Richard Bergmair's Publications



Bergmair, Richard. 2010. Monte Carlo Semantics: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing with Natural Language Text.” Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge, England: University of Cambridge.

Bergmair, Richard. 2009. A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE.” In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Applied Textual Inference (TextInfer), 10–17. Suntec, Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics.

Bergmair, Richard. 2008. McPIET at RTE-4: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing Based on Integrated Deep and Shallow Semantics.” In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC ’08). NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.

Bergmair, Richard. 2007b. Some Notes on the Economics and Evaluation of Automatic Retrieval and Filtering of Communication Goods.” Invited address, SCCH, Hagenberg, Austria, September.

Bergmair, Richard. 2007a. A Comprehensive Bibliography of Linguistic Steganography.” In Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX, edited by Edward J. Delp and Ping Wah Wong. Vol. 6505. San Jose, CA: SPIE International Society for Optics and Photonics.


Bergmair, Richard. 2006. Closed Domain Question Answering Using Fuzzy Semantics.” M.Phil. thesis, Cambridge, England: University of Cambridge.

==> In the present report we give a thorough exposition of our first steps towards a theory of fuzzy semantics and towards the development of a closed domain question answering system in the form of a natural language database interface that produces result sets with records ranked according to the degree to which they fulfill our intuitions about vague expressions in natural language, and vague adjectives in particular.

We outline our ordering-based approach to semantics and introduce some of the issues involved in modelling vagueness. We show how fuzzy sets can be used as intermediate semantic representations of vague expressions. From the family of possible fuzzy logics we pin down which one best fits our modelling needs in fuzzy semantics.

We then describe the overall design of a controlled experiment involving human subjects, the software infrastructure necessary for administrating it and the statistical analyses required to draw conclusions from the data about the adequacy of our model of fuzzy semantics. We will also discuss the results from a small-scale preliminary instantiation of this experiment.

Finally we show how we could put those theoretic insights to use in a working natural language interface to a database that produces rankings of “small cities” or “rainy cities near San Francisco”. <==

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Bergmair, Richard, and Ulrich Bodenhofer. 2006. Syntax-Driven Analysis of Context-Free Languages with Respect to Fuzzy Relational Semantics.” In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2075–82. Vancouver, BC: IEEE.

Bergmair, Richard, and Stefan Katzenbeisser. 2005. Content-Aware Steganography: About Lazy Prisoners and Narrow-Minded Wardens.” In Proceedings of the 8th Information Hiding Conference, edited by Jan L. Camenisch, Christian S. Collberg, Neil F. Johnson, and Phil Sallee, 4437:109–23. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Bergmair, Richard, and Stefan Katzenbeisser. 2004. Towards Human Interactive Proofs in the Text-Domain.” In Proceedings of the 7th Information Security Conference, edited by Kan Zhang and Yuliang Zheng, 3225:257–67. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Bergmair, Richard. 2004c. Some Experimental Results on Feed-Forward Networks for Text Classification.”

Bergmair, Richard. 2004b. Towards Linguistic Steganography: A Systematic Investigation of Approaches, Systems, and Issues.” B.Sc. thesis, Leonding, Austria: University of Derby.

Bergmair, Richard. 2004a. Ethical Lessons Learned from Computer Science.” ACM Crossroads 10 (3): 6.

Bergmair, Richard. 2003. A Summary of Traditional Approaches to Natural Language Processing.” Diplom-HTL-Ingenieur thesis, Leonding, Austria: Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Leonding.