Connecting Question Answering and Conversational Agents: Contextualizing German Questions for Interactive Question Answering Systems
Abstract: Research results in the field of Question Answering (QA) have shown that the classification of natural language questions significantly contributes to the accuracy of the generated answers. In this paper we present an approach which extends the prevalent question…
MLSA – A Multi-layered Reference Corpus for German Sentiment Analysis
Title: MLSA – A Multi-layered Reference Corpus for German Sentiment Analysis Authors: Simon Clematide , Stefan Gindl , Manfred Klenner , Stefanos Petrakis , Robert Remus , Josef Ruppenhofer , Ulli Waltinger , Michael Wiegand Pub/Conf: Proceedings of the Eighth…
Integrating Content and Structure Learning: A Model of Hypertext Zoning and Sounding
Title: Integrating Content and Structure Learning: A Model of Hypertext Zoning and Sounding Authors: Alexander Mehler and Ulli Waltinger Pub/Conf: Modeling, Learning and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures. Mehler A, Henning Lobin and Harald Lüngen and K-UK, Storrer A, Witt…
Internet-based Communication
Title: Internet-based Communication Authors: Ulli Waltinger and Alexa Breuing Pub/Conf: Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Mehler A, Romary L, Gibbon D (Eds);Technical Communication Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2012 Abstract: Today, internet-based communication encompasses a broad range of media services and technologies….
Deciphering the Communicative Code in Speech and Gesture Dialogues by Autoencoding Hypernetworks
Title: Deciphering the Communicative Code in Speech and Gesture Dialogues by Autoencoding Hypernetworks Authors: N. – S. Nam, K. Bergmann, U. Waltinger, S. Kopp, I. Wachsmuth, B. – T. Zhang Pub/Conf: Embodied & Situated Language Processing – ESLP 2011 Abstract: What…
An Empirical Study on Machine Learning-Based Sentiment Classification Using Polarity Clues
Title: An Empirical Study on Machine Learning-Based Sentiment Classification Using Polarity Clues Authors: Ulli Waltinger Pub/Conf: Web Information Systems and Technologies Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Volume 75, 2011, pp 202-214 Abstract: In recent years a variety of approaches…
Digital Fruits For Lunch: Feeding Embodied Conversational Agents With Wikipedia Knowledge
Title: Digital Fruits For Lunch: Feeding Embodied Conversational Agents With Wikipedia Knowledge Authors: Ulli Waltinger, Alexa Breuing, Ipke Wachsmuth Pub/Conf: KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, November 2012, Volume 26, Issue 4, pp 381-390 Abstract: Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and Natural…
Interfacing Virtual Agents With Collaborative Knowledge: Open Domain Question Answering Using Wikipedia-based Topic Models
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the use of conversational agents as an interaction paradigm for accessing open domain encyclopedic knowledge by means of Wikipedia. More precisely, we describe a dialog-based question answering system for German which utilizes Wikipedia-based topic…
