| Higher education |
| 10/1997 |
Studies of Applied Informatics at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt with special focus on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing |
| 07/1999 |
Finished first part of Applied Informatics (excellence scholarship) |
| 10/2000 |
Studies of Mathematics and Informatics Lectureship at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt |
| 02/2001 - 08/2001 |
Term abroad at the State University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia |
| 03/2002 - 02/2003 |
Practical term (obligatory for the informatics course) at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt at the Department of Informatics-Systems in the information retrieval project SyRS (SYstemic Retrieval System), special topic: Natural Language Processing of German and English documents |
| 10/2003 - 07/2004 |
Yearlong, interdisciplinary internship on the topic "Peace in literature for children" (obligatory for the lectureship course) |
| 11/2003 |
Finished Studies of Applied Informatics with the Diplom-Ingenieur (excellence scholarship), title of the diploma thesis: "Neuronale Netze und Computerlinguistik für Information Retrieval - Eine experimentelle Evaluation" ("Neural Networks and Computational Linguistics for Information Retrieval - An experimental Evaluation") |
| Since 12/2003 |
Studies of PhD in Applied Informatics at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, working title of the PhD thesis: "Structured Document Retrieval - Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval " |
| 03/2004 - 06/2004 |
Teaching term (Informatics) at the grammar school in Völkermarkt (obligatory for all lectureship studies) |
| 03/2006 |
Finished first part of Mathematics and Informatics Lectureship |
| 10/2006 - 01/2007 |
Teaching term (Mathematics) at the grammar school in Viktring/Klagenfurt (obligatory for all lectureship studies) |
| 10/2007 |
Finished lectureship studies (Mathematics and Informatics) |
| ~ 03/2009 |
Planned to finish the PhD studies, title of the PhD thesis: "Linguistically-enhanced Retrieval and Processing of Structured Documents" |
Acknowledgements: Special thanks go to (most *g*) of my teachers at the grammar school in St. Paul for the good preparation. Also, the years at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt were one of the best in my life. Special thanks to Prof. Paolo Rondo-Brovetto, Prof. Roland Mittermeir, anf Prof. Günther Fliedl for their support during all the years! |
| University career |
| 05/2000 - 10/2003 |
Tutor (Studienassistent) at the Department of Public, Nonprofit and Health Management (Economics, Prof. Paolo Rondo-Brovetto) at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt |
| 03/2002 - 02/2003 |
Project assistant at the Department of Informatics-Systems (ISYS, Prof. Roland Mittermeir) in the information retrieval project SyRS (SYstemic Retrieval System), special topic: Natural Language Processing of German and English documents |
| 11/2003 - 12/2006 |
Project assistant at the Department of Public, Nonprofit and Health Management (Economics, Prof. Paolo Rondi-Brovetto) at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, responsible for further CMS developments |
| 02/2004 - 01/2006 |
Project assistant at the Department of Informatics-Systems (ISYS, Prof. Roland Mittermeir) in the project PlaNet-ET (Platform and Network for Educational Technologies), PlaNet-ET is based on the Hyperwave Information Server (HIS) and the e-Learning Suite (eLS), main focus was set on the development and integration of natural language query interfaces for information retrieval in distance learning software |
| 02/2006 - 09/2007 |
Extension of the participation in the PlaNet-ET project |
| 02/2007 - 11/2008 |
Project assistant at the Department of Applied Informatics (Prof. Heinrich C. Mayr, Prof. Günther Fliedl) in the DBÖ@ema project (Datenbank der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich - electronically mapped) organized by the ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences), coordination of the four working groups in Vienna, Graz, Marburg, and Klagenfurt |
| Professional experiences |
| 08/1994 |
Vacation job at the construction company Mörtl |
| 08/1995 |
Vacation job at the construction company Mörtl |
| 04/1997 - 10/1997 |
Full time worker at the construction company Ilbau |
| 10/1998 - 06/1999 |
Practical project at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt in Computational Linguistics: Development of LingTool, a Visual C++ prototype for (semi)automatic lexicon generation |
| 08/2000 - 10/2000 |
Employee at Infineon Technologies in the department for process documentation and quality assurance |
| Since 2000 |
Several projects on web design and dynamic web page implementation for different companies (see Project page) plus supervising und consulting solutions for end user systems |
| Since 2002 |
Owner and maintainer of a webserver (in Germany): web hosting, web development, and web design |
| 02/2003 - 10/2004 |
Design and Implementation of the Computer Linguistics Ressource (CLR) Lab at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (together with Prof. Günther Fliedl and Christian Hofbauer) |
| 01/2004 - 02/2009 |
Development of X-DOSE, a search engine capable of retrieving XML document components (PhD thesis) implemented in Java, this includes the development of a number of natural lanugage processing tools |
| 02/2004 |
Development of JavaTok, a language-independent and rule-based natural language tokenizer |
| 08/2004 - 12/2006 |
Project manager of the internet presence for all Informatics departments at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt based on the commercial, high-end content management system (CMS) RedDot |
| 10/2006 - 03/2007 |
Definition and preparation of a multi-level marketing system for a company with more than 400 employees |
| 01/2007 - 06/2007 |
Project manager (together with Dipl.-Ing. Horst Pichler) of the internet presence for the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt based on RedDot, Briefing of subsequent system administrators and content administrators on the new technology |
| 03/2007 - 06/2007 |
Implementation of the marketing website of the faculty of technical sciences at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, worked closely together with Prof. Christine Nowak and the marketing company Schlacher |
| 08/2007 - 10/2007 |
Development of the Internet Service Monitor, a small tool to check the availability of online services |
| 12/2008 - 02/2009 |
Design of a natural language-based prediction system for economic trends and decision (Econols) |
| Since 12/2008 |
Development of the internet platform LingRep.com to maintain linguistically relevant information for online processing |
| Research topics |
| Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics |
| Information Retrieval, Structured Document Retrieval (XML Retrieval) |
| Document Organization, Document Categorization, Document Clustering |
| Soft Computing Techniques, Machine Learning Techniques (neural networks, genetic algorithms, genetic programming) |
| Development of web-based software systems (e.g., student accounting, eLearning, data maintenance) |
| Hobbies |
| All kinds of outdoor sports, especially beach volleyball, diving, and soccer |
| Participant of the following associations: Soccer (3 years), Badmington (2 years), Basketball (2 year), Tennis (3 years), Shotokan - Karate (6 years, 3rd brown belt, winner of the country-wide junior campionship), Indoor volleyball (since 1995), Academic Campionships of Soccer, Volley Ball and Duathlon (3rd place at the Kosiak-Lion 2005) |
| Since 1988 participant and sponsor of the Austrian Water Rescue Service |
| All kinds of computer related stuff like web site development and game programming |
Further activities: "Umanondherrschn", "Einihekkn", "Wötrettn"
... and enjoying good wine and whisky! |
