Annemarie Friedrich

Annemarie Friedrich

Computational Linguist

Annemarie Friedrich

Contact

E-Mail: firstname dot lastname @ informatik dot uni minus augsburg dot de

Photo: © University of Augsburg

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About me

I am a University Professor (tenured) for Natural Language Understanding (Computational Linguistics) at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science at the University of Augsburg. I am also a member of the Faculty of Philology and History. Find more about Human Language Technology in Augsburg here.

Before that, I was a Senior Expert working on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence.

I am currently the president of the German Society for Computational Linguistics (GSCL), the scientific association in the German-speaking countries and regions for research, teaching and professional work in natural language processing.

Research Interests

  • Computational Syntax and Semantics
  • Discourse Processing
  • Text Mining / Information Extraction
  • Linguistic Annotation
  • Deep Learning
  • Digital Humanities

I am interested in understanding and modeling interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, taking into account influences of discourse and pragmatics. Most of my past research is about the computational modeling of aspect and genericity. More details here. I am currently also interested in text mining for scientific text and historical text corpora, syntactic and semantic parsing, and uncertainty in the context of deep learning for NLP.

PostDocs

  • Jakob Prange, Akademischer Rat
  • Fabio Mariani, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (almost-postdoc)
  • Hanna Schmück, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

PhD Students

  • Valentin Knappich (2023-), document-level processing of patent text, co-supervised with Simon Razniewski (TU Dresden) and Anna Haetty (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
  • Timo Schrader (2023-), temporal processing of text, co-supervised with Lukas Lange and Simon Razniewski (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
  • Wei Zhou (2023-), document-level modeling of text, co-supervised with Heike Adel and Mohsen Mesgar (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
  • Jenny Maria Felser (2024-), topic modeling for applications in digital forensics, co-supervised with Michael Spranger (Hochschule Mittweida)

I also work(ed) very closely with the following PhD students:

  • Sophie Henning (2021-), Uncertainty Modeling for Deep Learning in NLP, co-supervised with Alexander Fraser (LMU Munich)
  • Stefan Grünewald (2019-2023), Syntactic Dependencies and Beyond: Robust Neural Architectures and Quality-Enhanced Corpora for Structured Prediction in NLP, co-supervised with Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart)
  • Subhash Pujari Chandra (2019-2023), Neural Patent Classification beyond Title and Abstract: Leveraging Patent Text and Metadata, co-supervised with Michael Gertz (Heidelberg University) and Jannik Strötgen (FH Karlsruhe)