2018
Simon Ostermann, Hannah Seitz, Stefan Thater and Manfed Pinkal. Mapping Texts to Scripts: An Entailment Study. In: Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan 2018. [PDF]
2017
Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Ashutosh Modi, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. A Mixture Model for Learning Multi-Sense Word Embeddings. In: Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017). [PDF]
Simon Ostermann, Michael Roth, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. Aligning Script Events with Narrative Texts. In: Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017). [PDF]
Lilian Wanzare, Alessandra Zarcone, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. Inducing Script Structure from Crowdsourced Event Descriptions via Semi-Supervised Clustering. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics (LSDSem 2017), Valencia, Spain 2017. [PDF]
Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Cuong Xuan Chu, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. Sequence to Sequence Learning for Event Prediction. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017). [PDF]
2016
Jakob Prange, Andrea Horbach and Stefan Thater. UdS-(retrain|distributional|surface): Improving POS Tagging for OOV Words in German CMC and Web Data. System description paper for the EmpiriST Shared Task, co-located with the 10th Web As Corpus Workshop (WAC-X). [PDF]
Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Alessandra Zarcone, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. DeScript: A Crowdsourced Corpus for the Acquisition of High-Quality Script Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016). [PDF]
Stefan Ecker, Andrea Horbach and Stefan Thater. Unsupervised Ranked Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution for Low-Resource Languages. In: Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016). [PDF]
Lena Keiper, Andrea Horbach and Stefan Thater. Improving POS Tagging of German Learner Language in a Reading Comprehension Scenario. In: Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016). [PDF]
Andrea Horbach, Andrea Hensler, Sabine Krome, Jakob Prange, Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht, Diana Steffen, Stefan Thater, Christian Wellner and Manfred Pinkal. A Corpus of Literal and Idiomatic Uses of German Infinitive-Verb Compounds. In: Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016). [PDF]
2015
Jakob Prange, Stefan Thater and Andrea Horbach. Unsupervised Induction of Part-of-Speech Information for OOV Words in German Internet Forum Posts. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Mediated Communication / Social Media (NLP4CMC 2015). [PDF]
Alexander Kampmann, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. A case-study of automatic participant labeling. In: Proceedings of the International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL 2015). [PDF]
Andrea Horbach, Stefan Thater, Diana Steffen, Peter M. Fischer, Andreas Witt, Manfred Pinkal. Internet Corpora: A Challenge for Linguistic Processing. Datenbank Spektrum 15(1): 41–47, Springer Verlag. [PDF]
2014
Andrea Horbach, Diana Steffen, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. Improving the Performance of Standard Part-of-Speech Taggers for Computer-Mediated Communication. Proceedings of the 12th edition of the Konvens conference (Konvens 2014). [PDF]
Gerhard Kremer, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó and Stefan Thater. What Substitutes Tell Us - Analysis of an All-Words
Lexical Substitution Corpus. Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014). [PDF]
2013
Michaela Regneri, Marcus Rohrbach, Dominikus Wetzel, Stefan Thater, Bernt Schiele and Manfred Pinkal (2013): Grounding Action Descriptions in Videos. Transactions of ACL 1. [PDF]
Marcus Rohrbach, Wei Qiu, Ivan Titov, Stefan Thater, Manfred Pinkal, Bernt Schiele. Translating video into natural language descriptions. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Australia. [PDF]
2012
Annemarie Friedrich, Nikos Engonopoulos, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. A Comparison of Knowledge-based Algorithms for Graded Word Sense Assignment. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012). [PDF]
Georgiana Dinu, Stefan Thater and Soeren Laue. A comparison of models of word meaning in context. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2012). [PDF]
Georgiana Dinu and Stefan Thater. Saarland: Vector-based models of semantic textual similarity. In *SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012). [PDF]
2011
Stefan Thater, Hagen Fürstenau, and Manfred Pinkal. Word Meaning in Context: A Simple and Effective Vector Model. In: Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011). [PDF]
Johannes Hoffart, Mohamed Amir Yosef, Ilaria Bordino, Hagen Fürstenau, Manfred Pinkal, Marc Spaniol, Bilyana Taneva, Stefan Thater, and Gerhard Weikum. Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text. In: Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011). [PDF]
2010
Stefan Thater, Hagen Fürstenau, and Manfred Pinkal. Contextualizing Semantic Representations Using Syntactically Enriched Vector Models. In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010). [PDF]
Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater. Computing weakest readings. In: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010). [PDF]
Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater. Computing relative normal forms in regular tree languages. Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA), Edinburgh. [PDF]
2009
Alexander Koller, Manfred Pinkal, and Stefan Thater. Scope Underspecification with Tree Descriptions: Theory and Practice. In: Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes. Ed. by Matthew Crocker and Jörg Siekmann. Cognitive Technologies Series. Berlin: Springer. 2009.
Aljoscha Burchardt, Marco Pennachiotti, Manfred Pinkal, and Stefan Thater. Assessing the Impact of Frame Semantics on Textual Entailment. In: Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Textual Entailment. 2009.
Stefan Thater, Georgiana Dinu, and Manfred Pinkal. Ranking Paraphrases in Context. In: Proceedings of the ACL 2009 Workshop on Applied Textual Inference (TextInfer). Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. [PDF]
2008
Alexander Koller, Michaela Regneri, and Stefan Thater. Regular Tree Grammars as a Formalism for Scope Underspecification. In: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technology (ACL-08: HLT). Columbus, Ohio: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2008. [PDF]
2007
Stefan Thater. Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Graph-Theoretic Foundation and Application to Grammar Engineering. PhD Thesis (preprint version), Universität des Saarlandes.
Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater (2007). Solving unrestricted dominance graphs. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Formal Grammar, Dublin. [PDF]
Aljoscha Burchardt, Nils Reiter, Stefan Thater and Anette Frank (2007). A Semantic Approach to Textual Entailment: System Evaluation and Task Analysis. Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing. [PDF]
2006
Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater (2006). An improved redundancy elimination algorithm for underspecified descriptions. Proceedings of COLING/ACL-2006, Sydney. [PDF]
Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater (2006). Towards a redundancy elimination algorithm for underspecified descriptions. Proceedings of the 5th Intl. Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-5), Buxton, England.
2005
Dan Flickinger, Alexander Koller, Stefan Thater (2005). A new well-formedness criterion for semantics debugging. The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater (2005). Efficient Solving and Exploration of Scope Ambiguities. Proceedings of the ACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [PDF]
Alexander Koller and Stefan Thater (2005). The Evolution of Dominance Constraint Solvers. Proceedings of the ACL-05 Workshop on Software, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2004
Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Alexander Koller, Marco Kuhlmann, Gert Smolka, and Stefan Thater (2004). A relational syntax-semantics interface based on dependency grammar. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'04), Geneva, Switzerland. [PDF]
Ralph Debusmann, Denys Duchier, Marco Kuhlmann, and Stefan Thater (2004). TAG parsing as model enumeration. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on TAG and Related Formalisms, Vancouver, Canada. [PDF]
Ruth Fuchss, Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, and Stefan Thater (2004). Minimal Recursion Semantics as dominance constraints: Translation, evaluation, and analysis. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Assiciation for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04), Barcelona, Spain. [PDF]
2003
Ruth Fuchss, Joachim Niehren, and Stefan Thater (2003). Minimal Recursion Semantics as dominance constraints: A preliminary evaluation. In Denys Duchier, editor, Prospects and Advances in the Syntax/Semantics Interface, pages 51-55, Nancy, France.
Joachim Niehren and Stefan Thater (2003). Bridging the gap between underspecification formalisms: Minimal Recursion Semantics as dominance constraints. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL'03). [PDF]
Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, and Stefan Thater (2003). Bridging the gap between underspecification formalisms: Hole Semantics as dominance constraints. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'03), Budapest, Hungary. [PDF]
2001
Claire Gardent and Stefan Thater (2001). Generating with a Grammar Based on Tree Descriptions: a Constraint-Based Approach. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'01), Toulouse, France. [PDF]
1999
Denys Duchier and Stefan Thater (1999). Parsing with Tree Descriptions: a Constraint-Based Approach. In Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming (NLULP'99), Las Cruces, New Mexico, pp. 17-32