
Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann
Hasso-Plattner-Institut
für Softwaresystemtechnik
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Paper accepted at SSDBM
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database...
JWS Article Accepted
Integrating Open Government Data with Stratosphere for more Transparency Arvid Heise and Felix...
LREC Paper Accepted
The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul,...
Daniel Rinser wins award for his masters thesis
IQ Best Master Degree Wettbewerb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informations- und Datenqualität e....
HPI TV releases video about GovWILD
See the new video about our Government Data Integration platform GovWILD.
Tool voidGen released
As part of our winning submission at the 2010 Billion Triple Challenge at the International...
ICDE Paper Accepted
28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) Washington, DC, USA Adaptive...

Hasso-Plattner-Institut
für Softwaresystemtechnik
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Telefon: ++49 331 5509 294
Fax: ++49 331 5509 287
Raum: A-1.8
Email: Christoph Boehm
Research Interests
- Profiling for Heterogeneous Data
- Linked Open Data
- Ontology Construction and Usage
Publications
- Toni Grütze, Christoph Böhm, Felix Naumann; Holistic and Scalable Ontology Alignment for Linked Open Data; to appear at LDOW workshop @ International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2012
- Christoph Böhm, Markus Freitag, Arvid Heise, Claudia Lehmann, Andrina Mascher, Felix Naumann, Vuk Ercegovac, Mauricio Hernandez, Peter Haase, and Michael Schmidt; GovWILD: Integrating Open Government Data for Transparency; Demo to appear @ International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2012; project page
- Christoph Böhm, Johannes Lorey, Felix Naumann; Creating voiD Descriptions for Web-scale Data; Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 2011; Winner of Billion Triples Challenge 2010 @ 9th ISWC 2010; download article; download btc contribution
- Christoph Böhm, Eyk Kny, Benjamin Emde, Ziawasch Abedjan, Felix Naumann; SPRINT: Ranking Search Results by Paths; Demo @ 14st International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2011; download; demo
- Dustin Lange, Christoph Böhm, and Felix Naumann; Extracting Structured Information from Wikipedia Articles to Populate Infoboxes; short paper @ 19th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2010; supplemental technical report
- Christoph Böhm, Felix Naumann, Markus Freitag, Stefan George, Norman Höfler, Martin Köppelmann, Claudia Lehmann, Andrina Mascher, and Tobias Schmidt; Linking Open Government Data: What Journalists Wish They Had Known; Honorary Mention from Linked Data Triplification Challenge 2010 @ I-semantics; download; project page
- Christoph Böhm, Felix Naumann, Ziawasch Abedjan, Dandy Fenz, Toni Grütze, Daniel Hefenbrock, Matthias Pohl, David Sonnabend; Profiling Linked Open Data with ProLOD; 2nd Workshop on New Trends in Information Integration @ International Conference on Date Engeneering (ICDE) 2010; download
- Christoph Böhm, Philip Groth, Ulf Leser; Graph-Based Ontology Construction from Heterogenous Evidences; 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2009; selected as General Interest Paper; download
- Alexander Bilke, Jens Bleiholder, Christoph Böhm, Karsten Draba, Felix Naumann, Melanie Weis; Automatic Data Fusion with HumMer; Demo @ 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2005; download
Master's Thesis Co-Supervision
- Eyk Kny: Erweiterung und Optimirung eines Graph Clustering Verfahrens, 2012
- Toni Grütze: Concept matching in the Web of Data, 2011
- Daniel Hefenbrock: HDRS: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer RDF Storage Infrastructure for Hadoop, 2011
- Johannes Gosda: Überlappendes Clustering annotierter Graphen durch Motif-Perkolation, 2010/11
- Ingmar Rötzler: A Flexible Index Structure for Interactive Data Proliling, 2010
- Dustin Lange: Learning to Extract Structured Information from Wikipedia Articles to Populate Infoboxes, 2009
Teaching
- Bachelor Project in corporation with Fluid Operations, Winter 11/12 - Summer 12
- Bachelor Project PROCSIA in corporation with IBM, Winter 10/11 - Summer 11
- Large-Scale Data Analyses on Cloud Platforms, Master Seminar Summer 10
- Bachelor Project Midas in corporation with IBM, Winter 09/10 - Summer 10
- Advanced Map/Reduce Algorithms on Hadoop, Master Seminar Winter 09/10
- Linked Data Profiling, Master Seminar Summer 09
- Map/Reduce Algorithms on Hadoop, Bachelor Seminar Summer 09
Activities
- Proceedings Chair at 13th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2010
- Proceedings Chair at 14th International Conference on Information Quality 2009
Misc
- January-March 2011 I was a guest in the MPII Databases and Information Systems Group.
- In 2011 and 2012 I received an IBM PhD Fellowship.
Diploma Thesis
Ontology Construction from Phenotype Data, August 2008, Supervisors: M.Sc. Philip Groth and Prof. Dr. Ulf Leser (Humboldt University), Exposé, full version uppon request


