Word-sense disambiguation in biomedical ontologies [Elektronische Ressource] / von Dimitra G. Alexopoulou

Word-sense disambiguation in biomedical ontologiesDissertationzur Erlangung des akademischen GradesDoctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)vorgelegt an derTechnischen Universit at DresdenFakult at InformatikvonDipl.-Bioch. M.Sc. Dimitra G Alexopoulougeboren am 24 November 1981 in Athen, GriechenlandGutachterProf. Dr.-Ing. Michael Schroeder, Technische Universit at Dresden (Betreuender Hochschullehrer)Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn, Friedrich-Schiller Universit at JenaTag der Verteidigung: 11 Juni 2010Dresden, den 8 April 2010To my parents, George and Maria, and to my grandma, Stefania, who is looking from aboveo & o " & o , !o M , o , " ,o o " o AcknowledgmentsThere are a lot of people who have directly or indirectly helped in making this work possible and I wouldlike to thank.First of all I would like to thank my supervisor Professor Michael Schroeder for giving me theopportunity to work in such an interdisciplinary and international group, guiding me throughout theseyears, making things look simple in an inspirational way, caring for us as a group from the scienti c sidebut also from the human side. It has certainly been a great experience for me to work in this group andI will de nitely be present in 2017 when we will open the time capsule we all sealed in November of 2007.