TTLab – Text Technology Lab

The TTLab (Text Technology Lab), headed by Prof. Alexander Mehler, is part of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics (Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik) at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. It investigates formal, algorithmic models to deepen our understanding of information processing in the humanities. We examine diachronic, time-dependent as well as synchronic aspects of processing linguistic and non-linguistic, multimodal signs. The Lab works across several disciplines to bridge between computer science on the one hand and corpus-based research in the humanities on the other. To this end, we develop information models and algorithms for the analysis of texts, images, and other objects relevant to research in the humanities.

News

  • Two publications accepted at IJCNLP-AACL

    by

    Giuseppe Abrami

    The following publications were accepted at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL):

    Leon Hammerla, Alexander Mehler and Giuseppe Abrami. 2025. Standardizing Heterogeneous Corpora with DUUR: A Dual Data- and Process-Oriented Approach to Enhancing NLP Pipeline Integration. Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings). accepted.
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{Hammerla:et:al:2025a,
  author    = {Hammerla, Leon and Mehler, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe},
  title     = {Standardizing Heterogeneous Corpora with DUUR: A Dual Data- and
               Process-Oriented Approach to Enhancing NLP Pipeline Integration},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural
               Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association
               for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings)},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {accepted}
}
    Leon Hammerla, Andy Lücking, Carolin Reinert and Alexander Mehler. 2025. D-Neg: Syntax-Aware Graph Reasoning for Negation Detection. Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings). accepted.
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{Hammerla:et:al:2025b,
  author    = {Hammerla, Leon and Lücking, Andy and Reinert, Carolin and Mehler, Alexander},
  title     = {D-Neg: Syntax-Aware Graph Reasoning for Negation Detection},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2025 International Joint Conference on Natural
               Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association
               for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL-Findings)},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {accepted}
}

  • New EMNLP 2025 publication accepted

    by

    Giuseppe Abrami

    The publication MedLinkDE — MedDRA Entity Linking for German with Guided Chain of Thought Reasoning was accepted at the EMNLP 2025.

    Roman Christof, Farnaz Zeidi, Manuela Messelhäußer, Dirk Mentzer, Renate Koenig, Liam Childs and Alexander Mehler. 2025. MedLinkDE – MedDRA Entity Linking for German with Guided Chain of Thought Reasoning. Proceedings of 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). accepted.
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{Christof:et:al:2025,
  author    = {Christof, Roman and Zeidi, Farnaz and Messelhäußer, Manuela and Mentzer, Dirk
               and Koenig, Renate and Childs, Liam and Mehler, Alexander},
  title     = {{MedLinkDE -- MedDRA Entity Linking for German with Guided Chain
               of Thought Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
               Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {accepted}
}

  • Invited Talk

    by

    Andy Lücking

    Andy Lücking has been invited to give a talk at the joint MMSR/ISA workshop as part of the international conference on Computational Semantics.

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