Dr. Caroline Sporleder

Head of the Junior Research Group
"Computational Modelling of Discourse and Semantics"
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

• SemEval 2010 Shared Task on Linking Events and their Participants in Discourse
  Training Data now available: download from SemEval 2010 website
  
  
• KONVENS 2010, the 10. Conference on Natural Language Processing, will be held in Saarbrücken September 6-8 2010.
  Submission deadline: 23.04.2010
  
  
• LaTeCH 2010 (Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities), will be co-located with ECAI in Lisbon in August 2010.
  Submission deadline: 7.05.2010
  
  
• Together with Roser Morante (CLiPS, Antwerp University) I organise NeSp-NLP 2010, a one-day workshop on Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing. The workshop will be held on July 10, 2010 at the Scandic Uplandia Hotel in Uppsala, Sweden. The call for papers is here.
  Submission deadline: 14.05.2010
  
  
• FEAST (Forum Entwicklung und Anwendung von Sprach-Technologien): new 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.
  
  
• Coli @ "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" Students from Coli and History who participated in our project seminar on Text Mining for Historical Documents in WS08/09 presented their work during the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften on 20 June 2009. The presentations dealt with different ways in which NLP techniques can be employed to preprocess and enrich historical data.

Research Interests

• statistical modelling of discourse and semantics
• text mining and information extraction for cultural heritage data
• lexical acquisition
• 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)