Michael Hess is Professor emeritus of Computational Linguistics. He was a professor of Computational Linguistics from 1994 to 2014, and he headed the Department of Computational Linguistics from its foundation in 2001 to December 2014.

My interests are mainly

• computational semantics (with Answer Extraction as its main application)
• logic programming in its applications to the problems of Computational Linguistics, and 
• web-based methods of teaching (primarily but not exclusively as applied to Computational Linguistics).

Below you can find the notes of the classes I used to teach. They are seriously outdated, and most of the links are dead.

• Einführung in die Computerlinguistik I (PDF, 1.95 MB) (PDF, 1 MB)
• Einführung in die Computerlinguistik II (PDF, 1.25 MB) (PDF, 1 MB)
• Diskursanalysemethoden (PDF, 1.08 MB) (PDF, 1 MB)
• Fortgeschrittene Konzepte der Logikprogrammierung (PDF, 1.02 MB) (PDF, 992 KB)
• Semantikanalyse-Verfahren (PDF, 1.03 MB) (PDF, 1008 KB)