Thomas Bögel

About

PhD student and researcher at the Institute of Computer science at Heidelberg University in the Database Systems Research group, supervised by Prof. Dr. Michael Gertz. I am currently working on temporal relation extraction for narrative texts as a member of the heureCLÉA project and quotation attribution.

I studied Computational Linguistics at the Institute of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University and worked as a research assistant at the Computational Linguistics research group, supervised by Prof. Dr. Anette Frank.

Fingerprint: 83C5 144D 1FFA FDAE 4A07 B119 37C3 6335 490A 19D1
Mail: thomas.boegel (at) informatik (dot) uni-heidelberg (dot) de

Website: http://thboegel.de

News

Jan12, 2016:
More news can be found on my new website! 

Aug 22, 2015:
Bilingual version of tiwoli for iOS released!
Now you can check on your iPhone what happened today in German and English literature. The new, bilingual version of Tiwoli (today in world literature) is now available in the App Store!

Research Interests

  • Digital Humanities
  • Topic detection & tracking
  • Story linking
  • Quotation extraction & attribution
  • Cross-document coreference resolution/entity linking
  • Joint inference methods for fact consolidation

Publications

2015

  • Thomas Bögel and Michael Gertz.
    Did I Really Say That? – Combining Machine Learning & Dependency Relations to extract Statements from German News Articles.
    International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL-2015). University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. [pdf]

  • Thomas Bögel, Jannik Strötgen and Michael Gertz.
    A Hybrid Approach to Extract Temporal Signals from Narratives.
    International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL-2015). University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. [pdf]

  • Thomas Bögel, Michael Gertz, Evelyn Gius, Janina Jacke, Jan Christoph Meister, Marco Petris and Jannik Strötgen.
    Collaborative Text Annotation Meets Machine Learning: heureCLÉA, a Digital Heuristic of Narrative.
    In: R. Cordell, I. Galina and L. Romary (eds.): DHCommons journal. Vol. 1, July 2015. [url]

  • Thomas Bögel and Michael Gertz.
    Time will Tell: Temporal Linking of News Stories.
    Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2015 (JCDL 2015). Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. [pdf] [acm]

  • Evelyn Gius, Janina Jacke, Jan-Christoph Meister, Thomas Bögel, and Jannik Strötgen.
    Beyond Pragmatics: Disciplinary Profits of Interdisciplinary Approaches.
    DH 2015: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Sydney, Australia.
    [pdf]

  • Thomas Bögel, Marco Petris, Jannik Strötgen, and Michael Gertz.
    An End-to-End Integration of Automatic Annotations into CATMA.
    Extended abstract for poster presentation.
    DHd 2015: Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum. Graz, Austria, February 23-27, 2015. [pdf]

  • Thomas Bögel, Michael Gertz, Evelyn Gius, Janina Jacke, Jan Christoph Meister, Marco Petris and Jannik Strötgen.
    Gleiche Textdaten, unterschiedliche Erkenntnisziele? Zum Potential vermeintlich widersprüchlicher Zugänge zu Textanalyse.
    Extended abstract for presentation.
    DHd 2015: 2. Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, Graz, Austria. [pdf]

  • Andreas Spitz, Jannik Strötgen, Thomas Bögel, and Michael Gertz.
    Terms in Time and Times in Context: A Graph-based Term-Time Ranking Model.
    Temporal Web Analytics Workshop. Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015 [pdf]
2014
  • Thomas Bögel, Jannik Strötgen, and Michael Gertz.
    Computational Narratology: Extracting Tense Clusters from Narrative Texts.
    9th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'14), Reykjavic, Iceland, May 21-31, 2014. [pdf] [poster]

  • Jannik Strötgen, Thomas Bögel, Julian Zell, Ayser Armiti, Tran Van Canh, and Michael Gertz.
    Extending HeidelTime for Temporal Expressions Referring to Historic Dates.
    9th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'14), Reykjavic, Iceland, May 21-31, 2014. [pdf] [poster]
2013
  • Thomas Bögel and Anette Frank.
    A Joint Inference Architecture for Global Coreference Clustering with Anaphoricity.     In: I. Gurevych, C. Biemann and T. Zesch (eds.): Language Processing and Knowledge in the Web, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference, GSCL 2013, Darmstadt, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8105, Springer. [ pdf ] [ springer ]
  • Thomas Bögel: A Joint Inference Architecture for Global Coreference Clustering with Anaphoricity. Master's thesis, 2013. [pdf]
2012
  • Anette Frank, Thomas Bögel, Oliver Hellwig and Nils Reiter.
    Semantic Annotation for the Digital Humanities - Using Markov Logic Networks for Annotation Consistency Control. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 7, 2012. [pdf]

Teaching

Summer term 2015
  • Seminar "Event Detection"
  • Software practical for Advanced Students
Summer term 2014
  • Seminar "Recommender Systems"
  • Software practical for Advanced Students
Winter term 2013/2014
  • Seminar "Social Network Data Analytics"
Summer term 2013
  • Lecture "Advanced object-oriented programming in Java" (Institute of Computational Linguistics)

Posters & Talks

  • Thomas Bögel, Michael Gertz, Evelyn Gius, Janina Jacke, Jan Christoph Meister, Marco Petris and Jannik Strötgen.
    Speaker: Thomas Bögel & Janina Jacke
    Gleiche Textdaten, unterschiedliche Erkenntnisziele? Zum Potential vermeintlich widersprüchlicher Zugänge zu Textanalyse. [slides]
    DHd 2015: 2. Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, Graz, Austria.

  • Janina Jacke, Jan Christoph Meister, Evelyn Gius, Marco Petris, Michael Gertz, Jannik Strötgen and Thomas Bögel (2015):
    heureCLÉA. Digitale Heuristik zur Unterstützung geisteswissenschaftlicher MarkUps
    Digital Humanities Summit (DH-Summit 2015), Berlin, Germany.

  • Thomas Bögel, Marco Petris, Jannik Strötgen and Michael Gertz (2015):
    An End-To-End Integration of Automatic Annotations into CATMA.
    2. Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2015), Graz, Austria. [pdf]

  • Thomas Bögel, Jannik Strötgen, Christoph Mayer and Michael Gertz (2014):
    A Flexible NLP Pipeline for Computational Narratology
    1. Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2014), Passau, Germany. [pdf]

  • Jannik Strötgen, Thomas Bögel and Michael Gertz (2013):
    Annotating Temporal Phenomena in Literary Text in the Context of the heureCLÉA Project.
    Herrenhausen Conference on the Humanities in the Digital Age, Hannover, Germany. [pdf]

    Other activities

    Short CV

    The extended version of my CV can be found here.

    Education 

    • 07/2013: Master of Arts
      Computational Linguistics (research track)
      Title of my MA thesis: A Joint Inference Architecture for Global Coreference Clustering with Anaphoricity.
      Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank

    • 09/2011 - 07/2013: Heidelberg University: M.A. Computational Linguistics

    • 07/2011: Bachelor of Arts (with distinction)
      Major: Computational Linguistics, Minor: English Linguistics.
      Title of my BA thesis: Entity-based Coreference Resolution combined with Discourse-New Detection. [pdf]
      Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank

    • 10/2008 - 07/2011: Heidelberg University: B.A. Computational Linguistics and English Linguistics

    Employment 

    • since 07/2013: Institute of Computer Science, Heidelberg University. Research assistant at the Database Systems Research group, supervised by Prof. Dr. Michael Gertz.

    • 10/2012 - 07/2013: Institute for Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University. Research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Computational Linguistics research group, supervised by Prof. Dr. Anette Frank.

    • 02/2011 - 09/2012: Institute for Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University. Student research assistant at the project Ritualdynamik.

    • 08/2010 - 02/2011: NLP group - HITS gGmbH Heidelberg. Student research assistant. Topic: "Document Understanding" (summarization).

    • 03/2009 - 06/2012: Department for German philology, Heidelberg University. Student research assistant at the project Heidelberger Korpus.