Books
From Exchange to Contributions
Edition C.
Siefkes, Berlin, 2007.
Peer production – the way in which free software
projects such as GNU/Linux and free content projects such as the Wikipedia are
produced – has revolutionized the areas of software and content production
during the last decades. But does peer production only work for information
goods, or can it have a similar effect on the production of physical goods?
I have written a book discussing this question, and showing how peer
production can indeed grow beyond the sphere of information. A society based
entirely on peer production is possible, and this book describes
how.
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AG SPAK Bücher,
Neu-Ulm, 2008.
Die deutsche Übersetzung meines Buchs From Exchange to Contributions: das Buch beschäftigt sich dem Potenzial der Peer-Produktion – der Art und Weise wie Freie Software und Freie Inhalte produziert werden. Wir wissen, dass diese neue Produktionsweise von großer Bedeutung ist, wenn es um Software und Inhalte geht – Erfolgsgeschichten wie die von GNU/Linux, Apache oder der Wikipedia sprechen hier eine deutliche Sprache. Aber mein Buch zeigt, dass das noch längst nicht alles ist: Peer-Produktion hat das Potenzial für mehr, bis hin zu einer Umwälzung der gesamten gesellschaftlichen Produktion.
An Incrementally Trainable Statistical Approach to Information Extraction
VDM
Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2008.
My Ph.D. thesis, finished in 2007: The purpose of
Information Extraction (IE) is to find desired pieces of information in
unstructured or weakly structured texts and store them in a form that is
suitable for automatic querying and processing. This book presents a
innovative approach to statistical information extraction. It introduces a
new algorithm which supports functionality not available in previous IE
systems, such as interactive incremental training to reduce the human
training effort.
The system also utilizes new sources of information, employing rich tree-based
context representations to combine document structure (HTML or XML markup)
with linguistic and semantic information. The resulting IE system is designed
as a generic framework for statistical information extraction.