Robert Litschko

Robert Litschko is a Researcher at the University of Mannheim's Data and Web Science Group. His work focuses on multilingual and cross-lingual NLP, cross-lingual information retrieval, and distributional semantics. He has served as a Teaching Assistant for courses including Web Search and Information Retrieval, Introduction to Data Science, Text Analytics, and Introduction to Machine Learning between 2018 and 2020. He also co-supervised multiple thesis projects in NLP and semantic analysis.

• Research Areas:
• Multilingual Natural Language Processing
• Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
• Unsupervised pretraining models with common sense knowledge
• Offensive language detection in social media
• Propaganda technique detection in news articles
• Teaching Contributions:
• Web Search and Information Retrieval (2018–2020)
• Introduction to Data Science (2018–2020)
• Text Analytics (2019–2020)
• Introduction to Machine Learning (2019)
• Thesis Co-Supervision:
• Semantic Relation Classification in Scientific Papers
• Injecting Common Sense Knowledge into Unsupervised Pretraining Models
• Pre-trained Multilingual Masked Language Models for Offensive Language Detection
• Propaganda Techniques Detection in News Articles
• Affiliations:
• Data and Web Science Group (Department)
• University of Mannheim (Main Affiliation)