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Torsten Zesch

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Name
Torsten Zesch
Position
Doctoral Researcher
EMail
Phone
+49 (6151) 16 - 7477
Fax
+49 (6151) 16 - 5455
Office
S2|02 B117
Postal Address
TU Darmstadt - FB 20
Hochschulstraße 10
D-64289 Darmstadt
Germany

Publications

My publications can be found in the publications section of our website.

Work Information

My research interests are

  • Semantic Relatedness
  • Wiki-Mining
  • Large-scale lexical semantics
  • Information Retrieval

Biographical Information

I hold a Diploma in computer science from the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.

Student Guidance

I supervise or have supervised the following theses:

  • Developing a generic interface for semantic networks
  • Using Wikipedia in Information Retrieval: a case study on "Electronic Career Guidance"
  • Sentiment detection in natural language texts based on a case study: Analysis of professional features
  • Experimental analysis of semantic relatedness
  • Automatic analysis of lexical cohesion
  • Extracting domain-specific thesauri from Wikipedia and Wiktionary
  • Using Semantic Knowledge to Improve Information Search in Web 2.0

Teaching

  • WS 06/07 - UIM Seminar at the University of Tübingen

Professional Activities

Member of

Personal interests

Cycling, Hiking, Climbing, Reading, Movies, Languages. Some of them are covered on my never up-to-date homepage.