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
02. October 2024We have our full paper titled "Enhancing Rhetorical Figure Annotation: An Ontology-Based Web Application with RAG Integration" accepted at The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)! The authors are R. Kühn, J. Mitrovic, and M. Granitzer.
02. October 2024The paper titled "Mixture of Modular Experts: Distilling Knowledge from a Multilingual Teacher into Specialized Modular Language Models" by M. Al-Maamari, M. Ben Amor, J. Mitrovic, and M. Granitzer has been accepted at the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2025)!
02. October 2024The paper by C. Fellicious, M. Ben Amor, J. Garstenauer, H. P. Reiser, M. Granitzer, and J. Mitrović titled "MemBERT: Foundation model for memory forensics" has been accepted at the SAC2025!
21. October 2024The OWS.eu repository is now online on Zenodo!
20. October 2024The OSSYM Proceedings and our newest papers within open web search can now be found here.
20. September 2024The OWS.EU Partner in FOCUS: University of Passau and our work in the project. Read more here and in The German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung NKS DIT "Success Stories" Yearbook 2024!
