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Projects

The Attempto project is dedicated to the development of the controlled natural language Attempto Controlled English (ACE). I am a member of the Attempto group and I am working on the further development of ACE and on the realization of tools that use ACE as a knowledge representation language with a special focus on the Semantic Web.

I am a collaborator of the ERGO project ("Effective Representation of Guidelines with Ontologies") that is hosted by the Yale University and is dedicated to research on how formal methods can improve the development and application of medical guidelines.

I was a member of REWERSE, a research network of excellence on "Reasoning on the Web".

Tools

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.

The ACE Editor is a tool that demonstrates how editing of ACE texts can be done in a convenient way. The ACE Editor is not a finished tool but rather a general basis to create domain-specific tools on top of it.

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
• Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki2009), program committee member
• Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki2010), program committee member
• Second Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL) 2010, program committee member

Awards

• Best paper ("How Controlled English Can Improve Semantic Wikis") at the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis 2009.
• Mercator Award 2009 for my research on "knowledge representation in controlled English".

Publications

• Tobias Kuhn. An Evaluation Framework for Controlled Natural Languages. In Norbert E. Fuchs, editor, Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, to appear. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Richard N. Shiffman, George Michel, Michael Krauthammer, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Writing Clinical Practice Guidelines in Controlled Natural Language. In Norbert E. Fuchs, editor, Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, to appear. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn. Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. Doctoral thesis FINAL DRAFT, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology of the University of Zurich, to appear. [PDF]
• Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. ACE can be described by itself. In Simon Clematide, Manfred Klenner, and Martin Volk (editors), Searching Answers — Festschrift in Honour of Michael Hess on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, pages 45–48, Monsenstein und Vannerdat, 2009. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Juri Luca De Coi, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Controlled English for Reasoning on the Semantic Web. In Francois Bry and Jan Maluszynski (editors), Semantic Techniques for the Web — The REWERSE Perspective, number 5500 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 276–308, Springer, 2009. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn. How Controlled English Can Improve Semantic Wikis. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis, European Semantic Web Conference 2009, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009. [PDF|BibTeX|Poster]
• Richard Shiffman, George Michel, Michael Krauthammer, Norbert Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn. Controlled Natural Language for Clinical Practice Guidelines. In Pre-Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn. How to Evaluate Controlled Natural Languages. In Pre-Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2009. [PDF|BibTeX]
• Tobias Kuhn, Rolf Schwitter. Writing Support for Controlled Natural Languages. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) Workshop 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|Poster]
• 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, 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]
• Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, Fabio Rinaldi, Tobias Kuhn Pro3Gres Parser in the CoNLL Domain Adaptation Shared Task. In Proceedings of the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. [PDF]
• 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]