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…
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…
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…
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…
Harvesting Wikipedia Knowledge to Identify Topics in Ongoing Natural Language Dialogs
Title: Harvesting Wikipedia Knowledge to Identify Topics in Ongoing Natural Language Dialogs Authors: Breuing A, Waltinger U, Wachsmuth I Pub/Conf: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2011). IEEE: 445–450. 2011 Abstract: This paper introduces a…
Evolution of Romance Language in Written Communication: Network Analysis of Late Latin and Early Romance Corpora
Title: Evolution of Romance Language in Written Communication: Network Analysis of Late Latin and Early Romance Corpora Authors: Alexander Mehler, Nils Diewald, Ulli Waltinger, Rüdiger Gleim, Dietmar Esch, Barbara Job, Thomas Küchelmann, Olga Pustylnikov, and Philippe Blanchard Pub/Conf: Leonardo, June 2011,…
Talking Topically to the Artificial Agent Max
Title: Talking Topically to the Artificial Agent Max Authors: Breuing A, Waltinger U, Wachsmuth I Pub/Conf: Postersession at the Interdisciplinary College. Sankt Augustin, Germany: 488. 2011 Abstract: How do we recognize a topic in dialog? How can we detect topic shifts?…
