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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günther Görz
Contact
Email: goerzinformatik.uni-erlangen.de
Phone: 09131/85-28701
Fax: 09131/85-28986
Address: Haberstraße 2,91058 Erlangen
Room: 3.017
Teaching
Professor of Computer Science at the
Institute of Computer Science (IMMD) 8
[Artificial Intelligence]
Born 1947 in Nuremberg. Studies in mathematics, physics,
computer science and philosophy at the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg. Diploma degree (equiv. M.S.) in
mathematics, Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) in Computer Science.
From 1972 to 1987 scientist at the Computation Center,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
In 1981 visiting assistant professor at UCLA, Los Angeles, in
summer 1985 visiting scientist at CSLI (Center for the Study
of Language and Information), Stanford University. From 1987
to 1989 visiting research scientist at the LILOG project (Linguistic
and Logical Methods) of IBM Germany at Stuttgart. Visiting
scientist at ICSI, Berkeley, in summer 1999.
From 1989 to 1991 Professor of Computer Science/ Artificial
Intelligence at the University of Hamburg.
Since May 1991 professor of Computer Science/ Artificial
Intelligence at the Computer Science Institute (IMMD),
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). Also member
("Zweitmitglied") of the faculty of arts and humanities
(Philosophische Fakultät II).
Lecturer and organizer at several national conferences and
workshops on Artificial Intelligence and Computational
Linguistics and at national and international spring and
summer schools.
Member of the IMMD executive committee, cooperative leader of
the
research group on Knowlege Acquisition at the Bavarian
Research Institute of Knowledge-Based Systems
(FORWISS), member of several academic committees, speaker
of FAU's Forum
for Applications of New Media in Teaching, founding member
of the
Center for European Middle Ages and Renaissance Studies at
the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), member of the
special interest group on Natural Language in the Artificial
Intelligence section of the German Computer Science Society
(GI e.V.)
Main research interests and projects:
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Natural Language and Speech Processing
We are working on flexible and robust architectures for
incremental speech/language systems, constraint-based
parsing, and information integration on the semantic
representation level and dialogue management in several
projects, in particular within the German national joint
project
EMBASSI
(FORWISS), sponsored by the Ministry of Research (bmbf).
Among previous projects in this area to which we contributed
are
VERBMOBIL for speech-to-speech translation, and
GEPARD
(FORWISS) on linguistic knowledge bases and grammar
learning. A recent focus of our basic research are the
pragmatic foundations of semantic and dialogue
representation and processing for speech dialog systems,
aiming at a flexibly configurable
dialog manager. Further interests include the
application of cognitive science results to speech and
language processing architectures, and parallel algorithms.
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Knowledge Representation and Processing
We are investigating various issues of applied
computational logic and knowledge representation, among
which are
dialogue logic, description
logics, constraint-based attributive formalisms for the
representation of linguistic knowledge, and partial logics.
In the area of description logics, we are particularly
interested in the representation of time and space, user
modelling and in modelling various application domains for
dialogue systems
(EMBASSI).
A further important class of applications are (prototypical)
multimedia information systems, in particular for the
history of cartography. Our first application example was
the oldest extant
globe of the earth by Martin Behaim (1492) by
integrating methods of computer graphics, image processing,
object-oriented databases and conceptual modelling in a
hypermedia system framework. Related fields of interest are
digital libraries, document structures (e.g.
Tabula Magica) and multilingual document processing (e.g.
ForeignSGML).
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AI Programming, in particular Parallel Processing
Our work in this area focuses on meta-level architectures
and on Distributed AI Systems (``Software Agents''). In
cooperation with the School of Economics
(Wirtschaftsinformatik II) we are contributing to a
project on
Agent-Based Tracing and Tracking of Supply Chains,
sponsored by the German Research Council
(DFG).
Furthermore, we implemented Kanerva's parallel
Sparse Distributed Memory (SDM) model on the CM-2
Connection Machine and we are interested in its application
to language processing and learning systems.
For further information on publications see the
list of references.
The current classes I am teaching are listed
here as well as in our University Information System
UniVIS.
Web pages for the courses I am teaching periodically:
A sketch for an AI curriculum by Steffen Hölldobler (TU
Dresden), Simone Pribbenow (U. Hamburg) and myself can be
found
here (in German).
In cooperation with the
Computer Science
Collection Erlangen (ISER) I prepared a small exhibition
on the
Astrolabe, the most import astronomical analog computer in
history.
At home
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911 39 66 22 
Dortmunder Str. 67 · D-90425 Nürnberg
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