Publications
- Affolter, K., Stockinger, K. & Bernstein, A. A comparative survey of recent natural language interfaces for databases. The VLDB Journal 28, 793–819 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-019-00567-8
- Bubenhofer N., Rothenhäusler K., Affolter K., Pajovic D. (2019) The Linguistic Construction of World: An Example of Visual Analysis and Methodological Challenges. In: Scholz R. (eds) Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97370-8_9
- Sima, A. C., Stockinger, K., Affolter, K., Braschler, M., Monte, P., & Kaiser, L. (2018). A hybrid approach for alarm verification using stream processing, machine learning and text analytics. In EDBT 2018, Vienna, Austria, 26-29 March 2018. ACM. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3487
Work Experience
current |
NLP Data Scientist Balzano Informatik AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Python (NLTK, spaCy), Ontology (Turtle), Azure, Git, Scrum |
Oct. 2018 - |
NLP Software Developer Move Digital AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Java (Stanford CoreNLP), Python, Ontology (OWL, RDF, Turtle), SPARQL, Elastic Search, MySQL, Postgres, REST API, Git, Scrum
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Apr. 2017 - |
Research Assistant, InIT Information Engineering Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Java (Stanford CoreNLP), Python (NLTK), JavaScript, SQL, MongoDB, RDF, SPARQL, Spark, Git
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Oct. 2016 - |
Software Engineer Atfinity GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland
Python, JavaScript (React), Elastic Search, Git, Scrum
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Jan. 2012 - |
Freelancer, Web Developer Synventis GmbH, Basel, Switzerland
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, SVN, Scrum |
University of Zurich: Education & Work
2015 - 2016 |
MSc. in Informatics Multimodal and Cognitive Systems Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology Thesis: "Visualization of Narrative Structures" |
2012 - 2015 |
BSc. in Informatics Applied Informatics: Computational Linguistics Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology Thesis: "Statistical Machine Translation of Technical Documentations"
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2015 May - Sept. |
Research Assistant, Software Developer Department of Political Science Project: "Measuring policy diffusion with automated content analysis: The case of smoking bans in Switzerland and the United States"
Java, R Code, Git
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Nov. 2014 -
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Student Assistant, Software Developer & Computational Linguistic Institute of Computational Linguistics - in collaboration with Finnova AG
Python (NLTK), C++, Moses SMT, Git
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2013 - 2014 |
Tutor Institute of Computational Linguistics
Python (NLTK), Bash
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