| Knowledge Extraction, Machine Learning, Inductive Inference, Data Mining, Tutoring systems | |
| The Institute of Intellectics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, offers two
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for our research projects LExIKON und DaMiT.
LExIKON is a research and development project focussing an innovative approach to knowledge extraction from the Internet. The peculiarity of LExIKON is to invoke inductive learning techniques on different levels. By its way of integrating inductive inference into knowledge extraction from the Internet, LExIKON is distinguished from all competing projects throughout the world. The LExIKON research deals with the development of new learning algorithms, with their study and with proofs of formal results about the algorithms' power and limitations. Those algorithms are prototypically implemented and practically evaluated within the LExIKON project. LExIKON puts emphasis on the development of a core system named the Intelligent Extraction Unit (IEU). Embedding LExIKON's IEU into a conventional search engine may result into a breakthrough to the next generation of those systems. The project partners are three german universities, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, two software houses and a bank.
DaMiT aims at the development of a tutoring system for data mining. Its pecularity is the fact that the topic and the location of teaching coincide: extraction of information from huge and distributed data bases as well as from the internet cannot be studied more realistic than in the internet itselfes. Within the projekt DaMiT, the fundamentals of machine learning, ranging from inductive inference to knowledge discovery and data mining, will be elaborated, will be prepared for teaching in the internet and will be integrated in a tutoring system. Within this system, algorithms as well as complete systems for data mining and knowledge discovery are accessible. Thus, the students can probe their knowledge practically. The project consortium consists of 10 german universities.
keywords artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge extraction, data mining start promptly possible project descriptions http://lexikon.dfki.de http://damit.dfki.de contact and further information Gunter Grieser, Tel. +49+6151+166634, [email protected]
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