This report describes the work done by the QA group of the Language Technology Lab at DFKI, for the 2003 edition of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We have participated in the new track “Multiple Language Question Answering (QAatCLEF)” that offers tasks to test monolingual and cross-language QA–systems. In particular we developed an open–domain bilingual QA–System for German source ...

Bei der Vermittlung von Arbeitsgrundlagen wie Recherchieren und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Studium Software Engineering sehen Lehrende sich insbesondere in der Studieneingangsphase häufig mit ausgesprochen geringer Motivation der Studierenden für diese Themen konfrontiert. Auf Basis des theoretischen Motivationskonzepts der Lernzielund Performanzzielorientierung und der empirischen Erkenntn...

This is the compilation deliverable for the research and implementation activities in INSCAPE. Itconsists of selected and edited reports from five of the partners: the Royal Institute of Technology(KTH, Sweden), Nottingham University (NU, UK), Deutches Forschungszentrum Für KünstlicheIntelligenz (DFKI, Germany), Zentrum Für Datenverarbeitung (ZGDV, Germany), and University ofAve...

A procedure for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of cyanide (HCN) in biological material using gas chromatography with thermoionic detection (NPD) and the headspace technique was proposed. The distribution of cyanides in individual organs was established in a group of experimental animals (Wistar strain rats, sacrificed due to termination of reproduction). The suitability of the techni...

Run No. Run ID Run Description infMAP (%) training on IACC data 1 F A DFKI-MADM 3 SIFT visual words, Color Correlograms and Face-Detection separately trained, late fusion of SVMs scores 5.0 2 F A DFKI-MADM 4 SIFT visual words with SVMs 4.4

Although the internet offers a wide-spread platform for information interchange, day-to-day work in large companies still means the processing of tens of thousands of printed documents every day. This paper presents the system smartFIX which is a document analysis and understanding system deve loped by the DFKI spin-off INSIDERS. It permits the processing of documents ranging from fixed format ...

The changing nature of e-Learning, the Web, and its users that can be observed in the last years results in a need for new approaches and technologies to fully exploit the existing potential for learning with digital resources. Platforms that allow to share learning resources and metadata are intended to support the success of self-steered learning with potentially any kind of information that ...

5 Author affiliations: 6 1. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher 7 Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 8 2. Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Johannisallee 21, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 9 3. Ecosystem Modeling, Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology (CCTB), University 10 of Würzburg, Germany 11 4. Institute of Biology, Martin Luth...