Magnus Bender
- Research Assistant -
Institut für Informationssysteme
Universität zu Lübeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160 ( Gebäude 64 - 2.OG )
D-23562 Lübeck
Telefon: +49 451 3101 5707
Fax : +49 451 3101 5704
email :E-Mail an Magnus Bender
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 01.10.2021 Research Assistant at the Institute of Information Systems at Universität zu Lübeck
- 01.03.2021 – 30.09.2021 Project staff at the Institute of Information Systems at Universität zu Lübeck as part of the project KI-LAB-Lübeck
Research Interests
Text understanding, especially by enriching texts with annotations and contextual representations
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining and Text Mining
- Subjective Content Descriptions for text documents
- Topic modelling
- Transformer Language Models (a.o. BERT, GPT)
Teaching
- Tools for Scientific Work "Introduction to Python for Machine Learning and Data Science" (BA 3rd sem, 2lect+ex, winter, since 2022/23)
- Introduction to R (as part of "Tools for Scientific Work", BA 3rd sem, 1x lect, 1x ex, winter, 2021/22).
Exercises
- Introduction to Web and Data Science (BA 1st sem., winter, 2lect, 1ex, since 2020/21)
- Project Internship Information Retrieval Agents (MA, winter, since 2021/22)
- Algorithms and Data Structures (BA 2nd sem., summer, 4lect, 2ex, since 2021)
Theses
- Topic Modeling with Probabilistic Soft Logic (Bachelor)
- Topic Modeling for the Assignment of Customer Inquiries to Clerks (Bachelor)
- Transformer Language Models (BERT) for the Assignment of Customer Inquiries to Clerks (Bachelor)
- Capturing text Semantics from Sequence Representations in Transformer Language Models (Master)
- Topic Modelling Of Anthropological Journals Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Bachelor)
- Incremental Model Updates by Removing Incorrect Subjective Content Descriptions (Bachelor)
Research Activities
Tutorials
- Let's Talk about Palm Leafs – From Minimal Data to Text Understanding, at KI 2023 in collaboration with Tanya Braun and Marcel Gehrke, 26. - 29. September 2023.
Publications
2023
- Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, Marcel Gehrke: LESS is More: LEan Computing for Selective Summaries
in: KI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2023, Springer Nature Switzerland, p.1-14
- Magnus Bender, Kira Schwandt, Ralf Möller, Marcel Gehrke: FrESH – Feedback-reliant Enhancement of Subjective Content Descriptions by Humans
in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2023), , CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Thomas Asselborn, Sylvia Melzer, Said Aljoumani, Magnus Bender, Florian Andreas Marwitz, Konrad Hirschler, Ralf Möller: Fine-tuning BERT Models on Demand for Information Systems Explained Using Training Data from Pre-modern Arabic
in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2023), , CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, Marcel Gehrke: Unsupervised Estimation of Subjective Content Descriptions in an Information System
in: International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2023 - Thomas Sievers, Magnus Bender, Ralf Möller: Connecting AI Technologies as Online Services to a Humanoid Service Robot
in: 15th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE), 2023, IEEE, p.431-435 - Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, Marcel Gehrke: Unsupervised Estimation of Subjective Content Descriptions
in: 17th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2023), February 1-3, 2023, IEEE
2022
- Simon Schiff, Magnus Bender, Ralf Möller: Embodiment of an Agent by a Pepper Robot for Explaining Retrieval Results
in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2022), , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, p.29-37 - Magnus Bender, Felix Kuhr, Tanya Braun: To Extend or not to Extend? Enriching a Corpus with Complementary and Related Documents
in: International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2022, Vol.16, (4), p.521-545 - Magnus Bender, Felix Kuhr, Tanya Braun: To Extend or not to Extend? Complementary Documents
in: 16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2022), Virtual, January 26-28, 2022, IEEE, p.17-24 - Magnus Bender, Felix Kuhr, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller: Estimating Context-Specific Subjective Content Descriptions using BERT
in: 16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2022), Virtual, January 26-28, 2022, IEEE, p.171-172
2021
- Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Marcel Gehrke, Felix Kuhr, Ralf Möller, Simon Schiff: Identifying and Translating Subjective Content Descriptions Among Texts
in: International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2021, Vol.15, (4), p.461-485 - Felix Kuhr, Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller: Context-specific Adaptation of Subjective Content Descriptions
in: 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2021), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, January 27-29, 2021, IEEE, p.134-139 - Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Marcel Gehrke, Felix Kuhr, Ralf Möller, Simon Schiff: Identifying Subjective Content Descriptions Among Texts
in: 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2021), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, January 27-29, 2021, IEEE, p.9-16
2020
- Felix Kuhr, Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller: Augmenting and Automating Corpus Enrichment
in: Int. J. Semantic Computing, 2020, Vol.14, (2), p.173-197 - Felix Kuhr, Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller: Maintaining Topic Models for Growing Corpora
in: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-20), 2020
2019
- Felix Kuhr, Tanya Braun, Magnus Bender, Ralf Möller: To Extend or not to Extend? Context-specific Corpus Enrichment
in: Proceedings of AI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2019, Springer, p.357-368
Additional Publications
- Long version of the ICSC 2022 poster "Estimating Context-Specific Subjective Content Descriptions using BERT"
- Master thesis titled "Estimating Context-Specific Subjective Content Descriptions using Transformer Language Models"
- Bachelor thesis titled "Examination of a Static Topic Model Representing Varying Documents" (German)