Current Projects:

• COLLATE: Computational Linguistics and Language Technology for Real Life Applications
  Funding has been granted by the German Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung).

Teaching:

• Zhiping Zheng and Gregor Erbach: Question Answering Software Project - Summer Semester 2003

Some of My Works:

• AnswerBus Question Answering System
  
• AnswerBus News Engine
• Content-based Image Retrieval System
• Seven Tones Search Engine
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Recent Publications and Presentations:

• Design, Development and Implementation of Question Answering Systems. The Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2003). Tulsa, OK. August 10-13, 2003.
• A Speech Interface for Open-domain Question Answering. 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2003). Sapporo, Japan. July 7-12, 2003. (with Ed Schofield)
• AnswerBus News Engine. The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003). Budapest, Hungary. May 20-24, 2003.
• Using Specialized Knowledge in Automated Web Document Summarization. The Fifth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2003). Angers, France. April 23-26, 2003. (with Gregor Erbach)
• Question Answering Using Web News as Knowledge Base. The Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2003). Budapest, Hungary. April 12-17, 2003.
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