Our Partner Companies

For many years we are successfully cooperating with partner companies in R&D-projects. Here the focus is especially on contract research and consulting services. In the following you will find a selction of our current and completed projects.

Contract Research

Content Garden Technologies

ContentSA

Duration: 11/2017 - 01/2018

Which texts are read more frequently on the web? Does a negative headline lead to more clicks? These findings will be incorporated into the automatic mood analysis of editorially produced texts at Content Garden Technologies in order to make the provision of information as attractive as possible for the reader.

WÖHLER

WöhlerIE

Duration: 11/2017 - 01/2018

As part of the cooperation, an application for extracting company-specific data from online resources will be developed to support the evaluation of potential customers from the HVAC trade in their company size and tradition. For this purpose, a monitored machine learning process for the recognition of relevant text modules in the self-portrayals and service descriptions on the respective company websites will be developed.

Jobware

Categorizing job advertisements and finding suitable job advertisements

Duration: 02/2017 - 12/2017

Together with Jobware Online-Service GmbH, approaches for the automatic classification of job advertisements and semantic search in the job portal are being developed. More than 200,000 job advertisements are available as training data, which have already been categorized manually. This offers the possibility to implement rule-based approaches for information extraction by bootstrapping on the one hand and machine learning procedures on the other hand in order to create a hybrid procedure that works both knowledge-based and data-driven.

K4A GmbH

Feasibility study for automatic text analysis of insurance-relevant documents

Duration: 12/2016 - 03/2017

Insurance companies receive a large number of documents for processing every day. But how can you automatically recognize what kind of textual information (e.g. cover letter, invoice, expert opinion, contract, etc.) is involved? The aim of this project was to explore which methods from OCR and classification to the structured representation of these documents in the insurance context could be promising.

LYNX B.V.

Conception of a solution assistant for customer questions

Duration: 02/2016 - 04/2016

LYNX B.V. faces a daily increasing number of customer inquiries. Only a small number of them can be answered reliably by the automatic Q&A system. This is due, among other things, to the large number of variations in the enquiry formulation. At the heart of the cooperation is the further development of an information retrieval system with regard to greater flexibility in the interpretation of customer enquiries (e.g. through extensive synonym dictionaries, suggestion systems, error correction) in order to offer needs-oriented solution proposals and further guidance.

Review BRIDGE Research

Analysis of keywords and sentiments in reviews

Duration: 10/2015 - 12/2015, 03/2016 - 04/2016

Review BRIDGE Research GmbH is a company dealing with the acquisition and analysis of product reviews on the Internet. The aim is to get a simple and quick overview of what the world thinks about a product. Within the framework of our cooperation, modern methods of sentiment analysis and customer satisfaction monitoring are extended and applied. Among other things, extensive polarity dictionaries were generated with computer support in order to increase both the accuracy and the coverage of the analyses.

WÖHLER

Intelligent keywording of measuring, inspection and cleaning technology for the chimney sweep and sanitary/heating/air conditioning trade

Duration: 07/2014 - 09/2014, 01/2015 - 03/2015, 07/2015, 10/2015

Intelligent indexing of the product range in the Wöhler Messgeräte Kehrgeräte GmbH web shop is not an easy task considering the numerous variants. While, for example, a dust meter and a dustmeter mean the same technical product, a measuring instrument and a measuring instrument are only context-dependent and synonymous. Within the framework of the cooperation, new ways of semantic keywording of technical terms in German, English, French, Italian and Dutch will be explored.

dSPACE

Design of a functional search prototype for a helpdesk

Duration: 01/2014 - 03/2014

The objective of the cooperation was to redesign dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH's existing help system. Making technical documentations searchable is not an easy challenge. Through intensive cooperation, the partners were able to identify and systematize user requirements and successfully implement the prototypical help searches.

Consulting Services

WÖHLER

Search engine optimization of the German website

Duration: 03/2015 - 12/2016

Optimizing the existing website www.woehler.de with regard to the mostly unknown but sensitive criteria of the major search engine providers is particularly difficult due to the existing page structure and content, as changes must be prevented from having a negative effect on the current ranking.
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