Iryna Gurevych is Full Professor and Director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt. In addition, she leads the Graduate School ""Adaptive Information Preparation from Heterogeneous Sources"" (AIPHES). Within NLP, Iryna's research focus is on text understanding and lexical semantics, argumentation analysis, and novel applications of text analysis in social sciences and humanities. Iryna has led the development of UBY, a large-scale sense-linked lexical-semantic resource for English and German. She has published on using this resource to enhance various natural language processing tasks, such as word sense disambiguation, text classification, or information search, and has done significant research on semantic relatedness and semantic similarity of words, short texts, or longer documents.Judith Eckle-Kohler is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt. She obtained her doctoral degree in Computational Linguistics in 1999 from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She also holds a Diploma in Computer Science University of Stuttgart, 1995). Her current research interests are knowledge-based machine learning and large-scale knowledge acquisition from text. Within the UBY project, she has been leading the creation of the uniform data model UBY-LMF, and developed distant supervision methods based on UBY for the tasks of verb sense disambiguation and semantic role labeling.Michael Matuschek is currently working as a software engineer and consultant in Munich, Germany. Before that, he was a researcher at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt, where he also received his doctoral degree in Computer Science in 2014. The main topic of his academic research work was the automatic linking of lexical resources in the course of the UBY project, with a particular interest in collaboratively constructed ones. Nowadays his work is more focused on practical implementations of NLP, for instance in business intelligence applications and human computer interaction.
