Dr. Kai Simon

Institut für Informatik
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Georges-Köhler-Allee, Geb. 51
79110 Freiburg i. Br., Germany

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About Me

Kai Simon commenced studying Computer Science at Universität Freiburg Germany, in October 2000, with minor Mathematics. In May 2003 he obtained his diploma. Four months later, he joined the Databases and Information Systems group (DBIS) in Freiburg, headed by Prof. Dr. Georg Lausen, as Ph.D. student and research fellow. Two weeks after the defence of his Ph.D. thesis he joined the Averbis GmbH, as a technical consultant and project manager. Averbis is a spin-off of the  Department of Medical Biometry and Statistics of the University of Freiburg, providing search and classification solutions for the life science sector.

Scientific Interests

• Data visualization
• Search engines
• Data Mining
• Web Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing

Publications

2009

• Pattern-Based Annotation of HTML-Streams; Florian Schmedding, Max Schwaibold, Kai Simon 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '09), May 31-June 4, 2009, Heraklion, Crete - Greece.
  
• ViPER: Visual perception based information extraction of structured web content; Kai Simon; Ph.D. thesis, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2009; Freiburg i.Br., Germany.

2008

• Mashing Up the Deep Web; Thomas Hornung, Kai Simon, Georg Lausen 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST '08), May 4-7, 2008, Funchal, Madeira - Portugal.

2006

• Automatic Computation of Semantic Proximity Using Taxonomic Knowledge; Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Kai Simon, Georg Lausen; ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '06), November 6-11, 2006, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. (acceptance rate: 15%, 81/537).
  
  

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• Learning Rules to Pre-process Web Data for Automatic Integration; Kai Simon, Thomas Hornung, Georg Lausen; Second International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML '06), November 9-10, 2006, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
  
  

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• From HTML Documents to Web Tables and Rules; Kai Simon, Georg Lausen, Harold Boley; Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC '06), August 13-16, 2006, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
  
  

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• Information Gathering in a Dynamic World; Thomas Hornung, Kai Simon, Georg Lausen; Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning Workshop (PPSWR '06), June 10-11, 2006, Budva, Montenegro.
  
  

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2005

• ViPER: Augmenting Automatic Information Extraction with Visual Perceptions; Kai Simon, Georg Lausen; Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '05), Oct. 31 - Nov. 05, 2005, Bremen, Germany (acceptance rate: 18%, 76/425).
  
  

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Talks

• Laying the Groundwork for New Information Services; Talk given at the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT), 25th January, 2006, Fredericton New Brunswick, Canada. External link

• Automatic Data Extraction, Crawling the Hidden Web; Talk given at the Department of Databases and Artificial Intelligence (DBAI), Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), 1st July, 2004, Vienna, Austria.

Hobbies

• Mountain biking
• Snowboarding
• Skiing
• Rock Climbing