“Mapping is a hot topic in different fields, but still there is a lack of a shared methodology to... more “Mapping is a hot topic in different fields, but still there is a lack of a shared methodology to approach various problems concerning mental, historical and actual maps: How and why do humans use maps to create, store and measure spatial knowledge? How do we deal with historical maps and/or their counterparts in verbal descriptions?” This paper tackles these questions directly in presenting a methodology based on mental space and mapping theory and common sense geography approach. This case study aims for a detailed cognitive semantics analysis of the detailed historioand geographical descriptions in Biondo's Italia Illustrata. It also presents various mapping processes that operate to build and link mental models and is thus embedded in a cognitive historiography approach. This approach is guided by cognitive semantic analysis based on visual perception and mental space theories. In addition, computational linguistic methods are applied for the semi-automated text analysis.
This paper reports on on-going research implementing the FRBRoo (Objectoriented Definition and Ma... more This paper reports on on-going research implementing the FRBRoo (Objectoriented Definition and Mapping to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) in the description logic language OWL-DL. This implementation is called Erlangen FRBRoo (EFRBRoo). The goal to be fully compatible to Erlangen CRM / OWL (ECRM) is achieved by applying the same implementation patterns of ECRM wherever possible. In order to preserve the FRBRoo specifications at the same time EFRBRoo keeps also as close as possible to the text of the FRBRoo definition. The EFRBRoo is made available online. To evaluate and improve the quality of the EFRBRoo implementation, the software development method of static unit testing is applied: simplified test cases have been designed, which consist of representative datasets in OWL-DL, SPARQL queries and respective results. In addition, validators (RDF, OWL) and frameworks (Protégé, Sesame, and WissKI) have been used for validating formal correctness and class consistenc...
This paper places the concept of ‘common sense geography’ as developed by the members of Topoi re... more This paper places the concept of ‘common sense geography’ as developed by the members of Topoi research group C-5 within the context of ancient geographical literature. For the first time, a consistent model of arranging and classifying Greek and Roman geographical texts from a historical perspective is presented.
In a collaborative effort between IT and museum experts, the research project “Objekte im Netz” a... more In a collaborative effort between IT and museum experts, the research project “Objekte im Netz” aims at developing a joint digitization strategy for the digital documentation of heterogeneous university collections by applying semantic web technologies. The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg owns more than 20 different scientific collections. So far, each collection has documented and stored its object data in different ways, thus making it impossible to interlink the information. The data has neither been stored in a sustainable way nor has it been reusable. In summary, the stored information is not utilized to its full potential. This is a typical scenario regarding scientific collections at universities in German-speaking countries. In order to allow consistent documentation for all collections, a data model based on ICOM’s CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model is currently in development. The model uses sample data of six representative collections of the University of ErlangenNurember...
A l'universit e d'Erlangen-Nuremberg un cours d'Algorithmique d'une dur ee de deu... more A l'universit e d'Erlangen-Nuremberg un cours d'Algorithmique d'une dur ee de deux semestres et s'adressant a tous les etudiants en informatique, propose une initiation aux concepts fondamentaux de l'informatique. Le cours est accompagn e d'exercices pratiques intensifs. La langue de programmation que nous avons choisie pour ce cours est le langage applicatif Scheme. Ce choix repose sur les possibilit es d'expression, l'universalit e et la exibilit e de ce langage et egalement sur l'intention d' eviter des complications insigniiantes, par exemple la complexit e de syntaxe. La partie centrale du cours d'Algorithmique s'organise autour du concept de l'abstraction, concept que nous introduisons dans trois perspectives dii erentes: abstraction des fonctions, abstraction des donn ees et abstraction des contr^ oles. Abstraction des fonctions. Nous commenn cons par une initiation g en erale au concept fondamental de l'abstraction ...
Bibliotheca Hertziana’s Biondo research group questions an epistemology of spaces and their chang... more Bibliotheca Hertziana’s Biondo research group questions an epistemology of spaces and their changes in the early modern history. At focus are relations between historical maps and texts aiming to explore the historical understanding of spaces and the knowledge associated with it. We take up approaches from cognitive science and computational linguistics arguing that cognitive maps depict culture-specific spatial knowledge and practices. Our interdisciplinary project combines cognitive-semantic parameters such as toponyms, landmarks, spatial frames of reference, geometric relations, gestalt principles and different perspectives with computational and cognitive linguistic analysis. Using new text and map markup and corpus-specific quantitative methods, historical geographical texts are processed and reinterpreted. Long-term research questions are: Which forms of knowledge represent spatial relations? How can spatial transformation processes be represented and analyzed? What is the con...
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1994
this paper we describe the overall system and the approach towards robust dialogue processing. Th... more this paper we describe the overall system and the approach towards robust dialogue processing. The system utilizes spoken input and output and is completely integrated operating on a single general purpose workstation with a total response time of typically 3 seconds. This fast system reaction is important for an user acceptance. Since the acoustic recognizer still returns wrongly recognized utterances, further processing stages have to cope with robust interpretation techniques. 2 System
Spoken { and even written { language dialogue systems become ofincreasing importance for various ... more Spoken { and even written { language dialogue systems become ofincreasing importance for various information gathering and device controllingtasks. With an example taken form the EMBASSI joint project,after a brief discussion of the linguistic processing part, we describe howdescription logics are used in modeling the application domain as well asthe linguistic domain. Linking lexical semantics with application specicconcepts is a
German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004
Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-mac... more Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-machine) dialogues in natural language. In this paper, a pragmatics-flrst approach to specifying the meaning of utterances in terms of plans is presented. These plans are computed dur- ing a dialogue on the basis of information about the current situation that is updated continually. New
“Mapping is a hot topic in different fields, but still there is a lack of a shared methodology to... more “Mapping is a hot topic in different fields, but still there is a lack of a shared methodology to approach various problems concerning mental, historical and actual maps: How and why do humans use maps to create, store and measure spatial knowledge? How do we deal with historical maps and/or their counterparts in verbal descriptions?” This paper tackles these questions directly in presenting a methodology based on mental space and mapping theory and common sense geography approach. This case study aims for a detailed cognitive semantics analysis of the detailed historioand geographical descriptions in Biondo's Italia Illustrata. It also presents various mapping processes that operate to build and link mental models and is thus embedded in a cognitive historiography approach. This approach is guided by cognitive semantic analysis based on visual perception and mental space theories. In addition, computational linguistic methods are applied for the semi-automated text analysis.
This paper reports on on-going research implementing the FRBRoo (Objectoriented Definition and Ma... more This paper reports on on-going research implementing the FRBRoo (Objectoriented Definition and Mapping to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) in the description logic language OWL-DL. This implementation is called Erlangen FRBRoo (EFRBRoo). The goal to be fully compatible to Erlangen CRM / OWL (ECRM) is achieved by applying the same implementation patterns of ECRM wherever possible. In order to preserve the FRBRoo specifications at the same time EFRBRoo keeps also as close as possible to the text of the FRBRoo definition. The EFRBRoo is made available online. To evaluate and improve the quality of the EFRBRoo implementation, the software development method of static unit testing is applied: simplified test cases have been designed, which consist of representative datasets in OWL-DL, SPARQL queries and respective results. In addition, validators (RDF, OWL) and frameworks (Protégé, Sesame, and WissKI) have been used for validating formal correctness and class consistenc...
This paper places the concept of ‘common sense geography’ as developed by the members of Topoi re... more This paper places the concept of ‘common sense geography’ as developed by the members of Topoi research group C-5 within the context of ancient geographical literature. For the first time, a consistent model of arranging and classifying Greek and Roman geographical texts from a historical perspective is presented.
In a collaborative effort between IT and museum experts, the research project “Objekte im Netz” a... more In a collaborative effort between IT and museum experts, the research project “Objekte im Netz” aims at developing a joint digitization strategy for the digital documentation of heterogeneous university collections by applying semantic web technologies. The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg owns more than 20 different scientific collections. So far, each collection has documented and stored its object data in different ways, thus making it impossible to interlink the information. The data has neither been stored in a sustainable way nor has it been reusable. In summary, the stored information is not utilized to its full potential. This is a typical scenario regarding scientific collections at universities in German-speaking countries. In order to allow consistent documentation for all collections, a data model based on ICOM’s CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model is currently in development. The model uses sample data of six representative collections of the University of ErlangenNurember...
A l'universit e d'Erlangen-Nuremberg un cours d'Algorithmique d'une dur ee de deu... more A l'universit e d'Erlangen-Nuremberg un cours d'Algorithmique d'une dur ee de deux semestres et s'adressant a tous les etudiants en informatique, propose une initiation aux concepts fondamentaux de l'informatique. Le cours est accompagn e d'exercices pratiques intensifs. La langue de programmation que nous avons choisie pour ce cours est le langage applicatif Scheme. Ce choix repose sur les possibilit es d'expression, l'universalit e et la exibilit e de ce langage et egalement sur l'intention d' eviter des complications insigniiantes, par exemple la complexit e de syntaxe. La partie centrale du cours d'Algorithmique s'organise autour du concept de l'abstraction, concept que nous introduisons dans trois perspectives dii erentes: abstraction des fonctions, abstraction des donn ees et abstraction des contr^ oles. Abstraction des fonctions. Nous commenn cons par une initiation g en erale au concept fondamental de l'abstraction ...
Bibliotheca Hertziana’s Biondo research group questions an epistemology of spaces and their chang... more Bibliotheca Hertziana’s Biondo research group questions an epistemology of spaces and their changes in the early modern history. At focus are relations between historical maps and texts aiming to explore the historical understanding of spaces and the knowledge associated with it. We take up approaches from cognitive science and computational linguistics arguing that cognitive maps depict culture-specific spatial knowledge and practices. Our interdisciplinary project combines cognitive-semantic parameters such as toponyms, landmarks, spatial frames of reference, geometric relations, gestalt principles and different perspectives with computational and cognitive linguistic analysis. Using new text and map markup and corpus-specific quantitative methods, historical geographical texts are processed and reinterpreted. Long-term research questions are: Which forms of knowledge represent spatial relations? How can spatial transformation processes be represented and analyzed? What is the con...
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1994
this paper we describe the overall system and the approach towards robust dialogue processing. Th... more this paper we describe the overall system and the approach towards robust dialogue processing. The system utilizes spoken input and output and is completely integrated operating on a single general purpose workstation with a total response time of typically 3 seconds. This fast system reaction is important for an user acceptance. Since the acoustic recognizer still returns wrongly recognized utterances, further processing stages have to cope with robust interpretation techniques. 2 System
Spoken { and even written { language dialogue systems become ofincreasing importance for various ... more Spoken { and even written { language dialogue systems become ofincreasing importance for various information gathering and device controllingtasks. With an example taken form the EMBASSI joint project,after a brief discussion of the linguistic processing part, we describe howdescription logics are used in modeling the application domain as well asthe linguistic domain. Linking lexical semantics with application specicconcepts is a
German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004
Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-mac... more Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-machine) dialogues in natural language. In this paper, a pragmatics-flrst approach to specifying the meaning of utterances in terms of plans is presented. These plans are computed dur- ing a dialogue on the basis of information about the current situation that is updated continually. New
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