LinkedHealthAnswers: Towards Linked Data-driven Question Answering for the Health Care Domain
Abstract: This paper presents Linked Health Answers, a natural language question answering systems that utilizes health data drawn from the Linked Data Cloud. The contributions of this paper are three-fold: Firstly, we review existing state-of-the-art NLP platforms and components, with a special…
AAAI 2014 Fall Symposium: Natural Language Access to Big Data (NLA2BD)
November 13–15, 2014. Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia adjacent to Washington, DC. Motivation and Scope: Today’s enterprises need to make decisions based on analyzing massive and heterogeneous data sources. More and more aspects of decision making are driven by…
Natural Language Access to Enterprise Data
Abstract: This paper describes USI Answers — a natural language question answering system for enterprise data. We report on the progress towards the goal of offering easy access to enterprise data to a large number of business users, most of…
USI Answers: Natural Language Question Answering Over (Semi-) Structured Industry Data
Abstract: The paper reports on the progress towards the goal of offering easy access to enterprise data to a large number of business users, most of whom are not familiar with the specific syntax or semantics of the underlying data…
Market Intelligence: Linked Data-driven Entity Resolution for Customer and Competitor Analysis
Abstract: In this paper, we present a linked data-driven method for named entity recognition and disambiguation which is applied within an industry customer and competitor analysis application. The proposed algorithm primarily targets the domain of geoparsing and geocoding, but it…
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…
Knowledge Enhanced Embodied Cognitive Interaction Technology (KnowCIT)
CITEC – Cognitive Interaction Technology – Center of Excellence Summary The project has built a technology which enables artificial agents to explore “crowdsourced” knowledge resources generated by large communities of web users. Project: Knowledge Enhanced Embodied Cognitive Interaction Technology Supervisor(s): Ipke…
German Polarity Clues
A Lexical Resource for German Sentiment Analysis: Feel free to use/download the GermanPolarityClues dictionary A new publicly available lexical resource for sentiment analysis for the German language The resource offers a number of 10.141 polarity features, associated to three numerical…
WikiQA – Question Answering
WikiQA is a German open domain question answering system that uses the Wikipedia as a knowledge base to answer natural language questions. It has been developed by the KnowCIT project (Artificial Intelligence Group) within the CITEC at Bielefeld University. Using…
Sticky: Siemens Corporate Technology
As of Januar 2012, I am a project manager and research engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich. Since October 2010 I was working at the Artificial Intelligence Group at Bielefeld University doing my post-doctoral research at the Excellence Cluster…
