Felix Schneider, M.Sc.

Address: | Computer Vision Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2 07743 Jena Germany |
Phone: | +49 (0) 3641 9 46414 |
E-mail: | felix (dot) schneider (at) uni-jena (dot) de |
Room: | 1212 |
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Curriculum Vitae
Since October 2017 | Research Associate at the Computer Vision Group FSU Jena |
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April 2017 – September 2017 | Research Assistant at the Computer Vision Group FSU Jena |
March 2017 | Master Thesis: Coastal data analysis through Graphical Models |
2015-2017 | M.Sc. Studies of Computer Science with focus on Computer Vision |
2015 | Bachelor Thesis: Parallelisierung und Implementierung einer Heuristik zur Bestimmung maximaler Cliquen (Parallelization and implementation of a heuristic to determine maximum cliques) |
2010-2015 | B.Sc. Studies of Computer Science |
Research Interests
Computational Linguistics
- Medieval/Middle High German Literature
- Stylistic Device Detection
- Anomaly Detection
- Natural Language Processing
- Word Embeddings
- Stylometry
Autonomous Driving
- Texture Recognition
- Time Series
- Sensor Fusion
Bachelor and Master Theses
If you are interested in writing your bachelor or master thesis about something related to natural language processing, just send me a mail. If you already have an idea about what you want to do, perfect – if not we can surely work something out. You can also work with more unusual data like medieval stories!
Publications
2023
Hard is the Task, the Samples are Few: A German Chiasmus Dataset
Felix Schneider and Sven Sickert and Phillip Brandes and Sophie Marshall and Joachim Denzler.
Language Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC). 2023. (accepted)
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Felix Schneider and Sven Sickert and Phillip Brandes and Sophie Marshall and Joachim Denzler.
Language Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC). 2023. (accepted)
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In this work we present a novel German language dataset for the detection of the stylistic device called chiasmus collected from German dramas. The dataset includes phrases labeled as chiasmi, antimetaboles, semantically unrelated inversions, and various edge cases. The dataset was created by collecting examples from the GerDraCor dataset. We test different approaches for chiasmus detection on the samples and report an average precision of 0.74 for the best method. Additionally, we give an overview about related approaches and the current state of the research on chiasmus detection.
2022
Metaphor Detection for Low Resource Languages: From Zero-Shot to Few-Shot Learning in Middle High German
Felix Schneider and Sven Sickert and Phillip Brandes and Sophie Marshall and Joachim Denzler.
LREC Workshop on Multiword Expression (LREC-WS). Pages 75-80. 2022.
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Felix Schneider and Sven Sickert and Phillip Brandes and Sophie Marshall and Joachim Denzler.
LREC Workshop on Multiword Expression (LREC-WS). Pages 75-80. 2022.
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In this work, we present a novel unsupervised method for adjective-noun metaphor detection on low resource languages. We propose two new approaches: First, a way of artificially generating metaphor training examples and second, a novel way to find metaphors relying only on word embeddings. The latter enables application for low resource languages. Our method is based on a transformation of word embedding vectors into another vector space, in which the distance between the adjective word vector and the noun word vector represents the metaphoricity of the word pair. We train this method in a zero-shot pseudo-supervised manner by generating artificial metaphor examples and show that our approach can be used to generate a metaphor dataset with low annotation cost. It can then be used to finetune the system in a few-shot manner. In our experiments we show the capabilities of the method in its unsupervised and in its supervised version. Additionally, we test it against a comparable unsupervised baseline method and a supervised variation of it.
2021
Detecting Scenes in Fiction Using the Embedding Delta Signal
Felix Schneider and Björn Barz and Joachim Denzler.
KONVENS Shared Task on Scene Segmentation. 2021.
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Felix Schneider and Björn Barz and Joachim Denzler.
KONVENS Shared Task on Scene Segmentation. 2021.
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Data-Driven Detection of General Chiasmi Using Lexical and Semantic Features
Felix Schneider and Phillip Brandes and Björn Barz and Sophie Marshall and Joachim Denzler.
SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. Pages 96-100. 2021. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.latechclfl-1.11
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Felix Schneider and Phillip Brandes and Björn Barz and Sophie Marshall and Joachim Denzler.
SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. Pages 96-100. 2021. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.latechclfl-1.11
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Automatic detection of stylistic devices is an important tool for literary studies, e.g., for stylometric analysis or argument mining. A particularly striking device is the rhetorical figure called chiasmus, which involves the inversion of semantically or syntactically related words. Existing works focus on a special case of chiasmi that involve identical words in an A B B A pattern, so-called antimetaboles. In contrast, we propose an approach targeting the more general and challenging case A B B’ A’, where the words A, A’ and B, B’ constituting the chiasmus do not need to be identical but just related in meaning. To this end, we generalize the established candidate phrase mining strategy from antimetaboles to general chiasmi and propose novel features based on word embeddings and lemmata for capturing both semantic and syntactic information. These features serve as input for a logistic regression classifier, which learns to distinguish between rhetorical chiasmi and coincidental chiastic word orders without special meaning. We evaluate our approach on two datasets consisting of classical German dramas, four texts with annotated chiasmi and 500 unannotated texts. Compared to previous methods for chiasmus detection, our novel features improve the average precision from 17% to 28% and the precision among the top 100 results from 13% to 35%.
2019
Fusionskonzept zur Reibwertschätzung auf Basis von Wetter- und Fahrbahnzustandsinformationen
Waldemar Jarisa and Roman Henze and Ferit Kücükay and Felix Schneider and Joachim Denzler and Bernd Hartmann.
VDI-Fachtagung Reifen - Fahrwerk - Fahrbahn. 2019. Best Paper Award
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Waldemar Jarisa and Roman Henze and Ferit Kücükay and Felix Schneider and Joachim Denzler and Bernd Hartmann.
VDI-Fachtagung Reifen - Fahrwerk - Fahrbahn. 2019. Best Paper Award
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Die Fahrsicherheit ist ein zentrales Entwicklungsziel in der Automobilindustrie, welches mit dem automatisierten Fahren vor neuen Herausforderungen steht. Um die Fahrsicherheit zu gewährleisten, bedarf es einer genauen Kenntnis der unmittelbaren Fahrumgebung. Die Fahrumgebung setzt sich dabei aus mehreren Komponenten zusammen. Neben der Straßentopologie und den Verkehrsteilnehmern kommt der Kenntnis über den Fahrbahnzustand, in Form von trockenen, nassen oder schnee- und eisbedeckten Straßen, eine große Bedeutung zu. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden in Kooperation mit der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und beauftragt durch die Continental AG Fusionskonzepte zur Fahrbahnzustandsklassifikation entwickelt, welche den Fahrbahnzustand, respektive den Reibwert, innerhalb der Gruppen trocken, nass und winterlich differenzieren. Grundlage für die Modellentwicklung sind Messdaten einer Messkampagne (ca. 6455 km) auf realen Straßen bei unterschiedlichsten Straßenzuständen und Witterungsbedingungen mit einem Versuchsträger des Instituts für Fahrzeugtechnik. Dieser ist in der Lage, auf unterschiedlichen Informationsebenen, bestehend aus digitalen Wetterkarten, Umfelddaten, Kamera- und Fahrdynamikinformationen sowie optional auch Laserdaten, den Fahrbahnzustand zu klassifizieren. Dabei wird jeweils ein Klassifikationsalgorithmus auf Basis der Frontkamera- als auch der Surround-View-Kamerabilder im rechten Außenspiegel verwendet. Die aufgezeichneten Signale werden mit einander fusioniert, um einerseits die Verfügbarkeit und andererseits die Genauigkeit der Fahrbahnzustandsklassifikation zu gewährleisten. Hierzu werden die Möglichkeiten zur frühen Fusion von Kamerabildern unter Berücksichtigung von Kontextwissen, wie z. B. Luft- oder Fahrbahntemperatur mittels Deep-Learning-Ansätzen untersucht. Abschließend wird der Zusammenhang zwischen dem tatsächlichen Fahrbahnzustand und einer maximalen Kraftschlussausnutzung anhand einer repräsentativen Anzahl von ABS-Bremsungen evaluiert.
2018
Aquaplaning - a potential hazard also for Automated Driving
Bernd Hartmann and Thomas Raste and Matthias Kretschmann and Manuel Amthor and Felix Schneider and Joachim Denzler.
ITS automotive nord e.V. (Hrsg.), Braunschweig. 2018.
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Bernd Hartmann and Thomas Raste and Matthias Kretschmann and Manuel Amthor and Felix Schneider and Joachim Denzler.
ITS automotive nord e.V. (Hrsg.), Braunschweig. 2018.
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2017
Modelling ocean parameters through Graphical Models
Felix Schneider and Yanira Guanche and Joachim Denzler.
MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference Aberdeen. Pages 1-6. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084686
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Felix Schneider and Yanira Guanche and Joachim Denzler.
MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference Aberdeen. Pages 1-6. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084686
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