Student Assistant
Saskia Warzecha
Research Assistant
Jonathan Sonntag
Jonathan studied computational linguistics at the University of Potsdam and graduated with his
diploma thesis on “Sentiment Analysis in German Parliamentary Debates”. Prior
experience in the fields of named entity recognition and sentiment analysis was aquired during
his internship at SkyGrid, Inc.
Principal investigator
Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede
Studies in Computer Science and Linguistics at TU Berlin 1985-89, interrupted by a term at Edinburgh University 1988/89. M.Sc. in Computer Science, Purdue Univ./Indiana, 1990. PhD student at Univ. of Toronto Computer Science, temporarily with a fellowship at FAW Ulm; thesis defense 1996. Research Assistant in the Verbmobil MT project, TU Berlin branch, 1995-2000. Internal project leader of DFG project KIT-Marker at TU Berlin 1998/99. Researcher at Interprice GmbH, Berlin, 2000/01. Since 2001: Professor of Applied Computational Linguistics at Potsdam University.