News

2019

• DATEXIS Startup "Qualifiction" at NDR television
• Our MACSS project with the Charité and the SAP will be awarded the Max Rubner Preis on January 15, 2019.
  The project is about measures to prevent a kidney transplant or to keep a transplanted kidney "in" longer. (Increase therapy adherence).
• Paper accepted: Sebastian Arnold, Rudolf Schneider, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Felix A. Gers and Alexander Löser. "SECTOR: A Neural Model for Coherent Topic Segmentation and Classification." Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2019).
• Paper accepted: Torsten Kilias, Alexander Löser, Felix Gers, Ying Zhang, Richard Koopmanschap and Martin Kersten. "IDEL: In-Database Neural Entity Linking". IEEE BigCom 2019

2018

• Rudolf Schneider Leibniz Startup & Industry Event "Künstliche Intellegenz" in the atrium of Leibniz Universität Hannover organized by Forschungszentrum L3S. Presentation of solutions developed in MACSS on November 20, 2018
• Alexander Löser invited as expert in leading AI Platform " BMBF Lernende Systeme" Working Group 1:Technological Enablers and Data Science
• Betty van Aken, Julian Risch, Ralf Krestel, Alexander Löser published Challenges for Toxic Comment Classification at EMNLP 2018
• Christopher Kümmel gives a talk at Data&Drinks "Reducing Machine Learning costs with Active Learning" on 7.11.2018
• Alexander Löser gives talk at science match with Tagesspiegel 2018
• Alexander Löser invited Expert for H2020 in Brussels in June 2018
• Rudolf Schneider, Betty  van Aken and Alexander Löser present our work on neural text mining at German Finnish Information Exchange 2018 in the Finnish Embassy Berlin and the smart data forum
• Joint Beuth-Team (Betty van Aken,  Iurri Chernusheko) and HPI (Julian Risch) achive notable 54th. rank (out of of 4000) at   Kaggle Hate Speech Competition 

• Qualifiction awarded with Start-up Award at Leipzig Book Fair
  

• Alexander Löser Tutorial Chair at IEEE BigComp 2019 Kyoto

• DB Schenker about our work on improving supply chain management and data science.

• Handelsblatt goes future: Artifical Intelligence conference with speakers Alex Löser and startup Qualifiction, as well as our partners Zalando and DFKI

• Invited Talk at BISCUITS first workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability with Alex Löser at Kyoto University, Japan (21.3.2018)

• Paper accepted: Rudolf Schneider, Sebastian Arnold, Tom Oberhauser, Tobias Klatt, Thomas Steffek, Alexander Löser, "Smart-MD: Neural Paragraph Retrieval of Medical Topics". In WWW ’18 Companion: The 2018 Web Conference Companion, April 23–27, 2018, Lyon, France. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. [video]

• Former Team Member Cordula Guder (now with SAP Innovation Center) awarded as best master student in computer science at Beuth for winter term 17/18.

2017

• Newspaper article about the NOHATE project in "Der Tagesspiegel" (2.12.2017)

• ProductTank Berlin #14: Data Products: Talk with Alex Löser - "The Rise of the Data Science Organization" (21.9.2017)

• Paper accepted: Rudolf Schneider, Tom Oberhauser, Tobias Klatt, Felix A. Gers, Alexander Löser, RelVis: Benchmarking OpenIE Systems. International Semantic Web Conference (Posters, Demos & Industry Tracks) 2017

• Paper accepted: Rudolf Schneider, Tom Oberhauser, Tobias Klatt, Felix A. Gers, and Alexander Löser, “Analysing Errors of Open Information Extraction Systems,” accepted for BLGNLP 2017 Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems at EMNLP 2017

• Lukas Abegg with Thesis on "Maschine Learning for Search Engine Optimization" awarded as best bachelor student for summer term 2017.

• Paper accepted: FashionBrain Project at KDD2017 workshop "Machine learning meets fashion" in Nova Scotia, Canada (14.8.2017)

• Leading article Data Science in Beuth Magazin 1/2017 about the new Data Science Master in english language starting this Winterterm 2017 at Beuth University [pdf]

• Presentations by Sebastian Arnold, Torsten Kilias and Rudolf Schneider at the Hasso Plattner Institut Department for Information Systems (9.6.2017)

• Artificial Intelligence Day by Springer Nature on 11.5.2017 [video]

• Discussion Let's talk about Data Products! by inovex GmbH with Alexander Löser in Cologne (4.5.2017)

• New article on our work with Exasol about executing text mining tasks in a main memory database

• New MOOC on Artifical Intelligence and Deep Learning with 'acatech' starts soon: mooc.house/courses/machinelearning-2016

• Meetup in Hamburg 23.1.2017: Deep Learning for Text Mining Tasks

• Kickoff EU H2020 Project "FashionBrain" in Luxemburg in 01/2017 

2016

• DATEXIS member Tom Oberhauser wins "Best Student Award" 2016

• Two Demonstration Papers accepted at COLING 2016: "TASTY: Interactive Entity Linking As-You-Type" (Sebastian Arnold, Robert Dziuba, Alexander Löser) and "Interactive Relation Extraction in Main Memory   Database Systems" (Rudolf Schneider, Cordula Guder, Torsten Kilias, Alexander Löser, Jens Graupmann (ExaSOL AG) Oleksandr Kozachuk (ExaSOL AG))

• New Paper: Sebastian Arnold, Felix A. Gers, Torsten Kilias, Alexander Löser: Robust Named Entity Recognition in Idiosyncratic Domains. arXiv:1608.06757 [cs.CL] 2016

• BITKOM publishes new Report "Germany – Excellence in Big Data" with Data Science Group at Beuth University of Applied Sciences

• Meetup in Karlsruhe Oct 12th. 2016: Deep Learning for Text Mining Tasks 

• Long Night of Sciences with DATEXIS: My Search Engine reads me. With Sebastian Arnold and Robert Dzuiba. 11.6.2016, Beuth-HS, Haus Grashof 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM 10:00 PM

• Talk of Sebastian Arnold at Zalando Deep Learning Meetup on "Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Text Mining Tasks"

• Talk at Quo Vadis Game Developer Conference Understanding Text with Deep Machine Learning

• PT Jühlich recommends EXIST SEED Project Pyramics: The technique recognizes from a mini-camera at the shop flor faces, age, sex and viewing angles of potential customers. Alexander Löser from DATEXIS mentors the team. 

2015 

• New collaboration: DATEXIS joins Cloudera Academic Partnership Program (CAP)

• Talk: Alexander Löser gives keynote at IBM Business Connect 2015 on "Data Value Chains - A successful modell for Germany and Europe"

• Talk: BITKOM AK Big Data in Berlin on In-Data-Base-Text-Mining (5.11.2015)

• Talk/ Discussion: ForumWHU Otto Beisheim School, Vallendar

• New Golem article on  Deep Learning

• Data Science at Beuth-Presse (page 19)

• Proposal accepted: DATEXIS won BMWi challenge "Smart Service Welt" with MACSS proposal (with Charité, SAP SE, SmartPatient GmbH, DFKI GmbH, DOSING GmbH)

• Final presentations for Enterprise Data Management class are online, this time with Zalando and HERE.

• Webpage for "ExCELL" is online now: excell-mobility.de

• Paper accepted: "Resolving Common Analytical Tasks in Text Databases" (Sebastian Arnold, Alexander Löser, Torsten Kilias.  ACM DOLAP Workshop@CIKM 2015

• Talk with IBM Analytics, HQ France: What's next in Analytics? 

• Text Mining with IMPALA. Blog about our project with Cloudera Impala.

• Final presentations for Enterprise Data Management class are online. 

2014 

• ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) Study:New White Paper on Big Data Analytics with contributions from Alexander Löser. 

• Paper accepted: INDREX: In-Database Relation Extraction. Torsten Kilias, Alexander Löser, Periklis Andritsos. To appear in: Information Systems Journal. (Impact Factor 1.23)

• Golem.de: Wie Hauptspeicherdatenbanken arbeiten (how main memory databases work)
  

• Beuth News: Data Science is an important new  focus area of Beuth-University, see article about DATEXIS and Data Science

• Beuth News: Datenmanagementprojekt mit Partnern aus der Region

• COLING Demo Paper 2014 accepted: "A Marketplace for Web Scale Analytics and Text Annotation Services". 

• Two large projects, ExCELL and Smart Data web, have been recommend for funding by BMWi.

• Research and teaching activities on Data Science in Berlin

• Talk at HTW Berlin "Big Data = Big Business?"

• ERCIM Expert Group on Big Data Analytics elected Alexander Löser as member 

• Alexander Löser @ "Beuth News" (page 38)

• The development of ICT for big data management is a logical priority of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, and one which particularly merits support. The Big Data Managament Report of the BMWi is online now. Alexander Löser coordinated this effort in 2013.

• Talk at CEBIT (Hall 9 / Stand 43) in collaboration with the German Research Center for Artifical Intelligence (DFKI).

• 11/3/2014 Talk at CEBIT (Hall 9 / Stand E24) in collaboration with BMWi

• 02/2014: Final presentations for Enterprise Data Management class are online.

• 10/01/2014 PhD Defense: Klemens Muthmann defended his Ph.D. thesis "Community based Answer Detection" at TU Dresden. Alexander Löser was part of the comitee. Congrats to Klemens! 

2013 

• 12/2013 Paper Informatik Spektrum 12/2103:Preismodelle für Datenmarktplatze. Florian Stahl, Alexander Löser and Gottfried Vossen. 

• 30/10/2013: Talk: Alexander Löser defends his habilitation "Beyond Search: Business Analytics on Text Data" at the Technische Universität Berlin.

• 11/2013 Talk: IBM CIO Forum 'Nürnberger Kreis' in Berlin. "Big Data Technologie und Datenmarktplätze. Chancen für Innovationen  Made in Europe"

• 11/2013 Talk: bmvit project "Conquering Data" in Vienna.

• 9/2013 Paper: INDREX: In-Database Distributional Relation Extraction. T. Kilias, A. Löser, P. Andritsos, ACM DOLAP 2013

• 9/2013 Paper: Effective Selectional Restrictions for Unsupervised Relation Extraction. A. Akbik, L. Visengeriyeva, J. Kirschnick and A. Löser. International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013, acceptance rate: 24%)

• 9/2013 Alexander Löser joined the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin