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Prof. Dr. Günther Görz
Contact
Email: goerzcsfaude
Phone: (+49 9131) 852-9099
Fax: (+49 9131) 852-9090
Address: Department Informatik / KI, AG Digital Humanities, Konrad-Zuse-Str. 3-5,91052 ERLANGEN
Room: 00.045
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Professor of Computer Science at the
Department of Computer Science (formerly IMMD)
[Artificial Intelligence]
Born 1947 in Nuremberg. Studies in mathematics, physics,
computer science and philosophy at the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg. Diploma degree (equiv. M.S.) in
mathematics, Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) in Computer Science.
From 1972 to 1987 scientist at the Computation Center,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
From 1989 to 1991 Professor of Computer Science/ Artificial
Intelligence at the University of Hamburg.
Since May 1991 professor of Computer Science/ Artificial
Intelligence at the Computer Science Department,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Also member
("Zweitmitglied") of the faculty of arts
and humanities (Philosophische Fakultät).
In 1981 visiting assistant professor at UCLA, Los Angeles, in
summer 1985 and in autumn 2004 visiting scientist at
CSLI
(Center for the Study of Language and
Information), Stanford University. From 1987
to 1989 visiting research scientist at the LILOG
project (Linguistic and Logical Methods) of IBM
Germany at Stuttgart. Visiting scientist at IRST/fbk,
Trento, in spring 1995 and
at ICSI,
Berkeley, in summer 1999.
Since Oct. 2010 Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science
(MPIWG),
Berlin.
Lecturer and organizer at several national conferences and
workshops on Artificial Intelligence and Computational
Linguistics and at national and international spring and
summer schools.
Member of the Erlangen CSD executive committee,
member of several academic committees, chairman of
FAU's Forum
for Applications of New Media in Teaching,
research associate of the International Consortium for
Research in the
Humanities
(IKGF) ,
founding member of
the Center for European Middle Ages and Renaissance
Studies
(IZEMIR) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
(FAU), and member of the Artificial Intelligence section
of the German Computer Science Society
(GI e.V.)
Main research interests and
projects:
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Knowledge Representation and
Processing
We are investigating various issues of applied
computational logic and knowledge representation, among
which are
dialogue logic, description
logics, constraint-based attributive formalisms for the
representation of linguistic knowledge, and partial logics.
In the area of description logics, we are particularly
interested in the representation of time and
space, and in modelling various application
domains. Recently, we have focussed on the
application of semantic techniques in the
documentation of cultural heritage, in particular
with the WissKI
DFG
project (Scientific Communication Infrastructure),
which is being carried out in cooperation with two
museums: the Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg
(GNM), and the
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn
(ZFMK). Its core
is Erlangen
CRM, our OWL-DL implementation of a formal
reference
ontology,
ICOM CIDOC's Conceptual Reference
Model
(CRM).
Erlangen CRM is also being used by several
institutions abroad, among them the Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science
(MPIWG),
Berlin, the German Archeological Institute
(DAI),
Berlin, and
CLAROS, Oxford. Within this framework, we are
investigating the oldest
extant
globe of the earth by Martin Behaim (1492).
Previously, we also applied conceptual modelling
in dialogue systems
(EMBASSI).
Related fields of interest are
digital documents and libraries, where we are
working on a digital edition of an early
cosmographic text, the
socalled
German Ptolemy, and participating in
the
"Edition Open Access".
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Natural Language Processing
Actually, we are working on text analysis
(Named Entity Recognition, constraint-based
dependency parsing, and information integration on
the semantic representation level), in particular
within WissKI.
Previous work also comprised flexible and robust
architectures for incremental speech/language
systems and dialogue management in several projects, in
particular within the German national joint
project
(EMBASSI),
funded by the Ministry of Research (bmbf),
and SIPaDIM.
These systems were designed to provide intelligent
assistance in using technical devices, and to give
recommendations.
Another important joint project to which we contributed was
VERBMOBIL (bmbf) for speech-to-speech translation.
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AI Programming, in particular
Parallel Processing
Our work in this area focuses on meta-level
architectures and on Distributed AI
(Software Multiagent) Systems. In
cooperation with the School of Economics
(Wirtschaftsinformatik II) we contributed to a
project on
Agent-Based Tracing and Tracking of Supply Chains,
sponsored by the German Research Council
(DFG).
Furthermore, we implemented Kanerva's parallel
Sparse Distributed Memory
(SDM)
model on the CM-2 Connection Machine and we are
interested in its application to language
processing and learning systems.
For further information on publications see the
list of references.
The current classes I am teaching are listed
in our University Information System
UniVIS.
Web pages for the courses I am teaching periodically:
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