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Manfred Stede is a professor of applied computational linguistics at Potsdam University. He specializes in theoretical and computational approaches to phenomena of discourse structure, with a focus on analyzing argumentative text. For the past few years, he has been collaborating with social scientists on applying discourse-level NLP to a variety of text genres (psychiatry, education science, political science).