Academic Profile
Prof Dr Albert Weichselbraun
Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Dr. habil.
University of Applied Sciences Chur
Faculty of Information Science
(p) +41 81 286 3 727
(e) albert.weichselbraun@htwchur.ch
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Department of Information Systems and Operations
(e) albert.weichselbraun@wu.ac.at
Short Bio
Albert Weichselbraun is Professor of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences Chur.
Prior to his current appointment, he was an Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, who focused on “Automated Structuring and Analysis of Electronic Content through Ontologies and Semantic Methods” in his habilitation theses. In 2004, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, where his work concentrated on aggregating and processing unstructured textual data with a special focus on the analytical methods involved. After completing Master degrees in Economics and Chemical Engineering, his doctoral thesis focused on ontology-based text classification.
Albert co-authored research proposals on a national and European level, served as the technical project leader for a number of successfully completed research projects including AVALON, IDIOM and RAVEN, and is co-founder and technical director of the webLyzard technology gmbh. He currently guides the development of the Climate Change Collaboratory, funded by the Austrian Climate Research Program.
Albert's research focuses on ontology evolution and learning, scalability, optimization of data acquisition tasks, text mining and the application of semantic technologies to information retrieval.
Research Interests
- Web Repositories & Databases
- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
- Privacy
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Spam Recognition
- Scalability (Map-/Reduce, Optimal Stopping)
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