KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

AND DISCOVERY LAB

Teaching

• Summer term 2011,2012 & 2013: Exercise class "Data Mining"
• Winter term 2012: Lecturer "Advanced Topics in Knowledge Management and Discovery (Sentiment/Opinion Mining)"
• Summer term 2013&2014: Coordinating "Seminar Bachelor"
• ERASMUS Teachers’ Mobility Program: Short lecture on "Advances in Opinion Stream Mining", Mai 2014 @ University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  
• Invited Talk: "Burst detection in streams of news data", September 2011@ University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Advised Theses

• Bachelor Theses
• Steven Böhlert (2011):
• Classification on microblogging text while utilizing well known techniques from text mining
• Sebastian Schultz (2012) in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation:
• Conception and design of a tool for hypothesis test upon databases
• Friedrich Lüder (2012) in cooperation with fme AG:
• Implementation of a mobile application for multi-platforms to consuming information on the basis of HTML5 and PhoneGap
• Matthias Lange (2013) in cooperation with Advanto Software GmbH:
• Predicting interest and trends of fiscal data at federal level
• Christian Bischoff (2013) in cooperation with Otto-von Guericke University of Magdeburg:
• Exploiting opinion mining for customer relationship management systems
• Jan Düwel (2013) in cooperation with Otto-von Guericke University of Magdeburg:
• Dynamic feature spaces in opinion stream classification
• Master Theses
• Alexander Kusz (2013) in cooperation with Otto-von Guericke University of Magdeburg:
• Sentiment analysis on product reviews by means of feature extraction and opinion summarization
• Tommy Hielscher (2013) in cooperation with Otto-von Guericke University of Magdeburg:
• Learn an adaptive domain specific lexion to compute the polarity of words

Advised Student Team/Software Projects (Software on request)

• Amazon Review Crawler (2011)
  
• Web crawler for job advertisements (2012)
• Skill predictor on evolving job advertisements (2013)
• Clustering of Opinionated Documents: A self-organizing map approach (2012)
  
• Learning Domain specific Lexicon (2013)
  
• Sentiment Visualization (2013)
  
• Efficient Unsupervised Discovery of Word Categories (2013)
  
• Efficiency of Density Based Hierachical Clustering in Opinion Mining (2014)
  
• Learning a polarity lexicon by WordNet Synonyms: A graph clustering approach (2014)