Sven Meyer zu Eissen

After studying computer science at the University of Paderborn, I worked at the same place in the Knowledge Based Systems Group. My PhD thesis is about algorithms and statistics for categorizing search in the area of information retrieval. Following this, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Stein's working group at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

My research interests lie in the area of machine learning, data mining, and Web technology, with a focus on information retrieval. Some recent projects in which I participate can be found here - they include the following IR topics.

• retrieval models and document representations
• document categorization and cluster labeling
• Web genre analysis
• plagiarism detection
• authorship attribution and verification
• near duplicate detection
• person resolution
• software engineering for IR
• information extraction

I have also won the following awards:

• 2008 Winner of the Spock Challenge. The project and our team is described here.
• 2006 Award of Appreciation (best paper on text mining track) at the conference of Germany's classification society (GfKl) 2006.
• 2004 European Academic Software Award for AIsearch, a categorizing search engine.

I regularly serve as PC member of the conferences / workshops I-KNOW, SIGIR, TIR, PAN.

A list of my publications can be accessed here.