Magnus Bender
- Research Assistant -
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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)
- Algorithms and Data Structures (BA 2nd sem., summer, 4lect, 2ex, since 2021)
- Project Internship Information Retrieval Agents (MA, winter, since 2021/22)
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, 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.
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: | @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.
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: | @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.
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: | @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.
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: | @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.
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: | @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.
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 |
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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.
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 |
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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.
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 |
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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.
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 |
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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.
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 |
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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.
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: | @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.
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 |
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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.
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 |
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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.
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 |
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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.
Augmenting and Automating Corpus Enrichment, Int. J. Semantic Computing , vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 173--197, 2020.
DOI: | 10.1142/S1793351X20400061 |
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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.
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 |
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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.
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: | @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)
- Team
- Umut Çalıkyılmaz
- Rebecca von Engelhardt
- Björn Filter
- Nils Fußgänger
- Sven Groppe
- Tobias Groth
- Mattis Hartwig
- Nils Wendel Heinrich
- Hanieh Khorashadizadeh
- Angela König
- Malte Luttermann
- Jörg-Uwe Meyer
- Jeannette Mödlhammer
- Nitin Nayak
- Simon Paasche
- Maximilian Plitt
- Nele Rußwinkel
- Simon Schiff
- Sina Scholz
- Tim Schulz
- Thomas Sievers
- Tobias Winker