Current research interests

• Acquisition of wide-coverage lexical semantic resources
• Integrated deep and shallow semantic processing
• Discourse semantics
• Modeling textual entailment
• Advanced dialogue technologies

Projects

Running projects

• ALLEGRO
• Exzellenz-Cluster MMCI, "Multimodal Computing and Interaction": Contextualized Semantic Processing
• SALSA (The SAarbrücken Lexical Semantics Annotation and Analysis Project)

Finished projects

• TALK
• CHORUS (SFB 378)
• CORTE (Computerlinguistische Methoden für die Rechtsterminologie, DFG)
• DIALOG (SFB 378)
• COLLATE (BMBF)
• MILCA (BMBF)
• SIRIDUS (EU)
• LISA (SFB 378) 1998-2001
• Verbmobil (BMBF) 1992-2000
• TRINDI: "Task Oriented Instructional Dialogue" (EU) 1998-2000
• LIMA: "Sprachverstehen für mathematische Texte" (Saarland) 1998-2000
• LeKTOR: "Linguistisches Konversions-Tool für die Orthografie-Reform" (continued with Corrigo by CLT Sprachtechnologie) 1997-99
• ELAN: "Ellipse und Anapher" (DFG) 1994-98
• FraCaS: "A Framework for Computational Semantics" (EU) 1994-96
• SAMOS: "Semantische Analyse in einem modularen System" (DFG-Schwerpunkt "Kognitive Linguistik") 1993-96
• GuK: "Graduierung und Komparation" (DFG-Schwerpunkt "Kognitive Linguistik") 1988-92

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