Hermann Helbig (physicist)

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Hermann Helbig (* 1943 in Mühlau ) is a German physicist and computer scientist . He has become internationally known for his research work in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), in particular automatic knowledge processing and computational linguistics .

Life

Hermann Helbig studied physics in Leipzig and worked there in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy . Because of his protest against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in Prague in 1968, he was forced to leave the university. From this time he worked in the Robotron combine in the fields of symbolic formula manipulation, automatic knowledge processing and automatic language processing, most recently as head of the AI ​​laboratory.

In 1992, Helbig was appointed professor at the Fernuniversität in Hagen , where he was head of the artificial intelligence (intelligent information and communication systems) department until he retired in 2008. During this time he spent several sabbaticals at universities and research institutes in the USA (Berkeley, Stanford, Austin, Cambridge, Buffalo and Rochester) and in Great Britain (Edinburgh, Sheffield and London).

Helbig developed the paradigm of the multi-layer extended semantic networks (short: MultiNet ) and on this basis the lexically oriented word class-controlled semantic analysis, which was later further developed by his colleague Sven Hartrumpf. The language processing technology based on MultiNet was ranked among the ten most important AI technologies in Germany in a ranking by the Gesellschaft für Informatik. This technology has been used for the first time in a genuinely semantically oriented and also commercially available search engine for natural language searches in very large text corpora (e.g. in Wikipedia).

After his retirement, Helbig turned more to philosophical and interdisciplinary topics, focusing in particular on unresolved issues in various areas of knowledge (the real world riddles ) and the phenomenon of emergence .

Works

  • Artificial intelligence and automatic knowledge processing. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1996
  • The semantic structure of natural language - knowledge representation with MultiNet. Springer, Heidelberg 2001
  • Knowledge Representation and the Semantics of Natural Language. Springer, Berlin 2006
  • World puzzle from the point of view of modern science: emergence in nature, society, psychology, technology and religion . Springer, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-662-60761-9 (2nd edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://ki50.de/die-zehn-bedeutenden-technologien-der-deutschen-ki-geschichte/
  2. ↑ https://www.sempria.de/
personal data
SURNAME Helbig, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlau