Benno Stein
Prof. Dr. Benno Stein
benno.stein@uni-weimar.de 3795

Interests: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence
[events] [publications] [research]

Secretaries

Maria Theresa Hansens
Maria-Theresa Hansens
maria-theresa.hansens@uni-weimar.de
Schwanseestraße 143 · Room 2.24
+49 (0)3643 - 58 3727 | Fax 3728
Rubi Richter
Rubi Richter
rubi.richter@uni-weimar.de
Schwanseestraße 143 · Room 2.25
+49 (0)3643 - 58 3710 | Fax 3709

Assistants

Yamen Ajjour
Yamen Ajjour [2017 - today]
yamen.ajjour@uni-weimar.de 3576

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Janek Bevendorff
Janek Bevendorff [2018 - today]
janek.bevendorff@uni-weimar.de 3577

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science, Elasticsearch, Software Engineering, Linux Cluster
[publications] [research]

Marcel Gohsen
Marcel Gohsen [2020 - today]
marcel.gohsen@uni-weimar.de 3811

Interests: Big Data, Conversational Search, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing
[data] [publications] [research]

Dr. Tim Gollub
Dr. Tim Gollub [2008 - today]
tim.gollub@uni-weimar.de 3566

Interests: Digital Humanities, Information Retrieval, Web Technologies
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Maximilian Heinrich
Maximilian Heinrich [2022 - today]
maximilian.heinrich@uni-weimar.de 3863

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Argumentation
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Dr. Johannes Kiesel
Dr. Johannes Kiesel [2014 - today]
johannes.kiesel@uni-weimar.de 3720

Interests: Conversational Search, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Reproducibility
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Erik Körner
Erik Körner [2021 - today]
erik.koerner@uni-weimar.de

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Machine Learning
[publications] [research]

Nikolay Kolyada
Nikolay Kolyada [2020 - today]
nikolay.kolyada@uni-weimar.de 3811

Interests: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Software Engineering
[publications]

Nailia Mirzakhmedova
Nailia Mirzakhmedova [2022 - today]
nailia.mirzakhmedova@uni-weimar.de 3576

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Automatic Summarization
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Harry Scells
Harry Scells, PhD [2021 - today]
h.scells@uq.net.au

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Machine Learning
[research]

Michael Völske
Dr. Michael Völske [2013 - today]
Artefact Germany, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
mvoelske@gmail.com, michael.voelske@uni-weimar.de

Interests: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Data Science
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Matti Wiegmann
Matti Wiegmann [2018 - today]
matti.wiegmann@uni-weimar.de 3575

Interests: Social Media Analysis, Authorship, Natural Language Processing
[events] [publications] [research]

Magdalena Wolska
Dr. Magdalena Wolska [2018 - today]
magdalena.wolska@uni-weimar.de 3567

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Violence Analysis in Text
[events] [publications] [research]

External PhDs

Roxanne El Baff
Roxanne El Baff [2017 - today]
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Standort Oberpfaffenhofen
roxanne.el.baff@uni-weimar.de

Interests: Computational Argumentation
[events] [publications]

Former Assistants

Khalid Al-Khatib
Assistant Prof. Dr. Khalid Al-Khatib [2014 - 2021]
University of Groningen
khalid.alkhatib@rug.nl

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Computational Social Science
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Maik Anderka
Dr. Maik Anderka [2007 - 2012]
Diebold Nixdorf
maik@anderka.com

Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Measuring Quality of Web Content, Semantic Retrieval Models
[publications] [research]

Heinrich Balzer
Heinrich Balzer [2006 - 2008]
dSPACE GmbH
hbalzer@dspace.de

Interests: Diagnosis of Technical Systems
[publications]

Dr. Andreas Bunte
Dr. Andreas Bunte [2014 - today]
Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Lemgo
andreas.bunte@iosb-ina.fraunhofer.de

Interests: Knowledge-based Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems, Model-Based Diagnosis
[publications] [research]

Steven Burrows
Dr. Steven Burrows [2011 - 2012]
Computer Power Institute, Melbourne, Australia
stevenburrows81@gmail.com

Interests: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Digital Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Paraphrasing
[publications] [research]

Wei-Fan Chen
Wei-Fan Chen [2017 - 2019]
Paderborn University
cwf@mail.uni-paderborn.de

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Computer Assisted Language Learning
[data] [publications] [research]

Astrid Frey
Astrid Frey [2017]

Interests: Statistical Methods, Artificial Intelligence
[publications]

Steve Göring
Steve Göring [2014 - 2015]
stg7@gmx.de

Interests: Databases, Big Data, Math
[publications]

Matthias Hagen
Prof. Dr. Matthias Hagen [2008 - 2013]
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
[email protected]

Interests: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Data Analytics and Mining
[events] [publications] [research]

Dennis Hoppe
Dennis Hoppe [2010 - 2012]
Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart
dennis@dennis-hoppe.com

Interests: Data Mining, Recommender Systems, Patent Retrieval
[publications] [research]

Kevin Lang
Kevin Lang [2018 - 2022]
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
kevin.lang@uni-weimar.de

Interests: Research Data Management
[publications] [research]

Nedim Lipka
Dr. Nedim Lipka [2007 - 2012]
Adobe Systems Inc.
lipka.nedim@gmail.com

Interests: Text Classification, Computational Learning Theory, Semi-Supervised Learning
[publications] [research]

Lars Meyer
Lars Meyer [2020]
Enginsight GmbH

Interests: Conversational Search, Virtualized and Distributed Computing
[research]

Sven Meyer zu Eissen
Dr. Sven Meyer zu Eissen [2005 - 2008]
Bayer Business Services GmbH
sven.meyerzueissen@bayer.com

Interests: Retrieval Models, Web Genre Analysis, Document Categorization, Data Mining, Software Engineering
[publications] [research]

Tsvetomira Palakarska
Tsvetomira Palakarska [2012 - 2013]
tsvetomira.palakarska@gmail.com  

Interests: Machine Learning, Information Extraction, Opinion Mining, Sentiment Flow
[publications] [research]

Anne Peter
Anne Peter [2020]
dotSource GmbH
anne_schindelar@outlook.com  

Interests: Autorship Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Martin Potthast
Junior-Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast [2006 - 2017]
Leipzig University
martin.potthast@uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Reproducibility
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Peter Prettenhofer
Peter Prettenhofer [2009 - 2010]
DataRobot Inc.
peter.prettenhofer@gmail.com

Interests: Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Semi-Supervised Learning, Domain Adaptation
[publications] [research]

Shahbaz Syed
Shahbaz Syed [2017 - 2018]
Leipzig University
shahbaz.syed@uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Martin Trenkmann
Martin Trenkmann [2013 - 2014]
martin.trenkmann@posteo.de

Interests: Software Engineering, Heuristic Search, Big Data, Opinion Mining
[publications] [research]

Henning Wachsmuth
Prof. Dr. Henning Wachsmuth [2015 - 2018]
Leibniz Universität Hannover
h.wachsmuth@ai.uni-hannover.de

Interests: Computational Argumentation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence
[events] [publications] [research]

Visiting Researchers

Pavel Braslavski
Dr. Pavel Braslavski [Oct. - Dec. 2018, Oct. 2014, Oct. - Dec. 2013]
Combinatorial Algebra Lab, Ural Federal University
pbras@yandex.ru

Interests: Search Query Log Ananlysis
Funded by DAAD

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
Dr. Alberto Barrón-Cedeño [Jan. - Feb. 2014]
Department of Interpreting and Translation, Università di Bologna
[email protected]

Interests: Multilingual Text Analysis
Funded by BMWi Exist

Edgardo Ferretti
Dr. Edgardo Ferretti [Jan. 2014, Apr. - Jun. 2012]
Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
[email protected]

Interests: Wikipedia Quality Analysis
Funded by EU FP7, Marie Curie

Adrian Pastor Lopez Monroy
Dr. Adrian Pastor Lopez Monroy [Jul. - Sep. 2013]
National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico

Interests: Text Understanding
Funded by EU FP7, Marie Curie

Robert H. Warren
Dr. Robert H. Warren [Jul. 2012, Jun. 2010, Feb. 2009]
Carleton University, Canada (2012). University of Zurich, Switzerland (2010). University of Waterloo, Canada (2009).
[email protected]

Interests: Database Integration, Semantic Web

Student Assistants

Jason Brockmeyer
Jason Brockmeyer
jason.thomas.brockmeyer@uni-weimar.de
Janko Götze
Janko Götze
jg18koko@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Christiane Gütter
Christiane Gütter
christiane.guetter@uni-weimar.de
Nicolas Handke
Nicolas Handke
n.handke@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Jakob Ruckel
Jakob Ruckel
jakob.bela.ruckel@uni-weimar.de