Problems: Social Influence in Networks, Online Opinion Forming and Online Behavior, Social Media-based Event Prediction, Preference Elicitation and Travel Decision Making, Team Performance, Data-driven Decision-Making
Application Domains: Online News Media and Online Social Media, Travel and Tourism, Recommender Systems, Virtual Teams, Digital Humanities
Methods: Network Analysis / Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling / Text and Concept Mining / Sentiment Analysis
Data Intelligence - TINKA Proactive Services, in collaboration with T-Mobile Austria.
RoomMining - Web-Content Mining, Text Analyse und Auswertung von Hotelangeboten und Zusatzleistungen (FFG Basisprogramm), 2016.
Kundinnenprofilierung im Schmuckbereich (FFG Innovationsscheck) and Consumer Segmentation - Cluster Analysis (follow up project), 2015.
Personalisierte Darstellung von Reiseinformationen zur Beschlunigung des Entscheidungsprozesses bei der Reisebuchung (FFG Basisprogramm), 2014.
Teaching
Social Network Analysis (Lecture and Exercises; Master's Program Data Science and Master's Program Business Informatics), TU Wien, winter term 2018, 2019.
Digital Humanism (Lecture and Exercises; Master's Program Data Science, Business Informatics and Informatics), TU Wien, winter term 2019.
Research Methods (Seminar; Master's Program Business Informatics), TU Wien, since winter term 2019.
Research Seminar for PhD Students (Seminar; PhD Program Computer Sciences and Business Informatics), TU Wien, summer term 2019.
Web Science (Lecture and Exercises; Master's Program Business Informatics), TU Wien, 2011 - 2017.
E-commerce (Lecture and Exercises; Master's Program Business Informatics), TU Wien, 2011 - 2015.
Seminar in E-commerce (Seminar; Master's Program Business Informatics), TU Wien, 2011.
Gender Aspects and Mathematics (Seminar; Bachelor's, Master's and Teaching Program Mathematics), University of Vienna, 2010 - 2012.
Fabian Fröschl. Comparing General Purpose Sequence-Aware Recommender Systems in the News Domain.
Awards and Grants
13th ACM Conference On Recommender Systems (RecSys): Best Reviewer Nomination in 2019.
27th ACM Conference On User Modelling, Adaptation And Personalization (UMAP): Outstanding PC Member in 2019.
Journal of Information Technology & Tourism Article of the Year Award (2019) sponsored by the International Federation for IT & Tourism (IFITT). Mete, Sertkan, Julia Neidhardt, Hannes Werthner: What is the Personality” of a tourism destination? Information Technology & Tourism, 1-29.
Journal of Information Technology & Tourism Article of the Year Award (2018) sponsored by the International Federation for IT & Tourism (IFITT). Julia Neidhardt, Nataliia Rümmele, Hannes Werthner: Predicting Happiness: User Interactions and Sentiment Analysis in an Online Travel Forum.Information Technology & Tourism, 17(1), 101-119.
Journal of Information Technology & Tourism: outstanding contribution to the manuscript reviewing process in 2017.
Marshall Plan Scholarship, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, 2013.
Short Term Scientific Mission Grant within the COST scientific programme on Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access (MUMIA), 2013.
Top PhD Workshop Paper Award. Julia Neidhardt: Social Influence Analysis in Online Travel Communities. ENTER Conference 2013 - PhD Workshop, Innsbruck, Austria.
Communications of the ACM; Artificial Intelligence Review; EPJ Data Science; IJCAI 2019; KI – Künstliche Intelligenz; IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems; Information Processing and Management; International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; Electronic Markets; Journal of Information Technology & Tourism; Annals of Tourism Research.
Mete Sertkan, Julia Neidhardt and Hannes Werthner. From Pictures to Travel Characteristics: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach to Characterize Tourists and Tourism Destinations. ENTER2020 International eTourism Conference, January 8-10, 2020, (forthcoming).
Mete Sertkan, Julia Neidhardt and Hannes Werthner. From Pictures to Touristic Profiles: A Deep-Learning based Approach. International Alan Turing Conference on Decision Support and Recommender Systems, November 21-22, 2019, (Proceedings: coming soon).
Wilfried Grossmann, Mete Sertkan, Julia Neidhardt, and Hannes Werthner. Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations. Personalized Human-Computer Interaction. DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2019.
Julia Neidhardt, Wolfgang Wörndl, Tsvi Kuflik, Markus Zanker, Catalin-Mihai Barbu. RecTour 2019: workshop on recommenders in tourism. Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: 564-565, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019.
Andreas Baumann, Julia Neidhardt, and Tanja Wissik. DYLEN: Diachronic Dynamics of Lexical Networks. Poster Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019), May 20-23, 2019, Leipzig, Germany.
Julia Neidhardt, Daniel R Fesenmaier, Tsvi Kuflik, Wolfgang Wörndl. RecTour 2017: Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: 386 – 387, Como, Italy, 2017.
Gabriel Grill, Julia Neidhardt and Hannes Werthner. Network Analysis on the Austrian Media Corpus. Vienna Young Scientists Symposium, Book-of-Abstracts.com, Heinz A. Krebs, Gumpoldskirchen, Austria, 2017: 128 - 129. ISBN: 978-3-9504017-2-1.
Daniel R Fesenmaier, Tsvi Kuflik, and Julia Neidhardt. RecTour 2016: Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: 417 – 418, Boston, USA, 2016.
Amra Delic, Julia Neidhardt, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, Francesco Ricci, Laurens Rook, Hannes Werthner, and Markus Zanker. Observing Group Decision Making Processes. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: 147 – 150, Boston, USA, 2016.
Amra Delic, Julia Neidhardt, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, and Francesco Ricci. Research Methods for Group Recommender System. Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism 2015: 30 – 37, CEUR-WS Proceedings, 2016, ISSN: 1613-0073. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1685/
Amra Delic, Julia Neidhardt, and Hannes Werthner. Are Sun Lovers Nervous?, ENTER 2016 Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, 7, 5 pages. e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR), 2016. ISSN: 1941-5842.
Hannes Werthner, Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, Lorenzo Cantoni, Astrid Dickinger, Ulrike Gretzel, Dietmar Jannach, Julia Neidhardt, Birgit Pröll, Francesco Ricci, Miriam Scaglione, Brigitte Stangl, Oliviero Stock, and Markus Zanker. Future Research Issues in IT and Tourism. Journal of Information Technology and Tourism, 15(1): 1 - 15, 2015.
Dimitris Sacharidis, Amra Delic, and Julia Neidhardt. Learning the Role and Behavior of Users in Group Decision Making. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommender Systems, 1533: 25 - 28, 2015. ISSN: 1613-0073, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1533/
Julia Neidhardt, Nataliia Pobiedina, and Hannes Werthner. What Can We Learn from Review Data? ENTER 2015 Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, 6, 5 pages. e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR), 2015. ISSN: 1941-5842.
Worarat Krathu, Christian Pichler, Guohui Xiao, Hannes Werthner, Julia Neidhardt, Marco Zapletal, and Christian Huemer. Inter-organizational Success Factors: A Cause and Effect Model. Information Systems and e-Business Management, 13(3): 553 - 593, 2015.
Julia Neidhardt, Rainer Schuster, Leonhard Seyfang, and Hannes Werthner. Eliciting the Users’ Unknown Preferences. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems: 309 - 312, 2014.
Julia Neidhardt, Leonhard Seyfang, Rainer Schuster, and Hannes Werthner. A Picture-based Approach to Recommender Systems. Journal of Information Technology and Tourism, 15(1):49 - 69, 2014.
Nataliia Pobiedina, Julia Neidhardt, Maria del Carmen Calatrava Moreno, and Hannes Werthner. Ranking Factors of Team Success. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, 1185 - 1194. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 2013.
Roland Piazzi, Rodolfo Baggio, Julia Neidhardt, and Hannes Werthner. Network analysis of the austrian etourism web. Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012, pages 356–367. Springer Vienna, 2012.
Anna Fensel, Julia Neidhardt, Nataliia Pobiedina, Dieter Fensel, Hannes Werthner. cTowards an Intelligent Framework to Understand and Feed the Web. In Business Information Systems Workshops (pp. 255-266). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Roland Piazzi, Rodolfo Baggio, Julia Neidhardt, and Hannes Werthner. Destinations and the web: a network analysis view. Information Technology and Tourism, 13(3):215–228, 2011.
Conference Presentations (Without Proceedings)
Klaus Hofmann, Anna Markasova, Andreas Baumann, Julia Neidhardt, Tanja Wissik. Relating change in Austrian political discourse to real-world events through analyzing big diachronic corpus data. Accepted for the 4th International Conference on Political Linguistics (PL2020), 14-16 May 2020, Łódź, Poland.
Andreas Baumann, Klaus Hofmann, Anna Markasova, Julia Neidhardt, Tanja Wissik. Semantic shifts in Austrian public discourse: A lexical networks approach. Accepted for Empirical Studies of Word Sense Divergences across Language Varieties, Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) 2020, March 4-6, 2020 Hamburg, Germany.
Julia Neidhardt and Holger Sicking. Analyzing Tripadvisor forums for better marketing decisions: Use Case Austria National Tourist Office. Destination Track, ENTER 2019 Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2019.
Bo Xu, Julia Neidhardt, Yun Huang, Noshir Contractor. Capability, role, or relation: Collaboration in Dota2 combat teams. XXXVII Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), June 2017, Beijing, China.
Satyam Mukherjee, Yun Huang, Julia Neidhardt, Brian Uzzi and Noshir Contractor. Team assembly factors influencing the victor in competitive environment. International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), June 2016,Evanston, IL.
Yun Huang and Julia Neidhardt. From Networks to Space: Constructing Metric Spaces for Social interactions. Empirical Investigation of Social Space II, Bonn, 2015.
Julia Neidhardt, Yun Huang, and Noshir Contractor. Team vs. Team: Success Factors in a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Game. Academy of Management Meeting, Vancouver, 2015.
Julia Neidhardt, Yun Huang, Hannes Werthner, and Noshir Contractor. Conditional Random Field Models as a Way to Capture Peer Influence in Social Networks. Sunbelt XXXV, Brighton, 2015
Julia Neidhardt, Yun Huang, and Noshir Contractor. Assembly factors influencing the victor in head to head short duration team competitions in a multiplayer online battle arena game. Sunbelt XXXIV, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA, 2014.
Julia Neidhardt and Liselotte Tschepen. X2 - Ein Jahr Frauenförderungsprojekt an der Fakultät für Mathematik der Universität Wien. FiNuT 2008 - 34. Kongress von Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Bonn, Germany, 2008.
Invited Talk:Users are a complex phenomenon / It's happening, so what? Menschen und Maschinen. Visionen unserer digitalen Zukunft / Humans and Machines. Prospects for our Digital Future. Symposium zu 100 Jahre Frauenstudium an der TU Wien. TU Wien, Vienna, October 2019.
Invited Talk:Tourism Recommender Systems. The ACM Summer School on Recommender Systems. Univerity of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2019.
Invited Talk:Social Influence and Opinion Forming in Online Discussion Forums. Research Salon Artificial Intelligence.Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (AIL), Vienna, 2017.
Invited Talk:Modeling and Understanding Social Influence in Networks. Information & Database Systems Engineering Seminar. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen, 2016.
Invited Talk:A Picture-based Approach for Travel Recommendations. Research Colloquium, School of Computing, DePaul University, Chicago, 2014.
Theses
Julia Neidhardt. Modeling and Understanding Social Influence in Groups and Networks, 2016 (PhD Thesis).
Julia Neidhardt. Einführung in die Theorie der p-adischen Zahlen und nichtarchimedischen Absolutbeträge, 2009 (Master's Thesis).