Marc Spaniol

Marc Spaniol

Full Professor, Dr., HDR
GREYC - CNRS UMR 6072
Room FB 320 (Campus 2, Bâtiment F)
Room S3 373 (Campus 2, Sciences 3)

Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Department of Computer Science
Campus Côte de Nacre
F-14032 Caen Cedex
France

Email: spaniol@unicaen.fr
Phone: +33 2 31 45 27 50
Phone: +33 2 31 56 74 39
Fax: +33 2 31 56 73 30

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Research Interests

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• Temporal Web Analytics
• Entity-level Web Analytics
• Web Science
• Analysis of Digital Social Networks
• Forensics
• Knowledge Management & Evolution
• Digital Libraries
• Web Archiving
• Multimedia Community Information Systems
• Cross-Media Analysis
• Technology Enhanced Learning

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Publications

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2025


• G. K. Shahi, O. Seneviratne and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  SemCAFE: When Named Entities make the Difference - Assessing Web Source Reliability through Entity-level Analytics
  Proceedings of the 17^th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'25), New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 20-23, 2025, pp. 148-157.
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• M. Spaniol, O. Alonso and R. Baeza-Yates:
  15^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb) Overview (TempWeb 2025), Sydney, Australia, April 29, 2025 pp. 1768-1769.
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• M. Spaniol, O. Alonso and R. Baeza-Yates (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 15^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2025), Sydney, Australia, April 29, 2025, pp. 1768-1810.
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2024


• K. Kinder-Kurlanda and M. Spaniol:
  Report on the PhD Symposium at WebSci'24
  SIGIR Forum 58(2): 1-5 (2024)
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso:
  Report on the 14^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2024) at WWW 2024
  SIGIR Forum 58(2): 1-5 (2024)
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• O. Alonso and M. Spaniol:
  Temporal Extraction and Retrieval
  Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques 2024: (pp. 359-387)
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• R. Heiberger, U. Gadiraju, M. Spaniol and K. Kinder-Kurlanda, A. Faleńska, A. Mashhadi,J. Sun, S. Kaiser and S. Staab (Eds.):
  Websci Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'24), Stuttgart, Germany, May 21-24, 2024.
  ACM, New York, NY, United States, ISBN 979-8-4007-0453-6, 2024.
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• K. Kinder-Kurlanda and M. Spaniol:
  The WebSci24 PhD Symposium (WebSci24), Stuttgart, Germany, May 21, 2024, p. 26.
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• K. Kinder-Kurlanda and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  The WebSci24 PhD Symposium Proceedings (WebSci24), Stuttgart, Germany, May 21, 2024, pp. 26-46.
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• M. Spaniol, O. Alonso and R. Baeza-Yates:
  14^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb) (TempWeb 2024), Singapore, May 14, 2024, p. 1372.
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• M. Spaniol, O. Alonso and R. Baeza-Yates (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 14^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2024), Singapore, May 14, 2024, pp. 1372-1406.
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2023


• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso:
  Report on the 13^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2023) at WWW 2023
  SIGIR Forum 57(2): 6:1-6:6 (2023)
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• C. S. González-González, B. Fernández-Manjón, F. Li, F. J. García-Peñalvo, F. Sciarrone, M. Spaniol, A. García-Holgado, M. Area-Moreira, M. Hemmje, T. Hao (Eds.):
  Learning Technologies and Systems (21st International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2022, and 7th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2022, Tenerife, Spain, November 21–23, 2022, Revised Selected Papers)
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 13869, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-031-33022-3, 2023.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso:
  13^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb) Overview (TempWeb 2023), Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023, pp. 1182.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 13^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2023), Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023, pp. 1182-1227.
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• L. H. U, Y. Sakurai and M. Spaniol:
  Preface to the special issue on the Asia Pacific Web (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM) 2021.
  World Wide Web (WWW) 26(2): 635-636 (2023)
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2022


• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso:
  Report on the 12^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2022) at WWW 2022.
  SIGIR Forum 56(2): 5:1-5:6 (2022)
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• A. Kumar and M. Spaniol
  There is a fine Line between Personalization and Surveillance: Semantic User Interest Tracing via Entity-level Analytics
  Proceedings of the 14^th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'22), Barcelona, Spain, June 26-29, 2022, pp. 22-33.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso:
  12^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb) Overview (TempWeb 2022), virtual conference, April 25, 2022, (978-1-4503-9130-6), pp. 894.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 12^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2022), virtual conference, April 25, 2022, (978-1-4503-9130-6), pp. 894-935.
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2021


• D. Ahlers, E. Wilde, M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso
  Report on the 11th international workshop on location and the web (LocWeb 2021) and the 11th temporal web analytics workshop (TempWeb2021) at WWW2021
  SIGIR Forum 55(2): 6:1-6:7.
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• Govind, C. Alec, J.-L. Manguin and M. Spaniol
  FETD²: A Framework for Enabling Textual Data Denoising via Robust Contextual Embeddings
  Proceedings of the 25^th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021), virtual conference, September 13-17, 2021, pp. 3-16.
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• A. Kumar and M. Spaniol
  Semantic Tagging via Entity-level Analytics: Assessment of Concise Content Tagging
  Proceedings of the 25^th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021), virtual conference, September 13-17, 2021, pp. 97-105.
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• A. Kumar and M. Spaniol
  AnnoTag: Concise Content Annotation via LOD-Tags derived from Entity-level Analytics
  Proceedings of the 25^th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021), virtual conference, September 13-17, 2021, pp. 175-180.
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• L. H. U, M. Spaniol, Y. Sakurai and J. Chen (Eds.):
  Web and Big Data - 5th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2021, Guangzhou, China, August 23-25, 2021, Proceedings, Part I
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 12858, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 78-3-030-85895-7, 2021.
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• L. H. U, M. Spaniol, Y. Sakurai and J. Chen (Eds.):
  Web and Big Data - 5th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2021, Guangzhou, China, August 23-25, 2021, Proceedings, Part II
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 12859, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 78-3-030-85895-7, 2021.
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• A. Kumar, Govind and M. Spaniol
  Semantic Search via Entity-Types: The SEMANNOREX Framework
  Proceedings of the 30^th Web Conference (www2021), virtual conference, April 12-23, 2021, (978-1-4503-8313-4), pp. 690-694.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and O. Alonso (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 11^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2021), virtual conference, April 12, 2021, (978-1-4503-8313-4), pp. 521-534.
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2020


• A. Kumar, Govind, C. Alec and M. Spaniol
  Blogger or President? Exploitation of Patterns in Entity Type Graphs for Representative Entity Type Classification
  Proceedings of the 12^th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'20), Southampton, UK, July 7-10, 2020, pp. 59-68.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 10^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, April 20, 2020, (978-1-4503-7024-0), pp. 324-349.
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2019


• R. Klamma, M. Spaniol and S. Unankard (Eds.):
  Advances in Web Based Learning - J.UCS Special Issue
  Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 1503-1665, ISSN 0948-6968, 2019.
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• R. Klamma, M. Spaniol and S. Unankard (Eds.):
  Advances in Web-Based Learning
  Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), Vol. 25, No. 12 (2019), pp. 1503-1506 , ISSN 0948-6968, pdf-file.
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• Govind, A. Kumar, C. Alec, M. Spaniol
  CALVADOS: A Tool for the Semantic Analysis and Digestion of Web Contents
  Proceedings of the 16^th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2019), Portorož, Slovenia, June 2-6, 2019, pp. 84-89.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 9^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-14, 2019, (978-1-4503-6675-5), pp. 1144-1770.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
  TempWeb 2019 Chairs’ Welcome Message
  Proceedings of the 9^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-14, 2019, (978-1-4503-6675-5), pp. 1144-1145.
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• Govind, C. Alec, M. Spaniol
  Fine-grained Web Content Classification via Entity-level Analytics: The Case of Semantic Fingerprinting
  Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), Special Issue "Enhancing the Web with Advanced Engineering - Best of ICWE 2018", River Publishers, Vol. 17, No. 6&7, 2019, pp. 449–482, pdf-file.
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2018


• G. Hancke, M. Spaniol, K. Osathanunkul, S. Unankard and R. Klamma (Eds.):
  Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2018
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 11007, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-319-96565-9, 2018.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 8^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2018), Lyon, France, April 23, 2018, (978-1-4503-5640-4), pp. 1729-1776.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
  TempWeb 2018 Chairs’ Welcome Message
  Proceedings of the 8^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2018), Lyon, France, April 23, 2018, (978-1-4503-5640-4), pp. 1729-1730.
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• Govind, C. Alec, M. Spaniol
  Semantic Fingerprinting: A Novel Method for Entity-level Content Classification
  Proceedings of the 18^th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2018), Cáceres, Spain, June 6-8, 2018, pp. 279-287.
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• Govind, C. Alec, M. Spaniol
  ELEVATE-live: Assessment and Visualization of Online News Virality via Entity-level Analytics
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2018), Cáceres, Spain, June 6-8, 2018, pp. 482-486.
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2017


• N. Boldyrev, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Multi-Cultural Interlinking of Web Taxonomies with ACROSS
  The Journal of Web Science (Web Science), Vol 3, No 1 (2017), pdf-file.
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• T.-C. Huang, R. Lau, Y.-M. Huang, M. Spaniol, C.-H. Yuen (Eds.):
  Emerging Technologies for Education
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 10676, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-319-71083-9, 2017.
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• R. Klamma and M. Spaniol
  Community Learning Analytics Support for Audio-visual Web-based Learning Contents: The CIDRE Framework
  Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2017), Cape Town, South Africa, September 20-22, 2017, pp. 82-87.
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• Govind and M. Spaniol
  ELEVATE: A Framework for Entity-level Event Diffusion Prediction into Foreign Language Communities
  Proceedings of the 9^th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'17), Troy, NY, USA, June 26-28, 2017, pp. 111-120.
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• N. Boldyrev, M. Spaniol, J. Strötgen and G. Weikum:
  SESAME: European Statistics Explored via Semantic Alignment onto Wikipedia
  Proceedings of the 26^th World Wide Web Conference (www2017), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017, (ACM 978-1-4503-4914-7), pp. 177-181.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 7^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2017), Perth, Australia, April 3, 2017, (ACM 978-1-4503-4914-7), pp. 1557-1606.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
  TempWeb 2017 Chairs’ Welcome Message
  Proceedings of the 7^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2017), Perth, Australia, April 3, 2017, (ACM 978-1-4503-4914-7), pp. 1557-1558.
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2016


• D.K.W. Chiu, I. Marenzi, U. Nanni, M. Spaniol and M. Temperini (Eds.):
  Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2016
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 10013, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-319-47440-3, 2016.
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• N. Boldyrev, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  ACROSS: A Framework for Multi-Cultural Interlinking of Web Taxonomies
  Proceedings of the 8^th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'16), Hannover, Germany, May 22-25, 2016, (ACM 978-1-4503-4208-7), pp. 127-136.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 6^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2016, (ACM 978-1-4503-4144-8), pp. 837-868.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
  TempWeb 2016 Chairs’ Welcome Message
  Proceedings of the 6^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2016, (ACM 978-1-4503-4144-8), pp. 837-838.
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2015


• P. Martin, M. Spaniol and A. Doucet:
  Temporal Reconciliation for Dating Photographs Using Entity Information.
  Proceedings of the 8^th International Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR’15), Melbourne, Australia, October 23, 2015, ACM (978-1-4503-3790-8), pp. 39-41.
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• N. Prytkova, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Methods for the Alignment of Multi-Cultural Knowledge Taxonomies
  Proceedings of the 24^th World Wide Web Conference (www2015), Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015, pp. 93-94.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 5^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2015), Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015, pp 1311-1380.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Baeza-Yates and J. Masanès:
  TempWeb 2015 Chairs’ Welcome Message
  Proceedings of the 5^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2015), Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015, pp 1311-1312.
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2014


• M. Spaniol:
  A Framework for Temporal Web Analytics
  Habilitation Thesis, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, December 9, 2014, pdf-file
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• M. A. Yosef, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  AIDArabic: A Named-Entity Disambiguation Framework for Arabic Text
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Doha, Qatar, October 25, 2014, 9 pages, pdf-file
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• M. Spaniol, J. Masanès and R. Baeza-Yates (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 4^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014), Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014, ACM (978-1-4503-2745-9), pp. 823-864.
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• M. Spaniol, J. Masanès and R. Baeza-Yates:
  The 4^th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb'14)
  Proceedings of the 4^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014), Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014, ACM (978-1-4503-2745-9), pp. 863-864.
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2013


• M. Spaniol, N. Prytkova and G. Weikum:
  Knowledge Linking for Online Statistics
  Proceedings of the 59^th World Statistics Congress (WSC 2013), Hong Kong, SAR, China, August 22-30, 2013, pdf-file.
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• M. A. Yosef, S. Bauer, J. Hoffart, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  HYENA-live: Fine-Grained Online Entity Type Classification from Natural-language Text
  Proceedings of the 51^st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013, pp. 133-138.
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• R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 3^rd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2013, ACM (978-1-4503-2038-2), pp. 1033-1108.
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• R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol:
  The 3^rd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb)
  Proceedings of the 3^rd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2013, ACM (978-1-4503-2038-2), pp. 1033-1034, pdf-file.
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2012


• M. A. Yosef, S. Bauer, J. Hoffart, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  HYENA: Hierarchical Type Classification for Entity Names
  Proceedings of the 24^th Intl. Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2012), Mumbai, India, December 8-15, 2012, pp. 1361-1370.
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• Y. Wang, M. Dylla, Z. Ren, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  PRAVDA-live: Interactive Knowledge Harvesting
  Proceedings of the 21^st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Maui, Hawaii, October 29 - November 2, 2012, pp. 2674-2676, pdf-file.
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• G. Weikum, J. Hoffart, N. Nakashole, M. Spaniol, F. M. Suchanek and M. A. Yosef:
  Big Data Methods for Computational Linguistics
  In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin Special Issue on Data Management beyond Database Systems, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2012, pp. 46-55, pdf-file.
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• J. Göbölös-Szabó, N. Prytkova, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Cross-Lingual Data Quality for Knowledge Base Acceleration across Wikipedia Editions
  Proceedings of the 10^th International Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, August 27, 2012, pdf-file.
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• Y. Wang, M. Dylla, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Coupling Label Propagation and Constraints for Temporal Fact Extraction
  Proceedings of the 50^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 8-14, pp. 233-237, 2012, pdf-file.
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• N. Prytkova, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Predicting the Evolution of Taxonomy Restructuring in Collective Web Catalogues
  Proceedings of the 15^th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2012), Scottsdale, AZ, May 20, 2012, pdf-file.
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• M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Tracking Entities in Web Archives: The LAWA Project
  Proceedings of the 21^st World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012, pp. 287-290, pdf-file.
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• R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 2^nd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012), in conjunction with the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012, ACM (ISBN 978-1-4503-1188-5).
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• R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol:
  The 2^nd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb)
  Proceedings of the 2^nd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012), in conjunction with the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012, ACM (ISBN 978-1-4503-1188-5), pdf-file
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• M. Spaniol, A. Benczúr, Z. Viharos and G. Weikum:
  Big Web Analytics: Toward a Virtual Web Observatory
  ERCIM News No. 89 Special Issue on "Big Data", pp. 23-24, April, 2012, pdf-file.
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2011


• Y. Wang, B. Yang, L. Qu, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Harvesting Facts from Textual Web Sources by Constrained Label Propagation
  Proceedings of the 20^th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, October 24-28, 2011, pp. 837-846, pdf-file.
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• J. Hoffart, M. A. Yosef, I. Bordino, H. Fürstenau, M. Pinkal, M. Spaniol, S. Thater and G. Weikum:
  Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text
  Proceedings of EMNLP 2011: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 27-31, 2011, pp. 782-792, pdf-file.
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• M. A. Yosef, J. Hoffart, I. Bordino, M. Spanioland G. Weikum:
  AIDA: An Online Tool for Accurate Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text and Tables
  In Proc. of the 37^th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011), August 29 - September 3, 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 1450-1453, pdf-file.
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• R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 1^st International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TWAW 2011), in conjunction with the 20^thInternational World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Hyderabad, India, March 28, 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 707, ISSN 1613-0073, urn:nbn:de:0074-707-8, pdf-file.
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• D. Denev, A. Mazeika, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  SHARC: Framework for Quality Conscious Web Archiving
  VLDB Journal, Vol. 20, Number 2, 2011, pp. 183-207, pdf-file.
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• R. Baeza-Yates, J. Masanès and M. Spaniol:
  The 1^st Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TWAW).
  Proceedings of the 20^th World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Bangalore, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011, pp. 307-308, pdf-file.
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• Y. Wang, B. Yang, S. Zoupanos, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Scalable Spatio-temporal Knowledge Harvesting
  Proceedings of the 20^th World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Bangalore, India, March 28 - April 1, 2011, pp. 143-144, pdf-file.
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• G. Weikum, N. Ntarmos, M. Spaniol, P. Triantafillou, A. Benczúr, S. Kirkpatrick, P. Rigaux and M. Williamson:
  Longitudinal Analytics on Web Archive Data: It's About Time!
  Proceedings of the 5^th biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Asilomar, CA, USA, January 9 - 12, pp. 199-202, 2011, pdf-file.
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2010


• X. Luo, M. Spaniol, L. Wang, Q. Li, W. Nejdl and W. Zhang (Eds.):
  Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2010
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 6483, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-17406-3, 2010.
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• J. Masanès, A. Rauber and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 10^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2010), in conjunction with the 7^th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010), Vienna, Austria, September 22 - September 23, 2010, pdf-file.
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• A. Mazeika, D. Denev. M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  The SOLAR System for Sharp Web Archiving
  Proceedings of the 10^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2010), pdf-file, in conjunction with the 7^thInternational Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010), Vienna, Austria, September 22 - September 23, pp. 24-30, 2010.
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• T. K. Shih, R. Lau, N. Magnenat-Thalmann M. Spaniol and Baltasar Fernández-Manjón:
  The 2^nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (Preface)
  Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning (MTDL 2010), in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 29, 2010.
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• M. Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma and R. Lau (Eds.):
  Advances in Web Based Learning
  Journal of Distance Education Technologies (JDET), Special Issue: Advances in Web-Based Learning, Vol 8., Issue 3, 2010.
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• M. Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma and R. Lau:
  Advances in Web Based Learning (Guest Editorial Preface)
  Journal of Distance Education Technologies (JDET), Special Issue: Advances in Web-Based Learning, Vol 8., Issue 3, Preface, 2010.
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• L. Jäger, M. Jarke, R. Klamma and M. Spaniol:
  Transkriptivität: Operative Medientheorien als Grundlage von Informationssystemen für die Kulturwissenschaften
  Schriftenreihe "Automatismen", H. Bublitz, R. Marek, C. L. Steinmann and H. Winkler (Eds.): Automatismen, ISBN 978-3-7705-4987-0, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, pp. 299-313, 2010.
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• Y. Wang, M. Zhu, L. Qu, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  Timely YAGO: Harvesting, Querying, and Visualizing Temporal Knowledge from Wikipedia
  Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) [demo paper], Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22-26, pp. 697-700, 2010.
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2009


• M. Spaniol, Q. Li, R. Klamma and R. Lau (Eds.):
  Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009
  Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 5686, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-03425-1, 2009.
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• J. Masanès, A. Rauber and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  Proceedings of the 9^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009), in conjunction with the 13^th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 1, 2009, pdf-file.
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• M. Spaniol, A. Mazeika, D. Denev and G. Weikum:
  ''Catch me if you can'': Visual Analysis of Coherence Defects in Web Archiving
  Proceedings of the 9^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009), pp. 27-37, pdf-file, in conjunction with the 13^th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 1, 2009.
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• R. Klamma, M. Spaniol and M. Jarke:
  Knowledge Multimedia Processes in Technology Enhanced Learning
  Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning (MTDL 2009), in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Beijing, China, October 23, 2009.
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• D. Denev, A. Mazeika, M. Spaniol and G. Weikum:
  SHARC: Framework for Quality Conscious Web Archiving
  Proceedings of the 35^th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009), Lyon, France, August 24-28, pp. 586-597, 2009.
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• M. Spaniol, D. Denev, A. Mazeika, P. Senellart and G. Weikum:
  Data Quality in Web Archiving
  Proceedings of the 3^rd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2009), pp. 19-26, pdf-file, in conjunction with the 18^th World Wide Web Conference (www2009), Madrid, Spain, April 20, 2009.
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• M. Spaniol, R. Klamma and Y. Cao:
  Media Centric Knowledge Sharing on the Web 2.0
  M. D. Lytras, R. Tennyson and P. O. de Pablos (Eds.): Knowledge Networks: The Social Software Perspective, IDEA Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 46-60, 2009.
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2008


• M. Lux, M. Granitzer and M. Spaniol (Eds.):
  Multimedia Semantics - The Role of Metadata
  Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-77472-3, 2008.
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Publications 2002-2008

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Research Results

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• Semantic User Interest Tracing (SUIT)
• A Framework for Enabling Textual Data Denoising via Robust Contextual Embeddings (FETD²)
• Concise Content Annotation via LOD Tags derived from Entity-level Analytics (AnnoTag)
• SEMantic ANNOtation, Retrieval and EXploration (SEMANNOREX)
• Pattern Utilization for Representative Entity type classification (PURE)
• A Tool for the Semantic Analysis and Digestion of Web Contents (CALVADOS)
• A Novel Method for Entity-level Content Classification (Semantic Fingerprinting)
• Assessment and Visualization of Online News Virality via Entity-level Analytics (ELEVATE-live)
• A Framework for Entity-level Event Diffusion Prediction into Foreign Language Communities (ELEVATE)

Research Datasets & Demos

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Projects

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Current Projects

• INDYX (IndeXation Dynamique)

Previous Projects

• ASTURIAS (Analyse STructURelle et Indexation sémantique d’ArticleS de presse)
• e-CoVeR (Élaboration d’une Communauté de Veille Régionale)
• The Scientific Network "Media of Collective Intelligence" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  
  


• The EU Small or Medium-Scale Focussed Research Project (STREP) on Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data: LAWA
  
  


• The EU Large-Scale Integrating Project (IP) on LivingKnowledge - Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time
  
  


• The EU Small or Medium-Scale Focussed Research Project (STREP) on Living Web Archives: LiWA
  
  


• SFB/FK 427: "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation"
  
  
  
  
• The EU Network of Excellence (NoE) in Professional Learning: PROLEARN
  
  
  
  

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Recent Positions

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• Steering Committee Member of the International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL)
• Posters-Chair of the 18^th Web Science Conference, Braunschweig, Germany, 2026
• Conference Co-Chair of the 24^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2025), Hong Kong, SAR, China, November 30 - December 3, 2025
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 1^st Ethical Web Science Workshop 2025, in conjunction with the Web Science Conference (WebSci'25), New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 20-23, 2025
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 15^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2025), in conjunction with The Web Conference (The Web Conference 2025), Sydney, Australia, April 28 - May 2, 2025
• Co-Chair of the WebSci'24 PhD Consortium, Stuttgart, Germany, May 21, 2024
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 14^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2024), in conjunction with The Web Conference (The Web Conference 2024), Singapore, Singapore, May 13-17, 2024
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 13^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2023), in conjunction with The Web Conference (The Web Conference 2023), Austin, TX, USA, April 30 - May 4, 2023
• Conference Co-Chair of the 7^th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2022), Tenerife, Spain, November 22-23, 2022
  
  
  
  
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 12^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2022), in conjunction with The Web Conference (The Web Conference 2022), Lyon, France, online, April 25/26, 2022
• Program Co-Chair of the 5^th International Asia Pacific Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM 2021), Guangzhou, China, August 23-25, 2021
  
  
  


• Chair of the WSTNET Web Science Summer School 2020/2021 (WWSSS2020/2021), Caen, France, June 28 - July 2, 2021
  
  
  
  


• Workshop Co-Chair of the 11^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2021), in conjunction with The Web Conference (The Web Conference 2021), Ljubljana, Slovenia, online, April 19, 2021
• Program Co-Chair of the 5^th IEEE International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (IEEE DSC 2020), Hong Kong, SAR, China, online, June 24-27, 2020
  
  
  


• Publicity Chair (France) of the 24^th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2020), Lyon, France, online, August 25-28, 2020
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 10^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2020), in conjunction with The Web Conference (The Web Conference 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, online, April 20-24, 2020
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 9^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2019), in conjunction with The Web Conference (www2019), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 13-17, 2019
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 8^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2018), in conjunction with The Web Conference (www2018), Lyon, France, April 25-27, 2018
• Program Co-Chair of the 17^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2018), Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 22-24, 2018
  
  
  


• Program Co-Chair of the 2^nd International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2017), Cape Town, South Africa, September 20-22, 2017
  
  


• Workshop Co-Chair of the 7^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2017), in conjunction with the 26^th World Wide Web Conference (www2017), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017
• Conference Co-Chair of the 15^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2016), Rome, Italy, October 26-29, 2016




• Workshop Co-Chair of the 6^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2016), in conjunction with the 25^th World Wide Web Conference (www2016), Montreal, Canada, April 12, 2016
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 5^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2015), in conjunction with the 24^th World Wide Web Conference (www2015), Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 4^th International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014), in conjunction with the 23^rd World Wide Web Conference (www2014), Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 3^rd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013), in conjunction with the 22^nd World Wide Web Conference (www2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2013
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 2^nd International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2012), in conjunction with the 21^st World Wide Web Conference (www2012), Lyon, France, April 17, 2012
• Scientific advisory board member of the EU integrated project (IP) ARchive COmmunities MEMories (ARCOMEM)
• Member of the Scientific Network "Media of collective Intelligence" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 1^st International Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TWAW 2011), in conjunction with the 20^th World Wide Web Conference (www2011), Hyderabad, India, March 28, 2011
• Program Co-Chair of the 9^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2010), Shanghai, PR China, 2010
  
  


• Workshop Co-Chair of the 12^th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community (SMDT 2010), Saarbrücken, Germany, December 1-3, 2010
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 10^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2010), Vienna, Austria, September 22-23, 2010
• Workshop Co-Chair of the 2^nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Leaning (MTDL 2010), Florence, Italy, October 29, 2010
• Special Session Chair of the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010), Jinhua, PR China, July 5-7, 2010
• Program Co-Chair of the 8^th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009), Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009
  
  
  
  


• Workshop Co-Chair of the 9^th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 1, 2009
• Journal reviewer (occasional) of:

• Springer Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (FITEE)

• Springer International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL)

• Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters (PRLETTERS)

• Elsevier Information Processing and Management (IPM)

• Elsevier Information Systems (InfSys)

• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (ToLT)

• Conference/Workshop Organization & Reviews

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Teaching

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• Lectures and Teaching Assistance
• Supervised Theses

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Education

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• March 2008 - August 2014:
  Post-Doctoral Researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Department 5: Databases and Information Systems
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum
  
• March 2002 - February 2008:
  Ph.D. student at the Chair of Databases and Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University within the Collaborative Research Center 427: Media and Cultural Communication (Subproject: Capacity to Act in Digital Social Networks)
  Thesis title: "Methods of Information Technology in Support of Transcription, Localization and Addressing for Cultural Science Communities" (pdf-file, in German)
  Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke and Dr. Ralf Klamma
  
• October 1996 - February 2002:
  Diploma in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
  Thesis title: "Situationsgesteuerte Inhaltspräsentation unter Verwendung mobiler Assistenten: Modellierung und Bewertung von Situationsmustern" (pdf-file, in German)
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke
  

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Awards

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• Friedrich-Wilhelm Preis dissertation award 2008 of RWTH Aachen University
• 2^nd place in the Sun Software competition 1998 "Rugball" together with Rajendra Persaud at RWTH Aachen University
• 2^nd place in the Sun Software competition 1997 "Wormworld" together with Rajendra Persaud at RWTH Aachen University

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Private

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Hobbies

• Travelling
• Soccer (Alemannia Aachen in particular)
• Jogging
• Swimming

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