CAROLL Group
Welcome to the website of University of Passau’s Natural Language Processing (CAROLL) Group! We are a dynamic research group at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics. We focus on Computational Rhetoric techniques applied to Sentiment Analysis, Offensive language modelling and detection, Legal Tech, Argumentation Mining and other areas of NLP.
The project on which this research group is based is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) along with the University of Passau.
News
19. July 2024Our paper, titled "A Dataset of GDPR Compliant NER for Privacy Policies" was accepted for presentation at 6th International Open Search Symposium (#ossym24), 9-11 October 2024.
02. July 2024Our newest paper, "Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating Embedding Model Similarity for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems" will be presented at SIGIR ’24 (July 14–18, 2024, Washington D.C., USA).
02. May 2024Ramona Kühn and Jelena Mitrović's paper, titled "The Elephant in the Room: Ten Challenges of Computational Detection of Rhetorical Figures" was accepted at the Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, in conjunction with NAACL 2024 (June 21, 2024, Mexico City).
03. April 2024Get ready for an epic AI showdown at The Tensor Tournament T3 on May 4th 2024! Registration for the first Bavaria-wide Tensor Tournament is open.
05. March 2024Ramona Kühn presented our work, titled "Status Quo der Entwicklungen von Ontologien Rhetorischer Figuren in Englisch, Deutsch und Serbisch" at Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (26.02 — 01.03.2024, Passau, Germany).
