Jakob Prange

Jakob Prange is a Researcher (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) at the Chair for Natural Language Understanding / Digital Humanities within the Faculty of Applied Computer Science at the University of Augsburg. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a concentration in Cognitive Science from Georgetown University, where his dissertation focused on neuro-symbolic models for syntactic and semantic representations.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (Cognitive Science), Georgetown University
• B.Sc. in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University

His research lies at the intersection of computational linguistics and theoretical linguistics, emphasizing formal and distributional semantics, meaning representation, deep learning, and neuro-symbolic integration. He prioritizes model efficiency and explainability, often combining neural models with structured linguistic representations. His recent work includes projects on cross-lingual QA in migration contexts and Bayesian modeling of L2 preposition learning.

His publications span top venues such as ACL, NAACL, TACL, and COLING, with a focus on semantic parsing, supersense tagging, UCCA, neuro-symbolic modeling, and robust NLP for German. He has contributed to multilingual annotation frameworks and low-resource language modeling.

Scientific Awards:

• No awards explicitly mentioned.

He has supervised M.Sc. student Steffen Kleinle on a QA project and contributes to teaching at the University of Augsburg, including Python for language processing and NLP tutorials. He is part of the HLT@Augsburg research group led by Prof. Annemarie Friedrich, focusing on natural language understanding and digital humanities.