Magnus Bender

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Attention: This page will not be updated after 01.04.2024, the new page is: https://www.philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/chai/personen/bender.html and my new e-mail address is: magnus.bender(at)uni-hamburg.de.

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

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

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, and 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 , IEEE, 2024. pp. 17-24.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC59802.2024.00010
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{BeBrMoGe,
author ={Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller and Marcel Gehrke},
title ={ReFrESH – Relation-preserving Feedback-reliant Enhancement of Subjective Content Descriptions},
booktitle ={18th {IEEE} International Conference on Semantic Computing, ({ICSC} 2024), February 5-7},
year ={2024},
pages = {17--24},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSC59802.2024.00010}
}
Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, and Marcel Gehrke,
Unsupervised Estimation of Subjective Content Descriptions in an Information System, International Journal of Semantic Computing , vol. 18, no. 1, 2024.
DOI:10.1142/S1793351X24410034
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{BeBrMoGe24,
author={Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller and Marcel Gehrke},
title={Unsupervised Estimation of Subjective Content Descriptions in an Information System},
journal = {International Journal of Semantic Computing},
volume= {18},
number={1},
pages= {},
year={2024},
doi  = {}
}

2023

Thomas Asselborn, Sylvia Melzer, Said Aljoumani, Magnus Bender, Florian Andreas Marwitz, Konrad Hirschler, and 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, Dec.2023. pp. 38--51.
File: paper5.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{AsMeAlBeMaHiMo,
  author    = {Thomas Asselborn and Sylvia Melzer and Said Aljoumani and Magnus Bender and Florian Andreas Marwitz and Konrad Hirschler and Ralf M\"oller},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2023)},
  year = {2023},
  month = dec,
  title     = {Fine-tuning BERT Models on Demand for Information Systems Explained Using Training Data from Pre-modern Arabic},
  pages     = {38--51},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  url ={https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3580/paper5.pdf}
}
Thomas Sievers, Magnus Bender, and Ralf Möller,
Connecting AI Technologies as Online Services to a Humanoid Service Robot, in 15th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE) , IEEE, 2023. pp. 431-435.
DOI:10.1109/ICCAE56788.2023.10111181
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{SiBeMo,
author ={Thomas Sievers and Magnus Bender and Ralf M\"oller},
title ={Connecting AI Technologies as Online Services to a Humanoid Service Robot},
booktitle ={15th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE)},
year ={2023},
pages = {431-435},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
url ={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCAE56788.2023.10111181},
keywords ={Humanoid Robot; Human-Robot Interaction; Application Programming Interface; AI Democratization},
}
Magnus Bender, Kira Schwandt, Ralf Möller, and 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, 2023. pp. 15--24.
File: paper3.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@InProceedings{BeSchMoGe,
  author    = {Magnus Bender and Kira Schwandt and Ralf M\"oller and Marcel Gehrke},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2023)},
  date      = {2023-09-26},
  title     = {FrESH – Feedback-reliant Enhancement of Subjective Content Descriptions by Humans},
  pages     = {15--24},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  url ={https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3580/paper3.pdf},
}
Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, and Marcel Gehrke,
LESS is More: LEan Computing for Selective Summaries, in KI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence , Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. pp. 1--14.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42608-7_1
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@InProceedings{BeBrMoGe23c,
author={Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller and Marcel Gehrke},
title={LESS is More: LEan Computing for Selective Summaries},
journal = {International Journal of Semantic Computing},
booktitle= {KI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence},
publisher= {Springer Nature Switzerland},
year={2023},
doi ={https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42608-7_1},
pages={1--14},
}
Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Ralf Möller, and Marcel Gehrke,
Unsupervised Estimation of Subjective Content Descriptions, in 17th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2023), February 1-3 , IEEE, 2023.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC56153.2023.00052
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{BeBrMoGe,
author ={Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller and Marcel Gehrke},
title ={Unsupervised Estimation of Subjective Content Descriptions},
booktitle ={17th {IEEE} International Conference on Semantic Computing, ({ICSC} 2023), February 1-3},
year ={2023},
pages = {},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
doi = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSC56153.2023.00052},
keywords ={Subjective Content Descriptions; Text Mining;Text Annotation;Sentence clustering},
}

2022

Magnus Bender, Felix Kuhr, and Tanya Braun,
To Extend or not to Extend? Enriching a Corpus with Complementary and Related Documents, International Journal of Semantic Computing , vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 521--545, 2022.
DOI:10.1142/S1793351X2240013X
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{BeKuBr22b,
author={Magnus Bender and Felix Kuhr and Tanya Braun},
title={To Extend or not to Extend? Enriching a Corpus with Complementary and Related Documents},
journal = {International Journal of Semantic Computing},
volume= {16},
number={4},
pages= {521--545},
year={2022},
doi  = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793351X2240013X}
}
Magnus Bender, Felix Kuhr, Tanya Braun, and Ralf Möller,
Estimating Context-Specific Subjective Content Descriptions using BERT, in 16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2022), Virtual, January 26-28 , IEEE, 2022. pp. 171-172.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC52841.2022.00034
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{BeKuBrMo22,
author ={Magnus Bender and Felix Kuhr and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller},
title ={Estimating Context-Specific Subjective Content Descriptions using BERT},
booktitle ={16th {IEEE} International Conference on Semantic Computing, ({ICSC} 2022), Virtual, January 26-28},
year ={2022},
pages = {171-172},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
doi ={https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC52841.2022.00034},
keywords ={Subjective Content Descriptions; Text Mining; BERT; Transformer},
}
Magnus Bender, Felix Kuhr, and Tanya Braun,
To Extend or not to Extend? Complementary Documents, in 16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2022), Virtual, January 26-28 , IEEE, 2022. pp. 17-24.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC52841.2022.00011
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{BeKuBr22,
author ={Magnus Bender and Felix Kuhr and Tanya Braun},
title ={To Extend or not to Extend? Complementary Documents},
booktitle ={16th {IEEE} International Conference on Semantic Computing, ({ICSC} 2022), Virtual, January 26-28},
year ={2022},
pages = {17-24},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
doi ={https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC52841.2022.00011},
keywords ={Subjective Content Descriptions; Complementarity; Text Mining},
}
Simon Schiff, Magnus Bender, and 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, 2022. pp. 29--37.
File: paper4.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@InProceedings{schiff2022embodiment,
  author    = {Simon Schiff and Magnus Bender and Ralf Möller},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2022)},
  date      = {2022-09-19},
  title     = {Embodiment of an Agent by a Pepper Robot for Explaining Retrieval Results},
  pages     = {29--37},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3301/paper4.pdf},
}

2021

Felix Kuhr, Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, and Ralf Moeller,
Context-specific Adaptation of Subjective Content Descriptions, in 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2021), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, January 27-29 , IEEE, 2021.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC50631.2021.00032
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{KuhBeBrMo20a,
author ={Felix Kuhr and Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller},
title ={Context-specific Adaptation of Subjective Content Descriptions},
booktitle ={15th {IEEE} International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC} 2021), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, January 27-29},
year ={2021},
pages = {134--139},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
doi ={https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC50631.2021.00032},
keywords ={Subjective Content Descriptions; Domain Adaptation; Text Mining},
}
Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Marcel Gehrke, Felix Kuhr, Ralf Möller, and Simon Schiff,
Identifying and Translating Subjective Content Descriptions Among Texts, International Journal of Semantic Computing , vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 461--485, 2021.
DOI:10.1142/S1793351X21400122
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{BenBrGeKuScMo21b,
author={Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Marcel Gehrke and Felix Kuhr and Ralf M\"oller and Simon Schiff},
title={Identifying and Translating Subjective Content Descriptions Among Texts},
journal = {International Journal of Semantic Computing},
volume= {15},
number={4},
pages= {461--485},
year={2021},
doi  = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793351X21400122}
}
Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, Marcel Gehrke, Felix Kuhr, Ralf Möller, and 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 , IEEE, 2021. pp. 9--16.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC50631.2021.00008
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{BenBrGeKuScMo21b,
author={Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Marcel Gehrke and Felix Kuhr and Ralf M\"oller and Simon Schiff},
title={{Identifying Subjective Content Descriptions Among Texts}},
booktitle = {15th {IEEE} International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2021), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, January 27-29},
year={2021},
pages= {9--16},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi  = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC50631.2021.00008},
keywords={Subjective Content Descriptions; Text Mining}
}

2020

Felix Kuhr, Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, and Ralf Möller,
Augmenting and Automating Corpus Enrichment, Int. J. Semantic Computing , vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 173--197, 2020.
DOI:10.1142/S1793351X20400061
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{KuhBeBrMo20c,
author={Felix Kuhr and Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller},
title={Augmenting and Automating Corpus Enrichment},
journal={Int. J. Semantic Computing},
volume={14},
number={2},
pages= {173--197},
year={2020},
doi = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793351X20400061}
}
Felix Kuhr, Magnus Bender, Tanya Braun, and Ralf Möller,
Maintaining Topic Models for Growing Corpora, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-20) , IEEE, 2020. pp. 451--458.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC.2020.00017
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{KuhBeBrMo20b,
author={Felix Kuhr and Magnus Bender and Tanya Braun and Ralf M\"oller},
title={{Maintaining Topic Models for Growing Corpora}},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-20)},
year={2020},
pages     = {451--458},
publisher = {IEEE},
doi={https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC.2020.00017},
ISSN={},
keywords={Topic Models;Machine Learning;Text Mining}
}

2019

Felix Kuhr, Tanya Braun, Magnus Bender, and Ralf Möller,
To Extend or not to Extend? Context-specific Corpus Enrichment, in Proceedings of AI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence , Springer, 2019. pp. 357--368.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-35288-2_29
File: Dateilink
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{KuBrBeMo19a,
  author = {Felix Kuhr and Tanya Braun and Magnus Bender and Ralf M\"oller}, 
  title = {{To Extend or not to Extend? Context-specific Corpus Enrichment}}, 
  booktitle = {Proceedings of {AI} 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence},
   series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {11919},
  pages     = {357--368},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35288-2_29},
  isbn= {978-3-030-35288-2}
}

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)