Sebastian Padó

Professor für Computerlinguistik
Institut für Computerlinguistik
Universität Heidelberg

Research interests

PI, EC FP7 project "EXCITEMENT" -- Exploring Customer Interactions with Textual Entailment (2012-14)
Speaker, Doctoral Research Initiative "Semantics beyond the sentence: Coherence in language processing"
SFB 732, D6: Lexical-semantic factors in event interpretation (Univ. Stuttgart)
AvH TransCoop project: Linguistically adequate empirical representation of word meaning (with University of Texas at Austin, 2011-2013)

Paper accepted for presentation at LREC 2012: A Todirascu, S Pado, M Kisselew, J Krisch, U Heid: French and German corpora for audience-based text type classification.
Paper accepted for presentation at EACL 2012: M Faruqui and S Pado, Towards a model of formal and informal address in English.
Paper accepted for presentation at PROPOR 2012: B. Zeller and S. Pado, Corpus-Based Acquisition of Support Verb Constructions for Portuguese.
Article published in ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing: Y. Peirsman and S. Pado, Semantic Relations in Bilingual Lexicons.
I am Area Co-Chair for Semantics at EACL 2012, together with Alexander Koller.
Paper at the GSCL workshop 'Contrastive Linguistics - Translation Studies - Machine Translation -- what can we learn from each other?': M. Hartung, G. Kremer, S. Pado, S. Riezler, Phrase Table Support for Human Translation (journal version forthcoming).
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