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 action research examines the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in a second language acquisition context. The researcher investigated the contributors of WTC in a foreign language classroom setting. Therefore, a multiple assignments method and sequence was applied. Participants of this study were students who matriculated in a United States (U.S.) undergraduate program, studying G...

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 ...