Taking entity mention extraction, relation extraction and event extraction as points of view, the main part of this thesis presents a novel sentence-level joint IE framework based on structured prediction and inexact search. ...

In knowledge evaluation, we propose to systematically assess the benefit of knowledge for a visual learning task. To this end, we first review different criteria to measure the performance of visual learning and then ...

The research presented in this dissertation is based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork with diverse data communities – including the Semantic Web community and the human services informatics community. It is also ...

Freshwater is a vital natural resource currently under threat from multiple anthropogenic stressors. The effects of watershed and atmospheric disturbances often present themselves in lakes, given their deep-lying position ...

For the sharp cylinder case, LES predictions including forces, Strouhal number, surface pressure coefficient and velocity profiles are compared against experimental datasets as well as previous LES and direct numerical ...