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Papers

Juergen Rilling, Wen Jun Meng, René Witte, and Philippe Charland. A Story Driven Approach to Software Evolution. To appear in the IET Software Journal.

René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks and Desktop Clients using Web Services. To appear in the 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008), June 24-27, London, UK.

Juergen Rilling, René Witte, Dragan Gašević, and Jeff Z. Pan. Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance. To appear in the Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), June 10-13, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IEEE.

René Witte, Thomas Gitzinger, Thomas Kappler, and Ralf Krestel. A Semantic Wiki Approach to Cultural Heritage Data Management. To appear in Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2008), Workshop at LREC 2008, June 1st, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.

Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, and Volker Haarslev. Ontological Approach for the Semantic Recovery of Traceability Links between Software Artifacts. IET Software, Special issue on Language Engineering.

Thomas Gitzinger and René Witte. Enhancing the OpenOffice.org Word Processor with Natural Language Processing Capabilities. To appear at Natural Language Processing resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids, Workshop at LREC 2008, June 1st, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.

Ralf Krestel, Sabine Bergler, and René Witte. Minding the Source: Automatic Tagging of Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles. The sixth international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), May 28-30, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.

René Witte, Qiangqiang Li, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Text Mining and Software Engineering: An Integrated Source Code and Document Analysis Approach. IET Software Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2008, pp.3-16. Special Section on Natural Language in Software Engineering.

René Witte and Christopher J. O. Baker. Towards a Systematic Evaluation of Protein Mutation Extraction Systems. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2007, pp.1339-1359.

René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. Connecting Wikis and Natural Language Processing Systems. Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007), pp. 165-176, October 21-23, 2007, Montréal, Canada. Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2007. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Next-Generation Summarization: Contrastive, Focused, and Update Summaries. International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007), September 27-29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.

Ralf Krestel, René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Processing of Beliefs extracted from Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles. International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007), September 27-29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.

René Witte and Ting Tang. Task-Dependent Visualization of Coreference Resolution Results. International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007), September 27-29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.

René Witte, Qiangqiang Li, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Ontological Text Mining of Software Documents. 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2007), June 27-29, 2007, CNAM, Paris, France. Springer LNCS 4592, pp.168-180. Acceptance rate: 28%.

René Witte, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Empowering Software Maintainers with Semantic Web Technologies. 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), June 3-7, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. Springer LNCS 4519, pp.37-52. Acceptance rate: 17%. Received Best Paper Award.

René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Clustering for Topic Analysis and Summarization of Document Collections. In: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (Canadian AI 2007), May 28-30, 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Springer LNAI 4509, pp.476-488. Acceptance rate: 17.7%. Received Best Paper Award.

Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Creating a Fuzzy Believer to Model Human Newspaper Readers. In: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (Canadian AI 2007), May 28-30, 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Springer LNAI 4509, pp.476-488. Acceptance rate: 17.7%.

René Witte, Ralf Krestel, and Sabine Bergler. Generating Update Summaries for DUC 2007. In: Document Understanding Conference (DUC) Workshop at NAACL-HLT 2007, April 26-27, 2007, Rochester, NY, USA.

Juergen Rilling, René Witte, and Yonggang Zhang. Automatic Traceability Recovery: An Ontological Approach. In International Symposium on Grand Challenges in Traceability (GCT'07), Center of Excellence in Traceability, March 22-23, 2007, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. ACM.

René Witte, Thomas Kappler, and Christopher J. O. Baker. Enhanced Semantic Access to the Protein Engineering Literature using Ontologies Populated by Text Mining. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), Volume 3, Issue 3, 2007. PMID: 18048198.

Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, Wen Jun Meng, René Witte, Volker Haarslev, and Philippe Charland. A Unified Ontology-Based Process Model for Software Maintenance and Comprehension. Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2006, Genoa, Italy, October 1-6, 2006, Reports and Revised Selected Papers, pp.56-65, LNCS 4364, 2007, Springer.

Wen Jun Meng, Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, and Philippe Charland. An Ontological Software Comprehension Process Model. In: 3rd International Workshop on Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006). October 1st, Genoa, Italy. Received joint Best Paper Award with our second ATEM contribution (see below).

Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, and Volker Haarslev. An Ontology-based Approach for the Recovery of Traceability Links. In: 3rd International Workshop on Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006). October 1st, Genoa, Italy. Received joint Best Paper Award with our second ATEM contribution (see above).

Wen Jun Meng, Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Sudhir Mudur, and Philippe Charland. A Context-Driven Software Comprehension Process Model. Second International IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability at the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 24 September 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, and Volker Haarslev. Ontology-based Program Comprehension Tool Supporting Website Architectural Evolution. 8th IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2006), pp. 41-49, September 23-24, 2006, Philadelphia, PA, USA. IEEE.

René Witte, Ralf Krestel, and Sabine Bergler. Context-based Multi-Document Summarization using Fuzzy Coreference Cluster Graphs. In: Document Understanding Conference (DUC) Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006, June 8-9, 2006, New York City, NY, USA.

Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Mutation Mining—A Prospector's Tale. Journal of Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer, Volume 8, Issue 1, Feb 2006, Pages 47-57 (open access issue).

René Witte, Petra Gerlach, Markus Joachim, Thomas Kappler, Ralf Krestel, and Praharshana Perera. Engineering a Semantic Desktop for Building Historians and Architects. In: 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop – Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), November 6, 2005, Galway, Ireland. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.

René Witte, Ralf Krestel, and Sabine Bergler. ERSS 2005: Coreference-Based Summarization Reloaded. In: Document Understanding Workshop (DUC) at HLT/EMNLP 2005, October 9-10, 2005, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Praharshana Perera and René Witte. A Self-Learning Context-Aware Lemmatizer for German. Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005), pp. 636-643, October 6-8, 2005, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Acceptance rate: 31.6%.

Peter C. Lockemann and René Witte. Agents and Databases: Friends or Foes? Invited Paper, International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 137-147, July 25-27, 2005, Montréal, Canada.

Christopher J. O. Baker, René Witte, Arash Shaban-Nejad, Greg Butler, and Volker Haarslev. The FungalWeb Ontology: Application Scenarios. Eighth Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting, June 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

René Witte and Christopher J. O. Baker. Combining Biological Databases and Text Mining to support New Bioinformatics Applications. 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), Springer LNCS 3513, pp. 310-321, June 15-17, Alicante, Spain.

Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Mutation Miner - Textual Annotation of Protein Structures. In: 5th Annual CERMM (Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling) Symposium 2005, p.29, February 11-13, 2005, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Enriching Protein Structure Visualizations with Mutation Annotations Obtained by Text Mining Protein Engineering Literature. In: The Third Canadian Working Conference on Computational Biology (CCCB'04), October 4th, 2004, Markham, Ontario, Canada.

René Witte. An Integration Architecture for User-Centric Document Creation, Retrieval, and Analysis. In Proceedings of the VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2004), August 30th, 2004, Toronto, Canada.

Sabine Bergler, René Witte, Zhuoyan Li, Michelle Khalifé, Yunyu Chen, Monia Doandes, and Alina Andreevskaia. Multi-ERSS and ERSS 2004. In: Document Understanding Workshop (DUC 2004), May 6-7, 2004, Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, Boston, USA. NIST. Workshop at HLT/NAACL 2004.

René Witte and Ulrike Kölsch. Supporting Reverse Engineering Tasks with a Fuzzy Repository Framework. In: Softwaretechnik-Trends, Band 24, Heft 2, ISSN 0720-8928, Sonderteil: 6. Workshop Software-Reengineering, May 3-5 2004, Bad Honnef, Germany.

Sabine Bergler, Monia Doandes, Christine Gerard, and René Witte. Attributions. In: Yan Qu, James G. Shanahan, Janyce Wiebe (Eds.), Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications, ISBN 1-57735-219-x, SS-04-07, AAAI Technical Report Series, AAAI Press. Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium, March 22-25 2004, Stanford, California, USA.

Ulrike Kölsch and René Witte. Fuzzy Extensions for Reverse Engineering Repository Models. Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2003), pp.113-122, November 13-16, 2003, Victoria, BC, Canada. IEEE.

René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Coreference Resolution for Summarization. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Reference Resolution and Its Applications to Question Answering and Summarization (ARQAS), pp.43-50, June 23-24, 2003, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.

Sabine Bergler, René Witte, Michelle Khalife, Zhuoyan Li, and Frank Rudzicz. Using Knowledge-poor Coreference Resolution for Text Summarization. Workshop on Text Summarization, Document Understanding Conference (DUC), May 31-June 1, 2003, Edmonton, Canada. NIST.

René Witte. Fuzzy Belief Revision. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'02), pp.311-320, April 19-21, 2002, Toulouse, France.

Authored Books

René Witte. Architektur von Fuzzy-Informationssystemen. BoD, Norderstedt, Germany, 2002. ISBN 3-8311-4149-5.

Book Chapters

René Witte, Thomas Kappler, and Christopher J. O. Baker. Ontology Design for Biomedical Text Mining. In Semantic Web: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences, Springer Verlag, 2007.

Posters

Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Set Theory-Based Belief Processing for Natural Language Texts. Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), Student Abstract Program/Poster Presentation, pp.1878-1879, July 22-26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. AAAI Press.

Christopher J.O. Baker, Arash Shaban-Nejad, René Witte, Volker Haarslev, and Greg Butler. Empowering the Enzyme Biotechnologist with Ontologies. 10th International Congress on Biotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry (ICBPPI 2007), June 10-14, 2007, Monona Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Mutation Miner. 13th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005), June 25-29, 2005, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Christopher J. O. Baker, René Witte, Ashwin Bhat Gurpur, and Vladislav Ryzhikov. Mutation Miner. 5th International Conference of the Canadian Proteomics Initiative (CPI 2005), May 13-14, 2005, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Also presented at Knowledge-based Bioinformatics Workshop (KBB), September 21st-23rd, 2005, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Technical Reports

Juergen Rilling, Philippe Charland, and René Witte. Traceability in Software Engineering—Past, Present and Future. CASCON Workshop, IBM Technical Report: TR-74-211, October 25, 2007.

René Witte and Jutta Mülle (Editors). Text Mining: Wissensgewinnung aus natürlichsprachigen Dokumenten. Interner Bericht 2006-5, Universität Karlsruhe, Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD), ISSN 1432-7864, 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Tutorials

Dragan Gašević, René Witte, and Carlo Torniai. Applications for the Semantic Web. 4th Annual International Conference, LORNET Research Network: "User Centered Knowledge Environments: from Theory to Practice" (I2LOR-2007), November 4-7 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

René Witte, Introduction to Text Mining. 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2006), March 26-31, 2006, Munich, Germany.