Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn

[Overview] | Research | [Publications]

Principal Investigator

• CRC AquaDiva - Understanding the Links between Surface and Subsurface Biogeosphere (Sonderforschungsbereich AquaDiva, SFB 1076)
• SMITH - Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare (see also Medizin-Informatik-Initiative (MII))
• Use Case POLAR@MII (Polymedication)
• DFG Graduate School "Modell Romantik" (GRK2041/1)
• STAKI2B2 (DFG): Semantische Textanalyse zur qualitätskontrollierten Extraktion klinischer Phänotyp-Information im Healthcare Integrated Biobanking

Research Interests

Natural language processing (NLP), language technology

• Tagging, chunking, syntactic parsing (dependency grammars)
• Acronym resolution
• Named entity recognition (NER)
• Relation extraction
• Text parsing
• Anaphora resolution

Biomedical language processing (BioNLP)

Software engineering for NLP

• Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA)

Text Analytics

• Information extraction
• Text mining
• Automatic summarization

Information retrieval

• Corpus construction (for the life sciences)

Annotation science

• Active learning

Knowledge representation

• Description logics
• Part-whole reasoning
• Mereotopological reasoning

Machine learning for NLP

• Lexical and conceptual learning
• Active learning

Ontology design and engineering

• Top-level ontologies
• Ontology engineering by ontology alignment
• Ontology learning (automatic ontology population)

Short CV

since 2004	Full Professor for computational linguistics (University Jena)
1990-2004	Associate Professor for language informatics (University Freiburg)
1987-1990	Assistant Professor for computer science (University Passau)
1987	Doctoral Degree in information science (University Konstanz)
1980	Master Degree in linguistics (University Mainz)

Academic Prizes

2008	Unstructured Information Analytics Award (IBM)
2007	UIMA Innovation Award for Faculty (IBM)
2000	University Partnership Program Faculty Award (IBM)

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