Prof. Dr. Martin Braschler

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer, Director of Institute of Computer Science

Professional development teaching

CAS Information Engineering

Projects

• DECIDE – Digital Enabling of Circularity, Innovation, Development and Environment / Team member / abgeschlossen
• DataInc – Intelligent Data Integration and Cleaning / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• INODE – Intelligent Open Data Exploration (EU Horizon 2020) / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Skillue - Digital marketplace for skills and market values / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Digital Insurance Broking / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Smart Alarms and Verified Events (SAVE) / Team member / abgeschlossen
• EAT-IT / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Stiftungsregister SR_2 / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Enterprise Knowledge Curation / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• expert-match / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Mildenberger, Thoralf; Braschler, Martin; Ruckstuhl, Andreas; Vorburger, Robert; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2023.

  The role of data scientists in modern enterprises : experience from data science education.

  SIGMOD Record.

  52(2), pp. 48-52.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27357

• Amer-Yahia, Sihem; Koutrika, Georgia; Braschler, Martin; Calvanese, Diego; Lanti, Davide; Lücke-Tieke, Hendrik; Mosca, Alessandro; Mendes de Farias, Tarcisio; Papadopoulos, Dimitris; Patil, Yogendra; Rull, Guillem; Smith, Ellery; Skoutas, Dimitrios; Subramanian, Srividya; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2021.

  INODE : building an end-to-end data exploration system in practice.

  SIGMOD Record.

  50(4), pp. 23-29.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23624

• Smith, Ellery; Papadopoulos, Dimitris; Braschler, Martin; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2021.

  LILLIE : information extraction and database integration using linguistics and learning-based algorithms.

  Information Systems.

  105.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2021.101938

• Imhof, Melanie; Braschler, Martin,

  2017.

  A study of untrained models for multimodal information retrieval.

  Information Retrieval Journal.

  21(1), pp. 81-106.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10791-017-9322-x

• Braschler, Martin; Briner, Norman; Fischer, Hans; Häni, Markus; Mandl, Thomas; Schäuble, Peter; Steinbach, Markus; Stuker, Jürg,

  2009.

  Enterprise-Search-Systeme im internen Wissensmanagement : Ergebnisse einer Studie zu Perspektiven der Unternehmen.

  Datenbank-Spektrum.

  2009(30), pp. 5-12.

• Schäuble, Peter; Braschler, Martin,

  2005.

  Portalspezifische Informationssuche für den Kanton Zürich.

  Datenbank-Spektrum.

  2005(12), pp. 26-30.

• Braschler, Martin,

  2004.

  Combination approaches for multilingual text retrieval.

  Information Retrieval Journal.

  7(1/2), pp. 183-204.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:INRT.0000009445.19495.46

• Braschler, Martin; Peters, Carol,

  2004.

  Cross-language evaluation forum : objectives, results, achievements.

  Information Retrieval Journal.

  7(1/2), pp. 7-31.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:INRT.0000009438.69013.fa

• Braschler, Martin; Ripplinger, Bärbel,

  2004.

  How effective is stemming and decompounding for German text retrieval?.

  Information Retrieval Journal.

  7(3/4), pp. 291-306.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:INRT.0000011208.60754.a1

• Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  2019.

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  1. Auflage.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  ISBN 978-3-030-11820-4.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1

• Peters, Carol; Braschler, Martin; Clough, Paul,

  2012.

  Multilingual information retrieval : from research to practice.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  ISBN 978-3-642-23007-3.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23008-0

• Peters, Carol; Braschler, Martin, eds.,

  2004.

  Information retrieval : special issue on CLEF.

  Dordrecht:

  Kluwer.

• Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2019.

  Data science

  .

  In:

  Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 17-29.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_2

• Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt; Heinatz-Bürki, Gundula; Braschler, Martin,

  2019.

  Data scientists

  .

  In:

  Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 31-45.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_3

• Stadelmann, Thilo; Braschler, Martin; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2019.

  Introduction to applied data science

  .

  In:

  Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 3-16.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_1

• Stockinger, Kurt; Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo,

  2019.

  Lessons learned from challenging data science case studies

  .

  In:

  Braschler, Martin; Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt, eds.,

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 447-465.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_24

• Braschler, Martin; Imhof, Melanie; Rietberger, Stefan,

  2013.

  Black box evaluation for operational information retrieval applications

  .

  In:

  Bridging between information retrieval and databases.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  pp. 192-207.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 8173.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54798-0_9

• de Meer Pardo, Fernando; Lehmann, Claude; Gehrig, Dennis; Nagy, Andrea; Nicoli, Stefano; Branka Hadji, Misheva; Braschler, Martin; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2025.

  GraLMatch : matching groups of entities with graphs and language models [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of EDBT 2025.

  28th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 March 2025.

  Open Proceedings.

  pp. 1-12.

  Advances in Database Technology ; 28.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.48786/edbt.2025.01

• Smith, Ellery; Weiler, Andreas; Braschler, Martin,

  2021.

  Skill extraction for domain-specific text retrieval in a job-matching platform [paper].

  In:

  Candan, K. Selçuk; Ionescu, Bogdan; Goeuriot, Lorraine; Larsen, Birger; Müller, Henning; Joly, Alexis; Maistro, Maria; Piroi, Florina; Faggioli, Gugliemlo; Ferro, Nicola, eds.,

  Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction.

  12th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2021), virtual event, 21–24 September 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 116-128.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 12880.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85251-1_10

• Taranova, Anastasia; Braschler, Martin,

  2021.

  Textual complexity as an indicator of document relevance [paper].

  In:

  Advances in Information Retrieval.

  43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Lucca (online), 28 March - 1 April 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 410-417.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 12657.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_42

• Nadig, Stefanie; Braschler, Martin; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2020.

  Database search vs. information retrieval : a novel method for studying natural language querying of semi-structured data [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 12th LREC.

  12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2020.

  European Language Resources Association.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20042

• Smith, Ellery; Braschler, Martin; Weiler, Andreas; Haberthuer, Thomas,

  2019.

  Syntax-based skill extractor for job advertisements [paper].

  In:

  2019 6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS).

  6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), Bern, 14. Juni 2019.

  IEEE.

  pp. 80-81.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS.2019.000-3

• Sima, Ana-Claudia; Stockinger, Kurt; Affolter, Katrin; Braschler, Martin; Monte, Peter; Kaiser, Lukas,

  2018.

  A hybrid approach for alarm verification using stream processing, machine learning and text analytics [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Extending Database Technology.

  EDBT 2018, Vienna, Austria, 26-29 March 2018.

  Association for Computing Machinery.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3487

• Stadelmann, Thilo; Stockinger, Kurt; Braschler, Martin; Cieliebak, Mark; Baudinot, Gerold; Dürr, Oliver; Ruckstuhl, Andreas,

  2013.

  Applied data science in Europe : challenges for academia in keeping up with a highly demanded topic [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 9th European Computer Science Summit.

  9th European Computer Science Summit, Amsterdam, Niederlande, 8-9 October 2013.

• Imhof, Melanie; Braschler, Martin,

  2015.

  Are test collections “real”? : mirroring real-world complexity in IR test collections [paper].

  In:

  Mothe, Josiane; Savoy, Jacques; Kamps, Jaap; Pinel-Sauvagnat, Karen; Jones, Gareth; San Juan, Eric; Capellato, Linda; Ferro, Nicola, eds.,

  Experimental IR meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction.

  6th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2015), Toulouse, France, 8-11 September 2015.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 241-247.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 9283.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24027-5_23

• Forner, Pamela; Bentivogli, Luisa; Braschler, Martin; Choukri, Khalid; Ferro, Nicola; Hanbury, Allan; Karlgren, Jussi; Müller, Henning,

  2013.

  PROMISE technology transfer day : spreading the word on information access evaluation at an industrial event.

  ACM SIGIR Forum.

  47(1), pp. 53-58.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2492189.2492198

• Imhof, Melanie; Braschler, Martin; Hansen, Preben; Rietberger, Stefan,

  2013.

  Evaluation for operational IR applications – generalizability and automation [paper].

  In:

  LivingLab '13 Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Living labs for information retrieval evaluation.

  Workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation, San Francisco, USA, 1 November 2013.

  New York:

  Association for Computing Machinery.

  pp. 2557-2558.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2513150.2513160

• Agosti, Maristella; Berendsen, Richard; Bogers, Toine; Braschler, Martin; Buitelaar, Paul; Choukri, Khalid; Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria; Ferro, Nicola; Forner, Pamela; Hanbury, Allan; Friberg Heppin, Karin; Hansen, Preben; Järvelin, Anni; Larsen, Birger; Lupu, Mihai; Masiero, Ivano; Müller, Henning; Peruzzo, Simone; Petras, Vivien; Piroi, Florina; de Rijke, Maarten; Santucci, Giuseppe; Silvello, Gianmaria; Toms, Elaine,

  2012.

  PROMISE retreat report : prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation.

  ACM SIGIR Forum.

  46(2), pp. 60-84.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2422256.2422265

• Braschler, Martin; Choukri, Khalid; Ferro, Nicola; Hanbury, Allan; Karlgren, Jussi; Müller, Henning; Petras, Vivien; Pianta, Emanuele; de Rijke, Maarten; Santucci, Giuseppe,

  2010.

  A PROMISE for experimental evaluation [paper].

  In:

  Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation.

  International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2010), Padua, Italy, 20-23 September 2010.

  Berlin:

  Springer.

  pp. 140-144.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 6360.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15998-5_16

• Braschler, Martin,

  2009.

  Best practices in system-oriented aspects for multilingual information access applications [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the e Challenges 2009 Conference.

  eChallenges 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, 21-23 October 2009.

• Peters, Carol; Braschler, Martin; Di Nunzio, Giorgio; Ferro, Nicola; Gonzalo, Julio; Sanderson, Mark,

  2008.

  From research to application in multilingual information access : the contribution of evaluation [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 08.

  Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 26 May - 1 June 2008.

• Arni, Thomas; Baudinot, Gerold; Braschler, Martin,

  2008.

  Reputation Monitoring TM Bericht Q1/08.

• Arni, Thomas; Baudinot, Gerold; Braschler, Martin,

  2008.

  Wissensvorsprung durch Reputation Monitoring.

  Goldwyn Reports.

• Braschler, Martin; Ferro, Nicola,

  2007.

  Adding multilingual information access to the European Library [paper].

  In:

  Digital Libraries : Research and Development.

  First International DELOS Conference, Pisa, Italy, 13-14 February 2007.

  Berlin:

  Springer.

  pp. 218-227.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 4877.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77088-6_21

• Braschler, Martin; Herget, Josef; Pfister, Joachim; Schäuble, Peter; Steinbach, Markus; Stuker, Jürg,

  2007.

  Kommunikation im Internet : die Suchfunktion im Praxistest.

  Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis.

  58(3), pp. 159-168.

• Agosti, Maristella; Braschler, Martin; Ferro, Nicola; Peters, Carol; Siebinga, Sjoerd,

  2007.

  Roadmap for multilingual information access in the European Library [paper].

  In:

  Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.

  11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), Budapest, Hungary, 16-21 September 2007.

  Berlin:

  Springer.

  pp. 136-147.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 4675.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74851-9_12

• Baudinot, Gerold; Braschler, Martin; Egli, Roman,

  2006.

  Automatische Kategorisierung am Beispiel von E-Mail.

  Technologie Management Bericht

  .

• Braschler, Martin; Herget, Josef; Pfister, Joachim; Schäuble, Peter; Steinbach, Markus; Stuker, Jürg,

  2006.

  Evaluation der Suchfunktion von Schweizer Unternehmens-Websites.

  Chur:

  HTW Chur.

  Available from: https://www.fhgr.ch/fileadmin/fhgr/angewandte_zukunftstechnologien/SII/churer_schriften/sii-churer_schriften_12-Evaluation_der_Suchfunktion_von_Schweizer_Unternehmenswebsites.pdf

• Braschler, Martin; Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria; Ferro, Nicola; Peters, Carol,

  2005.

  CLEF 2004 : ad hoc track overview and results analysis [paper].

  In:

  Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images.

  5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2004) Bath, United Kingdom, 15-17 September 2004.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  pp. 10-26.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 3491.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/11519645_2

• Braschler, Martin,

  2004.

  CLEF 2003 : overview of results [paper].

  In:

  Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems.

  4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2003), Trondheim, Norway, 21-22 August 2003.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  pp. 44-63.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 3237.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_5

• Braschler, Martin; Peters, Carol,

  2004.

  CLEF 2003 methodology and metrics [paper].

  In:

  Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems.

  4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2003), Trondheim, Norway, 21-22 August 2003.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  pp. 7-20.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 3237.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_2

• Peters, Carol; Gonzalo, Julio; Braschler, Martin; Kluck, Michael, eds.,

  2004.

  Comparative evaluation of multilingual information access systems.

  4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2003), Trondheim, Norway, 21-22 August 2003.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 3237.

  ISBN 978-3-540-24017-4.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102261

• Peters, Carol; Braschler, Martin; Choukri, Khalid; Gonzalo, Julio; Kluck, Michael,

  2004.

  The future of evaluation for cross-langauge information retrieval systems [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2004.

  Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004.

  pp. 841-844.

• Braschler, Martin; Gonzalo, Julio; Kluck, Michael, eds.,

  2003.

  Advances in cross-language information retrieval.

  Third Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2002), Rome, Italy, 19-20 September 2002.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 2785.

  ISBN 978-3-540-40830-7.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/b12018

• Peters, Carol; Braschler, Martin; Gonzalo, Julio; Kluck, Michael, eds.,

  2002.

  Evaluation of cross-language information retrieval systems.

  Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2001) Darmstadt, Germany, 3-4 September 2001.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  .

  ISBN 978-3-540-44042-0.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45691-0

• Bachmann, Tobias; Doukaras, Antonios; Carabias-Hütter, Vicente; Braschler, Martin,

  2013.

  The potential of a web-based personalized horizon scanning tool.

  In:

  International Foresight Academy (IFA) Seminar, «Participatory Foresight for Smarter Futures - From Design to Impact», Winterthur, Switzerland, 16-19 September 2013.

• Agosti, Maristella; Braschler, Martin; Choukri, Khalid; Ferro, Nicola; Harman, Donna; Peters, Carol; Pianta, Emanuele; de Rijke, Maarten; Smeaton, Alan,

  2010.

  CLEF 2010 conference on multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.

  In:

  CLEF 2010 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, Padua, Italy, 20-23 September 2010.

  New York:

  Association for Computing Machinery.

  Available from: http://sigir.org/files/forum/2010D/conferences/2010d_sigirforum_agosti.pdf

• Braschler, Martin; Heuwing, Ben; Mandl, Thomas; Womser-Hacker, Christa; Herget, Josef; Schäuble, Peter; Stuker, Jürg,

  2009.

  Evaluation der Suchfunktion Deutscher Unternehmenswebsites.

  In:

  12. Tagung der Deutschen International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), Bonn, 19.-21. Oktober 2009.

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