Research Groups

• Machine learning esp. deep learning for speech (Prof. Dr. Ngoc Thang Vu)
• Speech recognition and speech synthesis (Prof. Dr. Ngoc Thang Vu)
• Voice privacy (Prof. Dr. Ngoc Thang Vu)
• Fake audio detection (Prof. Dr. Ngoc Thang Vu)
• Human machine interaction systems via language, e.g. dialogue systems, Q&A (Prof. Dr. Ngoc Thang Vu)
• Speech signal analysis (Dr. Wolfgang Wokurek)
• Prosody, phonetic convergence and speech synthesis (Dr. Antje Schweitzer)

• Data-driven and linguistically informed approaches to syntactic and semantic parsing and co-reference resolution (Prof. Dr. Jonas Kuhn)
• Language-technological research infrastructure (Dr. André Blessing, Prof. Dr. Jonas Kuhn)
• Text-analytical methodology in Digital Humanities (Prof. Dr. Jonas Kuhn, Dr. André Blessing, Dr. Melanie Andresen)
• Computational lexical semantics: semantic relations; figurative language (metaphors and multiword expressions); synchronic and diachronic language variation and ambiguity; semantic evaluation and translation (Prof. Dr. Sabine Schulte im Walde and the SemRel Group)
• Lexical semantic change detection, automation of annotation processes (Dr. Dominik Schlechtweg)

• Lexical semantics and semantic processing (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado)
• Multilinguality (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado, Dmitry Nikolaev, Ph.D.)
• Linguistic typology in NLP (Dmitry Nikolaev, Ph.D.)
• Psycholinguistics (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pado)
• Bias and fairness in NLP (Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska)
• Detection and management of harmful language (Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska)
• Linguistic variability and computational modeling (Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska)
• NLP for computational social science (Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska)

• Learning semantic models from text data using machine learning
• Grounding language in vision by learning from multimodal data

• Figurative language: multiword expressions, metaphors and analogies in meaning shifts
• Synchronic and diachronic language variation and ambiguity
• Evaluation and application of lexical-semantic computational models:
  lexicography, machine translation, terminology extraction

Detection of meaning change, automation of annotation processes, probabilistic modeling of word meaning. (Dr. Dominik Schlechtweg)