Jonathan Gerber

Work at ZHAW

Focus

• Information Retrieval, Information Engineering, Natural Language Processing
• Digital Transformation at the Local Tier of Government in Europe

Experience

Machine Learning Engineer
Prognolite
02 / 2020 - 10 / 2021

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science / Information and Communication Technologies
  Zurich University of Applied Science ZHAW
  09 / 2019 - 07 / 2022
• BSc / Engineering and Management
  Zurich University of Applied Science ZHAW
  09 / 2016 - 07 / 2019

Projects

Digital Transformation at the Local Tier of Government in Europe: Dynamics and Effects from a Cross-Countries and Over-Time Comparative Perspective / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Marquardt, J. et al. (2026) 'Web crawling in public administration research', International Review of Administrative Sciences. doi: 10.1177/00208523261473520.
• Gerber, J. et al. (2025) 'Benchmarking state of the art website embedding methods for effective processing and analysis in the public sector', Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 64, pp. 97–120. doi: 10.1007/s10844-025-00954-4.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Saxer, J. et al. (2026) 'Website segmentation beyond structure : a benchmark on functional and digital maturity classes', in Campos, R. et al. (eds). Cham: Springer, pp. 222–236. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_14.
• Gerber, J. et al. (2025) 'WebClasSeg-25 : a dual-classified webpage segmentation dataset - integrating functional and maturity-based analysis'. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3792–3801. doi: 10.1145/3726302.3730309.
• Gerber, J. et al. (eds) (2025) Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, 10th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2025, Winterthur, Switzerland, 13-15 May 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics. Available at: https://aclanthology.org/2025.swisstext-1.0/.
• Cieliebak, M., Gerber, J. and Hürlimann, M. (2025) 'SwissCoco2025 : the Swiss Corpora Collection 2025', in Gerber, J. et al. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 133–148. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36110.
• Gerber, J. et al. (2024) 'Towards website x-ray for Europe's municipalities : unveiling digital transformation with multimodal embeddings', in Haghighi, P. D. et al. (eds) Information Integration and Web Intelligence. Cham: Springer, pp. 125–139. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-78090-5_11.
• Gerber, J. et al. (2024) 'Digilog : enhancing website embedding on local governments - a comparative analysis', in Appice, A. et al. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. Cham: Springer, pp. 126–135. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-62700-2_12.
• Gerber, J. et al. (2024) 'DIGILOG : towards a monitoring platform for digital transformation of European communities', in RCIS 2024 Workshops and Research Projects Track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-32479.

Other publications

Marquardt, J., Gerber, J., Machljankin, J., Kaiser, C. & Steiner, R. (2023). Applying web crawling for data collection in the social sciences - Opportunities and limits using the example of digital transformation in European local governments. EGPA Conference 2023, Zagreb, Croatia, 5-8 September 2023.

Research data

Gerber, Jonathan; Saxer, Jasmin; Baptista Kreiner, Bruno; Rabishokr, Kimia; Weiler, Andreas, 2026. WebClasSeg25. Zenodo.

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