Prof. Dr. phil. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Wachsbleiche 27
49090 Osnabrück

Raum: 50/312
Tel.: +49-541-969-3384
Fax: +49-541-969-3381
kkuehnbe@uni-osnabrueck.de
Homepage: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~kkuehnbe

Research Interests

Methods I am interested in: Algebraic theories, theory of coalgebras, logics, theory of anti-unification, information theory.
Applications I am interested in: Ontologies, analogical reasoning, data structures, knowledge representation, inferences, natural language semantics, philosophical foundations of AI.

Lebenslauf

Curriculum Vitae

• 10/1990 - 03/1993 Studium an der Universität Stuttgart (Philosophie, Germanistik und Mathematik)
• 04/1993-09/1996 Parallelstudium an der Universität Tübingen (Magisterstudium Philosophie, Linguistik des Deutschen, Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Staatsexamensstudium Mathematik und Deutsch)
• 04/1996 Magister Artium (Titel der Arbeit: Wahrheitsprädikate in formalen Sprachen und Fixpunkte in algebraischen Strukturen)
• 10/1996 - 07/1997 Graduiertenstipendiat der Graduiertenförderung des Landes Baden-Württemberg
• 08/1997 - 06/1999 Forschungsaufenthalt an der Indiana University, Bloomington (Graduiertenstipendiat des DAAD)
• 07/1999 - 12/2000 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Universität Tübingen (Theoretische Computerlinguistik)
• 03/2001 - 07/2003 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft der Universität Osnabrück
• 07/2001 Promotion an der Neuphilologischen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen (Fachrichtung Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft/Computerlinguistik). Titel der Dissertation: Formal Frameworks for Circular Phenomena, (ausgezeichnet mit dem Promotionspreis der Universität Tübingen 2001)
• seit 08/2003 Juniorprofessor für Künstliche Intelligenz an der Universität Osnabrück

Veröffentlichungen

(I) Recent Work on Analogical Reasoning

Krumnack, U., Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schwering, A. (2008):
The Re-Representation Problem in a Logic-Based Framework for Analogy Making, 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), pp. 1462-1463.

Schwering, A. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2008):
Child versus Adult Analogy - The Role of Systematicity and Abstraction in Analogy Models (Commentary), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31(4):395-396.

Gust, H., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schwering, A. (2008):
Analogical Reasoning: A Core of Cognition. KI - Zeitschrift Künstliche Intelligenz 1/08:8-12.

Schwering, A., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Gust, H. (2008):
Analogy as Integrating Framework for Human-Level Reasoning. In: P. Wang, B. Goertzel & S. Frankling (eds.): Artificial General Intelligence 2008. Proceedings of the First AGI Conference, IOS Press, pp. 419-423.

Gust, H., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schwering, A. (2007):
An Approach to the Semantics of Analogical Relations, in S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser & A. Protopapas (eds.): Proceedings of EuroCogSci 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 640-645.

Krumnack, U., Schwering, A., Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007): Restricted Higher-Order Anti-Unification for Analogy Making, Twenties Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2007), Springer, pp. 273-282.

Polushkina, S., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Gust, H. (2007):
Solving Systems of Equations: A Case Study in Analogical Problem Solving, in: S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser & A. Protopapas (eds.): Proceedings of EuroCogSci 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum, p. 898.

Schwering, A., Kühnberger, K.-U., Krumnack, U. & Gust, H. (2007).
Integrating Analogical and Inductive Learning at Different Levels of Generalizations. In: LNVD 2007: Learning from Non-Vectorial Data. Proceedings of the KI-2007 Workshop held in Osnabrück, Germany, September 10th, 2007, Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science, volume 6-2007, pp. 46-57.

Schwering, A., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Gust, H. (2007): Using Gestalt Principles to Compute Analogies of Geometric Figures. In: D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1485-1490). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Schwering, A., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Gust, H. (2007): Analogical Reasoning with SMT and HDTP, in S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser & A. Protopapas (eds.): Proceedings of EuroCogSci 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 652-657.

Schwering, A., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Gust, H. (2007): Abstraction in Analogy, Abstract in 8. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (KogWis 2007), Saarbrücken.

Schwering, A., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Gust, H. (2007): Workshop on Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities (AnICA07). In: D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 55). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2006):
Explaining Effective Learning by Analogical Reasoning, in: R. Sun & N. Miyake (Hrsg.): CogSci/ICCS 2006: 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in cooperation with the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science (in the Asian-Pacific region), Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 1417-1422.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schmid, U. (2006):
Metaphors and Heuristic-Driven Theory Projection (HDTP), Theoretical Computer Science 354:98-117.

Schmid, U., Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Burghardt, J. (2003):
An Algebraic Framework for Solving Proportional and Predictive Analogies. In F. Schmalhofer, R. Young and G. Katz (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science (EuroCogSci 2003), Osnabrück, Germany, 10.-13. September 2003, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 295–300.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schmid, U. (2003):
Metaphors and Anti-Unification. In: F. Spoto, G. Scollo, and A. Nijholt (Eds), Proceedings of the Twenty-First Twente Workshop on Language Technology: Algebraic Methods in Language Processing (AMiLP-3), Verona, Italy, 25-27 August 2003, pp. 111-123.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schmid, U. (2003):
Solving Predictive Analogy Tasks with Anti-Unification. In: P. Slezak et.al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science 2003 (ICCS/ASCS-2003), Sydney, Australia 13 - 17 July 2003, pp. 145-150.

Kühnberger, K.-U. (2003):
A Representation Formalism for Metaphors. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, 26.-28. February 2003, München, p. 118.


(II) Recent Work on Text Technology and Ontology Design

Stührenberg, M., Kühnberger, K.-U., Lüngen, H., Mehler, A., Metzing, D.& Mönnich, U. (2008):
Sustainability of text-technological resources.
In: Andreas Witt, Georg Rehm, Thomas Schmidt, Khalid Choukri & Lou Burnard (eds.), Proceedings of the LREC '08 Workshop "Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing", pp. 33-40, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.

Geibel, P., Pustylnikov, O., Mehler, A., Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2008): Classification of Documents Based on the Structure of Their DOM Trees, in M. Ishikawa, K. Doya, H. Miyamoto & T. Yamakawa (eds.): Neural Information Processing, 14th International Conference (ICONIP 2007), LNCS 4985, Springer, pp. 779-788.

Geibel, P., Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007):
Tree Kernels for XML Documents, in Proceedings of 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2007), LNAI 4827, pp. 850-860, Springer.

Geibel, P., Krumnack, U., Pustylnikov, O., Mehler, A., Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007):
Structure-Sensitive Learning of Text Types,
Twenties Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2007), Springer, pp. 642-646.

Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schmid, U. (2007):
Ontologies as a Cue for the Metaphorical Meaning of Technical Concepts, in Andrea Schalley & Drew Khlentzos (eds.): Mental States: Evolution, Function, Nature, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, pp. 191-212.

Mönnich, U. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007):
Editorial. GLDV-Journal for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology 22(2):iii-viii.

Mönnich, U. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (eds.) (2007):
Proceedings “Ontologies and Text Technology: Approaches to Extract Semantic Knowledge from Syntactic Information”, University of Osnabrück, PICS (Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science), volume 2007-1.

Mönnich, U., Michaelis, J., Ovchinnikova, E., Wandmacher, T. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007):
Information Extraction from Annotation Graphs Serving for the Adaptation of Ontologies – Position Paper. In: LNVD 2007: Learning from Non-Vectorial Data. Proceedings of the KI-2007 Workshop held in Osnabrück, Germany, September 10th, 2007, Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science, volume 6-2007, pp. 31-35.

Ovchinnikova, E. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007).
Automatic Ontology Extension: Resolving Inconsistencies, GLDV-Journal for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology 22(2):19-33.

Ovchinnikova, E. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007):
Automatic Ontology Extension: Resolving Inconsistencies – Extended Abstract -, in: Proceedings “Ontologies and Text Technology: Approaches to Extract Semantic Knowledge from Syntactic Information”, PICS, vol. 2007-1, pp. 93-98.

Ovchinnikova, E., Wandmacher, T. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007):
Solving Terminological Inconsistency Problems in Ontology Design, International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS) 4:65-80.

Ovchinnikova, E. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2006): Adaptive ALE-TBox for Extending Terminological Knowledge, in A. Sattar & B. H. Kang (eds.): AI 2006, Proceedings of the 19th ACS Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 4304 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), Springer, pp. 1111-1115.

Ovchinnikova, E. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2006).
Aspects of Automatic Ontology Extension: Adapting and Regeneralizing Dynamic Updates, in M. Orgun (Hrsg.): Advances in Ontologies. Proceedings of the Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006), Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology 72:52-60.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schmid, U. (2004): Ontological Aspects of Computing Analogies. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 350-351.


(III) Recent Work on Machine Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Integration

Kühnberger, K.-U., Gust, H. & Geibel, P. (2008).
Perspectives of Neuro-Symbolic Integration - Extended Abstract -, in L. DeRaedt, B. Hammer, P. Hitzler & W. Maass (eds.): Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings: Recurrent Neural Networks - Models, Capacities, and Applications.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Geibel, P. (2008).
Learning and Memorizing Models of Logical Theories in a Hybrid Learning Device. in M. Ishikawa, K. Doya, H. Miyamoto & T. Yamakawa (eds.): Neural Information Processing, 14th International Conference (ICONIP 2007), LNCS 4985, Springer, pp. 738-748.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Geibel, P. (2007):
Learning Models of Predicate Logical Theories with Neural Networks Based on Topos Theory, in P. Hitzler & B. Hammer (eds.): Perspectives of Neural-Symbolic Integration, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) 77, Springer, pp. 233-264.

Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2006):
The Relevance of Artificial Intelligence for Human Cognition, in C. Lebiere & R. Wray (eds.): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI-Hard Problems, Menlo Park : AAAI Press, S. 64-69.

Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2005):
Learning Symbolic Inferences with Neural Networks. In: B. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.): CogSci 2005: XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 875-880.

Gust, H. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2004):
Cloning Composition and Logical Inference in Neural Networks Using Variable-Free Logic. AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2004, Symposium: Compositional Connectionism in Cognitive Science, Washington D.C., pp. 25-30.


(IV) Recent Work on Integrated Cognition

Gust, H., Krumnack, U., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schwering, A. (2008):
Human-Level Intelligence. KI - Zeitschrift Künstliche Intelligenz 1/2008:42.

Kühnberger, K.-U., Geibel, P., Gust, H., Krumnack, U., Ovchinnikova, E., Schwering, A. & Wandmacher, T. (2008):
Learning from Inconsistencies in an Integrated Cognitive Architecture. In: P. Wang, B. Goertzel & S. Franklin (eds.): Artificial General Intelligence 2008. Proceedings of the First AGI Conference, IOS Press, pp. 212-223.

Kühnberger, K.-U. (2007):
Principles for the Foundation of Integrated Higher Cognition (Abstract). In: D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1796). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Kühnberger, K.-U., Wandmacher, T., Schwering, A., Ovchinnikova, E., Krumnack, U., Gust, H. & Geibel, P. (2007):
I-Cog: A Computational Framework for Integrated Cognition of Higher Cognitive Abilities, in Proceedings of 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2007), LNAI 4827, pp. 203-214, Springer.

Kühnberger, K.-U., Wandmacher, T., Schwering, A., Ovchinnikova, E., Krumnack, U., Gust, H. & Geibel, P. (2007):
Modeling Human-Level Intelligence by Integrated Cognition in a Hybrid Architecture, in P. Hitzler, T. Roth-Berghofer, S. Rudolph: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (FAInt-07), Workshop at KI 2007, CEUR-WS, vol. 277, pp. 1-15.


(V) Recent Work on Logic, Algebraic Methods, Philosophy, and Other Things

Kühnberger, Kai-Uwe (2007):
CogSci / ICCS 2006. KI - Zeitschrift Künstliche Intelligenz 4/07:73.

Slaby, J., Katz, G., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Stephan, A. (2006):
Embodied Targets, or the Origin of Mind-Tools, Review Essay on Hugh Clapin’s (ed.) Philosophy of Mental Representation, OUP 2002, Philosophical Psychology 19(1):103-118.

Kühnberger, K.-U., Löwe, B., Möllerfeld, M. & Welch, P. (2005):
Comparing Inductive and Circular Definitions: Parameters, Complexity and Games, Studia Logica 81:79-98.

Reuer, V. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2005):
Feature Constraint Logic and Error Detection in ICALL Systems. In: P. Blache & E. Stabler (Eds.): Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2005), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3492, Springer, pp. 255-270.

Reuer, V. & Kühnberger, K.-U. (2005):
An Algorithm Detecting and Tracing Errors in ICALL Systems. In: G. Angelova, K. Bontcheva, R. Mitkov, N. Nicolov & N. Nikolov (Eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2005 (RANLP 2005), Incoma Ltd., pp. 419-423.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schmid, U. (2003):
Coalgebras and Reasoning, In H. Gust, K.-U. Kühnberger, C. Rollinger and U. Schmid (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop “Algebraic Models of Reasoning”, KI 2003, 14.-18. Sept. 2003, Hamburg, pp. 49-59.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U. & Schmid, U. (2003):
Algebraic Models of Reasoning, In H. Gust, K.-U. Kühnberger, C. Rollinger and U. Schmid (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop “Algebraic Models of Reasoning”, KI 2003, 14.-18. Sept. 2003, Hamburg, pp. 5-20.

Gust, H., Kühnberger, K.-U., Rollinger, C. & Schmid, U. (2003) (Eds.):
Proceedings of the Workshop “Algebraic Models of Reasoning”, KI 2003, Hamburg, Germany.

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