Klaus Berberich

Professor Klaus Berberich is a faculty member at htw saar (Saarland University of Applied Sciences), where he serves as Professor in the Databases & Information Systems department within the Faculty of Engineering. He is the Laboratory manager of the software laboratory (SWL) and Chairman of the examination boards for Practical Computer Science, Communication Informatics and Production Informatics.

His research focuses on Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Web Archives, with significant contributions to knowledge graphs, temporal information retrieval, and neural information retrieval models. Professor Berberich has developed innovative approaches for quantity extraction from web tables, structuring text into tables, and knowledge graph querying.

His publication record shows a consistent trend toward increasingly sophisticated neural approaches to information retrieval, evolving from traditional temporal search techniques to modern deep learning models. Recent work demonstrates strong integration of knowledge graphs with neural information retrieval systems, particularly in handling quantities and temporal aspects of information.

Professor Berberich has received numerous prestigious awards throughout his career:

• 2020: Test of Time Award, ECIR 2020
• 2018: Honorable Mention for Best Poster Award, WWW 2018
• 2017: Prominent Paper Award, Artificial Intelligence Journal
• 2014: Highly Commended Poster Presentation Award, IIiX 2014
• 2013: Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award, CIKM 2013
• 2011: Best Demo Award, WWW 2011
• 2009: Best Late-Breaking Result Award, WSDM 2009

As an active researcher and educator, Professor Berberich serves on numerous program committees for major conferences including WSDM, CIKM, SIGIR, and ICTIR. He has been a consistent reviewer for prestigious journals in the field and is a member of the executive committee of the Information Retrieval specialist group of the German Informatics Society. His teaching portfolio includes courses in Databases, Information Retrieval, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Professor Berberich leads the software laboratory (SWL) at htw saar and has been instrumental in developing research infrastructure for knowledge-centric tasks, including the GYANI indexing infrastructure. His research group has made significant contributions to temporal information retrieval, particularly in the context of web archives and news archives.