Paul Buitelaar

Peter Paul Buitelaar, PhD

Senior Research Fellow & Head of the Natural Language Processing Unit

Digital Enterprise Research Institute - DERI

National University of Ireland

Galway, Ireland

url: http://nlp.deri.ie/

email: paul.buitelaar-at-deri.org

Ref: http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/Paul_Buitelaar/ & http://www.dfki.de/~paulb/

Paul Buitelaar is a senior research fellow and head of the Natural Language Processing Unit of DERI, a leading research institute in semantic technologies at the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland (http://www.deri.ie/). Before that he was a senior researcher at the DFKI Language Technology Lab (http://www.dfki.de) and co-head of the DFKI Competence Center Semantic Web (http://semanticweb.dfki.de/) in Saarbruecken, Germany. His main research interests are in language technology for semantic-based information access. He has been a researcher and/or project leader on a number of national and international funded projects, e.g. on concept-based and cross-lingual information retrieval (MuchMore: http://muchmore.dfki.de), semantic navigation VIeWs: http://views.dfki.de), ontology-based information extraction and ontology learning (SmartWeb: http://www.smartweb-projekt.de/); Theseus-MEDICO: http://theseus-programm.de/scenarios/en/medico), semantic-based multimedia analysis (K-Space: http://www.k-space.eu/). A current focus is also on ontology libraries and ontology search (OntoSelect - http://olp.dfki.de/ontoselect/ ).

See:

• Dr. Paul Buitelaar's presentation on "OntoSelect: A Browser and Search Engine for Ontologies" at ConferenceCall_2008_12_04