Internal note for our chair: each of us should offer / provide 12 months of supervision every year. Each thesis or project "counts" just like it counts for the students, where #months = #ECTS / 4. That is, B.Sc. project = 6 ECTS = 1.5 months, M.Sc. project = 16 ECTS = 4 months, B.Sc. thesis = 12 ECTS = 3 months, M.Sc. thesis = 25 ECTS = 6 months.

List of available and ongoing topics for current B.Sc. and M.Sc. projects and theses

Note to interested students: if all projects in this list are ongoing, this means that our current capacity for supervising projects is reached. Maybe, if you come back later, there will be an offer again. You can also propose a topic on your own.

TODO: project + thesis offered/supervised by Björn

TODO: project + thesis offered/supervised by Elmar

TODO: project + thesis offered/supervised by Florian

TODO: project + thesis offered/supervised by Claudius

TODO: project + thesis offered/supervised by Sabine

Question Answering using Semantic Full-Text Search (thesis, HB + ...): Use our semantic full-text search engine Broccoli for the FACTOID and LIST questions from one of the TREC Questions Answering benchmarks, e.g. http://trec.nist.gov/data/qa/2006_qadata/QA2006_testset.xml . What is the performance of manually constructed queries, and what can be done to improve it? Good if you heard the information retrieval lecture before, but not absolutely necessary.

Improved Transfer Patterns Routing (thesis or project, HB + SS): Public transit routing at Google currently implements the transfer patterns algorithm from this paper: http://ad-publications.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ESA_transferpatterns_BCEGHRV_2010.pdf . The evaluation in this paper is outdated, and we know of several possible major improvements in the meantime. In particular, we know how to accelerate the pre-processing time by a factor of about 10. The goal of this thesis would we to implement a much improved version of transfer patterns and properly benchmark it.

An easy-to-use web app for the CompleteSearch engine (project, HB): The CompleteSearch engine complex search capabilities (including prefix search and faceted search) on semi-structured data (text and databases) with very fast query times. Our current software is powerful and flexible, but has quite a learning curve before it can be used. The goal of this project would be to set up a web app, where one can upload any CSV dataset, and then have a convenient search (with meaningful default settings), without having to set up anything oneself.

Completed B.Sc. or M.Sc. projects and theses

[Die Liste ist noch unvollständig, insbesondere fehlen gerade noch die ganzen Projekte. Titel der Arbeit sollte da auch noch stehen und ein Link zur jeweiligen Webseite bzw. Arbeit und Präsentation. Und das Anfangs- und Enddatum.]

B.Sc. thesis Philipp Bausch (Elmar)

M.Sc. thesis Eugen Sawin (Hannah)

M.Sc. thesis Patrick Brosi (Hannah + Sabine)

B.Sc. thesis Marius Bethge (Björn)

M.Sc. thesis Cynthia Jimenez (Sabine)

M.Sc. thesis Jonas Sternisko (Hannah)

M.Sc. thesis Ragavan Natarajan (Florian)

B.Sc. thesis Benjamin Meier (Claudius)

M.Sc. thesis Susanne Eichel (Hannah)

B.Sc. thesis Axel Lehmann (Hannah)

B.Sc. thesis Adrian Batzill (Hannah)

B.Sc. thesis Anton Stepan (Björn)

M.Sc. thesis Mirko Brodesser (Hannah + Sabine)

M.Sc. thesis Manuel Braun (Hannah + Sabine)

B.Sc. thesis Robin Schirrmeister (Hannah)

B.Sc. thesis Simon Skilevic (Hannah)

M.Sc. thesis Ilinca Tudose (Hannah + Elmar)

B.Sc. thesis Christiane Schaffer (Florian)

M.Sc. thesis Dirk Kienle (Hannah)

B.Sc. thesis Ina Baumgarten (Hannah + Björn)

B.Sc. thesis Niklas Meinzer (Hannah + Björn)

M.Sc. thesis Claudius Korzen (Hannah)

M.Sc. thesis Florian Bäurle (Hannah)

M.Sc. thesis Elmar Haußmann (Hannah)

M.Sc. thesis Oliver Mitevski (Hannah + Marjan)

M.Sc. thesis Björn Buchhold (Hannah)

Diploma thesis Johannes Schwenk (Hannah)

B.Sc. thesis Mirko Brodesser (Hannah + Marjan)