Virtual Knowledge Factory
Overview
The Virtual Knowledge Factory (Virtuelle Wissensfabrik) was a project of the state Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany),
which started in May 1996 and ended in June 1999.
The project was divided into three working groups (AGs): AG I
(Man Machine Interaction),
AG II (Structuring and Searching Information), and
AG III (Communication).
The chair Computer Science VII at the University of Hagen was part of AG II and developed and
implemented a natural language interface (NLI) to multimedia
databases for the High Performance Query Server (HPQS).
Tasks
These are the main tasks that the chair Intelligent Information and Communication Systems was working on for the AG II (Structuring and Searching Information) of the Virtual Knowledge Factory:
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Word-class controlled functional analysis (WCFA): a syntactic-semantic parser for the German language (see for example Helbig and Hartrumpf (1997))
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Lexicon: construction of a sufficiently large computational lexicon for the German language
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Graphical User Interface (GUI): the design and implementation of a WWW interface for the HPQS
Useful Links
Related Publications
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Knoll etal. (1998b)
- Knoll, A.; Altenschmidt, C.; Biskup, J.; Blüthgen, H.-M.; Glöckner, I.;
Hartrumpf, S.; Helbig, H.; Henning, C.; Lüling, R.; Monien, B.; Noll, T.;
Sensen, N. (1998). An integrated approach to semantic evaluation and content-based
retrieval of multimedia documents. In: Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL'98) (edited by Nikolaou, C.; Stephanidis, C.), number 1513 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 409-428, Berlin, Springer. PDF (SpringerLink)
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Hartrumpf (1997)
- Hartrumpf, Sven (1997). Partial evaluation for efficient access to inheritance lexicons. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent
Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-97), pp. 43-50, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria. cmp-lg/9808013 in the Computation and Language E-Print Archive
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Helbig and Hartrumpf (1997)
- Helbig, Hermann; Hartrumpf, Sven (1997). Word class functions for syntactic-semantic analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent
Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-97), pp. 312-317, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria. PDF
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Hartrumpf and Schulz (1997)
- Hartrumpf, Sven; Schulz, Marion (1997). Reducing lexical redundancy by augmenting conceptual knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual German Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (KI-97) (edited by Brewka, Gerhard; Habel, Christopher; Nebel, Bernhard), number 1303 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 393-396, Berlin. Springer. PDF
Sven Hartrumpf - Intelligent Information and Communication Systems (IICS) - FernUniversität in Hagen © 1997-2009
