
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…

Ontology-based translation of natural language queries to SPARQL
Abstract: We present an implemented approach to transform natural language sentences into SPARQL, using background knowledge from ontologies and lexicons. Therefore, eligible technologies and data storage possibilities are analyzed and evaluated. The contributions of this paper are twofold. Firstly, we…

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 whom…