Contact Details and Management

webLyzard technology gmbh
Managing Director: Prof. DDr. Arno Scharl
Contact: info [at] weblyzard [dot] com
www.weblyzard.com

Registration Office: Handelsgericht Wien
Commercial Register Number: FN 314900 p

Management Team

Prof Arno Scharl is the Vice President of MODUL University Vienna, where he heads the Department of New Media Technology. Prior to his current appointment, he held professorships at the University of Western Australia and Graz University of Technology, was a Key Researcher at the Austrian Competence Center for Knowledge Management, and a Visiting Fellow at Curtin University of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. He completed his doctoral research and habilitation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Additionally, he holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Vienna, Department of Sports Physiology.

Dr Albert Weichselbraun is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Information Business of Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. After completing Master degrees in Economics and Chemical Engineering, his doctoral thesis focused on ontology-based text classification. Dr Weichselbraun leads webLyzard's technical development, with a special focus on the analytical methods involved. Apart from his academic work he actively participates in the improvement of related open-source products.

Technical Specifications

Implemented under Debian Linux, the webLyzard core technologies use Python for natural language processing, Java for analytical services, and the Gentics J2EE portal platform to render the user interface and provide dynamic content. As an integral part of the data gathering component, the HTTrack Web mirroring tool captures raw data from publicly available Web sites. Back-end server functions such as process control, data pre-processing and textual analysis were coded in Python, with a PostgreSQL database as the central repository for storing and retrieving electronic resources.