Chris Biemann

Prof. Chris Biemann is a Professor for Language Technology at the Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg (MIN Faculty). He leads the Language Technology Group, focusing on unsupervised methods, lexical semantics, and NLP applications including speech processing. His work emphasizes open science principles, releasing publications and software in open access/source formats.

Education: Dr. rer. nat. and Computer Science Diploma from University of Leipzig. Professional Experience: Co-founded Powerset (acquired by Microsoft for Bing), TU Darmstadt (2011-2016), and currently heads Hamburg's Language Technology group since 2016. Active in ERC Synergy Grant CultCryo (2023) and develops tools like the D-WISE suite for discourse analysis.

Research interests span computational linguistics, multimodal analysis, and ethical AI applications. Notable projects include hate speech detection systems, comparative question answering frameworks (CAM), and cross-modal benchmarks (GIMMICK). Recent work emphasizes large vision-language models' multilingual capabilities and human-AI collaboration tools.

Awards: None explicitly listed, but group members have received accolades like GSCL master's thesis awards. Grants include EU-funded projects in computational sociology. Supervised students: Not listed in provided texts.

Labs/Teams: Language Technology Group (LT) and D-WISE project collaboration network. Tools developed: Discourse Analysis Tool Suite, Golden Retriever (multimodal search), and CAM comparative analysis system.