Thomas Asselborn

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- Research Assistant -


Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, 2. OG, Raum 63

Email: thomas.asselborn(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 3101 5722

Curriculum Vitae

From 01.04.2026   Research Assistant at the Institute of Information Systems at Universität zu Lübeck
01.04.2024 – 31.03.2026   Research Assistant in the project EXC 2176 at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and Institute for Humanities-Centered Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hamburg
01.10.2022 – 31.03.2024   Research Assistant in the project EXC 2176 - Weiterleitungsvereinbarung UzL-HH under the direction of Prof. Ralf Möller
May 2022   M.Sc. in Computer Science, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
March 2020   B.Sc. in Computer Science, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

Publications

2025

Thomas Asselborn, Magnus Bender, Ralf Möller, and Sylvia Melzer,
Treating OCR Output as a Language (TOOL) – Improving OCR Output with Seq2Seq Translation, in Annals of Computer Science and Intelligence Systems – Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS) , Oct.2025. pp. 471–478.
DOI:10.15439/2025F1103
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inbook{AsBeMöMe25,
title = "Treating OCR Output as a Language (TOOL) – Improving OCR Output with Seq2Seq Translation",
author = "Thomas Asselborn and Magnus Bender and Ralf M{\"o}ller and Sylvia Melzer",
year = "2025",
month = oct,
day = "15",
doi = "10.15439/2025F1103",
language = "English",
volume = "43",
pages = "471–478",
booktitle = "Annals of Computer Science and Intelligence Systems",
note = "20th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems FedCSIS 2025 ; Conference date: 14-09-2025 Through 17-09-2025",
url = "https://2025.fedcsis.org/",

}
Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, and Thomas Asselborn,
Challenges in Automatic Speech Recognition in the Research on Multilingualism, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Large Language Models for Research Data Management?! co-located with the INFORMATIK Festival 2025 (55th Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society) , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025. pp. 37-44.
File: paper5.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inbook{JuRoAs25,
title = "Challenges in Automatic Speech Recognition in the Research on Multilingualism",
abstract = "This paper explores the potential of using Large Language Models in multilingualism research to accelerate the management and processing of spoken data. The speech-to-text processing of utterances by multilingual speakers are in the focus. Qualitative discussion of the main issues relating to the non-standard language use of bilingual individuals is provided, using Polish-German recordings from the LangGener corpus as an example.",
author = "Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher and Thomas Asselborn",
year = "2025",
month = dec,
day = "22",
language = "English",
pages = "37--44",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Large Language Models for Research Data Management?! co-located with the INFORMATIK Festival 2025 (55th Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society)",
note = "Large Language Models for Research Data Management?! ; Conference date: 18-09-2025 Through 18-09-2025",
url = "https://informatik2025.gi.de/workshops\_a-z.html, https://www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/621/",

}
Sylvia Melzer, Simon Schiff, Franziska Weise, Thomas Asselborn, Meike Klettke, Özgür Lütfü Özçep, Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, and Ralf Möller,
Ontology-based Federated Information Systems with NLP-Enhanced Retrieval, in International Journal of Digital Humanities , 2025. pp. 417–441.
DOI:10.1007/s42803-025-00110-y
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{cite-key,
	author = {Melzer, Sylvia and Schiff, Simon and Weise, Franziska and Asselborn, Thomas and Klettke, Meike and {\"O}z{\c c}ep, {\"O}zg{\"u}r L{\"u}tf{\"u} and Harter-Uibopuu, Kaja and M{\"o}ller, Ralf},
	date = {2025/12/01},
	doi = {10.1007/s42803-025-00110-y},
	isbn = {2524-7840},
	journal = {International Journal of Digital Humanities},
	number = {3},
	pages = {417--441},
	title = {Ontology-based federated information systems with NLP-enhanced retrieval},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-025-00110-y},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2025},
}
Thomas Asselborn, Magnus Bender, Ralf Möller, and Sylvia Melzer,
Publishing a Chatbot: Opportunities and Challenges, in CHAI+FCR 2025 Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence 2025 and Formal & Cognitive Reasoning 2025 – Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence and Formal & Cognitive Reasoning co-located with 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025. pp. 16-27.
File: paper2.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{AsBeMöMe35,
title = "Publishing a Chatbot: Opportunities and Challenges",
author = "Thomas Asselborn and Magnus Bender and Ralf M{\"o}ller and Sylvia Melzer",
year = "2025",
month = oct,
day = "8",
language = "English",
volume = "4058",
pages = "16--27",
booktitle = "CHAI+FCR 2025 Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence 2025 and Formal \& Cognitive Reasoning 2025",
publisher = "CEUR-WS.org",
note = "5th Workshop on Humanities-Centred AI (CHAI) ; Conference date: 16-09-2025",
url = "https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/ki2025-chai",
}
Thomas Asselborn, Magnus Bender, Florian Marwitz, Ralf Möller, and Sylvia Melzer,
Verbalisation Process of a RAG-Based Chatbot to Support Tabular Data Evaluation for Humanities Researchers, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Large Language Models for Research Data Management?! co-located with the INFORMATIK Festival 2025 (55th Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society) , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025. pp. 56-63.
File: paper1.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inbook{AsBeMaMöMe25,
title = "Verbalisation Process of a RAG-Based Chatbot to Support Tabular Data Evaluation for Humanities Researchers",
author = "Thomas Asselborn and Magnus Bender and Florian Marwitz and Ralf M{\"o}ller and Sylvia Melzer",
year = "2025",
month = dec,
day = "22",
language = "English",
volume = "4140",
pages = "56--63",
editor = "Magnus Bender and Sylvia Melzer and Ralf M{\"o}ller and Stefan Thiemann",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Large Language Models for Research Data Management?! co-located with the INFORMATIK Festival 2025 (55th Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society), September 18, 2025, Potsdam, Germany (INFORMATIK FESTIVAL)",
publisher = "CEUR-WS.org",
note = "Large Language Models for Research Data Management?! ; Conference date: 18-09-2025 Through 18-09-2025",
url = "https://informatik2025.gi.de/workshops\_a-z.html, https://www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/621/",

}

2024

Hagen Peukert, Lucas F. Voges, Thomas Asselborn, Magnus Bender, Ralf Möller, and Sylvia Melzer,
Humanities in the Center of Data Usability: Data Visualization in Institutional Research Repositories, in Proceedings of the CHAI Workshop 2024 , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2024. pp. 67-74.
File: paper6.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inbook{PeVoAsBeMöMe24,
title = "Humanities in the Center of Data Usability: Data Visualization in Institutional Research Repositories",
author = "Hagen Peukert and Voges, \{Lucas Filipo\} and Thomas Asselborn and Magnus Bender and Ralf M{\"o}ller and Sylvia Melzer",
year = "2024",
month = oct,
day = "30",
language = "English",
volume = "3814",
pages = "67--74",
editor = "Sylvia Melzer and Hagen Peukert and Stefan Thiemann and Erik Radisch",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the CHAI Workshop 2024",
publisher = "CEUR-WS.org",

}
Thomas Asselborn, Ralf Möller, and Sylvia Melzer,
Implementation of information systems for the long-term reuse of data in humanities research, in CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / ProjMAN - International Conference on Project MANagement / HCist - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies , 2024, pp. 86-92.
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2025.02.099
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{ASSELBORN202586,
title = {Implementation of information systems for the long-term reuse of data in humanities research},
journal = {Procedia Computer Science},
volume = {256},
pages = {86-92},
year = {2025},
note = {CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems / ProjMAN - International Conference on Project MANagement / HCist - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies},
issn = {1877-0509},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2025.02.099},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050925004569},
author = {Thomas Asselborn and Ralf Möller and Sylvia Melzer},
keywords = {information systems on demand, humanities, research data repository, relational databases}
}

2023

Sylvia Melzer, Hagen Peukert, Eliana Dal Sasso, Charles Li, Thomas Asselborn, and Ralf Möller,
Federated Information Retrieval in Cross-Domain Information Systems, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2023) , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Dec.2023. pp. 52-67.
File: paper7.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@InProceedings{MePeDaLiAsMo2023,
  author    = {Sylvia Melzer and Hagen Peukert and Eliana Dal Sasso and Charles Li and Thomas Asselborn and Ralf M\"oller},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2023)},
  year = {2023},
  month = dec,
  title     = {Federated Information Retrieval in Cross-Domain Information Systems},
  pages     = {52-67},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3580/paper7.pdf}
}
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}
}