Natural Language Processing

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) working group focuses on understanding human language with computers, and we develop methods for extracting knowledge from text with statistical methods. One of our main interests are deep learning methods, and we combine them with linguistic knowledge and knowledge about the world (which can be expressed in knowledge graphs).

• Benjamin Roth (Google Scholar) (full professor)
• Sebastian Schuster (assistant professor)
• Michael Wiegand (senior scientist)
• Leonardo Bergmann (doctoral researcher)
• Sarah Breckner (doctoral researcher)
• Nurcan Cakan (administrative assistant)
• Nicholas Edwards (doctoral researcher))
• Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo (postdoctoral researcher)
• Pingjun Hong (doctoral researcher))
• Timour Igamberdiev (postdoctoral researcher)
• Vanja Karan (postdoctoral researcher)
• Vasiliki Kougia (doctoral researcher)
• Loris Schoenegger (doctoral researcher)
• Anastasiia Sedova (doctoral researcher)
• Lukas Thoma (doctoral researcher and technician)
• Marie-Léontine Wörgötter (doctoral researcher)
• Xia Yuxi (doctoral researcher)

• Andreas Baumann (now assistant professor for Digital Linguistics)
• Terra Blevins (now assistant professor at Northeastern University)
• Erion Çano (now Postdoc at Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Luisa März (now Teamlead AI Experts at Volkswagen)
• Andreas Stephan (now Tech Lead at LDA Legal Data Analytics GmbH)

The NLP group offers practicals (Praktikum 1, Praktikum 2, Data Science Project, and others) and thesis topics (Bachelor, Master) for several study programs (Computer Science, Data Science, Digital Humanities, and others).

Please contact us as early as possible, if you think you might want to do a project or thesis in the area of Machine Learning for NLP. (The earlier, the better the topical fit. E.g., you could contact us even at the beginning of your Master studies about a potential thesis, without any commitment, of course.)

You can contact us by email (benjamin.roth -at- univie.ac.at, sebastian.schuster -at- univie.ac.at), please include the following information:

• up-to-date transcript of records
• Whether you
  • are generally interested in Machine Learning for NLP and Knowledge Graphs (no particular topic in mind)
  • or, have own ideas for a topic, or an interest in a specific problem in ML / NLP / KGs
  • or, are interested in one of our open topics (more details on Moodle). To see the topics on the Moodle page, you need to be logged in to Moodle with your u:account, and add yourself (click "Einschreiben") to the linked Moodle course.

You can also join Benjamin Roth's virtual coffee sessions (link), Tuesdays, 2pm