Tenured University Professor for Natural Language Understanding (Computational Linguistics) at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg
Also affiliated with the Faculty of Philology and History
Current President of the German Society for Computational Linguistics (GSCL)
Research interests: Computational Syntax and Semantics, Discourse Processing, Text Mining / Information Extraction, Linguistic Annotation, Deep Learning, Digital Humanities
Focuses on modeling interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, incorporating discourse and pragmatic influences
Past research centered on computational modeling of aspect and genericity
Current interests include text mining for scientific and historical corpora, syntactic and semantic parsing, and uncertainty in deep learning for NLP