User:Strube

Michael Strube leads the NLP group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and is "Honorarprofessor" in the Computational Linguistics Department at the University of Heidelberg. He received a M.A. in German Language and Literature from the University of Freiburg in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from the same university in 1996. Before joining HITS he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

His research interests focus on questions related to processing, understanding and generating discourse. He works on coreference resolution with a particular focus on appropriate representations for the task. He develops models of local coherence, most recently an unsupervised, graph-based version of the entity grid with applications in text generation, assessing readability and automatic summarization. He is also interested in word sense disambiguation and its relations to discourse processing.

Together with his former Ph.D. student Simone Paolo Ponzetto he received the Honorable Mention for the 2010 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize for their work on knowledge extraction from Wikipedia. With colleagues from the University of Mannheim he received the best paper award at IJCNLP 2011 for work on sentiment analysis. He serves as program chair for ACL-IJCNLP in 2015.