Franz Keilholz

Self-initiated internship motivated by a personal interest in the development of accessible AI systems for translating complex texts into Easy Language, supporting people with disabilities, cognitive impairments, and language learners. Independently familiarized with existing systems and identified potential areas for technical improvement. Developed a scalable framework for the dynamic extension of web crawlers targeting Easy Language sources, with a strong focus on clean code principles, side-effect-fre

Development and maintenance of online application forms for municipal administrations (e.g., dog tax, heritage protection, general requests). Backend development using CakePHP (PHP 8) and JavaScript integration in the frontend. Implementation of a module for the automated processing of leave requests, including database logic and algorithmic handling of application data. Collaboration within a three-member development team; independent execution of assigned tasks based on technical specifications. Stren

Contributed as a Research Scientist and Developer within a five-member international team; regular reports and meetings conducted in English. Implementation and evaluation of grapheme-to-phoneme converters to enhance model training and output quality. Design and realization of specialized web crawlers, including an RSS feed fetcher aggregating data from over 60 sources and the automated extraction of nationwide police reports. Development of internal data management tools for corpus maintenance and expan

Project: Time Machine (European Digital Humanities Consortium) Independently designed and implemented a feasibility study on the automated detection of emerging trends in scientific publications, inspired by the Gartner Hype Cycle model. Developed a complete ETL pipeline in Perl, covering data extraction from scientific databases through to analytical evaluation. Performed statistical analysis and visualization of trend developments using R. Fully operationalized, programmed, prepared, and presented the

Project: Plato Paraphrases Digital (previously employed as a Research Assistant in the same project, April 2016 – December 2016) Developed linguistic methods for the semi-automatic identification of paraphrases across the complete corpus of ancient Greek texts. Aimed at the digital reconstruction of paraphrastic relations to Plato’s works and the conceptual definition of “paraphrase” within the context of ancient Greek language use. Created a hybrid solution for morphosyntactic analysis: combining the le