The Laboratory for Semantic Information Technology at Bamberg University

In 2002, the Laboratory for Semantic Information Technology at Bamberg University was established when Prof. Schlieder was appointed Chair of Computing in the Cultural Sciences. Research aims at adapting methods from semantic information processing in order to design information systems for the cultural sciences. The group focuses geoinformation systems including mobile applications. Researchers of the group are engaged in several projects on the national and European level. The expertise of the research group in spatial reasoning is reflected in concepts and assistance systems for different purposes such as (semi-) automatic
semantic data integration of complex spatial documents (e.g. mappings), intention recognition from motion patterns, or assistive technology supporting the digital mapping of built heritage, the Mobile Mapping System. The IST project TeDUB (Technical Drawings Understanding for the Blind) funded by the European Union aimed at making technical drawings in digital documents accessible to blind users. Within the project, software was developed that interprets technical drawings and allows users to navigate through them. The main contribution of Bamberg consisted in knowledge-based software inferring a representation of the semantic information from a technical drawing coming in a vector graphics format. In socionics, the DFG project COM (Communication-Oriented Modelling) develops social network-based technology supporting informationranking and retrieval.

Key roles in Tripod
UBA will contribute its experience in social definitions of relevance to the spatial searching system and to caption creation.