Fachbereich für Informatik und Mathematik
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
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Alexander Mehler is professor of Computational Humanities / Text Technology at Goethe University Frankfurt where he heads the Text Technology Lab (TTLab). He belonged to the executive committee of the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology where he headed the research group on Quantitative Corpus Linguistics. Alexander Mehler was head of the research group Computational Semiotics of the German Society of Semiotics and belonged to the executive committee of the LOEWE Priority Program Digital Humanities. He was member of the executive committee of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Sciences (CEDIFOR). Alexander Mehler is a founding member of the German Society for Network Research (DGNet). His research interests include the quantitative analysis, simulative synthesis and formal modeling of textual units in spoken and written communication. To this end, he investigates linguistic networks based on contemporary and historical languages (using models of language evolution). A current research interest of Alexander Mehler concerns 4D text technologies based on Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Augmented Virtuality (AV).
Projects
Description
BibTeX
@project{new-data-spaces,
name = {New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences},
abstract = {In order to more precisely research the major societal challenges
of the coming decades, including digitization, climate change,
and war- and pandemic-related societal changes, and to be able
to identify the need for political action on this basis, the social
sciences need innovative research data and methods.},
year = {2023},
funded_by = {DFG (SPP 2431)},
funded_by_url = {https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2023/info-wissenschaft-23-20},
url = {https://www.new-data-spaces.de/en-us/},
logo = {/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/logo-NewDataSpaces-long.png}
}
Description
BibTeX
@project{biofid,
name = {Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research (BIOfid)},
abstract = {The specialised information service BIOfid (www.biofid.de) is
oriented towards the special needs of scientists researching biodiversity
topics at research institutions and in natural history collections.
Since 2017, BIOfid has been building an infrastructure that contributes
to the provision and mobilisation of research-relevant data in
a variety of ways in the context of current developments in biodiversity
research.},
year = {2017},
funded_by = {DFG (FID 326061700)},
funded_by_url = {https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/326061700},
url = {https://www.biofid.de/en/},
repository = {https://github.com/FID-Biodiversity},
logo = {/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/logo-BIOfid.png}
}
Description
BibTeX
@project{sfb-neglab,
name = {Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)},
abstract = {Negation is a fundamental and unique property of human language
since it allows us to reason about what is not the case. It does
not only express a clearly defined grammatical function, it also
interacts with various aspects of grammar and cognition. The acquisition
and processing of negation encompass linguistic as well as non-linguistic
cognitive procedures. Hence, negation constitutes an ideal testing
ground to differentiate cognitive mechanisms that are grammatical
in nature from those that are shared with other cognitive domains,
such as memory, attention, decision making and cognitive control.
We intend to explore how the expression of negation is cross-linguistically
associated with grammatical and non-linguistic cognitive operations
and also whether the operations observed in negative utterances
are part of negation itself or, rather, arises as an effect of
the grammatical system and cognitive functions. While the semantics
of negation is generally analyzed as a unique propositional operator,
its morphosyntactic expression is much more varied and often involves
more than one morphological exponent. Hence, there is a tension
between a rich morphosyntax and a more straightforward semantics.
The semantics of negation leads one to expect negation to be expressed
by a single morpheme positioned at the beginning of the clause
(Neg-Only Hypothesis). The rich and variable morphosyntax leads
us to expect that negation requires a number of conditions in
the semantics (Neg-Plus Hypothesis). We aim to solve this puzzle
covering several empirical domains. More grammatical effects than
semantics would lead us to expect are visible in the interaction
between negative utterances and the cognitive processing and semantic
evaluation of alternative propositions. This is reflected in acquisition,
since children produce negative utterances relatively early, but
all the aspects of negation take a rather long time to be acquired.
Downstream effects of this can be seen in adult processing as
the comprehension of negative sentences is costlier than for positive
sentences. This is supposedly due to the inhibition of the corresponding
positive sentence that is necessary for the interpretation of
negative statements. Our exploration into the way negation and
other grammatical categories or non-linguistic cognitive functions
interact will lead us to identify how negation functions in natural
language and how it favors or hinders other (extra-)grammatical
components or processes. Why do some of them need to occur together
with negation (e.g., negative polarity items) and why are others
incompatible with it (as some types of imperatives)? Our general
aim is to develop a theoretical perspective on the way negation
manifests itself in natural language, how it is acquired and processed,
and why it varies so much across languages. Thereby, we will gain
a better understanding of the connections between linguistic competence
and general cognition.},
year = {2024},
funded_by = {DFG (SFB 1629)},
funded_by_url = {https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/509468465?language=en},
url = {https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/149292001/Negation_in_Language_and_Beyond},
logo = {/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/logo-NegLaB.jpg}
}
Description
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@project{vicom-gemdis,
name = {Virtual Reality Sustained Multimodal Distributional Semantics for Gestures in Dialogue (GeMDiS)},
abstract = {Both corpus-based linguistics and contemporary computational linguistics
rely on the use of often large, linguistic resources. The expansion
of the linguistic subject area to include visual means of communication
such as gesticulation has not yet been backed up with corresponding
corpora. This means that “multimodal linguistics” and dialogue
theory cannot participate in established distributional methods
of corpus linguistics and computational semantics. The main reason
for this is the difficulty of collecting multimodal data in an
appropriate way and at an appropriate scale. Using the latest
VR-based recording methods, the GeMDiS project aims to close this
data gap and to investigate visual communication by means of machine-based
methods and innovative use of neuronal and active learning for
small data using the systematic reference dimensions of associativity
and contiguity of the features of visual and non-visual communicative
signs.},
year = {2021},
funded_by = {DFG (SPP 2392)},
funded_by_url = {https://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/announcements_proposals/2021/info_wissenschaft_21_45/index.html},
url = {https://vicom.info/projects/virtual-reality-sustained-multimodal-distributional-semantics-for-gestures-in-dialogue-gemdis/},
logo = {/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ViComGeMDis.png}
}
Description
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@project{bridge,
name = {Berufspraktische Bildungsprozesse im Recht- und Lehramtsreferendariat sowie der Medizin unter Nutzung digitaler Medien (BRIDGE)},
abstract = {Die Nutzung von Onlinemedien steigt in allen Bildungsbereichen
zunehmend an. Auch für den Berufseinstieg nutzen Lernende immer
häufiger online verfügbare Medien. Ob sich das Nutzungsverhalten
je nach Beruf unterscheidet und ob es berufsspezifische Unterschiede
gibt, ist bislang nicht erforscht. Hier setzt das Forschungsprojekt
der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und der Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt an. Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und
Wissenschaftler untersuchen, wie Berufseinsteigende der Medizin
im Praktischen Jahr, Lehramts- sowie Rechtsreferendarinnen und
-referendare online verfügbare Medien nutzen. Hierbei vergleicht
das interdisziplinäre Team die generelle mit der berufsspezifischen
Nutzung von Onlinemedien anhand einer repräsentativen Stichprobe
im Längsschnitt. Mithilfe von innovativen Ansätzen aus der Computerlinguistik
und aus dem Bereich der Learning Analytics werden Online-Trainings
entwickelt und die Lernprozesse der Probanden untersucht. Um die
Daten multiperspektivisch zu interpretieren, wird eng mit der
Praxis zusammengearbeitet. Das Team der Universität Mainz koordiniert
das Verbundprojekt und bringt die wirtschaftspädagogische und
rechtswissenschaftliche Perspektive sowie Expertise zur Kompetenzentwicklung
ein. Die repräsentative und methodenintegrative Studie liefert
wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zum Einfluss und zur digitalen
Förderbarkeit der berufsbezogenen Mediennutzung in der Berufspraxis.
Außerdem sind Ergebnisse zu erwarten, die zur Gestaltung der Verbindung
von formalen und non-formalen Lerngelegenheiten genutzt werden
können. Praxispartner, wie zum Beispiel Ausbildnerinnen und Ausbildner,
können die entwickelten adaptiven Trainingskonzepte praktisch
anwenden und nutzen.},
year = {2020},
until = {2023},
funded_by = {BMBF (01JD1906B)},
funded_by_url = {https://www.empirische-bildungsforschung-bmbf.de/de/Themenfinder-1720.html/projekt/01JD1906A},
url = {https://bridge.uni-mainz.de/},
logo = {/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/logo-BRIDGE.png}
}
Description
BibTeX
@project{loewe-minderheitenstudien,
name = {LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Minderheitenstudien: Sprache und Identität"},
abstract = {Der LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Minderheiten: Sprache und Identität" erarbeitet
eine interdisziplinäre Untersuchung der Problematik von Identitätsbildung
bei Minderheiten. Dazu untersuchen wir drei Arten von Relationen:
die Relation zwischen Minderheiten "im eigenen Land" und Minderheiten
"im Ausland"; die Relation zwischen Selbstwahrnehmung und Fremdwahrnehmung
von Minderheiten (sowohl "im eigenen Land" als auch im "Ausland");
und die wechselseitige Relation der identitätsbedingenden Vorgaben
Sprache, Religion, Kultur und Ethnos, in Selbstsicht und Fremdsicht
"im eigenen Land" und "im Ausland".},
year = {2020},
funded_by = {LOEWE},
funded_by_url = {https://proloewe.de/de/loewe-vorhaben/nach-themen/minderheitenstudien/},
url = {https://sprache-identitaet.uni-frankfurt.de/},
logo = {/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/logo-loewe-minderheitenstudien-blau.png}
}
Teaching
Winter Semester, 2024
Summer Semester, 2024
Winter Semester, 2023
Summer Semester, 2023
Supervisions
BibTeX
@phdthesis{Henlein:2023,
author = {Alexander Henlein},
title = {Toward context-based text-to-3D scene generation},
type = {doctoralthesis},
pages = {199},
school = {Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität},
doi = {10.21248/gups.73448},
year = {2023},
pdf = {https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/73448/main.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@phdthesis{Hemati:2020,
author = {Wahed Hemati},
title = {TextImager-VSD : large scale verb sense disambiguation and named
entity recognition in the context of TextImager},
pages = {174},
year = {2020},
url = {http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56089},
pdf = {http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/56089/dissertation_Wahed_Hemati.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@phdthesis{Uslu:2020,
author = {Tolga Uslu},
title = {Multi-document analysis : semantic analysis of large text corpora
beyond topic modeling},
pages = {204},
year = {2020},
url = {http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56140},
pdf = {http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/56140/Dissertation_Tolga_Uslu.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@phdthesis{Hoenen2018,
type = {Dissertation},
author = {Armin Hoenen},
title = {Tools, evaluation and preprocessing for stemmatology},
school = {Goethe University Frankfurt},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@phdthesis{Islam:2015,
author = {Mohammad Zahurul Islam},
title = {Multilingual text classification using information-theoretic features},
pages = {189},
year = {2015},
pdf = {http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/38157/thesis.pdf},
abstract = {The number of multilingual texts in the World Wide Web (WWW) is
increasing dramatically and a multilingual economic zone like
the European Union (EU) requires the availability of multilingual
Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools. Due to a rapid development
of NLP tools, many lexical, syntactic, semantic and other linguistic
features have been used in different NLP applications. However,
there are some situations where these features can not be used
due the application type or unavailability of NLP resources for
some of the languages. That is why an application that is intended
to handle multilingual texts must have features that are not dependent
on a particular language and specific linguistic tools. In this
thesis, we will focus on two such applications: text readability
and source and translation classification. In this thesis, we
provide 18 features that are not only suitable for both applications,
but are also language and linguistic tools independent. In order
to build a readability classifier, we use texts from three different
languages: English, German and Bangla. Our proposed features achieve
a classification accuracy that is comparable with a classifier
using 40 linguistic features. The readability classifier achieves
a classification F-score of 74.21\% on the English Wikipedia corpus,
an F-score of 75.47\% on the English textbook corpus, an F-score
of 86.46\% on the Bangla textbook corpus and an F-score of 86.26\%
on the German GEO/GEOLino corpus. We used more than two million
sentence pairs from 21 European languages in order to build the
source and translation classifier. The classifier using the same
eighteen features achieves a classification accuracy of 86.63\%.
We also used the same features to build a classifier that classifies
translated texts based on their origin. The classifier achieves
classification accuracy of 75\% for texts from 10 European languages.
In this thesis, we also provide four different corpora, three
for text readability analysis and one for corpus based translation
studies.}
}
BibTeX
@phdthesis{Abramov:2012,
author = {Abramov, Olga},
title = {Network theory applied to linguistics: new advances in language
classification and typology},
school = {Bielefeld University, Germany},
abstract = {This thesis bridges between two scientific fields -- linguistics
and computer science -- in terms of Linguistic Networks. From
the linguistic point of view we examine whether languages can
be distinguished when looking at network topology of different
linguistic networks. We deal with up to 17 languages and ask how
far the methods of network theory reveal the peculiarities of
single languages. We present and apply network models from different
levels of linguistic representation: syntactic, phonological and
morphological. The network models presented here allow to integrate
various linguistic features at once, which enables a more abstract,
holistic view at the particular language. From the point of view
of computer science we elaborate the instrumentarium of network
theory applying it to a new field. We study the expressiveness
of different network features and their ability to characterize
language structure. We evaluate the interplay of these features
and their goodness in the task of classifying languages genealogically.
Among others we compare network features related to: average degree,
average geodesic distance, clustering, entropy-based indices,
assortativity, centrality, compactness etc. We also propose some
new indices that can serve as additional characteristics of networks.
The results obtained show that network models succeed in classifying
related languages, and allow to study language structure in general.
The mathematical analysis of the particular network indices brings
new insights into the nature of these indices and their potential
when applied to different networks.},
pdf = {https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2538828/2542368},
website = {http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2538828},
year = {2012}
}
Publications
2024
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2024:a,
abstract = {In 2022, the largest German-speaking corpus of parliamentary protocols
from three different centuries, on a national and federal level
from the countries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein,
was collected and published - GerParCor. Through GerParCor, it
became possible to provide for the first time various parliamentary
protocols which were not available digitally and, moreover, could
not be retrieved and processed in a uniform manner. Furthermore,
GerParCor was additionally preprocessed using NLP methods and
made available in XMI format. In this paper, GerParCor is significantly
updated by including all new parliamentary protocols in the corpus,
as well as adding and preprocessing further parliamentary protocols
previously not covered, so that a period up to 1797 is now covered.
Besides the integration of a new, state-of-the-art and appropriate
NLP preprocessing for the handling of large text corpora, this
update also provides an overview of the further reuse of GerParCor
by presenting various provisioning capabilities such as API's,
among others.},
address = {Torino, Italy},
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Kan, Min-Yen and Hoste, Veronique and Lenci, Alessandro
and Sakti, Sakriani and Xue, Nianwen},
pages = {7707--7716},
publisher = {ELRA and ICCL},
title = {{G}erman Parliamentary Corpus ({G}er{P}ar{C}or) Reloaded},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.681},
pdf = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.681.pdf},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GerParCor_Reloaded_Poster.pdf},
video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-w_oXOAYo},
keywords = {gerparcor,corpus},
year = {2024}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Konca:et:al:2024,
abstract = {A useful semantic role-annotated resource for training semantic
role models for the German language is missing. We point out some
problems of previous resources and provide a new one due to a
combined translation and alignment process: The gold standard
CoNLL-2012 semantic role annotations are translated into German.
Semantic role labels are transferred due to alignment models.
The resulting dataset is used to train a German semantic role
model. With F1-scores around 0.7, the major roles achieve competitive
evaluation scores, but avoid limitations of previous approaches.
The described procedure can be applied to other languages as well.},
address = {Torino, Italy},
author = {Konca, Maxim and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Kan, Min-Yen and Hoste, Veronique and Lenci, Alessandro
and Sakti, Sakriani and Xue, Nianwen},
month = {may},
pages = {7717--7727},
publisher = {ELRA and ICCL},
title = {{G}erman {SRL}: Corpus Construction and Model Training},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.682},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/LREC_2024_Poster_GERMAN_SRL.pdf},
year = {2024}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:et:al:2024,
abstract = {Purpose: Based on the examples of English and German, we investigate
to what extent parsers trained on modern variants of these languages
can be transferred to older language levels without loss. Methods:
We developed a treebank called DoTT (https://github.com/texttechnologylab/DoTT)
which covers, roughly, the time period from 1800 until today,
in conjunction with the further development of the annotation
tool DependencyAnnotator. DoTT consists of a collection of diachronic
corpora enriched with dependency annotations using 3 parsers,
6 pre-trained language models, 5 newly trained models for German,
and two tag sets (TIGER and Universal Dependencies). To assess
how the different parsers perform on texts from different time
periods, we created a gold standard sample as a benchmark. Results:
We found that the parsers/models perform quite well on modern
texts (document-level LAS ranging from 82.89 to 88.54) and slightly
worse on older texts, as expected (average document-level LAS
84.60 vs. 86.14), but not significantly. For German texts, the
(German) TIGER scheme achieved slightly better results than UD.
Conclusion: Overall, this result speaks for the transferability
of parsers to past language levels, at least dating back until
around 1800. This very transferability, it is however argued,
means that studies of language change in the field of dependency
syntax can draw on dependency distance but miss out on some grammatical
phenomena.},
address = {Torino, Italy},
author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Abrami, Giuseppe and Hammerla, Leon and Rahn, Marc
and Baumartz, Daniel and Eger, Steffen and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Kan, Min-Yen and Hoste, Veronique and Lenci, Alessandro
and Sakti, Sakriani and Xue, Nianwen},
month = {may},
pages = {4641--4653},
publisher = {ELRA and ICCL},
title = {Dependencies over Times and Tools ({D}o{TT})},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.415},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/LREC_2024_Poster_DoTT.pdf},
year = {2024}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Mehler:2024,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Efficient, uniform and scalable parallel NLP pre-processing with
DUUI: Perspectives and Best Practice for the Digital Humanities},
year = {2024},
month = {08},
editor = {Karajgikar, Jajwalya and Janco, Andrew and Otis, Jessica},
booktitle = {Digital Humanities Conference 2024 - Book of Abstracts (DH 2024)},
location = {Washington, DC, USA},
series = {DH},
keywords = {duui},
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.13761079},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13761079}
pages = {15--18},
numpages = {4}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:et:al:2024-vicom,
title = {An Outlook for AI Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research},
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Bauer, Anastasia and Bhattacharjee, Reetu
and Ćwiek, Aleksandra and Gregori, Alina and Kügler, Frank and Lemanski, Jens
and Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Prieto, Pilar and Sánchez-Ramón, Paula G.
and Schepens, Job and Schulte-Rüther, Martin and Schweinberger, Stefan R.
and von Eiff, Celina I.},
keywords = {own,conference},
author+an = {8=highlight},
editor = {Duffy, Vincent G.},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics
and Risk Management.},
series = {HCII 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
publisher = {Springer},
address = {Cham},
pubstate = {inpress},
note = {Forthcoming}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mattern:et:al:2024-vsd,
author = {Mattern, Dominik and Hemati, Wahed and Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
author+an = {3=highlight},
keywords = {own,article},
title = {On German verb sense disambiguation: {A} three-part approach based
on linking a sense inventory ({GermaNet}) to a corpus through
annotation ({TGVCorp}) and its use for training a {VSD} classifier
({TTvSense})},
year = {2024},
journal = {Journal of Language Modelling},
pubstate = {forthcoming},
note = {Forthcoming}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2024:b,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Wontke, Dominik Alexander and Singh, Gurpreet
and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Va.Si.Li-ES: VR-based Dynamic Event Processing, Environment Change
and User Feedback in Va.Si.Li-Lab},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9798400705953},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3675154},
doi = {10.1145/3648188.3675154},
abstract = {Flexibility, adaptability, modularity, and extensibility in the
context of a collaborative system are critical features for multi-user
hypertext systems. In addition to facilitating acceptance and
increasing reusability, these features simplify development cycles
and enable a larger range of application areas. However, especially
in virtual 3D hypertext systems, many of the features are only
partially available or not available at all. To fill this gap,
we present an approach to virtual hypertext systems for the realization
of dynamic event systems. Such an event system can be created
and serialized simultaneously at run time regarding the modification
of situational, environmental parameters. This includes informing
users and allowing them to participate in the environmental dynamics
of the system. We present Va.Si.Li-ES as a module of Va.Si.Li-Lab,
describe several environmental scenarios that can be adapted,
and provide use cases in the context of 3D hypertext systems.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
pages = {357–-368},
numpages = {12},
keywords = {Collaborative Simulation, Environmental Event System, Hypertext, Ubiq, Va.Si.Li-Lab, Virtual Reality},
location = {Poznan, Poland},
series = {HT '24}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Baumartz:et:al:2024,
author = {Baumartz, Daniel and Konca, Maxim and Mehler, Alexander and Schrottenbacher, Patrick
and Braunheim, Dominik},
title = {Measuring Group Creativity of Dialogic Interaction Systems by
Means of Remote Entailment Analysis},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9798400705953},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3675140},
doi = {10.1145/3648188.3675140},
abstract = {We present a procedure for assessing group creativity that allows
us to compare the contributions of human interlocutors and chatbots
based on generative AI such as ChatGPT. We focus on everyday creativity
in terms of dialogic communication and test four hypotheses about
the difference between human and artificial communication. Our
procedure is based on a test that requires interlocutors to cooperatively
interpret a sequence of sentences for which we control for coherence
gaps with reference to the notion of entailment. Using NLP methods,
we automatically evaluate the spoken or written contributions
of interlocutors (human or otherwise). The paper develops a routine
for automatic transcription based on Whisper, for sampling texts
based on their entailment relations, for analyzing dialogic contributions
along their semantic embeddings, and for classifying interlocutors
and interaction systems based on them. In this way, we highlight
differences between human and artificial conversations under conditions
that approximate free dialogic communication. We show that despite
their obvious classificatory differences, it is difficult to see
clear differences even in the domain of dialogic communication
given the current instruments of NLP.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
pages = {153–-166},
numpages = {14},
keywords = {Creative AI, Creativity, Generative AI, Hermeneutics, NLP},
location = {Poznan, Poland},
series = {HT '24}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Boenisch:et:al:2024,
author = {B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Stoeckel, Manuel and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {HyperCausal: Visualizing Causal Inference in 3D Hypertext},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9798400705953},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3677049},
doi = {10.1145/3648188.3677049},
abstract = {We present HyperCausal, a 3D hypertext visualization framework
for exploring causal inference in generative Large Language Models
(LLMs). HyperCausal maps the generative processes of LLMs into
spatial hypertexts, where tokens are represented as nodes connected
by probability-weighted edges. The edges are weighted by the prediction
scores of next tokens, depending on the underlying language model.
HyperCausal facilitates navigation through the causal space of
the underlying LLM, allowing users to explore predicted word sequences
and their branching. Through comparative analysis of LLM parameters
such as token probabilities and search algorithms, HyperCausal
provides insight into model behavior and performance. Implemented
using the Hugging Face transformers library and Three.js, HyperCausal
ensures cross-platform accessibility to advance research in natural
language processing using concepts from hypertext research. We
demonstrate several use cases of HyperCausal and highlight the
potential for detecting hallucinations generated by LLMs using
this framework. The connection with hypertext research arises
from the fact that HyperCausal relies on user interaction to unfold
graphs with hierarchically appearing branching alternatives in
3D space. This approach refers to spatial hypertexts and early
concepts of hierarchical hypertext structures. A third connection
concerns hypertext fiction, since the branching alternatives mediated
by HyperCausal manifest non-linearly organized reading threads
along artificially generated texts that the user decides to follow
optionally depending on the reading context.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
pages = {330–-336},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {3D hypertext, large language models, visualization},
location = {Poznan, Poland},
series = {HT '24},
video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANHFTupnKhI}
}
BibTeX
@article{Boenisch:et:al:2024:b,
author = {B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Mehler, Alexander and Babbili, Shaduan
and Heinrich, Yannick and Stephan, Philipp and Abrami, Giuseppe},
abstract = {We present Viki LibraRy, a dynamically built library in virtual
reality (VR) designed to visualize hypertext systems, with an
emphasis on collaborative interaction and spatial immersion. Viki
LibraRy goes beyond traditional methods of text distribution by
providing a platform where users can share, process, and engage
with textual information. It operates at the interface of VR,
collaborative learning and spatial data processing to make reading
tangible and memorable in a spatially mediated way. The article
describes the building blocks of Viki LibraRy, its underlying
architecture, and several use cases. It evaluates Viki LibraRy
in comparison to a conventional web interface for text retrieval
and reading. The article shows that Viki LibraRy provides users
with spatial references for structuring their recall, so that
they can better remember consulted texts and their meta-information
(e.g. in terms of subject areas and content categories)},
title = {{Viki LibraRy: Collaborative Hypertext Browsing and Navigation
in Virtual Reality}},
year = {2024},
journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia},
numpages = {29},
publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
note = {accepted}
}
BibTeX
@article{Schrottenbacher:et:al:2024,
author = {Schrottenbacher, Patrick and Mehler, Alexander and Berg, Theresa
and Hustedt, Jasper and Gagel, Julian and Lüttig, Timo and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {Geo-spatial hypertext in virtual reality: mapping and navigating
global news event spaces},
journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia},
volume = {0},
number = {0},
pages = {1--30},
year = {2024},
publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
doi = {10.1080/13614568.2024.2383601},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2024.2383601},
eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2024.2383601},
abstract = {Every day, a myriad of events take place that are documented and
shared online through news articles from a variety of sources.
As a result, as users navigate the Web, the volume of data can
lead to information overload, making it difficult to find specific
details about an event. We present News in Time and Space (NiTS)
to address this issue: NiTS is a fully immersive system integrated
into Va.Si.Li-Lab that organises textual information in a geospatial
hypertext system in virtual reality. With NiTS, users can visualise,
filter and interact with information currently based on GDELT
on a virtual globe providing document networks to analyse global
events and trends. The article describes NiTS, its event semantics
and architecture. It evaluates NiTS in comparison to a classic
search engine website, extended by NiTSs information filtering
capabilities to make it comparable. Our comparison with this website
technology, which is directly linked to the user's usage habits,
shows that NiTS enables comparable information exploration even
if the users have little or no experience with VR. That is, we
observe an equivalent search result behaviour, but with the advantage
that VR allows users to get their results with a higher level
of usability without distracting them from their tasks. Through
its integration with Va.Si.Li-Lab, a simulation-based learning
environment, NiTS can be used in simulations of learning processes
aimed at studying critical online reasoning, where Va.Si.Li-Lab
guarantees that this can be done in relation to individual or
groups of learners.}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Boenisch:Mehler:2024,
title = {Finding Needles in Emb(a)dding Haystacks: Legal Document Retrieval
via Bagging and SVR Ensembles},
author = {B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Mehler, Alexander},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Legal Information Retrieval meets Artificial
Intelligence Workshop LIRAI 2024},
location = {Poznan, Poland},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
address = {Aachen, Germany},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
note = {accepted},
abstract = {We introduce a retrieval approach leveraging Support Vector Regression
(SVR) ensembles, bootstrap aggregation (bagging), and embedding
spaces on the German Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval (GerDaLIR).
By conceptualizing the retrieval task in terms of multiple binary
needle-in-a-haystack subtasks, we show improved recall over the
baselines (0.849 > 0.803 | 0.829) using our voting ensemble, suggesting
promising initial results, without training or fine-tuning any
deep learning models. Our approach holds potential for further
enhancement, particularly through refining the encoding models
and optimizing hyperparameters.},
keywords = {legal information retrieval, support vector regression, word embeddings, bagging ensemble}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mattern:Hemati:Lücking:Mehler:2024,
author = {Mattern, Dominik and Hemati, Wahed and Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {On German verb sense disambiguation: A three-part approach based
on linking a sense inventory (GermaNet) to a corpus through annotation
(TGVCorp) and using the corpus to train a VSD classifier (TTvSense)},
abstractnote = {We develop a three-part approach to Verb Sense Disambiguation (VSD) in German. After considering a set of lexical resources and corpora, we arrive at a statistically motivated selection of a subset of verbs and their senses from GermaNet. This sub-inventory is then used to disambiguate the occurrences of the corresponding verbs in a corpus resulting from the union of TüBa-D/Z, Salsa, and E-VALBU. The corpus annotated in this way is called TGVCorp. It is used in the third part of the paper for training a classifier for VSD and for its comparative evaluation with a state-of-the-art approach in this research area, namely EWISER. Our simple classifier outperforms the transformer-based approach on the same data in both accuracy and speed in German but not in English and we discuss possible reasons.},
journal = {Journal of Language Modelling},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
year = {2024},
month = {Sep.},
pages = {155–212},
url = {https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/356}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Mehler:Henlein:2024-classifier,
title = {The Linguistic Interpretation of Non-emblematic Gestures Must
be agreed in Dialogue: Combining Perceptual Classifiers and Grounding/Clarification
Mechanisms},
author = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Henlein, Alexander},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue},
series = {SemDial'24 -- TrentoLogue},
location = {Università di Trento, Palazzo Piomarta, Rovereto}
}
2023
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:et:al:2023:a,
abstract = {Simulation-based learning is a method in which learners learn
to master real-life scenarios and tasks from simulated application
contexts. It is particularly suitable for the use of VR technologies,
as these allow immersive experiences of the targeted scenarios.
VR methods are also relevant for studies on online learning, especially
in groups, as they provide access to a variety of multimodal learning
and interaction data. However, VR leads to a trade-off between
technological conditions of the observability of such data and
the openness of learner behavior. We present Va.Si.Li-Lab, a VR-L
ab for Simulation-based Learn ing developed to address this trade-off.
Va.Si.Li-Lab uses a graph-theoretical model based on hypergraphs
to represent the data diversity of multimodal learning and interaction.
We develop this data model in relation to mono- and multimodal,
intra- and interpersonal data and interleave it with ISO-Space
to describe distributed multiple documents from the perspective
of their interactive generation. The paper adds three use cases
to motivate the broad applicability of Va.Si.Li-Lab and its data
model.},
address = {Cham},
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Bagci, Mevl{\"u}t and Henlein, Alexander
and Abrami, Giuseppe and Spiekermann, Christian and Schrottenbacher, Patrick
and Konca, Maxim and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Engel, Juliane and Quintino, Marc
and Schreiber, Jakob and Saukel, Kevin and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
booktitle = {Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics
and Risk Management},
editor = {Duffy, Vincent G.},
isbn = {978-3-031-35741-1},
pages = {539--565},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
title = {A Multimodal Data Model for Simulation-Based Learning with Va.Si.Li-Lab},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35741-1_39}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:et:al:2023b,
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Kett, Attila and Baumartz, Daniel and Abrami, Giuseppe
and Mehler, Alexander and Bastian, Johannes and Blecher, Yannic and Budgenhagen, David
and Christof, Roman and Ewald, Tim-Oliver and Fauerbach, Tim and Masny, Patrick
and Mende, Julian and Schn{\"u}re, Paul and Viel, Marc},
editor = {Duffy, Vincent G.},
title = {Semantic Scene Builder: Towards a Context Sensitive Text-to-3D Scene Framework},
booktitle = {Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics
and Risk Management},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
address = {Cham},
pages = {461--479},
abstract = {We introduce Semantic Scene Builder (SeSB), a VR-based text-to-3D
scene framework using SemAF (Semantic Annotation Framework) as
a scheme for annotating discourse structures. SeSB integrates
a variety of tools and resources by using SemAF and UIMA as a
unified data structure to generate 3D scenes from textual descriptions.
Based on VR, SeSB allows its users to change annotations through
body movements instead of symbolic manipulations: from annotations
in texts to corrections in editing steps to adjustments in generated
scenes, all this is done by grabbing and moving objects. We evaluate
SeSB in comparison with a state-of-the-art open source text-to-scene
method (the only one which is publicly available) and find that
our approach not only performs better, but also allows for modeling
a greater variety of scenes.},
isbn = {978-3-031-35748-0},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-35748-0_32}
}
BibTeX
@article{Henlein:et:al:2023a,
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Gopinath, Anju and Krishnaswamy, Nikhil
and Mehler, Alexander and Pustejovsky, James},
doi = {10.3389/frai.2023.1084740},
issn = {2624-8212},
journal = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence},
title = {Grounding human-object interaction to affordance behavior in multimodal datasets},
url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2023.1084740},
volume = {6},
year = {2023}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2023,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Bagci, Mevl\"{u}t and Schrottenbacher, Patrick
and Henlein, Alexander and Spiekermann, Christian and Engel, Juliane
and Schreiber, Jakob},
title = {Va.Si.Li-Lab as a Collaborative Multi-User Annotation Tool in
Virtual Reality and Its Potential Fields of Application},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609076},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609076},
abstract = {During the last thirty years a variety of hypertext approaches
and virtual environments -- some virtual hypertext environments
-- have been developed and discussed. Although the development
of virtual and augmented reality technologies is rapid and improving,
and many technologies can be used at affordable conditions, their
usability for hypertext systems has not yet been explored. At
the same time, even for virtual three-dimensional virtual and
augmented environments, there is no generally accepted concept
that is similar or nearly as elegant as hypertext. This gap will
have to be filled in the next years and a good concept should
be developed; in this article we aim to contribute in this direction
and also introduce a prototype for a possible implementation of
criteria for virtual hypertext simulations.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {22},
numpages = {9},
keywords = {VaSiLiLab, virtual hypertext, virtual reality, virtual reality simulation, authoring system},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609076}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gagel:et:al:2023,
author = {Gagel, Julian and Hustedt, Jasper and L\"{u}ttig, Timo and Berg, Theresa
and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {News in Time and Space: Global Event Exploration in Virtual Reality},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609080},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609080},
abstract = {We present News in Time and Space (NiTS), a virtual reality application
for visualization, filtering and interaction with geo-referenced
events based on GDELT. It can be used both via VR glasses and
as a desktop solution for shared use by multiple users with Ubiq.
The aim of NiTS is to provide overviews of global events and trends
in order to create a resource for their monitoring and analysis.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {7},
numpages = {3},
keywords = {virtual hypertext, human data interaction, spatial computing, virtual reality simulation, geographic information systems, virtual reality},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609080}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Babbili:et:al:2023,
author = {Babbili, Shaduan and B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Heinrich, Yannick
and Stephan, Philipp and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Viki LibraRy: A Virtual Reality Library for Collaborative Browsing
and Navigation through Hypertext},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400702327},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609079},
doi = {10.1145/3603163.3609079},
abstract = {We present Viki LibraRy, a virtual-reality-based system for generating
and exploring online information as a spatial hypertext. It creates
a virtual library based on Wikipedia in which Rooms are used to
make data available via a RESTful backend. In these Rooms, users
can browse through all articles of the corresponding Wikipedia
category in the form of Books. In addition, users can access different
Rooms, through virtual portals. Beyond that, the explorations
can be done alone or collaboratively, using Ubiq.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
articleno = {6},
numpages = {3},
keywords = {virtual reality simulation, virtual reality, virtual hypertext, virtual museum},
location = {Rome, Italy},
series = {HT '23},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3603163.3609079}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:et:al:2023c,
title = {Towards grounding multimodal semantics in interaction data with Va.Si.Li-Lab},
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Bagci, Mevlüt and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN)},
location = {Nijmegen, Netherlands},
year = {2023},
keywords = {vasililab},
pdf = {https://www.gespin2023.nl/documents/talks_and_posters/GeSpIn_2023_papers/GeSpIn_2023_paper_1692.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Leonhardt:et:al:2023,
title = {Unlocking the Heterogeneous Landscape of Big Data {NLP} with {DUUI}},
author = {Leonhardt, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe and Baumartz, Daniel
and Mehler, Alexander},
editor = {Bouamor, Houda and Pino, Juan and Bali, Kalika},
booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023},
year = {2023},
address = {Singapore},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.29},
pages = {385--399},
pdf = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.29.pdf},
abstract = {Automatic analysis of large corpora is a complex task, especially
in terms of time efficiency. This complexity is increased by the
fact that flexible, extensible text analysis requires the continuous
integration of ever new tools. Since there are no adequate frameworks
for these purposes in the field of NLP, and especially in the
context of UIMA, that are not outdated or unusable for security
reasons, we present a new approach to address the latter task:
Docker Unified UIMA Interface (DUUI), a scalable, flexible, lightweight,
and feature-rich framework for automatic distributed analysis
of text corpora that leverages Big Data experience and virtualization
with Docker. We evaluate DUUI{'}s communication approach against
a state-of-the-art approach and demonstrate its outstanding behavior
in terms of time efficiency, enabling the analysis of big text
data.}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Boenisch:et:al:2023,
title = {{Bundestags-Mine}: Natural Language Processing for Extracting
Key Information from Government Documents},
isbn = {9781643684734},
issn = {1879-8314},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230996},
doi = {10.3233/faia230996},
booktitle = {Legal Knowledge and Information Systems},
publisher = {IOS Press},
author = {B\"{o}nisch, Kevin and Abrami, Giuseppe and Wehnert, Sabine and Mehler, Alexander},
year = {2023}
}
2022
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Stoeckel:Abrami:Mehler:2022,
author = {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Stoeckel, Manuel and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {I still have Time(s): Extending HeidelTime for German Texts},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {June},
year = {2022},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {4723--4728},
abstract = {HeidelTime is one of the most widespread and successful tools
for detecting temporal expressions in texts. Since HeidelTime’s
pattern matching system is based on regular expression, it can
be extended in a convenient way. We present such an extension
for the German resources of HeidelTime: HeidelTimeExt. The extension
has been brought about by means of observing false negatives within
real world texts and various time banks. The gain in coverage
is 2.7 \% or 8.5 \%, depending on the admitted degree of potential
overgeneralization. We describe the development of HeidelTimeExt,
its evaluation on text samples from various genres, and share
some linguistic observations. HeidelTimeExt can be obtained from
https://github.com/texttechnologylab/heideltime.},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HeidelTimeExt_LREC_2022.pdf},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/pdf/2022.lrec-1.505.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Bagci:Hammerla:Mehler:2022,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Bagci, Mevlüt and Hammerla, Leon and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor)},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
year = {2022},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {1900--1906},
abstract = {Parliamentary debates represent a large and partly unexploited
treasure trove of publicly accessible texts. In the German-speaking
area, there is a certain deficit of uniformly accessible and annotated
corpora covering all German-speaking parliaments at the national
and federal level. To address this gap, we introduce the German
Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor). GerParCor is a genre-specific
corpus of (predominantly historical) German-language parliamentary
protocols from three centuries and four countries, including state
and federal level data. In addition, GerParCor contains conversions
of scanned protocols and, in particular, of protocols in Fraktur
converted via an OCR process based on Tesseract. All protocols
were preprocessed by means of the NLP pipeline of spaCy3 and automatically
annotated with metadata regarding their session date. GerParCor
is made available in the XMI format of the UIMA project. In this
way, GerParCor can be used as a large corpus of historical texts
in the field of political communication for various tasks in NLP.},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.202}
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GerParCor_LREC_2022.pdf},
keywords = {gerparcor},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/pdf/2022.lrec-1.202.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:Mehler:2022,
title = {What do Toothbrushes do in the Kitchen? How Transformers Think
our World is Structured},
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language
Technologies},
year = {2022},
address = {Seattle, United States},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.425},
doi = {10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.425},
pages = {5791--5807},
abstract = {Transformer-based models are now predominant in NLP.They outperform
approaches based on static models in many respects. This success
has in turn prompted research that reveals a number of biases
in the language models generated by transformers. In this paper
we utilize this research on biases to investigate to what extent
transformer-based language models allow for extracting knowledge
about object relations (X occurs in Y; X consists of Z; action
A involves using X).To this end, we compare contextualized models
with their static counterparts. We make this comparison dependent
on the application of a number of similarity measures and classifiers.
Our results are threefold:Firstly, we show that the models combined
with the different similarity measures differ greatly in terms
of the amount of knowledge they allow for extracting. Secondly,
our results suggest that similarity measures perform much worse
than classifier-based approaches. Thirdly, we show that, surprisingly,
static models perform almost as well as contextualized models
{--} in some cases even better.}
}
BibTeX
@misc{Mehler:et:al:2022,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Konca, Maxim and Nagel, Marie-Theres and L\"{u}cking, Andy
and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
year = {2022},
month = {03},
howpublished = {Presentation at BEBF 2022},
title = {On latent domain-specific textual preferences in solving Internet-based
generic tasks among graduates/young professionals from three domains},
abstract = {Although Critical Online Reasoning (COR) is often viewed as a
general competency (e.g. Alexander et al. 2016), studies have
found evidence supporting their domain-specificity (Toplak et
al. 2002). To investigate this assumption, we focus on commonalities
and differences in textual preferences in solving COR-related
tasks between graduates/young professionals from three domains.
For this reason, we collected data by requiring participants to
solve domain-specific (DOM-COR) and generic (GEN-COR) tasks in
an authentic Internet-based COR performance assessment (CORA),
allowing us to disentangle the assumed components of COR abilities.
Here, we focus on GEN-COR to distinguish between different groups
of graduates from the three disciplines in the context of generic
COR tasks. We present a computational model for educationally
relevant texts that combines features at multiple levels (lexical,
syntactic, semantic). We use machine learning to predict domain-specific
group membership based on documents consulted during task solving.
A major contribution of our analyses is a multi-part text classification
system that contrasts human annotation and rating of the documents
used with a semi-automatic classification to predict the document
type of web pages. That is, we work with competing classifications
to support our findings. In this way, we develop a computational
linguistic model that correlates GEN-COR abilities with properties
of documents consulted for solving the GEN-COR tasks. Results
show that participants from different domains indeed inquire different
sets of online sources for the same task. Machine learning-based
classifications show that the distributional differences can be
reproduced by computational linguistic models.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/On_latent_domain-specific_textual_preferences_in_solving_Internet-based_generic_tasks_among_graduates__young_professionals_from_three_domains.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@misc{Konca:et:al:2022,
author = {Konca, Maxim and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Nagel, Marie-Theres
and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
howpublished = {Presentation given at the AERA annual meeting, 21.-26.04. 2022, WERA symposium},
month = {04},
title = {Computational educational linguistics for `Critical Online Reasoning'
among young professionals in medicine, law and teaching},
year = {2022},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BRIDGE_WERA_AERA-2022_reduce.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Ahmed:et:al:2022,
title = {Tafsir Dataset: A Novel Multi-Task Benchmark for Named Entity
Recognition and Topic Modeling in Classical {A}rabic Literature},
author = {Ahmed, Sajawel and van der Goot, Rob and Rehman, Misbahur and Kruse, Carl
and {\"O}zsoy, {\"O}mer and Mehler, Alexander and Roig, Gemma},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
month = {oct},
year = {2022},
address = {Gyeongju, Republic of Korea},
publisher = {International Committee on Computational Linguistics},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.330},
pages = {3753--3768},
abstract = {Various historical languages, which used to be lingua franca of
science and arts, deserve the attention of current NLP research.
In this work, we take the first data-driven steps towards this
research line for Classical Arabic (CA) by addressing named entity
recognition (NER) and topic modeling (TM) on the example of CA
literature. We manually annotate the encyclopedic work of Tafsir
Al-Tabari with span-based NEs, sentence-based topics, and span-based
subtopics, thus creating the Tafsir Dataset with over 51,000 sentences,
the first large-scale multi-task benchmark for CA. Next, we analyze
our newly generated dataset, which we make open-source available,
with current language models (lightweight BiLSTM, transformer-based
MaChAmP) along a novel script compression method, thereby achieving
state-of-the-art performance for our target task CA-NER. We also
show that CA-TM from the perspective of historical topic models,
which are central to Arabic studies, is very challenging. With
this interdisciplinary work, we lay the foundations for future
research on automatic analysis of CA literature.}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Ebert:et:al:2022,
abstract = {``Behavioromics'' is a term that has been invented to cover the
study of multimodal interaction from various disciplines and points
of view. These disciplines and points of view, however, lack a
platform for exchange. The workshop session on ``Semantic, artificial
and computational interaction studies'' provides such a platform.
We motivate behavioromics, sketch its historical background, and
summarize this year's contributions.},
address = {Cham},
author = {Ebert, Cornelia and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Papers. Multimodality in
Advanced Interaction Environments},
editor = {Kurosu, Masaaki and Yamamoto, Sakae and Mori, Hirohiko and Schmorrow, Dylan D.
and Fidopiastis, Cali M. and Streitz, Norbert A. and Konomi, Shin'ichi},
isbn = {978-3-031-17618-0},
pages = {36--47},
publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
title = {Introduction to the 2nd Edition of ``Semantic, Artificial and
Computational Interaction Studies''},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17618-0_3},
year = {2022}
}
2021
BibTeX
@article{Luecking:Brueckner:Abrami:Uslu:Mehler:2021,
journal = {Frontiers in Education},
doi = {10.3389/feduc.2020.578475},
title = {Computational linguistic assessment of textbooks and online texts
by means of threshold concepts in economics},
author = {L{\"u}cking, Andy and Br{\"u}ckner, Sebastian and Abrami, Giuseppe
and Uslu, Tolga and Mehler, Alexander},
eid = {578475},
url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.578475/},
year = {2021}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2021,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Henlein, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Kett, Attila
and Adeberg, Pascal and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Unleashing annotations with {TextAnnotator}: Multimedia, multi-perspective
document views for ubiquitous annotation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable
Semantic Annotation},
series = {ISA-17},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
address = {Groningen, The Netherlands (online)},
month = {June},
editor = {Bunt, Harry},
year = {2021},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.isa-1.7},
pages = {65--75},
keywords = {textannotator},
pdf = {https://iwcs2021.github.io/proceedings/isa/pdf/2021.isa-1.7.pdf},
abstract = {We argue that mainly due to technical innovation in the landscape
of annotation tools, a conceptual change in annotation models
and processes is also on the horizon. It is diagnosed that these
changes are bound up with multi-media and multi-perspective facilities
of annotation tools, in particular when considering virtual reality
(VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications, their potential
ubiquitous use, and the exploitation of externally trained natural
language pre-processing methods. Such developments potentially
lead to a dynamic and exploratory heuristic construction of the
annotation process. With TextAnnotator an annotation suite is
introduced which focuses on multi-mediality and multi-perspectivity
with an interoperable set of task-specific annotation modules
(e.g., for word classification, rhetorical structures, dependency
trees, semantic roles, and more) and their linkage to VR and mobile
implementations. The basic architecture and usage of TextAnnotator
is described and related to the above mentioned shifts in the
field.}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Klement:et:al:2021,
author = {Klement, Mark and Henlein, Alexander and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {VoxML Annotation Tool Review and Suggestions for Improvement},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventeenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable
Semantic Annotation (ISA-17, Note for special track on visual
information annotation)},
series = {ISA-17},
location = {Groningen, Netherlands},
month = {June},
year = {2021},
pdf = {https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa17/32_Klement-Paper.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Fischer:et:al:2021,
author = {Fischer, Pascal and Smajic, Alen and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Multi-Type-TD-TSR - Extracting Tables from Document Images using
a Multi-stage Pipeline for Table Detection and Table Structure
Recognition: from OCR to Structured Table Representations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
series = {KI2021},
location = {Berlin, Germany},
year = {2021},
url = {https://www.springerprofessional.de/multi-type-td-tsr-extracting-tables-from-document-images-using-a/19711570},
pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.11021.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@article{Luecking:et:al:2021,
author = {Andy Lücking and Christine Driller and Manuel Stoeckel and Giuseppe Abrami
and Adrian Pachzelt and Alexander Mehler},
year = {2021},
journal = {Language Resources and Evaluation},
title = {Multiple Annotation for Biodiversity: Developing an annotation
framework among biology, linguistics and text technology},
editor = {Nancy Ide and Nicoletta Calzolari},
doi = {10.1007/s10579-021-09553-5},
pdf = {https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10579-021-09553-5.pdf},
keywords = {biofid}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Henlein:et:al:2021,
author = {Alexander Henlein and Giuseppe Abrami and Attila Kett and Christian Spiekermann
and Alexander Mehler},
title = {Digital Learning, Teaching and Collaboration in an Era of ubiquitous Quarantine},
editor = {Linda Daniela and Anna Visvizin},
booktitle = {Remote Learning in Times of Pandemic - Issues, Implications and Best Practice},
publisher = {Routledge},
address = {Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK},
year = {2021},
chapter = {3}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Uslu:Baumartz:2021,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Baumartz, Daniel and Uslu, Tolga},
title = {{SemioGraphs:} Visualizing Topic Networks as Mulit-Codal Graphs},
booktitle = {International Quantitative Linguistics Conference (QUALICO 2021)},
series = {QUALICO 2021},
location = {Tokyo, Japan},
year = {2021},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/files/Qualico_2021_Semiograph_Poster.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@article{Lokot:Abramov:Mehler:2021,
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0259776},
author = {Lokot, Tatiana and Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
publisher = {Public Library of Science},
title = {On the asymptotic behavior of the average geodesic distance L
and the compactness CB of simple connected undirected graphs whose
order approaches infinity},
year = {2021},
month = {11},
volume = {16},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259776},
pages = {1-13},
abstract = {The average geodesic distance L Newman (2003) and the compactness
CB Botafogo (1992) are important graph indices in applications
of complex network theory to real-world problems. Here, for simple
connected undirected graphs G of order n, we study the behavior
of L(G) and CB(G), subject to the condition that their order |V(G)|
approaches infinity. We prove that the limit of L(G)/n and CB(G)
lies within the interval [0;1/3] and [2/3;1], respectively. Moreover,
for any not necessarily rational number β ∈ [0;1/3] (α ∈ [2/3;1])
we show how to construct the sequence of graphs {G}, |V(G)| =
n → ∞, for which the limit of L(G)/n (CB(G)) is exactly β (α)
(Theorems 1 and 2). Based on these results, our work points to
novel classification possibilities of graphs at the node level
as well as to the information-theoretic classification of the
structural complexity of graph indices.},
number = {11}
}
BibTeX
@article{Konca:et:al:2021,
title = {From distinguishability to informativity. A quantitative text
model for detecting random texts.},
author = {Konca, Maxim and Mehler, Alexander and Baumartz, Daniel and Hemati, Wahed},
journal = {Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications},
volume = {356},
pages = {145--162},
year = {2021},
editor = {Adam Paw{\l}owski, Jan Ma{\v{c}}utek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros},
publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
doi = {10.1075/cilt.356.10kon}
}
2020
BibTeX
@article{Stegbauer:Mehler:2020,
author = {Christian Stegbauer and Alexander Mehler},
title = {Ursachen der Entstehung von ubiquit{\"{a}}ren Zentrum-Peripheriestrukturen
und ihre Folgen},
journal = {Soziale Welt -- Zeitschrift f\"{u}r sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis (SozW)},
volume = {Sonderband 23},
year = {2020},
pages = {265--284}
}
BibTeX
@inbook{Abrami:et:al:2020,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Spiekermann, Christian
and Kett, Attila and L{\"o}{\"o}ck, Simon and Schwarz, Lukas},
editor = {Daniela, Linda},
title = {Educational Technologies in the area of ubiquitous historical
computing in virtual reality},
booktitle = {New Perspectives on Virtual and Augmented Reality: Finding New
Ways to Teach in a Transformed Learning Environment},
year = {2020},
publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
abstract = {At ever shorter intervals, new technologies are being developed
that are opening up more and more areas of application. This regards,
for example, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) devices.
In addition to the private sector, the public and education sectors,
which already make intensive use of these devices, benefit from
these technologies. However, especially in the field of historical
education, there are not many frameworks for generating immersive
virtual environments that can be used flexibly enough. This chapter
addresses this gap by means of VAnnotatoR. VAnnotatoR is a versatile
framework for the creation and use of virtual environments that
serve to model historical processes in historical education. The
paper describes the building blocks of VAnnotatoR and describes
applications in historical education.},
isbn = {978-0-367-43211-9},
url = {https://www.routledge.com/New-Perspectives-on-Virtual-and-Augmented-Reality-Finding-New-Ways-to-Teach/Daniela/p/book/9780367432119}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Kuehn:Abrami:Mehler:2020,
author = {Vincent K{\"{u}}hn and Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler},
editor = {Jessie Y. C. Chen and Gino Fragomeni},
title = {WikNectVR: {A} Gesture-Based Approach for Interacting in Virtual
Reality Based on WikNect and Gestural Writing},
booktitle = {Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Design and Interaction -
12th International Conference, {VAMR} 2020, Held as Part of the
22nd {HCI} International Conference, {HCII} 2020, Copenhagen,
Denmark, July 19-24, 2020, Proceedings, Part {I}},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {12190},
pages = {299--312},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2020},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49695-1_20},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-49695-1_20},
timestamp = {Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:55:57 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/hci/KuhnAM20.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Gleim:Gaitsch:Uslu:Hemati:2020,
author = {Alexander Mehler and R{\"{u}}diger Gleim and Regina Gaitsch and Tolga Uslu
and Wahed Hemati},
title = {From Topic Networks to Distributed Cognitive Maps: {Zipfian} Topic
Universes in the Area of Volunteered Geographic Information},
journal = {Complexity},
volume = {4},
doi = {10.1155/2020/4607025},
pages = {1-47},
issuetitle = {Cognitive Network Science: A New Frontier},
year = {2020}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:Mehler:2020,
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{On the Influence of Coreference Resolution on Word Embeddings
in Lexical-semantic Evaluation Tasks}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {May},
year = {2020},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {27--33},
abstract = {Coreference resolution (CR) aims to find all spans of a text that
refer to the same entity. The F1-Scores on these task have been
greatly improved by new developed End2End-approaches and transformer
networks. The inclusion of CR as a pre-processing step is expected
to lead to improvements in downstream tasks. The paper examines
this effect with respect to word embeddings. That is, we analyze
the effects of CR on six different embedding methods and evaluate
them in the context of seven lexical-semantic evaluation tasks
and instantiation/hypernymy detection. Especially in the last
tasks we hoped for a significant increase in performance. We show
that all word embedding approaches do not benefit significantly
from pronoun substitution. The measurable improvements are only
marginal (around 0.5\% in most test cases). We explain this result
with the loss of contextual information, reduction of the relative
occurrence of rare words and the lack of pronouns to be replaced.},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.4},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/pdf/2020.lrec-1.4.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Hildebrand:Hemati:Mehler:2020,
author = {Hildebrand, Jonathan and Hemati, Wahed and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Recognizing Sentence-level Logical Document Structures with the
Help of Context-free Grammars},
booktitle = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {May},
year = {2020},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {5282--5290},
abstract = {Current sentence boundary detectors split documents into sequentially
ordered sentences by detecting their beginnings and ends. Sentences,
however, are more deeply structured even on this side of constituent
and dependency structure: they can consist of a main sentence
and several subordinate clauses as well as further segments (e.g.
inserts in parentheses); they can even recursively embed whole
sentences and then contain multiple sentence beginnings and ends.
In this paper, we introduce a tool that segments sentences into
tree structures to detect this type of recursive structure. To
this end, we retrain different constituency parsers with the help
of modified training data to transform them into sentence segmenters.
With these segmenters, documents are mapped to sequences of sentence-related
“logical document structures”. The resulting segmenters aim to
improve downstream tasks by providing additional structural information.
In this context, we experiment with German dependency parsing.
We show that for certain sentence categories, which can be determined
automatically, improvements in German dependency parsing can be
achieved using our segmenter for preprocessing. The assumption
suggests that improvements in other languages and tasks can be
achieved.},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.650},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/pdf/2020.lrec-1.650.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Henlein:et:al:2020,
author = {Henlein, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe and Kett, Attila and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Transfer of ISOSpace into a 3D Environment for Annotations and Applications},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable
Semantic Annotation},
month = {May},
year = {2020},
address = {Marseille},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {32--35},
abstract = {People's visual perception is very pronounced and therefore it
is usually no problem for them to describe the space around them
in words. Conversely, people also have no problems imagining a
concept of a described space. In recent years many efforts have
been made to develop a linguistic concept for spatial and spatial-temporal
relations. However, the systems have not really caught on so far,
which in our opinion is due to the complex models on which they
are based and the lack of available training data and automated
taggers. In this paper we describe a project to support spatial
annotation, which could facilitate annotation by its many functions,
but also enrich it with many more information. This is to be achieved
by an extension by means of a VR environment, with which spatial
relations can be better visualized and connected with real objects.
And we want to use the available data to develop a new state-of-the-art
tagger and thus lay the foundation for future systems such as
improved text understanding for Text2Scene.},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.isa-1.4},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/workshops/ISA16/pdf/2020.isa-1.4.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:et:al:2020b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Jussen, Bernhard and Geelhaar, Tim and Henlein, Alexander
and Abrami, Giuseppe and Baumartz, Daniel and Uslu, Tolga and Hemati, Wahed},
title = {{The Frankfurt Latin Lexicon. From Morphological Expansion and
Word Embeddings to SemioGraphs}},
journal = {Studi e Saggi Linguistici},
doi = {10.4454/ssl.v58i1.276},
year = {2020},
volume = {58},
number = {1},
pages = {121--155},
abstract = {In this article we present the Frankfurt Latin Lexicon (FLL),
a lexical resource for Medieval Latin that is used both for the
lemmatization of Latin texts and for the post-editing of lemmatizations.
We describe recent advances in the development of lemmatizers
and test them against the Capitularies corpus (comprising Frankish
royal edicts, mid-6th to mid-9th century), a corpus created as
a reference for processing Medieval Latin. We also consider the
post-correction of lemmatizations using a limited crowdsourcing
process aimed at continuous review and updating of the FLL. Starting
from the texts resulting from this lemmatization process, we describe
the extension of the FLL by means of word embeddings, whose interactive
traversing by means of SemioGraphs completes the digital enhanced
hermeneutic circle. In this way, the article argues for a more
comprehensive understanding of lemmatization, encompassing classical
machine learning as well as intellectual post-corrections and,
in particular, human computation in the form of interpretation
processes based on graph representations of the underlying lexical
resources.},
url = {https://www.studiesaggilinguistici.it/index.php/ssl/article/view/276},
pdf = {https://www.studiesaggilinguistici.it/index.php/ssl/article/download/276/219}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Stoeckel:et:al:2020,
author = {Stoeckel, Manuel and Henlein, Alexander and Hemati, Wahed and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{Voting for POS tagging of Latin texts: Using the flair of FLAIR
to better Ensemble Classifiers by Example of Latin}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of LT4HALA 2020 - 1st Workshop on Language Technologies
for Historical and Ancient Languages},
month = {May},
year = {2020},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
pages = {130--135},
abstract = {Despite the great importance of the Latin language in the past,
there are relatively few resources available today to develop
modern NLP tools for this language. Therefore, the EvaLatin Shared
Task for Lemmatization and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging was published
in the LT4HALA workshop. In our work, we dealt with the second
EvaLatin task, that is, POS tagging. Since most of the available
Latin word embeddings were trained on either few or inaccurate
data, we trained several embeddings on better data in the first
step. Based on these embeddings, we trained several state-of-the-art
taggers and used them as input for an ensemble classifier called
LSTMVoter. We were able to achieve the best results for both the
cross-genre and the cross-time task (90.64\% and 87.00\%) without
using additional annotated data (closed modality). In the meantime,
we further improved the system and achieved even better results
(96.91\% on classical, 90.87\% on cross-genre and 87.35\% on cross-time).},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lt4hala-1.21},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/workshops/LT4HALA/pdf/2020.lt4hala-1.21.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Henlein:Kett:Mehler:2020,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Henlein, Alexander and Kett, Attila and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{Text2SceneVR}: Generating Hypertexts with VAnnotatoR as a Pre-processing
Step for Text2Scene Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
series = {HT ’20},
year = {2020},
location = {Virtual Event, USA},
isbn = {9781450370981},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404791},
doi = {10.1145/3372923.3404791},
pages = {177–186},
numpages = {10},
pdf = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3372923.3404791}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Stoeckel:Mehler:2020,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Stoeckel, Manuel and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {TextAnnotator: A UIMA Based Tool for the Simultaneous and Collaborative
Annotation of Texts},
booktitle = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
year = {2020},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {891--900},
isbn = {979-10-95546-34-4},
abstract = {The annotation of texts and other material in the field of digital
humanities and Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a common task
of research projects. At the same time, the annotation of corpora
is certainly the most time- and cost-intensive component in research
projects and often requires a high level of expertise according
to the research interest. However, for the annotation of texts,
a wide range of tools is available, both for automatic and manual
annotation. Since the automatic pre-processing methods are not
error-free and there is an increasing demand for the generation
of training data, also with regard to machine learning, suitable
annotation tools are required. This paper defines criteria of
flexibility and efficiency of complex annotations for the assessment
of existing annotation tools. To extend this list of tools, the
paper describes TextAnnotator, a browser-based, multi-annotation
system, which has been developed to perform platform-independent
multimodal annotations and annotate complex textual structures.
The paper illustrates the current state of development of TextAnnotator
and demonstrates its ability to evaluate annotation quality (inter-annotator
agreement) at runtime. In addition, it will be shown how annotations
of different users can be performed simultaneously and collaboratively
on the same document from different platforms using UIMA as the
basis for annotation.},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.112},
keywords = {textannotator},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2020/pdf/2020.lrec-1.112.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Mehler:Stoeckel:2020,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Stoeckel, Manuel},
title = {{TextAnnotator}: A web-based annotation suite for texts},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2020},
series = {DH 2020},
location = {Ottawa, Canada},
year = {2020},
url = {https://dh2020.adho.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/547_TextAnnotatorAwebbasedannotationsuitefortexts.html},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/tenm-4907},
abstract = {The TextAnnotator is a tool for simultaneous and collaborative
annotation of texts with visual annotation support, integration
of knowledge bases and, by pipelining the TextImager, a rich variety
of pre-processing and automatic annotation tools. It includes
a variety of modules for the annotation of texts, which contains
the annotation of argumentative, rhetorical, propositional and
temporal structures as well as a module for named entity linking
and rapid annotation of named entities. Especially the modules
for annotation of temporal, argumentative and propositional structures
are currently unique in web-based annotation tools. The TextAnnotator,
which allows the annotation of texts as a platform, is divided
into a front- and a backend component. The backend is a web service
based on WebSockets, which integrates the UIMA Database Interface
to manage and use texts. Texts are made accessible by using the
ResourceManager and the AuthorityManager, based on user and group
access permissions. Different views of a document can be created
and used depending on the scenario. Once a document has been opened,
access is gained to the annotations stored within annotation views
in which these are organized. Any annotation view can be assigned
with access permissions and by default, each user obtains his
or her own user view for every annotated document. In addition,
with sufficient access permissions, all annotation views can also
be used and curated. This allows the possibility to calculate
an Inter-Annotator-Agreement for a document, which shows an agreement
between the annotators. Annotators without sufficient rights cannot
display this value so that the annotators do not influence each
other. This contribution is intended to reflect the current state
of development of TextAnnotator, demonstrate the possibilities
of an instantaneous Inter-Annotator-Agreement and trigger a discussion
about further functions for the community.},
keywords = {textannotator},
poster = {https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:31816/CONTENT/dh2020_textannotator_poster.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@article{Driller:et:al:2020,
author = {Christine Driller and Markus Koch and Giuseppe Abrami and Wahed Hemati
and Andy Lücking and Alexander Mehler and Adrian Pachzelt and Gerwin Kasperek},
title = {Fast and Easy Access to Central European Biodiversity Data with BIOfid},
volume = {4},
number = {},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.3897/biss.4.59157},
publisher = {Pensoft Publishers},
abstract = {The storage of data in public repositories such as the Global
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) or the National Center
for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is nowadays stipulated in
the policies of many publishers in order to facilitate data replication
or proliferation. Species occurrence records contained in legacy
printed literature are no exception to this. The extent of their
digital and machine-readable availability, however, is still far
from matching the existing data volume (Thessen and Parr 2014).
But precisely these data are becoming more and more relevant to
the investigation of ongoing loss of biodiversity. In order to
extract species occurrence records at a larger scale from available
publications, one has to apply specialised text mining tools.
However, such tools are in short supply especially for scientific
literature in the German language.The Specialised Information
Service Biodiversity Research*1 BIOfid (Koch et al. 2017) aims
at reducing this desideratum, inter alia, by preparing a searchable
text corpus semantically enriched by a new kind of multi-label
annotation. For this purpose, we feed manual annotations into
automatic, machine-learning annotators. This mixture of automatic
and manual methods is needed, because BIOfid approaches a new
application area with respect to language (mainly German of the
19th century), text type (biological reports), and linguistic
focus (technical and everyday language).We will present current
results of the performance of BIOfid’s semantic search engine
and the application of independent natural language processing
(NLP) tools. Most of these are freely available online, such as
TextImager (Hemati et al. 2016). We will show how TextImager is
tied into the BIOfid pipeline and how it is made scalable (e.g.
extendible by further modules) and usable on different systems
(docker containers).Further, we will provide a short introduction
to generating machine-learning training data using TextAnnotator
(Abrami et al. 2019) for multi-label annotation. Annotation reproducibility
can be assessed by the implementation of inter-annotator agreement
methods (Abrami et al. 2020). Beyond taxon recognition and entity
linking, we place particular emphasis on location and time information.
For this purpose, our annotation tag-set combines general categories
and biology-specific categories (including taxonomic names) with
location and time ontologies. The application of the annotation
categories is regimented by annotation guidelines (Lücking et
al. 2020). Within the next years, our work deliverable will be
a semantically accessible and data-extractable text corpus of
around two million pages. In this way, BIOfid is creating a new
valuable resource that expands our knowledge of biodiversity and
its determinants.},
issn = {},
pages = {e59157},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59157},
eprint = {https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59157},
journal = {Biodiversity Information Science and Standards},
keywords = {biofid}
}
BibTeX
@article{Luecking:et:al:2020,
author = {Andy L{\"{u}}cking and Sebastian Br{\"{u}}ckner and Giuseppe Abrami
and Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler},
title = {Computational linguistic assessment of textbook and online learning
media by means of threshold concepts in business education},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/2008.02096},
year = {2020},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02096},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {2008.02096},
timestamp = {Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:07:21 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2008-02096.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Hemati:Welke:Konca:Uslu:2020,
abstract = {We test the hypothesis that the extent to which one obtains information
on a given topic through Wikipedia depends on the language in
which it is consulted. Controlling the size factor, we investigate
this hypothesis for a number of 25 subject areas. Since Wikipedia
is a central part of the web-based information landscape, this
indicates a language-related, linguistic bias. The article therefore
deals with the question of whether Wikipedia exhibits this kind
of linguistic relativity or not. From the perspective of educational
science, the article develops a computational model of the information
landscape from which multiple texts are drawn as typical input
of web-based reading. For this purpose, it develops a hybrid model
of intra- and intertextual similarity of different parts of the
information landscape and tests this model on the example of 35
languages and corresponding Wikipedias. In the way it measures
the similarities of hypertexts, the article goes beyond existing
approaches by examining their structural and semantic aspects
intra- and intertextually. In this way it builds a bridge between
reading research, educational science, Wikipedia research and
computational linguistics.},
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Hemati, Wahed and Welke, Pascal and Konca, Maxim
and Uslu, Tolga},
doi = {10.3389/feduc.2020.562670},
issn = {2504-284X},
journal = {Frontiers in Education},
pages = {206},
title = {Multiple Texts as a Limiting Factor in Online Learning: Quantifying
(Dis-)similarities of Knowledge Networks},
url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.562670},
pdf = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.562670/pdf},
volume = {5},
year = {2020}
}
2019
BibTeX
@article{Gleim:Eger:Mehler:2019,
author = {Gleim, R\"{u}diger and Eger, Steffen and Mehler, Alexander and Uslu, Tolga
and Hemati, Wahed and L\"{u}cking, Andy and Henlein, Alexander and Kahlsdorf, Sven
and Hoenen, Armin},
title = {A practitioner's view: a survey and comparison of lemmatization
and morphological tagging in German and Latin},
journal = {Journal of Language Modeling},
year = {2019},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/jlm-tagging.pdf},
doi = {10.15398/jlm.v7i1.205},
url = {http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/205}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Hemati:Mehler:Uslu:Abrami:2019,
author = {Hemati, Wahed and Mehler, Alexander and Uslu, Tolga and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {{Der TextImager als Front- und Backend für das verteilte NLP von
Big Digital Humanities Data}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities Conference in the German-speaking
Countries, DHd 2019},
series = {DHd 2019},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Der-TextImager-als-Fron-und-Backend.pdf},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DHD19_TextImager.pdf},
location = {Frankfurt, Germany},
year = {2019}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Spiekermann:Mehler:2019,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Spiekermann, Christian and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{VAnnotatoR: Ein Werkzeug zur Annotation multimodaler Netzwerke
in dreidimensionalen virtuellen Umgebungen}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities Conference in the German-speaking
Countries, DHd 2019},
series = {DHd 2019},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Preprint_VAnnotatoR_DHd2019.pdf},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DHDVAnnotatoRPoster.pdf},
location = {Frankfurt, Germany},
year = {2019}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Uslu:Gleim:Baumartz:2019,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Uslu, Tolga and Gleim, Rüdiger and Baumartz, Daniel},
title = {{text2ddc meets Literature - Ein Verfahren für die Analyse und
Visualisierung thematischer Makrostrukturen}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities Conference in the German-speaking
Countries, DHd 2019},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DHD_Poster___text2ddc_meets_Literature_Poster.pdf},
series = {DHd 2019},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Preprint_DHd2019_text2ddc_meets_Literature.pdf},
location = {Frankfurt, Germany},
year = {2019}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Mehler:Spiekermann:2019,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Spiekermann, Christian},
title = {{Graph-based Format for Modeling Multimodal Annotations in Virtual
Reality by Means of VAnnotatoR}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Human-Computer
Interaction, HCII 2019},
series = {HCII 2019},
location = {Orlando, Florida, USA},
editor = {Stephanidis, Constantine and Antona, Margherita},
month = {July},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
pages = {351--358},
abstract = {Projects in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the
Digital Humanities (DH) and related disciplines dealing with machine
learning of complex relationships between data objects need annotations
to obtain sufficiently rich training and test sets. The visualization
of such data sets and their underlying Human Computer Interaction
(HCI) are perennial problems of computer science. However, despite
some success stories, the clarity of information presentation
and the flexibility of the annotation process may decrease with
the complexity of the underlying data objects and their relationships.
In order to face this problem, the so-called VAnnotatoR was developed,
as a flexible annotation tool using 3D glasses and augmented reality
devices, which enables annotation and visualization in three-dimensional
virtual environments. In addition, multimodal objects are annotated
and visualized within a graph-based approach.},
isbn = {978-3-030-30712-7},
pdf = {https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007\%2F978-3-030-30712-7_44.pdf},
year = {2019}
}
BibTeX
@article{Hemati:Mehler:2019a,
abstract = {Chemical and biomedical named entity recognition (NER) is an essential
preprocessing task in natural language processing. The identification
and extraction of named entities from scientific articles is also
attracting increasing interest in many scientific disciplines.
Locating chemical named entities in the literature is an essential
step in chemical text mining pipelines for identifying chemical
mentions, their properties, and relations as discussed in the
literature. In this work, we describe an approach to the BioCreative
V.5 challenge regarding the recognition and classification of
chemical named entities. For this purpose, we transform the task
of NER into a sequence labeling problem. We present a series of
sequence labeling systems that we used, adapted and optimized
in our experiments for solving this task. To this end, we experiment
with hyperparameter optimization. Finally, we present LSTMVoter,
a two-stage application of recurrent neural networks that integrates
the optimized sequence labelers from our study into a single ensemble
classifier.},
author = {Hemati, Wahed and Mehler, Alexander},
day = {10},
doi = {10.1186/s13321-018-0327-2},
issn = {1758-2946},
journal = {Journal of Cheminformatics},
month = {Jan},
number = {1},
pages = {7},
title = {{{LSTMVoter}: chemical named entity recognition using a conglomerate
of sequence labeling tools}},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-018-0327-2},
volume = {11},
year = {2019}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:Mehler:Schulz:Baumartz:2019,
author = {Uslu, Tolga and Mehler, Alexander and Schulz, Clemens and Baumartz, Daniel},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2019, (DH2019)}},
location = {Utrecht, Netherlands},
series = {{DH2019}},
title = {{{BigSense}: a Word Sense Disambiguator for Big Data}},
year = {2019},
url = {https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0199.html}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:Mehler:Baumartz:2019,
author = {Uslu, Tolga and Mehler, Alexander and Baumartz, Daniel},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, (CICLing 2019)}},
location = {La Rochelle, France},
series = {{CICLing 2019}},
title = {{Computing Classifier-based Embeddings with the Help of text2ddc}},
year = {2019}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2019,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Rieb, Elias
and Helfrich, Philipp},
title = {{TextAnnotator}: A flexible framework for semantic annotations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable
Semantic Annotation, (ISA-15)},
series = {ISA-15},
location = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
month = {May},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/TextAnnotator_IWCS_Göteborg.pdf},
year = {2019},
keywords = {textannotator},
abstract = {Modern annotation tools should meet at least the following general
requirements: they can handle diverse data and annotation levels
within one tool, and they support the annotation process with
automatic (pre-)processing outcomes as much as possible. We developed
a framework that meets these general requirements and that enables
versatile and browser-based annotations of texts, the TextAnnotator.
It combines NLP methods of pre-processing with methods of flexible
post-processing. Infact, machine learning (ML) requires a lot
of training and test data, but is usually far from achieving perfect
results. Producing high-level annotations for ML and post-correcting
its results are therefore necessary. This is the purpose of TextAnnotator,
which is entirely implemented in ExtJS and provides a range of
interactive visualizations of annotations. In addition, it allows
for flexibly integrating knowledge resources, e.g. in the course
of post-processing named entity recognition. The paper describes
TextAnnotator’s architecture together with three use cases: annotating
temporal structures, argument structures and named entity linking.}
}
BibTeX
@article{Hemati:Mehler:2019b,
author = {Hemati, Wahed and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{{CRFVoter}: gene and protein related object recognition using
a conglomerate of CRF-based tools}},
journal = {Journal of Cheminformatics},
year = {2019},
month = {Mar},
day = {14},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
pages = {11},
abstract = {Gene and protein related objects are an important class of entities
in biomedical research, whose identification and extraction from
scientific articles is attracting increasing interest. In this
work, we describe an approach to the BioCreative V.5 challenge
regarding the recognition and classification of gene and protein
related objects. For this purpose, we transform the task as posed
by BioCreative V.5 into a sequence labeling problem. We present
a series of sequence labeling systems that we used and adapted
in our experiments for solving this task. Our experiments show
how to optimize the hyperparameters of the classifiers involved.
To this end, we utilize various algorithms for hyperparameter
optimization. Finally, we present CRFVoter, a two-stage application
of Conditional Random Field (CRF) that integrates the optimized
sequence labelers from our study into one ensemble classifier.},
issn = {1758-2946},
doi = {10.1186/s13321-019-0343-x},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-019-0343-x}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Hunziker:et:al:2019,
author = {Hunziker, Alex and Mammadov, Hasanagha and Hemati, Wahed and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{Corpus2Wiki}: A MediaWiki-based Tool for Automatically Generating
Wikiditions in Digital Humanities},
booktitle = {INF-DH-2019},
year = {2019},
editor = {Burghardt, Manuel AND Müller-Birn, Claudia},
publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.},
address = {Bonn}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Abrami:2019,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {{VAnnotatoR}: A framework for the multimodal reconstruction of
historical situations and spaces},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Time Machine Conference},
year = {2019},
date = {October 10-11},
address = {Dresden, Germany},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/TimeMachineConference.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Ahmed:Stoeckel:Driller:Pachzelt:Mehler:2019,
author = {Sajawel Ahmed and Manuel Stoeckel and Christine Driller and Adrian Pachzelt
and Alexander Mehler},
title = {{BIOfid Dataset: Publishing a German Gold Standard for Named Entity
Recognition in Historical Biodiversity Literature}},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {2019},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language
Learning (CoNLL)},
address = {Hong Kong, China},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/K19-1081},
doi = {10.18653/v1/K19-1081},
pages = {871--880},
abstract = {The Specialized Information Service Biodiversity Research (BIOfid)
has been launched to mobilize valuable biological data from printed
literature hidden in German libraries for over the past 250 years.
In this project, we annotate German texts converted by OCR from
historical scientific literature on the biodiversity of plants,
birds, moths and butterflies. Our work enables the automatic extraction
of biological information previously buried in the mass of papers
and volumes. For this purpose, we generated training data for
the tasks of Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Taxa Recognition
(TR) in biological documents. We use this data to train a number
of leading machine learning tools and create a gold standard for
TR in biodiversity literature. More specifically, we perform a
practical analysis of our newly generated BIOfid dataset through
various downstream-task evaluations and establish a new state
of the art for TR with 80.23{\%} F-score. In this sense, our paper
lays the foundations for future work in the field of information
extraction in biology texts.},
keywords = {biofid}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Stoeckel:Hemati:Mehler:2019,
title = {When Specialization Helps: Using Pooled Contextualized Embeddings
to Detect Chemical and Biomedical Entities in {S}panish},
author = {Stoeckel, Manuel and Hemati, Wahed and Mehler, Alexander},
booktitle = {Proceedings of The 5th Workshop on BioNLP Open Shared Tasks},
month = {nov},
year = {2019},
address = {Hong Kong, China},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-5702},
doi = {10.18653/v1/D19-5702},
pages = {11--15},
abstract = {The recognition of pharmacological substances, compounds and proteins
is an essential preliminary work for the recognition of relations
between chemicals and other biomedically relevant units. In this
paper, we describe an approach to Task 1 of the PharmaCoNER Challenge,
which involves the recognition of mentions of chemicals and drugs
in Spanish medical texts. We train a state-of-the-art BiLSTM-CRF
sequence tagger with stacked Pooled Contextualized Embeddings,
word and sub-word embeddings using the open-source framework FLAIR.
We present a new corpus composed of articles and papers from Spanish
health science journals, termed the Spanish Health Corpus, and
use it to train domain-specific embeddings which we incorporate
in our model training. We achieve a result of 89.76{\%} F1-score
using pre-trained embeddings and are able to improve these results
to 90.52{\%} F1-score using specialized embeddings.}
}
BibTeX
@inbook{Mehler:Ramesh:2019,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Ramesh, Visvanathan},
editor = {Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
title = {{TextInContext}: On the Way to a Framework for Measuring the Context-Sensitive
Complexity of Educationally Relevant Texts---A Combined Cognitive
and Computational Linguistic Approach},
booktitle = {Frontiers and Advances in Positive Learning in the Age of InformaTiOn (PLATO)},
year = {2019},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
pages = {167--195},
abstract = {We develop a framework for modeling the context sensitivity of
text interpretation. As a point of reference, we focus on the
complexity of educational texts. To open up a broader basis for
representing phenomena of context sensitivity, we integrate a
learning theory (i.e., the Cognitive Load Theory) with a theory
of discourse comprehension (i.e., the Construction Integration
Model) and a theory of cognitive semantics (i.e., the theory of
Conceptual Spaces). The aim is to construct measures that view
text complexity as a relational attribute by analogy to the relational
concept of meaning in situation semantics. To this end, we reconstruct
the situation semantic notion of relational meaning from the perspective
of a computationally informed cognitive semantics. The aim is
to prepare the development of measurements for predicting learning
outcomes in the form of positive or negative learning. This prediction
ideally depends on the underlying learning material, the learner's
situational context, and knowledge retrieved from his or her long-term
memory, which he or she uses to arrive at coherent mental representations
of the underlying texts. Finally, our model refers to machine
learning as a tool for modeling such memory content. In this way,
the chapter integrates approaches from different disciplines (linguistic
semantics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and data
science).},
isbn = {978-3-030-26578-6},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-26578-6_14},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26578-6_14}
}
BibTeX
@inbook{Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia:et:al:2019,
author = {Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga and Bisang, Walter and Mehler, Alexander
and Banerjee, Mita and Roeper, Jochen},
editor = {Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga},
title = {Positive Learning in the Internet Age: Developments and Perspectives
in the PLATO Program},
booktitle = {Frontiers and Advances in Positive Learning in the Age of InformaTiOn (PLATO)},
year = {2019},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
pages = {1--5},
abstract = {The Internet has become the main informational entity, i.e., a
public source of information. The Internet offers many new benefits
and opportunities for human learning, teaching, and research.
However, by providing a vast amount of information from innumerable
sources, it also enables the manipulation of information; there
are countless examples of disseminated misinformation and false
data in mass and social media. Much of the information presented
online is conflicting, preselected, or algorithmically obscure,
often colliding with fundamental humanistic values and posing
moral or ethical problems.},
isbn = {978-3-030-26578-6},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-26578-6_1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26578-6_1}
}
2018
BibTeX
@misc{Abrami:et:al:2018b,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Ahmed, Sajawel and Gleim, R{\"u}diger and Hemati, Wahed
and Mehler, Alexander and Uslu Tolga},
title = {{Natural Language Processing and Text Mining for BIOfid}},
howpublished = {Presentation at the 1st Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the BIOfid Project},
adress = {Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany},
year = {2018},
month = {March},
day = {08},
pdf = {}
}
BibTeX
@inbook{Mehler:et:al:2018,
abstract = {This chapter develops a computational linguistic model for analyzing
and comparing multilingual data as well as its application to
a large body of standardized assessment data from higher education.
The approach employs both an automatic and a manual annotation
of the data on several linguistic layers (including parts of speech,
text structure and content). Quantitative features of the textual
data are explored that are related to both the students' (domain-specific
knowledge) test results and their level of academic experience.
The respective analysis involves statistics of distance correlation,
text categorization with respect to text types (questions and
response options) as well as languages (English and German), and
network analysis to assess dependencies between features. The
correlation between correct test results of students and linguistic
features of the verbal presentations of tests indicate to what
extent language influences higher education test performance.
It has also been found that this influence relates to specialized
language. Thus, this integrative modeling approach contributes
a test basis for a large-scale analysis of learning data and points
to a number of subsequent, more detailed research questions.},
address = {Wiesbaden},
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga and Hemati, Wahed
and Molerov, Dimitri and L{\"u}cking, Andy and Schmidt, Susanne},
booktitle = {Positive Learning in the Age of Information: A Blessing or a Curse?},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-19567-0_10},
editor = {Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga and Wittum, Gabriel and Dengel, Andreas},
isbn = {978-3-658-19567-0},
pages = {145--193},
publisher = {Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden},
title = {Integrating Computational Linguistic Analysis of Multilingual
Learning Data and Educational Measurement Approaches to Explore
Learning in Higher Education},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19567-0_10},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inbook{Mehler:Stegbauer:Frank-Job:2018,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Christian Stegbauer and Barbara Frank-Job},
editor = {Christian Stegbauer and Boris Holzer},
title = {{Ferdinand de Saussure. 1916. Cours de linguistique générale.
Payot, Lausanne/Paris}},
publisher = {Springer VS},
address = {Wiesbaden},
booktitle = {Schlüsselwerke der Netzwerkforschung},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Saussure2.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Mehler:2018,
author = {Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler},
title = {A UIMA Database Interface for Managing NLP-related Text Annotations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference, May 7 - 12},
series = {LREC 2018},
address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
keywords = {UIMA},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/UIMA-DI.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Helfrich:et:al:2018,
author = {Philipp Helfrich and Elias Rieb and Giuseppe Abrami and Andy L{\"u}cking
and Alexander Mehler},
title = {TreeAnnotator: Versatile Visual Annotation of Hierarchical Text Relations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference, May 7 - 12},
series = {LREC 2018},
address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TreeAnnotator.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:Song:2018,
author = {R{\"u}diger Gleim and Alexander Mehler and Sung Y. Song},
title = {WikiDragon: A Java Framework For Diachronic Content And Network
Analysis Of MediaWikis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference, May 7 - 12},
series = {LREC 2018},
address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WikiDragon.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:et:al:2018,
author = {Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler and Daniel Baumartz and Alexander Henlein
and Wahed Hemati},
title = {fastSense: An Efficient Word Sense Disambiguation Classifier},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and
Evaluation Conference, May 7 - 12},
series = {LREC 2018},
address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fastSense.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:Mehler:Niekler:Baumartz:2018,
author = {Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler and Andreas Niekler and Daniel Baumartz},
title = {Towards a {DDC}-based Topic Network Model of Wikipedia},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis,
and Management of Social Networks and their Applications (SOCNET
2018), February 28, 2018},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TowardsDDC.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Gleim:Luecking:Uslu:Stegbauer:2018,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Rüdiger Gleim and Andy Lücking and Tolga Uslu
and Christian Stegbauer},
title = {On the Self-similarity of {Wikipedia} Talks: a Combined Discourse-analytical
and Quantitative Approach},
journal = {Glottometrics},
volume = {40},
pages = {1-44},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Glottometrics-Mehler.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:et:al:2018:a,
author = {Tolga Uslu and Lisa Miebach and Steffen Wolfsgruber and Michael Wagner
and Klaus Fließbach and Rüdiger Gleim and Wahed Hemati and Alexander Henlein
and Alexander Mehler},
title = {{Automatic Classification in Memory Clinic Patients and in Depressive Patients}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic
and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric
impairments (RaPID-2)},
series = {RaPID},
location = {Miyazaki, Japan},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Spiekerman:Abrami:Mehler:2018,
author = {Christian Spiekermann and Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler},
title = {{VAnnotatoR}: a Gesture-driven Annotation Framework for Linguistic
and Multimodal Annotation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions
(AREA 2018) Workshop},
series = {AREA},
location = {Miyazaki, Japan},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/VAnnotatoR.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:Mehler:Meyer:2018,
author = {Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler and Dirk Meyer},
title = {{{LitViz}: Visualizing Literary Data by Means of text2voronoi}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2018},
series = {DH2018},
location = {Mexico City, Mexico},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/LitViz.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Hemati:Uslu:Luecking:2018,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Wahed Hemati and Tolga Uslu and Andy Lücking},
title = {A Multidimensional Model of Syntactic Dependency Trees for Authorship
Attribution},
booktitle = {Quantitative analysis of dependency structures},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
editor = {Jingyang Jiang and Haitao Liu},
address = {Berlin/New York},
abstract = {Abstract: In this chapter we introduce a multidimensional model
of syntactic dependency trees. Our ultimate goal is to generate
fingerprints of such trees to predict the author of the underlying
sentences. The chapter makes a first attempt to create such fingerprints
for sentence categorization via the detour of text categorization.
We show that at text level, aggregated dependency structures actually
provide information about authorship. At the same time, we show
that this does not hold for topic detection. We evaluate our model
using a quarter of a million sentences collected in two corpora:
the first is sampled from literary texts, the second from Wikipedia
articles. As a second finding of our approach, we show that quantitative
models of dependency structure do not yet allow for detecting
syntactic alignment in written communication. We conclude that
this is mainly due to effects of lexical alignment on syntactic
alignment.},
keywords = {Dependency structure, Authorship attribution, Text
categorization, Syntactic Alignment},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Hemati:Gleim:Baumartz:2018,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Wahed Hemati and Rüdiger Gleim and Daniel Baumartz},
title = {{VienNA: }{Auf dem Weg zu einer Infrastruktur für die verteilte
interaktive evolutionäre Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache}},
booktitle = {Forschungsinfrastrukturen und digitale Informationssysteme in
der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
editor = {Henning Lobin and Roman Schneider and Andreas Witt},
volume = {6},
address = {Berlin},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Hemati:Mehler:Uslu:Baumartz:Abrami:2018,
author = {Wahed Hemati and Alexander Mehler and Tolga Uslu and Daniel Baumartz
and Giuseppe Abrami},
title = {Evaluating and Integrating Databases in the Area of {NLP}},
booktitle = {International Quantitative Linguistics Conference (QUALICO 2018)},
year = {2018},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Hemat-Mehler-Uslu-Baumartz-Abrami-Qualico-2018.pdf},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/qualico2018_databases_poster_hemati_mehler_uslu_baumartz_abrami.pdf},
location = {Wroclaw, Poland}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Abrami:Spiekermann:Jostock:2018,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Abrami, Giuseppe and Spiekermann, Christian
and Jostock, Matthias},
title = {{VAnnotatoR}: {A} Framework for Generating Multimodal Hypertexts},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
series = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '18)},
year = {2018},
location = {Baltimore, Maryland},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
pdf = {http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3210000/3209572/p150-mehler.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@article{Driller:et:al:2018,
author = {Christine Driller and Markus Koch and Marco Schmidt and Claus Weiland
and Thomas Hörnschemeyer and Thomas Hickler and Giuseppe Abrami and Sajawel Ahmed
and Rüdiger Gleim and Wahed Hemati and Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler
and Adrian Pachzelt and Jashar Rexhepi and Thomas Risse and Janina Schuster
and Gerwin Kasperek and Angela Hausinger},
title = {Workflow and Current Achievements of BIOfid, an Information Service
Mobilizing Biodiversity Data from Literature Sources},
volume = {2},
number = {},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.3897/biss.2.25876},
publisher = {Pensoft Publishers},
abstract = {BIOfid is a specialized information service currently being developed
to mobilize biodiversity data dormant in printed historical and
modern literature and to offer a platform for open access journals
on the science of biodiversity. Our team of librarians, computer
scientists and biologists produce high-quality text digitizations,
develop new text-mining tools and generate detailed ontologies
enabling semantic text analysis and semantic search by means of
user-specific queries. In a pilot project we focus on German publications
on the distribution and ecology of vascular plants, birds, moths
and butterflies extending back to the Linnaeus period about 250
years ago. The three organism groups have been selected according
to current demands of the relevant research community in Germany.
The text corpus defined for this purpose comprises over 400 volumes
with more than 100,000 pages to be digitized and will be complemented
by journals from other digitization projects, copyright-free and
project-related literature. With TextImager (Natural Language
Processing & Text Visualization) and TextAnnotator (Discourse
Semantic Annotation) we have already extended and launched tools
that focus on the text-analytical section of our project. Furthermore,
taxonomic and anatomical ontologies elaborated by us for the taxa
prioritized by the project’s target group - German institutions
and scientists active in biodiversity research - are constantly
improved and expanded to maximize scientific data output. Our
poster describes the general workflow of our project ranging from
literature acquisition via software development, to data availability
on the BIOfid web portal (http://biofid.de/), and the implementation
into existing platforms which serve to promote global accessibility
of biodiversity data.},
issn = {},
pages = {e25876},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25876},
eprint = {https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25876},
journal = {Biodiversity Information Science and Standards},
keywords = {biofid}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Baumartz:Uslu:Mehler:2018,
author = {Daniel Baumartz and Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler},
title = {{LTV}: Labeled Topic Vector},
booktitle = {Proceedings of {COLING 2018}, the 27th International Conference
on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, August 20-26},
year = {2018},
address = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
publisher = {The COLING 2018 Organizing Committee},
abstract = {In this paper, we present LTV, a website and an API that generate
labeled topic classifications based on the Dewey Decimal Classification
(DDC), an international standard for topic classification in libraries.
We introduce nnDDC, a largely language-independent neural network-based
classifier for DDC-related topic classification, which we optimized
using a wide range of linguistic features to achieve an F-score
of 87.4\%. To show that our approach is language-independent,
we evaluate nnDDC using up to 40 different languages. We derive
a topic model based on nnDDC, which generates probability distributions
over semantic units for any input on sense-, word- and text-level.
Unlike related approaches, however, these probabilities are estimated
by means of nnDDC so that each dimension of the resulting vector
representation is uniquely labeled by a DDC class. In this way,
we introduce a neural network-based Classifier-Induced Semantic
Space (nnCISS).},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/coling2018.pdf}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:Mehler:2018,
author = {Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler},
title = {{PolyViz}: a Visualization System for a Special Kind of Multipartite Graphs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE VIS 2018},
series = {IEEE VIS 2018},
location = {Berlin, Germany},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/polyviz-visualization-system.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Kett:et:al:2018,
author = {Attila Kett and Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler and Christian Spiekermann},
title = {{Resources2City Explorer}: A System for Generating Interactive
Walkable Virtual Cities out of File Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/UIST2018Final.pdf},
location = {Berlin, Germany},
abstract = {We present Resources2City Explorer (R2CE), a tool for representing
file systems as interactive, walkable virtual cities. R2CE visualizes
file systems based on concepts of spatial, 3D information processing.
For this purpose, it extends the range of functions of conventional
file browsers considerably. Visual elements in a city generated
by R2CE represent (relations of) objects of the underlying file
system. The paper describes the functional spectrum of R2CE and
illustrates it by visualizing a sample of 940 files.},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Weiland:et:al:2018,
author = {Claus Weiland and Christine Driller and Markus Koch and Marco Schmidt
and Giuseppe Abrami and Sajawel Ahmed and Alexander Mehler and Adrian Pachzelt
and Gerwin Kasperek and Angela Hausinger and Thomas Hörnschemeyer},
title = {{BioFID}, a platform to enhance accessibility of biodiversity data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics},
year = {2018},
url = {https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco_Schmidt3/publication/327940813_BIOfid_a_Platform_to_Enhance_Accessibility_of_Biodiversity_Data/links/5bae3e3e92851ca9ed2cd60f/BIOfid-a-Platform-to-Enhance-Accessibility-of-Biodiversity-Data.pdf?origin=publication_detail},
location = {Jena, Germany}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Ahmed:Mehler:2018,
author = {Sajawel Ahmed and Alexander Mehler},
title = {{Resource-Size matters: Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition
with Optimized Large Corpora}},
abstract = {This study improves the performance of neural named entity recognition
by a margin of up to 11\% in terms of F-score on the example of
a low-resource language like German, thereby outperforming existing
baselines and establishing a new state-of-the-art on each single
open-source dataset (CoNLL 2003, GermEval 2014 and Tübingen Treebank
2018). Rather than designing deeper and wider hybrid neural architectures,
we gather all available resources and perform a detailed optimization
and grammar-dependent morphological processing consisting of lemmatization
and part-of-speech tagging prior to exposing the raw data to any
training process. We test our approach in a threefold monolingual
experimental setup of a) single, b) joint, and c) optimized training
and shed light on the dependency of downstream-tasks on the size
of corpora used to compute word embeddings.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine
Learning and Applications (ICMLA)},
location = {Orlando, Florida, USA},
pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.10675.pdf},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2018,
author = {Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler and Philipp Helfrich and Elias Rieb},
title = {{TextAnnotator}: A Browser-based Framework for Annotating Textual
Data in Digital Humanities},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Austria 2018},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/TA__A_Browser_based_Framework_for_Annotating_Textual_Data_in_Digital_Humanities.pdf},
location = {Salzburg, Austria},
year = {2018}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Rutherford:et:al:2018,
author = {Rutherford, Eleanor AND Hemati, Wahed AND Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{Corpus2Wiki}: A MediaWiki based Annotation \& Visualisation Tool
for the Digital Humanities},
booktitle = {INF-DH-2018},
year = {2018},
editor = {Burghardt, Manuel AND Müller-Birn, Claudia},
publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.},
address = {Bonn}
}
BibTeX
@article{Lokot:Mehler:Abramov:2018,
author = {Lokot, Tatiana and Mehler, Alexander and Abramov, Olga},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
publisher = {Public Library of Science},
title = {On the limit value of compactness of some graph classes},
year = {2018},
month = {11},
volume = {13},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207536},
pages = {1-8},
abstract = {In this paper, we study the limit of compactness which is a graph
index originally introduced for measuring structural characteristics
of hypermedia. Applying compactness to large scale small-world
graphs (Mehler, 2008) observed its limit behaviour to be equal
1. The striking question concerning this finding was whether this
limit behaviour resulted from the specifics of small-world graphs
or was simply an artefact. In this paper, we determine the necessary
and sufficient conditions for any sequence of connected graphs
resulting in a limit value of CB = 1 which can be generalized
with some consideration for the case of disconnected graph classes
(Theorem 3). This result can be applied to many well-known classes
of connected graphs. Here, we illustrate it by considering four
examples. In fact, our proof-theoretical approach allows for quickly
obtaining the limit value of compactness for many graph classes
sparing computational costs.},
number = {11},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0207536}
}
2017
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Uslu:Hemati:Mehler:Baumartz:2017,
author = {Tolga Uslu and Wahed Hemati and Alexander Mehler and Daniel Baumartz},
title = {{TextImager} as a Generic Interface to {R}},
booktitle = {Software Demonstrations of the 15th Conference of the European
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL
2017)},
location = {Valencia, Spain},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TextImager.pdf},
year = {2017}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Gleim:Hemati:Uslu:2017,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Rüdiger Gleim and Wahed Hemati and Tolga Uslu},
title = {{Skalenfreie online soziale Lexika am Beispiel von Wiktionary}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 53rd Annual Conference of the Institut für Deutsche
Sprache (IDS), March 14-16, Mannheim, Germany},
editor = {Stefan Engelberg and Henning Lobin and Kathrin Steyer and Sascha Wolfer},
address = {Berlin},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
note = {In German. Title translates into: Scale-free
online-social Lexika by Example of Wiktionary},
abstract = {In English: The paper deals with characteristics of the structural,
thematic and participatory dynamics of collaboratively generated
lexical networks. This is done by example of Wiktionary. Starting
from a network-theoretical model in terms of so-called multi-layer
networks, we describe Wiktionary as a scale-free lexicon. Systems
of this sort are characterized by the fact that their content-related
dynamics is determined by the underlying dynamics of collaborating
authors. This happens in a way that social structure imprints
on content structure. According to this conception, the unequal
distribution of the activities of authors results in a correspondingly
unequal distribution of the information units documented within
the lexicon. The paper focuses on foundations for describing such
systems starting from a parameter space which requires to deal
with Wiktionary as an issue in big data analysis. In German: Der
Beitrag thematisiert Eigenschaften der strukturellen, thematischen
und partizipativen Dynamik kollaborativ erzeugter lexikalischer
Netzwerke am Beispiel von Wiktionary. Ausgehend von einem netzwerktheoretischen
Modell in Form so genannter Mehrebenennetzwerke wird Wiktionary
als ein skalenfreies Lexikon beschrieben. Systeme dieser Art zeichnen
sich dadurch aus, dass ihre inhaltliche Dynamik durch die zugrundeliegende
Kollaborationsdynamik bestimmt wird, und zwar so, dass sich die
soziale Struktur der entsprechenden inhaltlichen Struktur aufprägt.
Dieser Auffassung gemäß führt die Ungleichverteilung der Aktivitäten
von Lexikonproduzenten zu einer analogen Ungleichverteilung der
im Lexikon dokumentierten Informationseinheiten. Der Beitrag thematisiert
Grundlagen zur Beschreibung solcher Systeme ausgehend von einem
Parameterraum, welcher die netzwerkanalytische Betrachtung von
Wiktionary als Big-Data-Problem darstellt.},
year = {2017}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:et:al:2017:a,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Giuseppe Abrami and Steffen Bruendel and Lisa Felder
and Thomas Ostertag and Christian Spiekermann},
title = {{Stolperwege:} An App for a Digital Public History of the {Holocaust}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
series = {HT '17},
pages = {319--320},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
publisher = {ACM},
abstract = {We present the Stolperwege app, a web-based framework for ubiquitous
modeling of historical processes. Starting from the art project
Stolpersteine of Gunter Demnig, it allows for virtually connecting
these stumbling blocks with information about the biographies
of victims of Nazism. According to the practice of public history,
the aim of Stolperwege is to deepen public knowledge of the Holocaust
in the context of our everyday environment. Stolperwege uses an
information model that allows for modeling social networks of
agents starting from information about portions of their life.
The paper exemplifies how Stolperwege is informationally enriched
by means of historical maps and 3D animations of (historical)
buildings.},
acmid = {3078748},
doi = {10.1145/3078714.3078748},
isbn = {978-1-4503-4708-2},
keywords = {3d, geocaching, geotagging, historical maps,
historical processes, public history of the holocaust,
ubiquitous computing},
location = {Prague, Czech Republic},
numpages = {2},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/poster_ht2017.pdf},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3078714.3078748},
year = {2017}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Hemati:Uslu:Mehler:2017,
author = {Wahed Hemati and Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler},
title = {{TextImager} as an interface to {BeCalm}},
booktitle = {BioCreative V.5. Proceedings},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TextImager_BeCalm.pdf},
year = {2017}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Hemati:Mehler:Uslu:2017,
author = {Wahed Hemati and Alexander Mehler and Tolga Uslu},
title = {{CRFVoter}: Chemical Entity Mention, Gene and Protein Related
Object recognition using a conglomerate of CRF based tools},
booktitle = {BioCreative V.5. Proceedings},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CRFVoter.pdf},
year = {2017}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Luecking:2017,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Andy Lücking},
title = {Modelle sozialer Netzwerke und Natural Language Processing: eine
methodologische Randnotiz},
journal = {Soziologie},
volume = {46},
number = {1},
pages = {43-47},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Soziologe-NetzwerkeundNLP.pdf},
year = {2017}
}
2016
BibTeX
@collection{GSCL:JLCL:2016:2,
bibsource = {GSCL, http://www.gscl.info/},
editor = {Armin Hoenen and Alexander Mehler and Jost Gippert},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Titelblatt-Heft2-2016.png},
issn = {2190-6858},
number = {2},
pdf = {http://www.jlcl.org/2016_Heft2/Heft2-2016.pdf},
publisher = {JLCL},
title = {{Corpora and Resources for (Historical) Low Resource Languages}},
volume = {31},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:et:al:2016,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Rüdiger Gleim and Tim vor der Brück and Wahed Hemati
and Tolga Uslu and Steffen Eger},
title = {Wikidition: Automatic Lexiconization and Linkification of Text Corpora},
journal = {Information Technology},
volume = {58},
pages = {70-79},
abstract = {We introduce a new text technology, called Wikidition, which automatically
generates large scale editions of corpora of natural language
texts. Wikidition combines a wide range of text mining tools for
automatically linking lexical, sentential and textual units. This
includes the extraction of corpus-specific lexica down to the
level of syntactic words and their grammatical categories. To
this end, we introduce a novel measure of text reuse and exemplify
Wikidition by means of the capitularies, that is, a corpus of
Medieval Latin texts.},
doi = {10.1515/itit-2015-0035},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Wagner:Mehler:Biber:2016,
author = {Wagner, Benno and Mehler, Alexander and Biber, Hanno},
title = {{Transbiblionome Daten in der Literaturwissenschaft. Texttechnologische
Erschließung und digitale Visualisierung intertextueller Beziehungen
digitaler Korpora}},
booktitle = {DHd 2016},
url = {http://www.dhd2016.de/abstracts/sektionen-005.html#index.xml-body.1_div.4},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Hoenen:Mehler:2016,
author = {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Hoenen, Armin and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{TGermaCorp} -- A (Digital) Humanities Resource for (Computational) Linguistics},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation},
series = {LREC 2016},
islrn = {536-382-801-278-5},
location = {Portoro\v{z} (Slovenia)},
pdf = {http://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lrec2016-ttgermacorp-final.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Mehler:Walther:Mauri:Kurfuerst:2016,
author = {L\"{u}cking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Walther, D\'{e}sir\'{e}e
and Mauri, Marcel and Kurf\"{u}rst, Dennis},
title = {Finding Recurrent Features of Image Schema Gestures: the {FIGURE} corpus},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation},
series = {LREC 2016},
location = {Portoro\v{z} (Slovenia)},
pdf = {http://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lrec2016-gesture-study-final-version-short.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Eger:Mehler:Gleim:2016,
author = {Eger, Steffen and Gleim, R\"{u}diger and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Lemmatization and Morphological Tagging in {German} and {Latin}:
A comparison and a survey of the state-of-the-art},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation},
series = {LREC 2016},
location = {Portoro\v{z} (Slovenia)},
pdf = {http://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lrec_eger_gleim_mehler.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{vorderBrueck:Mehler:2016,
author = {vor der Br\"{u}ck, Tim and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{TLT-CRF}: A Lexicon-supported Morphological Tagger for {Latin}
Based on Conditional Random Fields},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation},
series = {LREC 2016},
location = {{Portoro\v{z} (Slovenia)}},
pdf = {http://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lrec2016_tagger.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Wagner:Gleim:2016,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Wagner, Benno and Gleim, R\"{u}diger},
title = {Wikidition: Towards A Multi-layer Network Model of Intertextuality},
booktitle = {Proceedings of DH 2016, 12-16 July},
series = {DH 2016},
abstract = {The paper presents Wikidition, a novel text mining tool for generating
online editions of text corpora. It explores lexical, sentential
and textual relations to span multi-layer networks (linkification)
that allow for browsing syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations
among the constituents of its input texts. In this way, relations
of text reuse can be explored together with lexical relations
within the same literary memory information system. Beyond that,
Wikidition contains a module for automatic lexiconisation to extract
author specific vocabularies. Based on linkification and lexiconisation,
Wikidition does not only allow for traversing input corpora on
different (lexical, sentential and textual) levels. Rather, its
readers can also study the vocabulary of authors on several levels
of resolution including superlemmas, lemmas, syntactic words and
wordforms. We exemplify Wikidition by a range of literary texts
and evaluate it by means of the apparatus of quantitative network
analysis.},
location = {Kraków},
url = {http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/250},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@article{Eger:vorDerBrueck:Mehler:2016,
author = {Eger, Steffen and vor der Brück, Tim and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Comparison of Four Character-Level String-to-String Translation
Models for (OCR) Spelling Error Correction},
journal = {The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics},
volume = {105},
pages = {77-99},
doi = {10.1515/pralin-2016-0004},
pdf = {https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml/105/art-eger-vor-der-brueck.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Eger:Mehler:2016,
author = {Steffen Eger and Alexander Mehler},
title = {On the linearity of semantic change: {I}nvestigating meaning variation
via dynamic graph models},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ACL 2016},
location = {Berlin},
pdf = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P16/P16-2009.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Uslu:Hemati:2016,
author = {Alexander Mehler and Tolga Uslu and Wahed Hemati},
title = {Text2voronoi: An Image-driven Approach to Differential Diagnosis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'16)
hosted by the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL), Berlin},
pdf = {https://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W16/W16-3212.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Hemati:Uslu:Mehler:2016,
author = {Wahed Hemati and Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler},
title = {TextImager: a Distributed UIMA-based System for NLP},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the COLING 2016 System Demonstrations},
organization = {Federated Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems},
location = {Osaka, Japan},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TextImager2016.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Eger:Hoenen:Mehler:2016,
author = {Steffen Eger and Armin Hoenen and Alexander Mehler},
title = {Language classification from bilingual word embedding graphs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016},
publisher = {ACL},
location = {Osaka},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/eger_hoenen_mehler_COLING2016.pdf},
year = {2016}
}
2015
BibTeX
@incollection{Abrami:Mehler:Pravida:2015:b,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Pravida, Dietmar},
title = {Fusing Text and Image Data with the Help of the OWLnotator},
booktitle = {Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information
and Knowledge Design},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
editor = {Yamamoto, Sakae},
volume = {9172},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
pages = {261-272},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_25},
isbn = {978-3-319-20611-0},
language = {English},
website = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_25},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abrami:Mehler:Zeunert:2015:a,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Zeunert, Susanne},
title = {Ontologiegestütze geisteswissenschaftliche Annotationen mit dem OWLnotator},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Abrami_Mehler_Zeunert_DHd_2015_abstract.pdf},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:2015,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {TTLab Preprocessor – Eine generische Web-Anwendung für die Vorverarbeitung
von Texten und deren Evaluation},
booktitle = {Accepted in the Proceedings of the Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities
im deutschsprachigen Raum},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Gleim_Mehler_PrePro_DHGraz2015.pdf},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Brueck:Gleim:Geelhaar:2015,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and vor der Brück, Tim and Gleim, Rüdiger and Geelhaar, Tim},
title = {Towards a Network Model of the Coreness of Texts: An Experiment
in Classifying Latin Texts using the TTLab Latin Tagger},
booktitle = {Text Mining: From Ontology Learning to Automated text Processing Applications},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Chris Biemann and Alexander Mehler},
series = {Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing},
pages = {87-112},
address = {Berlin/New York},
abstract = {The analysis of longitudinal corpora of historical texts requires
the integrated development of tools for automatically preprocessing
these texts and for building representation models of their genre-
and register-related dynamics. In this chapter we present such
a joint endeavor that ranges from resource formation via preprocessing
to network-based text representation and classification. We start
with presenting the so-called TTLab Latin Tagger (TLT) that preprocesses
texts of classical and medieval Latin. Its lexical resource in
the form of the Frankfurt Latin Lexicon (FLL) is also briefly
introduced. As a first test case for showing the expressiveness
of these resources, we perform a tripartite classification task
of authorship attribution, genre detection and a combination thereof.
To this end, we introduce a novel text representation model that
explores the core structure (the so-called coreness) of lexical
network representations of texts. Our experiment shows the expressiveness
of this representation format and mediately of our Latin preprocessor.},
website = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-12655-5_5},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Eger:Schenk:Mehler:2015,
author = {Eger, Steffen and Schenk, Niko and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Towards Semantic Language Classification: Inducing and Clustering
Semantic Association Networks from Europarl},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational
Semantics},
pages = {127--136},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
month = {June},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/starsem2015-corrected-version.pdf},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/S15-1014},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Gleim:2015:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Linguistic Networks -- An Online Platform for Deriving Collocation
Networks from Natural Language Texts},
booktitle = {Towards a Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Complex Linguistic Networks},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Banisch, Sven and Blanchard, Philippe
and Frank-Job, Barbara},
series = {Understanding Complex Systems},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:Luecking:Banisch:Blanchard:Frank-Job:2015,
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Banisch, Sven and Blanchard, Philippe
and Frank-Job, Barbara},
title = {Towards a Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Complex Linguistic Networks},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Understanding Complex Systems},
adress = {Berlin and New York},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/UCS_17-2-tmp.png},
isbn = {978-36-662-47237-8},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Eger:vor:der:Brueck:Mehler:2015,
author = {Eger, Steffen and vor der Brück, Tim and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Lexicon-assisted tagging and lemmatization in {Latin}: A comparison
of six taggers and two lemmatization methods},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural
Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities ({LaTeCH 2015})},
address = {Beijing, China},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Lexicon-assisted_tagging.pdf},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{vor:der:Bruck:Eger:Mehler:2015,
author = {vor der Br{\"u}ck, Tim and Eger, Steffen and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Complex Decomposition of the Negative Distance Kernel},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications},
location = {Miami, Florida, USA},
year = {2015}
}
BibTeX
@book{Biemann:Mehler:2015,
editor = {Biemann, Chris and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {{Text Mining: From Ontology Learning to Automated Text Processing
Applications. Festschrift in Honor of Gerhard Heyer}},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing},
address = {Heidelberg},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TextMiningsmall.jpg},
year = {2015}
}
2014
BibTeX
@inproceedings{vor:der:Brueck:Mehler:Islam:2014,
author = {vor der Brück, Tim and Mehler, Alexander and Islam, Md. Zahurul},
title = {ColLex.EN: Automatically Generating and Evaluating a Full-form
Lexicon for English},
booktitle = {Proceedings of LREC 2014},
address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
abstract = {Currently, a large number of different lexica is available for
English. However, substantial and freely available fullform lexica
with a high number of named entities are rather rare even in the
case of this lingua franca. Existing lexica are often limited
in several respects as explained in Section 2. What is missing
so far is a freely available substantial machine-readable lexical
resource of English that contains a high number of word forms
and a large collection of named entities. In this paper, we describe
a procedure to generate such a resource by example of English.
This lexicon, henceforth called ColLex.EN (for Collecting Lexica
for English ), will be made freely available to the public 1.
In this paper, we describe how ColLex.EN was collected from existing
lexical resources and specify the statistical procedures that
we developed to extend and adjust it. No manual modifications
were done on the generated word forms and lemmas. Our fully automatic
procedure has the advantage that whenever new versions of the
source lexica are available, a new version of ColLex.EN can be
automatically generated with low effort.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/vdbrueck_mehler_islam_collex_lrec.pdf},
website = {
http://aclanthology.info/papers/collex-en-automatically-generating-and-evaluating-a-full-form-lexicon-for-english},
year = {2014}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Luecking:Abrami:2014,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {{WikiNect}: Image Schemata as a Basis of Gestural Writing for
Kinetic Museum Wikis},
journal = {Universal Access in the Information Society},
pages = {1-17},
abstract = {This paper provides a theoretical assessment of gestures in the
context of authoring image-related hypertexts by example of the
museum information system WikiNect. To this end, a first implementation
of gestural writing based on image schemata is provided (Lakoff
in Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal about
the mind. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987). Gestural
writing is defined as a sort of coding in which propositions are
only expressed by means of gestures. In this respect, it is shown
that image schemata allow for bridging between natural language
predicates and gestural manifestations. Further, it is demonstrated
that gestural writing primarily focuses on the perceptual level
of image descriptions (Hollink et al. in Int J Hum Comput Stud
61(5):601–626, 2004). By exploring the metaphorical potential
of image schemata, it is finally illustrated how to extend the
expressiveness of gestural writing in order to reach the conceptual
level of image descriptions. In this context, the paper paves
the way for implementing museum information systems like WikiNect
as systems of kinetic hypertext authoring based on full-fledged
gestural writing.},
doi = {10.1007/s10209-014-0386-8},
issn = {1615-5289},
keywords = {wikinect},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/art_10.1007_s10209-014-0386-8.pdf},
website = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-014-0386-8},
year = {2014}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:vor:der:Brueck:Luecking:2014,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and vor der Brück, Tim and Lücking, Andy},
title = {Comparing Hand Gesture Vocabularies for HCI},
booktitle = {Proceedings of HCI International 2014, 22 - 27 June 2014, Heraklion, Greece},
publisher = {Springer},
address = {Berlin/New York},
abstract = {HCI systems are often equipped with gestural interfaces drawing
on a predefined set of admitted gestures. We provide an assessment
of the fitness of such gesture vocabularies in terms of their
learnability and naturalness. This is done by example of rivaling
gesture vocabularies of the museum information system WikiNect.
In this way, we do not only provide a procedure for evaluating
gesture vocabularies, but additionally contribute to design criteria
to be followed by the gestures.},
keywords = {wikinect},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Comparing-Gesture-Vocabularies-1_1.pdf},
website = {{http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07230-2_8#page-1}},
year = {2014}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Islam:Rahman:Mehler:2014,
author = {Islam, Md. Zahurul and Rahman, Md. Rashedur and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Readability Classification of Bangla Texts},
booktitle = {15th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and
Computational Linguistics (cicLing), Kathmandu, Nepal},
abstract = {Readability classification is an important application of Natural
Language Processing. It aims at judging the quality of documents
and to assist writers to identify possible problems. This paper
presents a readability classifier for Bangla textbooks using information-theoretic
and lexical features. All together 18 features are explored to
achieve an F-score of 86.46},
year = {2014}
}
BibTeX
@article{Biemann:Crane:Fellbaum:Mehler:2014,
author = {Chris Biemann and Gregory R. Crane and Christiane D. Fellbaum
and Alexander Mehler},
title = {Computational Humanities - bridging the gap between Computer Science
and Digital Humanities (Dagstuhl Seminar 14301)},
journal = {Dagstuhl Reports},
volume = {4},
number = {7},
pages = {80-111},
abstract = {Research in the field of Digital Humanities, also known as Humanities
Computing, has seen a steady increase over the past years. Situated
at the intersection of computing science and the humanities, present
efforts focus on making resources such as texts, images, musical
pieces and other semiotic artifacts digitally available, searchable
and analysable. To this end, computational tools enabling textual
search, visual analytics, data mining, statistics and natural
language processing are harnessed to support the humanities researcher.
The processing of large data sets with appropriate software opens
up novel and fruitful approaches to questions in the traditional
humanities. This report summarizes the Dagstuhl seminar 14301
on “Computational Humanities – bridging the gap between Computer
Science and Digital Humanities”},
issn = {2192-5283},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dagrep_v004_i007_p080_s14301.pdf},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik},
year = {2014}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2014,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {On the Expressiveness, Validity and Reproducibility of Models
of Language Evolution. Comment on 'Modelling language evolution:
Examples and predictions' by Tao Gong, Shuai Lan, and Menghan
Zhang},
journal = {Physics of Life Review},
abstract = {},
pdf = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064514000529/pdfft?md5=6a2cbbfc083d7bc3adfd26d431cc55d8&pid=1-s2.0-S1571064514000529-main.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261290946_On_the_expressiveness_validity_and_reproducibility_of_models_of_language_evolution_Comment_on_Modelling_language_evolution_Examples_and_predictions_by_Tao_Gong_Shuai_Lan_and_Menghan_Zhang},
year = {2014}
}
BibTeX
@article{Abrami:Mehler:Pravida:Zeunert:2014,
author = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander and Pravida, Dietmar and Zeunert, Susanne},
title = {Rubrik: Neues aus dem Netz},
journal = {Kunstchronik},
volume = {12},
pages = {623},
address = {München},
month = {12},
publisher = {Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte},
website = {http://www.zikg.eu/publikationen/laufende-publikationen/kunstchronik},
year = {2014}
}
2013
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Beckage:et:al:2013,
author = {Nicole Beckage and Michael S. Vitevitch and Alexander Mehler and Eliana Colunga},
title = {Using Complex Network Analysis in the Cognitive Sciences},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society, CogSci 2013, Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 3, 2013},
editor = {Markus Knauff and Michael Pauen and Natalie Sebanz and Ipke Wachsmuth},
publisher = {cognitivesciencesociety.org},
year = {2013}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Stegbauer:Gleim:2013,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Stegbauer, Christian and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Zur Struktur und Dynamik der kollaborativen Plagiatsdokumentation
am Beispiel des GuttenPlag Wiki: eine Vorstudie},
booktitle = {Die Dynamik sozialer und sprachlicher Netzwerke. Konzepte, Methoden
und empirische Untersuchungen am Beispiel des WWW},
publisher = {VS Verlag},
editor = {Frank-Job, Barbara and Mehler, Alexander and Sutter, Tilman},
address = {Wiesbaden},
year = {2013}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Islam:Mehler:2013:a,
author = {Islam, Md. Zahurul and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Automatic Readability Classification of Crowd-Sourced Data based
on Linguistic and Information-Theoretic Features},
booktitle = {14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and
Computational Linguistics},
abstract = {This paper presents a classifier of text readability based on
information-theoretic features. The classifier was developed based
on a linguistic approach to readability that explores lexical,
syntactic and semantic features. For this evaluation we extracted
a corpus of 645 articles from Wikipedia together with their quality
judgments. We show that information-theoretic features perform
as well as their linguistic counterparts even if we explore several
linguistic levels at once.},
owner = {zahurul},
pdf = {http://www.cys.cic.ipn.mx/ojs/index.php/CyS/article/download/1516/1497},
timestamp = {2013.01.22},
website = {http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61527437002},
year = {2013}
}
BibTeX
@book{FrankJob:Mehler:Sutter:2013,
editor = {Barbara Frank-Job and Alexander Mehler and Tilmann Sutter},
title = {Die Dynamik sozialer und sprachlicher Netzwerke: Konzepte, Methoden
und empirische Untersuchungen an Beispielen des WWW},
publisher = {Springer VS},
address = {Wiesbaden},
abstract = {In diesem Band pr{\"a}sentieren Medien- und Informationswissenschaftler,
Netzwerkforscher aus Informatik, Texttechnologie und Physik, Soziologen
und Linguisten interdisziplin{\"a}r Aspekte der Erforschung komplexer
Mehrebenen-Netzwerke. Im Zentrum ihres Interesses stehen Untersuchungen
zum Zusammenhang zwischen sozialen und sprachlichen Netzwerken
und ihrer Dynamiken, aufgezeigt an empirischen Beispielen aus
dem Bereich des Web 2.0, aber auch an historischen Dokumentenkorpora
sowie an Rezeptions-Netzwerken aus Kunst- und Literaturwissenschaft.},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DieDynamikSozialerUndSprachlicherNetzwerke.jpg},
pagetotal = {240},
year = {2013}
}
BibTeX
@article{Luecking:Mehler:2013:a,
author = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {On Three Notions of Grounding of Artificial Dialog Companions},
journal = {Science, Technology \& Innovation Studies},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
pages = {31-36},
abstract = {We provide a new, theoretically motivated evaluation grid for
assessing the conversational achievements of Artificial Dialog
Companions (ADCs). The grid is spanned along three grounding problems.
Firstly, it is argued that symbol grounding in general has to
be instrinsic. Current approaches in this context, however, are
limited to a certain kind of expression that can be grounded in
this way. Secondly, we identify three requirements for conversational
grounding, the process leading to mutual understanding. Finally,
we sketch a test case for symbol grounding in the form of the
philosophical grounding problem that involves the use of modal
language. Together, the three grounding problems provide a grid
that allows us to assess ADCs’ dialogical performances and to
pinpoint future developments on these grounds.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/STI-final-badge.pdf},
website = {http://www.sti-studies.de/ojs/index.php/sti/article/view/143},
year = {2013}
}
BibTeX
@misc{Mehler:Luecking:vor:der:Brueck:2013:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and vor der Brück, Tim and Abrami, Giuseppe},
title = {WikiNect - A Kinetic Artwork Wiki for Exhibition Visitors},
howpublished = {Poster Presentation at the Scientific Computing and
Cultural Heritage 2013 Conference, Heidelberg},
keywords = {wikinect},
month = {11},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SCCHPoster2013.pdf},
url = {http://scch2013.wordpress.com/},
year = {2013}
}
BibTeX
@book{Schneider:Storrer:Mehler:2013,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Schneider, Roman and Storrer, Angelika},
editor = {Roman Schneider and Angelika Storrer and Alexander Mehler},
title = {Webkorpora in Computerlinguistik und Sprachforschung},
publisher = {JLCL},
volume = {28},
number = {2},
series = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Webkorpora-300-20.png},
issn = {2190-6858},
pagetotal = {107},
pdf = {http://www.jlcl.org/2013_Heft2/H2013-2.pdf},
year = {2013}
}
2012
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Sukhareva:Islam:Hoenen:Mehler:2012,
author = {Sukhareva, Maria and Islam, Md. Zahurul and Hoenen, Armin and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Three-step Model of Language Detection in Multilingual Ancient Texts},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities},
address = {Heidelberg, Germany},
abstract = {Ancient corpora contain various multilingual patterns. This imposes
numerous problems on their manual annotation and automatic processing.
We introduce a lexicon building system, called Lexicon Expander,
that has an integrated language detection module, Language Detection
(LD) Toolkit. The Lexicon Expander post-processes the output of
the LD Toolkit which leads to the improvement of f-score and accuracy
values. Furthermore, the functionality of the Lexicon Expander
also includes manual editing of lexical entries and automatic
morphological expansion by means of a morphological grammar.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sukhareva_islam_hoenen_mehler_2011.pdf},
website = {https://www.academia.edu/2236625/A_Three-step_Model_of_Language_Detection_in_Multilingual_Ancient_Texts},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Mehler:2012,
author = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {What's the Scope of the Naming Game? Constraints on Semantic Categorization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
pages = {196-203},
address = {Kyoto, Japan},
abstract = {The Naming Game (NG) has become a vivid research paradigm for
simulation studies on language evolution and the establishment
of naming conventions. Recently, NGs were used for reconstructing
the creation of linguistic categories, most notably for color
terms. We recap the functional principle of NGs and the latter
Categorization Games (CGs) and evaluate them in the light of semantic
data of linguistic categorization outside the domain of colors.
This comparison reveals two specifics of the CG paradigm: Firstly,
the emerging categories draw basically on the predefined topology
of the learning domain. Secondly, the kind of categories that
can be learnt in CGs is bound to context-independent intersective
categories. This suggests that the NG and the CG focus on a special
aspect of natural language categorization, which disregards context-sensitive
categories used in a non-compositional manner.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Evolang2012-AL_AM.pdf},
url = {http://kyoto.evolang.org/},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267858061_WHAT'S_THE_SCOPE_OF_THE_NAMING_GAME_CONSTRAINTS_ON_SEMANTIC_CATEGORIZATION},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Islam:Mehler:2012:a,
author = {Islam, Md. Zahurul and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Customization of the Europarl Corpus for Translation Studies},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation (LREC)},
abstract = {Currently, the area of translation studies lacks corpora by which
translation scholars can validate their theoretical claims, for
example, regarding the scope of the characteristics of the translation
relation. In this paper, we describe a customized resource in
the area of translation studies that mainly addresses research
on the properties of the translation relation. Our experimental
results show that the Type-Token-Ratio (TTR) is not a universally
valid indicator of the simplification of translation.},
owner = {zahurul},
pdf = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/729_Paper.pdf},
timestamp = {2012.02.02},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Luecking:Menke:2012,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Menke, Peter},
title = {Assessing Cognitive Alignment in Different Types of Dialog by
means of a Network Model},
journal = {Neural Networks},
volume = {32},
pages = {159-164},
abstract = {We present a network model of dialog lexica, called TiTAN (Two-layer
Time-Aligned Network) series. TiTAN series capture the formation
and structure of dialog lexica in terms of serialized graph representations.
The dynamic update of TiTAN series is driven by the dialog-inherent
timing of turn-taking. The model provides a link between neural,
connectionist underpinnings of dialog lexica on the one hand and
observable symbolic behavior on the other. On the neural side,
priming and spreading activation are modeled in terms of TiTAN
networking. On the symbolic side, TiTAN series account for cognitive
alignment in terms of the structural coupling of the linguistic
representations of dialog partners. This structural stance allows
us to apply TiTAN in machine learning of data of dialogical alignment.
In previous studies, it has been shown that aligned dialogs can
be distinguished from non-aligned ones by means of TiTAN -based
modeling. Now, we simultaneously apply this model to two types
of dialog: task-oriented, experimentally controlled dialogs on
the one hand and more spontaneous, direction giving dialogs on
the other. We ask whether it is possible to separate aligned dialogs
from non-aligned ones in a type-crossing way. Starting from a
recent experiment (Mehler, Lücking, \& Menke, 2011a), we show
that such a type-crossing classification is indeed possible. This
hints at a structural fingerprint left by alignment in networks
of linguistic items that are routinely co-activated during conversation.},
doi = {10.1016/j.neunet.2012.02.013},
website = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608012000421},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Schwandt:Gleim:Ernst:2012,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Schwandt, Silke and Gleim, Rüdiger and Ernst, Alexandra},
title = {Inducing Linguistic Networks from Historical Corpora: Towards
a New Method in Historical Semantics},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora},
publisher = {Narr},
editor = {Paul Bennett and Martin Durrell and Silke Scheible and Richard J. Whitt},
volume = {3},
series = {Corpus linguistics and Interdisciplinary perspectives
on language (CLIP)},
pages = {257--274},
address = {Tübingen},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Stegbauer:2012,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Stegbauer, Christian},
title = {On the Self-similarity of Intertextual Structures in Wikipedia},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the HotSocial '12: The First ACM International
Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research},
editor = {Xiaoming Fu and Peter Gloor and Jie Tang},
pages = {65-68},
address = {Beijing, China},
pdf = {http://wan.poly.edu/KDD2012/forms/workshop/HotSocial12/doc/p64_mehler.pdf},
website = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2392633&bnc=1},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:Ernst:2012,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander and Ernst, Alexandra},
title = {SOA implementation of the eHumanities Desktop},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Service-oriented Architectures
(SOAs) for the Humanities: Solutions and Impacts, Digital Humanities
2012, Hamburg, Germany},
abstract = {The eHumanities Desktop is a system which allows users to upload,
organize and share resources using a web interface. Furthermore
resources can be processed, annotated and analyzed in various
ways. Registered users can organize themselves in groups and collaboratively
work on their data. The eHumanities Desktop is platform independent
and runs in a web browser. This paper presents the system focusing
on its service orientation and process management.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dhc2012.pdf},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2012:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
title = {WikiNect: Towards a Gestural Writing System for Kinetic Museum Wikis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop On User Experience in
e-Learning and Augmented Technologies in Education (UXeLATE 2012)
in Conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2012, 29 October- 2 November,
Nara, Japan},
pages = {7-12},
abstract = {We introduce WikiNect as a kinetic museum information system that
allows museum visitors to give on-site feedback about exhibitions.
To this end, WikiNect integrates three approaches to Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI): games with a purpose, wiki-based collaborative
writing and kinetic text-technologies. Our aim is to develop kinetic
technologies as a new paradigm of HCI. They dispense with classical
interfaces (e.g., keyboards) in that they build on non-contact
modes of communication like gestures or facial expressions as
input displays. In this paper, we introduce the notion of gestural
writing as a kinetic text-technology that underlies WikiNect to
enable museum visitors to communicate their feedback. The basic
idea is to explore sequences of gestures that share the semantic
expressivity of verbally manifested speech acts. Our task is to
identify such gestures that are learnable on-site in the usage
scenario of WikiNect. This is done by referring to so-called transient
gestures as part of multimodal ensembles, which are candidate
gestures of the desired functionality.},
keywords = {wikinect},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/UXeLATE2012-copyright.pdf},
website = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/262319200_WikiNect_towards_a_gestural_writing_system_for_kinetic_museum_wikis},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2012:d,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
title = {Pathways of Alignment between Gesture and Speech: Assessing Information
Transmission in Multimodal Ensembles},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal and Computational
Approaches to Multimodal Communication under the auspices of ESSLLI
2012, Opole, Poland, 6-10 August},
editor = {Gianluca Giorgolo and Katya Alahverdzhieva},
abstract = {We present an empirical account of multimodal ensembles based
on Hjelmslev’s notion of selection. This is done to get measurable
evidence for the existence of speech-and-gesture ensembles. Utilizing
information theory, we show that there is an information transmission
that makes a gestures’ representation technique predictable when
merely knowing its lexical affiliate – in line with the notion
of the primacy of language. Thus, there is evidence for a one-way
coupling – going from words to gestures – that leads to speech-and-gesture
alignment and underlies the constitution of multimodal ensembles.},
keywords = {wikinect},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mehler_Luecking_FoCoMC2012-2.pdf},
website = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/268368670_Pathways_of_Alignment_between_Gesture_and_Speech_Assessing_Information_Transmission_in_Multimodal_Ensembles},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Romary:Gibbon:2012,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Romary, Laurent and Gibbon, Dafydd},
title = {Introduction: Framing Technical Communication},
booktitle = {Handbook of Technical Communication},
publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton},
editor = {Alexander Mehler and Laurent Romary and Dafydd Gibbon},
volume = {8},
series = {Handbooks of Applied Linguistics},
pages = {1-26},
address = {Berlin and Boston},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Islam:Mehler:Rahman:2012,
author = {Islam, Md. Zahurul and Mehler, Alexander and Rahman, Rashedur},
title = {Text Readability Classification of Textbooks of a Low-Resource Language},
booktitle = {Accepted in the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information,
and Computation (PACLIC 26)},
abstract = {There are many languages considered to be low-density languages,
either because the population speaking the language is not very
large, or because insufficient digitized text material is available
in the language even though millions of people speak the language.
Bangla is one of the latter ones. Readability classification is
an important Natural Language Processing (NLP) application that
can be used to judge the quality of documents and assist writers
to locate possible problems. This paper presents a readability
classifier of Bangla textbook documents based on information-theoretic
and lexical features. The features proposed in this paper result
in an F-score that is 50\% higher than that for traditional readability
formulas.},
owner = {zahurul},
pdf = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/Y12-1059},
timestamp = {2012.08.14},
website = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/256648250_Text_Readability_Classification_of_Textbooks_of_a_Low-Resource_Language},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Stegbauer:Gleim:2012:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Stegbauer, Christian and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Latent Barriers in Wiki-based Collaborative Writing},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge.
June 29 - July 1 2012},
address = {Berlin},
month = {July},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/12_Paper_Alexander_Mehler_Christian_Stegbauer_Ruediger_Gleim.pdf},
year = {2012}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:Romary:2012,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Romary, Laurent},
title = {Handbook of Technical Communication},
publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton},
address = {Berlin},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/HandbookTechnicalCommunication.jpg},
pagetotal = {839},
year = {2012}
}
2011
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Zahurul:Mittmann:Mehler:2011,
author = {Islam, Md. Zahurul and Mittmann, Roland and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Multilingualism in Ancient Texts: Language Detection by Example
of Old High German and Old Saxon},
booktitle = {GSCL conference on Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications
(GSCL 2011), 28-30 September, Hamburg, Germany},
abstract = {In this paper, we present an approach to language d etection in
streams of multilingual ancient texts. We introduce a supervised
classifier that detects, amongst others, Old High G erman (OHG)
and Old Saxon (OS). We evaluate our mod el by means of three experiments
that show that language detection is po ssible even for dead languages.
Finally, we present an experiment in unsupervised language detection
as a tertium comparationis for o ur supervised classifier.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Multilingualism_in_Ancient_Texts_Language_Detection_by_Example_of_Old_High_German_and_Old_Saxon.pdf},
timestamp = {2011.08.25},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Schwandt:Gleim:Jussen:2011,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Schwandt, Silke and Gleim, Rüdiger and Jussen, Bernhard},
title = {Der eHumanities Desktop als Werkzeug in der historischen Semantik:
Funktionsspektrum und Einsatzszenarien},
journal = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
volume = {26},
number = {1},
pages = {97-117},
abstract = {Die Digital Humanities bzw. die Computational Humanities entwickeln
sich zu eigenst{\"a}ndigen Disziplinen an der Nahtstelle von Geisteswissenschaft
und Informatik. Diese Entwicklung betrifft zunehmend auch die
Lehre im Bereich der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fachinformatik.
In diesem Beitrag thematisieren wir den eHumanities Desktop als
ein Werkzeug für diesen Bereich der Lehre. Dabei geht es genauer
um einen Brückenschlag zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Informatik:
Am Beispiel der historischen Semantik stellen wir drei Lehrszenarien
vor, in denen der eHumanities Desktop in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen
Lehre zum Einsatz kommt. Der Beitrag schliesst mit einer Anforderungsanalyse
an zukünftige Entwicklungen in diesem Bereich.},
pdf = {http://media.dwds.de/jlcl/2011_Heft1/8.pdf },
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Waltinger:Mehler:Loesch:Horstmann:2011,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander and Lösch, Mathias and Horstmann, Wolfram},
title = {Hierarchical Classification of OAI Metadata Using the DDC Taxonomy},
booktitle = {Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries (ALT4DL)},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Raffaella Bernardi and Sally Chambers and Bjoern Gottfried and Frederique Segond
and Ilya Zaihrayeu},
series = {LNCS},
pages = {29-40},
address = {Berlin},
abstract = {In the area of digital library services, the access to subject-specific
metadata of scholarly publications is of utmost interest. One
of the most prevalent approaches for metadata exchange is the
XML-based Open Archive Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH). However, due to its loose requirements regarding
metadata content there is no strict standard for consistent subject
indexing specified, which is furthermore needed in the digital
library domain. This contribution addresses the problem of automatic
enhancement of OAI metadata by means of the most widely used universal
classification schemes in libraries—the Dewey Decimal Classification
(DDC). To be more specific, we automatically classify scientific
documents according to the DDC taxonomy within three levels using
a machine learning-based classifier that relies solely on OAI
metadata records as the document representation. The results show
an asymmetric distribution of documents across the hierarchical
structure of the DDC taxonomy and issues of data sparseness. However,
the performance of the classifier shows promising results on all
three levels of the DDC.},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/x20257512g818377/},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:Kuehnberger:Lobin:Luengen:Storrer:Witt:2011,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe and Lobin, Henning and Lüngen, Harald
and Storrer, Angelika and Witt, Andreas},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe and Lobin, Henning and Lüngen, Harald
and Storrer, Angelika and Witt, Andreas},
title = {Modeling, Learning and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
address = {Berlin/New York},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/modelingLearningAndProcessing-medium.jpg},
pagetotal = {400},
website = {/books/texttechnologybook/},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@article{Abramov:Mehler:2011:a,
author = {Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Automatic Language Classification by Means of Syntactic Dependency Networks},
journal = {Journal of Quantitative Linguistics},
volume = {18},
number = {4},
pages = {291-336},
abstract = {This article presents an approach to automatic language classification
by means of linguistic networks. Networks of 11 languages were
constructed from dependency treebanks, and the topology of these
networks serves as input to the classification algorithm. The
results match the genealogical similarities of these languages.
In addition, we test two alternative approaches to automatic language
classification – one based on n-grams and the other on quantitative
typological indices. All three methods show good results in identifying
genealogical groups. Beyond genetic similarities, network features
(and feature combinations) offer a new source of typological information
about languages. This information can contribute to a better understanding
of the interplay of single linguistic phenomena observed in language.},
website = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/220469321_Automatic_Language_Classification_by_means_of_Syntactic_Dependency_Networks},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Waltinger:2011:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Waltinger, Ulli},
title = {Integrating Content and Structure Learning: A Model of Hypertext
Zoning and Sounding},
booktitle = {Modeling, Learning and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe and Lobin, Henning and Lüngen, Harald
and Storrer, Angelika and Witt, Andreas},
series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
address = {Berlin/New York},
website = {http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-22613-7_15},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Geibel:Mehler:Kuehnberger:2011:a,
author = {Geibel, Peter and Mehler, Alexander and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe},
title = {Learning Methods for Graph Models of Document Structure},
booktitle = {Modeling, Learning and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe and Lobin, Henning and Lüngen, Harald
and Storrer, Angelika and Witt, Andreas},
series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
address = {Berlin/New York},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/p095331472h76v56/},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Luecking:Menke:2011:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Menke, Peter},
title = {Assessing Lexical Alignment in Spontaneous Direction Dialogue
Data by Means of a Lexicon Network Model},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text
Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), February 20--26,
Tokyo},
series = {CICLing'11},
pages = {368-379},
address = {Berlin/New York},
publisher = {Springer},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/titan-cicling-camera-ready.pdf},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7p2250025u20010/},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@book{Dehmer:EmmertStreib:Mehler:2009:a,
editor = {Dehmer, Matthias and Emmert-Streib, Frank and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks: Statistical
Methods and Applications},
publisher = {Birkh{\"a}user},
address = {Boston/Basel},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/InformationTheoryComplexNetworks.jpg},
pagetotal = {395},
website = {http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-8176-4904-3/page/1},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Menke:Mehler:2011,
author = {Menke, Peter and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {From experiments to corpora: The Ariadne Corpus Management System},
booktitle = {Corpus Linguistics 2011, 20-22 July, Birmingham},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260186214_From_Experiments_to_Corpora_The_Ariadne_Corpus_Management_System},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Hoenen:Diewald:Mehler:Ernst:2011,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Hoenen, Armin and Diewald, Nils and Mehler, Alexander
and Ernst, Alexandra},
title = {Modeling, Building and Maintaining Lexica for Corpus Linguistic
Studies by Example of Late Latin},
booktitle = {Corpus Linguistics 2011, 20-22 July, Birmingham},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Paper-48.pdf},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Abramov:Mehler:Menke:2011,
author = {Lücking, Andy and Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander and Menke, Peter},
title = {The Bielefeld Jigsaw Map Game (JMG) Corpus},
booktitle = {Abstracts of the Corpus Linguistics Conference 2011},
series = {CL2011},
address = {Birmingham},
pdf = {http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/college-artslaw/corpus/conference-archives/2011/Paper-137.pdf},
website = {http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/publications/conference-archives/2011-birmingham.aspx},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Luecking:Menke:2011,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Menke, Peter},
title = {From Neural Activation to Symbolic Alignment: A Network-Based
Approach to the Formation of Dialogue Lexica},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
(IJCNN 2011), San Jose, California, July 31 -- August 5},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/neural-align-final.pdf},
website = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033266}},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Diewald:Waltinger:et:al:2010,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Diewald, Nils and Waltinger, Ulli and Gleim, Rüdiger
and Esch, Dietmar and Job, Barbara and Küchelmann, Thomas and Abramov, Olga
and Blanchard, Philippe},
title = {Evolution of Romance Language in Written Communication: Network
Analysis of Late Latin and Early Romance Corpora},
journal = {Leonardo},
volume = {44},
number = {3},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_diewald_waltinger_gleim_esch_job_kuechelmann_pustylnikov_blanchard_2010.pdf},
publisher = {MIT Press},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Lux:Laussmann:Mehler:Menssen:2011,
author = {Lux, Markus and Lau{\ss}mann, Jan and Mehler, Alexander and Men{\ss}en, Christian},
title = {An Online Platform for Visualizing Time Series in Linguistic Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session of the 2011 IEEE / WIC
/ ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent
Agent Technology, 22 - 27 August 2011, Lyon, France},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wi-iat-poster-2011.pdf},
website = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2052396},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@article{Loesch:Waltinger:Horstmann:Mehler:2011,
author = {Lösch, Mathias and Waltinger, Ulli and Horstmann, Wolfram and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Building a DDC-annotated Corpus from OAI Metadata},
journal = {Journal of Digital Information},
volume = {12},
number = {2},
abstract = {Checking for readability or simplicity of texts is important for
many institutional and individual users. Formulas for approximately
measuring text readability have a long tradition. Usually, they
exploit surface-oriented indicators like sentence length, word
length, word frequency, etc. However, in many cases, this information
is not adequate to realistically approximate the cognitive difficulties
a person can have to understand a text. Therefore we use deep
syntactic and semantic indicators in addition. The syntactic information
is represented by a dependency tree, the semantic information
by a semantic network. Both representations are automatically
generated by a deep syntactico-semantic analysis. A global readability
score is determined by applying a nearest neighbor algorithm on
3,000 ratings of 300 test persons. The evaluation showed that
the deep syntactic and semantic indicators lead to promising results
comparable to the best surface-based indicators. The combination
of deep and shallow indicators leads to an improvement over shallow
indicators alone. Finally, a graphical user interface was developed
which highlights difficult passages, depending on the individual
indicator values, and displays a global readability score.},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
pdf = {https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/download/1765/1767},
website = {http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/1765},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Stegbauer:Mehler:2011,
author = {Stegbauer, Christian and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Positionssensitive Dekomposition von Potenzgesetzen am Beispiel
von Wikipedia-basierten Kollaborationsnetzwerken},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop Digital Social Networks at INFORMATIK
2011: Informatik schafft Communities, Oct 4-7, 2011, Berlin},
pdf = {http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/komm/CD/paper/090423.pdf},
specialnote = {Best Paper Award},
specialnotewebsite = {http://www.digitale-soziale-netze.de/gi-workshop/index.php?site=review2011},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2011,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
title = {A Graph Model of Alignment in Multilog},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Africon 2011},
series = {IEEE Africon},
address = {Zambia},
organization = {IEEE},
month = {9},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/africon2011-paper-Alexander_Mehler_Andy_Luecking.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267941012_A_Graph_Model_of_Alignment_in_Multilog},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2011:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Social Ontologies as Generalized Nearly Acyclic Directed Graphs:
A Quantitative Graph Model of Social Ontologies by Example of
Wikipedia},
booktitle = {Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks: Statistical
Methods and Applications},
publisher = {Birkh{\"a}user},
editor = {Dehmer, Matthias and Emmert-Streib, Frank and Mehler, Alexander},
pages = {259-319},
address = {Boston/Basel},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Abramov:Diewald:2011:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Abramov, Olga and Diewald, Nils},
title = {Geography of Social Ontologies: Testing a Variant of the Sapir-Whorf
Hypothesis in the Context of Wikipedia},
journal = {Computer Speech and Language},
volume = {25},
number = {3},
pages = {716-740},
abstract = {In this article, we test a variant of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
in the area of complex network theory. This is done by analyzing
social ontologies as a new resource for automatic language classification.
Our method is to solely explore structural features of social
ontologies in order to predict family resemblances of languages
used by the corresponding communities to build these ontologies.
This approach is based on a reformulation of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
in terms of distributed cognition. Starting from a corpus of 160
Wikipedia-based social ontologies, we test our variant of the
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis by several experiments, and find out that
we outperform the corresponding baselines. All in all, the article
develops an approach to classify linguistic networks of tens of
thousands of vertices by exploring a small range of mathematically
well-established topological indices.},
doi = {10.1016/j.csl.2010.05.006},
website = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885230810000434},
year = {2011}
}
BibTeX
@article{Luecking:Mehler:2011,
author = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Model of Complexity Levels of Meaning Constitution in Simulation
Models of Language Evolution},
journal = {International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages = {18-38},
abstract = {Currently, some simulative accounts exist within dynamic or evolutionary
frameworks that are concerned with the development of linguistic
categories within a population of language users. Although these
studies mostly emphasize that their models are abstract, the paradigm
categorization domain is preferably that of colors. In this paper,
the authors argue that color adjectives are special predicates
in both linguistic and metaphysical terms: semantically, they
are intersective predicates, metaphysically, color properties
can be empirically reduced onto purely physical properties. The
restriction of categorization simulations to the color paradigm
systematically leads to ignoring two ubiquitous features of natural
language predicates, namely relativity and context-dependency.
Therefore, the models for simulation models of linguistic categories
are not able to capture the formation of categories like perspective-dependent
predicates ‘left’ and ‘right’, subsective predicates like ‘small’
and ‘big’, or predicates that make reference to abstract objects
like ‘I prefer this kind of situation’. The authors develop a
three-dimensional grid of ascending complexity that is partitioned
according to the semiotic triangle. They also develop a conceptual
model in the form of a decision grid by means of which the complexity
level of simulation models of linguistic categorization can be
assessed in linguistic terms.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/luecking_mehler_article_IJSSS.pdf},
year = {2011}
}
2010
BibTeX
@inbook{Sutter2010,
author = {Sutter, Tilmann and Mehler, Alexander},
editor = {Sutter, Tilmann and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Einleitung: Der aktuelle Medienwandel im Blick einer interdisziplin{\"a}ren
Medienwissenschaft},
pages = {7--16},
publisher = {VS Verlag f{\"u}r Sozialwissenschaften},
address = {Wiesbaden},
abstract = {Die Herausforderung, die der Wandel von Kommunikationsmedien f{\"u}r
die Medienwissenschaft darstellt, resultiert nicht nur aus der
ungeheuren Beschleunigung des Medienwandels. Die Herausforderung
stellt sich auch mit der Frage, welches die neuen Formen und Strukturen
sind, die aus dem Wandel der Medien hervorgehen. R{\"u}ckt man
diese Frage in den Fokus der {\"U}berlegungen, kommen erstens
Entwicklungen im Wechsel von Massenmedien zu neuen, „interaktiven``
Medien in den Blick. Dies betrifft den Wandel von den alten Medien
in Form von Einwegkommunikation zu den neuen Medien in Form von
Netzkommunikation. Dieser Wandel wurde in zahlreichen Analysen
als eine Revolution beschrieben: Im Unterschied zur einseitigen,
r{\"u}ckkopplungsarmen Kommunikationsform der Massenmedien sollen
neue, computergest{\"u}tzte Formen der Medienkommunikation „interaktiv``
sein, d.h. gesteigerte R{\"u}ckkopplungs- und Eingriffsm{\"o}glichkeiten
f{\"u}r die Adressaten und Nutzer bieten. Sozialwissenschaftlich
bedeutsam ist dabei die Einsch{\"a}tzung der Qualit{\"a}t und
des Umfangs dieser neuen M{\"o}glichkeiten und Leistungen. Denn
bislang bedeutete Medienwandel im Kern eine zunehmende Ausdifferenzierung
alter und neuer Medien mit je spezifischen Leistungen, d.h. neue
Medien ersetzen die {\"a}lteren nicht, sondern sie erg{\"a}nzen
und erweitern sie. Allerdings wird im Zuge des aktuellen Medienwandels
immer deutlicher, dass die neuen Medien durchaus imstande sind,
die Leistungen massenmedialer Verbreitung von Kommunikation zu
{\"u}bernehmen. Stehen wir also, wie das schon seit l{\"a}ngerem
k{\"u}hn vorhergesagt wird, vor der Etablierung eines Universalmediums,
das in der Lage ist, die Formen und Funktionen anderer Medien
zu {\"u}bernehmen?},
booktitle = {Medienwandel als Wandel von Interaktionsformen},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-531-92292-8_1},
isbn = {978-3-531-92292-8},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92292-8_1},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Menke:Mehler:2010,
author = {Menke, Peter and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {The Ariadne System: A flexible and extensible framework for the
modeling and storage of experimental data in the humanities},
booktitle = {Proceedings of LREC 2010},
address = {Malta},
publisher = {ELDA},
abstract = {This paper introduces the Ariadne Corpus Management System. First,
the underlying data model is presented which enables users to
represent and process heterogeneous data sets within a single,
consistent framework. Secondly, a set of automatized procedures
is described that offers assistance to researchers in various
data-related use cases. Finally, an approach to easy yet powerful
data retrieval is introduced in form of a specialised querying
language for multimodal data.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/menke_mehler_2010.pdf},
website = {http://arnetminer.org/publication/the-ariadne-system-a-flexible-and-extensible-framework-for-the-modeling-and-storage-of-experimental-data-in-the-humanities-2839925.html},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Warner:Mehler:2010,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Warner, Paul and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {eHumanities Desktop - An Architecture for Flexible Annotation
in Iconographic Research},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information
Systems and Technologies (WEBIST '10), April 7-10, 2010, Valencia},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/gleim_warner_mehler_2010.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220724277_eHumanities_Desktop_-_An_Architecture_for_Flexible_Annotation_in_Iconographic_Research},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Gleim:Waltinger:Diewald:2010,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger and Waltinger, Ulli and Diewald, Nils},
title = {Time Series of Linguistic Networks by Example of the Patrologia Latina},
booktitle = {Proceedings of INFORMATIK 2010: Service Science, September 27
- October 01, 2010, Leipzig},
editor = {F{\"a}hnrich, Klaus-Peter and Franczyk, Bogdan},
volume = {2},
series = {Lecture Notes in Informatics},
pages = {609-616},
publisher = {GI},
pdf = {http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings176/586.pdf},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Foscarini:Kim:Lee:Mehler:Oliver:Ross:2010,
author = {Foscarini, Fiorella and Kim, Yunhyong and Lee, Christopher A.
and Mehler, Alexander and Oliver, Gillian and Ross, Seamus},
title = {On the Notion of Genre in Digital Preservation},
booktitle = {Automation in Digital Preservation},
editor = {Chanod, Jean-Pierre and Dobreva, Milena and Rauber, Andreas and Ross, Seamus},
number = {10291},
series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik,
Germany},
annote = {Keywords: Digital preservation, genre analysis,
context modeling, diplomatics, information retrieval},
issn = {1862-4405},
pdf = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2010/2763/pdf/10291.MehlerAlexander.Paper.2763.pdf},
website = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2010/2763},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Weiss:Menke:Luecking:2010,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Wei{\ss}, Petra and Menke, Peter and Lücking, Andy},
title = {Towards a Simulation Model of Dialogical Alignment},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution
of Language (Evolang8), 14-17 April 2010, Utrecht},
pages = {238-245},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Alexander_Mehler_Petra_Weiss_Peter_Menke_Andy_Luecking.pdf},
website = {http://www.let.uu.nl/evolang2010.nl/},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@book{Sutter:Mehler:2010,
author = {Sutter, Tilmann and Mehler, Alexander},
editor = {Sutter, Tilmann and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Medienwandel als Wandel von Interaktionsformen – von frühen Medienkulturen
zum Web 2.0},
publisher = {Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften},
address = {Wiesbaden},
abstract = {Die Beitr{\"a}ge des Bandes untersuchen den Medienwandel von frühen
europ{\"a}ischen Medienkulturen bis zu aktuellen Formen der Internetkommunikation
unter soziologischer, kulturwissenschaftlicher und linguistischer
Perspektive. Zwar haben sich die Massenmedien von den Beschr{\"a}nkungen
sozialer Interaktionen gelöst, sie weisen dem Publikum aber eine
distanzierte, blo{\ss} rezipierende Rolle zu. Dagegen eröffnen
neue Formen 'interaktiver' Medien gesteigerte Möglichkeiten der
Rückmeldung und der Mitgestaltung für die Nutzer. Der vorliegende
Band fragt nach der Qualit{\"a}t dieses Medienwandels: Werden
Medien tats{\"a}chlich interaktiv? Was bedeutet die Interaktivit{\"a}t
neuer Medien? Werden die durch neue Medien eröffneten Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten
realisiert?},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Medienwandel.jpg},
pagetotal = {289},
website = {http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783531156422},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:Sharoff:Santini:2010:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Sharoff, Serge and Santini, Marina},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Sharoff, Serge and Santini, Marina},
title = {Genres on the Web: Computational Models and Empirical Studies},
publisher = {Springer},
address = {Dordrecht},
abstract = {The volume 'Genres on the Web' has been designed for a wide audience,
from the expert to the novice. It is a required book for scholars,
researchers and students who want to become acquainted with the
latest theoretical, empirical and computational advances in the
expanding field of web genre research. The study of web genre
is an overarching and interdisciplinary novel area of research
that spans from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics,
NLP, and text-technology, to web mining, webometrics, social network
analysis and information studies. This book gives readers a thorough
grounding in the latest research on web genres and emerging document
types. The book covers a wide range of web-genre focussed subjects,
such as: -The identification of the sources of web genres -Automatic
web genre identification -The presentation of structure-oriented
models -Empirical case studies One of the driving forces behind
genre research is the idea of a genre-sensitive information system,
which incorporates genre cues complementing the current keyword-based
search and retrieval applications.},
booktitle = {Genres on the Web: Computational Models and Empirical Studies},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/GenresOnTheWeb.jpg},
pagetotal = {376},
review = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/ym07440380524721/},
website = {http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-90-481-9177-2},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Weiss:Luecking:2010:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy and Wei{\ss}, Petra},
title = {A Network Model of Interpersonal Alignment},
journal = {Entropy},
volume = {12},
number = {6},
pages = {1440-1483},
abstract = {In dyadic communication, both interlocutors adapt to each other
linguistically, that is, they align interpersonally. In this article,
we develop a framework for modeling interpersonal alignment in
terms of the structural similarity of the interlocutors’ dialog
lexica. This is done by means of so-called two-layer time-aligned
network series, that is, a time-adjusted graph model. The graph
model is partitioned into two layers, so that the interlocutors’
lexica are captured as subgraphs of an encompassing dialog graph.
Each constituent network of the series is updated utterance-wise.
Thus, both the inherent bipartition of dyadic conversations and
their gradual development are modeled. The notion of alignment
is then operationalized within a quantitative model of structure
formation based on the mutual information of the subgraphs that
represent the interlocutor’s dialog lexica. By adapting and further
developing several models of complex network theory, we show that
dialog lexica evolve as a novel class of graphs that have not
been considered before in the area of complex (linguistic) networks.
Additionally, we show that our framework allows for classifying
dialogs according to their alignment status. To the best of our
knowledge, this is the first approach to measuring alignment in
communication that explores the similarities of graph-like cognitive
representations.},
doi = {10.3390/e12061440},
pdf = {http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/6/1440/pdf},
website = {http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/6/1440/},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:2010:b,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Computational Linguistics for Mere Mortals – Powerful but Easy-to-use
Linguistic Processing for Scientists in the Humanities},
booktitle = {Proceedings of LREC 2010},
address = {Malta},
publisher = {ELDA},
abstract = {Delivering linguistic resources and easy-to-use methods to a broad
public in the humanities is a challenging task. On the one hand
users rightly demand easy to use interfaces but on the other hand
want to have access to the full flexibility and power of the functions
being offered. Even though a growing number of excellent systems
exist which offer convenient means to use linguistic resources
and methods, they usually focus on a specific domain, as for example
corpus exploration or text categorization. Architectures which
address a broad scope of applications are still rare. This article
introduces the eHumanities Desktop, an online system for corpus
management, processing and analysis which aims at bridging the
gap between powerful command line tools and intuitive user interfaces.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/gleim_mehler_2010.pdf},
year = {2010}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2010:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Minimum Spanning Markovian Trees: Introducing Context-Sensitivity
into the Generation of Spanning Trees},
booktitle = {Structural Analysis of Complex Networks},
publisher = {Birkh{\"a}user Publishing},
editor = {Dehmer, Matthias},
pages = {381-401},
address = {Basel},
abstract = {This chapter introduces a novel class of graphs: Minimum Spanning
Markovian Trees (MSMTs). The idea behind MSMTs is to provide spanning
trees that minimize the costs of edge traversals in a Markovian
manner, that is, in terms of the path starting with the root of
the tree and ending at the vertex under consideration. In a second
part, the chapter generalizes this class of spanning trees in
order to allow for damped Markovian effects in the course of spanning.
These two effects, (1) the sensitivity to the contexts generated
by consecutive edges and (2) the decreasing impact of more antecedent
(or 'weakly remembered') vertices, are well known in cognitive
modeling [6, 10, 21, 23]. In this sense, the chapter can also
be read as an effort to introduce a graph model to support the
simulation of cognitive systems. Note that MSMTs are not to be
confused with branching Markov chains or Markov trees [20] as
we focus on generating spanning trees from given weighted undirected
networks.},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226700676_Minimum_Spanning_Markovian_Trees_Introducing_Context-Sensitivity_into_the_Generation_of_Spanning_Trees},
year = {2010}
}
2009
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Waltinger:Mehler:2009:c,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Social Semantics and Its Evaluation By Means Of Semantic Relatedness
And Open Topic Models},
booktitle = {IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, September
15–18, Milano},
abstract = {This paper presents an approach using social semantics for the
task of topic labelling by means of Open Topic Models. Our approach
utilizes a social ontology to create an alignment of documents
within a social network. Comprised category information is used
to compute a topic generalization. We propose a feature-frequency-based
method for measuring semantic relatedness which is needed in order
to reduce the number of document features for the task of topic
labelling. This method is evaluated against multiple human judgement
experiments comprising two languages and three different resources.
Overall the results show that social ontologies provide a rich
source of terminological knowledge. The performance of the semantic
relatedness measure with correlation values of up to .77 are quite
promising. Results on the topic labelling experiment show, with
an accuracy of up to .79, that our approach can be a valuable
method for various NLP applications.},
website = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5284920&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Waltinger:Mehler:Gleim:2009:a,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Social Semantics And Its Evaluation By Means of Closed Topic Models:
An SVM-Classification Approach Using Semantic Feature Replacement
By Topic Generalization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Biennial GSCL Conference 2009, September 30
– October 2, Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GSCL_2009_WaltingerMehlerGleim_camera_ready.pdf},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@book{Santini:Rehm:Sharoff:Mehler:2009,
author = {Santini, Marina and Rehm, Georg and Sharoff, Serge and Mehler, Alexander},
editor = {Santini, Marina and Rehm, Georg and Sharoff, Serge and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Automatic Genre Identification: Issues and Prospects},
publisher = {GSCL},
volume = {24(1)},
series = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AutomaticGenreIdentification.png},
pagetotal = {148},
pdf = {http://www.jlcl.org/2009_Heft1/JLCL24(1).pdf},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Waltinger:Mehler:2009:a,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {The Feature Difference Coefficient: Classification by Means of
Feature Distributions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Text Mining Services (TMS 2009)},
series = {Leipziger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Informatik: Band XIV},
pages = {159–168},
address = {Leipzig},
publisher = {Leipzig University},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/waltinger_mehler_2009_a.pdf},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2009:d,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Artifizielle Interaktivit{\"a}t. Eine semiotische Betrachtung},
booktitle = {Medienwandel als Wandel von Interaktionsformen – von frühen Medienkulturen
zum Web 2.0},
publisher = {VS},
editor = {Sutter, Tilmann and Mehler, Alexander},
address = {Wiesbaden},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Waltinger:Ernst:Mehler:Esch:Feith:2009,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Waltinger, Ulli and Ernst, Alexandra and Mehler, Alexander
and Esch, Dietmar and Feith, Tobias},
title = {The eHumanities Desktop – An Online System for Corpus Management
and Analysis in Support of Computing in the Humanities},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session of the 12th Conference
of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
EACL 2009, 30 March – 3 April, Athens},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/gleim_waltinger_ernst_mehler_esch_feith_2009.pdf},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Waltinger:2009:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Waltinger, Ulli},
title = {Enhancing Document Modeling by Means of Open Topic Models: Crossing
the Frontier of Classification Schemes in Digital Libraries by
Example of the DDC},
journal = {Library Hi Tech},
volume = {27},
number = {4},
pages = {520-539},
abstract = {Purpose: We present a topic classification model using the Dewey
Decimal Classification (DDC) as the target scheme. This is done
by exploring metadata as provided by the Open Archives Initiative
(OAI) to derive document snippets as minimal document representations.
The reason is to reduce the effort of document processing in digital
libraries. Further, we perform feature selection and extension
by means of social ontologies and related web-based lexical resources.
This is done to provide reliable topic-related classifications
while circumventing the problem of data sparseness. Finally, we
evaluate our model by means of two language-specific corpora.
This paper bridges digital libraries on the one hand and computational
linguistics on the other. The aim is to make accessible computational
linguistic methods to provide thematic classifications in digital
libraries based on closed topic models as the DDC. Design/methodology/approach:
text classification, text-technology, computational linguistics,
computational semantics, social semantics. Findings: We show that
SVM-based classifiers perform best by exploring certain selections
of OAI document metadata. Research limitations/implications: The
findings show that it is necessary to further develop SVM-based
DDC-classifiers by using larger training sets possibly for more
than two languages in order to get better F-measure values. Practical
implications: We can show that DDC-classifications come into reach
which primarily explore OAI metadata. Originality/value: We provide
algorithmic and formal-mathematical information how to build DDC-classifiers
for digital libraries.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_waltinger_2009_b.pdf},
website = {http://biecoll.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/frontdoor.php?source_opus=5001&la=de},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2009:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Generalized Shortest Paths Trees: A Novel Graph Class Applied
to Semiotic Networks},
booktitle = {Analysis of Complex Networks: From Biology to Linguistics},
publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
editor = {Dehmer, Matthias and Emmert-Streib, Frank},
pages = {175-220},
address = {Weinheim},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2009_b.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255666602_1_Generalised_Shortest_Paths_Trees_A_Novel_Graph_Class_Applied_to_Semiotic_Networks},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Luecking:2009,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lücking, Andy},
title = {A Structural Model of Semiotic Alignment: The Classification of
Multimodal Ensembles as a Novel Machine Learning Task},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Africon 2009, September 23-25, Nairobi, Kenya},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {In addition to the well-known linguistic alignment processes in
dyadic communication – e.g., phonetic, syntactic, semantic alignment
– we provide evidence for a genuine multimodal alignment process,
namely semiotic alignment. Communicative elements from different
modalities 'routinize into' cross-modal 'super-signs', which we
call multimodal ensembles. Computational models of human communication
are in need of expressive models of multimodal ensembles. In this
paper, we exemplify semiotic alignment by means of empirical examples
of the building of multimodal ensembles. We then propose a graph
model of multimodal dialogue that is expressive enough to capture
multimodal ensembles. In line with this model, we define a novel
task in machine learning with the aim of training classifiers
that can detect semiotic alignment in dialogue. This model is
in support of approaches which need to gain insights into realistic
human-machine communication.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_luecking_2009.pdf},
website = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5308098},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:Waltinger:Menke:2009,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander and Waltinger, Ulli and Menke, Peter},
title = {eHumanities Desktop – An extensible Online System for Corpus Management
and Analysis},
booktitle = {5th Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Liverpool},
abstract = {This paper presents the eHumanities Desktop - an online system
for corpus management and analysis in support of computing in
the humanities. Design issues and the overall architecture are
described, as well as an outline of the applications offered by
the system.},
pdf = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/pdf/eHumanitiesDesktop-AnExtensibleOnlineSystem-CL2009.pdf},
website = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/ehumanities-desktop-an-extensible-online-system-for-corpus-management-and-analysis/},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2009:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Structure Formation in the Web. A Graph-Theoretical Model of Hypertext Types},
booktitle = {Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages. Contributions
to Language Technology},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Witt, Andreas and Metzing, Dieter},
series = {Text, Speech and Language Technology},
address = {Dordrecht},
abstract = {In this chapter we develop a representation model of web document
networks. Based on the notion of uncertain web document structures,
the model is defined as a template which grasps nested manifestation
levels of hypertext types. Further, we specify the model on the
conceptual, formal and physical level and exemplify it by reconstructing
competing web document models.},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/t27782w8j2125112/},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Waltinger:Mehler:Wegner:2009,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander and Wegner, Armin},
title = {A Two-Level Approach to Web Genre Classification},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Information
Systems and Technologies (WEBIST '09), March 23-26, 2009, Lisboa},
abstract = {This paper presents an approach of two-level categorization of
web pages. In contrast to related approaches the model additionally
explores and categorizes functionally and thematically demarcated
segments of the hypertext types to be categorized. By classifying
these segments conclusions can be drawn about the type of the
corresponding compound web document.},
pdf = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/pdf/Webist_2009_TwoLevel_Genre_Classification_WaltingerMehlerWegner.pdf},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Wagner:Mehler:Wolff:Dotzler:2009,
author = {Wagner, Benno and Mehler, Alexander and Wolff, Christian and Dotzler, Bernhard},
title = {Bausteine eines Literary Memory Information System (LiMeS) am
Beispiel der Kafka-Forschung},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium "Sprachtechnologie und eHumanities",
26.–27. Februar, Duisburg-Essen University},
abstract = {In dem Paper beschreiben wir Bausteine eines Literary Memory Information
System (LiMeS), das die literaturwissenschaftliche Erforschung
von so genannten Matrixtexten – das sind Prim{\"a}rtexte eines
bestimmten literarischen Gesamtwerks – unter dem Blickwinkel gro{\ss}er
Mengen so genannter Echotexte (Topia 1984; Wagner/Reinhard 2007)
– das sind Subtexte im Sinne eines literaturwissenschaftlichen
Intertextualit{\"a}tsbegriffs – ermöglicht. Den Ausgangspunkt
dieses computerphilologischen Informationssystems bildet ein Text-Mining-Modell
basierend auf dem Intertextualit{\"a}tsbegriff in Verbindung mit
dem Begriff des Semantic Web (Mehler, 2004b, 2005a, b, Wolff 2005).
Wir zeigen, inwiefern dieses Modell über bestehende Informationssystemarchitekturen
hinausgeht und schlie{\ss}en einen Brückenschlag zur derzeitigen
Entwicklung von Arbeitsumgebungen in der geisteswissenschaftlichen
Fachinformatik in Form eines eHumanities Desktop.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wagner_mehler_wolff_dotzler_2009.pdf},
website = {http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/6795/},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Gleim:Waltinger:Ernst:Esch:Feith:2009,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger and Waltinger, Ulli and Ernst, Alexandra
and Esch, Dietmar and Feith, Tobias},
title = {eHumanities Desktop – eine webbasierte Arbeitsumgebung für die
geisteswissenschaftliche Fachinformatik},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium "Sprachtechnologie und eHumanities",
26.–27. Februar, Duisburg-Essen University},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_gleim_waltinger_ernst_esch_feith_2009.pdf},
website = {http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=37041},
year = {2009}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Santini:Mehler:Sharoff:2009,
author = {Santini, Marina and Mehler, Alexander and Sharoff, Serge},
title = {Riding the Rough Waves of Genre on the Web: Concepts and Research Questions},
booktitle = {Genres on the Web: Computational Models and Empirical Studies},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Sharoff, Serge and Santini, Marina},
pages = {3-32},
address = {Berlin/New York},
abstract = {This chapter outlines the state of the art of empirical and computational
webgenre research. First, it highlights why the concept of genre
is profitable for a range of disciplines. At the same time, it
lists a number of recent interpretations that can inform and influence
present and future genre research. Last but not least, it breaks
down a series of open issues that relate to the modelling of the
concept of webgenre in empirical and computational studies.},
year = {2009}
}
2008
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Rehm:Santini:Mehler:Braslavski:Gleim:Stubbe:Symonenko:Tavosanis:Vidulin:2008,
author = {Rehm, Georg and Santini, Marina and Mehler, Alexander and Braslavski, Pavel
and Gleim, Rüdiger and Stubbe, Andrea and Symonenko, Svetlana and Tavosanis, Mirko
and Vidulin, Vedrana},
title = {Towards a Reference Corpus of Web Genres for the Evaluation of
Genre Identification Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
(LREC 2008), Marrakech (Morocco)},
abstract = {We present initial results from an international and multi-disciplinary
research collaboration that aims at the construction of a reference
corpus of web genres. The primary application scenario for which
we plan to build this resource is the automatic identification
of web genres. Web genres are rather difficult to capture and
to describe in their entirety, but we plan for the finished reference
corpus to contain multi-level tags of the respective genre or
genres a web document or a website instantiates. As the construction
of such a corpus is by no means a trivial task, we discuss several
alternatives that are, for the time being, mostly based on existing
collections. Furthermore, we discuss a shared set of genre categories
and a multi-purpose tool as two additional prerequisites for a
reference corpus of web genres.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/rehm_santini_mehler_braslavski_gleim_stubbe_symonenko_tavosanis_vidulin_2008.pdf},
website = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/summaries/94.html},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Pustylnikov:Mehler:2008:a,
author = {Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Towards a Uniform Representation of Treebanks: Providing Interoperability
for Dependency Tree Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of First International Conference on Global Interoperability
for Language Resources (ICGL 2008), Hong Kong SAR, January 9-11},
abstract = {In this paper we present a corpus representation format which
unifies the representation of a wide range of dependency treebanks
within a single model. This approach provides interoperability
and reusability of annotated syntactic data which in turn extends
its applicability within various research contexts. We demonstrate
our approach by means of dependency treebanks of 11 languages.
Further, we perform a comparative quantitative analysis of these
treebanks in order to demonstrate the interoperability of our
approach.},
pdf = {http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/opustylnikov/pustylnikov/pdfs/acl07.1.0.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242681771_Towards_a_Uniform_Representation_of_Treebanks_Providing_Interoperability_for_Dependency_Tree_Data},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2008:e,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {On the Impact of Community Structure on Self-Organizing Lexical Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Evolution of Language Conference (Evolang
2008), March 11-15, 2008, Barcelona},
editor = {Smith, Andrew D. M. and Smith, Kenny and Cancho, Ramon Ferrer i},
pages = {227-234},
publisher = {World Scientific},
abstract = {This paper presents a simulation model of self-organizing lexical
networks. Its starting point is the notion of an association game
in which the impact of varying community models is studied on
the emergence of lexical networks. The paper reports on experiments
whose results are in accordance with findings in the framework
of the naming game. This is done by means of a multilevel network
model in which the correlation of social and of linguistic networks
is studied},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2008_b.pdf},
website = {http://stel.ub.edu/evolang2008/evo10.htm},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Sutter:2008,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Sutter, Tilmann},
title = {Interaktive Textproduktion in Wiki-basierten Kommunikationssystemen},
booktitle = {Kommunikation, Partizipation und Wirkungen im Social Web – Weblogs,
Wikis, Podcasts und Communities aus interdisziplin{\"a}rer Sicht},
publisher = {Herbert von Halem},
editor = {Zerfa{\ss}, Ansgar and Welker, Martin and Schmidt, Jan},
pages = {267-300},
address = {Köln},
abstract = {This article addresses challenges in maintaining and annotating
image resources in the field of iconographic research. We focus
on the task of bringing together generic and extensible techniques
for resource and anno- tation management with the highly specific
demands in this area of research. Special emphasis is put on the
interrelation of images, image segements and textual contents.
In addition, we describe the architecture, data model and user
interface of the open annotation system used in the image database
application that is a part of the eHumanities Desktop.},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Luecking:Mehler:Menke:2008,
author = {Lücking, Andy and Mehler, Alexander and Menke, Peter},
title = {Taking Fingerprints of Speech-and-Gesture Ensembles: Approaching
Empirical Evidence of Intrapersonal Alignment in Multimodal Communication},
booktitle = {LONDIAL 2008: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the Semantics
and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL)},
pages = {157–164},
address = {King's College London},
month = {June 2–4},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/luecking_mehler_menke_2008.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237305375_Taking_Fingerprints_of_Speech-and-Gesture_Ensembles_Approaching_Empirical_Evidence_of_Intrapersonal_Alignment_in_Multimodal_Communication},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Waltinger:Mehler:2008:a,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Who is it? Context sensitive named entity and instance recognition
by means of Wikipedia},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Web Intelligence (WI-2008)},
pages = {381–384},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
pdf = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/pdf/WI_2008_Context_Sensitive_Instance_Recognition_WaltingerMehler.pdf},
website = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.324.5881},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Gleim:Ernst:Waltinger:2008,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger and Ernst, Alexandra and Waltinger, Ulli},
title = {WikiDB: Building Interoperable Wiki-Based Knowledge Resources
for Semantic Databases},
journal = {Sprache und Datenverarbeitung. International Journal
for Language Data Processing},
volume = {32},
number = {1},
pages = {47-70},
abstract = {This article describes an API for exploring the logical document
and the logical network structure of wikis. It introduces an algorithm
for the semantic preprocessing, filtering and typing of these
building blocks. Further, this article models the process of wiki
generation based on a unified format of syntactic, semantic and
pragmatic representations. This three-level approach to make accessible
syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of wiki-based structure
formation is complemented by a corresponding database model –
called WikiDB – and an API operating thereon. Finally, the article
provides an empirical study of using the three-fold representation
format in conjunction with WikiDB.},
pdf = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/pdf/Konvens_2008_WikiDB_Building_Semantic_Databases_MehlerGleimErnstWaltinger.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2008:f,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Short Note on Social-Semiotic Networks from the Point of View
of Quantitative Semantics},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Social Web Communities,
September 21-26, Dagstuhl},
editor = {Alani, Harith and Staab, Steffen and Stumme, Gerd},
pdf = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2008/1788/pdf/08391.MehlerAlexander.ExtAbstract.1788.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Waltinger:Mehler:Heyer:2008,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander and Heyer, Gerhard},
title = {Towards Automatic Content Tagging: Enhanced Web Services in Digital
Libraries Using Lexical Chaining},
booktitle = {4th Int. Conf. on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST
'08), 4-7 May, Funchal, Portugal},
editor = {Cordeiro, José and Filipe, Joaquim and Hammoudi, Slimane},
pages = {231-236},
address = {Barcelona},
publisher = {INSTICC Press},
pdf = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/pdf/Webist_2008_Towards_Automatic_Content_Tagging_WaltingerMehlerHeyer.pdf},
url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/webist/webist2008-2.html#WaltingerMH08},
website = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.463.3097},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2008:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Model of the Distribution of the Distances of Alike Elements
in Dialogical Communication},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Theory
and Statistical Learning (ITSL '08), July 14-15, 2008, Las Vegas},
pages = {45-50},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2008_c.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Waltinger:Mehler:Stuehrenberg:2008,
author = {Waltinger, Ulli and Mehler, Alexander and Stührenberg, Maik},
title = {An Integrated Model of Lexical Chaining: Applications, Resources
and their Format},
booktitle = {Proceedings of KONVENS 2008 – Erg{\"a}nzungsband Textressourcen
und lexikalisches Wissen},
editor = {Storrer, Angelika and Geyken, Alexander and Siebert, Alexander
and Würzner, Kay-Michael},
pages = {59-70},
pdf = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/pdf/Konvens_2008_Integrated_Model_of_Lexical_Chaining_WaltingerMehlerStuehrenberg.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Pustylnikov:Mehler:2008:c,
author = {Pustylnikov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Text classification by means of structural features. What kind
of information about texts is captured by their structure?},
booktitle = {Proceedings of RUSSIR '08, September 1-5, Taganrog, Russia},
pdf = {http://www.www.texttechnologylab.org/data/pdf/mehler_geibel_pustylnikov_2007.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2008:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Large Text Networks as an Object of Corpus Linguistic Studies},
booktitle = {Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook of the Science of
Language and Society},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
editor = {Lüdeling, Anke and Kytö, Merja},
pages = {328–382},
address = {Berlin/New York},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2007_a.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@book{Luengen:Mehler:Storrer:2008:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
editor = {Lüngen, Harald and Mehler, Alexander and Storrer, Angelika},
title = {Lexical-Semantic Resources in Automated Discourse Analysis},
publisher = {GSCL},
volume = {23(2)},
series = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/LexicalSemanticResources-300-20.png},
pagetotal = {111},
pdf = {{http://www.jlcl.org/2008_Heft2/JLCL23(2).pdf}},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228956889_Lexical-Semantic_Resources_in_Automated_Discourse_Analysis},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2008:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Structural Similarities of Complex Networks: A Computational Model
by Example of Wiki Graphs},
journal = {Applied Artificial Intelligence},
volume = {22},
number = {7\&8},
pages = {619–683},
abstract = {This article elaborates a framework for representing and classifying
large complex networks by example of wiki graphs. By means of
this framework we reliably measure the similarity of document,
agent, and word networks by solely regarding their topology. In
doing so, the article departs from classical approaches to complex
network theory which focuses on topological characteristics in
order to check their small world property. This does not only
include characteristics that have been studied in complex network
theory, but also some of those which were invented in social network
analysis and hypertext theory. We show that network classifications
come into reach which go beyond the hypertext structures traditionally
analyzed in web mining. The reason is that we focus on networks
as a whole as units to be classified—above the level of websites
and their constitutive pages. As a consequence, we bridge classical
approaches to text and web mining on the one hand and complex
network theory on the other hand. Last but not least, this approach
also provides a framework for quantifying the linguistic notion
of intertextuality.},
doi = {10.1080/08839510802164085},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/mehler_2008_Structural_Similarities_of_Complex_Networks.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200772675_Structural_similarities_of_complex_networks_A_computational_model_by_example_of_wiki_graphs},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Pustylnikov:Mehler:Gleim:2008,
author = {Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {A Unified Database of Dependency Treebanks. Integrating, Quantifying
and Evaluating Dependency Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
(LREC 2008), Marrakech (Morocco)},
abstract = {This paper describes a database of 11 dependency treebanks which
were unified by means of a two-dimensional graph format. The format
was evaluated with respect to storage-complexity on the one hand,
and efficiency of data access on the other hand. An example of
how the treebanks can be integrated within a unique interface
is given by means of the DTDB interface.},
pdf = {http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/opustylnikov/pustylnikov/pdfs/LREC08_full.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Job:Blanchard:Eikmeyer:2008,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Job, Barbara and Blanchard, Philippe and Eikmeyer, Hans-Jürgen},
title = {Sprachliche Netzwerke},
booktitle = {Netzwerkanalyse und Netzwerktheorie},
publisher = {VS},
editor = {Stegbauer, Christian},
pages = {413-427},
address = {Wiesbaden},
abstract = {In diesem Kapitel beschreiben wir so genannte sprachliche Netzwerke.
Dabei handelt es sich um Netzwerke sprachlicher Einheiten, die
in Zusammenhang mit ihrer Einbettung in das Netzwerk jener Sprachgemeinschaft
analysiert werden, welche diese Einheiten und deren Vernetzung
hervorgebracht hat. Wir erörtern ein Dreistufenmodell zur Analyse
solcher Netzwerke und exemplifizieren dieses Modell anhand mehrerer
Spezialwikis. Ein Hauptaugenmerk des Kapitels liegt dabei auf
einem Mehrebenennetzwerkmodell, und zwar in Abkehr von den unipartiten
Graphmodellen der Theorie komplexer Netzwerke.},
year = {2008}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Stuehrenberg:Beisswenger:Kuehnberger:Mehler:Luengen:Metzing:Moennich:2008,
author = {Stührenberg, Maik and Bei{\ss}wenger, Michael and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe
and Mehler, Alexander and Lüngen, Harald and Metzing, Dieter and Mönnich, Uwe},
title = {Sustainability of Text-Technological Resources},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Post LREC-2008 Workshop: Sustainability of
Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing Marrakech,
Morocco},
abstract = {We consider that there are obvious relationships between research
on sustainability of language and linguistic resources on the
one hand and work undertaken in the Research Unit 'Text-Technological
Modelling of Information' on the other. Currently the main focus
in sustainability research is concerned with archiving methods
of textual resources, i.e. methods for sustainability of primary
and secondary data; these aspects are addressed in our work as
well. However, we believe that there are additional certain aspects
of sustainability on which new light is shed on by procedures,
algorithms and dynamic processes undertaken in our Research Unit},
pdf = {http://www.michael-beisswenger.de/pub/lrec-sustainability.pdf},
year = {2008}
}
2007
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Geibel:Krumnack:Pustylnikov:Mehler:Gust:Kuehnberger:2007,
author = {Geibel, Peter and Krumnack, Ulf and Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander
and Gust, Helmar and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe},
title = {Structure-Sensitive Learning of Text Types},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 20th
Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Gold Coast,
Australia, December 2-6, 2007},
editor = {Orgun, Mehmet A. and Thornton, John},
volume = {4830},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
pages = {642-646},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {In this paper, we discuss the structure based classification of
documents based on their logical document structure, i.e., their
DOM trees. We describe a method using predefined structural features
and also four tree kernels suitable for such structures. We evaluate
the methods experimentally on a corpus containing the DOM trees
of newspaper articles, and on the well-known SUSANNE corpus. We
will demonstrate that, for the two corpora, many text types can
be learned based on structural features only.},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/w574377ww1h6m212/},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@article{Dehmer:Mehler:2007:a,
author = {Dehmer, Matthias and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A New Method of Measuring the Similarity for a Special Class of Directed Graphs},
journal = {Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications},
volume = {36},
pages = {39-59},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dehmer_mehler_2004_a.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228905939_A_new_method_of_measuring_similarity_for_a_special_class_of_directed_graphs},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2007:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Compositionality in Quantitative Semantics. A Theoretical Perspective
on Text Mining},
booktitle = {Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Köhler, Reinhard},
series = {Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing},
pages = {139-167},
address = {Berlin/New York},
abstract = {This chapter introduces a variant of the principle of compositionality
in quantitative text semantics as an alternative to the bag-of-features
approach. The variant includes effects of context-sensitive interpretation
as well as processes of meaning constitution and change in the
sense of usage-based semantics. Its starting point is a combination
of semantic space modeling and text structure analysis. The principle
is implemented by means of a hierarchical constraint satisfaction
process which utilizes the notion of hierarchical text structure
superimposed by graph-inducing coherence relations. The major
contribution of the chapter is a conceptualization and formalization
of the principle of compositionality in terms of semantic spaces
which tackles some well known deficits of existing approaches.
In particular this relates to the missing linguistic interpretability
of statistical meaning representations.},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/x214w527g42x0116/},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2004:2007,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Aspectos Metodológicos da Semiótica Computacional},
booktitle = {Computação, Cognição e Semiose},
publisher = {EDUFBA},
editor = {Queiroz, João and Gudwin, Ricardo and Loula, Angelo},
pages = {145-157},
address = {Federal University of Bahia},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:Eikmeyer:Rieser:2007,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander and Eikmeyer, Hans-Jürgen
and Rieser, Hannes},
title = {Ein Ansatz zur Repr{\"a}sentation und Verarbeitung gro{\ss}er
Korpora multimodaler Daten},
booktitle = {Data Structures for Linguistic Resources and Applications. Proceedings
of the Biennial GLDV Conference 2007, 11.–13. April, Universit{\"a}t
Tübingen},
editor = {Rehm, Georg and Witt, Andreas and Lemnitzer, Lothar},
pages = {275-284},
address = {Tübingen},
publisher = {Narr},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/gleim_mehler_eikmeyer_rieser_2007.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Ferrer:i:Cancho:Mehler:Pustylnikov:Diaz-Guilera:2007:a,
author = {Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon and Mehler, Alexander and Abramov, Olga
and Díaz-Guilera, Albert},
title = {Correlations in the organization of large-scale syntactic dependency networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
(TextGraphs-2) at the Annual Conference of the North American
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT
2007), Rochester, New York},
pages = {65-72},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ferrer-i-cancho_mehler_pustylnikov_diaz-guilera_2007_a.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Stuehrenberg:Goecke:Diewald:Mehler:Cramer:2007:a,
author = {Stührenberg, Maik and Goecke, Daniela and Diewald, Nils and Mehler, Alexander
and Cramer, Irene},
title = {Web-based Annotation of Anaphoric Relations and Lexical Chains},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop, ACL 2007},
pages = {140–147},
pdf = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W07-1523},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234800610_Web-based_annotation_of_anaphoric_relations_and_lexical_chains},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Storrer:2007,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Storrer, Angelika},
title = {What are Ontologies Good For? Evaluating Terminological Ontologies
in the Framework of Text Graph Classification},
booktitle = {Proceedings of OTT '06 – Ontologies in Text Technology: Approaches
to Extract Semantic Knowledge from Structured Information},
editor = {Mönnich, Uwe and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe},
series = {Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science
(PICS)},
pages = {11-18},
address = {Osnabrück},
pdf = {http://cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~ott06/ott06-abstracts/Mehler_Storrer_abstract.pdf},
website = {http://citeseer.uark.edu:8080/citeseerx/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.91.2979},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:Koehler:2007:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Köhler, Reinhard},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Köhler, Reinhard},
title = {Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis: Festschrift in Honor of Burghard Rieger},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing},
address = {Berlin/New York},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AspectsOfAutomaticTextAnalysis.jpg},
pagetotal = {464},
review = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zrs.2011.3.issue-2/zrs.2011.050/zrs.2011.050.xml},
review2 = {http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/Informer27.pdf},
website = {http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783540375203},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Abramov:Mehler:2007:b,
author = {Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Structural Differentiae of Text Types. A Quantitative Model},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification
Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Applications (GfKl)},
pages = {655–662},
pdf = {http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/opustylnikov/pustylnikov/pdfs/gfkl.pdf},
website = {http://www.springerprofessional.de/077---structural-differentiae-of-text-types--a-quantitative-model/1957362.html},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Geibel:Pustylnikov:2007,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Geibel, Peter and Abramov, Olga},
title = {Structural Classifiers of Text Types: Towards a Novel Model of
Text Representation},
journal = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
volume = {22},
number = {2},
pages = {51-66},
abstract = {Texts can be distinguished in terms of their content, function,
structure or layout (Brinker, 1992; Bateman et al., 2001; Joachims,
2002; Power et al., 2003). These reference points do not open
necessarily orthogonal perspectives on text classification. As
part of explorative data analysis, text classification aims at
automatically dividing sets of textual objects into classes of
maximum internal homogeneity and external heterogeneity. This
paper deals with classifying texts into text types whose instances
serve more or less homogeneous functions. Other than mainstream
approaches, which rely on the vector space model (Sebastiani,
2002) or some of its descendants (Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto,
1999) and, thus, on content-related lexical features, we solely
refer to structural differentiae. That is, we explore patterns
of text structure as determinants of class membership. Our starting
point are tree-like text representations which induce feature
vectors and tree kernels. These kernels are utilized in supervised
learning based on cross-validation as a method of model selection
(Hastie et al., 2001) by example of a corpus of press communication.
For a subset of categories we show that classification can be
performed very well by structural differentia only.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_geibel_pustylnikov_2007.pdf},
website = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.154.604},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Waltinger:Wegner:2007:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Waltinger, Ulli and Wegner, Armin},
title = {A Formal Text Representation Model Based on Lexical Chaining},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the KI 2007 Workshop on Learning from Non-Vectorial
Data (LNVD 2007) September 10, Osnabrück},
editor = {Geibel, Peter and Jain, Brijnesh J.},
pages = {17-26},
address = {Osnabrück},
publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Osnabrück},
abstract = {This paper presents a formal text representation model as an alternative
to the vector space model. It combines a tree-like model with
graph-inducing lexical relations. The paper aims at formalizing
two yet unrelated approaches, i.e. lexical chaining [3] and quantitative
structure analysis [9], in order to combine content and structure
modeling.},
pdf = {http://www.ulliwaltinger.de/pdf/LNVD07MehlerWaltingerWegner.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Koehler:2007:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Köhler, Reinhard},
title = {Machine Learning in a Semiotic Perspective},
booktitle = {Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis},
publisher = {Springer},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Köhler, Reinhard},
series = {Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing},
pages = {1-29},
address = {Berlin/New York},
abstract = {Gegenstand des folgenden Aufsatzes ist der konnotative Aspekt
der Bedeutungen von Texten. Den Ausgangspunkt der {\"U}berlegungen
zur Konnotation des Textes bildet die Auffassung, wonach Wort-
und Textbedeutungskonstitution Ergebnis eines zirkul{\"a}ren Prozesses
sind, der für die Emergenz einer Hierarchie ineinander geschachtelter
Spracheinheiten verantwortlich zeichnet. Der Proze{\ss} der Zeichenartikulation
erfolgt entlang dieser Ebenen und erzeugt durch Verbindung von
(konnotativer) Inhalts- und Ausdrucksseite auf Textebene das Textzeichen.
Im Gegensatz zu einer strikten Interpretation des Fregeschen Kompositionalit{\"a}tsprinzips,
derzufolge die Bedeutungen sprachlicher Einheiten als fixierte,
kontextfreie Grö{\ss}en vorauszusetzen sind, behandelt der vorliegende
Ansatz bereits die lexikalische Bedeutung als Grö{\ss}e, die in
Abh{\"a}ngigkeit von ihrem Kontext variieren kann. Aus semiotischer
Perspektive ist es vor allem der Gestaltcharakter, welcher die
konnotative Textbedeutung einer Anwendung des FregePrinzips entzieht.
Anders ausgedrückt: Die konnotative Bedeutung eines Textes ist
keineswegs in eine Struktur 'atomarer' Repr{\"a}sentationen zerlegbar.
Die hierarchische Organisation von Texten erweist sich insofern
als komplex, als ihre Bedeutungen aus einem zirkul{\"a}ren Proze{\ss}
resultieren, der best{\"a}tigend und/oder ver{\"a}ndernd auf die
Bedeutungen der Textkonstituenten einwirkt. Diese Zirkularit{\"a}t
bedingt, da{\ss} Texte nicht nur als Orte der Manifestation von
Wortbedeutungsstrukturen anzusehen sind, sondern zugleich als
Ausgangspunkte für die Modifikation und Emergenz solcher Strukturen
dienen. Im folgenden wird unter Rekurs auf den Kopenhagener Strukturalismus
ein Modell der konnotativen Bedeutung von Texten entwickelt, das
sich unter anderem an dem glossematischen Begriff der Konstante
orientiert. Die Formalisierung des Modells erfolgt mit Hilfe des
Konzeptes der unscharfen Menge. Zu diesem Zweck werden die unscharfen
Verwendungsregularit{\"a}ten von Wörtern auf der Basis eines zweistufigen
Verfahrens analysiert, welches die syntagmatischen und paradigmatischen
Regularit{\"a}ten des Wortgebrauches berücksichtigt. Die Rolle
der Satzebene innerhalb des Prozesses der konnotativen Textbedeutungskonstitution
wird angedeutet. Abschlie{\ss}end erfolgt eine Exemplifizierung
des Algorithmus anhand der automatischen Analyse eines Textcorpus.},
website = {http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-37522-7_1},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@article{Jussen:Mehler:Ernst:2007,
author = {Jussen, Bernhard and Mehler, Alexander and Ernst, Alexandra},
title = {A Corpus Management System for Historical Semantics},
journal = {Sprache und Datenverarbeitung. International Journal
for Language Data Processing},
volume = {31},
number = {1-2},
pages = {81-89},
abstract = {Der Beitrag beschreibt ein Korpusmanagementsystem für die historische
Semantik. Die Grundlage hierfür bildet ein Bedeutungsbegriff,
der – methodologisch gesprochen – auf der Analyse diachroner Korpora
beruht. Das Ziel der Analyse dieser Korpora besteht darin, Bedeutungswandel
als eine Bezugsgrö{\ss}e für den Wandel sozialer Systeme zu untersuchen.
Das vorgestellte Korpusmanagementsystem unterstützt diese Art
der korpusbasierten historischen Semantik.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/jussen_mehler_ernst_2007.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Geibel:Pustylnikov:Mehler:Gust:Kuehnberger:2007,
author = {Geibel, Peter and Abramov, Olga and Mehler, Alexander and Gust, Helmar
and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe},
title = {Classification of Documents Based on the Structure of Their DOM Trees},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICONIP 2007 (14th International Conference on Neural
Information Processing)},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4985},
pages = {779–788},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {In this paper, we discuss kernels that can be applied for the
classification of XML documents based on their DOM trees. DOM
trees are ordered trees in which every node might be labeled by
a vector of attributes including its XML tag and the textual content.
We describe five new kernels suitable for such structures: a kernel
based on predefined structural features, a tree kernel derived
from the well-known parse tree kernel, the set tree kernel that
allows permutations of children, the string tree kernel being
an extension of the so-called partial tree kernel, and the soft
tree kernel as a more efficient alternative. We evaluate the kernels
experimentally on a corpus containing the DOM trees of newspaper
articles and on the well-known SUSANNE corpus.},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/x414002113425742/},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:Eikmeyer:2007:a,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander and Eikmeyer, Hans-Jürgen},
title = {Representing and Maintaining Large Corpora},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, Birmingham (UK)},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/gleim_mehler_eikmeyer_2007_a.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Dehmer:Mehler:Emmert-Streib:2007:a,
author = {Dehmer, Matthias and Mehler, Alexander and Emmert-Streib, Frank},
title = {Graph-theoretical Characterizations of Generalized Trees},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Machine Learning:
Models, Technologies \& Applications (MLMTA '07), June 25-28,
2007, Las Vegas},
pages = {113-117},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221188591_Graph-theoretical_Characterizations_of_Generalized_Trees},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Geibel:Gleim:Herold:Jain:Pustylnikov:2007,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Geibel, Peter and Gleim, Rüdiger and Herold, Sebastian
and Jain, Brijnesh-Johannes and Abramov, Olga},
title = {Much Ado About Text Content. Learning Text Types Solely by Structural
Differentiae},
booktitle = {Proceedings of OTT '06 – Ontologies in Text Technology: Approaches
to Extract Semantic Knowledge from Structured Information},
editor = {Mönnich, Uwe and Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe},
series = {Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science
(PICS)},
pages = {63-71},
address = {Osnabrück},
abstract = {In this paper, we deal with classifying texts into classes which
denote text types whose textual instances serve more or less homogeneous
functions. Other than mainstream approaches to text classification,
which rely on the vector space model [30] or some of its descendants
[2] and, thus, on content-related lexical features, we solely
refer to structural differentiae, that is, to patterns of text
structure as determinants of class membership. Further, we suppose
that text types span a type hierarchy based on the type-subtype
relation [31]. Thus, although we admit that class membership is
fuzzy so that overlapping classes are inevitable, we suppose a
non-overlapping type system structured into a rooted tree – whether
solely based on functional or additional on, e.g., content- or
mediabased criteria [1]. What regards criteria of goodness of
classification, we perform a classical supervised categorization
experiment [30] based on cross-validation as a method of model
selection [11]. That is, we perform a categorization experiment
in which for all training and test cases class membership is known
ex ante. In summary, we perform a supervised experiment of text
classification in order to learn functionally grounded text types
where membership to these types is solely based on structural
criteria.},
pdf = {http://ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de/~ott06/ott06-abstracts/Mehler_Geibel_abstract.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2007:d,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Evolving Lexical Networks. A Simulation Model of Terminological Alignment},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Language, Games, and Evolution
at the 9th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI 2007), Trinity College, Dublin, 6-17 August},
editor = {Benz, Anton and Ebert, Christian and van Rooij, Robert},
pages = {57-67},
abstract = {In this paper we describe a simulation model of terminological
alignment in a multiagent community. It is based on the notion
of an association game which is used instead of the classical
notion of a naming game (Steels, 1996). The simulation model integrates
a small world-like agent community which restricts agent communication.
We hypothesize that this restriction is decisive when it comes
to simulate terminological alignment based on lexical priming.
The paper presents preliminary experimental results in support
of this hypothesis.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2007_d.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Gleim:Wegner:2007,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger and Wegner, Armin},
title = {Structural Uncertainty of Hypertext Types. An Empirical Study},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop "Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines:
The Impact of NLP", September, 30, 2007, in conjunction with RANLP
2007, Borovets, Bulgaria},
editor = {Rehm, Georg and Santini, Marina},
pages = {13-19},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/RANLP.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:Dehmer:Abramov:2007,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander and Dehmer, Matthias and Abramov, Olga},
title = {Aisles through the Category Forest – Utilising the Wikipedia Category
System for Corpus Building in Machine Learning},
booktitle = {3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
(WEBIST '07), March 3-6, 2007, Barcelona},
editor = {Filipe, Joaquim and Cordeiro, José and Encarnação, Bruno and Pedrosa, Vitor},
pages = {142-149},
address = {Barcelona},
abstract = {The Word Wide Web is a continuous challenge to machine learning.
Established approaches have to be enhanced and new methods be
developed in order to tackle the problem of finding and organising
relevant information. It has often been motivated that semantic
classifications of input documents help solving this task. But
while approaches of supervised text categorisation perform quite
well on genres found in written text, newly evolved genres on
the web are much more demanding. In order to successfully develop
approaches to web mining, respective corpora are needed. However,
the composition of genre- or domain-specific web corpora is still
an unsolved problem. It is time consuming to build large corpora
of good quality because web pages typically lack reliable meta
information. Wikipedia along with similar approaches of collaborative
text production offers a way out of this dilemma. We examine how
social tagging, as supported by the MediaWiki software, can be
utilised as a source of corpus building. Further, we describe
a representation format for social ontologies and present the
Wikipedia Category Explorer, a tool which supports categorical
views to browse through the Wikipedia and to construct domain
specific corpora for machine learning.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/webist_2007-gleim_mehler_dehmer_pustylnikov.pdf},
year = {2007}
}
2006
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2006:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {In Search of a Bridge between Network Analysis in Computational
Linguistics and Computational Biology – A Conceptual Note},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics
\& Computational Biology (BIOCOMP '06), June 26, 2006, Las Vegas,
USA},
editor = {Arabnia, Hamid R. and Valafar, Homayoun},
pages = {496-500},
pdf = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.92.9842&rep=rep1&type=pdf},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Dehmer:Gleim:2006,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Dehmer, Matthias and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Towards Logical Hypertext Structure - A Graph-Theoretic Perspective},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Innovative
Internet Computing Systems (I2CS '04)},
editor = {Böhme, Thomas and Heyer, Gerhard},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3473},
pages = {136-150},
address = {Berlin/New York},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {Facing the retrieval problem according to the overwhelming set
of documents online the adaptation of text categorization to web
units has recently been pushed. The aim is to utilize categories
of web sites and pages as an additional retrieval criterion. In
this context, the bag-of-words model has been utilized just as
HTML tags and link structures. In spite of promising results this
adaptation stays in the framework of IR specific models since
it neglects the content-based structuring inherent to hypertext
units. This paper approaches hypertext modelling from the perspective
of graph-theory. It presents an XML-based format for representing
websites as hypergraphs. These hypergraphs are used to shed light
on the relation of hypertext structure types and their web-based
instances. We place emphasis on two characteristics of this relation:
In terms of realizational ambiguity we speak of functional equivalents
to the manifestation of the same structure type. In terms of polymorphism
we speak of a single web unit which manifests different structure
types. It is shown that polymorphism is a prevalent characteristic
of web-based units. This is done by means of a categorization
experiment which analyses a corpus of hypergraphs representing
the structure and content of pages of conference websites. On
this background we plead for a revision of text representation
models by means of hypergraphs which are sensitive to the manifold
structuring of web documents.},
website = {http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11553762_14},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Sichelschmidt:2006,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Sichelschmidt, Lorenz},
title = {Reconceptualizing Latent Semantic Analysis in Terms of Complex
Network Theory. A Corpus-Linguistic Approach},
booktitle = {2nd International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics
Association – Theme Session: Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches:
What can we gain by computational treatment of data? 5.-7. Oktober
2006, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit{\"a}t München},
pages = {23-26},
editors = {Alonge, Antonietta and Lönneker-Rodman, Birte},
pdf = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.87.5069&rep=rep1&type=pdf},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2006:e,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Stratified Constraint Satisfaction Networks in Synergetic Multi-Agent
Simulations of Language Evolution},
booktitle = {Artificial Cognition Systems},
publisher = {Idea Group Inc.},
editor = {Loula, Angelo and Gudwin, Ricardo and Queiroz, João},
pages = {140-174},
address = {Hershey},
abstract = {Ehedem = Mehler:2005:e},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2006:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Text Linkage in the Wiki Medium – A Comparative Study},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on New Text – Wikis and blogs
and other dynamic text sources, April 3-7, 2006, Trento, Italy},
editor = {Karlgren, Jussi},
pages = {1-8},
abstract = {Workshop organizer: Jussi Karlgren},
pdf = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W06-2801},
website = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.165.6390},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{mehler:2006,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {In Search of a Bridge Between Network Analysis in Computational
Linguistics and Computational Biology-A Conceptual Note.},
booktitle = {BIOCOMP},
pages = {496--502},
pdf = {https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/81aa/0b840ed413089d69908cff60628a92609ccd.pdf},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gleim:Mehler:Dehmer:2006:a,
author = {Gleim, Rüdiger and Mehler, Alexander and Dehmer, Matthias},
title = {Web Corpus Mining by Instance of Wikipedia},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Web as Corpus, April
3-7, 2006, Trento, Italy},
editor = {Kilgariff, Adam and Baroni, Marco},
pages = {67-74},
abstract = {Workshop organizer: Adam Kilgarriff},
pdf = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W06-1710},
website = {http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/1773538},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Gleim:2006:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {The Net for the Graphs – Towards Webgenre Representation for Corpus
Linguistic Studies},
booktitle = {WaCky! Working Papers on the Web as Corpus},
publisher = {Gedit},
editor = {Baroni, Marco and Bernardini, Silvia},
pages = {191-224},
address = {Bologna},
website = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.510.4125},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@article{Dehmer:Emmert:Streib:Mehler:Kilian:2006,
author = {Dehmer, Matthias and Emmert-Streib, Frank and Mehler, Alexander
and Kilian, Jürgen},
title = {Measuring the Structural Similarity of Web-based Documents: A Novel Approach},
journal = {International Journal of Computational Intelligence},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
pages = {1-7},
abstract = {Most known methods for measuring the structural similarity of
document structures are based on, e.g., tag measures, path metrics
and tree measures in terms of their DOM-Trees. Other methods measures
the similarity in the framework of the well known vector space
model. In contrast to these we present a new approach to measuring
the structural similarity of web-based documents represented by
so called generalized trees which are more general than DOM-Trees
which represent only directed rooted trees. We will design a new
similarity measure for graphs representing web-based hypertext
structures. Our similarity measure is mainly based on a novel
representation of a graph as strings of linear integers, whose
components represent structural properties of the graph. The similarity
of two graphs is then defined as the optimal alignment of the
underlying property strings. In this paper we apply the well known
technique of sequence alignments to solve a novel and challenging
problem: Measuring the structural similarity of generalized trees.
More precisely, we first transform our graphs considered as high
dimensional objects in linear structures. Then we derive similarity
values from the alignments of the property strings in order to
measure the structural similarity of generalized trees. Hence,
we transform a graph similarity problem to a string similarity
problem. We demonstrate that our similarity measure captures important
structural information by applying it to two different test sets
consisting of graphs representing web-based documents.},
pdf = {http://waset.org/publications/15928/measuring-the-structural-similarity-of-web-based-documents-a-novel-approach},
website = {http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/24839145/measuring-structural-similarity-web-based-documents-novel-approach},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2006:d,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Network Perspective on Intertextuality},
booktitle = {Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
editor = {Grzybek, Peter and Köhler, Reinhard},
series = {Quantitative Linguistics},
pages = {437-446},
address = {Berlin/New York},
year = {2006}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Gleim:Dehmer:2006,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger and Dehmer, Matthias},
title = {Towards Structure-Sensitive Hypertext Categorization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the German Classification
Society, March 9-11, 2005, Universit{\"a}t Magdeburg},
editor = {Spiliopoulou, Myra and Kruse, Rudolf and Borgelt, Christian and Nürnberger, Andreas
and Gaul, Wolfgang},
pages = {406-413},
address = {Berlin/New York},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {Hypertext categorization is the task of automatically assigning
category labels to hypertext units. Comparable to text categorization
it stays in the area of function learning based on the bag-of-features
approach. This scenario faces the problem of a many-to-many relation
between websites and their hidden logical document structure.
The paper argues that this relation is a prevalent characteristic
which interferes any effort of applying the classical apparatus
of categorization to web genres. This is confirmed by a threefold
experiment in hypertext categorization. In order to outline a
solution to this problem, the paper sketches an alternative method
of unsupervised learning which aims at bridging the gap between
statistical and structural pattern recognition (Bunke et al. 2001)
in the area of web mining.},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/l7665tm3u241317l/},
year = {2006}
}
2005
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2005:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Zur textlinguistischen Fundierung der Text- und Korpuskonversion},
journal = {Sprache und Datenverarbeitung. International Journal
for Language Data Processing},
volume = {1},
pages = {29-53},
abstract = {Die automatische Konversion von Texten in Hypertexte ist mit der
Erwartung verbunden, computerbasierte Rezeptionshilfen zu gewinnen.
Dies betrifft insbesondere die Bew{\"a}ltigung der ungeheuren
Menge an Fachliteratur im Rahmen der Wissenschaftskommunikation.
Von einem thematisch relevanten Text zu einem thematisch verwandten
Text per Hyperlink direkt gelangen zu können, stellt einen Anspruch
dar, dessen Erfüllung mittels digitaler Bibliotheken n{\"a}her
gerückt zu sein scheint. Doch wie lassen sich die Kriterien, nach
denen Texte automatisch verlinkt werden, genauer begründen? Dieser
Beitrag geht dieser Frage aus der Sicht textlinguistischer Modellbildungen
nach. Er zeigt, dass parallel zur Entwicklung der Textlinguistik,
wenn auch mit einer gewissen Verzögerung, Konversionsans{\"a}tze
entwickelt wurden, die sich jeweils an einer bestimmten Stufe
des Textbegriffs orientieren. Der Beitrag weist nicht nur das
diesen Ans{\"a}tzen gemeinsame Fundament in Form der so genannten
Explikationshypothese nach, sondern verweist zugleich auf grundlegende
Automatisierungsdefizite, die mit ihnen verbunden sind. Mit systemisch-funktionalen
Hypertexten wird schlie{\ss}lich ein Ansatz skizziert, der darauf
zielt, den Anspruch nach textlinguistischer Fundierung und Automatisierbarkeit
zu vereinen.},
publisher = {GSCL},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2005:d,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Lexical Chaining as a Source of Text Chaining},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Computational Systemic Functional Grammar
Conference, University of Sydney, Australia},
editor = {Patrick, Jon and Matthiessen, Christian},
pages = {12-21},
abstract = {July 16, 2005,},
pdf = {http://www.www.texttechnologylab.org/media/pdf/CohesionTrees1.pdf},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2005:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Eigenschaften der textuellen Einheiten und Systeme / Properties
of Textual Units and Systems},
booktitle = {Quantitative Linguistik. Ein internationales Handbuch / Quantitative
Linguistics. An International Handbook},
publisher = {De Gruyter},
editor = {Köhler, Reinhard and Altmann, Gabriel and Piotrowski, Raijmund G.},
pages = {325-348},
address = {Berlin/New York},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:Wolff:2005:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Wolff, Christian},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Wolff, Christian},
title = {Text Mining},
publisher = {GSCL},
volume = {20(1)},
series = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/TextMining.png},
pagetotal = {143},
website = {http://www.jlcl.org/2005_Heft1/LDV-Forum1.2005.pdf},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Dehmer:Gleim:2005,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Dehmer, Matthias and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Zur Automatischen Klassifikation von Webgenres},
booktitle = {Sprachtechnologie, mobile Kommunikation und linguistische Ressourcen.
Beitr{\"a}ge zur GLDV-Frühjahrstagung '05, 10. M{\"a}rz – 01.
April 2005, Universit{\"a}t Bonn},
editor = {Fisseni, Bernhard and Schmitz, Hans-Christina and Schröder, Bernhard
and Wagner, Petra},
pages = {158-174},
address = {Frankfurt a. M.},
publisher = {Lang},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:2005:e,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Korpuslinguistik},
volume = {20(2)},
series = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Korpuslinguistik.png},
pagetotal = {97},
website = {http://www.jlcl.org/2005_Heft2/LDV_Forum_Band_20_Heft_2.pdf},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:Wolff:2005:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Wolff, Christian},
title = {Einleitung: Perspektiven und Positionen des Text Mining},
journal = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
volume = {20},
number = {1},
pages = {1-18},
abstract = {Beitr{\"a}ge zum Thema Text Mining beginnen vielfach mit dem Hinweis
auf die enorme Zunahme online verfügbarer Dokumente, ob nun im
Internet oder in Intranets (Losiewicz et al. 2000; Merkl 2000;
Feldman 2001; Mehler 2001; Joachims \& Leopold 2002). Der hiermit
einhergehenden „Informationsflut“ wird das Ungenügen des Information
Retrieval (IR) bzw. seiner g{\"a}ngigen Verfahren der Informationsaufbereitung
und Informationserschlie{\ss}ung gegenübergestellt. Es wird bem{\"a}ngelt,
dass sich das IR weitgehend darin erschöpft, Teilmengen von Textkollektionen
auf Suchanfragen hin aufzufinden und in der Regel blo{\ss} listenförmig
anzuordnen. Das auf diese Weise dargestellte Spannungsverh{\"a}ltnis
von Informationsexplosion und Defiziten bestehender IR-Verfahren
bildet den Hintergrund für die Entwicklung von Verfahren zur automatischen
Verarbeitung textueller Einheiten, die sich st{\"a}rker an den
Anforderungen von Informationssuchenden orientieren. Anders ausgedrückt:
Mit der Einführung der Neuen Medien w{\"a}chst die Bedeutung digitalisierter
Dokumente als Prim{\"a}rmedium für die Verarbeitung, Verbreitung
und Verwaltung von Information in öffentlichen und betrieblichen
Organisationen. Dabei steht wegen der Menge zu verarbeitender
Einheiten die Alternative einer intellektuellen Dokumenterschlie{\ss}ung
nicht zur Verfügung. Andererseits wachsen die Anforderung an eine
automatische Textanalyse, der das klassische IR nicht gerecht
wird. Der Mehrzahl der hiervon betroffenen textuellen Einheiten
fehlt die explizite Strukturiertheit formaler Datenstrukturen.
Vielmehr weisen sie je nach Text- bzw. Dokumenttyp ganz unterschiedliche
Strukturierungsgrade auf. Dabei korreliert die Flexibilit{\"a}t
der Organisationsziele negativ mit dem Grad an explizierter Strukturiertheit
und positiv mit der Anzahl jener Texte und Texttypen (E-Mails,
Memos, Expertisen, technische Dokumentationen etc.), die im Zuge
ihrer Realisierung produziert bzw. rezipiert werden. Vor diesem
Hintergrund entsteht ein Bedarf an Texttechnologien, die ihren
Benutzern nicht nur „intelligente“ Schnittstellen zur Textrezeption
anbieten, sondern zugleich auf inhaltsorientierte Textanalysen
zielen, um auf diese Weise aufgabenrelevante Daten explorieren
und kontextsensitiv aufbereiten zu helfen. Das Text Mining ist
mit dem Versprechen verbunden, eine solche Technologie darzustellen
bzw. sich als solche zu entwickeln. Dieser einheitlichen Problembeschreibung
stehen konkurrierende Textmining-Spezifikationen gegenüber, was
bereits die Vielfalt der Namensgebungen verdeutlicht. So finden
sich neben der Bezeichnung Text Mining (Joachims \& Leopold 2002;
Tan 1999) die Alternativen • Text Data Mining (Hearst 1999b; Merkl
2000), • Textual Data Mining (Losiewicz et al. 2000), • Text Knowledge
Engineering (Hahn \& Schnattinger 1998), Knowledge Discovery in
Texts (Kodratoff 1999) oder Knowledge Discovery in Textual Databases
(Feldman \& Dagan 1995). Dabei l{\"a}sst bereits die Namensgebung
erkennen, dass es sich um Analogiebildungen zu dem (nur unwesentlich
{\"a}lteren) Forschungsgebiet des Data Mining (DM; als Bestandteil
des Knowledge Discovery in Databases – KDD) handelt. Diese Namensvielfalt
findet ihre Entsprechung in widerstreitenden Aufgabenzuweisungen.
So setzt beispielsweise Sebastiani (2002) Informationsextraktion
und Text Mining weitgehend gleich, wobei er eine Schnittmenge
zwischen Text Mining und Textkategorisierung ausmacht (siehe auch
Dörre et al. 1999). Demgegenüber betrachten Kosala \& Blockeel
(2000) Informationsextraktion und Textkategorisierung lediglich
als Teilbereiche des ihrer Ansicht nach umfassenderen Text Mining,
w{\"a}hrend Hearst (1999a) im Gegensatz hierzu Informationsextraktion
und Textkategorisierung explizit aus dem Bereich des explorativen
Text Mining ausschlie{\ss}t.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_wolff_2005_b.pdf},
website = {http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/6844/},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Gleim:2005:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Polymorphism in Generic Web Units. A corpus linguistic study},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics '05, July 14-17, 2005, University
of Birmingham, Great Britian},
volume = {Corpus Linguistics Conference Series 1(1)},
abstract = {Corpus linguistics and related disciplines which focus on statistical
analyses of textual units have substantial need for large corpora.
More specifically, genre or register specific corpora are needed
which allow studying variations in language use. Along with the
incredible growth of the internet, the web became an important
source of linguistic data. Of course, web corpora face the same
problem of acquiring genre specific corpora. Amongst other things,
web mining is a framework of methods for automatically assigning
category labels to web units and thus may be seen as a solution
to this corpus acquisition problem as far as genre categories
are applied. The paper argues that this approach is faced with
the problem of a many-to-many relation between expression units
on the one hand and content or function units on the other hand.
A quantitative study is performed which supports the argumentation
that functions of web-based communication are very often concentrated
on single web pages and thus interfere any effort of directly
applying the classical apparatus of categorization on web page
level. The paper outlines a two-level algorithm as an alternative
approach to category assignment which is sensitive to genre specific
structures and thus may be used to tackle the problem of acquiring
genre specific corpora.},
issn = {1747-9398},
pdf = {http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/corpus/conference-archives/2005-journal/Thewebasacorpus/AlexanderMehlerandRuedigerGleimCorpusLinguistics2005.pdf},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2005:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Preliminaries to an Algebraic Treatment of Lexical Associations},
booktitle = {Learning and Extending Lexical Ontologies. Proceedings of the
Workshop at the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML '05), August 7-11, 2005, Universit{\"a}t Bonn, Germany},
editor = {Biemann, Chris and Paa{\ss}, Gerhard},
pages = {41-47},
year = {2005}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Dehmer:Emmert:Streib:Mehler:Kilian:Muehlhaeuser:2005,
author = {Dehmer, Matthias and Emmert-Streib, Frank and Mehler, Alexander
and Kilian, Jürgen and Mühlh{\"a}user, Max},
title = {Application of a similarity measure for graphs to web-based document structures},
booktitle = {Proceedings of VI. International Conference on Enformatika, Systems
Sciences and Engineering, Budapest, Hungary, October 2005, International
Academy of Sciences: Enformatika 8 (2005)},
pages = {77-81},
abstract = {Due to the tremendous amount of information provided by the World
Wide Web (WWW) developing methods for mining the structure of
web-based documents is of considerable interest. In this paper
we present a similarity measure for graphs representing web-based
hypertext structures. Our similarity measure is mainly based on
a novel representation of a graph as linear integer strings, whose
components represent structural properties of the graph. The similarity
of two graphs is then defined as the optimal alignment of the
underlying property strings. In this paper we apply the well known
technique of sequence alignments for solving a novel and challenging
problem: Measuring the structural similarity of generalized trees.
In other words: We first transform our graphs considered as high
dimensional objects in linear structures. Then we derive similarity
values from the alignments of the property strings in order to
measure the structural similarity of generalized trees. Hence,
we transform a graph similarity problem to a string similarity
problem for developing a efficient graph similarity measure. We
demonstrate that our similarity measure captures important structural
information by applying it to two different test sets consisting
of graphs representing web-based document structures.},
pdf = {http://waset.org/publications/15299/application-of-a-similarity-measure-for-graphs-to-web-based-document-structures},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238687277_Application_of_a_Similarity_Measure_for_Graphs_to_Web-based_Document_Structures},
year = {2005}
}
2004
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2003:d,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Textmodellierung: Mehrstufige Modellierung generischer Bausteine
der Text{\"a}hnlichkeitsmessung},
booktitle = {Automatische Textanalyse: Systeme und Methoden zur Annotation
und Analyse natürlichsprachlicher Texte},
publisher = {Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Lobin, Henning},
pages = {101-120},
address = {Wiesbaden},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AutomatischeTextanalyse2.jpg},
year = {2004}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Dehmer:Mehler:Gleim:2004,
author = {Dehmer, Matthias and Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, Rüdiger},
title = {Aspekte der Kategorisierung von Webseiten},
booktitle = {INFORMATIK 2004 – Informatik verbindet, Band 2, Beitr{\"a}ge der
34. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Workshop
Multimedia-Informationssysteme},
editor = {Dadam, Peter and Reichert, Manfred},
volume = {51},
series = {Lecture Notes in Informatics},
pages = {39-43},
publisher = {GI},
abstract = {Im Zuge der Web-basierten Kommunikation tritt die Frage auf, inwiefern
Webpages zum Zwecke ihrer inhaltsorientierten Filterung kategorisiert
werden können. Diese Studie untersucht zwei Ph{\"a}nomene, welche
die Bedingung der Möglichkeit einer solchen Kategorisierung betreffen
(siehe [6]): Mit dem Begriff der funktionalen Aquivalenz beziehen
wir uns auf das Ph{\"a}nomen, dass dieselbe Funktions- oder Inhaltskategorie
durch völlig verschiedene Bausteine Web-basierter Dokumente manifestiert
werden kann. Mit dem Begriff des Polymorphie beziehen wir uns
auf das Ph{\"a}nomen, dass dasselbe Dokument zugleich mehrere
Funktions- oder Inhaltskategorien manifestieren kann. Die zentrale
Hypothese lautet, dass beide Ph{\"a}nomene für Web-basierte Hypertextstrukturen
charakteristisch sind. Ist dies der Fall, so kann die automatische
Kategorisierung von Hypertexten [2, 10] nicht mehr als eindeutige
Zuordnung verstanden werden, bei der einem Dokument genau eine
Kategorie zugeordnet wird. In diesem Sinne thematisiert das Papier
die Frage nach der ad{\"a}quaten Modellierung multimedialer Dokumente.},
pdf = {http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings51/GI-Proceedings.51-11.pdf},
website = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221385316_Aspekte_der_Kategorisierung_von_Webseiten},
year = {2004}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2004:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Automatische Synthese Internet-basierter Links für digitale Bibliotheken},
journal = {Osnabrücker Beitr{\"a}ge zur Sprachtheorie.
Themenheft Internetbasierte Kommunikation},
volume = {68},
pages = {31-53},
abstract = {Dieser Beitrag behandelt Verfahren zur automatischen Erzeugung
von Hyperlinks, wie sie im WWW für die Informationssuche bereitstehen.
Dabei steht die Frage im Vordergrund, auf welche Weise bestehende
Verfahren suchrelevante Dokumente bestimmen und von diesen aus
inhaltsverwandte Dokumente verlinken. Dieser Gegenstand verbindet
den Bereich des klassischen Information Retrievals (IR) mit einem
Anwendungsgebiet, das in der Wissenschaftskommunikation unter
dem Stichwort der digitalen Bibliothek unter Nutzbarmachung des
Hyperlink-basierten Browsings firmiert. Ein Beispiel hierfür bildet
die digitale Bibliothek CiteSeer (Lawrence et al. 1999), welche
das Boolesche Retrieval dadurch erweitert, dass ausgehend von
Treffern einer Suche jene Dokumente per Link angesteuert werden
können, welche die aufgefundenen Dokumente zitieren oder von diesen
zitiert werden. CiteSeer ist also ein System, welches das Schlagwort-basierte
Querying im Rahmen des klassischen IRs mit dem Hypertext-basierten
Browsing von Zitaten verknüpft, und zwar zu dem Zweck, die Suche
wissenschaftlicher Dokumente zu erleichtern. Darüber hinaus verwendet
es die unter dem Stichwort des Vektorraummodells bekannt gewordene
Technologie für den wortbasierten Vergleich von Texten. Der Beitrag
setzt an dieser Stelle an. Er argumentiert, dass Verfahren bereitstehen,
welche die Anforderung nach inhaltsorientiertem Retrieval mit
dem inhaltsorientierten Browsing verbinden, mit der Forderung
also, dass Hyperlinks, die E-Texte als digitalisierte Versionen
von (wissenschaftlichen) Dokumenten verknüpfen (Storrer 2002),
Inhalts- und nicht nur Zitat-basiert sind.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2004_b.pdf},
year = {2004}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2004:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Data-Oriented Model of Context in Hypertext Authoring},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Organisational
Semiotics (OS '04), July 19-20, 2004, Setúbal, Portugal},
editor = {Filipe, Joaquim and Liu, Kecheng},
pages = {24-45},
address = {Setúbal},
publisher = {INSTICC},
pdf = {http://www.orgsem.org/papers/02.pdf},
website = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.121.7944},
year = {2004}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:Lobin:2004:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lobin, Henning},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Lobin, Henning},
title = {Automatische Textanalyse. Systeme und Methoden zur Annotation
und Analyse natürlichsprachlicher Texte},
publisher = {Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften},
address = {Wiesbaden},
pagetotal = {290},
website = {http://www.v-r.de/de/Mehler-Lobin-Automatische-Textanalyse/t/352526527/},
year = {2004}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Lobin:2004:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Lobin, Henning},
title = {Aspekte der texttechnologischen Modellierung},
booktitle = {Automatische Textanalyse: Systeme und Methoden zur Annotation
und Analyse natürlichsprachlicher Texte},
publisher = {Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften},
editor = {Mehler, Alexander and Lobin, Henning},
pages = {1-21},
address = {Wiesbaden},
year = {2004}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2004:h,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Textmining},
booktitle = {Texttechnologie. Perspektiven und Anwendungen},
publisher = {Stauffenburg},
editor = {Lobin, Henning and Lemnitzer, Lothar},
pages = {329-352},
address = {Tübingen},
year = {2004}
}
2003
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2003:c,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Ein Kompositionalit{\"a}tsprinzip für numerische Textsemantiken},
journal = {Journal for Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics (JLCL)},
volume = {18},
number = {1-2},
pages = {321-337},
abstract = {Der Beitrag beschreibt eine Variante des Kompositionalit{\"a}tsprinzips
der Bedeutung als Grundprinzip für die numerische Analyse unsystematischer
Sinnrelationen komplexer Zeichen, das über das Ph{\"a}nomen der
perspektivischen Interpretation hinaus gebrauchssemantische Bedeutungsaspekte
berücksichtigt. Ziel ist es, ein theoretisches Fundament für korpusanalytische
Ans{\"a}tze in der Semantik, die oftmals die linguistische Interpretierbarkeit
ihrer Analyseergebnisse vermissen lassen, zu umrei{\ss}en. Die
Spezifikation des Kompositionalit{\"a}tsprinzips erfolgt unter
Rekurs auf das Modell eines hierarchisch geordneten Constraint-Satisfaction-Prozesses.
Hiermit ist das l{\"a}ngerfristige Ziel verbunden, das Problem
einer defizit{\"a}ren numerischen Textrepr{\"a}sentation sowie
die mangelnde Integration von propositionaler und strukturaler
bzw. korpusanalytischer Semantik anzugehen. Die Erörterungen dieses
Beitrags sind prim{\"a}r konzeptioneller Natur; sie betreffen
die Konzeption einer numerischen Textsemantik zur Vermeidung von
Defiziten bestehender Ans{\"a}tze.},
pdf = {http://media.dwds.de/jlcl/2003_Doppelheft/321-337_Mehler.pdf},
year = {2003}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Reich:2003,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Reich, Siegfried},
title = {Guided Tours + Trails := Guided Trails},
booktitle = {Poster at the 14th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
(Hypertext '03), Nottingham, August 26-30},
pages = {1-2},
website = {http://www.sigweb.org/Ht03posters},
year = {2003}
}
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2003,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Konnotative Textbedeutungen: zur Modellierung struktureller Aspekte
der Bedeutungen von Texten},
booktitle = {Korpuslinguistische Untersuchungen zur quantitativen und systemtheoretischen
Linguistik},
publisher = {Gardez! Verlag},
editor = {Köhler, Reinhard},
pages = {320-347},
address = {Sankt Augustin},
pdf = {http://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/volltexte/2004/279/pdf/10_mehler.pdf},
year = {2003}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2003:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Methodological Aspects of Computational Semiotics},
journal = {SEED Journal},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
pages = {71-80},
abstract = {In the following, elementary constituents of models in computational
semiotics are outlined. This is done by referring to computer
simulations as a framework which neither aims to describe artificial
sign systems (as done in computer semiotics), nor to realize semiotic
functions in “artificial worlds” (as proposed in “artificial semiosis”).
Rather, the framework referred to focuses on preconditions of
computer-based simulations of semiotic processes. Following this
approach, the paper focuses on methodological aspects of computational
semiotics.},
year = {2003}
}
2002
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:2002:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Textbedeutungsrekonstruktion. Grundzüge einer Architektur zur
Modellierung der Bedeutungen von Texten},
booktitle = {Prozesse der Bedeutungskonstruktion},
publisher = {Peter Lang},
editor = {Pohl, Inge},
pages = {445-486},
address = {Frankfurt a. M.},
year = {2002}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2002:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Hierarchical Analysis of Text Similarity Data},
journal = {Künstliche Intelligenz (KI)},
volume = {2},
pages = {12-16},
abstract = {Semantic spaces are used as a representational format for modeling
similarities of signs. As a multidimensional data structure they
are bound to the question of how to explore similarity relations
of signs mapped onto them. This paper introduces an abstract data
structure called dependency scheme as a formal format which encapsulates
two types of order relations, whose variable instatiation allows
to derive different classes of trees for the hierarchial analysis
of text similarity data derived from semantic spaces.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2002_a.pdf},
year = {2002}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2002:k,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Hierarchical Orderings of Textual Units},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (COLING '02), August 24 – September 1, 2002, Taipei,
Taiwan},
pages = {646-652},
address = {San Francisco},
publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
abstract = {Text representation is a central task for any approach to automatic
learning from texts. It requires a format which allows to interrelate
texts even if they do not share content words, but deal with similar
topics. Furthermore, measuring text similarities raises the question
of how to organize the resulting clusters. This paper presents
cohesion trees (CT) as a data structure for the perspective, hierarchical
organization of text corpora. CTs operate on alternative text
representation models taking lexical organization, quantitative
text characteristics, and text structure into account. It is shown
that CTs realize text linkages which are lexically more homogeneous
than those produced by minimal spanning trees.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_2002_k.pdf},
year = {2002}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2002:f,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Cohesive Paths: Applying the Concept of Cohesion to Hypertext},
booktitle = {Sprachwissenschaft auf dem Weg in das dritte Jahrtausend. Proceedings
of the 34th Linguistics Colloquium, September 7-10, 1999, Universit{\"a}t
Mainz},
editor = {Rapp, Reinhard},
pages = {725-733},
address = {Frankfurt a. M.},
publisher = {Peter Lang},
year = {2002}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:2002:e,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Text Mining with the Help of Cohesion Trees},
booktitle = {Classification, Automation, and New Media. Proceedings of the
24th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation,
March 15-17, 2000, Universit{\"a}t Passau},
editor = {Gaul, Wolfgang and Ritter, Gunter},
pages = {199-206},
address = {Berlin/New York},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {In the framework of automatic text processing, semantic spaces
are used as a format for modeling similarities of natural language
texts represented as vectors. They prove to be efficient in divergent
areas, as information retrieval (Dumais 1995), computational psychology
(Landauer, Dumais 1997), and computational linguistics (Rieger
1995; Mehler 1998). In order to group semantically similar texts,
cluster analysis is used. A central problem of this method relates
to the difficulty to name clusters, whereas lists neglect the
polyhierarchical structure of semantic spaces. This paper introduces
the concept of cohesion tree as an alternative tool for exploring
similarity relations of texts represented in high dimensional
spaces. Cohesion trees allow the perspective evaluation of numerically
represented text similarities. They depart from minimal spanning
trees (MST) by context-sensitively optimizing path costs. This
central property underlies the linguistic interpretation of cohesion
trees: instead of manifesting context-free associations, they
model context priming effects.},
website = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/x484814744877078/},
year = {2002}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:Clarke:2002,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Clarke, Rodney},
title = {Systemic Functional Hypertexts. An Architecture for Socialsemiotic
Hypertext Systems},
booktitle = {New Directions in Humanities Computing. The 14th Joint International
Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC/ACH
'02), July 24-28, University of Tübingen},
pages = {68-69},
year = {2002}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2002:l,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Components of a Model of Context-Sensitive Hypertexts},
journal = {Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)},
volume = {8},
number = {10},
pages = {924-943},
abstract = {On the background of rising Intranet applications the automatic
generation of adaptable, context-sensitive hypertexts becomes
more and more important [El-Beltagy et al., 2001]. This observation
contradicts the literature on hypertext authoring, where Information
Retrieval techniques prevail, which disregard any linguistic and
context-theoretical underpinning. As a consequence, resulting
hypertexts do not manifest those schematic structures, which are
constitutive for the emergence of text types and the context-mediated
understanding of their instances, i.e. natural language texts.
This paper utilizes Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and
its context model as a theoretical basis of hypertext authoring.
So called Systemic Functional Hypertexts (SFHT) are proposed,
which refer to a stratified context layer as the proper source
of text linkage. The purpose of this paper is twofold: First,
hypertexts are reconstructed from a linguistic point of view as
a kind of supersign, whose constituents are natural language texts
and whose structuring is due to intra- and intertextual coherence
relations and their context-sensitive interpretation. Second,
the paper prepares a formal notion of SFHTs as a first step towards
operationalization of fundamental text linguistic concepts. On
this background, SFHTs serve to overcome the theoretical poverty
of many approaches to link generation.},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mehler_components_2002.pdf},
website = {http://www.jucs.org/jucs_8_10/components_of_a_model},
year = {2002}
}
2001
BibTeX
@incollection{Mehler:Clarke:2001,
author = {Mehler, Alexander and Clarke, Rodney},
title = {Systemic Functional Hypertexts (SFHT): Modeling Contexts in Hypertexts},
booktitle = {Organizational Semiotics. Evolving a Science of Information Systems},
publisher = {Kluwer},
editor = {Liu, Kecheng and Clarke, Rodney J. and Andersen, Peter B. and Stamper, Ronald K.},
pages = {153-170},
address = {Boston},
abstract = {IFIP TC8 / WG8.1 Working Conference on Organizational Semiotics.
July 23-25, 2001, Montreal, Canada},
website = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-35611-2_10},
year = {2001}
}
BibTeX
@book{Mehler:2001:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Textbedeutung. Zur prozeduralen Analyse und Repr{\"a}sentation
struktureller {\"A}hnlichkeiten von Texten / Text Meaning – Procedural
Analysis and Representation of Structural Similarities of Texts},
publisher = {Peter Lang},
volume = {5},
series = {Computer Studies in Language and Speech},
address = {Frankfurt a. M.},
note = {Zugl. Diss. Univ. Trier},
image = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/38648_cover_front.jpg},
pagetotal = {401},
website = {https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/39259?tab=toc&format=PBK},
year = {2001}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:2001:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Aspects of Text Mining. From Computational Semiotics to Systemic
Functional Hypertexts},
journal = {Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS)},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
pages = {129-141},
abstract = {The significance of natural language texts as the prime information
structure for the management and dissemination of knowledge in
organisations is still increasing. Making relevant documents available
depending on varying tasks in different contexts is of primary
importance for any efficient task completion. Implementing this
demand requires the content based processing of texts, which enables
to reconstruct or, if necessary, to explore the relationship of
task, context and document. Text mining is a technology that is
suitable for solving problems of this kind. In the following,
semiotic aspects of text mining are investigated. Based on the
primary object of text mining - natural language lexis - the specific
complexity of this class of signs is outlined and requirements
for the implementation of text mining procedures are derived.
This is done with reference to text linkage introduced as a special
task in text mining. Text linkage refers to the exploration of
implicit, content based relations of texts (and their annotation
as typed links in corpora possibly organised as hypertexts). In
this context, the term systemic functional hypertext is introduced,
which distinguishes genre and register layers for the management
of links in a poly-level hypertext system},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Mehler_AJIS-2001.pdf},
website = {http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/249/220},
year = {2001}
}
1999
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:1999,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Aspects of Text Semantics in Hypertext},
booktitle = {Returning to our Diverse Roots. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference
on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext '99), February 21-25, 1999,
Technische Universit{\"a}t Darmstadt},
editor = {Tochtermann, Klaus and Westbomke, Jörg and Wiil, Uffe K. and Leggett, John J.},
pages = {25-26},
address = {New York},
publisher = {ACM Press},
pdf = {{http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=294477&ftid=30049&dwn=1&CFID=722943569&CFTOKEN=97409508}},
website = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=294477},
year = {1999}
}
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Clarke:Mehler:1999,
author = {Clarke, Rodney and Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Theorising Print Media in Contexts: A Systemic Semiotic Contribution
to Computational Semiotics},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of the IASS-AIS:
International Association for Semiotic Studies – Sign Processes
in Complex Systems, Dresden, University of Technology, October
6-11},
year = {1999}
}
1998
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:1998,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {Toward Computational Aspects of Text Semiotics},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Conference of IEEE ISIC, IEEE CIRA,
and ISAS on the Science and Technology of Intelligent Systems,
September 14-17, 1998, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA},
editor = {Albus, James and Meystel, Alex},
pages = {807-813},
address = {Gaithersburg},
publisher = {IEEE},
website = {http://www.researchgate.net/publication/3766784_Toward_computational_aspects_of_text_semiotics},
year = {1998}
}
1996
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mehler:1996:a,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Multiresolutional Approach to Fuzzy Text Meaning -- a First Attempt},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1996 International Multidisciplinary Conference
on Intelligent Systems: A Semiotic Perspective, Gaithersburg,
Maryland, October 20-23},
editor = {Albus, James and Meystel, Alex and Quintero, Richard},
volume = {I},
pages = {261-273},
address = {Gaithersburg},
publisher = {National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)},
year = {1996}
}
BibTeX
@article{Mehler:1996:b,
author = {Mehler, Alexander},
title = {A Multiresolutional Approach to Fuzzy Text Meaning},
journal = {Journal of Quantitative Linguistics},
volume = {3},
number = {2},
pages = {113-127},
abstract = {In diesem Beitrag beschreiben wir den eHumanities Desktop3. Es
handelt sich dabei um eine rein webbasierte Umgebung für die texttechnologische
Arbeit mit Korpora, welche von der standardisierten Repr{\"a}sentation
textueller Einheiten über deren computerlinguistische Vorverarbeitung
bis hin zu Text Mining–Funktionalit{\"a}ten eine gro{\ss}e Zahl
von Werkzeugen integriert. Diese Integrationsleistung betrifft
neben den Textkorpora und den hierauf operierenden texttechnologischen
Werkzeugen auch die je zum Einsatz kommenden lexikalischen Ressourcen.
Aus dem Blickwinkel der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fachinformatik
gesprochen fokussiert der Desktop somit darauf, eine Vielzahl
heterogener sprachlicher Ressourcen mit grundlegenden texttechnologischen
Methoden zu integrieren, und zwar so, dass das Integrationsresultat
auch in den H{\"a}nden von Nicht–Texttechnologen handhabbar bleibt.
Wir exemplifizieren diese Handhabung an einem Beispiel aus der
historischen Semantik, und damit an einem Bereich, der erst in
jüngerer Zeit durch die Texttechnologie erschlossen wird.},
year = {1996}
}