Awards, papers, releases, media and events. Every notable milestone since 2009.
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Sep
The paper "DeepICD-R1: Medical Reasoning through Hierarchical Rewards and Unsupervised Distillation" by Tom Röhr, Thomas Steffek, Roman Teucher, Keno Bressem, Peter Tröger, and Felix Gers was accepted at LREC 2026.
Sep
The paper "Same Meaning, Different Scores: Lexical and Syntactic Sensitivity in LLM Evaluation" by Bogdan Kostić, Julian Risch, and Conor Fallon was accepted at LREC 2026.
Sep
The paper "CliniBench: A Clinical Outcome Prediction Benchmark for Generative and Encoder-Based Language Models" by Paul Grundmann, Dennis Fast, Jan Frick, Thomas Steffek, Felix Gers, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted as a full paper at EACL 2026.
Sep
The paper "Robust Conformal Prediction for Infrequent Classes" by Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Sebastian Jäger, Alexei Figueroa, David Stutz, Betty van Aken, Keno Bressem, Wolfgang Nejdl, Felix Biessmann, and Felix Gers was accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), joint work with Google DeepMind, L3S, and Grammarly.
May
Interactive Multi-Prototype Explanations for Clinical Diagnosis Prediction. Conor Fallon.
Jul
Justus Westerhoff, Golzar Atefi, Mario Koddenbrock, Alexei Figueroa, Alexander Löser, Erik Rodner, Felix Alexander Gers. TMLR 2025.
Jun
The paper "Multinational attitudes toward AI in health care and diagnostics among hospital patients" by Felix Busch et al. was accepted at JAMA Network Open.
Feb
The paper "Comply: Learning Sentences with Complex Weights inspired by Fruit Fly Olfaction" by Alexei Figueroa, Justus Westerhoff, Golzar Atefi, Dennis Fast, Benjamin Winter, Felix Alexander Gers, Alexander Löser, and Wolfgang Nejdl was accepted at NICE 2025.
Jan
The paper "Longhealth: A question answering benchmark with long clinical documents" by Lisa Adams, Felix Busch, Tianyu Han, Jean-Baptiste Excoffier, Matthieu Ortala, Alexander Löser, Hugo J.W.L. Aerts, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Daniel Truhn, and Keno Bressem was accepted at the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.
Jan
The paper "Evaluating Financial Literacy of Large Language Models through Domain Specific Languages for Plain Text Accounting" by Alexei Gustavo Figueroa Rosero, Paul Grundmann, Julius Freidank, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at COLING 2025 Workshops.
Jan
The paper "SPONGE: Competing Sparse Language Representations for Effective Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer in Healthcare" by Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Alexei Figueroa, Conor Fallon, Anna Capilla, Alexandra Bekiaridou, Stavros Zanos, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at TMLR 2025.
Jan
The paper "'Where does it hurt?' -- Dataset and Study on Physician Intent Trajectories in Doctor Patient Dialogues" by Tom Röhr, Soumyadeep Roy, Fares Al Mohamad, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Wolfgang Nejdl, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at the European Conference on AI (ECAI) 2025.
Jul
Dennis Fast, Lisa C. Adams, Felix Busch, Conor Fallon, Marc Huppertz, Robert Siepmann, Philipp Prucker, Nadine Bayerl, Daniel Truhn, Marcus Makowski, Alexander Löser and Keno K. Bressem. Nature, NPJ digital medicine 2024.
Jan
The paper "DDxGym: Online Transformer Policies in a Knowledge Graph Based Natural Language Environment" by Benjamin Winter, Alexei Figueroa, Alexander Löser, Felix A. Gers, Nancy Figueroa, and Ralf Krestel was accepted at LREC-COLING 2024.
Jan
The paper "Data Drift in Clinical Outcome Prediction from Admission Notes" by Paul Grundmann, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Tom Oberhauser, Thomas Steffek, Amy Siu, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at LREC-COLING 2024.
Jan
The paper "Revisiting Clinical Outcome Prediction for MIMIC-IV" by Tom Röhr, Alexei Figueroa, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Conor Fallon, Keno Bressem, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at a NAACL Workshop 2024.
Jan
The paper "Boosting Long-Tail Data Classification with Sparse Prototypical Networks" by Alexei Figueroa, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Conor Fallon, Alexandra Bekiaridou, Keno Bressem, Stavros Zanos, Felix Gers, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Alexander Löser was accepted at ECML PKDD 2024, and its demo paper was separately accepted at IJCAI 2026 (acceptance rate 27%, 50 of 185).
Aug
The paper "medBERT.de: A comprehensive German BERT model for the medical domain" by Keno K. Bressem, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Paul Grundmann, Florian Borchert, Lisa C. Adams, Leonhard Liu, Felix Busch, Lina Xu, Jan P. Loyen, Stefan M. Niehues, Moritz Augustin, Lennart Grosser, Marcus R. Makowski, Hugo J.W.L. Aerts, and Alexander Löser was accepted at Expert Systems with Applications (Impact Factor 8.5).
Jan
The paper "KIMERA: Injecting Domain Knowledge into Vacant Transformer Heads" by Benjamin Winter, Alexei Figueroa, Amy Siu, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at LREC 2022.
Jan
The paper "This Patient Looks Like That Patient: Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Diagnosis Prediction from Clinical Text" by Betty van Aken, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Marcel G. Naik, Georgios Eleftheriadis, Wolfgang Nejdl, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at AACL 2022.
Jan
The paper "Attention Networks for Augmenting Clinical Text with Support Sets for Diagnosis Prediction" by Paul Grundmann, Tom Oberhauser, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at COLING 2022.
Jan
The paper "Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer for Clinical Phenotyping" by Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Paul Grundmann, Betty van Aken, Athanasios Samaras Ilias Kyparissidis, George Giannakoulas, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at LREC 2022.
Nov
The paper "What Do You See in this Patient? Behavioral Testing of Clinical NLP Models" by Betty van Aken, Sebastian Herrmann, and Alexander Löser was presented at a NeurIPS 2021 workshop, and the accepted paper version was later presented at the Clinical NLP Workshop at NAACL 2022.
Jan
The paper "Orchestrating DBMS Benchmarking in the Cloud with Kubernetes" by Patrick Erdelt was accepted at the VLDB Workshop TPCTC 2021.
Jan
The paper "Assertion Detection in Clinical Notes: Medical Language Models to the Rescue?" by Betty van Aken, Ivana Trajanovska, Amy Siu, Manuel Mayrdorfer, Klemens Budde, and Alexander Löser was accepted at the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Medical Conversations at NAACL 2021.
Jan
The paper "Clinical Outcome Prediction from Admission Notes using Self-Supervised Knowledge Integration" by Betty van Aken, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Manuel Mayrdorfer, Klemens Budde, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at EACL 2021.
Jan
The paper "Aspect-based Passage Retrieval with Contextualized Discourse Vectors" by Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Manuel Mayrdorfer, Sebastian Arnold, Felix A. Gers, Klemens Budde, and Alexander Löser was accepted at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021).
Jan
The paper "TrainX – Named Entity Linking with Active Sampling and Bi-Encoders" by Tom Oberhauser, Tim Bischoff, Karl Brendel, Maluna Menke, Tobias Klatt, Amy Siu, Felix Alexander Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at the COLING 2020 Demo Track.
Jan
The paper "VisBERT: Hidden-State Visualizations for Transformers" by Betty van Aken, Benjamin Winter, Felix A. Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at The Web Conference 2020 (WWW'20) Demo Track.
Jan
The paper "Is Language Modeling enough? Evaluating Effective Embedding Combinations" by Rudolf Schneider, Tom Oberhauser, Paul Grundmann, Felix Alexander Gers, Alexander Löser, and Steffen Staab was accepted at LREC 2020.
Jan
The paper "Discovering Biased News Articles Leveraging Multiple Human Annotations" by Konstantina Lazaridou, Alexander Löser, Maria Mestre, and Felix Naumann was accepted at LREC 2020.
Jan
The paper "Learning Contextualized Document Representations for Healthcare Answer Retrieval" by Sebastian Arnold, Betty van Aken, Paul Grundmann, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at ACM WWW 2020.
Jul
Our paper "IDEL: In-Database Neural Entity Linking" was selected as Best Paper Award winner at BigComp 2019 in February 2019.
Jan
The paper "How Does BERT Answer Questions? A Layer-Wise Analysis of Transformer Representations" by Betty van Aken, Benjamin Winter, Felix Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at CIKM 2019.
Jan
The paper "SECTOR: A Neural Model for Coherent Topic Segmentation and Classification" by Sebastian Arnold, Rudolf Schneider, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Felix A. Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2019.
Apr
The paper "Smart-MD: Neural Paragraph Retrieval of Medical Topics" by Rudolf Schneider, Sebastian Arnold, Tom Oberhauser, Tobias Klatt, Thomas Steffek, and Alexander Löser was presented at WWW'18 Companion (The 2018 Web Conference Companion), Lyon, France.
Jan
The paper "Challenges for Toxic Comment Classification" by Betty van Aken, Julian Risch, Ralf Krestel, and Alexander Löser was published at EMNLP 2018.
Aug
The FashionBrain Project paper was accepted at the KDD 2017 workshop "Machine learning meets fashion" in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Jan
The paper "RelVis: Benchmarking OpenIE Systems" by Rudolf Schneider, Tom Oberhauser, Tobias Klatt, Felix A. Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted at the International Semantic Web Conference (Posters, Demos & Industry Tracks) 2017.
Jan
The paper "Analysing Errors of Open Information Extraction Systems" by Rudolf Schneider, Tom Oberhauser, Tobias Klatt, Felix A. Gers, and Alexander Löser was accepted for BLGNLP 2017, Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems, at EMNLP 2017.
