CrowdSA
Employed Technologies: Java, GATE (incl. various Plug-Ins, such as TwitIE), PostgreSQL + postGIS, Visual Paradigm, Hibernate, various Natural Language Processing Tools (upon interest), R, Protégé, Weka, Python & scikit-learn
Areas of Interest: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Understanding, Semantic Enrichment, (Ontology-based) Information Extraction, Entity Disambiguation, Topic Detection & Tracking, Geoparsing, Point Pattern Analysis, Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Text Mining, Topic Detection & Tracking, Stream Processing
Open Topics for Seminar/Bachelor's/Master's Projects
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Current Projects
- "Mining the Information Nuggets" - Informativeness Filtering, IE & RelEx from Potentially Crisis-Related Tweets (David Graf), Master Thesis
- Adaptive Query Refinement (Eyad Haddad), Master Thesis
- "Crisis Briefing" – Automated Extraction of Crisis-Relevant Information from Tweets (Raphael Mosaner, Philipp Schwarz), Bachelor Project
- "Situation-adaptive Crowd-sensing" – Implementation of a Dynamic Twitter Stream Adapter on Apache Spark (Thomas Hintersteiner), Master Thesis
- Increasing Scalability – Big Data Technologies for Social Media Mining (Thomas Hintersteiner), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- A Tool Suite for Editing and Analyzing Situation Types (Daniel Neidhart), Master Thesis
Finished Projects
- Traffic Situation Analysis (Berthold Roiser), Project in Intelligent Information Systems
- SEMEVAL 2017 TASK 8 - Rumor classification (David Graf), Project in Intelligent Information Systems
- Automated Rumor Detection in Social Media (David Graf), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Ontology-Learning and the Pertinence of Social Media (Alexander Moser), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Effects and Detection of Social Botnets (Christian Huber), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Aerial Robotics and Image Analysis for Disaster Assessment (Franz Strasser), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Influencer Detection (Franziska Schaur), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Contextual Advertising (Michael Krieger), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Deep Learning for Text Understanding (Mario Kahlhofer), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Natural Language Understanding (Patrick Bonten), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Sketching the Situational Picture - Implementation of a PreparednessRadar for First Responders (Markus Weißenbek, Berthold Roiser), Bachelor Project - take a look at the resulting PROTOTYPE!!!
- Topic Detection & Tracking in Social Media (Simon Woisetschläger), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Predictive Modeling with Social Media Data (Raphael Mosaner), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Crowd-sourcing Social Media Analysis (Philipp Schwarz), Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- A Flexible Data Ingestion and Information Fusion Framework for SAW Applications (Ovidiu-Cristian Iliesiu), Bachelor Project
- Who is Tweeting? User Account Classification on Twitter (Sinan Arnaut), Seminar Thesis, Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Generating Natural Language Descriptions for Images (Stefana Fratean), Seminar Thesis, Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Text Mining Techniques for Social Media Data (Mhd Mousa Hamad), Seminar Thesis, Seminar in Intelligent Information Systems
- Data Quality Analysis for Crowd-Sensed Crisis Situation Awareness (Alexander Porod), Bachelor Project
- Semantic Enrichted Aggregation of Social Media (Carina Reiter), Master Thesis
- Evolution in Crowd Situation Awareness (Gerald Madlsperger), Master Thesis