My current research plans involve an empirically-based bottom-up and top-down discourse model for argumentation in scientific discourse. The integration of IE, IR and citation indexing for the specific searches that a scientist might want to do on large repositories of scientific articles.
My publications are online here.
My ACS project proposals 2011/12.
During a Postdoc at Columbia University (2000-2001), I worked on the Digital Libraries Project PERSIVAL whose aim it is to provide patient-specific access to large collections of scientific articles, amongst others. In a subpart of the project, we reranked the output of searches in the field of cardiology to those articles which are of relevance to one particular patient the cardiologist is currently considering. I also worked on the TIDES project on multilingual summarization at Columbia.
Previously, at IMS, University Stuttgart, where I got my first degree, I was involved in the work of the EAGLES corpus and lexicon standardisation group. Part of my work was a tagset conversion tool, another part the testing of the interaction of text type, used lexicon and automatic tagger on the results. I also spent some time at XRCE Xerox in Grenoble, working on the extraction of nominalizations and collocations.