Dr. Tiansi Dong left SDA. The profile below reflects the status at the point of his departure and is no longer updated.
Senior Researcher
Computer Science Institute
University of Bonn
Profiles: Google Scholar, DBLP, Current website
Short CV
Dr. Tiansi Dong is a Senior Researcher at the University of Bonn. His research interests include AI/Machine Learning (deep learning), Spatial Representation and Reasoning, Natural Language Understanding.
Research Interests
- AI/Machine Learning (deep learning)
- Spatial Representation and Reasoning
- Natural Language Understanding
Publications
2021
Interpretable and Low-Resource Entity Matching via Decoupling Feature Learning from Decision Making Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL/IJCNLP 2021, (Volume 1: Long Papers), Virtual Event, August 1-6, 2021, pp. 2770–2781, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.
Structure and Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar 21362) Journal Article
In: Dagstuhl Reports, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 11–34, 2021.
2020
Learning Syllogism with Euler Neural-Networks Journal Article
In: CoRR, vol. abs/2007.07320, 2020.
2019
Triple Classification Using Regions and Fine-Grained Entity Typing Inproceedings
In: The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, The Thirty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2019, The Ninth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 27 - February 1, 2019, pp. 77–85, AAAI Press, 2019.
Fine-Grained Entity Typing via Hierarchical Multi Graph Convolutional Networks Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, Hong Kong, China, November 3-7, 2019, pp. 4968–4977, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019.
Prototypes Within Minimum Enclosing Balls Inproceedings
In: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - ICANN 2019 - 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany, September 17-19, 2019, Proceedings - Workshop and Special Sessions, pp. 365–376, Springer, 2019.
Imposing Category Trees Onto Word-Embeddings Using A Geometric Construction Inproceedings
In: 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2019, New Orleans, LA, USA, May 6-9, 2019, OpenReview.net, 2019.
2018
Attributed and Predictive Entity Embedding for Fine-Grained Entity Typing in Knowledge Bases Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20-26, 2018, pp. 282–292, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018.
An Assertion Framework for Mobile Robotic Programming with Spatial Reasoning Inproceedings
In: 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2018, Tokyo, Japan, 23-27 July 2018, Volume 1, pp. 80–89, IEEE Computer Society, 2018.
Joint Representation Learning of Cross-lingual Words and Entities via Attentive Distant Supervision Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 4, 2018, pp. 227–237, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018.
2016
Towards a Dialogue System Supporting Automatic Event Identification Inproceedings
In: The 22nd International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, DMS 2016, Salerno, Italy, November 25-26, 2016, pp. 148–152, KSI Research Inc. / Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, 2016.
2014
A Novel Machine Translation Method for Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language Inproceedings
In: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal, April 6-12, 2014, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 343–354, Springer, 2014.
2013
Slow Intelligent Segmentation of Chinese Sentences using Conceptual Interval Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, DMS 2013, August 8-10, 2013, Holiday Inn, Brighton, UK, pp. 51–54, Knowledge Systems Institute, 2013.
2012
Relating Slow Intelligence Research to Bilingualism Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, DMS 2012, August 9-11, 2012, Eden Roc Renaissance, Miami Beach, FL, USA, pp. 3–8, Knowledge Systems Institute, 2012.
Modeling Human Intelligence with Slow Intelligence Systems Journal Article
In: International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1039–1054, 2012.
Recognizing Variable Environments - The Theory of Cognitive Prism Book
Springer, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-642-24057-7.
2011
The LogAnswer Project at QA4MRE 2011 Inproceedings
In: CLEF 2011 Labs and Workshop, Notebook Papers, 19-22 September 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, CEUR-WS.org, 2011.
Word Expert Translation from German into Chinese in the Slow Intelligence Framework Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, DMS 2011, October 18-20, 2011, Convitto della Calza, Florence, Italy, pp. 16–21, Knowledge Systems Institute, 2011.
LogAnswer in Question Answering Forums Inproceedings
In: ICAART 2011 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1 - Artificial Intelligence, Rome, Italy, January 28-30, 2011, pp. 492–497, SciTePress, 2011.
A Natural Language Question Answering System as a Participant in Human Q&A Portals Inproceedings
In: IJCAI 2011, Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, July 16-22, 2011, pp. 2430–2435, IJCAI/AAAI, 2011.
2010
Modeling Human Intelligence as A Slow Intelligence System Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, DMS 2010, October 14-16, 2010, Hyatt Lodge at McDonald's Campus, Oak Brook, Illinois, USA, pp. 41–46, Knowledge Systems Institute, 2010.
2008
Cognitive prism: A bridge between meta cognitive model and higher cognitive models Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2008, Stanford University, California, USA, August 14-16, 2008, pp. 114–121, IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
A uniform framework for orientation relations based on distance comparison Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2008, Stanford University, California, USA, August 14-16, 2008, pp. 75–82, IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
A Comment on RCC: From RCC to RCC++ Journal Article
In: J. Philos. Log., vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 319–352, 2008.
2007
Towards a Spatial Representation for the Meta Cognitive Process Layer of Cognitive Informatics Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the Six IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2007, August 6-8, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, pp. 52–61, IEEE Computer Society, 2007.
Knowledge Representation for Distances and Orientations of Regions Journal Article
In: IJCINI, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 86–99, 2007.
2006
The Theory of Cognitive Prism-Recognizing Variable Spatial Environments Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA, May 11-13, 2006, pp. 719–724, AAAI Press, 2006.
2005
Recognizing variable spatial environments: the theory of cognitive prism PhD Thesis
University of Bremen, Germany, 2005.
2004
SNAPVis and SPANVis: Ontologies for Recognizing Variable Vista Spatial Environments Inproceedings
In: Spatial Cognition IV: Reasoning, Action, Interaction, International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 11-13, 2004, RevisedSelected Papers, pp. 344–365, Springer, 2004.
1999
An Object-Oriented Design of a Multimedia Item Pool Inproceedings
In: TOOLS 1999: 31st International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, 22-25 September 1999, Nanjing, China, pp. 471–476, IEEE Computer Society, 1999.