Teaching

I gave several lectures and seminars in English and German at the computer science institutes of Saarland University, Heidelberg University and the University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe:

• Data Engineering, core lecture, Hochschule Karlsruhe, winter '22/'23

• Information Retrieval and Data Mining, core lecture, Saarland University, winter '17/'18, (with Jilles Vreeken)

• Big Data and Advanced Database Concepts, lecture, Hochschule Karlsruhe, summer '17, (with Andreas Schmidt)

• Information Extraction, seminar, Saarland University, winter '16/'17

• Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval, lecture, Saarland University, summer '16, (with Vinay Setty)

• Event Extraction, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer'15, (with Michael Gertz, Johanna Geiß, Thomas Bögel, Andreas Spitz)

• Recommender Systems, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer '14, (with Michael Gertz, Christian Sengstock, Thomas Bögel)

• Social Networks Data Analytics, seminar, Heidelberg University, winter '13/'14, (with Michael Gertz, Christian Sengstock, Thomas Bögel)

• Topic Models, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer '13, (with Michael Gertz, Christian Sengstock)

• Text Mining, seminar, Heidelberg University, winter '11/'12, (with Michael Gertz)

• Spatio-temporal Logics and Reasoning, seminar, Heidelberg University, winter '10/'11, (with Michael Gertz)

• Text Mining, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer '10, (with Michael Gertz)

Supervision

I am currently (co-)supervising / supervised two PhD students at BCAI:

• Lukas Lange, co-supervised with Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University) and Heike Adel-Vu (2019-2022)

  • Robust input representations for low-resource information extraction (pdf)

• Subhash Chundra Pujari, co-supervised with Michael Gertz (Heidelberg University) and Annemarie Friedrich (2019-)

(Co-)supervised Bachelor and Master Theses

I (co-)supervised several Bachelor and Master theses at Heidelberg University and Saarland University:

Saarland University (2017-2018)

• Ioannis Dikeoulias: Analyzing and Predicting the Stability of Knowledge Base Properties (BA, 2018)

• Fariha Nasir: Emotional Timelines in Novels (MA, 2018)

• Faraz Ahmad: Improved Multilingual Temporal Tagging with HeidelTime (MA, 2018)

• Prabal Agarwal: Time-aware Named Entity Disambiguation (MA, 2017)

• Rosita Andrade: Times on Maps – Extracting, Analyzing and Explaining Dates in Street Names Across the World (MA, 2017)

• Tatiana Anikina: Sentiment and Emotion Movie Script Annotation (BA, 2017)

• Lukas Lange Time in Newspaper – A Large-Scale Analysis of Temporal Expressions in News Corpora (BA, 2017)

Heidelberg University (2009 – 2014)

• Christian Karr: Effektive Indexierung von räumlichen und zeitlichen Daten (BA, 2014)

• Andreas Zerkowitz: Aufbau und Analyse eines Event-Repository aus Wikipedia (BA, 2013)

• Viktor Bersch: Methoden zur temporalen Analyse und Exploration von Reviews (BA, 2013)

• Daniel Egenolf: Extraktion und Normalisierung von Personeninformation für die Kombination mit Spatio-temporal Events (BA, 2013)

• Tobias Limpert: Verbesserung der spatio-temporal Event Extraktion und ihrer Kontextinformation durch Relationsextraktionsmethoden (BA, 2013)

• Marek Walkowiak: Gazetteer-gestützte Erkennung und Disambiguierung von Toponymen in Text (BA, 2013)

• Manuel Kaufmann: Modellierung und Analyse heuristischer und linguistischer Methoden zur verbesserten Eventextraktion (BA, 2012)

• Christian Kapp: HeiPer HeiPer - Person Comparison based on Name Normalization and Spatio-temporal Events (MA, 2012)

• Andreas Fay: Correlation and Exploration of Events (MA, 2012)

• Britta Keller: Ein Event-basiertes Ähnlichkeitsmodell für biomedizinische Dokumente (BA, 2011)

• Frank Tobian: Modell und Rankingverfahren zur Kombination von textueller und geographischer Suche (BA, 2011)

• Marius Iuresi: TempusQuaestio: Modellierung und Implementierung einer temporalen Anfragesprache zur Dokumentensuche (BA, 2010)

• Pavel Popov: GeoDok: Extraktion und Visualisierung von Ortsinformationen in Dokumenten (BA, 2009)