Michael Strube

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Michael Strube is a researcher in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics. He serves as the Group Leader of the Natural Language Processing group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and holds an honorary professorship at the Computational Linguistics Department of Heidelberg University. Michael Strube’s research encompasses a wide range of topics in NLP, including coreference resolution, discourse coherence modeling, automatic summarization, information extraction, and natural language generation. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1996 and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. He served as the Scientific Director of HITS from 2017 to 2018 and was a Program Co-Chair for the ACL-IJCNLP 2015 conference in Beijing, the general chair for the EACL 2024 conference in Malta. In recognition of his significant contributions to the field, Michael Strube was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2019.