Annemarie Friedrich

Annemarie Friedrich

Computational Linguist

Annemarie Friedrich

Contact

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

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About me

I am a University Professor (tenured) for 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

  • Fabio Mariani, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (almost-postdoc)
  • Hanna Schmück, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

PhD Students

  • Valentin Knappich (2023-), document-level processing of patent text, co-advised with Simon Razniewski (TU Dresden) and Anna Haetty (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
  • Timo Schrader (2023-), temporal processing of text, co-advised with Lukas Lange and Simon Razniewski (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
  • Wei Zhou (2023-), document-level modeling of text, co-advised 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)
  • Georg Hofmann (2025-), uncertainty in natural language processing
  • Xaver Krückl (2026-)

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

  • Sophie Henning (2021-), Uncertainty Modeling for Deep Learning in NLP, co-advised with Alexander Fraser (LMU Munich)

Past PhD Students

  • Stefan Grünewald (2019-2023), Syntactic Dependencies and Beyond: Robust Neural Architectures and Quality-Enhanced Corpora for Structured Prediction in NLP, co-advised with Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart) – now Senior Data Scientist for AI Enabling at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
  • Subhash Pujari Chandra (2019-2023), Neural Patent Classification beyond Title and Abstract: Leveraging Patent Text and Metadata, co-advised with Michael Gertz (Heidelberg University) and Jannik Strötgen (FH Karlsruhe) – now Research Scientist at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

Alumni

Mini Bio

Annemarie Friedrich is the Chair of Computational Linguistics in the Institute of Applied Computer Science at the University of Augsburg. Her research focuses on computational semantics, discourse processing, and linguistic annotation, and her group also engages in digital humanities projects. Before joining the University of Augsburg in 2023, she worked as a Senior Expert in Natural Language Processing at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, where she specialized in text mining for scientific literature.