AI & Machine Learning with Meaningful Impact
My research connects the concepts and methods of social networks and the semantic web with machine learning and natural language processing. I am interested in combining human intelligence with artificial intelligence methodologies. I am specifically interested in methods that bridge the areas of connectionism and symbolic models applied to real-world applications
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…
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…
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…
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….
Building a DDC-annotated Corpus from OAI Metadata
Title: Building a DDC-annotated Corpus from OAI Metadata Authors: Mathias Lösch, Ulli Waltinger, Wolfram Horstmann, Alexander Mehler Pub/Conf: Journal of Digital Information 12(2). Abstract: Document servers complying to the standards of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) are rich, yet seldom exploited…
Hierarchical Classification of OAI Metadata Using the DDC Taxonomy
Title: Hierarchical Classification of OAI Metadata Using the DDC Taxonomy Authors: Ulli Waltinger, Alexander Mehler, Mathias Lösch, Wolfram Horstmann Pub/Conf: Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6699, 2011, pp 29-40 Abstract: In the area…
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?…
SFB 673 – X1: Multimodal alignment corpora: statistical modeling and information management
SFB 673 – Alignment in Communication Summary X1 – Multimodal alignment corpora: statistical modeling and information management. Project: X1: Multimodal alignment corpora: statistical modeling and information management Supervisor(s): Alexander Mehler, Hannes Rieser, Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer Co-Member(s): Rüdiger Gleim, Peter Menke Affiliated:…
