maria becker - heidelberg university
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MariaBecker
InstituteforComputationalLinguistics,
HeidelbergUniversity(Germany)
DFGPriorityProgram„RobustArgumentationMachines“
LeibnizScienceCampusforEmpiricalLinguistics&
ComputationalLanguageModeling
voice +49622154-3085 email [email protected]
web www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/~mbecker
Education
Since04/2016 PhDstudent,HeidelbergUniversity,DepartmentofComputa-
tionalLinguistics
Topic:KnowledgeAcquisitionforArgumentAnalysis:Automatic
ReconstructionofImplicitKnowledgeinArgumentativeTexts.
Supervisors:Prof.Dr.AnetteFrank,Dr.ViviNastase
10/2012–03/2015 MasterinGermanLinguistics(major)andPhilosophy(minor),
HeidelbergUniversity,Germany(withdistinction)
08/2012–01/2015 MasterinLanguage&Communication(major)andPsychology
(minor),UniversityofMannheim,Germany(withdistinction)
10/2008–07/2012 BachelorinGermanPhilology(major)andPhilosophy(major),
HeidelbergUniversity,Germany
WorkingExperience
04/2015–03/2016 ResearchAssistant(LeibnizScienceCampusforEmpiricalLin-
guistics&ComputationalLanguageModeling,InstituteforGer-
manLanguageMannheim(IDS))
02/2015–12/2018 ProjectCoordinator(DiscourseLab:Informationandresearch
platformfordigitaldiscourseanalysis,TechnicalUniversityof
Darmstadt)
10/2013–01/2015 StudentAssistant(DepartmentofGermanLinguistics/Institute
forGermanPhilology,UniversityofHeidelberg)
01/2013–12/2014 StudentAssistant(DepartmentofPragmatics/InstituteforGer-
manLanguageMannheim(IDS),Project:MedicalCommunica-
tion)
07/2010–12/2012 StudentAssistant(DepartmentofPragmatics/InstituteforGer-
manLanguageMannheim(IDS),Project:FOLK(SpokenLan-
guageCorpus))
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Summerschools
09/2017 DigitalHumanities:DistantReading-PotentialsandApplica-
tions.Heidelberg,Germany.
08/2017–09/2017 MachineTranslationMarathon:NeuralMachineTranslation.
Lisbon,Portugal.
07/2017 MachineLearningSchool.Lisbon,Portugal.
09/2016 Argumentation:ComputationalandLinguisticPerspectives.
Potsdam,Germany.07/2015–08/2015 Culture&Technology-DigitalHumanities,Leipzig,Germany.
MembershipsandAssociations
Since01/2019 MemberoftheAdvisoryBoardoftheInterdisciplinaryForum
ofDigitalTextualSciences,Heidelberg
Since01/2019 AssociatedResearcherattheCollectiveDecision-MakingPro-
jectfundedbyHeidelbergerAkademiederWissenschaften
Since04/2018 ResearcheratDFGPriorityProgram„RobustArgumentationMa
chines“(collaborationbetweenICLHeidelbergandtheArtificial
IntelligenceGroupatMannheimUniversity)
Since04/2016 ResearcheratLeibnizScienceCampusforEmpiricalLinguistics&
ComputationalLanguageModeling
Teaching
Winterterm2020/21 Seminar:Korpusgrammatik.ErforschunggrammatischerVaria-
tionmithilfekorpuslinguistischerMethoden[CorpusGrammar.
Exploringgrammaticalvariationusingcorpuslinguisticmeth-
ods].DepartmentofGermanLinguistics,HeidelbergUniversity.
Summerterm2020 Seminar:ZugängezurGrammatikdesDeutschen[Approachesto
GermanGrammar].DepartmentofGermanLinguistics,Heidel-
bergUniversity.
2015/2016 Seminar:GrammatikdergeschriebenenundgesprochenenSpra-
che[GrammarofWrittenandSpokenLanguage].Departmentof
GermanLinguistics,HeidelbergUniversity.
2010 –2014LinguisticsTutorial.DepartmentofGermanLinguistics/InstituteforGermanPhilology,UniversityofHeidelberg.
ConferenceandWorkshopOrganization
10/2019 InFoDiTexConference„DigitalHumanities-DisciplinesinCom-petitionorCooperation?” HeidelbergUniversity.
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10/2017 DiscourseLabWorkshop„Corpustoolsincomparison”.Heidel-
bergUniversity.
02/2017 DiscourseLabWorkshop“Qualitativeandquantitativeap-
proachestotextualcorpora”.HeidelbergUniversity.
PanelDiscussions
10/2019 ModerationofthePanelDiscussion“DigitalHumanities-Disci-
plinesinCompetitionorCooperation?"attheInFoDiTexCon-ference,HeidelbergUniversity.
ComputerSkills
Languages Python
Technologies NLTK,KERAS,STYLO,COSMAS,Gephi,LATEX,InDesignCC
Systems Linux/UNIX,Windows
Languages
German(native),English(fluent),French(intermediate),Spanish(intermediate),Italian
(intermediate),Latin(intermediate)
ResearchInterests
KnowledgeAcquisition,TextClassification,ArgumentationAnalysis,DeepLearning,Cor-
pusLinguistics,DiscourseAnalysis,MediaLinguistics,AnnotationStudies,SpokenLan-
guage,MedicalCommunication,InformationRetrieval,TextSimplification
VolunteerWork
02/2014–03/2014 Workinginachildren'shomeandinschoolsinIrigaCity,Phil-
ippines(KolpingWorkcamp)
09/2012–03/2015 MentoratBigBrothersBigSisters/KinderHelden:Mentoring
ofchildrenfromdifficultsocialconditions
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Publications
Papers(conferencepapers,papersineditedvolumes,journalarticles)2020Becker,M.,Korfhage,K.,andFrank,A.:ImplicitKnowledgeinArgumentativeTexts:AnAnnotated
Corpus.In:ProceedingsofLREC.Marseille,France.
Debjit,P.,Optiz,J.,Becker,M.,Kobbe,J.,Hirst,G.,andFrank,A.:ArgumentativeRelationClassifica-
tionwithBackgroundKnowledge.Proceedingsofthe8thInternationalConferenceonComputa-
tionalModelsofArgument(COMMA2020).
Becker,M.,Hulpus,I.,Opitz,J.,Paul,D.,Kobbe,J.,Stuckenschmidt,H.,andFrank,A.:Explaining
ArgumentswithBackgroundKnowledge–TowardsKnowledge-basedArgumentationAnalysis.
Datenbank-Spektrum,21
Becker,M.,Bender,M.,Müller,M.:ClassifyingHeuristicTextualPracticesinAcademicDiscourse:A
DeepLearningApproachtoPragmatics.In:InternationalJournalofCorpusLinguistics(4)2020.
2019 Hulpus,I.,Kobbe,J.,Becker,M.,Opitz,J.,Meilicke,C.,Stuckenschmidt,H.,Hirst,G.,Frank,A.:To-
wardsExplainingNaturalLanguageArgumentswithBackgroundKnowledge.WorkshoponSe-
manticExplainability(SemEx)2019,co-locatedwiththe18thInternationalSemanticWebCon-
ference(ISWC2019).Christchurch,NewZealand.
Becker,M.,Staniek,M.,Nastase,V.,Frank,A.:AssessingtheDifficultyofClassifyingConceptNet
RelationsinaMulti-LabelClassificationSetting.RELATIONS-Workshoponmeaningrelations
betweenphrasesandsentences(co-locatedwithIWCS).Gothenburg,Sweden
Kobbe,J.,Opitz,J.,Becker,M.,Hulpus,I.,Stuckenschmidt,H.,Frank,A.:ExploitingBackground
KnowledgeforArgumentativeRelationClassification.SecondBiennialConferenceonLanguage,
DataandKnowledge(LDK2019),Leipzig,Germany.
Becker,M.,Staniek,M.,Nastase,V.,Palmer,A.,Frank,A.::ClassifyingSemanticClauseTypeswith
RecurrentNeuralNetworks:AnalysisofAttention,ContextandGenreCharacteristics.TALJournal
(TraitementAutomatiquedesLangues/NaturalLanguageProcessing):SpecialissueDeepLearn-
ingforNaturalLanguageProcessing.
2018Becker,M.:Frieden,Freiheit,Sicherheit.KontextsensitiveBedeutungsanalysendreierKonzeptein
denBundestagsdebattenvonMärzbisJuli1983.AnalysenmitPython.[Peace,freedom,security.
Context-sensitiveanalysisofthreeconceptsintheBundestagdebatesfromMarchtoJuly1983.
AnalyzeswithPython.]DiscourseLabWorkshop„Corpustoolsincomparison“.Heidelberg.Pub-
lishedonDiscourseLabBlog:https://dislab.hypotheses.org/[BestPresentationAward]
Stegmeier,J.,Schünemann,W.,Müller,M.,Becker,M.,Steiger,S.,Stier,S.:Multi-methoddiscourse
analysisoftwittercommunication.Acomparisonoftwoglobalpoliticalissues.In:Scholz,R.(ed.):
Quantifyingmethodsindiscoursestudies.Basingstoke:Palgrave.
2017
Becker,M.,Staniek,M.,Nastase,V.,Palmer,A.,Frank,A.:ClassifyingSemanticClauseTypes:
ModelingContextandGenreCharacteristicswithRecurrentNeuralNetworksandAttention.
*SEM(JointConferenceonLexicalandComputationalSemantics).Vancouver,Canada.
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Becker,M.,Staniek,M.,Nastase,V.,andFrank,A.:EnrichingArgumentativeTextswithImplicit
Knowledge.Frasinca,F.,Ittoo,A.,Nguyen,L.,andMetais,E.(eds.),ApplicationsofNaturalLan-
guagetoDataBases(NLDB)-NaturalLanguageProcessingandInformationSystems,Lecture
NotesinComputerScience,Springer.
Becker,M.,Palmer,A.,Frank,A.:SemanticClauseTypesandModalityasFeaturesforArgument
Analysis.Argument&Computation.SpecialIssueonLanguageandArgumentation.
Becker,M.,Spranz-Fogasy,Th.:ÄrztlicheBeratungundEmpfehlungen[Medicaladviceandrec-
ommendations].In:Pick,I.(ed.):BeratenistSprechen.EinelinguistischeTypologiezu
BeratungsgesprächeninverschiedenenHandlungsfeldern.Frankfurtu.a.:PeterLang.
Becker,M.,Müller,M.:WörterundDinge.InterdisziplinaritätalsModusundGegenstandderRe-
flexivenDiskursanalyse[Wordsandthings.Interdisciplinarityasthemodeandobjectofreflexive
discourseanalysis].In:Kämper,H.,Reisigl,M.,Warnke,I.,Hess-Lüttich,E.(eds.):Diskurs-semi-
otisch.Berlin:Akademie.
Müller,M.,Becker,M.:Tropenderdeutsch-chinesischenBegegnungimkulinarischenDiskurs
[TropesoftheGerman-Chineseencounterintheculinarydiscourse].In:FriedemannVogel/Jia
Wenjian(Eds.):Chinesisch-DeutscherImagereport(CDI).DasBildChinasimdeutschsprachigen
Raumauskultur-,medien-undsprachwissenschaftlicherPerspektive.Berlin/Boston:DeGruyter,
pp.119-136.
2016
Becker,M.,Palmer,A.,andFrank,A.:ClauseTypesandModalityinArgumentativeMicrotexts.
WorkshoponFoundationsoftheLanguageofArgumentation(inconjunctionwithCOMMA-Pots-
dam,Germany),pp.1-9.
Becker,M.,Palmer,A.,andFrank,A.:Argumentativetextsandclausetypes.Proceedingsofthe3rd
WorkshoponArgumentMining(ACLWorkshop–Berlin,Germany),pp.21-30.
Spranz-Fogasy,Th.,Becker,M.:BeschwerdenexplorationundDiagnosemitteilungimärztlichen
Erstgespräch[Symptomsanddiagnosisintheinitialmedicalconsultation].In:Busch,A.,Spranz-
Fogasy,Th.(eds.),HandbuchSpracheundMedizin,Berlin/Boston:deGruyter,pp.93-115.
Müller,M.,Becker,M.:WissenskonflikteimGespräch[ConflictsofKnowledgeinCon-versation].
In:Luth,J.,Vogel,F.,Ptashnyk,S.(eds):LinguistischeZugängezuKonfliktenineuropäischenSpra-
chräumen.Berlin/Boston:deGruyter,pp.93-112.
Becker,M.:DieFlüchtlingsdebatteindenMedienDeutschlands:Einekorpus-unddiskurs-
linguistischeUntersuchungderKonzeptualisierungvonAngst[TherefugeedebateintheGerman
media:Acorpus-anddiscourselinguisticstudyoftheconceptualizationofanxiety].In:Sprachre-
port2/2016,pp.1-11.
Knuchel,D.,Becker,M.:ConceptualisationsofHIV/AIDSintwoGermanmessageboards.Acorpus
linguisticapproach.SymposiumLanguageandHealthOnline.Typingyourselfhealthy.Basel,Swit-
zerland.
2015
Burel,S.,Becker,M.,Kleitsch,L.:KommunikativeStrategienvonUnternehmenzwischenInszen-
ierungundAdressierung[Communicativestrategiesofcompaniesbetweenstagingandaddress-
ing].In:Grucza.S.,Kolago,L.(eds),KommunikationsmanagementinmultikulturellenPro-
jektteams.FrankfurtamMainetal.:PeterLang,pp.229-245.
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2014 Spranz-Fogasy,Th.,Becker,M.,Menz,F.,Nowak,P.:BibliografiezurMedizinischenKommu-
nikation[BibliographyonMedicalCommunication].In:GAIS(GesprächsanalytischesInfor-
mationssystem).
Books
2015
Becker,M.:DerAsyldiskursinDeutschland.EinemedienlinguistischeUntersuchungvonPres-
setexten,OnlineforenundPolit-Talkshows[DebatingaboutrefugeesinGermany.Amedia-
linguisticanalysisofnewspapers,onlineforumsandpoliticaltalkshows].Frankfurtetal.:Peter
Lang.
Becker,M.:ÄrztlicheEmpfehlungeninTherapieplanungs-gesprächen.Einegesprächs-analytische
Untersuchung[Medicalrecommendationsintherapyplanningdiscussions.Aconversation
analysis].GesprächsforschungOnline,ReiheEmpirischeKommunikationsforschungimGesund-
heitswesen.
Posters
2018
Becker,M.,Staniek,M.,Nastase,V.,Palmer,A.,Frank,A.:TheImpactofAttentionMechanism,Con-textandGenreInformationwhenClassifyingSemanticClauseTypeswithRecurrentNeuralNet-
works.40thAnnualConferenceoftheGermanLinguisticSociety(DGfS).Stuttgart,Germany.
Becker,M.,Staniek,M.,Nastase,V.,Palmer,A.,Frank,A.:AutomatedClassificationofSemantic
Clauses:ModelingContextandGenreCharacteristicswithRecurrentNeuralNetworksandAtten-
tionMechanism.54.JahrestagungdesInstitutsfürDeutscheSprache.Mannheim,Germany.
2017
Becker,M.andMeyer,J.:QuantitativeApproachestoLanguage:AStudyonControversialConcepts
inClimateChangeDiscourse.SummerSchoolofDigitalHumanities:DistantReading-Potentials
andApplications.Heidelberg,Germany.
2016
Becker,M.:ArgumentativeReasoning,ClauseTypesandImplicitKnowledge.Proceedingsofthe
SecondSummerSchoolonArgumentation:ComputationalandLinguisticPerspectives,pp1-2.
Potsdam,Germany.[BestPosterAward]
InvitedTalksBecker,M.(01/2019):"AutomatedTextClassification".HeidelbergUniversity,GermanInstitute.Becker,M.(02/2018):ReconstructingImplicitKnowledgeinArgumentativeTexts.Colloquium
"DigitalPhilology".TechnicalUniversityofDarmstadt,InstituteforLanguageandLiterature.
Becker, M. (10/2018): Detecting Controversial Concepts within Discourses Using Quantitative Meth-ods. Interdisciplinary Forum of Digital Textual Sciences. Keynote talk for the lecture series of winter term 2018/2019. Heidelberg, Germany.
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Becker,M.(12/2018):AnnotationsinComputationalLinguistics.Colloquium"DigitalPhilology".
TechnicalUniversityofDarmstadt,InstituteforLanguageandLiterature.
Becker,M.(11/2016):QuantitativeApproachestoLanguage.Colloquium“DiscourseAnalysis”.
HeidelbergUniversity,RomanisticSeminar.
Talks(withoutapaper)Bender,M.,Becker,M.,Müller,M.(03/2020):PragmalinguistischeAnnotationundDeepLearn-
ing.JahrestagungderArbeitsgemeinschaftLinguistischePragmatik:“DigitalePragmatik”.Ham-
burg,Germany.Becker,M.,Meyer,J.(10/2017):Quantitativeapproachestolinguisticcorpora.Anexemplary
studyonagonalcentersintheclimatechangediscourse.DiscourseLabWorkshop“Qualitative
andquantitativeapproachestotextualcorpora”,Heidelberg,Germany.
Müller,M.,Becker,M.(03/2015):Establishingidentityandalterityinepistemiccultures.15th
conferenceofDiscourseNet‘DiscoursesofCulture–CulturesofDiscourse’.Belgrade,Serbia.
Editing
Becker,M.,Jacob,K.,Luth,J.,Schedl,E.,andSchnedermann,T.:Diskurszukünfte.Jubi-
läumszeitschriftdesForschungsnetzwerks“SpracheundWissen”.[TheFutureofDiscourses.
AnniversaryJournaloftheResearchNetwork“LanguageandKnowledge](2014).Heidelberg.
(DOI:10.11588/heidok.00018444).
Blogging
Since02/2015:BloggeratDiscourseLab–InformationandResearchPlatformforDiscourseAnalysis[https://dislab.hypotheses.org/]