Sebastian Padó

Professor für Computerlinguistik Institut für Computerlinguistik Universität Heidelberg   Research interests Lexical acquisition Representation of word and phrase meaning Applications of lexical-semantic knowledge Cross-lingual linguistic analysis

Projects

• 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)

Current

• Paper accepted for oral presentation at *SEM 2012: G. Boleda, S. Pado, J. Utt. Word senses beyond words: A distributional model.
• Paper accepted for oral presentation at CMCL 2012: A. Zarcone, J. Utt, S. Pado: Modeling covert event retrieval in logical metonymy: probabilistic and distributional accounts.
• Article accepted by "Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition": G. Kremer, M. Hartung, S. Pado, S. Riezler: Statistical Machine Translation Support Improves Human Adjective Translation.
• Paper accepted for oral presentation at CogSci 2012: A. Zarcone, A. Lenci, S. Pado: Inferring covert events in logical metonymies: a probe recognition experiment
• Paper accepted for oral presentation at ESWC 2012: I. Augenstein, S. Pado and S. Rudolph: LODifier: Generating Linked Data from Unstructured Text.
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