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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/preface.pdf
Welcome to the 5th SwissText and the 16th KONVENS Conference
The field of Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing continues to grow. Conferences
and meetups are witnessing increasing numbers of participants. Many advanced NLP
applications (as for instance chatbots, machine translation, and sentiment analysis) have
found their ways into the mainstream.
SwissText has been organized by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences since 2016 and has
attracted large crowds to Winterthur each year. KONVENS is a bi-annual conference in
Germany and Austria which has been running since 1992, and was now meant to take place
in Switzerland for the first time. We seized this opportunity to combine the application-
oriented SwissText with the more research-oriented KONVENS into a joint conference.
Our original plan was to stage this event as a lively conference at the University of Zurich.
Unfortunately, the Corona crisis forced us to switch to an online format. This is certainly
different from the meeting we had envisioned, but we also see advantages such as easier
participation without travel expenses and reduced climate impact.
Our call for papers asked for scientific papers as well as abstracts for posters and demos. We
received 70 submissions and selected 38 for presentation at the conference. In the online
setting, we removed the distinction between paper and poster presentations. However, in
the proceedings you will find the full papers and abstracts in separate sections.
The conference was accompanied by a tutorial on "Building a local voice assistant with open
source tools" and by the "1st Regional European Language Grid (ELG) Workshop for
Switzerland, Austria, and Germany". In addition, five shared tasks were hosted at the
conference, where the latter four were within the GermEval 2020 Campaign:
• Hierarchical Patent Classification
• Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational Style from Text
• Swiss German Language Detection
• 2nd German Text Summarization Challenge
• Low-Resource Speech-to-Text
We would like to thank our keynote speakers Anya Belz (University of Brighton), Roberto
Navigli (Sapienza University, Rome), and Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research, Paris). Their
perspectives and contributions are much appreciated. A big thank you also to our workshop
organizers and the organizers of the shared tasks, as well as to all members of our programme
committees for their excellent work.
We are grateful to our sponsors and partners, who supported us in this unusual setting. In
particular we would like to acknowledge the generous support by InnoSuisse (the Swiss
Innovation Agency) and our co-organizer, the Swiss Alliance for Data-intensive Services. We
would also like to highlight the flexibility of the city and canton of Zurich, who allowed us to
turn the reception grant into chocolate presents for our speakers. In this way we would like
to share some of the charm of Switzerland with our guests at home.
Last but not least, we would like to thank Manuela Hürlimann and Sarah Ebling, who have
been the main organizers. They were the driving forces of this conference, and they basically
organized two conferences: first an on-premise conference (which had to be cancelled), and
then the online conference. In this endeavour, Manuela and Sarah have been assisted by
Debora, Don, Noëmi, Fernando, Jan, Conny, Katya, Esin, Annette, Pius, and many more for
various tasks. Without them this conference would not have been possible!
It was a great pleasure for us to organize and chair this joint conference. Switching it to an
online format has been an adventure trip. We hope you find it worthwhile.
Mark Cieliebak and Martin Volk
Conference Chairs
Content Guideline
These are the Joint Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) and
the 16th KONVENS Conference. The proceedings consist of three parts:
- Part 1: Full Scientific Papers (peer-reviewed)
- Part 2: Results and System Descriptions of Shared Tasks
- Part 3: Abstracts of Applied Presentations (not peer-reviewed)
The scientific papers were selected in a standard double-blind peer-review process. We
received 36 submissions in the “Scientific Track” of the conference, out of which 14 were
selected by the international program committee.
The conference also had an Applied Track and a Demo Track, where we invited submissions
of results with a strong focus on applications. Submission consisted of a simple one-page
abstract, and were selected by a second program committee which comprised of Swiss
experts in text analytics.
Finally, in the third part of these proceedings, we publish the results of the shared tasks that
were hosted at the conference. For each task, there is a task description paper by the
organizers and the system descriptions by the participants. Note that these papers were not
peer-reviewed.
SwissText&KONVENS 2020 – Organization
The Joint SwissText & KONVENS Conference was organized by the Zurich University of Applied
Sciences (ZHAW) and the University of Zurich (UZH), and co-organized by the Swiss Alliance
for Data-Intensive Services.
Chairs:
Mark Cieliebak and Martin Volk
Main Organizers:
Manuela Hürlimann and Sarah Ebling
Organizing Team:
Annette Zani
Conny Wichser
Debora Beuret
Don Tuggener
Esin Gedik
Fernando Benites
Jan Deriu
Katsiaryna Mlynchyk
Noëmi Aepli
Pius von Däniken
Program Committees
Applied and Demo Track:
- Manfred Vogel, FHNW
- Tim Vor der Brück, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
- Fabio Rinaldi, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
- Roberto Mastropietro, SUPSI
- Martin Jaggi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Jürgen Spielberger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Hatem Ghorbel, University of Applied Sciences HES-SO
- Andrei Popescu-Belis, HEIG-VD / HES-SO
- Thoralf Mildenberger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Don Tuggener, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Fernando Benites, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Egon Werlen, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS)
- Mark Cieliebak, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Maria Sokhn, HEG – Haute école de gestion Arc
- Thilo Stadelmann, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Siegfried Handschuh, University of St. Gallen
- Daniel Pfäffli, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- René Schumann, SGAICO
- Jacky Casas, HES-SO (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland)
Scientific Track:
- Noëmi Aepli, University of Zurich
- Adrien Barbaresi, BBAW
- Valerio Basile, University of Turin
- Fernando Benites, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Chris Biemann, U Hamburg
- Marcel Bollmann, University of Copenhagen
- Ernst Buchberger, Meduni Wien
- Pascual Cantos-Gómez, University of Murcia
- Mark Cieliebak, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Simon Clematide, University of Zurich
- Berthold Crysmann, CNRS
- Ernesto William De Luca, Georg-Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute for international
Textbook Research
- Stefanie Dipper, Bochum University
- Sarah Ebling, University of Zurich
- Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Universidade de Vigo
- Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart
- Serge Heiden, ENS de Lyon
- Manuela Hürlimann, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Martin Jaggi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Manfred Klenner, University of Zurich
- Roman Klinger, University of Stuttgart
- Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin
- Brigitte Krenn, ÖFAI
- Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg
- Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University
- Katja Markert, Heidelberg University
- Roberto Mastropietro, SUPSI
- Alexander Mehler, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
- Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
- Simonetta Montemagni, ILC-CNR
- Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
- Guenter Neumann, DFKI
- Rainer Osswald, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart
- Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS
- Johann Petrak, University of Sheffield
- Hannes Pirker, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) ÖAW
- Andrei Popescu-Belis, HEIG-VD / HES-SO
- Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig
- Ines Rehbein, Leibniz Science Campus
- Georg Rehm, DFKI
- Fabio Rinaldi, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
- Sophie Rosset, LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Tanja Samardzic, University of Zurich
- Felix Sasaki, Cornelsen Verlag GmbH
- Yves Scherrer, University of Helsinki
- Helmut Schmid, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Gerold Schneider, University of Zurich
- Sabine Schulte Im Walde, University of Stuttgart
- Roland Schäfer, FU Berlin
- Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich
- Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam
- Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Ludovic Tanguy, CLLE-ERSS
- Don Tuggener, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
- Manfred Vogel, FHNW
- Martin Volk, University of Zurich
- Tim Vor der Brück, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
- Egon Werlen, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS)
- Magdalena Wolska, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg
Partners
Sponsors