Tobias Kuhn

PhD Student University of Zurich Department of Informatics Binzmühlestrasse 14 CH-8050 Zurich Switzerland Office: 2.A.13 Phone: [+41] 4463 57125 Email: tkuhn@ifi.uzh.ch

About Me

I am PhD student at the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich. I am a member of the Attempto group that has developed the controlled natural language Attempto Controlled English (ACE). I am working on the further development of ACE and on the realization of tools that use ACE as a knowledge representation language.

Projects

AceWiki is a semantic wiki using the controlled natural language ACE. We try to solve the problems that most of the existing semantic wikis do not support expressive ontology languages and that they are often hard to understand for people who are not familiar with the technical terms of logic and ontologies.

AceRules is a forward-chaining rule system based on ACE, i.e. the rules and the answer sets are written in ACE. It supports multiple semantics (called 'modes'): courteous logic programs, stable models, and stable models with strong negation.

Events

• Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL) 2009, program committee member

Publications

• Tobias Kuhn, Rolf Schwitter. Writing Support for Controlled Natural Languages. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) 2008. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn. Combining Semantic Wikis and Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2008. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn. Attempto Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. In Cristina Baroglio, Piero A. Bonatti, Jan Maluszynski, Massimo Marchiori, Axel Polleres, Sebastian Schaffert (editors), Reasoning Web, Fourth International Summer School 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2008. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: Collaborative Ontology Management in Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2008. [PDF|BibTeX|Poster]
• Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: A Natural and Expressive Semantic Wiki. In Proceedings of Semantic Web User Interaction at CHI 2008: Exploring HCI Challenges, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2008. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn. Discourse Representation Structures for ACE 6.0. Technical Report ifi-2008.02. Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 2008. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn. AceRules: Executing Rules in Controlled Natural Language. In Massimo Marchiori, Jeff Z. Pan, Christian de Sainte Marie (editors), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2007. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn, Loic Royer, Norbert E. Fuchs, Michael Schroeder. Improving Text Mining with Controlled Natural Language: A Case Study for Protein Interactions. In Ulf Leser, Barbara Eckman, and Felix Naumann (editors), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2006 (DILS'06), Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Springer, 2006. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn. Expressing Knowledge about Protein Interactions in Attempto Controlled English. Diploma Thesis. Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 2006. [PDF|BibTeX]