A4: Bedeutungsvergleich im Kontext: Komponenten einer flachen semantischen Analyse
CoMiC – Comparing Meaning in Context.

Zusammenfassung:
Motiviert durch die generelle Frage, wie Bedeutungsvergleiche auch in
realistischen Situationen erfolgen können, in denen nicht wohlgeformte
Sprache oder Unterschiede im situativen Wissen oder Weltwissen eine
vollständige Analyse erschweren oder unmöglich machen, untersucht das
Projekt, welche linguistischen Repräsentationen für einen
computerlinguistischen Vergleich der Bedeutung von Sätzen und
Textfragmenten effektiv und robust zu verwenden sind und für welche
Aufgaben und Kontexte sich solche Vergleiche mit einer flachen
semantischen Analyse berechnen lassen.
Forschungsgruppe
- Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers (Projektleiter)
- Niels Ott, M.A. (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
- Ramon Ziai, M.A. (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
- Janina Kopp (Hilfskraft)
- Julia Krivanek (Hilfskraft)
- Michael Hahn (Hilfskraft)
- Philip Schulz (Hilfskraft)
Software-Ressourcen
Projektantrag
Projekt-relevante Veröffentlichungen
- Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott and Janina Kopp (2011): "Evaluating Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions in Context: Results for German and the Role of Information Structure". Proceedings of the TextInfer 2011 Workshop on Textual Entailment at EMNLP, Edinburgh.
- Michael Hahn and Detmar Meurers (2011): "On deriving semantic representations from dependencies: A practical approach for evaluating meaning in learner corpora". Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011), Barcelona.
- Julia Krivanek and Detmar Meurers (2011): "Comparing Rule-Based and Data-Driven Dependency Parsing of Learner Language". Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011), Barcelona.
- Detmar Meurers, Niels Ott, and Ramon Ziai (submitted) "Creation and Analysis of a Reading Comprehension Exercise Corpus: Towards Evaluating Meaning in Context". Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner (Eds.), Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis. Benjamins.
- Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott, and Stacey Bailey: “Integrating Parallel Analysis Modules to Evaluate the Meaning of Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions” Special Issue on Free-text Automatic Evaluation. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL). Vol. 21, No 4, 355-369.
- Niels Ott and Ramon Ziai: Evaluating dependency parsing performance on German learner language. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT9),
- Detmar Meurers, Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai: “Compiling a Task-Based Corpus for the Analysis of Learner Language in Context”. Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2010.
- Stacey Bailey and Detmar Meurers: “Diagnosing Meaning Errors in Short Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions”. In Proceedings of the Third ACL Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Association for Computational Linguistics. 107-115. 2008.
- Bailey, Stacey. 2008. “Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language.” Ph.D. thesis, The Ohio State University.
Projekt-relevante Vorträge
- Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott, Detmar Meurers: Evaluating Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions in Context. Poster at the 2012 Annual Conference of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Detmar Meurers: Comparing Meaning in Context (CoMiC). Université Paris 7, UFR d'Études Anglophone. March 25, 2011
- Detmar Meurers, Niels Ott, Ramon Ziai: On the Creation and Analysis of a Reading Comprehension Exercise Corpus: Evaluating Meaning in Context Talk given at the Workshop on Learner Corpora and Corpora for Learners , held at the conference on "Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies", Hamburg, 7. Oct. 2010.
- Detmar Meurers: Compiling a Task-Based Corpus for the Analysis of Learner Language in Context Pre-Conference Workshop on Learner Corpora at ALOES 2010. Online via EVO at Paris, March 25, 2010
- Detmar Meurers: How about Meaning in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning? CALICO-09 Panel on Successes and Challenges of ICALL for Learning, Teaching and Research. 12. March 2009. Tempe, Arizona.
- Detmar Meurers: Diagnosing meaning errors in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Seminaire Traitement Automatique des Langues et des Connaissances. LORIA, Nancy, Frankreich. 29. January 2009.
- Detmar Meurers: Diagnosing meaning errors in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Computational Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the International Post-Graduate College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems. Saarbrücken. 20. November 2008

