Semantic annotation is a crucial part of achieving the vision of the Semantic Web and has
long been a research topic among various communities. The most challenging problem in …

We present a new freely available corpus for German distant speech recognition and report
speaker-independent word error rate (WER) results for two open source speech recognizers …

An approach is proposed for Chinese spelling error detection and correction, in which an
inverted index list with a rescoring mechanism is used. The inverted index list is a structure …

Most of the previous works on relation extraction between named entities are often limited to
extracting the pre-defined types; which are inefficient for massive unlabeled text data …

The goal of my thesis is the extension of the Distributional Hypothesis [13] from the word to
the concept level. This will be achieved by creating data-driven methods to create and apply …

Digital libraries allow us to organize a vast amount of publications in a structured way and to
extract information of user's interest. In order to support customized use of digital libraries …

Standard web crawlers download all web documents reachable from a set of seed URLs. A
breadth-first search like this is ineffective for corpus generation because in this case we are …