Eni Mustafaraj
In July 2007, I received a PhD in Computer Science from the
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
of the University of Marburg, Germany.
My thesis adviser was
Prof. Bernd Freisleben.
Currently, I have moved to Boston, MA. However,
I can still be contacted at my old e-mail address:
eni at informatik.uni-marburg.de
Research
My research is driven by a single question: How can computers make digitally stored knowledge easily available to humans? What is meant with making available is not what search engines like Google already offer. Instead, what should happen is simple and natural: You pose a question and you get from the computer the best possible answer, not a list of millions of web pages.
This is a complex problem and the solution might lie at the intersection of several research fields:
natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning,
and others.
In my thesis, titled "Knowledge Extraction and Summarization for Textual Case-Based Reasoning: A Probabilistic Task Content Modeling Approach", I addressed a scenario where techniques from the above mentioned fields were combined to build a pool of knowledge that assists users in their decision making. A short abstract of the thesis is here, and the whole thesis is here.
Recent Publications
[A complete publication list is here.]Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
Knowledge Extraction and Summarization for an Application of Textual Case-Based Interpretation
In Proceedings of the 6th ICCBR Conference, 13-16 August 2007, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
Probabilistic Task Content Modeling for Episodic Textual Narratives
In Proceedings of 20th FLAIRS Conference, 7-9 May 2007, Key West, FL.
Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
Mining Diagnostic Text Reports by Learning to Annotate Knowledge Roles
Book Chapter in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
Editors: Anne Kao and Steve Poteet, Springer, November 2006.
Eni Mustafaraj, Bernd Freisleben
On an Event-Oriented Perspective for Textual Case-Based Reasoning
In Textual Case-based Reasoning Workshop at the 8th ECCBR, 5th September 2006, Turkey.
Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
LARC: Learning to Assign Knowledge Roles to Textual Cases
In Proceedings of 19th FLAIRS Conference, 11-13 May 2006, Melbourne Beach, FL.
Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
Learning Knowledge Roles for Populating Lightweight Ontologies
In Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp 75-83, January 2006.
Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
Knowledge Acquisition for Building Lightweight Ontologies
In Proceedings of 6th ECKM, pp 342-351, 8-9 September 2005, Limerick, Ireland
A revised version of this paper appeared in the EJKM Journal, see above.
Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
Learning Semantic Annotations for Textual Cases
In Textual Case-based Reasoning Workshop at the 6th ICCBR, 24 August 2005, Chicago, IL.
Eni Mustafaraj, Michael Peters, Bernd Freisleben
Interactive Diagnostic Analysis of Insulation Systems of High Voltage Rotating Machines
In Proceedings of IEEE/IEE International Conference on Communication, Computers and Power (ICCCP'05), pp 456-461, February 2005, Muskat, Oman.