| Position |
 | Assistant Professor (Hochschulassistent) up to 2003, now Senior
Research Scientist at Thomson Legal & Regulatory in Eagan, MN, USA
www.thomson.com
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| Interests |
| Discourse Processing |
| The automatic derivation of the discourse structure of texts and
the formal analysis of the semantics of discourse markers (e.g.
after and before).
Applications: automatic summarisations of texts, question answering
systems |
| Underspecification |
| The understanding of ambiguities in language at sentence and
discourse level as well as the generation of flexible input increments
for natural language generation systems. Applications: discourse parser,
question-answer systems |
| Extraction of Temporal Information |
| The annotation of temporal information and the automatic derivation
of the meaning of temporal expressions and event descriptions.
Applications: temporal question answering, multi- document summarisation |
| Multi-Modality |
| The modelling of multi-modal human-computer-interaction. Formal
specification of different channels (e.g. visual vs. auditive).
Applications: communicative agents in virtual environments |
| Projects |
| Discourse and Event Structure |
| Multimodality: representation und communication |
| Extraction of temporal, spatial and causal information from news messages |
| Linguistic and multimodal routes description |
