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.
==> In this paper, we address the problem of searching for or filtering electronic documents in large collections such as the world wide web. This will be framed as an economic resource allocation problem, while invoking automatic retrieval engines as a non-market pricing mechanism.
For information retrieval, this point of view helps illuminate many imporant questions, such as: What is the benefit of a relevant document being retrieved? What is the impact of an error that results in an irrelevant document being retrieved? What is the impact of an error that results in a relevant document not being retrieved? How can these be measured, compared, and weighted against each other?
For economics, this point of view shows how retrieval engines can be invoked to mitigate many of the weaknesses of traditional markets when it comes to dealing with information and attention in the context of communication. How can we reduce search costs, given the vast catalogue of communication goods on offer in real-world communication economies such as the internet? How can we invoke competition, given the highly differentiated nature of communication goods such as newsfeeds, newsgroups, or websites? How can we deal with the fact that communication goods are experience goods?
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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.
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.