Achim Hoffmann (currently on leave)

Associate Professor

[PHOTO: Achim Hoffmann]
Office K17 406
Phone +61 2 9385 6934 (Internal: x56934)
Fax +61 2 9385 5995 (Internal: x55995)
Email achim AT cse.unsw.edu.au
Mail School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052, Australia

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Research Areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Expert Systems
  • Knowledge Acquisition
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Learning Algorithms
  • Philosophical Foundations of AI
  • Theory of Neural Networks

Publications

RDRCE: Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition RDRCE: Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
H Xu, A Hoffmann, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6568, . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Populating biomedical ontologies from natural language texts
J Ruiz-Martinez, R Valencia-Garcia, R Bejar, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, . SciTePress, Portugal, 2010
LEXA: Towards Automatic Legal Citation Classification
F Galgani, A Hoffmann, AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010
Can machines Think? An Old Question Reformulated
A Hoffmann, Minds and Machines, . Kluwer Academic Publ, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2010, pages 203 - 212
Automating Dimensional Tolerancing Using Ripple Down Rules (RDR)
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, R Hamade, Expert Systems with Applications, . Elsevier, Kidlington, Oxford UK, 2010
Machine Learning
A Hoffmann, A Mahidadia, Scientific Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Mohamed Medhat Gaber. Springer, 2009, pages 7 - 52
Intelligent Support For Building Knowledge Bases For Natural Language Processing
S Pham, A Hoffmann, Intelligent assistant system, R. Kaschek. Idea group publishing, London, 2007
Query-Topic Focused Web Pages Summarization
S Yoo, A Hoffmann, PRICAI 2006: trends in artificial intelligence, Proceedings, Q. Yang, G. Webb. Springer, Germany, 2006, pages pp. 533 - 543 -
Efficient Knowledge Acquisition For Extracting Temporal Relations
S Pham, A Hoffmann, ECAI 2006, Brewka, Coradeschi, Perini, Traverso. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2006, pages pp. 521 - 525 -
Clustering-Based Relevance Feedback For Web Pages
S Yoo, A Hoffmann, PRICAI 2006: trends in artificial intelligence, Porceedings, Q. Yang, G. Webb. Springer, Germany, 2006, pages pp. 464 - 473 -
Bootstrapping Word Sense Disambiguation Using Dynamic Web Knowledge
Y Wang, A Hoffmann, PRICAI 2006: Trends in artificial intelligence, Q. Yang, G. Webb. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, D-69121, Germany, Germany, 2006, pages pp. 1150 - 1154 - [More Info]
A New Approach For The Incremental Development Of Retrieval Functions For Cbr
A Hoffmann, A Khan, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Robert Trappl. Taylor and Francis, 2006, pages pp. 507 - 541 -
Unsupervised Bilingual Word Sense Disambiguation Using Web Statistics
Y Wang, A Hoffmann, AI 2005: Advances in artificial intelligence, . Springer, Berlin, 2005, pages pp. 1167 - 1172 -
Pseudo-Relevance Feedback In Web Information Retrieval Using Segments' Subjective Importance Values
S Yoo, A Hoffmann, Web intelligence, . IEEE Computer Society, USA, 2005, pages pp. 422 - 425 -
Knowledge-Level Management Of Web Information
S Yoo, A Hoffmann, Web technologies research and development 2005, . Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2005, pages pp. 597 - 608 -
Incremental Knowledge Acquisition For Extracting Temporal Relations
S Pham, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International conference on natural language processing and knowledge engineering, . Publishing house, BUPT, Beijing, China, 2005, pages pp. 354 - 359 -
Improved Knowledge Acquisition For High-Performance Heuristic Search
J Bekmann, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on artificial intelligence, . IJCAI, Denver, USA, 2005, pages pp. 41 - 46 -
Efficient Knowledge Acquisition For Extracting Temporal Relations
S Pham, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the Australasian language technology workshop, . University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2005, pages pp. 87 - 95 -
Cooperative Modelling Evaluated
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, J Breis, R Bejar, R Valencia-Garcia, A Aurum, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, . World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2005, pages pp. 45 - 71 -
Kaftie: A New Ka Framework For Building Sophisticated Informationextraction Systems
S Pham, A Hoffmann, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, . SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN, 2004, pages pp. 499 - 501 -
Incremental Knowledge Acquisition For Improving Probabalistic Search Algorithms
J Bekmann, A Hoffmann, Engineering in the Age of the Semantic Web, Motta, Shadbolt,Stutt, Gibbins. Springer, Germany, 2004, pages pp. 248 - 264 -
Incremental Knowledge Acquisition For Building Sophisticated Information Systems With Kaftie
S Pham, A Hoffmann, Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, D. Karagiannis, U. Reimer. Springer, Germany, 2004, pages pp. 292 - 306 -
Heureaka - A New Approach For Adapting Gas To The Problem Domain
J Bekmann, A Hoffmann, PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Zhang, Guesgen, Yeap. Springer, Berlin, 2004, pages pp. 361 - 372 -
Future Directions In Adopting Gas Using Knowledge Acquisition
J Bekmann, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, Kang, Hoffmann, Yamaguchi, Yeap. PRICAI/PKAW, Auckland, 2004, pages pp. 196 - 210 -
Feature Extraction For Learning To Classify Questions
Z Cheung, K Phan, A Mahidadia, A Hoffmann, AI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, G. Webb, X. Yu. Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2004, pages pp. 1069 - 1075 -
Extracting Positive Attributions From Scientific Papers
S Pham, A Hoffmann, Discovery Science LNS3245, Einoshin Suzuki and Setsuo Arikawa. Springer-Verlag, Berlin,Germany, 2004, pages pp. 169 - 182 -
Discovering Conceptual Web-Knowledge In Web Documents
S Yoo, A Hoffmann, Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web, E. Motta, N. Shadbolt, A. Stutt, N. Gibbins. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN, 2004, pages pp. 504 - 505 -
Discovering Conceptual Web-Knowledge In Web Documents
S Yoo, A Hoffmann, Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web, J. G. Carbonell, J. Siekmann. Springer, Germany, 2004, pages pp. 504 - 505 -
A New Measure For Extracting Semantically Related Words
Y Wang, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004, Ash Asudeh, Cecile Paris, Stephen Wan. ASSTA, Canberra City, ACT, 2004, pages pp. 117 - 122 -
Towards Topic-Based Summarization For Interactive Document Viewing
S Pham, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the second International Conference on Knowledge Capture, John Gennari, Bruce Porter. ACM Press, USA, 2003, pages pp. 28 - 35 -
Mining Patterns Of Dyspepsia Symptoms Across Time Points Using Constraint Assoication Rules
A Lau, S Ong, A Mahidadia, A Hoffmann, J Westbrook, T Zrimec, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 7th Pacific-Asia Confernece, PAKDD 2003, . Springer, Germany, 2003, pages pp. 124 - 135 -
Building A Case-Based Diet Recommendation System Without A Knowledge Engineer
A Khan, A Hoffmann, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Klaus-Peter Adlassnig. Elsevier Science B.V., The Netherlands, 2003, pages pp. 155 - 179 -
An Advanced Artificial Intelligence Tool For Menu Design
A Khan, A Hoffmann, Nutrition and Health, . A B Academic Publishers, Great Britain, 2003, pages pp. 43 - 53 -
A New Approach For Scientific Citation Classification Using Cue Phrases
S Pham, A Hoffmann, AI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Tamas D. Gedeon and Lance Chun Che Fung. Springer, Germany, 2003, pages pp. 759 - 771 -
A New Approach For Concept-Based Web Search
S Yoo, A Hoffmann, AI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, T. Gedeon, L. Fung. Springer, Germany, 2003, pages pp. 65 - 76 -
Using Subclasses To Improve Classification Learning
R Kwok, A Hoffmann , P Compton, European Conference on Machine Learning, LNAI 2167, Luc DeRaedt; Peter Flach. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, pages pp. 203 - 213 -
Theoretical Basis For Hierarchical Incremental Knowledge Acquisition
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, International Journal on Human-Computer Studies, . Academic Press, London,UK, 2001, pages pp. 407 - 452 -
Simulations For Comparing Knowledge Acquisition And Machine Learning
A Hoffmann, R Kwok, P Compton, AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Markus Stumptner; Dan Corbett; Mike Brooks. AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, 2001, pages pp. 273 - 284 -
Acquiring Adaptation Knowledge For Cbr With Mikas
A Khan, A Hoffmann, AI 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Markus Stumptner; Dan Corbett; Mike Brooks. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, pages pp. 201 - 212 -
Towards Order Independent Incremental Ka
G Beydoun, R Kwok, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, . The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2000, pages pp. 1 - 16 -
The 6th Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (Pkaw 2000)
A Hoffmann, P Compton, H Motoda, T Yamaguchi, The 6th Pacific Knowledge Acquisition workshop (PKAW 2000, . School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW, Sydney, 2000, pages pp. 1 - 341 -
Monitoring Knowledge Acquisition Instead Of Evaluating Knowledge Bases
A Hoffmann, G Beydoun, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 12th International Conference, EKAW 2000, . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2000, pages pp. 387 - 402 -
Incremental Acquisition Of Search Knowledge
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, International Journal of Human Computer Interactions, . Academic Press, London, UK, 2000, pages pp. 493 - 530 -
Do We Need Symbols For Designing Complex Ai Systems?
A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the ICSC Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications, . ICSC Academic Press, Canada/Switzerland, 2000, pages pp. 51 - 57 -
A New Approach For The Incremental Development Of Adaptation Functions
A Hoffmann, A Sowmya, Advances in Case-Based Reasoning, . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2000, pages pp. 260 - 272 -
Incremental Acquisition Of Retrieval Knowledge For Case-Based Reasoning
A Khan, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, . University of NSW, Sydney, 1999, pages pp. 72 - 86 -
Holism And Incremental Knowledge Acquisition
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of The 11th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Management and Modelling, . Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 1999, pages pp. 309 - 314 -
A Formal Framework Of Ripple Down Rules
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the 4th Australian Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (AKAW99), . University of NSW, Sydney, 1999, pages pp. 57 - 71 -
Simultaneous Modelling And Knowledge Acquisition Using Nrdr
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, Lecture notes in artificial intelligence : PRICAI '98, . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1998, pages pp. 83 - 95 -
Paradigms Of Artificial Intelligence - A Methodological And Computational Analysis
A Hoffmann, , . Springer-Verlag, Singapore, 1998
Constrained Locally Weighted Regression For Process Modelling
Unknown, A Hoffmann, AI97 Poster Proceedings, . Springer-Verlag, Singapore, 1998, pages pp. 596 - 599 -
Building Search Heuristics At The Knowledge Level
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of The Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, . National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1998, pages pp. 140 - 155 -
Building Problem Solvers Based On Search Control Knowledge
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of The 11th Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, . SRDG publications, Calgary, Canada, 1998, pages pp. Share1-1 - Share1-16 -
Acquiring Process Knowledge For Case-Based Reasoning
A Khan, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of The 1998 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (PKAW'98), . National University Singapore, Singapore, 1998, pages pp. 156 - 170 -
Using Knowledge Acquisition To Build Spoken Language System
A Hoffmann, S Kaspar, Knowledge Acquisition Modelling and Management, . Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, 1997, pages pp. 353 - 358 -
On Computational Limitations Of Self-Organization
A Hoffmann, Neurocomputing, . Elsevier, The Netherlands, 1997, pages pp. 69 - 87 -
Nrdr For The Acquisition Of Search Knowledge
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, . Springer, Berlin, 1997, pages pp. 177 - 186 -
Complex Connectionist Dynamics And The Limited Complexity Of The Resulting Functions
A Hoffmann, Connection Science, . Carfax Publishing Ltd, Abingdon, Oxford, UK, 1997, pages pp. 201 - 215 -
An Instance-Based Framework For Integrating Domain Knowledge With A Reinforcement Learner
S Matsushima, A Hoffmann, AI97 Poster Proceedings, . ACS, Perth, 1997, pages pp. 44 - 49 -
Acquisition Of Search Knowledge
G Beydoun, A Hoffmann, Knowledge Acquisition Modeling and Management, . Springer Verlag, Berlin Germany, 1997, pages pp. 1 - 16 -
Reinforcement Learning For Cybernetic Control
M Pendrith, M Ryan, A Hoffmann, Proceedings of the 13th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, . Austrian Society for Cybernetic and Systems Resear, Vienna, Austria, 1996, pages pp. 1020 - 1025 -

 

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