Publications of Rainer Osswald

Publications of Rainer Osswald


Doctoral Dissertation

A Logic of Classification - with Applications to Linguistic Theory. University of Hagen, Department of Computer Science, Hagen, September, 2002. (Informatik-Bericht 303 - 9/2003, FernUniversität in Hagen) [623 kB ps.gz, 1.6 MB pdf]


Papers / Posters / Abstracts

[with Hermann Helbig]
Question Answering and Natural Language Database Access. In: Dictionaries. An international encyclopedia of lexicography. Supplementary volume: Recent developments with special focus on computational lexicography, eds. Rufus H. Gouws, Ulrich Heid, Wolfgang Schweickard, and Herbert Ernst Wiegand. De Gruyter, To appear. [Preprint, 108 kB pdf]

The representation of verb meaning in large-scale lexical resources (Poster). Presented at: 30. Jahrestagung der DGfS, Bamberg, February 27 - 29, 2008. [29 kB pdf]

[with Hermann Helbig and Ingo Glöckner]
Layer structures and conceptual hierarchies in semantic representations for NLP. In: Proceedings of CICLing 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4919, Springer, 2008, pp. 171-182.

- 2007 -

[with Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig, and Johannes Leveling]
Automatic semantic analysis for NLP applications. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 26(2):241-266, 2007.

Toward a conceptual representation of verb meanings (Abstract). Presented at: International Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science, Düsseldorf, August 20 - 22, 2007. [72 kB pdf]

[with Richard Socher and Chris Biemann]
Combining Contexts in Lexicon Learning for Semantic Parsing. Proceedings of NODALIDA 2007, [359 kB pdf] pp. 175-182.

- 2006 -

[with Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig, and Johannes Leveling]
An Architecture for Controlling Simple Language in Web Pages. In: eMinds: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction, 1(2):93-112, 2006.

[with Ingo Glöckner, Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig, and Johannes Leveling]
An Architecture for Rating and Controlling Text Readability. Proceedings of KONVENS 2006, [77 kB pdf] pp. 32-35.

On Formal Objects. In: Foundations of the Formal Sciences IV - The History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences, eds. Benedikt Löwe, Volker Peckhaus, and Thoralf Räsch. Studies in Logic 3, College Publications, London. 2006. pp. 183-198 [117 kB pdf]

Constructing Lexical Semantic Hierarchies from Binary Semantic Features. In: Contributions to ICCS 2006 - 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures. Aalborg, Denmark, July 16-21, 2006. Aalborg University Press, 2006, pp. 131-144. [280 kB pdf]

[with Constantin Jenge, Sven Hartrumpf, and Hermann Helbig]
Automatic Control of Simple Language in Web Pages. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4061, Springer, 2006, pp. 207-214. [123 kB pdf]

[with Sven Hartrumpf and Hermann Helbig]
The Representation of German Prepositional Verbs in a Semantically Based Computer Lexicon. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genua, Italy, 2006, pp. 461-464. [91 kB pdf]

[with Sven Hartrumpf and Hermann Helbig]
Semantic Interpretation of Prepositions for NLP Applications. In: Proceedings of the 3rd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, Trento, Italy, 2006, pp. 29-36. [124 kB pdf]

[with Chris Biemann]
Automatic Extension of Feature-based Semantic Lexicons via Contextual Attributes. In: From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering - Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., eds. M. Spiliopoulou, R. Kruse, C. Borgelt, A. Nürnberger, and W. Gaul. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Springer, 2006, pp. 326-333. [211 kB pdf]

- 2005 -

A Categorical Framework for Translating between Conceptual Hierarchies. In: Proceedings of the KI-2005 Workshop on Foundational Aspects of Ontologies, eds. Pascal Hitzler, Carsten Lutz, and Gerd Stumme. Koblenz, September 11, 2005. Fachberichte Informatik 9/2005, Universität Koblenz-Landau. pp. 17-33. [314 kB pdf]

Translations between Concept Hierarchies over Different Attribute Sets. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Concept Lattices and their Applications. Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 6-9, 2005, pp. 92-106. [277 kB pdf]

[with Chris Biemann]
Automatische Erweiterung eines semantikbasierten Lexikons durch Bootstrapping auf großen Korpora. In: Sprachtechnologie, mobile Kommunikation und linguistische Ressourcen. Beiträge zur GLDV-Tagung 2005, eds. Bernhard Fisseni, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Berhard Schröder, and Petra Wagner. Computer Studies in Language and Speech 8, Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 15-27.

[with Ingo Glöckner and Sven Hartrumpf]
From GermaNet Glosses to Formal Meaning Postulates. In: Sprachtechnologie, mobile Kommunikation und linguistische Ressourcen. Beiträge zur GLDV-Tagung 2005, eds. Bernhard Fisseni, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Berhard Schröder, and Petra Wagner. Computer Studies in Language and Speech 8, Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 394-407.

Assertions, Conditionals, and Defaults. In: Conditionals, Information, and Inference: International Workshop,WCII 2002, Revised Selected Papers, eds. Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Wilhelm Rödder, and Friedhelm Kulmann. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3301, Springer, 2005, pp. 108-130. [306 kB ps.gz]

Implicit Creation Verbs (Abstract). Presented at: DGfS-Workshop on Lexical Encoding of Implicit Information, Köln, February 23 - 25, 2005. [23 kB ps]

Concept Hierarchies from a Logical Point of View. In: Supplementary Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Formal Concpept Analysis, eds. Bernhard Ganter, Robert Godin, and Engelbert Mephu Nguifo. IUT de Lens - Universite d'Artois, France, February 14-18, 2005. [496 kB ps.gz]

[with Hermann Helbig]
Derivational Semantics in HaGenLex - An Interim Report. In: Semantik im Lexikon, eds. Stefan Langer and Daniel Schnorbusch. Narr, 2005, pp. 87-127.

On Result Nominalization in German. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9, eds. Emar Maier, Corien Bary, and Janneke Huitink. NCS, Nijmegen, 2005. pp. 256-270.

- 2004 -

Two Views on Building Conceptual Hierarchies. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Conditionals, Information, and Inference, Ulm, September 21, 2004. pp. 29-42.

Eine Werkbank zur Erstellung und Pflege des semantikbasierten Computerlexikons HaGenLex. Proceedings of KONVENS 2004, Schriftenreihe der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence, Band 5. [60 kB ps.gz] pp. 149-152.

Die Verwendung von GermaNet zur Pflege und Erweiterung des Computerlexikons HaGenLex. In: LDV Forum - Anwendungen des deutschen Wortnetzes in Theorie und Praxis, eds. Claudia Kunze, Lothar Lemnitzer, and Andreas Wagner. 19(1/2), 2004, pp. 43-51. [47 kB ps.gz]

- 2003 -

[with Sven Hartrumpf and Hermann Helbig]
The Semantically Based Computer Lexicon HaGenLex - Structure and Technological Environment. In: Traitement automatique des langues, 44(2), 2003, pp. 81-105.

[with Wiebke Petersen]
A Logical Approach to Data Driven Classification. In: KI-2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, eds. Andreas Günter, Rudolf Kruse, and Bernd Neumann. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2821, Springer, 2003, pp. 267-281. [400 kB ps.gz]

Generic Ontology of Linguistic Classification. In: Foundations of the Formal Sciences II - Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics, eds. Benedikt Löwe, Wolfgang Malzkorn, and Thoralf Räsch. Trends in Logic 17, Kluwer, 2003, pp. 203-212.

- 2002 -

[with Wiebke Petersen]
Induction of Classifications from Linguistic Data. In: Proceedings of the ECAI-Workshop on Advances in Formal Concept Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Lyon, July 23, 2002 [219 kB pdf]

On Observations, Conditionals, and Defaults (Extended Abstract). In: Preproceedings of the Workshop on Conditionals, Information, and Inference, Hagen, May 13-15, 2002, pp. 109-115

- 2001 -

Classifying Classification. In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FGMOL-01), Helsinki, August 10-12, 2001, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 53. [261 kB pdf, 375 kB ps]

- 1999 -

Semantics for Attribute-Value Theories. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, December 18-21, 1999, pp. 199-204 [159 kB ps]

[with Ralf Naumann]
A Dynamic Modal Arrow Logic for the Analysis of Aspectual Phenomena in Natural Language. In: Proceedings of the Third International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, Batumi, Georgia, September 12-16, 1999 [265 kB ps.gz]

On Conditional Information in Feature-Based Theories. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL-6), Orlando, FL, July 23-25, 1999, pp. 89-104 [213 kB ps]

[with Ralf Naumann]
Aspects of `Until'. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-3), Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 13-15, 1999, pp. 191-203 [203 kB ps]

- 1997 -

Grammatisches Sprachkönnen und psychische Realität. In: Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (KogWis97), Jena, Germany, September 24-27, 1997, pp. 145-147 [86 kB ps]


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