Lab News

Nov ‘20 Workshop ECONLP 2021 @ EMNLP

• Our proposal for “ECONLP 2021 — Third Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing” has been accepted and will be part of EMNLP

Oct ‘20 LOUHI@EMNLP paper accepted

• Submission by Florian Borchert, Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Thomas Langer, Markus Follmann, Jan Philipp Sachs, Udo Hahn, Matthieu-P. Schapranow. GGPONC: A Corpus of German Medical Text with Rich Metadata Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines. ArXiv:2007.06400 [Cs]. [arXiv] [Code on GitHub] [data-request@DKG] accepted at [LOUHI@EMNLP’20)

July ‘20 talks and awards

• The talk ‘What Makes a Top-Performing Precision Medicine Search Engine? Tracing Main System Features in a Systematic Way’ on SIGIR 2020 takes place in session 3B on Monday，July 27, 16:00 (GMT+2) - looking forward to see you there!
• Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn have received outstanding reviewer awards at ACL 2020.

May ‘20 3 LREC papers published and ACL paper accepted

• Submission by Sven Buechel, Susanna Rücker and Udo Hahn on learning emotion lexicons for 91 languages accepted at ACL 2020.
• Our LREC 2020 papers:
  • Erik Faessler, Luise Modersohn, Christina Lohr, Udo Hahn: ProGene - A Large-scale, High-Quality Protein-Gene Annotated Benchmark Corpus;
  • João Sedoc, Sven Buechel, Yehonathan Nachmany, Anneke Buffone, and Lyle Ungar. 2020. Learning Word Ratings for Empathy and Distress from Document-Level User Responses
  • Bernd Kampe, Tinghui Duan, Udo Hahn: Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung_ as a Searchable Online Corpus

April ‘20 paper accepted

• Submission by Erik Faessler, Michel Oleynik and Udo Hahn on feature evaluation of precision medicine search engines accepted at SIGIR 2020.

Dec ‘19 paper/Poster accepted

• Submission by Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Johannes Hellrich, Tobias Kolditz and Udo Hahn about diagnoses annotation of German discharge summaries accepted at MIE 2020 Geneva Switzerland.
• Poster Submission by Tinghui Duan, Sven Büchel and Udo Hahn about romanticism in political discourse on twitter accepted at DHd2020 Paderborn Germany.

Nov ‘19 workshop ECONLP 2019 @ EMNLP-IJCNLP

• The “ECONLP 2019 — Second Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing” will be collocated with EMNLP-IJCNLP, November 4th

May ‘19 paper accepted

• Submission by Christina Lohr, Johannes Kiesel, Stephanie Luther, Johannes Hellrich, Benno Stein and Udo Hahn on the further development of Web Annotation Tool - Segment Labeling (WAT-SL), a cooperation together with the Webis Group accepted at LAW@ACL 2019.

Mar ‘19 thesis defended, papers accepted

• Submission by Hellrich, Kampe & Hahn on the influence of down-sampling on the stability of word embeddings accepted at RepEval@NAACL 2019.
• Submission by Hellrich, Buechel & Hahn on modeling historical word emotion values accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL@NAACL 2019.
• Submission by Tobias Kolditz et al. on Annotating German Clinical Documents for De-Identification accepted at MedInfo 2019.
• We congratulate Dr. des. Johannes Hellrich for the successful defense of his thesis.
• Submission by Tinghui Duan and Udo Hahn on compiling a digital corpus of the historic Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung (Short Paper) accepted at JCDL 2019.

Feb ‘19 paper accepted

• Submission by Tinghui Duan and Udo Hahn on compiling a digital corpus of the historic Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung (Poster) accepted at CL 2019.

Oct ‘18 new team member, preprint available

• Preprint by Sven Buechel in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania on neural emotion analysis on very small datasets available.
• We welcome our new team member Tinghui Duan.

Aug ‘18 paper accepted

• Submission by Sven Buechel in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania on modeling empathy in user generated text accepted for EMNLP 2018.

Jul ‘18 alumnus

• We say goodbye to Dr. Sascha Schäuble and wish him good luck at his new position at the HKI.

Jun ‘18 visiting researcher, papers accepted

• Submission by Maria Moritz, Johannes Hellrich and Sven Buechel on a human-interpretable method to predict paraphrasticality accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL @ COLING 2018.
• Submission by Johannes Hellrich, Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on the JeSemE system accepted at COLING 2018.
• Submission by Christina Lohr, Stephanie Luther, Franz Matthies and Udo Hahn accepted at AMIA 2018.
• We welcome our visiting researcher Michel Oleynik.

May ‘18 papers accepted

• Submission by Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on mapping between different emotion formats accepted at COLING 2018.
• Submission by Sven Buechel, Tinghui Duan and Udo Hahn on a blanced corpus of business and corporate social responsiblity reports accepted for ECONLP @ ACL 2018.
• Submisson by Erik Faessler and Udo Hahn on JeDIS accepted at DocEng 2018.

Apr ‘18 open position

• We are looking for one digital humanities PhD student to join the graduate school “The romantic model”.

Mar ‘18 paper accepted, visiting researcher

• We welcome our visiting researcher Maria Moritz.
• Submission by Maria Moritz, Johannes Hellrich and Sven Buechel on designing a metric for paraphrases accepted for DH 2018.

Feb ‘18 new team members, paper accepted

• We welcome our new colleagues, Luise Modersohn and Tobias Kolditz.
• Submission by Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on predicting emotional word ratings accepted at NAACL-HLT 2018.

Jan ‘18 paper published

• Sascha Schäuble published “Transcriptomic alterations during ageing reflect the shift from cancer to degenerative diseases in the elderly” as shared first author in Nature Communications.

Dec ‘17: papers accepted

• Submission by Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on mapping between different emotion formats accepted at LREC 2018.
• Submission by Christina Lohr, Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on constructing substitute clinical corpora accepted at LREC 2018.

Nov ‘17: new team members, guest scientists, paper accepted, invited talks

• We welcome our new colleagues, Stephanie Luther and Bernd Kampe.
• We welcome our two guest scientists, Maria Moritz and Elisabeth Eder.
• Submission by Johannes Hellrich, Alexander Stöger and Udo Hahn on using word embeddings for investigating the history of science accepted at DHd 2018.
• Invited talks by Johannes Hellrich and Sven Buechel at the “Thementag Digital Humanities in Jena” conference organized by DHnet.

Aug ‘17: best paper award

• Franz Matthies and Udo Hahn received a MedInfo 2017 best paper award for “Scholarly Information Extraction is Going to Make a Quantum Leap with PubMed Central (PMC)® - But Moving from Abstracts to Full Texts Seems Harder than Expected”.

Jul ‘17: new project

• The pilot project  SMITH (Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare) has been awarded and has received funding for the next 4 years, start in January 2018.

Jun ‘17: paper published

• Sascha Schäuble contributed bioinformatic modelling to “Metabolic Adaptation Establishes Disease Tolerance to Sepsis” published in Cell.

Apr ‘17: papers accepted

• Submission by Franz Matthies and Udo Hahn on the difficulty of transferring event/relation extraction systems from abstracts to full text, accepted at MedInfo 2017.
• Submission by Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on mapping between different formats of emotion representation accepted for CogSci 2017.
• Submission by Erik Faessler and Udo Hahn on the biomedical semantic search engine Semedico accepted at ACL 2017.
• Submission by Johannes Hellrich and Udo Hahn on JeSemE, a website for exploring shifts in word semantic, accepted at ACL 2017.

Feb ‘17: papers accepted, alumni interview

• Dr. Ekaterina Kruchinina, one of our alumnis, gave an interview to the German magazine c’t about computational linguistics.
• Submission by Johannes Hellrich and Udo Hahn on the reliability of different word embedding types accepted at Digital Humanities 2017.
• Submission by Sven Buechel, Johannes Hellrich and Udo Hahn on tracking changes in word emotion over long stretches of time accepted at Digital Humanities 2017.
• Submission by Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on differences in emotion annotation quality relative to the targeted text understanding perspective accepted for the 11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop at EACL 2017.
• Submission by Sven Buechel and Udo Hahn on the creation and application of a gold standard annotated for emotion accepted at EACL 2017.

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