Magnus Bender

- Research Assistant -

Institut für Informationssysteme
Universität zu Lübeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160 ( Gebäude 64 - 2.OG )
D-23562 Lübeck

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Curriculum Vitae

Starting 01.04.2024: Research Assistant at the Institute of Humanities-Centered Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at Universität Hamburg
01.10.2021 – 31.03.2024: 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

September 2021 – M.Sc. in Computer Science, Universität zu Lübeck (PDF)
October 2019 – B.Sc. in Computer Science, Universität zu Lübeck (PDF, German)

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.

Awards

Best Paper Award of ICSC 2024 for "ReFrESH – Relation-preserving Feedback-reliant Enhancement of Subjective Content Descriptions"

Publications

2024

Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, Marcel Gehrke: ReFrESH – Relation-preserving Feedback-reliant Enhancement of Subjective Content Descriptions
in: 18th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2024), February 5-7, 2024, IEEE, p.17-24
Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, Marcel Gehrke: Unsupervised Estimation of Subjective Content Descriptions in an Information System
in: International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2024, Vol.18, (1)

2023

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, p.38-51
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, p.15-24
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)