About Me
I am a postdoc working on the semantic web, social systems, controlled natural languages, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and bioinformatics.
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Projects
- Open Scholar Foundation will certify scholars who openly share their results and data
- MOLTO is a project on multilingual online translations
- Attempto is a research group working on controlled natural language
- ERGO was a project on formal methods for medical guidelines
- REWERSE was a research network of excellence on "Reasoning on the Web"
Products
- Yale Image Finder is a search engine for images in biomedical publications
- AceWiki is a semantic wiki based on controlled natural language
- ACE is a controlled English that can be automatically translated into formal logic
- ACE Editor is a controlled natural language editor
- Ontograph is a framework for testing the understandability of logic languages
- Codeco is a grammar notation for controlled natural languages and predictive editors
- AceRules is a rule system based on ACE
- Coral is a query interface for annotated text corpora
- bchart is a LaTeX package for drawing simple bar charts
Events
Organizer and Chair
- CNL 2012: Third Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
Program Committee Member
- CNL 2012: Third Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
- CNL 2010: Second Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
- SemWiki 2010: Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis
- SemWiki 2009: Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis
- CNL 2009: First Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
Invited Talks
- AceWiki. Grammatical Framework Summer School, Barcelona, 23 August 2011. PDF
- Semantic Web für Menschen wie du und ich (in German). 16th KnowTalk at KnowGravity Inc., Zurich, 1 February 2011. PDF
- An Introduction to AceWiki. Tutorial at the Second Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, Marettimo Island (Italy), 14 September 2010. PDF
- AceWiki: Controlled English in a Semantic Wiki. Semantic Wiki Mini Series, Session 2. Ontolog Conference Call, 20 November 2008. PDF
Publications
Journal Articles
- Tobias Kuhn. A Survey and Classification of Controlled Natural Languages. Computational Linguistics, to appear. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. A Principled Approach to Grammars for Controlled Natural Languages and Predictive Editors. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 22(1), 2013. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. The Understandability of OWL Statements in Controlled English. Semantic Web, 4(1), 2013. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn and Stefan Höfler. Coral: Corpus Access in Controlled Language. Corpora, 7(2), 2012. PDF BibTeX
Books
- Tobias Kuhn and Norbert E. Fuchs (editors). Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7427. Springer, 2012. BibTeX
Book Chapters
- Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. ACE can be described by itself. In Searching Answers — Festschrift in Honour of Michael Hess on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. 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 Semantic Techniques for the Web — The REWERSE Perspective. Springer, 2009. PDF BibTeX
- Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Attempto Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. In Reasoning Web, Fourth International Summer School 2008. Springer, 2008. PDF BibTeX
Consensus Statements
- Adam Wyner, Krasimir Angelov, Guntis Barzdins, Danica Damljanovic, Brian Davis, Norbert Fuchs, Stefan Hoefler, Ken Jones, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn, Martin Luts, Jonathan Pool, Mike Rosner, Rolf Schwitter, and John Sowa. On Controlled Natural Languages: Properties and Prospects. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, 2010. PDF BibTeX
Conference and Workshop Papers
- Tobias Kuhn, Paolo Emilio Barbano, Mate Levente Nagy, and Michael Krauthammer. Broadening the Scope of Nanopublications. In Proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). 2013, to appear. PDF BibTeX
- Kaarel Kaljurand and Tobias Kuhn. A Multilingual Semantic Wiki Based on Attempto Controlled English and Grammatical Framework. In Proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). 2013, to appear. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Underspecified Scientific Claims in Nanopublications. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Web of Linked Entities (WoLE). CEUR-WS, 2012. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Image Mining from Gel Diagrams in Biomedical Publications. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM). 2012. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn, ThaiBinh Luong, and Michael Krauthammer. Finding and Accessing Diagrams in Biomedical Publications. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2012 Annual Symposium. 2012. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. Codeco: A Practical Notation for Controlled English Grammars in Predictive Editors. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2010). Springer, 2012. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. Codeco: A Grammar Notation for Controlled Natural Language in Predictive Editors. In Pre-Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2010). CEUR-WS, 2010. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. An Evaluation Framework for Controlled Natural Languages. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, 2010. 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 Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, 2010. 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-WS, 2009. PDF BibTeX
- Richard Shiffman, George Michel, Michael Krauthammer, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Controlled Natural Language for Clinical Practice Guidelines. In Pre-Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). CEUR-WS, 2009. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. How to Evaluate Controlled Natural Languages. In Pre-Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). CEUR-WS, 2009. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn and Rolf Schwitter. Writing Support for Controlled Natural Languages. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) Workshop 2008. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: Collaborative Ontology Management in Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop. CEUR-WS, 2008. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: A Natural and Expressive Semantic Wiki. In Proceedings of Semantic Web User Interaction at CHI 2008: Exploring HCI Challenges. CEUR-WS, 2009. PDF BibTeX
- Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, Fabio Rinaldi, and 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 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2007). Springer, 2007. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn, Loic Royer, Norbert E. Fuchs, and Michael Schroeder. Improving Text Mining with Controlled Natural Language: A Case Study for Protein Interactions. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2006 (DILS'06). Springer, 2006. PDF BibTeX
Reviewed Posters and Demos
- Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Representing Biomedical Claims with Underspecified Statements in Nanopublications. In Poster Session of the 11th International Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB'12). Poster
- Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Image Retrieval in Controlled English. In Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2012). PDF BibTeX Poster
- Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: A Semantic Wiki Using Controlled English. In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC09). CEUR-WS, 2008. PDF BibTeX
- Juri Luca De Coi, Peter Fankhauser, Tobias Kuhn, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Daniel Olmedilla. Controlled natural language policies. In Poster and Demo Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009). PDF
- 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-WS, 2008. PDF BibTeX Poster
Theses
- Tobias Kuhn. Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology of the University of Zurich, 2010. PDF BibTeX
- Tobias Kuhn. Expressing Knowledge about Protein Interactions in Attempto Controlled English. Diploma Thesis, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, 2006. PDF BibTeX
Awards
- Winner of the 1k Challenge at the Beyond the PDF 2 conference in 2013 for my proposal of an Open Scholar Foundation
- Mercator Award of the University of Zurich in 2009 for my dissertation project on Controlled English for Knowledge Representation
- Best Paper Award at the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis 2009 for my paper How Controlled English Can Improve Semantic Wikis
Short CV
- 2013: Postdoc at the ETH Zurich at the Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation
- 2012: Postdoctoral associate at Yale University in the Department of Pathology
- 2011: Researcher for the University of Helsinki within the MOLTO project
- 2011: Lecturer and researcher at the University of Malta
- 2010: Postdoc at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich
- 2010: Guest researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of Chile in the PLEIAD group (Programming Languages and Environments for Intelligent, Adaptable and Distributed systems)
- 2006-2010: Doctoral student at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich; graduation as a Doctor in Informatics (Dr. Inform.)
- 2006: Guest researcher at the Biotechnology Center of the Technical University Dresden in the Bioinformatics group
- 2004-2005: Internship and undergraduate research assistant at the Department for Computer Science of the ETH Zurich in the Global Information Systems group
- 2001-2006: Studies in Economy and Computer Science ("Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the University of Zurich; graduation as a "Diplom-Informatiker" (Dipl. Inform.), equivalent to a Master of Science in Computer Science