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Education and Professional Experience

Image showing a Portrait of Ansgar Scherp Ansgar Scherp is Juniorprofessor for Media Informatics and New Media in Business Informatics at the Research Group on Data and Web Science of the University of Mannheim since August 2012. Prior to that he was working as Juniorprofessor for Semantic Web at the University of Koblenz-Landau in the Institute for Information Systems Research since April 2011 and lead the focus group on Interactive and Multimedia Web at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) at the same university since May 2008. He has studied computer science at the University of Oldenburg, Germany and has received the Advancement Award for Outstanding Results in Studies from the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE), Germany in 1998. He finished his PhD with the thesis title "A Component Framework for Personalized Multimedia Applications" at the University of Oldenburg, Germany with distinction in 2006. Afterwards, Mr. Scherp has been EU Marie Curie Fellow with Prof. Ramesh Jain at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA in Los Angeles between November 2006 to October 2007. He has lead the University of Koblenz-Landau's activities in the EU Integrated Project WeKnowIt from 2008 to 2011. Here, he has been leading the work packages on knowledge management and mass intelligence and has been member of the project management board and steering board committee. Mr. Scherp is scientific leader of the EU project SocialSensor, where the University of Koblenz-Landau is leading the work package on user modeling and presentation. In December 2011, he has received his Venia Legendi (Habilitation) with the thesis title "Semantic Media Management: Process Innovation along the Value Chain of Media Companies" (in German) from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications including 12 journal articles, 21 conference papers, and 10 book chapters. In October/November 2004, Ansgar Scherp has participated in a Rotary Group Study Exchange Programme to Japan. A great trip which has been extensively documented in a web blog.

Research Interests

Our work is at the intersection of processing and managing large-scale semantic data and human-centered (multimedia) applications. A central problem that hinders the adoption of semantic technologies and semantic applications is the lack in a proper usability of such applications, in particular when dealing with very large and distributed semantic data that is of different origin and quality (aka Big Data).

We develop novel methods and tools for an efficient processing and management of large-scale semantic data and develop interactive, knowledge-based applications to ease use of that large-scale data. We evaluate the knowledge-based applications by conducting formative and summative user studies and applying statistical methods. Examples of this benefitial combination of large-scale semantic data management and human-centered applications are the comparison of a semantic desktop vs. a standard desktop for personal information management (KCAP '09), the interactive exploration of large-scale semantic social media data with SemaPlorer (JWS '09), deriving semantics from photo books to improve the authoring and retrieval task (ACM MM '07), interactive exploration of distributed, social media sources (MTAP '13), and the interactive user guidance when searching for relevant sources of Linked Open Data at web-scale (JWS '12, KCAP '13).

In detail, the research interests are:

Honors and Awards

Mr. Scherp has won together with Marco Schlattmann, Anja Hasler, Wilko Heuten, and Ralf Kuczewski the Audience Award for the project Virtual Laboratories at the finals of the Medida-Prix for Media-Didactics in Higher Education, Basel, Switzerland in 2002. He has won the Billion Triple Challenge of the Semantic Web Conference twice. Once together with Simon Schenk, Carsten Saathoff, and Steffen Staab on the interactive application SemaPlorer for exploring a very large amount of distributed semantic social media data of different origin and quality in real-time at the Semantic Web Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2008. The second one together with Mathias Konrath and Thomas Gottron on the SchemEX tool providing a real-time extraction and aggregation of implicit and explicit schema information from the Linked Open Data cloud at Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany in 2011. The goal of the Billion Triple Challenge is to demonstrate "doing something useful with more than a billion triples". Mr. Scherp has received the best paper award for "Paving the Last Mile for Multi-Channel Multimedia Presentation Generation", Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Melbourne, Australia, 2005. The paper "Are Semantic Desktops Better?: Summative Evaluation Comparing a Semantic against a Conventional Desktop" by Thomas Franz, Ansgar Scherp, and Steffen Staab has been nominated as best paper candidate at the International Conference on Knowledge Capturing (K-CAP), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, September, 2009. In 2013, Mr. Scherp has won the klickTel Award with mobEX, for automatically matching distributed social media data like locations, events, and persons and making it available to the users through a mobile location and event finder (together with C. Bikar, M. Jess, F. Knip, B. Opitz, B. Pfister, and T. Sztyler).

Community Service

Mr. Scherp is editor of the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) for the area of human-computer interaction. He is program committee member for conferences including ACM Multimedia (MM), Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), and International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). He also reviews for journals including IEEE Multimedia, Springer's Multimedia Systems and Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), and International Journal on Human Computer Studies (IJHCS). Mr. Scherp is co-organizer of several scientific events such as the ACM Workshop on Events in Multimedia conjunct with ACM Multimedia Beijing, China, 2009 and Firence, Italy, 2010, and Scottsdale, AZ, USA, in 2011. The workshop and area aims at bringing together different disciplines interested in detecting, processing, representing, and using events in multimedia and social media. Due to the workshop's success, the topic became its own area at the ACM Multimedia conference in 2012. Mr. Scherp has been chairing this area together with Prof. Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Alex Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).

Entrepreneurship

Patents

Most Important Publications

 For a complete list, please refer to the list here or to my DBLP page.

Supervised Master Theses

WeST Institute, Koblenz

OFFIS Institute, Oldenburg

Last update: 5/19/2013.