Coner: A Collaborative Approach for Long-Tail Named Entity Recognition in Scientific Publications

Named Entity Recognition (NER) for rare long-tail entities as e.g. often found in domain-specific scientific publications is a challenging task, as typically the extensive training data and test data for fine-tuning NER algorithms is lacking. Recent approaches presented promising solutions relying on training NER algorithms in a iterative...

Provably Sound Typechecking of JavaScript

Since its inception in 1995, JavaScript usage has grown far beyond its initial domain of interactive websites. As the size of applications developed in the language grows, so does the desire for static analysis such as typechecking to provide safety and reliability. Many developments have been made in recent years on increasing the precision of...

Scriptable Debugging - A Reactive Approach

Debuggers are crucial tools for developers to support the process of developing software systems as they provide direct insights into the execution of their code. As software development in the industry is moving towards technology stacks that operate on increasingly higher levels of abstraction, debugging tools have not evolved as quickly. This...

Portable Editor Services

Implementing the syntax and semantics of a new (domain-specific) programming language is a lot of work, which is worsened by the additional work needed to add support for the language to an editor such as Eclipse or VS Code. Lack of such support can impede language usability and adoption, as developers prefer different editors. However,...

The Design and Implementation of a Domain-Specific Language for the Description of Medical Devices

LeQuest develops interactive e-training modules to improve the competence regarding medical technology of medical professionals. The medical technology is analysed by LeQuest to develop training modules, but the analysis process and writing associated information can be performed more efficiently. This would reduce the required time and...

Adopting Argumentation Mining for Claim Extraction from TED Talks

Engagement is critical for academic learning. It's commonly believed that motivating students to learn is crucial in education. We think that by providing students some interesting content based on what they are learning is a good idea. Since TED Talks share attractive new ideas, we are planning to motivate students by recommending TED Talks...

Building a workbench to improve sharing and reproducibility of MOOC experiments

This thesis improves sharing of code and reproducibility (S&R) in research for massive open online courses (MOOCs). Reproducibility is recreating an experiment by a different researcher. Science in general struggles with repro- ducibility. MOOC experiments often contain useful code that could be used by other researchers, but that code is...