Defended PhD Theses
  1. Dr. Prasetya Ajie Utama
    Robustness of Pre-trained Language Models for Natural Language Understanding
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2023
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Nafise Sadat Moosavi (University of Sheffield, UK), Prof. Dr. Roy Schwartz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

  2. Dr. Jonas Pfeiffer
    Modular and Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2023
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš (University of Würzburg, Germany), Prof. Dr. Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge, UK)

  3. Dr. Leonardo Ribeiro
    Graph-based Approaches to Text Generation
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2022
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Dr. Claire Gardent (Université de Lorraine, France), Prof. Dr. Yue Zhang (Westlake University, China)

  4. Dr. Ilia Kuznetsov
    The Role of Linguistics in Probing Task Design
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2021
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Martha Palmer (University of Colorado Boulder, USA), Prof. Joakim Nivre (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden)

  5. Dr. Yevgeniy Puzikov
    Principled Approach to Natural Language Generation
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2021
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University), Prof. Dr. Claire Gardent (CNRS & Univ. de Lorraine)

  6. Dr. Daniil Sorokin
    Knowledge Graphs and Graph Neural Networks for Semantic Parsing
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2021
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersing (TU Darmstadt), Prof. Dan Roth (University of Pennsylvania)

  7. Dr. Pedro Bispo Santos
    Multimodal Classification of Audiovisual Content
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2021
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan), Prof. Dr. Marcus Maurer (University of Mainz)

  8. Dr. Chris Stahlhut
    Interactive Evidence Detection
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2021
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Fürnkranz, Prof. Dr. Jens Ivo Engels

  9. Dr. Andreas Rücklé
    Representation Learning and Learning from Limited Labeled Data for Community Question Answering
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2021
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Jonathan Berant (Tel Aviv University), Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš (Universität Mannheim)

  10. Dr. Avinesh Polisetty Venkata Sai
    Information Preparation with the Human in the Loop
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2020
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)

  11. Dr. Andreas Hanselowski
    A Machine-Learning-Based Pipeline Approach to Automated Fact-Checking
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2020
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-Reviewer: Prof. Chris Reed (University of Dundee)

  12. Dr. Maxime Peyrard
    Principled Approaches to Automatic Text Summarization
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2019.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Fürnkranz (TU Darmstadt), Prof. Dr. Ani Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania)

  13. Dr. Teresa Botschen
    Uni- and Multimodal and Structured Representations for Modeling Frame Semantics
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2019.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Roth (TU Darmstadt), Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze (LMU München)

  14. Dr. Tobias Falke
    Automatic Structured Text Summarization with Concept Maps
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2019.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewer: Prof. Dr. Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University)

  15. Dr. Nils Reimers
    Universal Machine Learning Methods for Detecting and Temporal Anchoring of Events
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2018.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum (Saarland University), Prof. Dan Roth, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)

  16. Dr. Silvana Hartmann
    Knowledge-based Supervision for Domain-adaptive Semantic Role Labeling
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2017.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Martha Palmer, Ph.D. (University of Colorado Boulder), Prof. Dr. Simone Paolo Ponzetto (Universität Mannheim)

  17. Dr. Lucie Flekova
    Leveraging Lexical-Semantic Knowledge for Text Classification Tasks
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2017.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Benno Stein, (Bauhaus Universität Weimar), Prof. Dr. Walter Daelemans, (University of Antwerp)

  18. Dr. Christian Stab
    Argumentative Writing Support by means of Natural Language Processing
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2017.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Marie-Francine Moens, Ph.D. (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede, (Universität Potsdam)

  19. Dr. Lisa Beinborn
    Predicting and Manipulating the Difficulty of Text-Completion Exercises for Language Learning
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2016.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Torsten Zesch (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen)

  20. Dr. Tristan Miller
    Adjusting Sense Representations for Word Sense Disambiguation and Automatic Pun Interpretation
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2016.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan), Prof. Dr. Wolf-Tilo Balke (Technische Universität Braunschweig)

  21. Dr. Emily Jamison
    Crowdsource Annotation and Automatic Reconstruction of Online Discussion Threads
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2016.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Johannes Fürnkranz, Prof. Dr. Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)

  22. Dr. Johannes Daxenberger
    The Writing Process in Online Mass Collaboration
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2016.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Karsten Weihe, Assoc. Prof. Ofer Arazy (Universtiy of Alberta, Canada)

  23. Dr. Nicolai Erbs
    Approaches to Automatic Text Structuring
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2015.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Eneko Agirre (Basque University, Donostia), Prof. Dr. Torsten Zesch (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

  24. Dr. Michael Matuschek
    Word Sense Alignment of Lexical Resources
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2014.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Karsten Weihe, Assoc. Prof. Roberto Navigli (Universtiy of Rome)

  25. Dr. Oliver Ferschke
    The Quality of Content in Open Online Collaboration Platforms: Approaches to NLP-supported Information Quality Management in Wikipedia
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2014.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze (LMU München), Assoc. Prof. Carolyn P. Rosé (CMU Pittsburgh)

  26. Dr. Richard Eckart de Castilho
    Natural Language Processing: Integration of Automatic and Manual Analysis
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2014.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Andreas Henrich (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), Prof. Christopher D. Manning, PhD. (Stanford University)

  27. Dr. Christian M. Meyer
    Wiktionary: The Metalexicographic and the Natural Language Processing Perspective
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2013.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik), Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR/ELRA).

  28. Dr. Daniel Bär
    A Composite Model for Computing Similarity Between Texts
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2013.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewers: Prof. Dr. Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University), Dr. Torsten Zesch (Technische Universität Darmstadt/University of Duisburg-Essen)

  29. Dr. Niklas Jakob
    Extracting Opinion Targets from User-Generated Discourse with an Application to Recommendation Systems
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2011.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewer: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer (Universität Leipzig)

  30. Dr. Torsten Zesch
    Study of Semantic Relatedness of Words Using Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
    Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2009.
    Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
    Co-reviewer: Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim)