupala, Georgiana Dinu and Ben Roth
Enriched syntax-based meaning representation for answer extraction. In SIGIR 2010 Workshop: Query Representation and Understanding

Grzegorz Chrupala and Afra Alishahi
Online Entropy-based Model of Lexical Category Acquisition. In CoNLL 2010. 
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Djame Seddah, Grzegorz Chrupala, Ozlem Cetinoglu, Josef van Genabith and Marie Candito
Lemmatization and Lexicalized Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages: the Case of French. In NAACL SPMRL 2010 workshop. 
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Andreas Beschorner, Dietrich Klakow
Correlation Features and a Linear Transform Specific Reproducing Kernel
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Grzegorz Chrupala and Dietrich Klakow
A Named Entity Labeler for German: Exploiting Wikipedia and Distributional Clusters.
LREC 2010. 
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Friedrich Faubel, Dietrich Klakow
Estimating Noise from Noisy Speech Features with a Monte Carlo Variant of the Expectation Maximization Algorithm
Proceedings of Interspeech 2010, Sep. 2010

Friedrich Faubel, Dietrich Klakow
Further Improvement of the Adaptive Level of Detail Transform: Splitting in Direction of the Nonlinearity.
Proceedings of the 2010 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2010), Aug. 2010

Friedrich Faubel, Dietrich Klakow
An Adaptive Level of Detail Approach to Nonlinear Estimation.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), Mar. 2010.
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Friedrich Faubel, John McDonough, Dietrich Klakow
On Expectation Maximization Based Channel and Noise Estimation Beyond the Vector Taylor Series Expansion.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), Mar. 2010.
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Friedrich Faubel, Dietrich Klakow
Within and Across Sentence Boundary Language Model
Proceedings of Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, 2010. 
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Matthew Lease, Dietrich Klakow
Effective Term Weighting for Sentence Retrieval
Proceedings of European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Glasgow, UK, 2010.
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
A Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Language Model for Information Retrieval
Proceedings of International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Dietrich Klakow
A Comparative Study on Word Co-occurrence for Term Clustering in Language Model-based Sentence Retrieval
Proceedings of International Conference of North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Los Angeles, USA, 2010.
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
Yahoo! Answers for Sentence Retrieval in Question Answering
Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Web Logs and Question Answering, Valletta, Malta, 2010. 
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Benjamin Roth, Dietrich Klakow
Cross-Language Retrieval Using Link-Based Language Models
Proceedings of the Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, July 2010. (poster paper)
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Benjamin Roth, Dietrich Klakow
Combining Wikipedia-Based Concept Models for Cross-Language Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval Facility Conference, May 2010.
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Bootstrapping Supervised Machine-learning Polarity Classifiers with Rule-based Classification 
Proceedings of the ECAI-Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA) 
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Predictive Features for Detecting Indefinite Polar Sentences 
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Convolution Kernels for Opinion Holder Extraction 
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL (HLT/NAACL) 
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Michael Wiegand, Alexandra Balahur, Benjamin Roth, Dietrich Klakow, Andrés Montoyo 
A Survey on the Role of Negation in Sentiment Analysis 
Proceedings of the Workshop on Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing
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Fang Xu, Dietrich Klakow
Paragraph Acquisition and Selection for List Question Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Proceedings of the International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010), Mar. 2010.
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2009

Friedrich Faubel, Munir Georges, Bo Fu, Dietrich Klakow
Robust Gaussian Mixture Filter Based Mouth Tracking in a Real Environment.
Visual Computing Research Conference (by the Intel Visual Computing Institute, Saarbr�cken), Dec. 2009.
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Friedrich Faubel, John McDonough, Dietrich Klakow
The Split and Merge Unscented Gaussian Mixture Filter.
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Sep. 2009.

Friedrich Faubel, Dietrich Klakow
A Transformation-Based Derivation of the Kalman Filter and an Extensive Unscented Transform.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2009), Sep. 2009.
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Friedrich Faubel, John McDonough, Dietrich Klakow
Bounded Conditional Mean Imputation with Gaussian Mixture Models : A Reconstruction Approach to Partly Occluded Features.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Apr. 2009
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Arnab Ghosal, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Dietrich Klakow
Impact Of Novel Sources On Content-Based Image And Video Retrieval
ICASSP 2009, Taipeh
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Kenichi Kumatani, John McDonough, Barbara Rauch, Dietrich Klakow, Philip N. Garner, Weifeng Li
Beamforming with a Maximum Negentropy Criterion 
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
A Word Clustering Approach for Language Model-based Sentence Retrieval in Question Answering SystemsConference: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’09) 
Hong Kong, China
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
Language Model-Based Sentence Classification for Opinion Question Answering Systems
IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology – Computational Linguistics Applications (CLA’09)
Mrągowo, Poland
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Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
A Combined Query Expansion Technique for Retrieving Opinions from Blogs
Conference: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’09) Pisa, Italy
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow
Topic-Related Polarity Classification of Blog Sentences Proceedings of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-2009), October 12-15, Aveiro, Portugal
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
The Role of Knowledge-based Features in Polarity Classification at Sentence Level 
in Proceedings of the 22nd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2009) 
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Michael Wiegand, Dietrich Klakow 
Predictive Features in Semi-Supervised Learning for Polarity Classification and the Role of Adjectives 
in Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA-2009) 
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2008

Friedrich Faubel, John McDonough, Dietrich Klakow
A Phase-Averaged Model for the Relationship between Noisy Speech, Clean Speech and Noise in the log-Mel Domain
in Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, Sept. 2008
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Friedrich Faubel, Raja Humza, John McDonough, Dietrich Klakow
Particle Filter Based Soft-mask Estimation for Missing Feature Reconstruction
Proceedings of IWAENC 2008, Seattle (WA), USA, Sept. 2008
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Barbara Rauch, Kenichi Kumatani, Friedrich Faubel, John McDonough, and Dietrich Klakow
On Hidden Markov Model Maximum Negentropy Beamforming
IWAENC 2008, Seattle (WA), USA, Sept. 2008
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Wiegand, M. and Klakow, D. 
Optimizing Language Models for Polarity Classification 
in Proceedings of 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval 
(ECIR), Glasgow, 2008
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Michael Wiegand, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klakow 
Cost-Sensitive Learning in Answer Extraction 
in Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2008)
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Michael Wiegand, Saeedeh Momtazi, Stefan Kazalski, Fang Xu, Grzegorz Chrupala, Dietrich Klakow
The Alyssa System at TAC QA 2008, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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2007

Irene Cramer, Barbara Rauch, Hagen Fuerstenau, Dan Shen and Maria Staudte 
Predicting Classification Decisions with Data Point Based Meta-Learning
International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM), Leipzig, Germany, 2007
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McDonough J., Kumatani K., Gehrig T., Stoimenov E., Mayer U., Schacht S., Woelfel M., and Klakow D.
To Separate Speech! A System for Recognizing Simultaneous Speech , 2007. 

McDonough J., Stoimenov E. and Klakow D. 
An Algorithm for Fast Composition of Weighted Finite-State Transducers 
IEEE Automatics Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2007. 

Merkel A. and Klakow D. 
Improved Methods for Language Model Based Question Classification 
in Proceedings of 8th Interspeech Conference, Antwerp, 2007. 
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Merkel A. and Klakow D. 
Language Model Based Query Classification 
in Proceedings of 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Rome, 2007. 
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Merkel A. and Klakow D. 
Comparing Improved Language Models for Sentence Retrieval in Question Answering 
in Proceedings of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands CLIN, Leuven, 2007. 
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Shen Dan and Lapata Mirela
Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering 
in Proceedings EMNLP-CoNLL, 2007. 
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Shen Dan, Wiegand M., Merkel A.,Kaszalski S., Hunsicker S., Leidner J. and Klakow D. 
The Alyssa System at TREC QA 2007: Do We Need Blog06? 
in Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference. US NIST. Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2007 
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Wiegand M, Leidner J. and Klakow D. 
Combining Term-Based and Event-Based Matching for Question Answering 
SIGIR, 2007.
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2006

Hussain M., Merkel A. and Klakow D. 
Dedicated Backing-Off Distributions for Language Model Based Passage Retrieval 
in Hildesheimer Informatik-Berichte, LWA 2006, Hildesheim, 2006
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Klakow D.
Language Model Adaptation for Tiny Adaptation Corpora 
Proc. Interspeech, 2006
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Klakow D.
Using Regional Information in Language Model Based Automatic Concept Annotation and Retrieval 
of Video Proc. ICASSP, 2006
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Merkel Andreas, Shen Dan, Leidner Jochen L. and Klakow Dietrich 
The Alyssa System at TREC 2006: A Statistically-Inspired Question Answering System. Poster.
US NIST. Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2006
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Shen Dan, Leidner Jochen L. , Merkel Andreas and Klakow Dietrich
The Alyssa System at TREC 2006: A Statistically-Inspired Question Answering System. Workshop 
Notes. Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference. US NIST. Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2006
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2005

Cramer I., Leidner J. L. and Klakow D.
Building an Evaluation Corpus for German Question Answering by Harvesting Wikipedia Proceedings of The Fifth international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2006), Genoa, Italy, 2006
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Cramer Irene, Schulte im Walde Sabine 
Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie. Eine Studienbibliographie. Herausgegeben im Auftrag des Instituts f�r Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. Stauffenberg Verlag, Brigitte Narr GmbH, T�bingen, 2006
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Davidescu Adriana , Heyl Andrea, Kazalski Stefan, Cramer Irene, and Klakow Dietrich
Classifying German Questions according to Ontology-Based Question Types. 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl), 2006
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Shen D. , Kruijff G. J. and Klakow D. 
Exploring Syntactic Relation Patterns for Question Answering
Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2005
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