Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age: 27th International Conference, GSCL 2017, Berlin, Germany, September 13-14, 2017, Proceedings

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This open access volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th biennial conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2017, which focused on language technologies for the digital age. The 16 full papers and 10 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully selected from 36 submissions. Topics covered include text processing of the German language, online media and online content, semantics and reasoning, sentiment analysis, and semantic web description languages. Front Matter ....Pages I-XIII Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Reconstruction of Separable Particle Verbs in a Corpus of Spoken German (Dolores Batinić, Thomas Schmidt)....Pages 3-10 Detecting Vocal Irony (Felix Burkhardt, Benjamin Weiss, Florian Eyben, Jun Deng, Björn Schuller)....Pages 11-22 The Devil is in the Details: Parsing Unknown German Words (Daniel Dakota)....Pages 23-39 Exploring Ensemble Dependency Parsing to Reduce Manual Annotation Workload (Jessica Sohl, Heike Zinsmeister)....Pages 40-47 Different German and English Coreference Resolution Models for Multi-domain Content Curation Scenarios (Ankit Srivastava, Sabine Weber, Peter Bourgonje, Georg Rehm)....Pages 48-61 Word and Sentence Segmentation in German: Overcoming Idiosyncrasies in the Use of Punctuation in Private Communication (Kyoko Sugisaki)....Pages 62-71 Fine-Grained POS Tagging of German Social Media and Web Texts (Stefan Thater)....Pages 72-80 Developing a Stemmer for German Based on a Comparative Analysis of Publicly Available Stemmers (Leonie Weissweiler, Alexander Fraser)....Pages 81-94 Negation Modeling for German Polarity Classification (Michael Wiegand, Maximilian Wolf, Josef Ruppenhofer)....Pages 95-111 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 NECKAr: A Named Entity Classifier for Wikidata (Johanna Geiß, Andreas Spitz, Michael Gertz)....Pages 115-129 Investigating the Morphological Complexity of German Named Entities: The Case of the GermEval NER Challenge (Bettina Klimek, Markus Ackermann, Amit Kirschenbaum, Sebastian Hellmann)....Pages 130-145 Detecting Named Entities and Relations in German Clinical Reports (Roland Roller, Nils Rethmeier, Philippe Thomas, Marc Hübner, Hans Uszkoreit, Oliver Staeck et al.)....Pages 146-154 In-Memory Distributed Training of Linear-Chain Conditional Random Fields with an Application to Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition (Robert Schwarzenberg, Leonhard Hennig, Holmer Hemsen)....Pages 155-167 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 What Does This Imply? Examining the Impact of Implicitness on the Perception of Hate Speech (Darina Benikova, Michael Wojatzki, Torsten Zesch)....Pages 171-179 Automatic Classification of Abusive Language and Personal Attacks in Various Forms of Online Communication (Peter Bourgonje, Julian Moreno-Schneider, Ankit Srivastava, Georg Rehm)....Pages 180-191 Token Level Code-Switching Detection Using Wikipedia as a Lexical Resource (Daniel Claeser, Dennis Felske, Samantha Kent)....Pages 192-198 How Social Media Text Analysis Can Inform Disaster Management (Sabine Gründer-Fahrer, Antje Schlaf, Sebastian Wustmann)....Pages 199-207 A Comparative Study of Uncertainty Based Active Learning Strategies for General Purpose Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Deep Neural Networks (Nils Haldenwang, Katrin Ihler, Julian Kniephoff, Oliver Vornberger)....Pages 208-215 An Infrastructure for Empowering Internet Users to Handle Fake News and Other Online Media Phenomena (Georg Rehm)....Pages 216-231 Different Types of Automated and Semi-automated Semantic Storytelling: Curation Technologies for Different Sectors (Georg Rehm, Julián Moreno-Schneider, Peter Bourgonje, Ankit Srivastava, Rolf Fricke, Jan Thomsen et al.)....Pages 232-247 Twitter Geolocation Prediction Using Neural Networks (Philippe Thomas, Leonhard Hennig)....Pages 248-255 Front Matter ....Pages 257-257 Diachronic Variation of Temporal Expressions in Scientific Writing Through the Lens of Relative Entropy (Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Jannik Strötgen)....Pages 259-275 A Case Study on the Relevance of the Competence Assumption for Implicature Calculation in Dialogue Systems (Judith Victoria Fischer)....Pages 276-283 Supporting Sustainable Process Documentation (Markus Gärtner, Uli Hahn, Sibylle Hermann)....Pages 284-291 Optimizing Visual Representations in Semantic Multi-modal Models with Dimensionality Reduction, Denoising and Contextual Information (Maximilian Köper, Kim-Anh Nguyen, Sabine Schulte im Walde)....Pages 292-300 Using Argumentative Structure to Grade Persuasive Essays (Andreas Stiegelmayr, Margot Mieskes)....Pages 301-308 Back Matter ....Pages 309-310