Christian Pietsch

Since 3 March 2008 I have worked as a researcher at the “Center of Excellence” in Cognitive Interaction Technology. At the same time, I have been a PhD student with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jäger (initially Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Bielefeld University; since summer 2009 Professor of General Linguistics at Tübingen University). Since March 2009, I have also been affiliated with Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kopp's Sociable Agents Group which is where my office is located now.

While my background is in NLG (Natural Language Generation) and unification grammars, I have recently taken an interest in construction grammar, the (short-term) emergence of grammar, logical grammar, data-oriented parsing, latent semantic analyis, corpus linguistics and machine learning.

For facts about my past, please take a look at my old home pages at the Open University where I worked in Donia Scott's NLG group, or at Saarland University where I took a degree called Diplom-Linguist (something like a Master's) in computational linguistics. I grew up in Mühlhausen/Thüringen.

I am a member of the following Special Interest Groups of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): SIGGEN (student Board member 2009–2010), SIGSEM (webmaster since 2007), SIGWAC, and SIGMOL.

As a service to the natural language generation community (and as an experiment with Semantic MediaWiki), I host and maintain the NLG Wiki which currently contains the new version of the Bateman/Zock List of NLG Systems. Please contribute!

In my spare time, I am concerned about digital civil rights. Why? Because I live in a country full of terrorists, or so my government thinks.

Buch, A., and Pietsch, C. (accepted). Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialog Corpora. To be presented at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2010: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. Tübingen, February 2010.
Power, R. and Pietsch, C. (accepted). Editing Medical Data Records with a Natural Language Interface. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM), Singapore, 6–7 December 2007. [.bib]
Burek, G., Pietsch, C. and De Roeck, A. (2007). SVO triple based Latent Semantic Analysis for recognising textual entailment. Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing (WTEP) of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007). 28–29 June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 113–118. [.bib] [.pdf]
Mancini, C., Pietsch, C., and Scott, D. (2007). Visualising Discourse Structure in Interactive Documents. Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG). 17–20 June 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, pp. 89–92. [.bib] [.pdf]
Pietsch, C. (2006). Internet as Corpus. Chapter 10 of: Åhlfeldt, H., Borin, L., Daumke, P., Grabar, N., Hallett, C., Hardcastle, D., Kokkinakis, D., Mancini, C., Markó, K., Merkel, M., Pietsch, C., Power, R., Scott, D., Silvervarg, A., Toporowska Gronostaj, M., Williams, S., Willis, A. (2006). Literature review on patient-friendly documentation systems Technical Report 2006/04. Computing Department, The Open University (ISSN 1744-1986), pp. 92–98. [abstract] [BibTeX entry: .bib ] [BibTeX file with all references: .bib] [.pdf]

Address:

Christian Pietsch
Universität Bielefeld
CITEC
PF 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Germany

Telephone number, email address and room number are listed here.

To bookmark my current homepage, please use this permanent URL: http://purl.org/net/pietsch/. In the EU, young researchers tend to lead a nomadic life.