Information Processing and Analytics
The focus of the Information Processing and Analytics research group are methods and systems for processing and analysing information. Central research areas are computer-supported information processing and the analysis of big data as well as their influence on information and knowledge processes. This includes the application and improvement of approaches for data mining, machine learning, information extraction, and natural language processing.
One of our research goals is to improve access to the ever-increasing amount of research outputs for researchers and the general public and to make the World Wide Web accessible as a research object. Typical application areas are recommender systems, collaborative tagging systems (such as our own system BibSonomy), research data management, web archiving, digital humanities and the social web.
Professor
Robert Jäschke, Prof. Dr.
Since 2017 Robert Jäschke is head of the Information Processing and Analytics group at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science. His research areas are computer-based information processing, the analysis of big data and their influence on information and knowledge processes.
Robert Jäschke studied mathematics at Technische Universität Dresden and earned his PhD in computer science at the University of Kassel.
Afterwards, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Kassel, as assistant professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover and as senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He is co-founder of the social bookmarking system BibSonomy and member of of the L3S Research Center Hannover. His interests include information infrastructures, recommender systems, web science, open science and digital humanities. He is co-operator of the blog weltliteratur.net, a “black market for digital humanities”. profile page
PhD Students
Frederik Arnold, M.Sc.
Frederik Arnold has been an academic assistant at the Chair of Information Processing and Analytics at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science since 2020 and holds a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics from Saarland University. In the DFG-funded project What matters? Key passages in literary works he is developing methods for identification and characterisation of key passages. profile page
Simon Hachmeier, M.Sc.
Simon Hachmeier has been an academic assistant at the Chair of Information Processing and Analytics at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science since 2023. From 2021 to 2023 he was a research assistant at L3S Research Center. In the L3S research project Uncovr he was working on the identification, linking and characterisation of music videos on large web-based video platforms. He has a master's degree in information systems from the University of Innsbruck. profile page
Ira Kokoshko, M.Sc.
Ira Kokoshko has been an academic assistant at the Chair of Information Processing and Analytics at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science since the summer of 2025. Her research area is Web Science. She has a master's degree in Data Science from Freie Universität Berlin. profile page
Sophie Schneider, M.A.
Sophie Schneider has been an academic assistant at the Chair of Information Processing and Analytics since 2026. As part of the DFG-funded research unit 5805 "Medium –Commodity – Work: The German Heftroman (pulp novel) from 1913 to the present day", she conducts research on the extraction, modeling, and quality assurance of (meta)data in order to compile a bibliography of German-language pulp novels. She holds a master's degree in information science from HU Berlin. profile page
Student Assistants
Elena Dietrich
Elena Dietrich is a student assistant. profile page
Chris Herrmann
Chris Herrmann is a student assistant. profile page
Anna Schwerdtel
Anna Schwerdtel is a student assistant and has been studying at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science since 2021. profile page
Alumni
Dr. Christoph Hube
Christoph Hube worked in the DESIR project from 2017 to 2019 and did his PhD on Methods for Detecting and Mitigating Linguistic Bias in Text Corpora.
Dr. Michael Paris
Michael Paris was a research assistant at the Chair of Information Processinf and Analytics from 2018 to 2021. He has a master's degree in physics from Technische Universität Berlin and was working in the REGIO project for mapping the formation and success of collaborative relationships within regional research networks. In 2026, he earned his PhD. with research about the topic “Measurable aspects of Web content production within the German Academic Web: An investigation of large-scale focused web crawls.”
Hadi Sadaatdoorabi, M.Sc.
Hadi Sadaatdoorabi was a research assistant at the L3S research center and a PhD student at the chair of Information Processing and Analytics. In the L3S research project Uncovr he worked on the identification, linking and characterisation of music videos on video platforms.
Michel Schwab
Michel Schwab was a research assistant at the Chair of Information Processing and Analytics at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science from 2018 to 2023. He earned his Ph.D. in 2024 with a dissertation on the topic of Detection, Extraction and Analysis of Vossian Antonomasia in Large Text Corpora Using Machine Learning.
Sebastian Tiesler
Sebastian Tiesler was a research assistant at the Chair of Information Processing and Analytics at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science from 2022 to 2026.