Tillmann Dönicke

Researcher, PhD Student

Current Projects

• Modes of Narration and Attribution
• Uncertain Attribution

Specialist Fields

• natural language processing, esp. for digital humanities
• formal semantics and logics
• linguistic typology, esp. syntax

Vita

• 2017–2020: Computational Linguistics (M.Sc.), University of Stuttgart, Germany
• 2017–2018: Linguistics (exchange year), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• 2014–2017: Natural Language Processing (B.Sc.), University of Stuttgart, Germany

Teaching

• WiSe 2022/23, with Franziska Pannach and Stefan Ziehe.
  Lecture+Seminar: Theorien der Digital Humanities ("Chances and Challenges of Language Diversity in DH and NLP")
• WiSe 2021/22, inter alia.
  Lecture: Göttingen Projects in Digital Humanities
• SuSe 2021, inter alia.
  Seminar: Werkzeuge und Methoden der Digital Humanities

Publications

• Tillmann Dönicke (2022).
  Rule-Based Clause-Level Morphology for Multiple Languages.
  In Proceedings of the The 2nd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL).
• Anna Mareike Weimer, Florian Barth, Tillmann Dönicke, Luisa Gödeke, Hanna Varachkina, Anke Holler, Caroline Sporleder, and Benjamin Gittel (2022).
  The (In-)Consistency of Literary Concepts. Operationalising, Annotating and Detecting Literary Comment.
  Journal of Computational Literary Studies.
• Luisa Gödeke, Florian Barth, Tillmann Dönicke, Hanna Varachkina, Anna Mareike Weimer, Benjamin Gittel, Anke Holler, and Caroline Sporleder (2022).
  Generalisierungen als literarisches Phänomen. Charakterisierung, Annotation und automatische Erkennung.
  In: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften.
• Tillmann Dönicke, Florian Barth, Hanna Varachkina, and Caroline Sporleder (2022).
  MONAPipe: Modes of Narration and Attribution Pipeline for German Computational Literary Studies and Language Analysis in spaCy.
  In Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2022).
• Thorben Schomacker, Tillmann Dönicke, and Marina Tropmann-Frick (2022).
  Automatic Identification of Generalizing Passages in German Fictional Texts using BERT with Monolingual and Multilingual Training Data.
  Extended abstract submitted and accepted for the KONVENS 2022 Student Poster Session.
• Florian Barth, Hanna Varachkina, Tillmann Dönicke, and Luisa Gödeke (2022).
  Levels of Non-Fictionality in Fictional Texts.
  In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC2022.
• Hanna Varachkina, Florian Barth, Luisa Gödeke, Anna M. Hofmann, and Tillmann Dönicke (2022).
  Reflexive Passagen und ihre Attribution.
  DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" (DHd 2022).
• Tillmann Dönicke, Hanna Varachkina, Anna M. Weimer, Luisa Gödeke, Florian Barth, Benjamin Gittel, Anke Holler, and Caroline Sporleder (2022).
  Modelling Speaker Attribution in Narrative Texts With Biased and Bias-Adjustable Neural Networks.
  Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
• Tillmann Dönicke (2021).
  Delexicalised Multilingual Discourse Segmentation for DISRPT 2021 and Tense, Mood, Voice and Modality Tagging for 11 Languages.
  In Proceedings of the 2nd Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2021).
• Franziska Pannach and Tillmann Dönicke (2021).
  Cracking a Walnut with a Sledgehammer: XLM-RoBERTa for German Verbal Idiom Disambiguation Tasks.
  In Proceedings of the Shared Task on the Disambiguation of German Verbal Idioms at KONVENS 2021.
• Florian Barth and Tillmann Dönicke (2021).
  Participation in the KONVENS 2021 Shared Task on Scene Segmentation Using Temporal, Spatial and Entity Feature Vectors.
  In Proceedings of the Shared Task on Scene Segmentation.
• Tillmann Dönicke, Luisa Gödeke, and Hanna Varachkina (2021).
  Annotating Quantified Phenomena in Complex Sentence Structures Using the Example of Generalising Statements in Literary Texts.
  In Proceedings of the 17th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation.
• Tillmann Dönicke, Xiang Yu, and Jonas Kuhn (2020).
  Identifying and Handling Cross-Treebank Inconsistencies in UD: A Pilot Study.
  In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies.
• Tillmann Dönicke, Xiang Yu, and Jonas Kuhn (2020).
  Real-Valued Logics for Typological Universals: Framework and Application.
  In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
• Hanna Varachkina, Stefan Ziehe, Tillmann Dönicke, and Franziska Pannach (2020).
  #GCDH at WNUT-2020 Task 2: BERT-Based Models for the Detection of Informativeness in English COVID-19 Related Tweets.
  In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text.
• Tillmann Dönicke (2020).
  Clause-Level Tense, Mood, Voice and Modality Tagging for German.
  In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories.
• Tillmann Dönicke (2020).
  Evaluation of Complex Typological Universals with Language Vectors and Real-Valued Logics.
  Master's thesis, University of Stuttgart.
• Tillmann Dönicke, Florian Lux, and Matthias Damaschk (2019).
  Multiclass Text Classification on Unbalanced, Sparse and Noisy Data.
  In Proceedings of the First NLPL Workshop on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing.