Simon Ostermann
Personal Data
Place and Date of Birth: Neunkirchen/Saar | 28.08.1992 Address: Building C 7.4, room 3.17, Saarland University Phone: +49 (0)681 302 70033 Mail: [email protected]
Education
September 2015 - present PhD Student in the Collaborative Research Center (“Sonderforschungsbereich”) SFB-1002 on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, Project A3 Superviosr: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal Saarland University, Saarbrücken
October 2013 - August 2015 Master of Science in Language Science and Technology Saarland University, Saarbrücken Grade: 1.3 Thesis: “Exploring the Role of Textual Entailment for Short-Answer Scoring” Advisors: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal, Dr. Michael Roth
March 2015 - August 2015 Visiting Postgraduate Research Student, Exchange Semester The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
October 2013 Bachelor of Science in Computational Linguistics Saarland University, Saarbrücken Grade: 1.2 (with distinction) Thesis: “The Applicability of Active Learning for Language-Learner Corpora” Advisors: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal, Dr. Alexis M. Palmer
2010 Abitur (german A-levels) Arnold-Janssen-Gymnasium St. Wendel Grade: 1.6 Work Experience
September 2015 - present Researcher at Collaborative Research Center SFB-1002 Project A3, Saarland University
2013 - 2015 Research Assistant at Computational Linguistics Department Group Pinkal, Saarland University
2011 - 2013 Research Assistant at “Allegro” Projekt Saarland University
11/2012 - 10/2013 Working Student at SemVox GmbH Saarbrücken
09/2012 - 10/2013 Internship at SemVox GmbH Saarbrücken
10/2014 - 04/2015 Teaching Assistant (“Tutor”) and for lecture “Einführung in die Computerlinguistik” 10/2013 - 04/2014 Saarland University
Scholarships and Certificates
Nov. 2013 Fellow of “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” (German National Aca- demic Foundation)
2010 “Lions Abiturpreis” (A-levels award, subject Latin)
2010 “Pater-Kappes-Abiturpreis” (A-levels award, subject music)
2007/2008 “Bundeswettbewerb Fremdsprachen” in English and Latin, 3rd place and Cer- tificate of Appreciation
Languages
English: Fluent in Reading, Speaking and Writing (UniCert level C1/C2, IELTS Score 8.5) German: native French: basic knowledge Latin: advanced knowledge Japanese: basic knowledge, 1 semester Programming Skills
Java Perl Python HTML
Publications
2016: • Ashutosh Modi, Tatjana Anikina, Simon Ostermann and Manfred Pinkal: InScript: Narra- tive texts annotated with script information. In: Proceedings of the Tenth Interna- tional Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). 2015: • Simon Ostermann, Andrea Horbach, Manfred Pinkal: Annotating Entailment Relations for Shortanswer Questions. NLP-TEA 2015. 2014: • Nikolina Koleva, Andrea Horbach, Alexis Palmer, Simon Ostermann and Manfred Pinkal: Paraphrase Detection for Short Answer Scoring. In: Proceedings of the third work- shop on NLP for computer-assisted language learning at SLTC 2014 , Uppsala, Sweden, November 2014. • Simon Ostermann, Nikolina Koleva, Alexis Palmer, Andrea Horbach: CSGS: Adapting a short answer scroing system for multiple-choice reading comprehension exercises. In CLEF 2014: Working notes for QA Track - CLEF Question Answering Track: Entrance Exams, Sheffield, United Kingdom, September 2014. 2013: • U. Schäfer, F. Arnold, S. Ostermann, S. Reifers: Ingredients and Recipe for a Robust Mobile Speech-enabled Cooking Assistant for German. In KI 2013: Advances in Artificial In- telligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) no. 8077, pages 212-223. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, September 2013.
Other Projects
• Kochbot, a mobile kitchen aid. (http://www.kochbot.de) student project in cooperation with DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Personal Interests and Activities
Music (guitar, piano and singing), Band Reading Fitness sports, running References
Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schäfer Saarland University University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden Advisor Technical advisor for “Kochbot” and research group leader [email protected] [email protected]
Dr. Alexis M. Palmer Dr. Norbert Pfleger Heidelberg University SemVox GmbH, Saarbrücken BSc thesis advisor Employer [email protected] [email protected]
Dr. Michael Roth Saarland University & UIUC MSc thesis advisor [email protected]