Hofmann, Thomas
professor
computer science
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Switzerland
Biography
homas Hofmann has been full professor of Data Analytics in the Department of Computer Science since April 2014. He was born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, in 1966. In 1997 he received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bonn, Germany. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and the International Computer Science Institute of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1999 he joined Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island as an assistant professor.
Research Interest
Machine learning, data analytics, natural language understanding, information retrieval
Publications
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Overview of ImageCLEF 2017: Information Extraction from Images
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Active Content-Based Crowdsourcing Task Selection
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Deep Joint Entity Disambiguation with Local Neural Attention
