Alexander Koller Head of the Research Group "Efficient algorithms in computational linguistics" Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" and Department of Computational Linguistics Saarland University

As of spring 2011, I have joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam as a professor of computational linguistics. My new coordinates: Campus Golm, Building 14, Room 217; phone: +49 331 977 2692.

Welcome to my homepage. After two years as a DFG Research Fellow at Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh, I have returned to Saarbrücken to be the head of my own research group, "Efficient algorithms in computational linguistics". The group is part of the recently established Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction".

Within my project in the cluster, I will focus on real-time situated natural language generation in virtual 3D environments (see also the GIVE Challenge, which I am organizing). Next to NLG, my research interests encompass computational semantics, efficient algorithms in computational linguistics, formal languages, and many other topics.

On this website, you can find the list of my publications, some of my recent talks (to the extent that I've had time to put them online), and some software that I've been involved in. You will also find links to some courses that I've taught. I'm particularly proud of the talking robots projects I supervised together with Geert-Jan Kruijff (see a video).

Coordinates

Exzellenzcluster / FR 4.7 Computerlinguistik
Saarland University
Postfach 151150
66041 Saarbrücken
Germany
 
office: Campus C7 4, room 3.19
phone: +49 681 302 70040
fax: +49 681 302 4351
email: koller at mmci uni-saarland de