Intelligent Information Systems
We Derive Value from Data and Information
- How to leverage information?
- How to find new topics and trends?
- How to derive insight from heterogeneous/unstructured data and information?
- How to allow a «natural» access to data?
- How can software link data automatically?
These are but a few of the questions that the Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) group of the InIT is working to answer. While the “data and information flood” is often discussed negatively, we see a great opportunity to leverage data and information using the right approaches – both at search-time, as well as during analysis.
The research group transfers insights derived from research and development into teaching for students of the computer science curricula. It offers modules such as “Information Engineering 1 (Information Retrieval)”, “Information Engineering 2 (Data Warehousing & Big Data)” and "Databases". The group is active in both national and international research projects of the EU framework programs.
Research Topics
The Intelligent Information Systems group develops solutions for a changing, data-driven world. It performs research at the intersection of databases (DB), information retrieval (IR), data engineering (DE), natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML)
The group covers two main research lines:
Big Data and Nano Data
We solve challenging problems when working with a range of datasets from very small (nano data) to very large (big data), where the nature of the problems change drastically as we work on different scales:
Current research:
- Information retrieval for small document collections
- Machine learning for query optimization
- Artificial intelligence for data integration and cleaning
- Quantum databases and quantum machine learning
Data Understanding
As we strive for "intelligent" solutions to data-driven problems, classical information systems need to process data at a different level, interpreting it to gain important information. Both structured and unstructured data must be processed not on a mechanical, but on a semantic level - e.g. by using natural language processing and understanding. Data is ultimately connected through graph structures or made accessible via semantic search.
Current research:
- Natural language interfaces for databases
- Semantic search on entities
- Knowledge graph construction
- Question answering over knowledge graphs
- Stream analytics and event detection
- Information retrieval evaluation
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Stiftungsregister SR_2
Development of a plattform for information on foundations with intuitive research functionality that supports NPOs, founders, consultants, administrative offices and research institutions in locating funding opportunities. Core of the plattform is a register of all information on foundations that can be augmented by ...
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Talkalyzer
The aim of this project is to develop a demonstrator in the form of an Android app, which can visualize the speeches of two interlocutors in real time. This should enable a superior to recognize, for example, whether he or she talks too much in an employee appraisal interview or whether the interview is balanced.In ...
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Enterprise Knowledge Curation
The internet is a central source for information and knowledge. Many information workers have difficulty in not just finding information easily, but rather in tracking topics continuously without undue effort. The Squirro research application is built to enable an easy curation of collections pertaining to diverse ...
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Nooralahzadeh, Farhad; Zhang, Yi; Smith, Ellery; Maennel, Sabine; Matthey-Doret, Cyril; Raphaël, de Fondville; Stockinger, Kurt,
2024.
StatBot.Swiss : bilingual open data exploration in natural language [paper].
In:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024.
62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30993
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Kittelmann, Florian; Sulimov, Pavel; Stockinger, Kurt,
2024.
QardEst : using quantum machine learning for cardinality estimation of join queries [paper].
In:
1st Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications (Q-Data), ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2024, Santiago, Chile, 9 June 2024.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30917
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Schmitt-Koopmann, Felix; Huang, Elaine M.; Hutter, Hans-Peter; Stadelmann, Thilo; Darvishy, Alireza,
2024.
MathNet : a data-centric approach for printed mathematical expression recognition.
IEEE Access.
12, pp. 76963-76974.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3404834
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Gerber, Jonathan; Saxer, Jasmin S.; B. Kreiner, Bruno; Weiler, Andreas,
2024.
DIGILOG : towards a monitoring platform for digital transformation of European communities.
In:
Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2024 Workshops and Research Projects Track.
18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Guimarães, Portugal, 14-17 May 2024.
RWTH Aachen University.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30792
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Chen, Yaxuan; Vergara, Ana Fernandez; Hamilton, Angus; Stockinger, Kurt,
2024.
Digital public infrastructure for environmental sustainability.
United Nations Environment Programme.
ISBN 978-92-807-4157-5.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30874