
AI & Machine Learning Research with Meaningful Impact
I am curious about the foundations of computational intelligence, specifically methodologies that bridge the areas of connectionist and symbolic learning applied to real-world AI, Machine Learning and NLP applications. I am passioned about enabling an open and interdisciplinary research and…

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…