Welcome

I am currently a third year PhD student in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I am working on text genre classification across languages and topics under the supervision of Bonnie Webber and Victor Lavrenko. More generally, I am interested in the areas of text mining, information retrieval, multilingual language processing and domain adaptation for NLP. At the moment, I am the teaching assistant for the Text Technologies MSc course. Also, I am a member of the Text Analysis and Presentation reading group.

I moved to Edinburgh for my MSc in Artificial Intelligence in 2008. Before that, I graduated from Universities in England and Germany.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed:

• Philipp Petrenz and Bonnie Webber. 2012. Robust cross-lingual genre classification through comparable corpora. In Proceedings of the BUCC Workshop at LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. [PDF] [Complementary Material] [bib]
  
  @inproceedings{petrenz2012robust, title={Robust Cross-Lingual Genre Classification through Comparable Corpora}, author={Petrenz, P. and Webber, B.}, booktitle={The 5th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora}, pages={1}, year={2012} }
• Philipp Petrenz. 2012. Cross-Lingual Genre Classification. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2012, Avignon, France. Association for Computational Linguistics. [PDF] [bib]
  
  @InProceedings{petrenz:2012:SRWEACL2012, author = {Petrenz, Philipp}, title = {Cross-Lingual Genre Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, month = {April}, year = {2012}, address = {Avignon, France}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {11--21}, url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E12-3002} }
• Philipp Petrenz and Bonnie Webber. 2011. Stable Classification of Text Genres. Computational Linguistics 37:2, pages 385-393. [PDF] [Complementary Material] [bib]
  
  @article{petrenz2011stable, title={Stable classification of text genres}, author={Petrenz, P. and Webber, B.}, journal={Computational Linguistics}, volume={37}, number={2}, pages={385--393}, year={2011}, publisher={MIT Press} }

Other Publications:

• Philipp Petrenz. 2009. Assessing approaches to Genre Classification. MSc Dissertation. [PDF] [bib]
  
  @phdthesis{petrenz2009assessing, title={Assessing approaches to genre classification}, author={Petrenz, P.}, year={2009}, school={M. Sc. thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh} }

Contact

You can usually find me in room 4.23 of the Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB.
E-Mail username: P.Petrenz domain: sms.ed.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 4437