WISS RESEARCH GROUP - Key Persons
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- Projects: IBM / Dates: ( 2016 - 2017 )
- Student Research Assistant
Anh Duc studies Business Informatics (Bachelor). He is mainly concerned with the application of IBM Watson technologies for data mining and data integration tasks.
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- Projects: WISS / Dates: ( 2019 - 2020 )
- Student Research Assistant
Annika Bilger is a student at the Stuttgart Media University, currently studying for her Bachelor in Information Science. She works as student assistant for the Japanese Visual Media Graph project.
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- Researcher
- Interim Professor
- Interim Professor ( WS 2016 / 17 and SS 2019 )
Benjamin Zapilko is a postdoctoral researcher and lead of the team Data Linking at the GESIS department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (WTS). He joined GESIS in 2007 after his graduation in computer science at University of Koblenz. While working in several projects, he started his research in the field of Semantic Web and Linked Open Data. In 2015, he finished his doctoral research on publication and matching of Linked Open Data in the application field of the social sciences at Mannheim University. Benjamin Zapilko is member of the RDF Vocabularies Working Group of the DDI Alliance and was co-organizer of the Library Track at the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) from 2012 to 2014.
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- Expert in Natural Language Processing With a
- Research Fellow
Dr. Dadvar is an expert in natural language processing with a PhD in computer science from University of Twente, Netherlands. Her prior research focused on cyber-bullying detection in social networks. Within the FID Judaica project, she will combine NLP techniques with identity resolution approaches to facilitate rich data integration.
Students interested in writing a Bachelor or Master thesis in this field are very welcome to get in touch.
Marco Rovera, Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Anna Goy: Domain-specific named entity disambiguation in historical memoirs in CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2006, pp. Paper-20, RWTH, 2017.
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- Research Fellow / Research
Thomas Hartmann studied information systems and holds degrees in Computer Science from TU Munich (M.Sc.) and KIT Karlsruhe (PhD).
His research topic is all about RDF validation. He investigates how to validate any RDF constraints (formulated by arbitrary constraint languages) and how to express them generically. He presented his work at international conferences and workshops (e.g. WWW, ISWC, DC, and Dagstuhl seminars). Thomas Hartmann is member of the RDF Vocabularies Working Group of the DDI Alliance, part of the editorial board of the DCMI RDF Application Profiles Task Group, editor of the specifications DDI-RDF Discovery Vocabulary (Disco) and Physical Data Description (PHDD), and contributes to the W3C RDF Data Shapes Working Group.
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- Projects: Deutsche Welle / Dates: ( 2016 )
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- Research Fellow, Lecturer, Data Scientist
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- Researcher
- Japanese Visual Media Graph ( 2019 - 2022 )
Publications
2021
Luca Bruno: A Glimpse of the Imaginative Environment: Exploring the Potential of Data-driven Examinations of Visual Novel Characters in Japan's Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global: Content, Practice and Theory, pp. 143-170, DOI 10.11588/crossasia.971.c12882, CrossAsia-eBooks Heidelberg , Berlin, 2021.
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- Projects: WISS / Dates: since 2020
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- Projects: JudaicaLink / Dates: ( 2020 - 2021 )
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- Professor at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
- Stuttgart Media University
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- Researcher
- Visiting Researcher
- Visiting Researcher ( SS 2017 )
Mari Itoh is a visiting researcher in the WISS research group. She is a professor at the faculty of human informatics at the Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan.
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- Projects: JudaicaLink / Dates: since 2020
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow, Data Scientist