Human Language Technology @ Augsburg

News

Regular updates from our groups.

September 30, 2024 -- Our paper THAVQA: a German task-oriented VQA dataset annotated with human visual attention (by Moritz Kronberger and Viviana Ventura) has been accepted at Clic-IT 2024. Congrats, Moritz and Viviana!
September 20, 2024 -- Our paper QUITE: Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Text in Bayesian Reasoning Scenarios (by Timo Schrader, Lukas Lange, Simon Razniewksi, and Annemarie Friedrich) has been accepted to appear at EMNLP 2024 (main conference). Congrats, Timo!
August, 9, 2024 -- Our paper on OMoS-QA: A Dataset for Cross-Lingual Extractive Question Answering in a German Migration Context has been accepted to KONVENS 2024. The work results from Steffen's Master thesis that was a cooperation with Tür an Tür Digitalfabrik gGmbH - well done, Steffen!
July 23, 2024 -- The GSCL board meeting was hosted at the University of Augsburg! Link
July 17, 2024 -- Three papers co-authored by Alessandra Zarcone have been accepted for publication: D. Schwarz, A. Zarcone and F. Laquai: Talk to your Cobot: faster and more efficient error-handling in a robotic system with a multi-modal Conversational Agent (Mensch und Roboter 2024), C. Geiss and A. Zarcone: THAugs at GermEval 2024 (Shared Task 1: GerMS-Detect): Predicting the Severity of Misogyny/Sexism in Forum Comments with BERT Models (Subtask 1, Open Track and Closed Track)" (to be presented at Germeval 2024), and A. Zarcone: Attention and Salience to appear in Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics.
April 5, 2024 -- Two papers co-authored by Christian Chiarcos have been accepted to LREC/Coling 2024: Bridging Computational Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics: A Query Extension for OntoLex-FrAC and On Modelling Corpus Citations in Computational Lexical Resources. Congrats, Christian!
April 4, 2024 -- Jakob Prange is giving a tutorial at the Computational Linguistics Fall School in Passau in September. Sign up here!
March 15, 2024 -- NAACL main conference paper accepted: FREB-TQA: A Fine-Grained Robustness Evaluation Benchmark for Table Question Answering. Congrats, Wei! The paper is joint work with Mohsen Mesgar (Bosch) and Heike Adel (Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart).

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Events

Lots of interesting events related to computational linguistics and natural language processing are happening in Augsburg.
Contact the organizers if you are interested in joining!

Winter Semester 2024/25

HLT Seminar (Our Group Meetings)

Our weekly group meetings continue in the winter semester 2024/25. We invite all researchers and students at the University of Augsburg and the Hochschule Augsburg to join us for discussions on recent work in language technology. (Program)
Summer Semester 2024

Natural Language Processing Seminar (Our Group Meetings)

Our weekly group meetings continue in the summer semester 2024. We invite all researchers and students at the University of Augsburg and the Hochschule Augsburg to join us for discussions on recent work in language technology. (Program)
April 2024

HLT Retreat SS2024

Our second mini workshop took place on April 8-9, 2024. (Program)