Roman Klinger is a professor at the Faculty for Information Systems and Applied Computer Science (WIAI) at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg. He received his venia legendi in computer science with a habilitation thesis on modeling affect in text. He holds a Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Computer Science (with a minor in Psychology) and a Ph.D. in computer science (“Dr. rer. nat”), both from the TU Dortmund. Previous affiliations include the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Bielefeld and the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing. Research stays and visits brought him to the information extraction and synthesis laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, headed by Prof. Andrew McCallum and the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Malta. In 2015, he cofounded the Semalytix GmbH (exit in 2020).

Roman Klinger’s research focus is nowadays the modeling of psychological concepts in text, with applications to emotion analysis and argument mining. The developed methods find application in a variety of domains, including social media, news, scientific texts and others, for the benefit of applications and interdisciplinary research spanning from bioinformatics to computational social sciences, digital humanities as well as methodological contributions to machine learning, particularly probabilistic approaches and structured learning.

His Erdös number is 3, via these papers, his Bacon number is 3, and the Kardashian Index is 2.31.