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

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. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14881792

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