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.
Get 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).
21. February 2024Ramona Kühn's paper, titled "Using Pre-Trained Language Models in an End-to-End Pipeline for Antithesis Detection" is accepted at LREC-COLING 2024 (20-25 May, 2024, Torino, Italy).
16. January 2024Sathish Purushothaman's paper, titled "A Framework for Studying Communication Pathways in Machine Learning-Based Agent-to-Agent Communication" is accepted at 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART, 24-26 February 2024, Italy).
27. November 2023Khouloud Saadi's paper, titled "Intra-Class Similarity-Guided Feature Distillation" is accepted at The third NeurIPS workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP, 16.12.2023, New orleans).