FEAST

Forum Entwicklung und Anwendung von Sprach-Technologien

FEAST is a series of lunch time talks devoted to all aspects of automatic language and speech processing. The series is open to everybody at the university and affiliated institutions such as DFKI and MPI. It is intended as a forum where researchers can informally present their work and get feedback from colleagues outside their immediate circle of collaborators. It will also provide an overview of the various lines of language and speech research carried out across the campus. We welcome reports on work in progress and hope that the series will foster inter-group discussion and lead to new collaborations.

Next meeting

• Date: 1/18/2012
• Time: 12:00
• Location: Meeting room "Reuse" (-2.17), DFKI Building D 3 2 - (campus map)
• Speaker: Nikolina Koleva
• Title: Ontology-based iterative detection of characters and their recognition in folktales
• Abstract: In this Bachelor thesis I describe the implementation of an iterative approach for the automated detection and recognition of characters in folktale texts. The detection and the recognition of characters in a folktale text deal with the identification and interpretation of specific natural language expressions, which are called referential expressions. My work is concerned with the correct interpretation of indefinite and definite nominal phrases, and the possible co-referential properties between those. In this Bachelor thesis I do not handle pronominal expressions, but this will be the focus on some further work. Folktales are interesting for this task, since they are normally short texts in which normally only few characters play a role in a tale, and so high accuracy can be expected in the detection and recognition of characters. But at the same time, everything is possible in a fairy tale, so that for example frog turns into a prince, making the identity recognition much harder. Family relations in a folktale can also be very complex.

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sponsored by the Cluster of Excellence

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• Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Cluster of Excellence
• Daniel Müller, Coli
• Alexis Palmer, Cluster of Excellence
• Caroline Sporleder, Cluster of Excellence