Dr. Alexander Löser
Technische Universität Berlin
DIMA Group, Sekr. EN7
Einsteinufer 17
10587 Berlin, Germany
Email:
Alexander.Loeser –NOSPAM – at TU-Berlin.de
Tel.: 0049 30 314 23551
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News/Blog!
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07/2009 Tutorial: DIA Deutsche
Informatik Akademie: Ad-hoc Analyse unstrukturierter Web-2.0-Daten (in
German on 25.11.2009)
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07/2009 Keynote
accepted: “Beyond Search:
Web Scale Business Analytics”. WISE 2009. (Presentation)
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07/2009 Paper
accepted: “Ad-hoc
Queries over Document Collections – a Case Study” by A.Löser, S.Lutter,
P. Düssel and V. Markl. BIRTE@VLDB 2009
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06/2009 Paper
accepted: “Near-Duplicate
Detection for Web-Forums” by K. Muthmann, A. Löser, W. Barczynski, F.
Brauer for IDEAS’09
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06/2009 Book
Chapter accepted: “Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Computing”. Springer 2010
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05/2009 Paper
accepted: W.
Barczynski, F. Brauer, A. Löser, A. Mocan: Algebraic Information Extraction of Enterprise Data: Methodology and
Operators.
Identity and Reference in Web-based
Knowledge Representation (IR-KR 2009), July 2009, Pasadena, USA
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03/2009
Presentation: Near Duplicate Detection in Forums presented at “GI-Studierendenwettbewerb/InformatikTage 2009” by Klemens Muthmann
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03/2009
Presentation: GOOLAP Project presented
at “GI-Studierendenwettbewerb/InformatikTage 2009” by Ralf Heyde and Steffen Lutter
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02/2009 Tutorial: BTW
2009 Tutorial “Ad-Hoc Analytics of Unstructured Web 2.0 Data”
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01/2009
Presentation: “Fast
Ad-hoc Reporting over Text Data” given “at HU-Berlin and FU Berlin
Research
My research interests are
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Information
Extraction Systems
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Cloud Computing
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The integration of Search
Engines with Business Intelligence Systems
For recent activities please
download “Beyond
Search: Web Scale Business Analytics” (Keynote at WISE 2009).
Systems
My
current and past work includes base research and system building activities.
I ‘m and was involved in these projects:
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Text Data Bases
(since 2006)
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GOOLAP.info Project at TU-Berlin : Scalable OLAP
Analytics of Web-based Textual Data at the Scale of the German Web
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SAP AG / Large
Scale European Project “OKKAM”
: Duplicate Detection in Question
Answering Forums for more than 1 Million SAP SDN customers
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IBM Avatar Project
: Intranet and Email Search at Enterprise Scale
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Peer-to-Peer
Networks (2001-2005)
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Large Scale
European Project “Edutella“
: Semantics & Peer-to-Peer networks
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Large Scale
European Project “SWAP : Social network analysis in Peer-to-Peer networks
Selected Publications (see also DBLP)
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Situational
Business Intelligence
Alexander Löser, Fabian Hueske, Volker Markl,. BIRTE with VLDB 2008
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Mapping
Enterprise Entities to Text Segments
Falk Brauer, Alexander Löser, Hong-Hai Do. PIKM Workshop at CIKM 2008
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Robust recognition of complex entities in text exploiting enterprise
data
Falk Brauer, Marcus Schramm,
Wojciech Barczynski, Alexander Löser, Hong-Hai Do. 3. IEEE International
Conference on Digital Information (ICDIM) 2008
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Web 2.0 Business Analytics
Alexander
Löser, Gregor Hackenbroich, Hong-Hai Do, Henrike Berthold. Datenbank Spektrum, 25/2008
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Navigating
the intranet with high precision
Alexander
Löser, Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu. 16th
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’07)
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Semantic Social Overlay Networks
Alexander Löser, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tempich.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Special Issue
Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications 2007
Services
Editor
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International Journal of Semantic Web and
Information Systems: Special Issue on
New Avenues in Search 2010
(together with Gottfried Vossen and Darrell D.E. Long)
PC Member
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World Wide Web
Conference (WWW) 2010
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Information Systems
Journal (published by Elsevier) 2009
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International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2009, 2008, 2007
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European Semantic
Web Conference (ESWC) 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
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ODBASE 2009, 2008,
2007
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Asian Semantic Web
Conference 2008
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IEEE GlobeCom 2007
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AAAI 2006 Fall
Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition
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IEEE Journal JSAC:
Special issue on P2P Communications and Applications 2007
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SIGMOD RECORD
2003/Vol 32, No 3, Special Section on Peer to Peer Data
Management 2003
Other
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Advisor for International Doctoral School
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento
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Member of ACM
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Member of the
German Scholars Organization (GSO)
Funding
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OKKAM FP 7 integrated
project (Acquired funding while working for SAP AG) started 01.01.2008
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BMBF Lighthouse project Aletheia
(Acquired funding while working for SAP AG) started 01.03.2008
Teaching
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Lecture Data
Warehouse Systems and Business Intelligence WS 2009/2010
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Database Project and
Project Seminar WS 2009/2010: GOOLAP V2
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Master Project and
Project Seminar SS 2009: GOOLAP ELECTIONS 2009: Blog Analysis with Respect to
German Elections 2009
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Master and Project
Seminar WS 2008/2009: GOOLAP:
News Analysis and Information Extraction
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Invited Lecture “Unstructured Information Management for
Enterprise Data”, HPI Postdam 2007
Students
Collaborations
with PhD Students:
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Current : Wojciech
Barczynski (SAP AG), Falk Brauer
(SAP AG), Klemens
Muthmann (TU Dresden)
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Past : Dr.
Karen Walzer
Supervisor for Master
Students:
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Current : Steffen
Lutter, Ralf
Heyde, Ronny Schwierzinsky
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Past : Bastian
Quilitz, Kai
Schubert Altmann, Frederick
Zimmer, Stefan Deumlich, Marcus Schramm, Klemens
Muthmann
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Alexander Löser,
Wojtiech Barzcyinski, Falk Brauer: Systems and methods for modular
information extraction.
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Huiyu Zhu,
Alexander Löser, Sriram Raghavan and Shiv. Vaithyanathan: Searching
navigational pages in an intranet.
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Alexander Löser,
Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan: Method and system for
automatically generating regular expressions for relaxed matching of text
patterns.
Awards
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Honourable mention
in Computer World
Horizon Award 2006 for the Avatar Semantic Search System
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Fellow ship granted
for DFG graduate
school on distributed information systems in Berlin, GRK Grant
316/3
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Special Award of Multimedia
Transfer 2000 Karlsruhe for Virtual Design
Misc
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Stefanie Denz,
Alexander Löser, Vom Westen ergriffen, In DOTCOPY Zukunftsmagazin, Journal of the
Austrian Telekom, 12/03
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Virtual Design
Update - Prospects for design professionals.Born, Hannecke, Heine,
Karpati, Kemnitz, Löser, Schmidt, Vestner
Steinbeis Fundation, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-931221-27-X.
CV (Short
Form, Extend CV available upon request)
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Since 10/2008
Technische Universität Berlin
Senior Scientist in the DIMA
group of Prof. Volker Markl
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02/2007 - 09/2008 SAP Research
CEC Dresden
Senior Scientist with the “Data Management and
Analytics” Research Programme
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01/2006-01/2007
IBM Almaden Research Center
Postdoc Avatar project
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2004 Hewlett
Packard Research Laboratories Bristol
2-month Ph.D. internship in the “Jena Semantic Web Framework”
Project
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2001-2004 University of Technology Berlin
Graduate teaching assistant
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