The lab’s history,
in chronological order

YEAR

2022

Dec

Dec

EVENT

Talk: “Skalierbare und Vertrauenswürdige KI” (BMWK)

Alexander Löser gave a talk for the BMWK titled "Skalierbare und Vertrauenswürdige KI" (Scalable and Trustworthy AI) in December 2022.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

3 BMBF Projects and 1 EU Project Approved for Funding

Three BMBF projects (AI4SCM, More4Less, AI in Patient Care) and one EU project (AI in Radiology) were accepted for funding in 2022.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

Talk: Betty van Aken on Hate Speech Detection

Betty van Aken gave the talk "Erkennung von Hassrede mit Deep Learning Verfahren" at the event "Hassrede im Netz - Digitalen Antisemitismus erfassen."

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: “This Patient Looks Like That Patient” (AACL 2022)

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

Jan

MEDIA

Interview: “Pre-trained AI Language Models – How LEAM is bringing them to SMEs”

Prof. Alexander Löser was interviewed on "Pre-trained AI Language Models - How LEAM is bringing them to SMEs."

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: Attention Networks for Augmenting Clinical Text (COLING 2022)

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

Jan

MEDIA

Interview: “Vortrainierte KI-Sprachmodelle müssen für Unternehmen einfacher verfügbar sein” (Eco Verband)

Prof. Alexander Löser was interviewed by the Eco Verband on making pre-trained AI language models easier for companies to access.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

Talk: “Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Clinical NLP” (AI Innovations 2022)

Betty van Aken gave the talk "Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Clinical NLP" at AI Innovations 2022.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

Talk: “Supporting Healthcare Professionals With NLP” (Open NLP Meetup)

Betty van Aken gave the talk "Supporting Healthcare Professionals With NLP" at the Open NLP Meetup.

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer for Clinical Phenotyping (LREC 2022)

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.

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: KIMERA (LREC 2022)

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.

2021

Nov

Nov

PAPER

Paper Presented: “What Do You See in this Patient?” (NeurIPS 2021 Workshop; NAACL 2022 Clinical NLP Workshop)

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.

May

May

EVENT

Panel: Hochschullehrerbund with State Ministers

Alexander Löser joined a Hochschullehrerbund panel together with Bavarian Minister Bernd Sibler and NRW Minister Prof. Dr. Pinkwart.

Mar

Mar

EVENT

PhD Defense: Konstantina Lazaridou

Konstantina Lazaridou defended her thesis "Revealing Hidden Patterns in Political News and Social Media with Machine Learning," co-supervised with Felix Naumann from HPI.

Jan

Jan

MEDIA

Publication: “Erklärbare KI” Report

Betty van Aken and Alexander Löser contributed to the report "Erklärbare KI: Anforderungen, Anwendungsfälle und Lösungen" (Explainable AI: Requirements, Use Cases, and Solutions).

Jan

Jan

MEDIA

Feature: Use-Inspired Research for Data Science (HLB Newsletter)

Alexander Löser was featured in the HLB Newsletter discussing use-inspired research for data science.

Jan

Jan

MEDIA

Feature: Deep Patient Representation (BMBF Plattform Lernende Systeme)

Alexander Löser was featured by the BMBF Plattform Lernende Systeme discussing Deep Patient Representation.

Jan

Jan

RELEASE

Demo Released: Clinical Outcome Prediction from Admission Notes

A demo of Clinical Outcome Prediction from Admission Notes was released online.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

Acatech Talk on AI Project Skills for SMEs

Alexander Löser gave a talk at Acatech about the different skills needed for running AI projects with SMEs.

Jan

Jan

MEDIA

Interview: “Drei Fragen an Alexander Löser” (Plattform Lernende Systeme)

Alexander Löser was interviewed by Plattform Lernende Systeme on "KI im Mittelstand: Chancen in der Wertschöpfungskette erkennen."

Jan

Jan

EVENT

New BMBF Project: “KI in der Pflege”

A new BMBF project, "KI in der Pflege - Sturz/Delir/Medication" (AI in elderly care), was launched together with Felix Biessmann and DATEXIS.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

Invited Talk: Tom Oberhauser at DFKI Research Colloquium

Tom Oberhauser was invited to the DFKI Research Colloquium to give a talk on "Bi-Encoders for Small-Data Named Entity Linking."

Jan

Jan

MEDIA

Video: “Introduction into Deep Patient Representation”

Alexander Löser gave an introduction into Deep Patient Representation, recorded on video.

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: Clinical Outcome Prediction from Admission Notes (EACL 2021)

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

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: Orchestrating DBMS Benchmarking in the Cloud with Kubernetes (VLDB Workshop TPCTC 2021)

The paper "Orchestrating DBMS Benchmarking in the Cloud with Kubernetes" by Patrick Erdelt was accepted at the VLDB Workshop TPCTC 2021.

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: Aspect-based Passage Retrieval with Contextualized Discourse Vectors (ECIR 2021)

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

Jan

MEDIA

Feature: “KI im Mittelstand” (Plattform Lernende Systeme)

Alexander Löser was featured in a Plattform Lernende Systeme publication on AI in small and medium-sized enterprises (KI im Mittelstand).

Jan

Jan

AWARD

Dr. Sebastian Arnold Awarded Faculty Prize 2021

Dr. Sebastian Arnold was awarded the Faculty Prize 2021 in Theoretical Sciences by the Faculty of Science and Medicine of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: Assertion Detection in Clinical Notes (NAACL 2021 Workshop)

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.

2020

Jun

Jun

EVENT

Web Talk: “Erklärbarkeit und Transparenz von KI-Methoden”

A web talk on explainability and transparency of AI methods was held from 14:00-16:00.

Jun

Jun

MEDIA

Article: “Warum Plattformen Erfolgsgeschichten brauchen” (Service-Meister)

An article for the Service-Meister project on why platforms need success stories was published.

Apr

Apr

MEDIA

Press: Golem on CDV as COVID-19 Diagnostic Search Engine

Golem covered CDV as a medical search engine helping doctors diagnose COVID-19, also featured by Cluster Digitale Wirtschaft Berlin and the BMWi.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

BHT and Charité Define GAIA-X Use Case

BHT and Charité defined the use case "Differential diagnosis" for GAIA-X.

Jan

Jan

EVENT

Talk: “An Evening with BERT” (PyLadies Berlin)

Betty van Aken gave the talk "An Evening with BERT" at PyLadies Berlin.

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: VisBERT (WWW’20 Demo Track)

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

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: “Is Language Modeling enough?” (LREC 2020)

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

Jan

EVENT

Video: Future Medicine Science Pitch

Betty van Aken and Dr. Dr. Manuel Mayrdorfer presented "Outcome Prediction from Clinical Notes at Admission Time" at the Future Medicine Science Pitch.

Jan

Jan

PAPER

Paper Accepted: Discovering Biased News Articles (LREC 2020)

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

Jan

EVENT

Sebastian Arnold Completes PhD

Sebastian Arnold successfully completed his PhD.

Jan

Jan

AWARD

Alexander Löser Elected Sponsoring Chair, COLING 2020

Alexander Löser was elected as sponsoring chair for COLING 2020.

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