Personal Information:
| Name: | Prof. Dr. Melanie Siegel |
| Born: | 13.10.1965 in Halle/Westf., Germany |
Education:
| 1972-1976 | Primary school in Halle/Westf. |
| 1976-1985 | Grammar school in Halle/Westf. - Abitur |
| 1985-1986 | German studies, history and sociology,University of Bielefeld |
| 1986-1991 | Linguistics, literature and history |
| 1991 | Magister Artium in Bielefeld (Prof.Dr.D.Metzing). The title of the thesis is: "Aspekte der Generierung japanischer Wegbeschreibungen" (Aspects of generation of Japanese route descriptions). |
| 1996 | Ph.D. in Linguistics in Bielefeld(Prof.Dr.D.Metzing). The title of the thesis is: "Die maschinelle Übersetzung aufgabenorientierter japanisch-deutscher Dialoge. Lösungen für Translation Mismatches." (The machine translation of task-oriented Japanese German dialogues. Solutions for translation mismatches.) |
| 2007 | Habilitation in Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Bielefeld. The title of the thesis is: " JACY - A Grammar for Annotating Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Written and Spoken Japanese for NLP Application Purposes." |
Stays Abroad:
| April 1988 -February 1989 | Japanese language studies at the ReitakuUniversity in Kashiwa-Shi. |
| August 1992 -September 1992 | Two months research in Japan, founded by the Japan Foundation. |
| July 2001 - August 2001 | Project work at YY Technologies, Mountain View, California. |
| November 2004 - December 2004 | Two months collaborative research at NTT,Kyoto, Japan. |
Professional Career:
| Since 2024 | Professor for Semantic Technologies at Hochschule Darmstadt |
| 2012 - 2024 | Professor for Information Science at Hochschule Darmstadt |
| 2006 - 2012 | Computational Linguist at Acrolinx. |
| 2006 | Deputy Director Japan for the International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research organizing research cooperation initiatives between Germany and Japan |
| 2004 - 2006 | Senior researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Projects SmartWeb, "Mobile Broadband Access to the Semantic Web", MAJO, "Multiple-Purpose Applied Japanese Open-Source Grammar Project" and,ACRO-CHECK (Style checking for technical documentation). |
| 2002 - 2004 | Acquisition and coordination of,the project 'DeepThought', Hybrid Deep and Shallow Methods for Knowledge-Intensive Information Extraction, Saarland University. Local Project leading (3 researchers, 5 student assistants) and international coordination (6 international partner institutions). |
| 2001 - 2002 | Acquisition and coordination of the project 'JACY' (HPSG for Japanese in an automatic email response application), industrial project for YY Technologies, Mountain View, CA. DFKI Saarbrücken |
| 2000 - 2001 | Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Projects 'Whiteboard' (shallow and deep processing) and 'Skate' (Grammar Checking). |
| 1997 - 2000 | Project 'VERBMOBIL', Japanese syntactic processing, Saarland University. Acquisition and project leading. |
| 1995 - 1996 | Project 'VERBMOBIL', Japanese syntactic processing, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken |
| 1993 - 1994 | Project 'VERBMOBIL', pre-studies for the Japanese language processing in Bielefeld. Acquisition and project leading. |
| 1992 - 1993 | Research assistant at the faculty of linguistics and literature of the University of Bielefeld(teaching) |
Language Skills:
German (native), English, Japanese, French, Latin.
Invited Talks
Feb. 2000: Invited talk, Tsujii Laboratory at Tokyo University ., "Particles in an HPSG for Japanese Spoken Language".
Apr. 2000: Invited talk, CSLI , "Particles in an HPSG for Japanese Spoken Language".
Oct. 2002: Invited talk, CMU Pittsburgh, ""HPSG Processing of Japanese".
Jun. 2004: Invited talk, NTT Research, Japan, "JACY: A Japanese HPSG in a multilingual and application-oriented context" und "The "Heart of Gold" core architecture for hybrid language processing in the "DeepThought" project.
Aug. 2004: Invited talk, NTNU Trondheim: JACY and the Heart of Gold.
Nov. 2004: Invited talk, NTT research, Japan, "JACY".
Dec. 2004: Invited talk, Tokyo University, Japan, "HPSG Processing of Japanese".
Dec. 2004: Invited talk, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, "HPSG Processing of Japanese".
Ded. 2004: Invited talk, Kobe Shoin Women's University, Japan, "Implementing the Syntax of Japanese Numeral Classifiers".
Aug. 2008: Panel "Learning updated information about European localization and the near future of European TC.", JTCA, Tokyo.
Aug. 2008: Panel "Localization for Japan", tekom Frühjahrstagung, Wiesbaden.
Sept. 2011: Invited talk, W3C days Berlin.
Feb. 2013: TC-World 2013, Bangalore, talks "Supporting the Authoring Process with Linguistic Software" and "Using Machine Translation in Technical Documentation"
Mar. 2015: Talk, "Die Implementierung japanischer Sprache in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) und was wir damit gemacht haben." Darmstädter Ontologenkreis.
Sept. 2015: Talk at "tekom-Regionalgruppe Hannover": "Autorentools für die technische Dokumentation".
Jul. 2016: Talk, "Regelbasierte semantische Analyse und ihre Anwendungen", Ernst-Schröder-Zentrum Darmstadt.
Nov. 2016: Talk "Automatische Erkennung von Trends Sprachtechnologische Auswertung von Twitter-Daten zu Politikerinnen und Politikern", DGI-Praxistage.
Nov. 2016: Publishing Trends of the Future –Consequences for Research Outputs and Measures of Impact. Buchmesse Frankfurt
May 2017:Talk at HAW Hamburg, "Wie gefälschte Meinungsäußerungen mittels Sentimentanalyse entlarvt werden können", Ringvorlesung "Digitale Information und Manipulation"
Jul. 2017:Keynote Speech: "Erkennung von gekauften Meinungsäußerungen in Consumer-Portalen", 7. Potsdamer i-science-Tag
Jul. 2017:Invited Talk "Multilingual terminology extraction", TermVar Workshop on terminological variation, Hildesheim
Sep. 2017:Interview Deutschlandfunk: http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/luegen-im-netz-wie-mit-fake-news-bots-co-die.1148.de.html?dram:article_id=395232
Sep. 2017:Invited Talk: "Opinion Spam Detection", AFCEA Zukunfts- und Technologieforum 2017, Wachtberg
Jan. 2018:Invited Talk: "„OdeNet“ – ein deutscher Beitrag zur „Multilingual Open WordNet Initiative“, Darmstädter Ontologenkreis
Sept. 2019: Invited Talk: "Methods of Opinion Mining", Ulyanovsk State Technical University
Feb. 2021: Invited Talk: "Automatische Klassifikation offensiver Sprache - Erfahrungen aus zwei Shared Tasks", Online-Tagung Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Hate Speech und ihre Erkennung
Feb. 2021: Invited Talk: "Automatische Klassifikation offensiver Sprache - Erfahrungen aus zwei Shared Tasks", Qurator 2021 – Conference on Digital Curation Technologies
Apr. 2000: Invited talk, CSLI , "Particles in an HPSG for Japanese Spoken Language".
Oct. 2002: Invited talk, CMU Pittsburgh, ""HPSG Processing of Japanese".
Jun. 2004: Invited talk, NTT Research, Japan, "JACY: A Japanese HPSG in a multilingual and application-oriented context" und "The "Heart of Gold" core architecture for hybrid language processing in the "DeepThought" project.
Aug. 2004: Invited talk, NTNU Trondheim: JACY and the Heart of Gold.
Nov. 2004: Invited talk, NTT research, Japan, "JACY".
Dec. 2004: Invited talk, Tokyo University, Japan, "HPSG Processing of Japanese".
Dec. 2004: Invited talk, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, "HPSG Processing of Japanese".
Ded. 2004: Invited talk, Kobe Shoin Women's University, Japan, "Implementing the Syntax of Japanese Numeral Classifiers".
Aug. 2008: Panel "Learning updated information about European localization and the near future of European TC.", JTCA, Tokyo.
Aug. 2008: Panel "Localization for Japan", tekom Frühjahrstagung, Wiesbaden.
Sept. 2011: Invited talk, W3C days Berlin.
Feb. 2013: TC-World 2013, Bangalore, talks "Supporting the Authoring Process with Linguistic Software" and "Using Machine Translation in Technical Documentation"
Mar. 2015: Talk, "Die Implementierung japanischer Sprache in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) und was wir damit gemacht haben." Darmstädter Ontologenkreis.
Sept. 2015: Talk at "tekom-Regionalgruppe Hannover": "Autorentools für die technische Dokumentation".
Jul. 2016: Talk, "Regelbasierte semantische Analyse und ihre Anwendungen", Ernst-Schröder-Zentrum Darmstadt.
Nov. 2016: Talk "Automatische Erkennung von Trends Sprachtechnologische Auswertung von Twitter-Daten zu Politikerinnen und Politikern", DGI-Praxistage.
Nov. 2016: Publishing Trends of the Future –Consequences for Research Outputs and Measures of Impact. Buchmesse Frankfurt
May 2017:Talk at HAW Hamburg, "Wie gefälschte Meinungsäußerungen mittels Sentimentanalyse entlarvt werden können", Ringvorlesung "Digitale Information und Manipulation"
Jul. 2017:Keynote Speech: "Erkennung von gekauften Meinungsäußerungen in Consumer-Portalen", 7. Potsdamer i-science-Tag
Jul. 2017:Invited Talk "Multilingual terminology extraction", TermVar Workshop on terminological variation, Hildesheim
Sep. 2017:Interview Deutschlandfunk: http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/luegen-im-netz-wie-mit-fake-news-bots-co-die.1148.de.html?dram:article_id=395232
Sep. 2017:Invited Talk: "Opinion Spam Detection", AFCEA Zukunfts- und Technologieforum 2017, Wachtberg
Jan. 2018:Invited Talk: "„OdeNet“ – ein deutscher Beitrag zur „Multilingual Open WordNet Initiative“, Darmstädter Ontologenkreis
Sept. 2019: Invited Talk: "Methods of Opinion Mining", Ulyanovsk State Technical University
Feb. 2021: Invited Talk: "Automatische Klassifikation offensiver Sprache - Erfahrungen aus zwei Shared Tasks", Online-Tagung Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Hate Speech und ihre Erkennung
Feb. 2021: Invited Talk: "Automatische Klassifikation offensiver Sprache - Erfahrungen aus zwei Shared Tasks", Qurator 2021 – Conference on Digital Curation Technologies
Programm Committees, Reviews
1999 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 99)
20029th International Conference on HPSG
2003 IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
2003 The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2004)
2003 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)
2004 Journal of Natural Language Engineering
2004 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 04)
2004 TMI-2004 - The 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
2004 Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Speech and Language on Multiword Expressions
2005 2nd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications
2005 Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing IJCNLP 05
2007 Brain and Language (Elsevier)
2009 EACL 2009
2011International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2012 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2013 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2013 PATHOS 2013
2014 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2014 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2016 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2018 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2018 MDPI Computers
2018 Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC)
2019 MDPI Computers
2019 Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
2019 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2019 International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (Qomex)
2020 Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
2020 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2020 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2021 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2021 16th International Symposium for Information Science (ISI)
2021 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
20029th International Conference on HPSG
2003 IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
2003 The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2004)
2003 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)
2004 Journal of Natural Language Engineering
2004 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 04)
2004 TMI-2004 - The 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
2004 Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Speech and Language on Multiword Expressions
2005 2nd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications
2005 Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing IJCNLP 05
2007 Brain and Language (Elsevier)
2009 EACL 2009
2011International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2012 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2013 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2013 PATHOS 2013
2014 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2014 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2016 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2018 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2018 MDPI Computers
2018 Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC)
2019 MDPI Computers
2019 Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
2019 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2019 International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (Qomex)
2020 Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
2020 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
2020 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2021 Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)
2021 16th International Symposium for Information Science (ISI)
2021 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)