
Talk: Web Summit – How companies and entrepreneurs can work for a sustainable future, Lisbon, Portugal, 6th November
What a great opening of the WebSummit 2019 and it`s #startup and #entrepreneurial ecosystem – #AI, #Geeks, and passion for #Innovation everywhere. Kudos to Christian Mio Loclair and #WaltzBinare for the interactive demonstrator at our Siemens booth #immerseyourself – combining…

Smart Data Access: Semantic Web Technologies for Energy Diagnostics
Abstract: In today‘s (big) data-intensive world, scalable technologies enabling the efficient management, storage and analysis of large data set are needed. However, the underlying logic of the emerging data-driven business is very different to the established understanding of the traditional…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…