Gerhard Weikum
organization:Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Max Planck Institute, http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/
homepage:http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~weikum/
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Description

Gerhard Weikum is a Research Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) in Saarbruecken, Germany, where he is leading the department on databases and information systems. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science of Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany, and he is a principal investigator of the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction. Earlier he held positions at Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany, at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, at MCC in Austin, Texas, and he was a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. He received his diploma and doctoral degrees from the University of Darmstadt, Germany.


Lectures:

invited talk
Harvesting, Searching, and Ranking Knowledge from the Web

as author at  Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining,
277 views
  lecture
SOFIE: Self-Organizing Flexible Information Extraction

as author at  World Wide Web 2009 Conference,
together with: Fabian M. Suchanek, Mauro Sozio,
180 views
lecture
Efficient Top-k Queries for XML Information Retrieval

as author at  Workshop on The Future of Web Search 2006 - Barcelona,
320 views
  invited talk
Timely Knowledge

as author at  First Workshop on Automated Knowledge Based Construction 2010 - Grenoble,
20 views