Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß

Professor for Applied Data Science

Committees & Offices

Programme Director and Internship Officer in the Information and Data Management programme (BA)

Member of the Faculty Council

Member of the Examination Board

Unit

Department of Information Sciences

julia.struss@fh-potsdam.de

Phone

+49 331 580-4532

Location

House 2

Room

125b

Office hours

thursdays, 09.00 am (during lecture period), by arrangement

Main fields of activity (research, teaching)

Information Retrieval
Text and Data Mining
Programming basics
Website design and development
Search Engine Optimisation
Introduction to Information Science
Basics of Statistics

Other activities:

Member of the board of the University Association for Information Science since 2020
Member of the "Interest Group on German Sentiment Analysis (IGGSA)" since 2012

CV

Since October 2020: Professor of Applied Data Science at the Department of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
April 2018 to September 2020: Deputy Professor Information Retrieval and Data Management at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam , Department of Information Science
November 2016 to March 2018: Research assistant at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library in the Competence Centre for Non-textual Materials
October 2016: PhD at the University of Hildesheim in the Institute for Information Science and Language Technology
October 2012 to June 2016: Research assistant at the University of Hildesheim in the Institute for Information Science and Language Technology
April 2008 to September 2012: Lecturer for special affairs at the University of Hildesheim in the Institute for Information Science and Language Technology
December 2005 to April 2008: Online Marketing Manager at yamando AG
February 2004 to June 2004: Semester abroad at the Universidad de Granada
October 2001 to July 2007: Study of International Information Management with focus on Applied Information Science at the University of Hildesheim
July 2001: Abitur

Publications at FHP from 2018 onwards (according to core data set for research)

2025

Firoj Alam, Julia Maria Struß, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Stefan Dietze, Salim Hafid, Katerina Korre, Arianna Muti, Preslav Nakov, Federico Ruggeri, Sebastian Schellhammer, Vinay Setty, Megha Sundriyal, Konstantin Todorov, V. Venktesh. Overview of the CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab : Subjectivity, Fact-Checking, Claim Normalization, and Retrieval. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 20251992025.
Firoj Alam, Julia Maria Struß, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Stefan Dietze, Salim Hafid, Katerina Korre, Arianna Muti, Preslav Nakov, Federico Ruggeri, Sebastian Schellhammer, Vinay Setty, Megha Sundriyal, Konstantin Todorov, V. Venktesh. The CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab: Subjectivity, Fact-Checking, Claim Normalization, and Retrieval. 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval467-4782025.
Julia Maria Struß, Helena Mihaljević, Maria Driesen. Where Is All the Data Hiding?: An Analysis of Hosting and Licensing Practices for Hate Speech Datasets. 18. Internationales Symposium für Informationswissenschaft190-2032025.

2024

Thomas Mandl, Julia Maria Struß. Information retrieval: Core techniques, issues, current and future developments. 137-1512024.
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Julia Maria Struß, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Tamer Elsayed, Piotr Przybyła, Tommaso Caselli, Giovanni Da San Martino, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Chengkai Li, Jakub Piskorski, Federico Ruggeri, Xingyi Song, Reem Suwaileh. Overview of the CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab : Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 202428-522024.
Julia Maria Struß, Federico Ruggeri, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Dimitar Dimitrov, Andrea Galassi, Georgi Pachov, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov, Melanie Siegel, Michael Wiegand, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Wajdi Zaghouani. Overview of the CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab Task 2 on Subjectivity in News Articles: Notebook for the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2024. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2024287-2982024.
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tonmoy Chakraborty, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Piotr Przybyła, Julia Maria Struß, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Federico Ruggeri, Xingyi Song, Reem Suwaileh. The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness. 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval449-4582024.

2023

Leonard Higi, Heike Neuroth, Julia Maria Struß. From Data Life Cycle to Urban Data Practice: Data-based Application Development for Municipal Stakeholders in Rural Areas Organized along the Data Life Cycle. 17. Internationales Symposium für Informationswissenschaft393-4002023.
Julia Maria Struß, Dirk Lewandowski. Methoden in der Informationswissenschaft. 57-692023.
Andrea Galassi, Federico Ruggeri, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tommaso Caselli, Mucahid Kutlu, Julia Maria Struß, Francesco Antici, Maram Hasanain, Juliane Köhler, Katerina Korre, Folkert Leistra, Arianna Muti, Melanie Siegel, Mehmet Deniz Türkmen, Michael Wiegand, Wajdi Zaghouani. Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Task 2 on Subjectivity in News Articles: Notebook for the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2023. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2023236-2492023.
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Andrea Galassi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Tamer Elsayed, Dilshod Azizov, Tommaso Caselli, Gullal S. Cheema, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Mucahid Kutlu, Chengkai Li, Federico Ruggeri, Julia Maria Struß, Wajdi Zaghouani. Overview of the CLEF–2023 CheckThat! Lab on Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Source. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2023251-2752023.
Juliane Köhler, Julia Maria Struß, Maria Driesen. Seeking for Information about Environmental Sustainability. 17. Internationales Symposium für Informationswissenschaft404-4102023.
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tammaso Caselli, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Andrea Galassi, Fatima Haouari, Federico Ruggeri, Julia Maria Struß, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Gullal S. Cheema, Dilshop Azizov, Preslav Nakov. The CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab : Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority. 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval509-5172023.

2022

Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam, Julia Maria Struß, Thomas Mandl, Rubén Míguez, Tommaso Caselli, Mucahid Kutlu, Wajdi Zaghouani, Chengkai Li, Shaden Shaar, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Hamdy Mubarak, Alex Nikolov, Nikolay Babulkov, Yavuz Selim Kartal, Michael Wiegand, Melanie Siegel, Juliane Köhler. Overview of the CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Fake News Detection. International Conference of the CLEF Association 13495-5202022.
Juliane Köhler, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Julia Maria Struß, Michael Wiegand, Melanie Siegel, Thomas Mandl, Mina Schütz. Overview of the CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab: Task 3 on Fake News Detection. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2022404-4212022.
Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam, Julia Maria Struß, Thomas Mandl, Rubén Míguez, Tommaso Caselli, Mucahid Kutlu, Wajdi Zaghouani, Chengkai Li, Shaden Shaar, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Hamdy Mubarak, Alex Nikolov, Nikolay Babulkov, Yavuz Selim Kartal, Javier Beltrán. The CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Fake News Detection. European Conference on IR Research 44416-4282022.

2021

Nakov Preslav, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Rubén Míguez, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Watheq Mansour, Bayan Hamdan, Zien Sheikh Ali, Nikolay Babulkov, Alex Nikolov, Gautam Koshore Shahi, Julia Maria Struß, Thomas Mandl, Mucahid Kutlu, Yavuz Selim Kartal. Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2021264-2912021.
Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Rubén Míguez, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Nikolay Babulkov, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Julia Maria Struß, Thomas Mandl. The CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News. 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval639-6492021.

2019

Julia Maria Struß, Melanie Siegel, Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Manfred Klenner. Overview of GermEval Task 2, 2019 shared task on the identification of offensive language. Conference on Natural Language Processing 2019352-3632019.

Additional publications

2021

Shahi, Gautam Kishore; Struß, Julia Maria; Mandl, Thomas (2021): Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab: Task 3 on Fake News Detection. In: Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Alexis Joly, Maria Maistro und Florina Piroi (Hg.): CLEF 2021 Working Notes. Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2021 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum. Bucharest, Romania, September 21st to 24th, 2021.: CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol-2936), S. 406–423.

2018

Struß, Julia Maria (2018): An Empirical Study on 3D Artefacts in the Scientific Life Cycle. Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover. Hannover.

2017

Struß, Julia Maria (2017): Multilinguales aspektbasiertes Opinion Mining. Entwicklung eines ressourcenarmen Extraktionsverfahrens und Untersuchung von Nutzerperspektiven. 1. Auflage. Glückstadt: Hülsbusch (Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft, 71). [Zugl.: Diss., Univ. Hildesheim, 2016]

2016

Ruppenhofer, Josef; Struß, Julia Maria; Wiegand, Michael (Eds.) (2016): IGGSA Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches. Proceedings of the IGGSA Workshop at Konvens 2016. Bochum, Germany, September 22, 2016 (Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte, 18).
Ruppenhofer, Josef; Struß, Julia Maria; Wiegand, Michael (2016): Overview of the IGGSA 2016 Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches. In Josef Ruppenhofer, Julia Maria Struß, Michael Wiegand (Eds.): IGGSA Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches. Proceedings of the IGGSA Workshop at Konvens 2016. Bochum, Germany, September 22, 2016 (Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte, 18), pp. 1–9.

2014

Ruppenhofer, Josef; Struß, Julia Maria; Sonntag, Jonathan; Gindl, Stefan (2014): IGGSA-STEPS: Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches. In Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 29 (1), pp. 33–46.
Struß, Julia Maria; Becks, Daniela; Mandl, Thomas; Schwantner; Michael; Womser-Hacker, Christa (2014): Patent Retrieval und Patent Mining: Sind die Anforderungen eingelöst? In Marlies Ockenfeld (Ed.): Informationsqualität und Wissensgenerierung. 3. DGI-Konferenz, 66. Jahrestagung der DGI. Proceedings. DGI. Frankfurt am Main, 8. bis 9. Mai 2014. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inofrmationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis (Tagungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis (DGI-Tagungen), 17), pp. 25–36.
Struß, Julia Maria; Mandl, Thomas; Schwantner, Michael; Womser-Hacker, Christa (2014): Understanding Trends in the Patent Domain. User Perceptions on Trends and Trend Related Concepts. In : Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Patent Mining and Its Applications. At KONVENS'14. IPaMin. Hildesheim, Oct. 7th. 2014.

2013

Kastner, Sebastian; Mandl, Thomas; Struß, Julia Maria (2013): Identifikation von Kundenrezensionen im WWW als Basis eines Crawlers für das Opinion Mining. In Hans-Christoph Hohbohm (Ed.): Informationswissenschaft zwischen virtueller Infrastruktur und materiellen Lebenswelten. Proceedings des 13. Internationalesn Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft. ISI. Potsdam, Deutschland, 19. - 22. März 2013. Boizenburg: Werner Hülsbusch, pp. 384–389.
Ruppenhofer, Josef; Struß, Julia Maria; Sonntag, Jonathan; Gindl, Stefan (2013): IGGSA-STEPS: Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches. In Joachim Griesbaum, Ben Heuwing, Josef Ruppenhofer, Katrin Werner (Eds.): Proceedings des 8. Hildesheimer Evaluierungs- und Retrievalworkshop. HIER. Hildesheim, 25.−26. April 2013, pp. 51–57.

2012

Schulz, Julia Maria; Becks, Daniela; Womser-Hacker, Christa; Mandl, Thomas (2012): A Resource-light Approach to Phrase Extraction for English and German Documents from the Patent Domain and User Generated Content. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani et al. (Eds.): Proceedings of the Eigth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC. Istanbul, Turkey, 21-27 May 2012. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 538–543.

2011

Becks, Daniela; Schulz, Julia Maria (2011): Domänenübergreifende Phrasenextraktion mit Hilfe einer lexikonunabhängigen Analysekomponente. In Joachim Griesbaum, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker (Eds.): Information und Wissen: global, sozial und frei? Proceedings des 12. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft. ISI. Hildesheim, Deutschland, 9. - 11. März 2011. Boizenburg: Werner Hülsbusch, pp. 388–392.
Becks, Daniela; Schulz, Julia Maria; Womser-Hacker, Christa; Mandl, Thomas (2011): Multilinguale Phrasenextraktion mit Hilfe einer lexikonunabhängigen Analysekomponente am Beispiel von Patentschriften und nutzergenerierten Inhalten. In Hanna Hedeland, Thomas Schmidt, Kai Wörner (Eds.): Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications. Proceedings of the Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011, vol. 96. Hamburg: Universität Hamburg (Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit - Folge B, 96), pp. 157–162.
Mandl, Thomas; Schulz, Julia Maria; Mahrholz, Nadine; Lamm, Katrin (2011): Benutzerforschung anhand von Log-Dateien: Chancen, Grenzen und aktuelle Trends. In Information: Wissenschaft und Praxis 62 (1), pp. 29–35.
Schulz, Julia Maria (2011): Crosslinguales Produktretrieval. Sentimentanalyse und Extraktion von Produkteigenschaften. Doktorandenworkshop. In Joachim Griesbaum, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker (Eds.): Information und Wissen: global, sozial und frei? Proceedings des 12. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft. ISI. Hildesheim, Deutschland, 9. - 11. März 2011. Boizenburg: Werner Hülsbusch, to be published (Addendum).

2010

Mandl, Thomas; Agosti, Maristella; Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria; Yeh, Alexander; Mani, Inderjeet; Doran, Christine; Schulz, Julia Maria (2010): LogCLEF 2009: The CLEF 2009 Multilingual Logfile Analysis Track Overview. In Carol Peters, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Mikko Kurimo, Thomas Mandl, Djamel Mostefa, Anselmo Peñas, Giovanna Roda (Eds.): Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I. Text Retrieval Experiments. 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 2, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 6241. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6241), pp. 508–517.
Mandl, Thomas; Schulz, Julia Maria (2010): Log-Based Evaluation Resources for Question Answering. In Richard Sutcliffe, Udo Kruschwitz, Thomas Mandl (Eds.): Web Logs and Question Answering Workshop at the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation. WLQA - LREC. Valletta, Malta, 22nd May 2010, pp. 50–52.
Santos, Diana; Cabral, Luís Miguel; Forascu, Corina; Forner, Pamela; Gey, Fredric; Lamm, Katrin et al. (2010): GikiCLEF: Crosscultural Issues in Multilingual Information Access. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis et al. (Eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC. Valletta, Malta, 17-23 May 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 2346–2353.
Schulz, Julia Maria; Womser-Hacker, Christa; Mandl, Thomas (2010): Multilingual Corpus Development for Opinion Mining. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis et al. (Eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC. Valletta, Malta, 17-23 May 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 3409–3412.

2009

Schulz, Julia Maria (2009): Crosslinguales Produktretrieval. Sentimentanalyse und Extraktion von Produkteigenschaften. In Rainer Kuhlen (Ed.): Information: Droge, Ware oder Commons? Wertschöpfungs- und Transformationsprozesse auf den Informationsmärkten; Proceedings des 11. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft. ISI. Konstanz, Deutschland, 1. - 3. April 2009. Boizenburg: Werner Hülsbusch, pp. 457–463.

2008

Schulz, Julia Maria; Kölle, Ralph; Womser-Hacker, Christa; Mandl, Thomas (2008): Evaluation of Search Engine Optimization. Experiments for a Business Site and a New Evaluation Measure. In José Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe (Eds.): Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS. Barcelona, Spanien, 12.-16. Juni 2008, pp. 247–250.

2007

Schulz, Julia Maria (2007): Eine empirische Studie zur Suchmaschinenoptimierung am Beispiel einer Erlebnisgeschenkefirma. Magisterarbeit. Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim. Fachbereich III, Institut für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaften.
Schulz, Julia Maria; Womser-Hacker, Christa; Mandl, Thomas (2007): Eine empirische Studie zur Suchmaschinenoptimierung am Beispiel eines Firmentauftritts. In Alexander Hinneburg (Ed.): Lernen - Wissen - Adaption. LWA. Halle, Deutschland, 24.-26. September 2007, pp. 263–268.

Selected projects

Digital Twin - Digitisation of Maps

The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) and the Technical University of Kenya (TU-K) are developing an open workflow for the digitisation of historical maps from the holdings of the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS).

InNoWest - Just do it! Sustainable and digital together in North-West Brandenburg

The three partners in the InNoWest project are Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) and the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (THB). Together with regional stakeholders from politics, administration, municipalities, small and medium-sized enterprises (KMU) and the Federal Agency for Civic Eduacation, transfer projects…

Expertise-Oriented Methods for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Creative Industries

Research and development of methods for the use of GenAI in the context of the value chains of the creative industries, which lead to synergetic effects of artistic and creative competences in cooperation with AI. To disseminate the findings, recommendations for action and OERs for the development and integration of AI tools will also be published.

Flex Data Competence (DigiFlex)

The FLEX Data Competence (DigiFLEX) project will create e-learning programmes for teaching data skills by 2026, which are aimed at students from all departments and are specially tailored to the needs of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.