Dr. Don Tuggener

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Machine Learning

Professional development teaching

CAS Machine Intelligence

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML)

Educational background

Computational Linguistics, PhD, University of Zurich, 2016
Computational Linguistics / German, lic. phil, University of Zurich, 2010

Projects

• Virtual Kids - Virtual characters to improve the quality of child interrogations / Team member / Project ongoing
• Chatwebseite für Schutzsuchende mit Informations- und Meldefunktion / Team member / Project completed
• PRISM: Predicting Radicalization Events in Social Media User Timelines / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• DOSSMA – Detection of Suspicious Social Media Activities / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021 (SwissText) / Team member / Project completed
• Interscriber: Turning Dialogues into Actionable Insights / Project leader / Project completed
• SCAI: Smart Contract Analytics using Artificial Intelligence / Deputy project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Mahlow, Cerstin; Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Tuggener, Don,

  2022.

  Extraction of transforming sequences and sentence histories from writing process data : a first step towards linguistic modeling of writing.

  Reading and Writing.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10234-6

• Deriu, Jan; von Däniken, Pius; Tuggener, Don; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2023.

  Correction of errors in preference ratings from automated metrics for text generation [paper].

  In:

  Rogers, Anna; Boyd-Graber, Roger; Okazaki, Naoaki, eds.,

  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023.

  61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 6456-6474.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.404

• Deriu, Jan Milan; Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2022.

  Probing the robustness of trained metrics for conversational dialogue systems [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

  60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 22-27 May 2022.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 750-761.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-short.85

• Tuggener, Don; Mieskes, Margot; Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2021.

  Are we summarizing the right way? : a survey of dialogue summarization data sets [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Third Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization.

  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (online), 7-11 November 2021.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 107-118.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23506

• Benites, Fernando; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Vogel, Manfred, eds.,

  2021.

  Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021.

  6th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2021, Online, 14-16 June 2021.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  .

  Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2957/

• Tuggener, Don; Aghaebrahimian, Ahmad,

  2021.

  The Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG text (SEPP-NLG) shared task 2021 [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021.

  Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2021, Online, 14-16 June 2021.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23258

• Deriu, Jan Milan; Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Campos, Jon Ander; Rodrigo, Alvaro; Belkacem, Thiziri; Soroa, Aitor; Agirre, Eneko; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2020.

  Spot The Bot : a robust and efficient framework for the evaluation of conversational dialogue systems [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Online, 16-20 November 2020.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 3971-3984.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.326

• Ebling, Sarah; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, Mark; Volk, Martin, eds.,

  2020.

  Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS).

  5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS Joint Conference, Zurich (online), 24-25 June 2020.

  .

  Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/

• Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Peetz, Thomas; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2020.

  LEDGAR : a large-scale multi-label corpus for text classification of legal provisions in contracts [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020).

  12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France, 11-16 May 2020.

  European Language Resources Association.

  pp. 1235-1241.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20087

• Siddiqui, Nadina; Metzler, Linus; Tuggener, Don; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2018.

  A framework for text analytics with visual exploration and machine learning [poster].

  In:

  Fachkonferenz Technik, Architektur und Life Sciences (FTAL), Lugano, 18.-19. Oktober 2018.

• Sugisaki, Kyoko; Tuggener, Don,

  2018.

  German compound splitting using the compound productivity of morphemes [paper].

  In:

  Barbaresi, Adrien; Biber, Hanno; Neubarth, Friedrich; Osswald, Rainer, eds.,

  14th Conference on Natural Language Processing - KONVENS 2018.

  14th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2018), Vienna, Austria, 19-21 September 2018.

  Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

  pp. 141-147.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4974

• Grubenmann, Ralf; Tuggener, Don; von Däniken, Pius; Deriu, Jan Milan; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2018.

  SB-CH : a Swiss German corpus with sentiment annotations [poster].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018.

  11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, 7-12 May 2018.

  European Language Resources Association.

• Bühler, Judith; Hartmann, Andrea; Tuggener, Don; Cieliebak, Mark; Baier, Dirk,

  2023.

  Safety-for-refugees.ch: eine Informations- und Meldewebseite für Ukraine-Flüchtlinge : Schlussbericht.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28901

• von Däniken, Pius; Deriu, Jan Milan; Tuggener, Don; Cieliebak, Mark,

  2022.

  On the effectiveness of automated metrics for text generation systems [paper].

  In:

  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022.

  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 7-11 December 2022.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 1503-1522.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27042

• Cieliebak, Mark; Tuggener, Don; Benites, Fernando, eds.,

  2019.

  Proceedings of the 4th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference.

  SwissText 2019, Winterthur, 18-19 June 2019.

  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

  .

  Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2458/

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

R. Mazza, L. Ambrosini, N. Catenazzi, S. Vanini, D. Tuggener, G. Tavarnesi (2018). Behavioural Simulator for Professional Training Based on Natural Language Interaction. In: EDULEARN18 Proceedings, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 2nd-4th July, 2018, 3204-3214.

Tuggener, Don; Businger, Martin (2018). Needles in Haystacks: Semi-Automatic Identification of Regional Grammatical Variation in Standard German. In: Fuß, Eric et al. (Hrsg.): Grammar and Corpora 2016, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.361.509

Klenner, Manfred; Clematide, Simon; Tuggener, Don (2017). Verb-mediated Composition of Attitude Relations Comprising Reader and Writer Perspective. In: 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Budapest, 17 April 2017 - 23 April 2017.

Luong, Ngoc Quang; Popescu-Belis, Andrei; Rios, Annette; Tuggener, Don (2017). Machine Translation of Spanish Personal and Possessive Pronouns Using Anaphora Probabilities. In: 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, 5 April 2017 - 7 April 2017, 631-636.

Rios, Annette; Tuggener, Don (2017). Co-reference Resolution of Elided Subjects and Possessive Pronouns in Spanish-English Statistical Machine Translation. In: 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, 3 April 2017 - 7 April 2017, 657-662.

Tuggener, Don (2017). A method for in-depth comparative evaluation: How (dis)similar are outputs of POS taggers, dependency parsers and coreference resolvers really?. In: 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, 3 April 2017 - 7 April 2017, 188-198.

Klenner, Manfred; Tuggener, Don; Clematide, Simon (2017). Stance Detection in Facebook Posts of a German Right-wing Party. In: LSDSem 2017/LSD-Sem Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, Valencia, 3 April 2017 - 3 April 2017.

Tuggener, Don. Incremental Coreference Resolution for German. 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

Tuggener, Don; Klenner, Manfred (2014). A Hybrid Entity-Mention Pronoun Resolution Model for German Using Markov Logic Networks. In: KONVENS 2014, Hildesheim, 8 October 2014 - 10 October 2014, 21-29.

Tuggener, Don (2014). Coreference resolution evaluation for higher level applications. In: 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 April 2014 - 30 April 2014, 231-235.

Schneider, Gerold; Clematide, Simon; Ellendorff, Tilia; Tuggener, Don; Rinaldi, Fabio; Grigonyte, Gintare (2013). UZH in BioNLP 2013. In: Proceedings of the BioNLP Shared Task 2013 Workshop, Sophia, Bulgaria, 9 August 2013 - 9 August 2013, 116-120.

Tuggener, Don; Klenner, Manfred (2012). Non-negative Matrix Factorisation-based Verb Semantics for 3rd Person Pronoun Resolution. In: 2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Semantic Computing, Palermo, 19 September 2012 - 21 September 2012, 250-254.

Tuggener, Don; Klenner, Manfred (2012). Non-negative matrix factorisation-based verb semantics for personal pronoun resolution. In: Sixth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2012), Palermo, 19 September 2012 - 21 September 2012.

Klenner, M; Tuggener, D (2011). An incremental entity-mention model for coreference resolution with restrictive antecedent accessibility. In: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2011), Hissar, Bulgaria, 12 September 2011 - 14 September 2011, 178-185.

Klenner, M; Tuggener, D (2011). An incremental model for coreference resolution with restrictive antecedent accessibility. In: CoNLL-2011 Shared Task, Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 June 2011 - 24 June 2011, 81-85.

Tuggener, D; Klenner, M; Schneider, G; Clematide, S; Rinaldi, Fabio (2011). An incremental model for the coreference resolution task of BioNLP 2011. In: BioNLP 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 June 2011 - 24 June 2011, 151-152.

Klenner, M; Tuggener, D; Fahrni, A (2010). Inkrementelle Koreferenzanalyse für das Deutsche. In: KONVENS 2010, Saarbrücken, 6 September 2010 - 8 September 2010, 37-46.

Klenner, M; Tuggener, D; Fahrni, A; Sennrich, R (2010). Anaphora Resolution with Real Preprocessing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6233:215-225.

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