Michael Färber received his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in February 2017 in the research group Knowledge Management and Web Science (Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer), Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In April 2017, he joined the research group on Databases and Information Systems of Prof. Dr. Georg Lausen at the University of Freiburg. From October 2017 until September 2018, he was also JSPS fellow at Kyoto University, Japan.

Michael Färber's research interests cover Natural Language Processing (esp. Information Extraction), Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, etc. A list of publications can be found at Google Scholar and at DBLP.

More information about Michael Färber can be found here.


Current calls for Master theses and Bachelor theses (proposals for related topics are welcome!):

• No Time for Reading Literature? Developing a System for Automatically Adding Citations to Text


• Recommending Scientific Publications for Texts Using Neural Networks


• Implementing an Approach for Linking Text to the ‘Knowledge Database’ Wikidata


• Towards a New Data Cloud with Always Fresh Data: Analyzing Existing Linked Data Wrappers


• Are Researchers Nice to Each Other? Analyzing arXiv.org Publications and Their Citations


• Implementing a System for Detecting Biased News Articles (within the International Competition SemEval 2019 Task 4)


• How Fair are Researchers? Analyzing Biases of Paper Citations

Current calls for student positions (Hiwis):

• Position as Student Assistant (HiWi) in Research Project with BMW


• Position as Student Assistant (HiWi) for Analyzing and Automatically Recommending Scientific Publications