Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Prof. Simone Paolo Ponzetto is the Chair of Information Systems III (Enterprise Data Analysis) at the University of Mannheim, leading the Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (NLP and IR) group within the Data and Web Science Group since 2013. His research bridges computational methods with applications in Social Sciences and Humanities.

• Full Professor (W3) since February 2016
• Based at School of Business Informatics and Mathematics
• Contact: simone@informatik.uni-mannheim.de | ponzetto@uni-mannheim.de

His work spans knowledge acquisition, multimodal NLP, and LLM applications in: GUI prototyping, scientific text analysis, political discourse modeling, and social science data integration. Recent projects explore zero-shot synthesis, cross-lingual knowledge editing, and ethical analysis of language models.

Key research trends in his publications include LLM-driven interface design, multimodal summarization, and robust cross-lingual methods for NLP tasks. His group's work combines symbolic approaches with deep learning, leveraging knowledge graphs and distributional semantics across disciplines.

Research grants include DFG-funded projects JOIN-T 2, SFB 884, and UNCOVER, alongside MWFK Baden-Württemberg programs for junior professors and part-time master's education in Data Science.

The Data and Web Science Group under his leadership focuses on empirical research in computational social science and digital humanities, with applications in political text analysis, survey data integration, and surgical language modeling through projects like SurgicBERTa and FrameASt.