Financial Demands of Swiss Municipalities
Auf einen Blick
- Projektleiter/in : Dr. Mark Cieliebak
- Projektteam : Dr. Fernando Benites de Azevedo e Souza, Martin Blöchlinger, Prof. Dr. Martin Braschler, Michael Wyss
- Projektvolumen : CHF 45'500
- Projektstatus : abgeschlossen
- Drittmittelgeber : KTI
Beschreibung
In this project, the goal was to discover Swiss municipalities
that might have a need for a credit. Project partner was a large
financial service provider who gives credits to public institutions
and organizations. To optimize their sales efforts, they wanted to
develop a software system that automatically aggregates and
evaluates publicly available data about all Swiss municipalities.
Based on these data, the system should generate a ranked list of
candidate municipalities that potentially have a need for a
credit.
During the project, we found a huge amount of valuable data
sources: annual financial reports, changes in communal tax rates,
tender for large construction projects, news reports about major
tax payers etc. Part of the data was well-structured (e.g. Excel
tables), but many documents were pure text – or even images of
scanned documents. Hence, we used advanced technologies for text
analytics to extract relevant information from these documents.