Michael Spranger
2026
The Data Acquisition Framework: Bridging Psychometrics and NLP for Personality Dataset Construction
Lorenz Dumanski | Michael Spranger | Melanie Siegel
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Context (SoCon) and the 2nd Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) @ LREC 2026
Lorenz Dumanski | Michael Spranger | Melanie Siegel
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Context (SoCon) and the 2nd Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) @ LREC 2026
Existing datasets for personality recognition in Natural Language Processing (NLP) suffer from documented quality problems: self-reported labels lacking psychometric validation, limited domain diversity and lack of context. Despite these known limitations, state-of-the-art approaches continue relying on the same datasets due to absence of alternatives. We present the Data Acquisition Framework (DAF), which addresses this gap by systematically translating psychometric questionnaire items into controlled communication scenarios through expert-community validation. DAF-items, validated scenario descriptions with contextual parameters, are deployed via the Automatic Data Acquisition and Annotation Tool (ADAAT). Participants complete personality surveys and engage in scenario-based text interactions with LLM personas configured to the DAF-Item context. This yields communication data with direct, item-level psychometric annotations.
2025
Overview of the GermEval 2025 Shared Task on Harmful Content Detection
Jenny Felser | Michael Spranger | Melanie Siegel
Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Workshops
Jenny Felser | Michael Spranger | Melanie Siegel
Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Workshops
2021
Automatically Identifying Online Grooming Chats Using CNN-based Feature Extraction
Svenja Preuß | Luna Pia Bley | Tabea Bayha | Vivien Dehne | Alessa Jordan | Sophie Reimann | Fina Roberto | Josephine Romy Zahm | Hanna Siewerts | Dirk Labudde | Michael Spranger
Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021)
Svenja Preuß | Luna Pia Bley | Tabea Bayha | Vivien Dehne | Alessa Jordan | Sophie Reimann | Fina Roberto | Josephine Romy Zahm | Hanna Siewerts | Dirk Labudde | Michael Spranger
Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021)
2017
External Evaluation of Event Extraction Classifiers for Automatic Pathway Curation: An extended study of the mTOR pathway
Wojciech Kusa | Michael Spranger
Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop
Wojciech Kusa | Michael Spranger
Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop
This paper evaluates the impact of various event extraction systems on automatic pathway curation using the popular mTOR pathway. We quantify the impact of training data sets as well as different machine learning classifiers and show that some improve the quality of automatically extracted pathways.
2016
Measuring the State of the Art of Automated Pathway Curation Using Graph Algorithms - A Case Study of the mTOR Pathway
Michael Spranger | Sucheendra Palaniappan | Samik Gosh
Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Michael Spranger | Sucheendra Palaniappan | Samik Gosh
Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing