As of June 1st, 2008, I'm now working as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. Coinciding with the new position, I'm also building a new website, www.semanticsoftware.info. There are two main ideas behind this website: First, to inform about the research and teaching activities of my Semantic Software Lab, which I'm establishing at Concordia; and second, to establish a community portal for selected topics in the area of semantic systems — for example, for people interested in the applications of NLP in software engineering.

We extended the paper submission deadline for our workshop on Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM) to April 25th.

Together with Jürgen Rilling, Dragan Gašević, and Jeff Z. Pan I'm organizing the first International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM 2008), which will be co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Detailed information on the workshop, submission guidelines, and other news are now available from the workshop's webpage.

Together with Juergen Rilling from Concordia University and Philippe Charland from the DRDC Canada I'm organizing a workshop at CASCON 2007: Traceability in Software Engineering—Past, Present and Future. It's on October 25 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, Ontario, Canada.

I'm happy to announce the first public release of our free/open source Durm Lemmatization System for the German language. The release comes with source code, binaries, documentation, resources (German lexicon, Case Tagger probabilities), and manually annotated texts from the German Wikipedia for evaluation.

I just posted a small update to my multi-lingual noun phrase chunker (MuNPEx) for GATE. Changes in v0.2 are: o preliminary Spanish support (see below) o renamed from "NPE" to "MuNPEx" in a blatant attempt on Googlewhacking o small cleanups o now comes with a sample NE transducer for number markup to improve chunking Supported languages are now English, German, French, and Spanish (beta).

A new technical report on Text Mining (in German) is now available. This is a collection of reports written by students within a Hauptseminar, which was given by yours truly and Jutta Mülle at Universität Karlsruhe, Germany.