Daniel Dahlmeier

PhD. candidate, Dipl.-Inform.

NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering (NGS)
National University of Singapore
28 Medical Drive
Singapore 117456
danielhe AT comp.nus.edu.sg

I am a Ph.D. student at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering at the National University of Singapore. My research interests are in the area of computational linguistics and natural language processing. I am part of the NUS Natural Language Processing Group. My supervisor is Assoc. Prof Ng Hwee Tou

Before moving to Singapore, I studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany (now aka KIT). I wrote my diploma thesis under Prof Tanja Schultz. My thesis was co-supervised by my current supervisor Assoc. Prof Ng Hwee Tou at NUS.

I come from the idyllic little town of Paderborn. I am NOT related to the German coffee roaster company, which has a similar spelling.

Updates

My diploma thesis has been published as a book (you should buy a copy or two...) .
I visited and gave a talk at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in July 2011.
I visited and gave a talk at Macquarie University, Sydney in June 2011.
I received a student travel grant for ACL-HTL 2011 in Portland, Oregon in June 2011.
I received a scholarship to attend the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) in Singapore in June 2011.
I visited and gave a talk at the University of Melbourne in March 2011.

Awards/Achievements

2012 Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award
2011 ACL travel award
2011 Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) scholarship
2011 SoC Research Achievement award
2010 SoC Research Achievement award
2008 NGS Scholarship
2006 Baden-Württemberg-Scholarship
2001 Book award of the German Physical Society (DPG)

Publications

Daniel Dahlmeie, Hwee Tou Ng, and Thanh Phu Tran. 2011. NUS at the HOO 2011 Pilot Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Generation Challenges Session at the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Daniel Dahlmeier. 2011. The Use of Preposition Sense in Semantic Argument Classification: An Empirical Investigation. LAP LAMPERT Academic Publishing. Amazon.de
Daniel Dahlmeier, Chang Liu, and Hwee Tou Ng. 2010. TESLA at WMT 2011: Translation Evaluation and Tunable Metric. In Proceedings of the EMNLP 2011 Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation PDF
Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng. 2011. Correcting Semantic Collocation Errors with L1-induced Paraphrases. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2011) PDF
Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng. 2011. Better Evaluation Metrics Lead to Better Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2011) PDF
Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng. 2011. Grammatical Error Correction with Alternating Structure Optimization. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT-2011) PDF
Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng. 2010. PEM: A Paraphrase Evaluation Metric Exploiting Parallel Texts. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2010) PDF
Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng. 2010. TESLA: Translation Evaluation of Sentences with Linear-Programming-Based Analysis. In Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR PDF
Daniel Dahlmeier and Hwee Tou Ng. 2010. Domain Adaptation for Semantic Role Labeling in the Biomedical Domain. Bioinformatics (26) 1091-1097
Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng and Tanja Schultz. 2009. Joint Learning of Preposition Senses and Semantic Roles of Prepositional Phrases. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2009) PDF
Florian Kerschbaum, Daniel Dahlmeier, Axel Schröpfer, Debmalya Biswas. 2009. On the Practical Importance of Communication Complexity for Secure Multi-Party Computation Protocols. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACL-SAC). PDF

NLP Software and Resources

The NUS corpus of Learner English (NUCLE) is a one million words corpus of EFL essays written by university students at the National University of Singapore. It is completely annotated with error tags and corrections. You can find it in the corpora section on our research group's website.

We have released TESLA and TESLA-M, our machine translation evaluations metrics submitted to WMT10. You can find it in the software section on our research group's website.

I have released BioKIT, a semantic role labeling system with domain adaptation for biomedical text. The experiments with this system are described in our Bioinformatics paper. You can find the software in the software section on our research group's website.

I have released the preposition sense data set from my EMNLP09 paper. You can find it in the corpora section on our research group's website.

Professional Memberships and Services

I served on the program committee of the Symposium on Learning Language Models from Multilingual Corpora (LLMMC).

I am a reviewer for Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Language Resources and Evaluation, and Natural Language Engineering.

I have been reviewing for WAC5 and CoNLL, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP.

I am student member of the ACL and a member of ISCB.

My CV

Here is a pdf version of my (pretty outdated) CV. Last updated in August 2008.