Computational Linguistics (CoLi) is an interdisciplinary field that combines the study of linguistics and computer science to investigate the computational aspects of human language. It focuses on developing and applying computational models and algorithms to analyze, understand, and generate natural language. Digital Humanities  (DH) is an interdisciplinary field that combines traditional humanities disciplines, such as literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and art, with digital technologies and computational methods. It aims to study, interpret, and analyze cultural and historical artifacts using digital tools and methodologies.

Prof. Dr. Annemarie Friedrich

The core research interests of my group are within computational linguistics and natural language processing with a focus on semantics and information extraction from text, i.e, natural language understanding ("Sprachverstehen"). I am particularly interested in annotation and corpus creation, as any machine-learning model depends on the underlying data.

In the machine-learning oriented part of my research, I work on text mining for scientific text, syntactic and semantic parsing, and uncertainty in the context of deep learning for NLP. The corpus-linguistic part of my research has focused on understanding and modeling interactions at the syntax-semantics interface, taking into account influences of discourse and pragmatics. Most of my past research is about the computational modeling of aspect, genericity, and modal verbs.

I am currently the vice president of the German Society for Computational Linguistics (GSCL), the scientific association in the German-speaking countries and regions for research, teaching and professional work in natural language processing. I am a member of the ACL Special Interest Group for Annotation (ACL SIGANN).