Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal
"Human language is a comprehensive and efficient means of communication. We humans are easily able to understand the intended meaning within a context, ignoring a number of ambiguities. What appears to be normal to us is actually a miracle from the viewpoint of language technology. This always becomes particularly clear when you attempt to make an artificial system understand language."
The research of Professor Manfred Pinkal, a computational linguist, provides the foundations for the development of efficient language processing and dialogue systems for the analysis of our present-day language and also important tools for the multimodal information management of the future.
Studying Computational Linguistics
The Computational Linguistics "Diplom" course founded in 1992 by Professor Pinkal and Professor Uszkoreit was replaced in the winter semester of 2003/04 by the Bachelor of Science Computational Linguistics course and the international master's course in Language Science and Technology.
The "Bachelor of Science Computational Linguistics" course, with a recommended duration of six semesters, leads to the nationally and internationally recognized qualification of Bachelor of Science. It combines practical orientation with scientifically based training. It therefore provides a sound basis for an early career in the industry, and also for further qualification for state-of-the-art research assignments.
The international master's program in Language Science and Technology leads to the degree of Master of Science (M.Sc.) in 4 semesters. An active program of basic, applied and cognitive research is combined with state-of-the-art facilities to provide students with a rich and stimulating environment for their research.
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Publications
- Marcus Rohrbach and Michaela Regneri and Mykhaylo Andriluka and Sikandar Amin and Manfred Pinkal and Bernt Schiele Script Data for Attribute-Based Recognition of Composite Activities In: ECCV (1), 2012
- Annemarie Friedrich and Nikos Engonopoulos and Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal A Comparison of Knowledge-based Algorithms for Graded Word Sense Assignment In: COLING (Posters), 2012
- Johannes Hoffart and Mohamed Amir Yosef and Ilaria Bordino and Hagen Fürstenau and Manfred Pinkal and Marc Spaniol and Bilyana Taneva and Stefan Thater and Gerhard Weikum Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text In: EMNLP, 2011
- Michaela Regneri and Alexander Koller and Josef Ruppenhofer and Manfred Pinkal Learning Script Participants from Unlabeled Data In: RANLP, 2011
- Stefan Thater and Hagen Fürstenau and Manfred Pinkal Word Meaning in Context: A Simple and Effective Vector Model In: IJCNLP, 2011
- Stefan Thater and Hagen Fürstenau and Manfred Pinkal Contextualizing Semantic Representations Using Syntactically Enriched Vector Models In: ACL, 2010
- Michaela Regneri and Alexander Koller and Manfred Pinkal Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments In: Proceedings of ACL, 2010
- Josef Ruppenhofer and Jonas Sunde and Manfred Pinkal Generating FrameNets of Various Granularities: The FrameNet Transformer In: LREC, 2010
- Michael Backes and Markus Dürmuth and Sebastian Gerling and Manfred Pinkal and Caroline Sporleder Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Printers In: USENIX Security Symposium, 2010
- Stephan Walter and Manfred Pinkal Definitions in Court Decisions - Automatic Extraction and Ontology Acquisition In: Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web, 2009
- Aljoscha Burchardt and Marco Pennacchiotti and Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal Assessing the impact of frame semantics on textual entailment In: Natural Language Engineering, 2009
- Nadine Perera and Michael Pitz and Manfred Pinkal CLIoS: Cross-lingual Induction of Speech Recognition Grammars In: LREC, 2008
- Tilman Becker and Nate Blaylock and Ciprian Gerstenberger and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová and Andreas Korthauer and Manfred Pinkal and Michael Pitz and Peter Poller and Jan Schehl Natural and Intuitive Multimodal Dialogue for In-Car Applications: The SAMMIE System In: ECAI, 2006
- Christoph Benzmüller and Helmut Horacek and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová and Manfred Pinkal and Jörg H. Siekmann and Magdalena Wolska Natural Language Dialog with a Tutor System for Mathematical Proofs In: Cognitive Systems, 2005
- Stephan Walter and Manfred Pinkal Computational Linguistic Support for Legal Ontology Construction In: ICAIL, 2005
- Katrin Erk and Andrea Kowalski and Sebastian Padó and Manfred Pinkal Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation In: ACL, 2003
- Markus Egg and Manfred Pinkal and James Pustejovsky Editorial In: Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2001
- Manfred Pinkal and Michael Kohlhase Feature Logic for Dotted Types: A Formalism for Complex Word Meanings In: ACL, 2000
- Joachim Niehren and Manfred Pinkal and Peter Ruhrberg A Uniform Approach to Underspecification and Parallelism In: ACL, 1997
- Joachim Niehren and Manfred Pinkal and Peter Ruhrberg On Equality Up-to Constraints over Finite Trees, Context Unification, and One-Step Rewriting In: CADE, 1997
- Karsten Konrad and Holger Maier and David Milward and Manfred Pinkal An Education and Research Tool for Computational Semantics In: COLING, 1996
- Johan Bos and Björn Gambäck and Christian Lieske and Yoshiki Mori and Manfred Pinkal and Karsten L. Worm Compositional Semantics in Verbmobil In: COLING, 1996
- Karsten Konrad and Holger Maier and Manfred Pinkal and David Milward CLEARS - Ein Werkzeug für Ausbildung und Forschung in der Computerlinguistik In: KONVENS, 1996
- Manfred Pinkal On The Syntactic-Semantic Analysis Of Bound Anaphora In: EACL, 1991
- Günther Görz and Christopher Habel and Walther von Hahn and Manfred Pinkal Computerlinguistik als Studienfach - Zur Diskussion gestellt In: Informatik Spektrum, 1990
- Manfred Pinkal Neuere Semantikmodelle für die Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache In: KIFS, 1989
- Manfred Pinkal On the Logical Structure of Comparatives In: Natural Language and Logic, 1989
- - Computerlinguistik und ihre theoretischen Grundlagen, Symposium, Saarbrücken, 9.-11. März 1988, Proceedings In: Computerlinguistik und ihre theoretischen Grundlagen, 1988
- Manfred Pinkal Definite Noun Phrases and the Semantics of Discourse In: COLING, 1986
- Manfred Pinkal Situationssemantic und Diskursrepräsentationstheorie: Einordnung und Anwendungsaspekte In: GWAI, 1985
- Heinz Backes and Manfred Pinkal and Reinhardt Koch Eine PROLOG-basierten natürlich-sprachliche Schnittstelle für Datenbankabfragen In: Software-Ergonomie, 1985
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