DATA AND KNOWLEDGE

ENGINEERING GROUP

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Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• Semantic Retrieval
• Multilingual Retrieval
• Information Visualization

Publications:

2009

• Ernesto William De Luca, Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger. Annotating Arabic Words with English WordNet SynSets: An Arabic WordNet Interface In: Proceedings of the Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology 2009 (GSCL), Potsdam, 2009.
• Farag Ahmed, Andreas Nürnberger, and Ernesto William De Luca. A Corpus-based Approach to Improve Arabic/English Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In: Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics Conference, Liverpool, 2009.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger. The LexiRes RDF/OWL Tool. In: LDV Forum, Zeitschrift für Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie, Special Issue on Lexical-Semantic and Ontological Resources, Regensburg, 2009 (will appear).
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger. Combining Lexical Resources with the Vector Space Model for Semantic Retrieval In: Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on: Distributional Lexical Semantics, Cambridge University Press (submitted).
• Ernesto William De Luca and Frank Rügheimer. The Sense Folder Approach for Generic and Domain-Specific Retrieval Tasks. In: Proceedings of the Workshop Information Retrieval (IR). In conjunction with LWA 2009, GI joint workshop event "Learning, Knowledge and Adaptivity", Darmstadt, 2009.
• Stefan Werner Knoll, Ernesto William De Luca, Graham Horton, and Andreas Nürnberger. Integrating Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Technologies for supporting Collaboration Work. In: Proceedings of the 17. Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems.In conjunction withLWA 2009, GI joint workshop event "Learning, Knowledge and Adaptivity", Darmstadt, 2009.
• Frank Rügheimer and Ernesto William De Luca. Condensed Random Sets for Efficient Quantitative Modelling of Gene Annotation Data. In: Proceedings of the Workshop "Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning 2009" (KDML 2009). In conjunction with LWA 2009, GI joint workshop event "Learning, Knowledge and Adaptivity", Darmstadt, 2009.

2008

• Ernesto William De Luca, Semantic Support in Multilingual Text Retrieval, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8322-7489-4.
• Ernesto William De Luca , and Andreas Nürnberger. The RDF/OWL LexiRes Tool: An Editor for Maintaining and Customizing Multilingual Resources, In: Proceedings of the Lexical-Semantic and Ontological Resources Maintenance, Representation, and Standards Workshop of the GLDV Working Group on Lexicography at KONVENS 2008. Berlin, Germany, 2008
• Ernesto William De Luca, and Birte Lönneker-Rodman.Integrating Metaphor Information into RDF/OWL EuroWordNet, In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Marokko, 2008
• Lena Grothe, Ernesto William De Luca, and Andreas Nürnberger. A Comparative Study on Language Identification Methods , In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Marokko, 2008  

2007

• Ernesto William De Luca, Martin Eul and Andreas Nürnberger. Multilingual Query-Reformulation using an RDF-OWL EuroWordNet Representation. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries (iNEWS07). In conjunction with the SIGIR 2007 Konferenz, Amsterdam, 2007.
• Ernesto William De Luca, Martin Eul and Andreas Nürnberger. Converting EuroWordNet in OWL and Extending It with Domain Ontologies. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Lexical-Semantic and Ontological Resources. In conjunction with the GLDV-Frühjahrstagung (GLDV 2007). Tübingen, 2007.
• Farag Ahmed, Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger. MultiSpell: an N-Gram Based Language-Independent Spell Checker. In: Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2007). Mexico City, Mexico, 2007.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Frank Rügheimer Discovering Linguistic Dependencies with Graphical Models. In: Proceedings of the Workshop Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning (KDML) In conjunction with the LWA 2007, pp. 119-125, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, 2007.

2006

• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, A Word Sense-Oriented User Interface for Interactive Multilingual Text Retrieval In: Proceedings of the Workshop Information Retrieval In conjunction with the LWA 2006, GI joint workshop event "Learning, Knowledge and Adaptivity", Hildesheim, 2006.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, LexiRes: A Tool for Exploring and Restructuring EuroWordNet for Information Retrieval In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR-06). In conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'06). Riva del Garda, Italy, 2006.
• Ernesto William De Luca, Stefan Hauke, Andreas Nürnberger and Stefan Schlechtweg, MultiLexExplorer: Combining Multilingual Web Search with Multilingual Lexical Resources In: Proceedings of the combined Workshop on Language-Enabled Educational Technology and Development and Evaluation of Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems. In conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'06). Riva del Garda, Italy, pp. 17-21, 2006.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Adaptive Support for Cross-language Text Retrieval In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), pp. 425-429, 2006 (Doctoral Consortium Paper).
• Ernesto William De Luca, Stefan Hauke, Andreas Nürnberger and Stefan Schlechtweg, Using Multilingual Ontologies for Adaptive Web-based Language Exploration. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL06). In conjunction with the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), pp. 35-44, 2006.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Using Clustering Methods to Improve Ontology-Based Query Term Disambiguation. In: International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 21:7, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 693-709, 2006.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Rebuilding Lexical Resources for Information Retrieval using Sense Folder Detection and Merging Methods. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006)., Genova, Italy, 2006 (to appear).
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, The Use of Lexical Resources for Sense Folder Disambiguation. in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Lexical Semantic Resources for Language Documentation and Language Processing (DGfS 2006), Bielefeld, Germany, 2006.

2005

• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Supporting Information Retrieval on Mobile Devices. In: Proceedings of MOBILE HCI 2005: 7th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, ACM Press, New York, 2005.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Supporting Mobile Web Search by Ontology-based Categorization. In: Sprachtechnologie, mobile Kommunikation und linguistische Ressourcen. Beiträge der GLDV Tagung 2005 in Bonn, S. 28 - 41, 2005.
• Korinna Bade, Ernesto William De Luca, Andreas Nürnberger and Sebastian Stober, CARSA - An Architecture for the Development of Context Adaptive Retrieval Systems In: Proc. of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2005).
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, A Meta Search Engine for User Adaptive Information Retrieval Interfaces for Desktop and Mobile Devices In: Proc. of the PIA 2005 - Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2005.

2004

• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, The Importance of Ontology Based User Modeling and Adaptation in Information Retrieval , (position paper) in Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies (FOIS 2004), Turin 2004.
• Korinna Bade, Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Multimedia Retrieval: Fundamental Techniques and Principles of Adaptivity, KI Künstliche Intelligenz, Themenheft Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval 4:04 (KI 4:04) , pp. 5-10, arendtap, Bremen, 2004.
• Ernesto W. De Luca, Service Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, KI Künstliche Intelligenz 18(4), , pp. 43, arendtap, Bremen, 2004.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Improving Ontology-Based Sense Folder Classification of Document Collections with Clustering Methods, In: Proc. of the 2nd Int. Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2004), pp 72-86, Valencia 2004.
• Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, Ontology-Based Semantic Online Classification of Documents: Supporting Users in Searching the Web, In: Proc. of the European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies (EUNITE 2004), Aachen 2004.

2003

• Oliver Streiter and Ernesto William De Luca, Example-based NLP for Minority Languages: Tasks, Resources and Tools, In: Proc. of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing of Minority Languages with few computational linguistic resources (TALN 2003), pp. 233-242, Batz-sur-Mer 2003.

2001

• Ernesto William De Luca, The Human Computer Communication: the Agent Technology in the Internet. (Master thesis in German), Universität Bielefeld, Juli 2001.

Presentations:

2005

• Ontology-based Online Categorization of Web Pages. (with Andreas Nürnberger). University of Magdeburg, 29th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl 2005) - From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering - March 9, 2004.

Invited Talks:

2004

• The use of Markup languages and Ontologies in Information Retrieval. University of Turin, Department of linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Linguistic Engineering. November 9, 2004.

2001

• Human Computer Interaction: Agent technology in the Internet. Research Institute ITC-IRST, TCC Division Cognitive and Communication Technologies, Povo-Trento, Italy. December 10, 2001.