Research

I have worked as a research scientist at the Knowledge Management Research Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and as a research assistant at the University of Regina Department of Computer Science and Griffith University School of Computing and Information Technology. I also taught at the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science.

My Erdős number is 4.

Contents

Research interests

  • computational linguistics
    • word sense disambiguation
    • automatic summarization
    • information retrieval (IR)
    • information extraction (IE)
    • latent semantic analysis (LSA)
  • technology and society
    • social informatics
    • Free Software
    • history and philosophy of technology
    • digital media and value theory
    • computers and law
    • copyright, patents, and "intellectual property"
  • document engineering
    • web standards
    • web internationalization
    • web accessibility
    • collaborative media
    • digital typography

Publications

A list of my publications is available. You can also see the same list in BibTeX format].

Teaching

Thesis supervision

  • Elizabeth Wolf (M.Sc., University of Kaiserslautern, 2005)

Courses