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Prof. Dr. Achim Rettinger

Prof. Dr. Achim Rettinger

Scientific Director
Information Process Engineering

Career

Achim Rettinger is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Trier University.

He did his doctorate at the TU Munich and his habilitation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), both in the field of machine learning for the evaluation of texts and knowledge graphs.

He researches human communication behavior, both in media and in companies, to make content knowledge available and patterns in external and internal communication visible.

Engagements and Achievements

  • IJCAI Distinguished Senior Program Committee Member
  • Representative Speaker of the Young Investigator
    Network at KIT (network of research group leaders, without tenure)
  • Senior Program Committee Member of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2021
  • Senior Program Committee Member of International Joint Conferences on
    Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2020
  • Senior Program Committee Member of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2019
  • Editorial Board Member of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence of Frontiers in Big Data
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) since 2018
  • Program Committee Member of Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NeurIPS) since 2016
  • Program Committee Member of International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • Program Committee Member of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) since 2012
  • International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) since 2016
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) since 2018

My lectures

Lecture: October 2019

Presentation on Towards Imposing Perception Structures on Concept Embeddings / Tsinghua University, Peking

Lecture: September 2018

Presentation for SFB 1171 „Affective Societies“ on Computational Models of Sentiment, Opinion, Emotion and Affect/ FU-Berlin

Lecture: April 2019

Presentation on Knowledge-Guided Multiview Learning for Generalizing to Unseen Data/ Roche, Basel

Lecture: February 2017

Presentation on Towards Breaking the Language and Modality Barrier - Learning Cross-lingual Cross-modal Semantic Representations / Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute Colloquium

Lecture: November 2018

Presentation on Combining Semantic Technologies with Machine Learning for advanced analytics of heterogenous content / Bosch Research, Renningen

Lecture: January 2017

Presentation on Applications of Crosslingual Cross-modal Technologies / IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA