Michael Götze

NOTE: I have left Potsdam University in September 2008. My new contact: goetze (at) jpberlin (dot) de.

Project D1: Linguistic Database for Information Structure: Annotation and Retrieval
SFB 632: Information structure: the linguistic means for structuring utterances, sentences and texts

Institut für Linguistik
Universität Potsdam
Postfach 601553
D-14415 Potsdam

Office: GOLM 24.2.69
Phone: +49-331-977 2309
Fax: +49-331-977 2925
Email: michael (dot) goetze (at) nuclearfree (dot) de

The Applied Computational Linguistics Lab at the University of Potsdam. Go to the Lectures at the Linguistics Department.
Ongoing work in D1: the PAULA Standoff Format and ANNIS - a Linguistic Database for Exploring Information Structure.
Joint project between the SFBs 441 (Tübingen), 538 (Hamburg) and 632 (Potsdam): "Sustainability of Linguistic Data".

Other links: Linguistic Annotation Wiki | ACL Wiki | The Language Archiving Technology Portal | NITE XML Toolkit | LUNA

Teaching

Proseminar (WS 2007/2008): XML-basierte Dokumentverarbeitung (with Peter Kolb)
Hauptseminar/Proseminar (WS 2005/2006): Korpora und Sprachressourcen in der (Computer)Linguistik (with Stefanie Dipper)

Publications

To Appear

Chiarcos, Christian, Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze, Ulf Leser, Anke Lüdeling, Julia Ritz and Manfred Stede (To appear): A Flexible Framework for Integrating Annotations from Different Tools and Tagsets. In Traitement Automatique des Langues.

2008

Julia Ritz, Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze (to appear): Annotation of Information Structure: An Evaluation Across Different Types of Texts. In Proceedings of the the 6th LREC-2008 conference. Marrakech, Morocco. 2008.
Christian Chiarcos, Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze, Julia Ritz and Manfred Stede: A Flexible Framework for Integrating Annotations from Different Tools and Tagsets. In Proceeding of the Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, Hong Kong, January 2008.

2007

(Poster) Kepa Joseba Rodriguez, Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze, Massimo Poesio, Giuseppe Riccardi, Christian Raymond and Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska: Standoff Coordination for Multi-Tool Annotation in a Dialogue Corpus. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop at the ACL 2007, pp 148-155, Prague.
Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze, and Stavros Skopeteas (eds.) (2007) Information Structure in Cross-Linguistic Corpora: Annotation Guidelines for Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Information Structure Volume 7 of Interdisciplinary Studies on In formation Structure (ISIS), Working Papers of the SFB 632. University of Potsdam, Germany.
Götze, M., Weskott, T., Endriss, C., Fiedler, I., Hinterwimmer, S., Petrova, S., Schwarz, A., Skopeteas, S. & Stoel, R. (2007). Information Structure. In Dipper, S., Götze, M. & Skopeteas, S. (Eds.) Information Structure in Cross-Linguistic Corpora: Annotation Guidelines for Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Information Structure. Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 7 (147-187). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze, Uwe Küssner, and Manfred Stede (2007) Representing and Querying Standoff XML. In Proceedings of the GLDV-Frühjahrstagung, Tübingen, Germany.
(System demonstration) Chiarcos, Christian and Michael Götze (2007) A Linguistic Database with Ontology-sensitive Corpus Querying. GLDV-Frühjahrstagung, Tübingen, Germany.
(Poster) Ritz, Julia, Svetlana Petrova, Michael Götze, and Stefanie Dipper (2007) The Automatic Identification of Information Structure in Small Corpora of Modern and Old High German. GLDV-Frühjahrstagung, Tübingen, Germany.

2006

(Poster) Stefanie Dipper, Karin Donhauser, Michael Götze, Roland Hinterhölzl, Svetlana Petrova, Julia Ritz, Michael Solf and Manfred Stede (2006): Information Structure and Word Order in the Early Germanic Languages and its Analysis in a Linguistic Database. Poster presented at the Conference "Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical Methods". Potsdam, Germany.
(System demonstration) Götze, Michael and Stefanie Dipper (2006) ANNIS: Complex Multilevel Annotations in a Linguistic Database . In Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing (NLPXML-2006), pp 61-64, Trento, Italy.

2005

Michael Götze, Stavros Skopeteas, Torsten Roloff and Ruben Stoel: Towards a Cross-Linguistic Production Data Archive: Structure and Exploration. In Balder ten Cate and Henk Zeevat (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Vol. 4363 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 127-138. Springer-Verlag, 2007. More here.
Dipper, Stefanie and Michael Götze (2005) Accessing Heterogeneous Linguistic Data --- Generic XML-based Representation and Flexible Visualization In Proceedings of the 2nd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland
Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze, and Manfred Stede (eds.) (2005) Heterogeneity in Focus: Creating and Using Linguistic Databases Volume 2 of Interdisciplinary Studies on In formation Structure (ISIS), Working Papers of the SFB 632. University of Potsdam, Germany. More here.

2004

Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze, Manfred Stede and Tillmann Wegst (2004): ANNIS: A Linguistic Database for Exploring Information Structure In Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz and A. Schwarz (eds.): Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 1 (ISIS), pp. 245-279, Potsdam, Germany.
Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze and Stavros Skopeteas (2004): Towards User-Adaptive Annotation Guidelines In Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora LINC-2004, pp. 23-20, Geneva, Switzerland.
Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze and Manfred Stede (2004): Simple Annotation Tools for Complex Annotation Tasks: an Evaluation In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on XML-based Richly Annotated Corpora, pp. 54-62, Lisbon, Portugal.

2003

Götze, Michael (2003): Zur Annotation von Informationsstruktur. Diploma thesis, University of Potsdam.

Talks

Michael Götze (2008): Querying Multilevel Annotations in Typological Data Archives. Talk (Slides: PDF) at the "Typologisches Forschungskolloquium", Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig, Germany.
Stefanie Dipper, Michael Götze, Julia Ritz, Stavros Skopeteas (2006): From Data to Insights: Exploiting Linguistic Data. Talk (Slides: PDF) at the conference "Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical Methods". Potsdam, Germany.
Dipper, Stefanie, Michael Götze and Stavros Skopeteas (2006): A Typological Language Archive for Researching Information Structure. Talk (Slides: PDF) at the Workshop at the DGfS 2006: "Language Archives: Standards, Creation and Access". Bielefeld, Germany.

Misc. papers and drafts related to ANNIS

Patrick Quahl and Michael Götze: Hilfe zur Suche in ANNIS: Tutorial. 2004. Draft.
Christian Lemke and Michael Götze: Short Introduction to the ANNIS Query Language. June 2007. Draft.
Michael Götze und Viktor Rosenfeld: ANNIS-QL 1.0 Spezifikation May 2008. Draft.

Miscellaneous

The Service Civil International, an international peace organization, with its German branch SCI-D, its East-West-Working-Group (OWAG), and the SCI Berlin. Currently, a new large scale project Youth Transcending New Frontiers (http://www.ytnf.org), a cooperation between volunteers from Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland and Germany, is in its first phase.

In December 2007, "Zwischen allen Fronten" - events about the situation of refugees with presentations, music, film, theatre, exhibitions and more happened in the New Yorck in the Bethanien. More info can be found here: http://www.newyorck.net/zaf/index.html.
In December 2008, the International exhibition project "Teheran Biennale" took place with artists and musicians from Iran, Turkey and many other countries from Europe and Asia. More info can be found here: http://www.biennialtehran.com.