Publications

Most of my articles can be found in the ACL Anthology.

2024

Timo Schrader, Lukas Lange, Simon Razniewski, and Annemarie Friedrich. QUITE: Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Text in Bayesian Reasoning Scenarios. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (to appear)

Maik Fröbe, Thomas Eckart, Annemarie Friedrich, Lukas Gienapp, Jan Heinrich Merker, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells, Philipp Schaer and Benno Stein. Teaching Information Retrieval with a Shared Task Across Universities: First Steps and Findings. Extended abstract accepted at the IR Workshop @ LWDA. September 2024, Würzburg, Germany.

Steffen Kleinle, Jakob Prange, Annemarie Friedrich. OMoS-QA: A Dataset for Cross-Lingual Extractive Question Answering in a German Migration Context. In Proceedings of Konferenz zur Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS). Vienna, September 2024. to appear

Wei Zhou, Mohsen Mesgar, Heike Adel, and Annemarie Friedrich. FREB-TQA: A Fine-Grained Robustness Evaluation Benchmark for Table Question Answering. In Proceedings of 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL).

Lukas Lange, Marc Müller, Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Dragan Milchevski, Patrick Grau, Subhash Pujari and Annemarie Friedrich. AnnoCTR: A Dataset for Detecting and Linking Entities, Tactics, and Techniques in Cyber Threat Reports. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024.

Tim Tarsi, Heike Adel, Jan Hendrik Metzen, Dan Zhang, Matteo Finco, and Annemarie Friedrich. 2024. SciOL and MuLMS-Img: Introducing A Large-Scale Multimodal Scientific Dataset and Models for Image-Text Tasks in the Scientific Domain. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). January 2024, Waikoloa, Hawaii.

2023

Timo Pierre Schrader, Matteo Finco, Stefan Grünewald, Felix Hildebrand, and Annemarie Friedrich. 2023. MuLMS: A Multi-Layer Annotated Text Corpus for Information Extraction in the Materials Science Domain. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications, pages 84–100, Bali, Indonesia. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Valentin Knappich, Simon Razniewski, and Annemarie Friedrich. 2023. BoschAI @ PLABA 2023: Leveraging Edit Operations in End-to-End Neural Sentence Simplification. Arxiv pre-print.

Sophie Henning, Talita Anthonio, Wei Zhou, Heike Adel, Mohsen Mesgar, and Annemarie Friedrich. 2023. Is the Answer in the Text? Challenging ChatGPT with Evidence Retrieval from Instructive Text. In Proceedings of Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023.

Timo Pierre Schrader, Simon Razniewski, Lukas Lange and Annemarie Friedrich. 2023. BoschAI @ Causal News Corpus 2023: Robust Cause-Effect Span Extraction using Multi-Layer Sequence Tagging and Data Augmentation. In Proceedings of The 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE). September 2023, Varna. to appear

Timo Pierre Schrader, Teresa Bürkle, Sophie Henning, Sherry Tan, Matteo Finco, Stefan Grünewald, Maira Indrikova, Felix Hildebrand and Annemarie Friedrich. MuLMS-AZ: An Argumentative Zoning Dataset for the Materials Science Domain. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse. Toronto, 2023.

Annemarie Friedrich, Nianwen Xue, and Alexis Palmer. 2023. A Kind Introduction to Lexical and Grammatical Aspect, with a Survey of Computational Approaches. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), pages 599–622, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics. (video)

Sophie Henning, William Beluch, Alexander Fraser, and Annemarie Friedrich. 2023. A Survey of Methods for Addressing Class Imbalance in Deep-Learning Based Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), pages 523–540, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2022

Subhash Chandra Pujari, Jannik Strötgen, Mark Giereth, Michael Gertz, and Annemarie Friedrich. Three Real-World Datasets and Neural Computational Models for Classification Tasks in Patent Landscaping. In Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). December 2022. Abu Dhabi.

Sophie Henning, Nicole Macher, Stefan Grünewald, and Annemarie Friedrich. MIST: a Large-Scale Annotated Resource and Neural Models for Functions of Modal Verbs in English Scientific Text. In Proceedings of Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022. December 2022. Abu Dhabi.

Chen et al. Multi-label classification for biomedical literature: an overview of the BioCreative VII LitCovid Track for COVID-19 literature topic annotations. In Database, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. August 2022.

Subhash Chandra Pujari, Fryderyk Mantiuk, Mark Giereth, Jannik Strötgen, and Annemarie Friedrich. Evaluating Neural Multi-Field Document Representations for Patent Classification. In Proceedings of The 12th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval at ECIR 2022.

2021

Subhash Chandra Pujari, Tim Tarsi, Jannik Strötgen, and Annemarie Friedrich. RobertNLP at the BioCreative VII - LitCovid track: Neural Document Classification Using SciBERT. In Proceedings of the BioCreative VII Challenge Evaluation Workshop. November 2021.

Teresa Bürkle, Stefan Grünewald, and Annemarie Friedrich. A Corpus Study of Creating Rule-Based Enhanced Universal Dependencies for German. In Proceedings of The Joint 15th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) and 3rd Designing Meaning Representations (DMR) Workshop. November 2021. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. [Code]

Elizaveta Sineva, Stefan Grünewald, Annemarie Friedrich, and Jonas Kuhn. Negation-Instance Based Evaluation of Negation Resolution. In Proceedings of the Conference for Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2021). November 2021. [Code]

Stefan Grünewald, Annemarie Friedrich, and Jonas Kuhn. Applying Occam’s Razor to Transformer-Based Dependency Parsing: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What Is Really Necessary. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2021 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies (IWPT 2021). August 2021. [Code]

Stefan Grünewald, Frederik Tobias Oertel, and Annemarie Friedrich. RobertNLP at the IWPT 2021 Shared Task: Simple Enhanced UD Parsing for 17 Languages. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2021 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies (IWPT 2021). August 2021. [Code]

Annemarie Friedrich and Torsten Zesch. A Crash Course on Ethics in Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP. June 2021. [Resources]

Stefan Grünewald, Prisca Piccirilli, and Annemarie Friedrich. Coordinate Constructions in English Enhanced Universal Dependencies: Analysis and Computational Modeling. April 2021. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). [Code][Dataset]

Subhash Chandra Pujari, Annemarie Friedrich, and Jannik Strötgen. A Multi-Task Approach to Neural Multi-Label Hierarchical Patent Classification using Transformers. March 2021. In Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). [Code][Author’s Version]

2020

Stefan Grünewald and Annemarie Friedrich. Unifying the Treatment of Preposition-Determiner Contractions in German Universal Dependencies Treebanks. In Proceedings of the Universal Dependencies Workshop (UDW) 2020.

Hanna Wecker, Annemarie Friedrich, and Heike Adel. ClusterDataSplit: Exploring Challenging Clustering-Based Data Splits for Model Performance Evaluation. November 2020. In Proceedings of Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems (Eval4NLP). [Code][Video]

Annemarie Friedrich, Heike Adel, Federico Tomazic, Johannes Hingerl, Renou Benteau, Anika Maruscyk, Lukas Lange: The SOFC-Exp Corpus and Neural Approaches to Information Extraction in the Materials Science Domain. July 2020. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Seattle, WA, USA. [Code][Video]

Stefan Grünewald and Annemarie Friedrich. RobertNLP at the IWPT 2020 Shared Task: Surprisingly Simple Enhanced UD Parsing for English. July 2020. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2020 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies. Seattle, WA, USA. [Code][Video]

2017–2019

Parental leave.

2017

Annemarie Friedrich and Damyana Gateva. Classification of telicity using cross-linguistic annotation projection. September 2017. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Copenhagen, Denmark. [Code]

Anita Ramm, Sharid Loáiciga, Annemarie Friedrich and Alexander Fraser. Annotating tense, mood and voice for English, French and German. July 2017. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), System Demonstrations. Vancouver, Canada. [Poster][Code]

Annemarie Friedrich. States, events, and generics: computational modeling of situation entity types. February 2017. PhD thesis, Saarland University. [Defense Slides]

2016

Timo Gühring, Nicklas Linz, Rafael Theis and Annemarie Friedrich. SWAN: an easy-to-use web-based annotation system. September 2016. In Proceedings of KONVENS 2016. Bochum, Germany. [Code][Poster]

Annemarie Friedrich, Alexis Palmer and Manfred Pinkal: Situation entity types: automatic classification of clause-level aspect. August 2016. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Berlin, Germany. [Code][Slides]

2015

Annemarie Friedrich and Manfred Pinkal: Automatic recognition of habituals: a three-way classification of clausal aspect. September 2015. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Lisbon, Portugal. [Code][Poster]

Kleio-Isidora Mavridou, Annemarie Friedrich, Melissa Peate Sørensen, Alexis Palmer and Manfred Pinkal: Linking discourse modes and situation entity types in a cross-linguistic corpus study. September 2015. In Proceedings of Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics (LSDSem). Lisbon, Portugal. [Slides]

Mengfei Zhou, Anette Frank, Annemarie Friedrich and Alexis Palmer: Semantically Enriched Models for Modal Sense Classification. September 2015. In Proceedings of Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics (LSDSem). Lisbon, Portugal.

Annemarie Friedrich and Manfred Pinkal: Discourse-sensitive Automatic Identification of Generic Expressions. August 2015. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Beijing, China. [Code][Slides]

Annemarie Friedrich, Alexis Palmer, Melissa Peate Sørensen and Manfred Pinkal: Annotating genericity: a survey, a scheme, and a corpus. June 2015. In Proceedings of the 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IX). Denver, Colorado, US. [Data][Slides]

2014

Annemarie Friedrich and Alexis Palmer: Centering Theory in natural text: a large-scale corpus study. October 2014. In Proceedings of KONVENS. Hildesheim, Germany. [Poster]

Anna Senina, Marcus Rohrbach, Wei Qiu, Annemarie Friedrich, Manfred Pinkal and Bernt Schiele: Coherent Multi-Sentence Video Description with Variable Level of Detail. September 2014. In Proceedings of the 36th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR). Münster, Germany.

Annemarie Friedrich and Alexis Palmer: Situation entity annotation. August 2014. In Proceedings of the 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VIII). Dublin, Ireland. [Data][Slides]

Alexis Palmer and Annemarie Friedrich: Genre distinctions and discourse modes: Text types differ in their situation type distributions. July 2014. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers and Connections between Argumentation Theory and Natural Language Processing. Forlì-Cesena, Italy.

Annemarie Friedrich and Alexis Palmer: Automatic prediction of aspectual class of verbs in context. June 2014. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Baltimore, USA. [Code][Poster]

Annemarie Friedrich, Marina Valeeva and Alexis Palmer: LQVSumm: A Corpus of Linguistic Quality Violations in Multi-Document Summarization]. May 2014. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Reykjavik, Iceland. [Slides]

2012

Annemarie Friedrich, Nikos Engonopoulos, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal: A Comparison of Knowledge-based Algorithms for Graded Word Sense Assignment. December 2012. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing). Mumbai, India. [Poster]

Casey Redd Kennington, Martin Kay and Annemarie Friedrich: Suffix Trees as Language Models. May 2012. In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Istanbul, Turkey.