Martin Potthast

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Martin Potthast
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
99421 Weimar, Germany

E-mail: martin.potthast [at] uni-weimar.de
Phone: +49 3643 - 58 3720
Fax:     +49 3643 - 58 3709

Martin Potthast studied computer science at the University of Paderborn. After completing his diploma thesis in 2006 he joined the working group Web Technology and Information Systems at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, and Web technology.

My primary research activities are the following:

• plagiarism detection
• writing assistance technologies
• misuse detection in social software

In this connection I have conducted research on technologies required for the aforementioned tasks, such as information retrieval models, document fingerprinting, multidimensional scaling, near-duplicate detection, inverted indexing, cross-language information retrieval, corpus linguistics, information retrieval evaluation, authorship attribution, clustering, opinion mining, and Wikipedia vandalism detection.

I participate in a number of projects for the development of information retrieval tools. In particular, I am co-developer of the Netspeak Web Service, a writing assistance technology, the Picapica plagiarism detector, the OpinionCloud comment summarizer, and the AItools information retrieval library.

I have co-organized the following workshops:
PAN'09 at SEPLN'09, which includes the 1st International Competition on Plagiarism Detection, and PAN'10 at CLEF'10.

I have served on the program committees of the following conferences and workshops: TIR (2009, 2008, 2007), PAN (2010, 2009, 2008), and I-KNOW'09.

At my university I have served on the Board for Science and Projects, responsible for the local funding of creative and innovative research, and on the Search Committee for the junior professorship "Mobile Medien" (mobile media).

I have been repeatedly teaching assistant for the lectures Databases, Web Technology (foundations), and Web Technology (advanced) at our working group.

A list of my publications can be accessed here.