Prof. Dr. Martin Braschler

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer, Director of Institute of Computer Science

Professional development teaching

CAS Information Engineering

Projects

• DataGEMS - Data Discovery Platform with Generalized Exploratory, Management, and Search Capabilities (Horizon Europe) / Team member / ongoing
• DECIDE – Digital Enabling of Circularity, Innovation, Development and Environment / Team member / completed
• DataInc – Intelligent Data Integration and Cleaning / Project leader / completed
• INODE – Intelligent Open Data Exploration (EU Horizon 2020) / Team member / completed
• Skillue – Digital marketplace for skills and market values / Project leader / completed
• Digital Insurance Broking / Team member / completed
• Smart Alarms and Verified Events / Team member / completed
• Financial Demands of Swiss Municipalities / Team member / completed
• EAT-IT / Project leader / completed
• Stiftungsregister SR_2 / Project leader / completed
• Enterprise Knowledge Curation / Project leader / completed
• expert-match / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• De Meer Pardo, F. et al. (2025) 'TransClean : finding false positives in multi-source entity matching under real-world conditions via transitive consistency', IEEE Access, 13, pp. 195856–195870. doi: 10.1109/access.2025.3632400.
• Mildenberger, T. et al. (2023) 'The role of data scientists in modern enterprises : experience from data science education', SIGMOD Record, 52(2), pp. 48–52. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-27357.
• Amer-Yahia, S. et al. (2022) 'INODE : building an end-to-end data exploration system in practice', SIGMOD Record, 50(4), pp. 23–29. doi: 10.1145/3516431.3516436.
• Smith, E. et al. (2021) 'LILLIE : information extraction and database integration using linguistics and learning-based algorithms', Information Systems, 105. doi: 10.1016/j.is.2021.101938.
• Imhof, M. and Braschler, M. (2017) 'A study of untrained models for multimodal information retrieval', Information Retrieval Journal, 21(1), pp. 81–106. doi: 10.1007/s10791-017-9322-x.
• Braschler, M. et al. (2009) 'Enterprise-Search-Systeme im internen Wissensmanagement : Ergebnisse einer Studie zu Perspektiven der Unternehmen', Datenbank-Spektrum, 2009(30), pp. 5–12.
• Schäuble, P. and Braschler, M. (2005) 'Portalspezifische Informationssuche für den Kanton Zürich', Datenbank-Spektrum, 2005(12), pp. 26–30.
• Braschler, M. and Ripplinger, B. (2004) 'How effective is stemming and decompounding for German text retrieval?', Information Retrieval Journal, 7(3/4), pp. 291–306. doi: 10.1023/B:INRT.0000011208.60754.a1.
• Braschler, M. and Peters, C. (2004) 'Cross-language evaluation forum : objectives, results, achievements', Information Retrieval Journal, 7(1/2), pp. 7–31. doi: 10.1023/B:INRT.0000009438.69013.fa.
• Braschler, M. (2004) 'Combination approaches for multilingual text retrieval', Information Retrieval Journal, 7(1/2), pp. 183–204. doi: 10.1023/B:INRT.0000009445.19495.46.

Books, peer-reviewed

• Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T. and Stockinger, K. (eds) (2019) Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business. 1. Auflage. Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1.
• Peters, C., Braschler, M. and Clough, P. (2012) Multilingual information retrieval : from research to practice. Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23008-0.
• Peters, C. and Braschler, M. (eds) (2004) Information retrieval : special issue on CLEF. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Stadelmann, T. et al. (2019) 'Data scientists', in Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T., and Stockinger, K. (eds) Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business. Cham: Springer, pp. 31–45. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_3.
• Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T. and Stockinger, K. (2019) 'Data science', in Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T., and Stockinger, K. (eds) Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business. Cham: Springer, pp. 17–29. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_2.
• Stadelmann, T., Braschler, M. and Stockinger, K. (2019) 'Introduction to applied data science', in Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T., and Stockinger, K. (eds) Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business. Cham: Springer, pp. 3–16. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_1.
• Stockinger, K., Braschler, M. and Stadelmann, T. (2019) 'Lessons learned from challenging data science case studies', in Braschler, M., Stadelmann, T., and Stockinger, K. (eds) Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business. Cham: Springer, pp. 447–465. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_24.
• Braschler, M., Imhof, M. and Rietberger, S. (2013) 'Black box evaluation for operational information retrieval applications', in Bridging between information retrieval and databases. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 192–207. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-54798-0_9.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• de Meer Pardo, F. et al. (2025) 'GraLMatch : matching groups of entities with graphs and language models', in Proceedings of EDBT 2025. OpenProceedings, pp. 1–12. doi: 10.48786/edbt.2025.01.
• Smith, E., Weiler, A. and Braschler, M. (2021) 'Skill extraction for domain-specific text retrieval in a job-matching platform', in Candan, K. S. et al. (eds) Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Cham: Springer, pp. 116–128. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85251-1_10.
• Taranova, A. and Braschler, M. (2021) 'Textual complexity as an indicator of document relevance', in Advances in Information Retrieval. Cham: Springer, pp. 410–417. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_42.
• Nadig, S., Braschler, M. and Stockinger, K. (2020) 'Database search vs. information retrieval : a novel method for studying natural language querying of semi-structured data', in Proceedings of the 12th LREC. European Language Resources Association. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-20042.
• Smith, E. et al. (2019) 'Syntax-based skill extractor for job advertisements', in 2019 6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS). IEEE, pp. 80–81. doi: 10.1109/SDS.2019.000-3.
• Sima, A.-C. et al. (2018) 'A hybrid approach for alarm verification using stream processing, machine learning and text analytics', in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Extending Database Technology. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3487.
• Stadelmann, T. et al. (2013) 'Applied data science in Europe : challenges for academia in keeping up with a highly demanded topic', in Proceedings of the 9th European Computer Science Summit.

Other publications

• Imhof, M. and Braschler, M. (2015) 'Are test collections "real"? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections', in Mothe, J. et al. (eds) Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Cham: Springer, pp. 241–247. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23.
• Imhof, M. et al. (2013) 'Evaluation for operational IR applications – generalizability and automation', in LivingLab '13 Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Living labs for information retrieval evaluation. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2557–2558. doi: 10.1145/2513150.2513160.
• Forner, P. et al. (2013) 'PROMISE technology transfer day : spreading the word on information access evaluation at an industrial event', ACM SIGIR Forum, 47(1), pp. 53–58. doi: 10.1145/2492189.2492198.
• Agosti, M. et al. (2012) 'PROMISE retreat report : prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation', ACM SIGIR Forum, 46(2), pp. 60–84. doi: 10.1145/2422256.2422265.
• Braschler, M. et al. (2010) 'A PROMISE for experimental evaluation', in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation. Berlin: Springer, pp. 140–144. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15998-5_16.
• Braschler, M. (2009) 'Best practices in system-oriented aspects for multilingual information access applications', in Proceedings of the e Challenges 2009 Conference.
• Arni, T., Baudinot, G. and Braschler, M. (2008) Reputation Monitoring TM Bericht Q1/08.
• Arni, T., Baudinot, G. and Braschler, M. (2008) 'Wissensvorsprung durch Reputation Monitoring', Goldwyn Reports.
• Peters, C. et al. (2008) 'From research to application in multilingual information access : the contribution of evaluation', in Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 08.
• Braschler, M. et al. (2007) 'Kommunikation im Internet : die Suchfunktion im Praxistest', Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, 58(3), pp. 159–168.
• Agosti, M. et al. (2007) 'Roadmap for multilingual information access in the European Library', in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Berlin: Springer, pp. 136–147. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-74851-9_12.
• Braschler, M. and Ferro, N. (2007) 'Adding multilingual information access to the European Library', in Digital Libraries : Research and Development. Berlin: Springer, pp. 218–227. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-77088-6_21.
• Baudinot, G., Braschler, M. and Egli, R. (2006) Automatische Kategorisierung am Beispiel von E-Mail.
• Braschler, M. et al. (2006) Evaluation der Suchfunktion von Schweizer Unternehmens-Websites, Churer Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft. Chur: HTW Chur. Available at: https://www.fhgr.ch/fileadmin/fhgr/angewandte_zukunftstechnologien/SII/churer_schriften/sii-churer_schriften_12-Evaluation_der_Suchfunktion_von_Schweizer_Unternehmenswebsites.pdf.
• Braschler, M. et al. (2005) 'CLEF 2004 : ad hoc track overview and results analysis', in Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 10–26. doi: 10.1007/11519645_2.
• Braschler, M. (2004) 'CLEF 2003 : overview of results', in Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 44–63. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_5.
• Peters, C. et al. (2004) 'The future of evaluation for cross-langauge information retrieval systems', in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2004, pp. 841–844.
• Braschler, M. and Peters, C. (2004) 'CLEF 2003 methodology and metrics', in Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 7–20. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_2.
• Peters, C. et al. (eds) (2004) Comparative evaluation of multilingual information access systems, 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2003), Trondheim, Norway, 21-22 August 2003. Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/b102261.
• Braschler, M., Gonzalo, J. and Kluck, M. (eds) (2003) Advances in cross-language information retrieval, Third Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2002), Rome, Italy, 19-20 September 2002. Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/b12018.
• Peters, C. et al. (eds) (2002) Evaluation of cross-language information retrieval systems, Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2001) Darmstadt, Germany, 3-4 September 2001. Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/3-540-45691-0.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Bachmann, T. et al. (2013) 'The potential of a web-based personalized horizon scanning tool', in International Foresight Academy (IFA) Seminar, «Participatory Foresight for Smarter Futures - From Design to Impact», Winterthur, Switzerland, 16-19 September 2013.
• Agosti, M. et al. (2010) 'CLEF 2010 conference on multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation', in CLEF 2010 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, Padua, Italy, 20-23 September 2010. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Available at: http://sigir.org/files/forum/2010D/conferences/2010d_sigirforum_agosti.pdf.
• Braschler, M. et al. (2009) 'Evaluation der Suchfunktion Deutscher Unternehmenswebsites', in 12. Tagung der Deutschen International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), Bonn, 19.-21. Oktober 2009.

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