Jan
Demo Videos Released: CDV
Demo videos for CDV were released, covering CORD-19, Healthcare Retrieval, Aspect Vector Space, and Entity Vector Space.
The lab’s history,
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Awards, papers, releases, media and events. Every notable milestone since 2009.
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2020
Jan
Paper Accepted: Contextualized Document Representations for Healthcare Answer Retrieval (WWW 2020)
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.
Jan
BHT and Charité Define GAIA-X Use Case
BHT and Charité defined the use case "Differential diagnosis" for GAIA-X.
Jan
Talk: “An Evening with BERT” (PyLadies Berlin)
Betty van Aken gave the talk "An Evening with BERT" at PyLadies Berlin.
Jan
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
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
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
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
Sebastian Arnold Completes PhD
Sebastian Arnold successfully completed his PhD.
Jan
Alexander Löser Elected Sponsoring Chair, COLING 2020
Alexander Löser was elected as sponsoring chair for COLING 2020.
2019
Oct
Startup Pyramics Acquired by Hella Aglaia
The DATEXIS startup Pyramics was acquired by Hella Aglaia GmbH.
Jul
Best Paper Award winner at BigComp 2019
Our paper "IDEL: In-Database Neural Entity Linking" was selected as Best Paper Award winner at BigComp 2019 in February 2019.
Jan
MACSS Project Awarded the Max Rubner Preis
The MACSS project, with the Charité and SAP, was awarded the Max Rubner Preis. The project addresses measures to prevent kidney transplant loss or extend transplant longevity (increasing therapy adherence).
Jan
Alexander Löser Invited Expert, KfW/acatech Study
Alexander Löser was invited as an expert for a study by KfW and acatech on financing startups in later funding rounds.
Jan
Demo Released: “How does BERT answer questions”
A demo showing how BERT answers questions was released.
Jan
Feature: Beuth Blog on the Data Science Team
The Beuth Blog featured the Data Science team.
Jan
Interview: KI-Berlin.de
KI-Berlin.de interviewed DATEXIS and Alexander Löser.
Jan
BMWi Recommends PLASS and Smart-MD for Funding
The BMWi recommended two projects, PLASS and Smart-MD, for funding under the Smart Data Economy programme.
Jan
Press: Heise News on Doctor-Letter Analysis
Heise News covered the analysis of doctor letters using neural methods.
Jan
Startup Qualifiction Featured on NDR Television
The DATEXIS startup Qualifiction was featured on NDR television.
Jan
Talk: 360 Innovations (AES Congress Sindelfingen 2019)
Alexander Löser gave a talk, "Sind Dialoge zwischen Blaumann und Maschine möglich?", at the AES Congress in Sindelfingen 2019.
Jan
Paper Accepted: SECTOR (TACL 2019)
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.
Jan
Paper Accepted: “How Does BERT Answer Questions?” (CIKM 2019)
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
Best Thesis Award: Thomas Steffek and Tom Oberhauser
Thomas Steffek (bachelor's thesis "Neural Facet Detection on Medical Resources") and Tom Oberhauser (master's thesis "Neural Information Retrieval with Vector Space Queries") were awarded best faculty thesis with distinction for Summer Term 2019.
Jan
Feature: “Learning Systems” Publishes Results (BMBF)
Germany's leading AI platform "Learning Systems" (BMBF) published results, with Alexander Löser as one of the experts recommending deep learning techniques for next-generation AI applications.
Jan
BMWi Recommends Servicemeister for Funding
The BMWi recommended the AI project Servicemeister for funding (initial study phase 1), with project members Beuth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, USU AG, and eco e.V.
Jan
Keynote: FOX AI Summit, Cologne 2019
DATEXIS gave a keynote at the FOX AI Summit in Cologne 2019.
Jan
Alexander Löser Elected Executive Board Member, ECDF
Alexander Löser was elected as an executive board member of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF).
2018
Nov
Talk: Rudolf Schneider at Leibniz Startup & Industry Event
Rudolf Schneider presented MACSS solutions at the Leibniz Startup & Industry Event "Künstliche Intelligenz" at Leibniz Universität Hannover, organized by Forschungszentrum L3S.
Nov
Talk: Christopher Kümmel at Data & Drinks
Christopher Kümmel gave the talk "Reducing Machine Learning costs with Active Learning" at a Data & Drinks meetup.
Jun
Alexander Löser Invited Expert for H2020, Brussels
Alexander Löser was invited as an expert for H2020 in Brussels.
Apr
Paper Accepted: Smart-MD (WWW’18 Companion)
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.
Mar
Invited Talk: BISCUITS Workshop, Kyoto University
Alexander Löser gave an invited talk at the first BISCUITS workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability at Kyoto University, Japan.
Jan
Talk: German-Finnish Information Exchange 2018
Rudolf Schneider, Betty van Aken, and Alexander Löser presented their work on neural text mining at the German-Finnish Information Exchange 2018, held at the Finnish Embassy Berlin and the Smart Data Forum.
Jan
Kaggle Hate Speech Competition: 54th of 4,000
A joint Beuth team (Betty van Aken, Iurii Chernushenko) and HPI (Julian Risch) achieved 54th place out of 4,000 in the Kaggle Hate Speech (Toxic Comment Classification) competition.
Jan
Qualifiction Awarded Start-up Award at Leipzig Book Fair
Qualifiction was awarded the Start-up Award at the Leipzig Book Fair.
Jan
Alexander Löser Named Tutorial Chair, IEEE BigComp 2019 (Kyoto)
Alexander Löser was named Tutorial Chair for IEEE BigComp 2019 in Kyoto.
Jan
Feature: DB Schenker on Supply Chain Management and Data Science
DB Schenker featured DATEXIS's work on improving supply chain management with data science.
Jan
Handelsblatt AI Conference
Alexander Löser and the startup Qualifiction spoke at the Handelsblatt "Artificial Intelligence" conference, alongside partners Zalando and DFKI.
Jan
Cordula Guder Awarded Best Master Student
Former team member Cordula Guder (now with SAP Innovation Center) was awarded best master student in computer science at Beuth for winter term 17/18.