Dr.-Ing. Ronny Melz Phone: +49-341-97-32205 Office: 5-50 E-Mail: Ronny.Melz@eads.com Address: Abteilung Automatische Sprachverarbeitung Institut für Informatik Universität Leipzig Augustusplatz 10 04109 Leipzig Deutschland Postal Address: Dr.-Ing. Ronny Melz Universität Leipzig Institut für Informatik PF 100920 04009 Leipzig Deutschland Ronny Melz is no longer a staff member of the NLP department.

research interests:

• maximum entropy machine learning
• advanced language modeling
• conceptual, lexico-semantic models

Finished Theses

• Models of random text production for investigating repetition and reuse in language development

Publications

2007

• [MeW07] Melz, R. and Wittig, T.: Universal Regularities of Language Statistics. In: Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics: Opinions, Semiotic Dynamics, and Laguage, Satellite Workshop of STATPHYS 2007, 14-19 July, Erice, 2007
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2006

• [MRC06] Melz, R., Ryn, P.-M., and Choi, K.-S.: Compiling a large Korean IT-related language resource by language independent methods for domain-specific taxonomy learning. In: Proceedings of the LREC-06 workshop on Quality assurance and quality measurement for language and speech resources, Genoa, Italy, 2006
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2004

• [BBHM04a] C. Biemann, C. Böhm, G. Heyer, and R. Melz: Automatically Building Concept Structures and Displaying Concept Trails for the Use in Brainstorming Sessions and Content Management Systems. In: Proceedings of I2CS, Guadalajara, Mexico, Springer, 2004
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• [BBHM04b] C. Biemann, K. Böhm, G. Heyer, and R. Melz: SemanticTalk: Software for Visualizing Brainstorming Sessions and Thematic Concept Trails on Document Collections. In: Proceedings of ECML/PKDD, Pisa, Italy, Springer, 2004
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