Semantic Web: Why, What, and How? (2008)
Dieter Fensel, Jim Hendler, Henry Lieberman, Wolfgang Wahlster
Dekan Prof, Dr. Jörg Eschmeier, Prüfungsausschuss Prof, ...
This thesis develops the theory of dominance constraints, a family of logical languages that describe trees, and applies them as a formalism for the underspecified description of scope ambiguities in...
Datum des Promotionskolloquiums: 29. Juni 2007 (2008)
Vorsitzender Prof, Dr. Andreas Zeller, Berichterstattende Prof, Dr. Hans Uszkoreit, ...
We describe basic concepts and software architectures for the integration of shallow and deep (linguistics-based, semantics-oriented) natural language processing (NLP) components. The main goal of...
Christoph Endres, Prof Dr, Wolfgang Wahlster, Eidesstattliche Erklarung, Christoph Endres
It would have hardly been possible to accomplish my goal without the support and help of the following people. Iwould like to thank: Wolfgang Wahlster for coming up with the interesting idea of this...
A problem which must be dealt with by any reasonably general computer simulation of the cognitive processes underlying natural language dialogue behaviour is the inherent fuzziness of natural...
Intelligent Multimedia Communication (2008)
Mark Maybury, Oliviero Stock, Wolfgang Wahlster
Abstract. Multimedia communication is a part of everyday life and its appearance in computer applications is increasing in frequency and diversity. Intelligent or knowledge based computer supported...
Dialogue Systems Go Multimodal: The SmartKom Experience (2008)
Summary. Multimodal dialogue systems exploit one of the major characteristics of humanhuman interaction: the coordinated use of different modalities. Allowing all of the modalities to refer to and...
Heinz Marburger, Wolfgang Wahlster, Fb Angewandte Mathematik, Und Informatik, Im Stadtwald
This paper addresses the problem of generating communicatively adequate extended responses in the absence of specific knowledge concerning the intensions of the questioner. We formulate and justify a...
SharedLife: Sharing of Augmented Personal Memories in Ubiquitous Environments (2008)
Junichiro Mori, Nathalie Basselin, Michael Schneider Alex, Er Kröner, Anthony Jameson, Wolfgang Wahlster
The rapid deployment of low-cost ubiquitous sensing devices- including RFID tags and readers, global positioning systems, wireless audio, video, and bio sensors- makes it possible to create...
SharedLife: Towards Selective Sharing of Augmented Personal Memories (2008)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Er Kröner, Dominik Heckmann
Abstract. The rapid deployment of low-cost ubiquitous sensing devices – including RFID tags and readers, global positioning systems, wireless audio, video, and bio sensors – makes it possible to...
In face-to-face conversation humans frequently use deictic gestures parallel to verbal descriptions for referent identification. Such a multimodal mode of communication is of great importance for...
PLUS Plan-based User Support Final Project Report (2008)
Frank Berger, Markus A. Thies, Wolfgang Wahlster, Thomas Fehrle, Kristof Klöckner, Volker Schölles
This paper presents the results of the project PLUS (Plan-based User Support). The overall objective of PLUS was the design and the implementation of a plan-based help system for applications that...
Automatic Design of Multimodal Presentations 1 (2008)
We describe our attempt to integrate multiple AI components such as planning, knowledge representation, natural language generation, and graphics generation into a functioning prototype called WIP...
1 THEORETICAL AND TECHNICAL BACKGROUND OF HAM-RPM 1.1 UNDERLYING ISSUES (2008)
Walther V. Hahn, Anthony Jameson, Wolfgang Wahlster
ABSTRACT: HAM-RPM is a dialogue system which converses with a human partner in colloquial German about limited, but interchangeable scenes. The objective of this report is to give a detailed,...
1 KNOWLEDGE-BASED MEDIA COORDINATION IN INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES* (2008)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth André, Winfried Graf, Thomas Rist
Multimodal interfaces combining, e.g., natural language and graphics take advantage of both the individual strength of each communication mode and the fact that several modes can be employed in...
Pervasive Speech and Language Technology (2007)
Abstract. Advances in human language technology offer the promise of pervasive access to on-line information and electronic services. Since almost everyone speaks and understands a language, the...
Facts and Figures about the Verbmobil Project (2007)
Reinhard Karger, Wolfgang Wahlster
Abstract. In this chapter the organizational and funding structure of the Verbmobil project is summarized and the major technical data about the final Verbmobil system and the Verbmobil archives are...
ABSTRACT USER AND DISCOURSE MODELS FOR MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION (2007)
In face-to-face conversation humans frequently use deictic gestures parallel to verbal descriptions for referent identification. Such a multimodal form of communication is of great importance for...
Federal Republic of Germany 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS (2007)
In an economy based on the generation and dissemination of information and knowledge, basic research in natural language (NL) understanding and generation can have important positive impacts (cf....
Knowledge-based Generation of Illustrated Documents ∗ (2007)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth André, Som B, Winfried Graf, Thomas Rist
The task of the knowledge-based presentation system WIP is the generation of a variety of multimodal documents from an input consisting of a formal description of the communicative intent of a...
Far Knstliche, Intelligenz Gmbh, Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth Andre, Winfried Graf, Knstliche Intelligenz, ...
founded in 1988 by the shareholder companies ADV/Orga, AEG, IBM, Insiders, Fraunhofer
Creating of Semantic Web (2007)
Dieter Fensel, Dieter Fensel, Jim Hendler, Jim Hendler, Henry Lieberman, Henry Lieberman, ...
The World-wide Web (WWW) has drastically changed the availability of electronically available information.
Tag des Kolloquiums: 18.12.2003 (2007)
Andreas Eberhart, Vorsitzender Prof, Dr. Andreas Zeller, Berichterstatter Prof, Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster, ...
COLLATE: Competence Center in Speech and Language Technology (2007)
Joanne Capstick, Thierry Declerck, Gregor Erbach, Anthony Jameson, Brigitte Jörg, Reinhard Karger, ...
This paper presents the structure and activitities of the recently established Competence Center in Speech and Language Technology in Saarbrcken. The objectives of the Competence Center are to...
Specter: Building, exploiting, and sharing augmented memories (2006)
Er Kröner, Dominik Heckmann, Wolfgang Wahlster
A comprehensive log of the user’s behavior together with corresponding context descriptions allows adaptive systems to learn about users, to identify their habits, and to improve the quality of...
Specter: Building, exploiting, and sharing augmented memories (2006)
Er Kröner, Dominik Heckmann, Wolfgang Wahlster
A comprehensive log of the user’s behavior together with corresponding context descriptions allows adaptive systems to learn about users, to identify their habits, and to improve the quality of...
Rainer Wasinger, Wolfgang Wahlster, Albert Einstein
Ambient intelligence environments require robust and intuitive interfaces for accessing their embodied functionality. This chapter describes a new paradigm for tangible multimodal interfaces, in...
Fusion and coordination for multimodal interactive information presentation (2005)
Harry Bunt, Mark T. Maybury, Wolfgang Wahlster
Users require more effective and efficient means of interaction with increasingly complex information and new interactive devices. This document summarizes the results of the international Dagstuhl...
W.: Ambient intelligence in edutainment: Tangible interaction with life-like exhibit guides (2005)
Alassane Ndiaye, Patrick Gebhard, Martin Klesen, Michael Schneider, Wolfgang Wahlster
Abstract. We present COHIBIT, an edutainment exhibit for theme parks in an ambient intelligence environment. It combines ultimate robustness and simplicity with creativity and fun. The visitors can...
W.: Ambient intelligence in edutainment: Tangible interaction with life-like exhibit guides (2005)
Alassane Ndiaye, Patrick Gebhard, Martin Klesen, Michael Schneider, Wolfgang Wahlster
Abstract. We present an ambient intelligence environment as an edutainment exhibit for theme parks that combines ultimate robustness and simplicity with creativity and fun. The visitors can use...
Dominikus Heckmann, Prof Dr, Jörg Eschmeier, Vorsitzender Des Prüfungsausschusses, Prof Dr, Thorsten Herfet, ...
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HIP: Intelligente Suche nach Fachinformationen für das Handwerk (2003)
Sizov, Sergej, Meier, Klaus, Weikum, Gerhard, Dittrich, Klaus R., Koenig, Wolfgang, Oberweis, Andreas, ...
SmartKom: Symmetric Multimodality in an Adaptive and Reusable Dialogue Shell (2003)
www.dfki.de/~wahlster We introduce the notion of symmetric multimodality for dialogue systems in which all input modes (eg. speech, gesture, facial expression) are also available for output, and vice...
SmartKom: Symmetric Multimodality (2003)
In An Adaptive, Wolfgang Wahlster
We introduce the notion of symmetric multimodality for dialogue systems in which all input modes (eg. speech, gesture, facial expression) are also available for output, and vice versa. A dialogue...
Spinning the Semantic Web (2003)
Dieter Fensel, Jim Hendler, Henry Lieberman, Wolfgang Wahlster
The World Wide Web (WWW) has drastically changed the availability of electronically accessible information. Currently there are around three billion static documents in the WWW that are used by more...
Towards Symmetric Multimodality: Fusion and Fission of Speech, Gesture, and Facial Expression (2003)
www.dfki.de/~wahlster Abstract. We introduce the notion of symmetric multimodality for dialogue systems in which all input modes (eg. speech, gesture, facial expression) are also available for...
zur Erlangung des Grades (2003)
Dekan Prof, Erstgutachter Prof, ...
habe. Die aus anderen Quellen oder indirekt übernommenen Daten und Konzepte sind unter Angabe der Quelle gekennzeichnet. Die Arbeit wurde bisher weder im In- noch im Ausland in gleicher oder...
A resource-adaptive mobile navigation system (2002)
Jörg Baus, Christian Kray, Antonio Krüger, Wolfgang Wahlster
The design of mobile navigation systems adapting to limited resources will be an important future challenge. Since several different means of transportation typically have to be combined in order to...
A Resource-Adaptive Mobile Navigation System (2002)
Jrg Baus Christian, Christian Kray, Antonio Krüger, Wolfgang Wahlster
This article presents a hybrid navigation system that adapts the presentation of route directions to different output devices and modalities. The system also takes into account the varying accuracy...
Smartkom: Towards multimodal dialogues with anthropomorphic interface agents (2001)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Norbert Reithinger, Anselm Blocher
SmartKom is a multimodal dialogue system that combines speech, gesture, and facial expressions for input and output. SmartKom provides an anthropomorphic and affective user interface through its...
SmartKom: Towards Multimodal Dialogues with (2001)
Anthropomorphic Interface Agents, Wolfgang Wahlster, Norbert Reithinger, Anselm Blocher
SmartKom is a multimodal dialogue system that combines speech, gesture, and facial expressions for input and output. SmartKom provides an anthropomorphic and affective user interface through its...
Abstract. Verbmobil is a speaker-independent and bidirectional speech-to-speech translation system for spontaneous dialogs in mobile situations. It recognizes spoken input, analyses and translates...
In this talk, we will, show how techniques for plan-ning text and discourse can be generalized to plan the structure and content of multimodal communi-cations, that integrate natural language,...
Interleaving natural language parsing and generation through uniform processing (1998)
Gunter Neumann, Karin Harbusch, Walter Kasper, Martin Kay, Klaus Netter, ...
We present anew model of natural language processing in which natural language parsing and generation are strongly interleaved tasks. Interleaving of parsing and generation is important ifwe assume...
Readings in intelligent user interfaces / edited by Mark T. Maybury, Wolfgang Wahlster (1997)
Maybury, Mark T, Wahlster, Wolfgang
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AiA: Adaptive Communication Assistant for Effective Infobahn Access (1997)
Elisabeth André, Winfried Graf, Jochen Müller, Jochen M Uller, Hans-Jürgen Profitlich, Thomas Rist, ...
Contents 1 Vision and Project Goals 3 2 Project Description 4 2.1 The Need for Intelligent Presentation Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Main Goals of the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Human Oriented Proof Presentation: A Reconstructive Approach (1994)
Xiaorong Huang, Xiaorong Huang, Dekan Prof, Dr. Gunter Hotz, Berichterstatter Prof, ...
ion Module : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 124 13.3 The Text Planner : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 127 13.3.1 Heuristics Simulating Proof...
Verbmobil: translation of face-to-face dialogs (1993)
Verbmobil is a long-term project on the translation of spontaneous language in negotiation dialogs. We describe the goals of the project, the chosen discourse domains and the initial project...
Supervisors Prof, Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster, Prof Dr, Dietrich Klakow
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Verbmobil: translation of face-to-face dialogs (1993)
Verbmobil is a long-term project on the translation of spontaneous language in negotiation dialogs. We describe the goals of the project, the chosen discourse domains and the initial project...
Wip: The automatic synthesis of multimodal presentations (1993)
Elisabeth André, Wolfgang Finkler, Winfried Graf, Thomas Rist, Anne Schauder, Wolfgang Wahlster
Due to the growing complexity of information that has to be communicated by current AI systems, there comes an increasing need for building advanced intelligent user interfaces that take advantage of...
Designing Illustrated Texts: How Language Production is influenced by Graphics Generation (1991)
Deutsches Forschungszentrum, Künstliche Intelligenz, Wolfgang Wahlster, Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth André, ...
Multimodal interfaces combining, e.g., natural language and graphics take advantage of both the individual strength of each communication mode and the fact that several modes can be employed in...
Designing Illustrated Texts: How Language Production is influenced by Graphics Generation (1991)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth Andr, Winfried Graf, Thomas Rist
Multimodal interfaces combining, e.g., natural language and graphics take advantage of both the individual strength of each communication mode and the fact that several modes can be employed in...
Incremental Natural Language Description of Dynamic Imagery (1989)
Gerd Herzog, Chen-ko Sung, Elisabeth André, Wilfried Enkelmann, Hans-hellmut Nagel, Thomas Rist, ...
Although image understanding and natural language processing constitute two major areas of AI, they have mostly been studied independently of each other. Only a few attempts have been concerned with...
User Models in Dialog Systems (1989)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Alfred Kobsa
This chapter surveys the field of user modeling in artificial intelligence dialog systems. First, reasons why user modeling has become so important in the last few years are pointed out, and...
Incremental Natural Language Description of Dynamic Imagery (1989)
Gerd Herzog, Chen-ko Sung, Elisabeth André, Wilfried Enkelmann, Hans-hellmut Nagel, Thomas Rist, ...
Although image understanding and natural language processing constitute two major areas of AI, they have mostly been studied independently of each other. Only a few attempts have been concerned with...
The role of natural language in advanced knowledge-based systems (1986)
Abstract: Natural language processing is a prerequisite for advanced knowledge-based systems since the ability to acquire, retrieve, exploit and present knowledge critically depends on natural...
Over-answering Yes-No Questions: Extended Responses in a NL Interface to a Vision System (1983)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Heinz Marburger, Anthony Jameson, Stephan Busemann
This paper addresses the problem of over-answering yes-no questions, i.e. of generating extended responses that provide additional information to yes-no questions that pragmatically must be...
Thomas Christaller, Heinz Marburger, Katharina Morik, Bernhard Nebel, Wolfgang Wahlster
For natural language dialog systems, going beyond domain independence means the attempt to create a core system that can serve as a basis for interfaces to various application classes that differ not...
Thomas Christaller, Heinz Marburger, Katharina Morik, Bernhard Nebel, Wolfgang Wahlster
For natural language dialog systems, going beyond domain independence means the attempt to create a core system that can serve as a basis for interfaces to various application classes that differ not...
Over-answering Yes-No Questions: Extended Responses in a NL Interface to a Vision System (1983)
Wolfgang Wahlster, Heinz Marburger, Anthony Jameson, Stephan Busemann
This paper addresses the problem of overanswering yes-no questions, i.e. of generating extended responses that provide additional information to yes-no questions that pragmatically must be...
User Modelling in Anaphora Generation: Ellipsis and Definite Description (1982)
Anthony Jameson, Wolfgang Wahlster
Abstract. This paper shows how user modelling can improve the anaphoric utterances generated by a dialogue system. Two kinds of anaphora are examined: contextual ellipsis and the anaphoric use of...
The natural language system HAM-RPM as a hotel manager: Some representational prerequisites (1980)
Anthony Jameson, Wolfgang Wahlster
ABSTRACT. The dialogue system HAM-RPM simulates a person conversing about one of several interchangeable scenes in colloquial German. Attention is currently being focused on a hotel reservation...
Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth André, Wolfgang Finkler, Hans-jürgen Profitlich, Thomas Rist
Plan-based integration of natural language and graphics generation