Position: Research staff member, responsible for the IR research activities at UBILAB
Current Research Base:
Thoughts (Interests): Information Retrieval,
Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Software Design
and Development, Hypertext/Hypermedia,
Integration of IR and Database Functionality,
Natural Language Processing, Knowledge-Based Systems,
Developing Useful and Innovative IR Application Systems,
Evaluation of IR Systems ...
Equipment: Sun cluster and Macs
Environment: UBILAB is currently active in five areas:
Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Database Technology,
Human-Computer Interaction, Cryptology, and Information Retrieval.
Experience in Research and Development (personal) :
Dipl. Inform. (FH), 'Fachhochschule' Constance, 1982
Dipl. Inf.-wiss, University of Constance, 1987
Dr. rer. soc., University of Constance, 1995
5 years experience in software development in an industrial
environment,
for 6 years research and teaching assistant at the Information
Science Department of the University of Constance,
since more than a year research staff member at UBILAB
References:
[1] R. Kuhlen, R. Hammwohner, G. Sonnenberger, and U. Thiel.
Twrm-topographic: Ein wissensbasiertes system zur situationsgerechten
aufbereitung und prasentation von textinformation in graphischen
retrievaldialogen.
Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung, 4:89--107, 1989.
[2] G. Sonnenberger.
Incomplete lexical and conceptual knowledge in automatic text understanding.
In Workshop on Language and Information Processing, pages
81--91. Maryland: American Society for Information Science, 1991.
[3] G. Sonnenberger.
Der wit-interpreter: Ein Textanalysesystem, das seine eigene
Wissensbasis durch die Analyse von Texten erweitert.
Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag, to appear February 1995.