Research Interests

Generally, I am interested in corpus linguistics, empirical methods in (computational) linguistics, and technical communication. 

As a researcher within the DFG-funded project HyTex, I investigated Lexical Chaining, Thematic Indexing, and the automatic extraction of definitions. 

Question Answering and Named Entity Recognition was the focus of my work as a researcher within the BMBF-funded project SmartWeb. 

Publications

Irene Cramer, Tonio Wandmacher, and Uli Waltinger (in print): Exploring Resources for Lexical Chaining: A Comparison of Automated Semantic Relatedness Measures and Human Judgements. In: Mehler, A. / Kühnberger, K.-U. / Lobin, H. / Lüngen, H. / Storrer, A. / Witt, A. (eds.) Modeling, Learning and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures. Dordrecht: Springer. (pre-print)

Stefanie Peitzker, Irene Cramer, and Mario Anders (2010): Effizient zum Ergebnis navigieren. Regeltypen als Methode einsetzen. In: Java Magazin, Number 9.2010.

Stefanie Peitzker and Irene Cramer (2010): Voll durchstarten mit dem Regelprojekt. In: Java Magazin, Number 5.2010. 

[2009]

Uli Waltinger, Irene Cramer, and Tonio Wandmacher (2009): From Social Networks to Distributional Properties: A Comparative Study on Computing Semantic Relatedness. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009). Amsterdam, Netherlands.  

Irene Cramer, Marc Finthammer, Alexander Kurek, Lukas Sowa, Melina Wachtling, and Tobias Claas (2009): Experiments on Lexical Chaining for German Corpora: Annotation, Extraction, and Application. In: Lüngen, H. / Mehler, A. / Storrer, A. (eds.): Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Automated Discourse Analysis. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 24(2). (pdf)

[2008]

Irene Cramer (2008): How Well Do Semantic Relatedness Measures Perform? A Meta-Study. In: Bos, J. / Delmonte, R. (eds). Semantics in Text Processing: STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings (Research in Computational Semantics). London: College Publications. 59-70. (pdf)  

Irene Cramer and Marc Finthammer (2008): Tools for Exploring GermaNet in the Context of CL-Teaching. In: Text Resources and Lexical Knowledge. Selected Papers form the 9th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2008). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (pre-print)

Irene Cramer (2008): Finding General-Language Definitions in Corpora: Conceptual Design and Annotation. In: KONVENS 2008 - Ergänzungsband Textressourcen und lexikalisches Wissen. Zentrum Sprache BBAW: Berlin. 9-19.  

Marc Finthammer and Irene Cramer (2008): Exploring and Navigating: Tools for GermaNet. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Marocco. Paris: ELRA. (pdf)

Irene Cramer and Marc Finthammer (2008): An Evaluation Procedure for Word Net Based Lexical Chaining: Methods and Issues. In: Proceedings of the Global WordNet Conference 2008, Szeged, Hungary. 120-146. (pdf)  

[2007]

Maik Stührenberg, Daniela Goecke, Nils Diewald, Irene Cramer, Alexander Mehler (2007): Web-based Annotation of Anaphoric Relations and Lexical Chains. In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop, ACL 2007. (pdf)

Irene Cramer, Barbara Rauch, Hagen Fuerstenau, Dan Shen, Maria Staudte (2007): Predicting Classification Decisions with Data Point Based Meta-Learning. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, MLDM 2007, July 18-20, 2007 Leipzig/Germany. (pre-print)

Irene Cramer, Stefan Schacht, and Andreas Merkel (2007): Classifying Number Expressions in German Corpora. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Applications (GfKl), 2007. (pdf)  

[2006]

Irene Cramer and Sabine Schulte im Walde (eds.) (2006): Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie. Eine Studienbibliographie. Herausgegeben im Auftrag des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. Stauffenberg Verlag, Brigitte Narr GmbH, Tübingen. (companion web page)

Irene Cramer, Jochen L. Leidner, and Dietrich Klakow (2006): Building an Evaluation Corpus for German Question Answering by Harvesting Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2006. (pdf)  

Adriana Davidescu, Andrea Heyl, Stefan Kazalski, Irene Cramer, and Dietrich Klakow (2006): Classifying German Questions according to Ontology-Based Question Types. In: Prceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl), 2006. (pdf)

[2005]

Irene M. Cramer (2005): Das Menzerathsche Gesetz. In: R. Köhler, G. Altmann, R. Piotrowski (eds.) Quantitative Linguistik - Quantitative Linguistics. HSK. Ein Internationales Handbuch - An International Handbook. Walter De Gruyter, Berlin, New York.  

Irene M. Cramer (2005): The Parameters of the Altmann-Menzerath Law. In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. Volume 12, Number 1. 41-52.

[2003]

Shravan Vasishth, Irene Cramer, Christoph Scheepers, Joel Wagner (2003): Can increasing head-dependent distance facilitate processing? Poster presented at the CUNY sentence processing conference, MIT, USA, 2003.

[2008]

Workshop 'Pragmatik und Sprachlehrforschung', Dortmund, July 4, 2008. Maschinelles Lernen in der ressourcengestützten Sprachanalyse und -verarbeitung. Vorüberlegungen, Methoden und Anwendungsbeispiele (with Jochen Schulz).

6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Marocco, May 28, 2008. Exploring and Navigating: Tools for GermaNet (Poster + Software-Demo). 

Processing Text-Technological Resources, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, March 13, 2008. Generating Topic Chains and Topic Views: Experiments Using GermaNet (with Marc Finthammer and Angelika Storrer).

4th Global Wordnet Conference, Szeged, Hungary, January 22,  2008. An Evaluation Procedure for Word Net Based Lexical Chaining: Methods and Issues (Talk). January 23/24, 2008. Exploring and Navigating: Tools for GermaNet (Software-Demo) . 

[2007]

4th Congress Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien, Darmstadt, Oktober 18, 2007. Automatische Generierung von Themenkarten für Fachtexte  (with Marc Finthammer and Angelika Storrer).

38th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Hildesheim, September 28, 2007. Analyse thematischer Strukturen: Annotation und Automation (with Angelika Storrer).

31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Applications, Freiburg i. Br., March 8, 2007. Classifying Number Expressions in German Corpora. 

Poster session of the 29. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Sektion Computerlinguistik, 2007. Casting the Annotation of an Extended Named Entity Classification as a Web-Study.

[2005]

Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Workshop 'Linguistik für die Schule', July 8, 2005. Didaktik und Methodik der Computerlinguistik. 

[2003]

4th Trier Kolloquium on Quantitative Linguistics, October 17-18, 2003. The Parameters of the Altmann-Menzerath Law.