Research

We work on a broad range of topics from basic NLP research to applications, AI regulation, and societal impact of NLP. The research interests of the group include (but are not limited to):

  • NLP Methods
  • NLP Evaluation
  • Legal Tech
  • Perspectivism and Disagreement
  • AI for Social Good
  • AI Regulation

Projects

A selection of current and past projects we have been working on:

NLP Methods

TSaaS

Technology Scouting as a Service

Status: Finished

A-SUM

Meta Model based Natural Language Generation for Automatic Abstractive Text Summarization

Status: Finished

LAW4OSAI

License-Aware Web Crawling for Open Search AI

Status: Finished

AGB-Check

AI-Supported Legal Review of Terms and Conditions to Strengthen Consumer Protection

Status: Finished

SaToS

Software Aided Analysis of Terms of Services

Status: Finished

AI for Social Good

EasyGrader

AI-supported assessment of open question in higher education

Status: Finished

Resources

Resource Description
AGB-DE A corpus and models for the automated legal assessment of clauses in German consumer contracts
(ISLRN 097-156-615-475-5)
Lowest Common Ancestor Extractor Open source A python library for the structured extraction of content from German and English Terms and Conditions
SimpleNLG-DE Open source Java library for surface realisation in German
MucLex

A German lexicon for surface realisation based on Wiktionary
(ISLRN 206-939-257-359-6)
NLU-Evaluation-Corpora English corpora for evaluating NLU services
(ISLRN 165-571-578-116-6)
NLU-Evaluation-Scripts Python scripts for the automatic evaluation of NLU services