I'm holding the Junior Professorship of Computational Rhetoric and Natural Language Processing (tenure track W3) at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau and serve as PI in two projects: PSE (ending 12/24) and DeLab (ending 04/25). I am also an associate member of the Centre for Argument and Technology (ARG-tech) at the University of Dundee, UK, and the founder and head of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre 'Linguistic Data Analysis'.
+49 851 509 3820, HK30 (Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 30), Room 220 (2nd floor)
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Universität Passau, FIM, Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 30, D-94032 Passau
| Period | Activity |
|---|---|
Jan 2022 – | Junior Professor (W1, tenure track W3) Computational Rhetoric and Natural Language Processing, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau |
Oct 2020 – Sept 2021 | Substitute Professor (W3) Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz |
May 2020 – Dec 2021 | Junior Research Group Leader University of Konstanz |
March 2020 – | Founder and Lead Steinbeis Transfer Center for Linguistic Data Analysis |
July 2018 – | Associate Member Centre for Argument Technology (ARG-tech), University of Dundee, UK |
April 2017 – Dec 2021 | PI and coordinator ADD-up (gefördert durch die VolkswagenStiftung), University of Konstanz (incl. 10-months parental leave) |
Oct 2016 – March 2017 | PostDoc FOR 2111, P8 (Questions Visualized), University of Konstanz |
April 2011 – Feb 2016 | Research Associate Computational Analysis of Linguistic Development (funded by DFG), VisArgue: Visualizing Political Discourse (funded by BMBF), University of Konstanz (12-months parental leave) |
| Oct 2009 - August 2010 | Research Assistant & Research Student Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL), Dublin City University, Ireland |
July 2007 - Oct 2007 | Research Assistant Intern Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA |
| Period | Activity | |
|---|---|---|
2020 | Excellence Cluster "The Politics of Inequality", University of Konstanz | |
"Computational Linguistic Analysis of Street-Level Bureaucracy" (2020-2023) (with Jun.-Prof. Steffen Eckhard) | ||
2020 | VolkswagenStiftung "AI and the Society of the Future" | |
"Deliberation Laboratory (DeLab)" (2021-2024) | ||
2016 | VolkswagenStiftung "International Research in Computational Social Sciences" | |
"Augmented Deliberative Democracy (ADD-up): Computational Enhancement of Large-scale Public Arbitrations in Real Time" (2017-2020) | ||
| 2016 | Mentorship grant Zukunftskolleg, University Konstanz, Mentor: Prof. Chris Reed, University of Dundee, Scotland | |
2016 | PostDoc Stipendium Equal Opportunity Office, University of Konstanz | |
2010 | Doctoral Stipend (Brückenstipendium der Landesgraduiertenförderung) |
Reviewer for all major venues in Computational Linguistics (ACL, EACL, Coling, NAACL, EMNLP).
| Period | Activity |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Speaker, SIG CL, German Society of Linguistics (DGfS) |
2019 | |
2018 | Workshop "Why Indeed? Questions at the Interface of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics", DGfS Jahrestagung, Universität Stuttgart |
2014/2016/2018 | VisLR workshop series @ LREC |
Proceedings of LREC18 Workshop, Miyazaki, Japan. | |
Proceedings of LREC16 Workshop, Portorož, Slovenia. | |
Proceedings of LREC14 Workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland. | |
March 2013 | Workshop on the Visualization of Linguistic Patterns, DGfS Jahrestreffen, Universität Potsdam |
2011-2013 |
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
LSA Committee for Student Issues and Concerns (COSIAC)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
My Google Scholar profile.
