Jun. Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann E-Mail: biemann@tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Website: http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/~cbiemann/ Adresse: Abteilung Automatische Sprachverarbeitung Institut für Informatik Universität Leipzig Augustusplatz 10 04109 Leipzig Deutschland Postadresse: Jun. Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann Universität Leipzig Institut für Informatik PF 100920 04009 Leipzig Deutschland Jun. Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann ist nicht mehr Mitarbeiter der Abteilung ASV.

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Software:

• Download the Chinese Whispers graph clustering algorithm.
• Download the tinyCC2.0 corpus production engine
• Download the langSepP Language Separation Program
• Download the unsuPos Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagger
• Download the ASV-Toolbox: A compilation of NLP tools

Vita

Professional Activities:

Co-Chairing

• COLING-08 Workshop Textgraphs-3 (Manchester, UK)
• ACL-2007 Student Research Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic
• HLT-NAACL 07 Workshop Textgraphs-2 (Rochester, NY, USA) (proceedings)
• ICML-05 Workshop: Learning and Extending Lexical Ontologies by using Machine Learning Methods (Bonn, Germany) (proceedings) (proceedings + presentations)

Program Commitee Member

• GOTAL 2008: 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, 2008
• ACL-08: The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Columbus, OH, USA
• KDO-05: The second International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies, held within ECML/PKDD 2005, Porto, Portugal
• International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IIIA-2006), Helsinki, Finland

Visits

• Kaist, Daejon, South Korea: Research Stay at KORTERM, February- March 2004
• Universitetet i Bergen, Norway: Multilingua program, September- December 2006

Book chapters

• Biemann, C.: Bootstrapping. In G. Heyer, U. Quasthoff, T. Wittig (Eds.): Wissensrohstoff Text, Bochum, w3L
• Biemann, C., Heyer, G.: Aufbau einer Wissenslandkarte. In G. Heyer, U. Quasthoff, T. Wittig (Eds.): Wissensrohstoff Text, Bochum, w3L
• Biemann, C., Hidden Markov Modelle. In G. Heyer, U. Quasthoff, T. Wittig (Eds.): Wissensrohstoff Text, Bochum, w3L
• Biemann, C.: Tagging – als Anwendung HMM. In G. Heyer, U. Quasthoff, T. Wittig (Eds.): Wissensrohstoff Text, Bochum, w3L
• Biemann, C.: Kookkurrenzen höherer Ordnung. In G. Heyer, U. Quasthoff, T. Wittig (Eds.): Wissensrohstoff Text, Bochum, w3L
• Biemann, C., Heyer, G.: Netze von Kookkurrenzen. In G. Heyer, U. Quasthoff, T. Wittig (Eds.): Wissensrohstoff Text, Bochum, w3L

Veröffentlichungen

2008

• [holz-biemann-2008-periphrases] F. Holz und C. Biemann: Unsupervised and Knowledge-Free Learning of Compound Splits and Periphrases. In: CICLing 2008, Haifa: Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, LNCS 4919, Springer LNCS, 2008
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• [biemann-etal-08-toolbox] C. Biemann, U. Quasthoff, G. Heyer und F. Holz: ASV Toolbox -- A Modular Collection of Language Exploration Tools. In: Proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2008, 2008
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2007

• [Bie07b] Biemann, C.: Unsupervised Natural Language Processing using Graph Models. In: HLT-NAACL-07 Doctoral Consortium and Poster Proceedings, Rochester, NY, USA, 2007
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• [BQ07] Biemann, C. und Quasthoff, U.: Similarity of Documents and Document Collections using Attributes with Low Noise. In: Proceedings of WEBIST-07, Barcelona, Spain, 2007
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• [Bie07a] Biemann, C.: A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants. In: Proceedings of HLT-NAACL-07, Rochester, NY, USA, 2007
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• [CBO07] Cysouw, M., Biemann, C. und Ongyerth, M.: Using strong's numbers in the bible to test an automatic alignment of parallel texts. In: Parallel Texts: Using translational equivalents in linguistic typology. Special issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), 2007
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• [HEB+07] Hallsteinsdóttir, E., Eckart, T., Biemann, C., Quasthoff, U. und Richter, M.: Íslenskur orðasjóður - Building a Large Icelandic Corpus. In: Proceedings of NODALIDA-07, Tartu, Estonia, 2007
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• [SBO07] Socher, R., Biemann, C. und Osswald, R.: Combining Contexts in Lexicon Learning for Semantic Parsing. In: Proceedings of NODALIDA-07, Tartu, Estonia, 2007
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• [BHQ+07] Biemann, C., Heyer, G., Quasthoff, U. und Richter, M.: The Leipzig Corpora Collection - Monolingual corpora of standard size. In: Proceedings of Corpus Linguistic 2007, Birmingham, UK, 2007
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• [LB07] Loos, B. und Biemann, C.: Supporting Web-based Address Extraction with Unsupervised Tagging. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society GfKI2007 and Springer LNCS, 2007
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• [BGG07] Biemann, C., Giuliano, C. und Gliozzo, A.: Unsupervised Part of Speech Tagging Supporting Supervised Methods. In: Proceedings of RANLP-07, Borovets, Bulgaria, 2007
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2006

• [QRB06] Quasthoff, U., Richter, M. und Biemann, C.: Corpus Portal for Search in Monolingual Corpora. In: Proceedings of the LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy, 2006
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• [CBO06] Cysouw, M., Biemann, C. und Ongyerth, M.: Using strong’s numbers in the bible to test an automatic alignment of parallel texts.. In: Michael Cysouw and Bernhard Wälchli (eds.) Parallel Texts: Using translational equivalents in linguistic typology. Special issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), 2006
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• [Bie06a] Biemann, C.: Chinese Whispers - an Efficient Graph Clustering Algorithm and its Application to Natural Language Processing Problems. In: Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL-06 Workshop on Textgraphs-06, New York, USA, 2006
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• [QB06] Quasthoff, U. und Biemann, C.: Measuring Monolinguality. In: Proceedings of the LREC-06 workshop on Quality assurance and quality measurement for language and speech resources, Genoa, Italy, 2006
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• [Bie06b] Biemann, C.: Part-of-Speech Tagging Employing Efficient Graph Clustering. In: Proceedings of the COLING/ACL-06 Student Research Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 2006
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• [ELW+06] Eiken, U. C., Liseth, A. T., Witschel, H. F., Richter, M. und Biemann, C.: Ord i dag: Mining Norwegian Daily Newswire. In: Proceedings of the FinTAL, Turku, Finland, Turku, Finland, 2006
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• [RQH+06] Richter, M., Quasthoff, U., Hallsteinsdóttir, E. und Biemann, C.: Exploiting the Leipzig Corpora Collection. In: Proceesings of the IS-LTC 2006. Ljubljana, Slovenia., 2006
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2005

• [Bie05b] Biemann, C.: Semantic Indexing with Typed Terms Using Rapid Annotation. In: Proceedings of the TKE-05-Workshop on Methods and Applications of Semantic Indexing, Copenhagen, 2005
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• [Bie05a] Biemann, C.: Automatic Extension of Feature-based Semantic Lexicons via Centextual Attributes. In: Proceedings of 29th annual meeting of Gfkl, Magdeburg, 2005
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• [MB05] Mahn, M. und Biemann, C.: Tuning Co-occurrences of Higher Orders for Generating Ontology Extension Candidates. In: Proceedings of the ICML-05 Workshop on Ontology Learning and Extension using Machine Learning Methods, Bonn, 2005
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• [Bie+05] Biemann, C. und Teresniak, S.: Disentangling from Babylonian Confusion - Unsupervized Language Identification . In: Proceedings of CICLing-2005, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Springer, 2005
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2004

• [BBHM04a] C. Biemann, C. Böhm, G. Heyer und R. Melz: Automatically Building Concept Structures and Displaying Concept Trails for the Use in Brainstorming Sessions and Content Management Systems. In: Proceedings of I2CS, Guadalajara, Mexico, Springer, 2004
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• [BBQ04] C. Biemann, S. Bordag und U. Quasthoff: Automatic Acquisition of Paradigmatic Relations using Iterated Co-occurrences. In: Proceedings of LREC2004, Lisboa, Portugal, 2004
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• [BBQW04] C. Biemann, S. Bordag, U. Quasthoff und C. Wolff: Web Services for Language Resources and Language Technology Applications.. In: Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lissabon, 2004
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• [BQW04] C. Biemann, U. Quasthoff und C. Wolff: Linguistic Corpus Search. In: Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lissabon, 2004
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• [BHSW04] C. Biemann, G. Heyer, F. Schmidt und H.F. Witschel: Eine Wissenlandkarte der Knowtech. In: N. Gronau, B. Petkoff, T. Schildhauer (Hrsg.): Wissensmanagement - Wandel, Wertschöpfung, Wachstum., Berlin, Gito, 2004
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• [BSC04] C. Biemann, S.-I. Shin und K.-S. Choi: Semiautomatic Externsion of CoreNet using a Bootstrapping Mechanism on Corpus-based Co-occurrences. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Genf, Switzerland, 2004
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• [BBHM04b] C. Biemann, K. Böhm, G. Heyer und R. Melz: SemanticTalk: Software for Visualizing Brainstorming Sessions and Thematic Concept Trails on Document Collections. In: Proceedings of ECML/PKDD, Pisa, Italy, Springer, 2004
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• [BSQ04] C. Biemann, S.Bordag und U. Quasthoff: Lernen paradigmatischer Relationen auf iterierten Kollokationen. In: LDV-Forum 19 (1/2), GermaNet-Workshop, Tubingen, Gito, 2004
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