Dr. Caroline Sporleder Head of "Computational Modelling of Discourse and Semantics" group. Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" and Computational Linguistics and Phonetics Saarland University 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany Building C74, Room 3.05 Tel: +49 (0)681 302 70033 Email: csporled (at) coli.uni-sb.de

News

• NEW: ExProM 2012 (Workshop on "Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics") will be co-located with ACL 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea (8-14 July, 2012; workshop date still to be confirmed). Submission deadline: March 18, 2012.
  
  
• NEW: LaTeCH 2012 (Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities), will be co-located with EACL 2012 in Avignon, France on April 24, 2012. Submission deadline: January 20, 2012.
  Selected papers from the previous LaTeCH workshops were recently published by Springer in the "Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing" series.
  
  
• Befragung zu Redewendungen:   Wir führen z.Z. eine Unfrage zum Thema "Redewendungen" durch. Deutsche Muttersprachler sind herzlich eingeladen teilzunehmen (Dauer: ca. 15 Minuten). Wir verlosen sechs Amazon-Gutscheine im Wert von jeweils 25 Euro unter den Teilnehmern. Zur Befragung geht es hier:
  http://orient.coli.uni-saarland.de/idiome/idiome_start.php.
  Mit Ihrer Teilnahme unterstützen Sie die linguistische Forschung an der Universität des Saarlandes und der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
  
  
• If you're interested in joining the Projektseminar "Unlocking the Secrets of the Past: Text Mining for Historical Documents" (offered as a block seminar in Feb/March 2012) send me an email and I'll put you on the participants list. (Note the number of participants is restricted.) You can find out more about the seminar by looking at the course pages from this and previous years: WS 2011/12, WS 2010/11, WS 2009/10
  
  
• Together with Roser Morante I'm editing a Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Modality and Negation
  
  
• Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities
  Heidelberg, 5 January 2012 (co-located with TLT10)
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• FEAST (Forum Entwicklung und Anwendung von Sprach-Technologien): a series of lunch time talks on NLP research in SB! Please check the website: http://feast.coli.uni-saarland.de/ and sign up to the mailing list.
  

Research Interests

• statistical modelling of discourse and semantics
• computational approaches to figurative and creative language
• text mining and information extraction for cultural heritage data
• error detection and correction in textual (meta-)data
• cross-lingual, multi-lingual, and cross-domain language processing

Former Affiliations

• Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • April 2008 - August 2008
  • Vertretung der Professur für "Linguistische Informatik"
• Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany
  • Mai 2007 - August 2008 (sabbatical April-August 2008)
  • Postdoc Researcher SALSA Project (Lexical Semantics)
• ILK Research Group, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  
  • September 2005 - April 2007
  • Postdoc Researcher in the MITCH Project (Text Mining for Cultural Heritage Data)
• School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  • June 2003 - June 2005
  • Postdoc Researcher in the DART Project (Discourse Processing)
• School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  • October 1999 - August 2003
  • PhD in Informatics (graduation: July 2004)
• Fakultät für Linguistik & Literaturwissenschaft, Bielefeld University, Germany
  • MA in (Computational) Linguistics, Minors: English, History
    (awarded August 1999)
• Linguistics Department, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  
  • non-graduating MSc student in "Speech and Language Processing" (1996/97)