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.
Our paper titled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Can German Wiktionary and Wordnets Facilitate the Detection of Antithesis?" has been accepted at the Global Wordnet Conference (GWC).
01. December 2022Ramona Kühn presented her current work at the event KI Campus Ostbayern: AI-Talk for PhDs and doctoral candidates, she also helped with organizing.
24. October 2022Our paper titled "Towards A Unified Multilingual Ontology For Rhetorical Figures" has been presented at the KEOD conference in Valletta
11. October 2022Jelena Mitrović presented the paper "Open Web Search for AI and NLP in Europe" at the OSSYM symposium (CERN, Geneva)
22. September 2022The OpenWebSearch.eu project officially kicked off in Berlin!