Marcel Bollmann

Associate Professor

Computational linguist and researcher in natural language processing (NLP).

Natural language processing and machine learning

I am associate professor at the division Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems (AIICS) at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA).

I am a computational linguist and researcher in natural language processing (NLP). My research interests revolve around NLP and machine learning in challenging scenarios, such as under-resourced languages, multilinguality, or historical documents. I am particularly interested in linguistically-informed approaches to NLP, as well as bringing improvements in NLP technology to a wider range of languages and text genres.

CV in brief

PhD

I have obtained my PhD degree (Dr. phil.) in Computational Linguistics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, in 2018.
My research was funded by various projects related to historical language corpora of German, and my dissertation is on the normalization of historical language data.

Postdoc

Between 2018 and 2021, I was a postdoc in the CoAStaL NLP group at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
During that time, I received funding from the EU in form of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (MSCA) for a project on “morphologically-informed representations for NLP.”
Our paper on “Error Analysis and the Role of Morphology” won a “Best Long Paper” award at the EACL 2021 conference.

Assistant professor

Between 2021 and 2023, I was assistant professor at the Jönköping AI Lab (JAIL) at Jönköping University, Sweden.
I contributed to the advanced-level study program in “AI Engineering”, creating new courses on “Data Science Programming” and “Natural Language Processing.”

Volunteer

As a volunteer, I also contribute to the development of the ACL Anthology as Site Development Lead.

Publications

2024

Heather Lent, Kushal Tatariya, Raj Dabre, Yiyi Chen, Marcell Fekete, Esther Ploeger, Li Zhou, Ruth-Ann Armstrong, Abee Eijansantos, Catriona Malau, Hans Erik Heje, Ernests Lavrinovics, Diptesh Kanojia, Paul Belony, Marcel Bollmann, Loïc Grobol, Miryam de Lhoneux, Daniel Hershcovich, Michel DeGraff, Anders Søgaard, Johannes Bjerva (2024)

CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 12, p. 950-978 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00682

2023

Marcel Bollmann, Nathan Schneider, Arne Köhn, Matt Post (2023)

Two Decades of the ACL Anthology: Development, Impact, and Open Challenges Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software (NLP-OSS 2023), p. 83-94 (Conference paper)

https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.nlposs-1.10

2021

Marcel Bollmann, Rahul Aralikatte, Héctor Murrieta Bello, Daniel Hershcovich, Miryam de Lhoneux, Anders Søgaard (2021)

Moses and the Character-Based Random Babbling Baseline: CoAStaL at AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, p. 248-254 (Conference paper)

https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.28

Marcel Bollmann, Anders Søgaard (2021)

Error Analysis and the Role of Morphology Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1887-1900 (Conference paper)

https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.162

2020

Marcel Bollmann, Desmond Elliott (2020)

On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers: An Analysis of the ACL Anthology Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 7819-7827 (Conference paper)

https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.699

About the division

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Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems (AIICS)

The AIICS division is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division's main focus is research and teaching in artificial intelligence, its theoretical foundations and its applications.

Colleagues at AIICS