Curriculum Vitae

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Jobs

• Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences, University of Bamberg, Germany
  
  • since 03/2023: Full Professor (University Professor, W3), Chair for Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing
• Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  
  • 04/2023 - 02/2024: apl. Professor (adjunct Professor with post-doctoral qualifications, status as a professor and authority to supervise theses)
  • 07/2020 - 04/2023: Privatdozent (≈ Associate Professor in US)
  • 12/2017 - 02/2024: Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat)
  • 10/2015 - 11/2017: Lecturer (Akademischer Rat)
  • 10/2014 - 09/2015: Visiting Professor (Professurvertretung)
• Semalytix GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany
  
  • 05/2015 - 07/2020: Co-Founder (Exit in 07/2020)
• Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
  
  • 01/2013 – 09/2015: Post-Doctoral Researcher
  • 02/2016 - 12/2021: Coopted by CITEC.
• Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
  
  • 03/2019: Visiting Lecturer (one week)
  • 03/2018: Visiting Lecturer (two weeks, LCT Scholar)
  • 03/2017: Visiting Lecturer (two weeks, Erasmus+)
• IESL Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
  
  • 10/2013 – 12/2013: Visiting Researcher
  • 03/2010 – 05/2010: Visiting Scholar
    
• Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Sankt Augustin, Germany
  
  • 01/2011 – 12/2012: Post-Doctoral Researcher
  • 08/2006 – 12/2010: Researcher, PhD student
    
• QuinScape GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
  
  • 12/2004 – 06/2006: Software Developer
• University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
  • 12/2002 – 11/2004: Student Assistant, School for rehabilitation sciences
  • 10/2000 – 03/2002: Student Assistant, Hardware design teaching lab
• Yamaha music school, Duisburg
  • 02/1997 – 05/1998: Music Teacher

Education

• 07/2020
  Habilitation at University of Stuttgart. Thesis topic: Structured Modelling of Affect in Text
• 08/2006– 12/2010
  PhD Student at TU Dortmund University (defense in 05/2011). Thesis topic: Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition - Feature Selection and Optimization in Biology and Chemistry. Adviser and main reviewer: Guenter Rudolph, second reviewer: Martin Hofmann-Apitius (Uni Bonn/Fraunhofer SCAI)
• 10/1999 – 06/2006
  Student of Computer Science with minor subject psychology at University of Dortmund. Thesis topic: Automatic Composition of Music with Methods of Computational Intelligence
• 05/1999
  General qualification for university entrance (Abitur) at Reinhard- und Max-Mannesmann Gymnasium, Duisburg

Awards and Scholarships

• 2022
  Runner-up for best paper award at ArgMining Workshop at COLING
• 2018
  Acknowledged as top reviewer ACL
• 2018
  Students’ Choice for Excellence in Teaching (Institute for Natural Language Processing)
• 2018
  NLDB Best Paper Award
• 2018
  LCT Erasmus Scholarship (University of Malta)
• 2017
  WASSA-2017 Shared Task on Emotion Intensity, Place 2/21
• 2017
  Erasmus+ Scholarship (University of Malta)
• 2016
  Best innovation and transfer project, SEMANTiCS Conference, with Semalytix GmbH
• 2016
  Best paper award, Semantic Sentiment Analysis Workshop, ESWC
• 2010
  PhD Short Term Scholarship, UMass Amherst, DAAD
• 2008
  ISCB Travel Scholarship for ISMB, U.S. Department of Energy
• 2007
  Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Task 2 (NER), Place 4/19
• 2006
  CIMMACS “Best Student Paper”

Memberships, Activities, Organizer, Chair…

• Member:
  • ELLIS
  • Association for Computational Linguistics
  • CRETA Verein
  • German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology
  • Hochschulverband
• Action Editor:
  • Transactions of the ACL 2023-2025
  • ACL Rolling Review 2021–2022
• Chair:
  • Tutorial Co-Chair, LREC-COLING 2023
• Senior Area Chair:
  • ACL Rolling Review April 2024
  • EMNLP 2024
  • EACL 2024 (Sentiment, Argument Mining, Stylistic Analyses)
  • EACL 2023 (Language Resources and Evaluation)
  • ACL 2022 (Sentiment, Argument Mining, Stylistic Analyses)
  • EACL 2021 (Sentiment and Argumentation Mining)
• Area Chair:
  • COLING 2018, 2022, 2025
  • NeurIPS 2023
  • NAACL 2021
  • EMNLP 2020
  • ACL 2020
  • AKBC 2019
• Senior Program Committee Member
  • Program Committee Board of IJCAI/IJCAI-ECAI, 2022-2024
  • IJCAI 2016, 2017
  • ECAI 2020
• Workshop Organizer:
  • WASSA 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
  • ONION 2020, People in language, vision and the mind, with Albert Gatt and Patrizia Paggio
  • LIDER Roadmapping Workshop on Content Analytics and Linked Data in Healthcare and Medicine, 2015
• Shared Task Organizer:
  • IEST Shared Task on Implicit Emotion Recognition 2018
  • IGGSA-Shared Task on German Sentiment Analysis (GESTALT) at KONVENS 2014

Reviewer for Funding Agencies

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2023
• German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), 2021
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Sachmittelbeihilfen und Forschungsgruppe, https://www.dfg.de/), 2021–2024
• Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch), 2019
• Bayerischer Forschungsstiftung (https://www.forschungsstiftung.de/), 2019, 2021
• Vienna Science and Technology Fund (https://www.wwtf.at), 2019

Reviewer in Journals (selection)

• Journal for Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2023
• Computational Linguistics Journal (ACL, MIT Press), 2022, 2023
• Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL, 2021–2023)
• Cambridge Press Natural Language Engineering, 2018-2023
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2020-2022
• Journal of Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals), 2008-2015
• BMC Bioinformatics, 2009-2014

Program Committee Member of Conferences (selection)

• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018-2021
• Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017, 2018, 2019
• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2016, 2020
• Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 2018-2022
• Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2021, 2022
• Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2010-2022
• Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2017-2021
• ACL Rolling Review, 2021
• Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it), 2020, 2021
• 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), 2021, 2023
• Digital Humanities im Deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd), 2018, 2020
• Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS)/International Conference of the German Society for Computational Lingustics and Language Technologies (GSCL-Tagung), 2012-2023
• Digital Humanities (DH), 2018-2019
• International Conference on eParticipation (eGov, ePart) (PC member), 2013-2017

Program Committee Member of Workshops at Conferences (selection)

• BioNLP, 2022, 2023
• Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS), 2019, 2022
• Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), 2018-2021, 2025
• Workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP (Adapt-NLP), 2021
• Workshop on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Meets Machine Learning at NeurIPS, 2020
• Workshop on Computational Modeling of PEople’s Opinions, PersonaLity, and Emotions in Social media (PEOPLES), 2020
• SocialNLP, 2017-2020
• Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA) (PC member), 2015-2018
• Ethics in NLP, 2017, 2018