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70569 Stuttgart
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Fachgebiet
I am a NLP researcher at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart.
Starting from October 2020, I lead the independent reasearch group E-DELIB, funded by the German Ministry for Educationa nd Research: we are a team of four, and we work at the intersection of NLP, political science and decision making to develop automatic tools to support (digital) direct democracy. If you want to know more, have a look at the project site!
Broadly speaking, I am a computational linguist with a strong interest in the applications of NLP in interdisciplinary settings. My domains of interest are Political Science (i.e., supporting decision making in forums with NLP; capturing the dynamics of political debates based on newspaper reports), cognitive modeling (i.e., prediction of priming or and free associations) and theoretical linguistics (i.e., semantics of morphological derivation). My interest in NLP, however, is not restricted to specific applications; in the course of my PhD project, I have developed a more general, methodological interest on the identification of robust evaluation strategies which ensure a better understanding of the behavior of the parameters involved in the extraction/manipulation of corpus-based representations.
At the IMS, I am a member of the Theoretical Computational Linguistics and Foundations of Computational Linguistics group, and an associate member of the MARDY DFG project. At the University level, I am a member of the board of the Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS). I am also one of the founders and organizers of the working group on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences within the German Society for Computational Linguistics.
Journal Papers
Between welcome culture and border fence: The European refugee crisis in German newspaper reports.
Nico Blokker, Andre Blessing, Erenay Dayanik, Jonas Kuhn, Sebastian Padó and Gabriella Lapesa. Language Resources and Evaluation, 57:121-153, 2023. [url] [abstract] [BibTeX]
Grounding Semantic Transparency In Context: A Distributional Semantic Study on German Event Nominalizations. Rossella Varvara, Gabriella Lapesa and Sebastian Padó (2021). Morphology, 31:409-446, 2021. [url] [BibTeX]
Analysis of Political Debates through Newspaper Reports: Methods and Outcomes. Gabriella Lapesa, Andre Blessing, Nico Blokker, Erenay Dayanik, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn and Sebastian Padó (2020). Datenbank-Spektrum, 20(2). [doi] [BibTeX]
Integrating Manual and Automatic Annotation for the Creation of Discourse Network Data Sets. Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Sebastian Padó, Andre Blessing, Nico Blokker, Erenay Dayanik and Gabriella Lapesa (2020). Politics and Governance, 8(2): 326-339 . [doi] [BibTeX]
Disambiguation of newly derived nominalizations in context: A Distributional Semantics approach. Gabriella Lapesa, Lea Kawaletz, Ingo Plag, Marios Andreou, Max Kisselew, and Sebastian Pado (2018). Word Structure, 11(3), 315-350. [doi] [BibTeX]
A Large Scale Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models: Parameters, Interactions and Model Selection. Gabriella Lapesa, Stefan Evert (2014). Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2, 531-545. [doi] [web appendix]
Proceedings Papers
Political claim identification and categorization in a multilingual setting: First experiments. Urs Zaberer, Sebastian Padó and Gabriella Lapesa. In: Proceedings of KONVENS. Ingolstadt, Germany, 2023. To appear.
Node Placement in Argument Maps: Modeling Unidirectional Relations in High & Low-Resource Scenarios. Iman Jundi, Neele Falk, Eva Maria Vecchi, and Gabriella Lapesa. 2023.In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5854–5876, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics. [url]
StoryARG: a corpus of narratives and personal experiences in argumentative texts. Neele Falk and Gabriella Lapesa. 2023. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2350–2372, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics. [url]
Bridging Argument Quality and Deliberative Quality Annotations with Adapters. Neele Falk and Gabriella Lapesa. 2023. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, pages 2469–2488, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics. [url]
Why Justifications of Claims Matter for Understanding Party Positions. Nico Blokker, Tanise Ceron, André Blessing, Erenay Dayanik, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa and Sebastian Padó (2022). In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis. [url]
Investigating Independence vs. Control: Agenda-Setting in Russian News Coverage on Social Media. Annerose Eichel, Gabriella Lapesa, and Sabine Schulte im Walde. (2022) In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5314–5323, Marseille, France. [url]
Improving Neural Political Statement Classification with Class Hierarchical Information. Erenay Dayanik, Andre Blessing, Nico Blokker, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa and Sebastian Padó (2022). In: Findings of ACL, pages 2367-2382. Dublin, Ireland. [url]
Scaling up Discourse Quality Annotation for Political Science. Neele Falk and Gabriella Lapesa (2022). In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3301–3318, Marseille, France. [url]
How to Translate Your Samples and Choose Your Shots? Analyzing Translate-train & Few-shot Cross-lingual Transfer. Iman Jundi and Gabriella Lapesa (2022). In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 129–150, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics. [url]
Reports of personal experiences and stories in argumentation: datasets and analysis. Neele Falk and Gabriella Lapesa (2022) In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5530–5553, Dublin, Ireland. [url]
Predicting Moderation of Deliberative Arguments: Is Argument Quality the Key? Neele Falk, Iman Jundi, Eva Maria Vecchi and Gabriella Lapesa (2021). In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining, pages 133–141, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. [url]
Towards Argument Mining for Social Good: A Survey. Eva Maria Vecchi, Neele Falk, Iman Jundi, and Gabriella Lapesa (2021) In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1338–1352. [url]
Using Hierarchical Class Structure to Improve Fine-Grained Claim Classification. Erenay Dayanik, Andre Blessing, Nico Blokker, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa and Sebastian Padó (2021)
In: Proceedings of the ACL Workshop of Structured Prediction. Bangkok, Thailand, 2021. [url] [BibTeX]
Regression Analysis of Lexical and Morpho-Syntactic Properties of Kiezdeutsch. Diego Frassinelli, Gabriella Lapesa, Reem Alatrash, Dominik Schlechtweg, and Sabine Schulte im Walde (2021) In: Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects , pages 21-27. [pdf] [BibTeX]
FAST: A carefully sampled and cognitively motivated dataset for distributional semantic evaluation. Stefan Evert and Gabriella Lapesa (2021). In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 588–595, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [url]
Swimming with the Tide? Positional Claim Detection across Political Text Types. Nico Blokker, Erenay Dayanik, Gabriella Lapesa and Sebastian Padó (2020). In: Proceedings of the NLP+CSS workshop, pages 24-34. Online. [doi] [BibTeX]
KLUMSy@KIPoS: Experiments on Part-of-Speech Tagging of Spoken Italian. Thomas Proisl and Gabriella Lapesa (2020). In Proceedings of the 7th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA 2020) [pdf] [BibTeX]
DEbateNet-mig15: Tracing the 2015 Immigration Debate in Germany Over Time. Gabriella Lapesa, Andre Blessing, Nico Blokker, Erenay Dayanik, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn and Sebastian Padó (2020). In: Proceedings of LREC, pages 919-927. Marseille, France. [doi] [BibTeX]
MARDY: An Environment for the Relational Annotation of Political Debates. André Blessing, Nico Blokker, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa and Sebastian Padó (2019). To appear in Proceedings of ACL System Demonstrations, Florence, Italy. [doi] [abstract] [BibTeX]
Integrating lexical-conceptual and distributional semantics: a case report. Tillmann Pross, Antje Rossdeutscher, Gabriella Lapesa, Max Kisselew and Sebastian Padó (2017). Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 75-84. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2017. [doi] [abstract] [BibTeX]
Evaluating and Improving a Derivational Lexicon with Graph-theoretical Methods. Sean Papay, Gabriella Lapesa, and Sebastian Padó (2017). Proceedings of DeriMo 2017. Milan, Italy, October 2017. [doi] [BibTeX]
DErivCelex: Development and Evaluation of a German Derivational Morphology Lexicon based on CELEX. Elnaz Shafaei Bajestan, Diego Frassinelli, Gabriella Lapesa, and Sebastian Padó (2017). Proceedings of DeriMo 2017. Milan, Italy, October 2017. [paper]
Are doggies cuter than dogs? Emotional valence and concreteness in German derivational morphology. Gabriella Lapesa, Sebastian Padó, Tillmann Pross and Antje Rossdeutscher (2017). Proceedings of IWCS. Montpellier, France, September 2017. [paper]
Modeling Derivational Morphology in Ukrainian. Mariia Melymuka, Gabriella Lapesa, Max Kisselew and Sebastian Padó (2017). Proceedings of IWCS. Montpellier, France, September 2017. [paper]
Large-scale evaluation of dependency-based DSMs: Are they worth the effort? Gabriella Lapesa, Stefan Evert (2017). Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). pp 394-400. Valencia, Spain, April 2017 [paper]
SemantiKLUE: Semantic Similarity Using Maximum Weight Matching. Nataliia Plotnikova, Gabriella Lapesa, Thomas Proisl, Stefan Evert (2015). Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015). Denver, Colorado, June 2015. [paper]
Contrasting Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations: Insights from Distributional Semantic Models. Gabriella Lapesa, Stefan Evert, Sabine Schulte im Walde (2014). In Proceedings of the 3rd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM). Dublin, Ireland, August 2014. [paper]
NaDiR: Naive Distributional Response Generation. Gabriella Lapesa, Stefan Evert (2014). In Proceedings of the Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon Workshop (CogALex IV). Dublin, Ireland, August 2014. [paper]
Evaluating Neighbor Rank and Distance Measures as Predictors of Semantic Priming. Gabriella Lapesa, Stefan Evert (2013). In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2013), pp. 66-74. Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. [paper]
LexIt: A Computational Resource on Italian Argument Structure. Alessandro Lenci, Gabriella Lapesa and Giulia Bonansinga (2012). In Proceedings of LREC 2012, pp. 3712-3718. Istanbul, Turkey, 2012. [paper]
Italian Verbs of Manner of Motion at the Syntax-semantic Interface: A Distributional Analysis. Gabriella Lapesa, Alessandro Lenci (2012). Linguistic Evidence. Tuebingen, Germany, February 2012. [paper]
Building an Italian FrameNet through Semi-automatic Corpus Analysis. Alessandro Lenci, Martina Johnson, Gabriella Lapesa (2010). In Proceedings of LREC 2010, pp. 12-19. La Valletta, Malta, May 2010. [paper]
Là dove il Sì suona. Un’analisi parametrica delle sibilanti di Carrara. Massimiliano Barbera, Marlen Barth, Diego Frassinelli, Gabriella Lapesa (2007). In La fonetica sperimentale, metodo e applicazioni. Proceedings of the Fourth national conference of the Italian Association of Speech Sciences, pp. 105-125. Cosenza, Italia, 2007. [paper]
Edited proceedings
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining. Gabriella Lapesa, Jodi Schneider, Yohan Jo, and Sougata Saha (2022). International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Online and in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis (CPSS-2022). Ines Rehbein, Gabriella Lapesa, Christopher Klamm, and Simone Maria Ponzetto (2022). KONVENS, Potsdam, Germany.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP. Ekaterina Vylomova, Elizabeth Salesky, Sabrina Mielke, Gabriella Lapesa, Ritesh Kumar, Harald Hammarström, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen, Roi Reichart, Edoardo Maria Ponti, and Ryan Cotterell (2021) Association for Computational Linguistics, Online.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis (CPSS-2021). Ines Rehbein, Gabriella Lapesa, Goran Glavas, and Simone Maria Ponzetto. KONVENS, Potsdam, Germany.
Peer-reviewed Abstracts
Why (not) vegan? an nlp-based investigation of moral sentiment and storytelling in the vegan discourse. Rebecca Pichler, Neele Falk, and Gabriella Lapesa (2023). In DGfS 2023, Computational Linguistics poster session. Köln.
Difference of first attestation dates as evidence for directionality in zero derivation. Gianina Iordăchioaia, Gabriella Lapesa, Sabrina Meyer and Sebastian Padó (2021). In: Proceedings of the DGfS workshop on the semantics of derivational morphology. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. [BibTeX]
Morpho-Syntactic Properties of Kiezdeutsch: Lexicalized POS Regression Analyses. Diego Frassinelli, Reem Alatrash, Dominik Schlechtweg, Gabriella Lapesa, Sabine Schulte im Walde (2020). Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLAP-2020). Potsdam, Germany. [abstract] [intro]
Supporting Discourse Network Analysis through Machine Learning for Claim Detection and Classification. Sebastian Haunss, Nico Blokker, Sebastian Pado, Jonas Kuhn, Andre Blessing, Gabriella Lapesa and Erenay Dayanik (2019). 4th European Conference on Social Networks, Zurich, Switzerland.
Type disambiguation of English -ment derivatives. Gabriella Lapesa, Lea Kawaletz, Marios Andreou, Max Kisselew, Sebastian Padó, and Ingo Plag (2017). 11th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Nicosia, Cyprus. [poster]
Instance-based disambiguation of English -ment derivatives. Marios Andreou, Lea Kawaletz, Max Kisselew, Gabriella Lapesa, Sebastian Padó, and Ingo Plag (2016). In Proceedings of the conference on cognitive structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Düsseldorf, Germany. [abstract]
Characterizing the pragmatic component of distributional vectors in terms of polarity: Experiments on German über verbs. Gabriella Lapesa, Max Kisselew, Sebastian Padó, Tilmann Pross, Antje Rossdeutscher (2016). ESSLLI DSALT Workshop: Distributional Semantics and Semantic Theory Bolzano, Italy. [abstract]
'Over reference': A comparative study on German prefix verbs. Tilmann Pross, Antje Rossdeutscher, Sebastian Padó, Gabriella Lapesa, Max Kisselew (2016). ESSLLI SemRefPlus Workshop: Referential semantics one step further: Incorporating insights from conceptual and distributional approaches to meaning. Bolzano, Italy. [abstract]
Quantifying regularity in morphological processes: An ongoing study on nominalization in German. Rossella Varvara, Gabriella Lapesa, Sebastian Padó (2016). ESSLLI DSALT Workshop: Distributional Semantics and Semantic Theory. Bolzano, Italy. [abstract]
Judging Paradigmatic Relations: A Collection of Ratings for English. Gabriella Lapesa, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Stefan Evert (2014). Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLAP-2014) Edinburgh, Scotland. [abstract] [poster]
Thematic Roles and Semantic Space. Insights from Distributional Semantic Models. Gabriella Lapesa, Stefan Evert (2013). Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-5) Leuven, Belgium. [abstract] [slides]
Item-based Prediction of Reaction Times in Priming: an Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models. Gabriella Lapesa, Stefan Evert (2013). Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLAP-2013) Marseille, France. [poster]
Modeling Subcategorization through Co-occurrence: A Computational Lexical Resource for Italian Verbs. Gabriella Lapesa, Alessandro Lenci (2011). Explorations in Syntactic Government and Subcategorisation. Cambridge, UK. [abstract] [slides]
Resources
LexIt: a corpus- based resource to explore distributional profiles of Italian nouns, verbs and adjectives, available at http://sesia.humnet.unipi.it/lexit/
DEbateNet-mig15: an annotated dataset for the German immigration debate in 2015 (source: die tageszeitung), available at https://clarin09.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/debatenet/
Dissertations
Parameters, Interactions, and Model Selection in Distributional Semantics [thesis]
PhD in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck (Germany)
Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Evert
Subjects: Distributional Semantics, Evaluation Methodologies, Cognitive Modeling
Starting Where the Dictionaries Stop: a Distributional Resource for the Study of Italian Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface [summary]
MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pisa.
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Lenci
Subjects: Corpus-based Semantics, Subcategorization, Computational Lexicography, Motion Verbs
The Semantic Classification of Proper Nouns in a Text: Linguistic and Computational Issues
BA in Humanities Computing, University of Pisa.
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Lenci
Subjects: Named Entity Recognition, Machine Learning
Regular courses
Argument Mining (seminar)
Summer 2021
University of Stuttgart, MSc in Computational Linguistics
Making sense of the debt discourse with Corpus Linguistics (project seminar)
Summer 2020
University of Stuttgart, MA in Digital Humanities
Propaganda detection in newspaper articles (project seminar)
Summer 2020
University of Stuttgart, MA in Digital Humanities
A Practical Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
Summer 2020, Winter 2019/20, Summer 2019, Winter 2018/2019
University of Göttingen, MA in Linguistics/English studies/German studies
Computerlinguistische Methoden für die Digital Humanities [Introduction to Computational Linguistics for Digital Humanities]
Winter 2019/2020
University of Stuttgart, MA in Digital Humanities
Modeling Morphology with Distributional Semantics
Winter 2018, with Sebastian Pado
University of Stuttgart, BA/MA in Computational Linguistics
Distributional Semantics and Morphology
Winter 2016, with Max Kisselew
University of Stuttgart, BA/MA in Computational Linguistics
Übung zu Grundlagen der Computerlinguistik 2 [Introduction to Computational Linguistics 2 - Exercises]
Summer 2015
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, BA in Corpus Linguistics
Übung zu Grundlagen der Computerlinguistik 1 [Introduction to Computational Linguistics I - Exercises]
Winter 2014
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, BA in Corpus Linguistics
What Does it Mean that Human Language is Context Dependent?
Summer 2012, with Peter Bosch
University of Osnabrück, MA/BA in Cognitive Science
Summer schools
Argument Mining between NLP and Social Sciences
August 2022 with Eva Maria Vecchi (Uni Stuttgart)
33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Hands-on Distributional Semantics for Linguists, using R and Python
August 2022 with Stephanie Evert (FAU Erlangen)
33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Hands-on Distributional Semantics - From first steps to interdisciplinary applications
August 2021 with Stephanie Evert (FAU Erlangen)
32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Hands-on Distributional Semantics - From first steps to interdisciplinary applications
August 2021, with Stefan Evert (FAU Erlangen)
32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Friendly Distributional Semantics: from theory to practice
March 2020 & February 2021, with Diego Frassinelli (Uni Konstanz)
Computational Linguistics tutorial at the 42 and 43 Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
Distributional Semantics August 2019
Balaton Linguistics Summer School 2019.
Before E-DELIB, I have worked in the MARDY project, which brings together Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning and Political Science to model key aspects of the argumentation dynamics in policy debates. Before that, I have worked in the SFB 732 project B9 - Distributional Characterization of Derivation. From October 2014 to September 2015, I have been a member of the Corpus Linguistics Group at the Friderich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. From October 2013 to September 2014 I have been a visiting student at the IMS Stuttgart, where I was part of the Integrated Graduate School of the SFB 732 Incremental Specification in Context and a member of the Distributional Approaches to Semantic Relatedness research group.
My PhD in Cognitive Science, "Parameters, interactions, and model selection in distributional semantics" (University of Osnabrueck) has been supervised by Prof. Stephanie Evert (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg). I hold a BA in Digital Humanities and an MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Pisa.
Doctoral students
Neele Falk, PhD in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (ongoing)
Iman Jundi, PhD in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (ongoing)
Master students
Rebecca Pichler, MA in Digital Humanities, Uni Stuttgart (with Neele Falk)
Storytelling in the vegan discourse (ongoing)
Brandon Sorensen, MSc in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (with Sebastian Padó)
A comparison of cross-lingual learning strategies for Discourse Networks (ongoing)
Deborah Vanessa Schach, MA in Digital Humanities, Uni Stuttgart
Figurative idioms and their domains: a cross-linguistic study (ongoing)
Helen Vernon, MSc in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (with Sabine Schulte im Walde)
Isolation and groupiness in user forums (working title, ongoing)
Maria Camila Buitrago Cabrera, MSc in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (with Sebastian Padó)
Detection of Argument Structure and Referential Denotation in English and Spanish Zero-Nominalizations. A syntactic-semantic approach (2020)
Annerose Eichel, MSc in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (with Sabine Schulte im Walde)
Investigating Independence vs. Control: A Computational Analysis of Complex Manipulation Strategies in Russian Social Media (2020)
Mariia Melymuka, MSc in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (with Max Kisselew and Sebastian Padó)
Improving CDSMs for Derivational Morphology with multisense embeddings (2018)
Elnaz Shafaei Bajestan, MSc in Computational Linguistics, Uni Stuttgart (with Diego Frassinelli and Sebastian Padó)
DErivCelex: Development and Evaluation of a German Derivational Morphology Lexicon based on CELEX (2017)
Steffen Vogel, MA in Cognitive Science, Uni Osnabrueck (with Helmar Gust) Enhanced HAL Word Space Models using WordNet (2016)