For 2025 call – see German version.

Awardees since 2001

2021

• Master: Marie Bexte (Duisburg): Combined Analysis of Image and Text Using Visio-Linguistic Neural Models – A Case Study on Robustness Within an Educational Scoring Task
• Bachelor: Yannic Bracke (Potsdam): Automatic text classification with imbalanced data – Building a frame classifier from a corpus of editorials

2019

• Master: Isabel Meraner (Zürich): Grasping the Nettle: Neural Entity Recognition for Scientific and Vernacular Plant Names
• Bachelor: Rami Aly (Hamburg): Hierarchical writing genre classification with neural networks

2017

• Master: Mathias Müller (Zürich): Treatment of Markup in Statistical Machine Translation
• Bachelor: Katarina Ragna Krüger (Potsdam): Assessing the Dimensions of Factuality in Biomedical Text

2015

• Master: Edo Collins (Tübingen): Classifying German Noun-Noun Compounds Using Stacked Denoising Autoencoders
• Bachelor: Glorianna Jagfeld (Stuttgart): Towards a Better Semantic Role Labeling of Complex Predicates

2013

• Marcel Bollmann (Bochum): Automatic Normalization for Linguistic Annotation of Historical Language Data

  2011

Christian M. Meyer (Darmstadt): Combining Answers from Heterogenous Web Documents for Question Answering

2009

• Christian Hardmeier (Basel): Using Linguistic Annotations in Statistical Machine Translation of Film Subtitles
• Pierre Lison (Saarbrücken): Robust Processing of Spoken Dialogue

2007

Jette Klein-Berning (Heidelberg): Multilingual Information Retrieval with Latent Semantic Indexing

2005

Hans-Friedrich Witschel (Leipzig): Text, Words, Morphes: Possibilities of Automatic Terminology Extraction

2003

David Reitter (Potsdam): Rhetorical Analysis with Rich-Feature Support Vector Models

2001

Georg Rehm (Osnabrück): Preliminary Considerations for the Automatic Summary of German Texts Using an SGML and DSSSL-Based Representation of RST Relations