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 / ongoing

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Gerber, J., Saxer, J., Kreiner, B., & Weiler, A. (2025). Benchmarking state of the art website embedding methods for effective processing and analysis in the public sector. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-025-00954-4

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Saxer, J., Gerber, J., Weiler, A., & Grossniklaus, M. (2026). Website segmentation beyond structure : a benchmark on functional and digital maturity classes (R. Campos, A. Jatowt, Y. Lan, M. Aliannejadi, C. Bauer, S. MacAvaney, A. Anand, Z. Ren, S. Verberne, N. Bai, & M. Mansoury, Eds.; Vol. 2, pp. 222–236) [Conference paper]. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_14
• Gerber, J., Saxer, J., Rabishokr, K., Kreiner, B., & Weiler, A. (2025). WebClasSeg-25 : a dual-classified webpage segmentation dataset - integrating functional and maturity-based analysis [Conference paper]. 3792–3801. https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730309
• Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. (2025). In J. Gerber, M. Cieliebak, D. Tuggener, & M. Hürlimann (Eds.), 10th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2025, Winterthur, Switzerland, 13-15 May 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.swisstext-1.0/
• Cieliebak, M., Gerber, J., & Hürlimann, M. (2025). SwissCoco2025 : the Swiss Corpora Collection 2025 [Conference paper]. In J. Gerber, M. Cieliebak, D. Tuggener, & M. Hürlimann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference (pp. 133–148). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36110
• Gerber, J., Kreiner, B., Saxer, J., & Weiler, A. (2024). Towards website x-ray for Europe’s municipalities : unveiling digital transformation with multimodal embeddings [Conference paper]. In P. D. Haghighi, M. Greguš, G. Kotsi, & I. Khalil (Eds.), Information Integration and Web Intelligence (pp. 125–139). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78090-5_11
• Gerber, J., Kreiner, B., Saxer, J., & Weiler, A. (2024). Digilog : enhancing website embedding on local governments - a comparative analysis [Conference paper]. In A. Appice, H. Azzag, M.-S. Hacid, A. Hadjali, & Z. Ras (Eds.), Foundations of Intelligent Systems (pp. 126–135). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62700-2_12
• Gerber, J., Saxer, J. S., Kreiner, B. B., & Weiler, A. (2024, May 14). DIGILOG : towards a monitoring platform for digital transformation of European communities. RCIS 2024 Workshops and Research Projects Track. https://doi.org/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. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14881792

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