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This page suggests topics for bachelor and master theses. Please have a look at the information for potential bachelor and master students as well as the submission guidelines before applying for a thesis.

Contents 1 Open Thesis 2 Assigned Thesis 3 Completed Thesis 4 Ideas 5 Other Topics

Open Thesis

• Visualisierung von temporalen, semi-strukturierten Informationen (in work)
• Extraktion von Named-Entities aus natürlichsprachigen Texten (in work)
• Handling Ambiguities in Geographic Tagging (in work)
• Automatically Learning Text Patterns to Extract Relations from Domain Documents (in work)
• Evaluating popular Information Retrieval Models (in work)
• Identifying User Comments in Web sites using Site Style Trees (draft)
• Term Extraction from Web Corpora (draft)
• Word sense disambiguation (brainstorming)

Assigned Thesis

• Mohammad Waqar: Web Content Extraction

Completed Thesis

• PhD thesis
  • Mag. Christiane Dominovic (2011): ARCH Data Integration Framework - Entwicklung und Evaluierung einer Applikation zur semantischen Datenintegration
  • Mag. Clemens Forster (2011): Semantische Technologien für den Datenanalyse-Prozess
  • Gerhard Wohlgenannt (2010): Ontology Extension and Validation Using Vector Space Models Based on Text and Structured Semantic Data
• Master thesis
  • Heinz-Peter Lang: Identifying Relations in Structural Web Data
  • Thomas Pascher (2011): Parallelizing Text Processing (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Gerald Weber (2011): Generic Relation Extraction (Read more)
  • Georg Zajko (2010): Ontology Learning in Large Software Repositories| Download Thesis)
  • Sebastian Sieber (2010): Indexing dynamic Web2.0 sites and AJAX applications
  • Daniel Sturm (2010). Optimierung der Datenretention für große Datenmengen in PostgreSQL (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Alexander Fröhlich (2010). LaTeX Bibliography Management (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Philipp Höfer (2010). Optimizing Geographic Tagging (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Dmitry V. Petrovsky (2009). Database Clustering with focus on PostgreSQL (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Florian Kogelbauer (2009). Firewalls unter dem Aspekt von Virtuellen Maschinen (Download Thesis)
  • Michael Aram (2009). Verfahren zur semantischen Modellierung von CCTS-basierten Datenstrukturen
  • Andreas Badelt (2009). Web Browsing Privacy Threats and Standards (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Tadeh Amirian (2009). Der amerikanische Präsidentschaftswahlkampf 2008: Auswirkungen des Agenda-Setting-Prozesses auf die Umweltberichterstattung in Online-Medien (Download Thesis)
  • Vladimira Ioveva (2009). Electronic Privacy Management (Download Thesis)
  • Sandra Wickenhauser (2008). Analyse der Akzeptanz von datenschutzfreundlichen Technologien von Kunden und Unternehmen (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Isabella Hidalgo (2008). Nutzungspotentiale und Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Semantic-Web-Technologien am Beispiel der Musikbranche (Download Thesis)
  • Reinhard Fischer (2007). Kalenderstandards im Internet (Read more | Download Thesis)
• Bachelor thesis
  • Wolfgang Eder (2010). Information Extraction - Sequential Probability Models (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Harald Wiesinger (2010). Online Marketing - Marketingmaßnahmen im Web 2.0 Zeitalter (Download Thesis)
  • Thomas Pascher (2010). Incremental Database Backup (Read More | Download Thesis)
  • Karl Stückler (2010). Database Life Migration (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Ivailo P. Sokolov (2009). Loan Securitization Application: Credit Portfolio Analysis and Investor Reporting (Download Thesis)
  • Stefan Kainrath (2009). Full Text Search in Databases (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Gerald Weber (2009). Tagging Technologies (Download Thesis)
  • Daniel Zafirakis (2009). PC7 Druck-Accounting (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Heinz-Peter Lang (2008). Database Monitoring (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Michael Feurstein (2008). Optimizing Database Access and Full Text Indexing for Large Scale Database Applications (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Johannes Duong (2008). Website Data Extraction and Annotation (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Gerald Weber (2008). Incremental Mirroring of Web 2.0 Resources (Read more | Download Thesis)
  • Gülay Kilic (2007). Automatisierte Medienanalyse
  • Clemens Friedrich (2007). Implementierung eines Ticket-Systems für die Firma Deloitte Wirtschaftsprüfungs GmbH

Ideas

• apply reasoning to T-Boxes (ontology based query term expansion)
• mapi2imap proxy (use imap even in exchange environment where it got disabled)

Other Topics

• Folksonomies
• Python Web Frameworks
• Web Micro Formats
• Semantic Web Technologies for Optimizing Information Retrieval
• P3P Editor (Web front end to create P3P policies)
• P3P Plugin -> add compact policies