Yannick Versley

I am a member of the project A3 (``Disambiguation of discourse connectors with corpus-induced semantic relations'') in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 833 ``Emergence of Meaning'':

SFB 833 ``Bedeutungskonstitution''
Nauklerstr. 35
72074 Tübingen
Germany

where you can find me in room 2.07 or reach me at telephone number +49 (7071) 29 77155.

You can reach me at my email address,

I am interested in the question how the knowledge we have of the entities we talk about influences the way we talk about them, more specifically, what part of the whole "world knowledge" does actually influence the (syntactic and discourse) structure of our language (and how?). By extension, or sometimes as an interest of its own, I'm interested in techniques that allow the efficient construction of performant, interpretable, and accurate components for computational text understanding -- preferably without the effort that precludes anyone but a few big companies from using it.

Right now, I am working on improving resolution of nominal anaphora, eventually to further the state of the art by including automatically acquired semantic information from a large corpus. Did I mention that I work on/with German language data?

I reviewed papers/articles for RANLP (2005), the ESSLLI Student session (2006, 2007), a journal issue containing selected papers from Konvens'06, for the CoNLL shared task on Dependency Parsing (2007) as well as ACL (2008,2009) and TLT (2008).

After living for a whole year with a nice-but-not-really-cool homepage that used a table-based layout, I decided to beautify this by adapting a nice professional looking layout from the Open-source Web Design page. The original layout was called terrafirma ; I have changed the colors to match my graphics and changed the plant image to a view of Tübingen (near Stiftskirche) which I made in January 2006.

I still don't have the time to make a really beautiful page, so watch this space for better excuses (like: aliens from Omicron Persei VIII stole my computer mouse to use it as a remote control).

Conference and Workshop papers.

Versley, Y. and Rehbein, I. (2009)
Scalable Discriminative Parsing for German. International Conference on Parsing Technology (IWPT'09). [pdf]

Versley, Y. (2009)
Vagueness and Referential Ambiguity in a Large-scale Annotated Corpus. Massimo Poesio and Ron Artstein (eds.): Ambiguity in Anaphora. Special Issue of the Journal on Research in Language and Computation. [SpringerLink] [preprint pdf]

Versley, Y. (2008)
Decorrelation and Shallow Semantic Patterns for Distributional Clustering of Nouns and Verbs. ESSLLI'08 Workshop on Distributional Lexical Semantics. [pdf]

Versley, Y., Moschitti, A., Poesio, M. and Yang, X. (2008)
Coreference Systems based on Kernel Methods. Coling 2008. [pdf]

Versley, Y., Ponzetto, S.P., Poesio, M., Eidelman, V., Jern, A., Smith, J., Yang, X., Moschitti, A. (2008)
BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution. LREC 2008. [pdf]

Versley, Y., Ponzetto, S.P., Poesio, M., Eidelman, V., Jern, A., Smith, J., Yang, X., Moschitti, A. (2008)
BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution. ACL 2008 System demo. [pdf]

Versley, Y. (2007)
Antecedent Selection Techniques for High-Recall Coreference Resolution EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. [pdf]

Versley, Y. (2007)
Using the Web to Resolve Coreferent Bridging in German Newspaper Text GLDV-Frühjahrstagung 2007. [pdf]

Versley, Y. and Zinsmeister, H. (2006)
From Surface Dependencies towards Deeper Semantic Representations Fifth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2006) . Due to technical issues, the title in the conference proceedings has been changed to "Semantic Representations" [pdf]

Versley, Y. (2006)
A Constraint-based Approach to Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution in German Newspaper Text Konferenz zur Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2006). [pdf]

Versley, Y. (2006)
Disagreement Dissected: Vagueness as a Source of Ambiguity in Nominal (Co-)Reference ESSLLI 2006 Workshop on Ambiguity in Anaphora . [pdf]

Versley, Y. (2005)
Parser Evaluation across Text Types Fourth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2005) . [pdf] [pdf (slides)]

Schilder, F., Versley, Y., and Habel, Ch. (2004)
Extracting spatial information: grounding, classifying and linking spatial expressions. Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference. [pdf]

My diploma thesis.

Yannick Versley (2004)
Tagging kausaler Relationen. Diplomarbeit. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg
[pdf]
Updated version available as: Tagging kausaler Relationen: Grundlagen kausaler Ereignisrelationen und aktuelle Probleme; VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. ISBN 978-3-8364-3259-7