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Supervised Bachelor and Master Theses

— until 2023-10-15 · only thesis personally supervised by Michael Färber listed, not including those by PhD students · ordered by submission date —

2023

1. Leveraging Semantics for Graph Neural Network-based Recommendation (David Lamprecht, Master)

2. GPT-Vérité: A model for flexible truthful text generation (David Blumenthal, Master)

2022

3. SemOpenAlex: A Knowledge Graph and Entity Embeddings of OpenAlex (Johan Krause, Master)

4. Measuring Variety, Balance, and Disparity of Google Top Stories about the 2021 German Federal Election (Jannik Schwade, Bachelor)

5. Leveraging Metadata and Annotations to Improve Scholarly Open-Domain Question Answering (Thimo Schulz, Master)

6. Analyzing the Scientific Impact of Enterprises on AI Research (Lazaros Tampakis, Bachelor)

2021

7. Scholarly Bias Detection and Reduction (Melissa Coutinho, Bachelor)

8. Few-Shot Document-Level Relation Extraction (Nicholas Popovic, Master)

9. Measuring the Quality of Commit Messages Using Machine Learning Methods (Christian Petrov, Master)

10. Recommender Systems for P2P Online Social Networks Using Link Prediction and Trust Propagation (Ege Öğretmen, Master)

11. Effects of Structural Information from Knowledge Graphs on Entity Linking (Samuel Printz, Master)

12. Neural Sequence Translation and BERT-GCN for Context-Aware Citation Recommendation (Maria Duma, Master)

2020

13. Aufbau eines Wissensgraphen für Datensatz-Suche (David Lamprecht, Bachelor)

14. From Online Debates to Arguments: Mining for Arguments in the Context of Argument Search (Anna Carolina Steyer, Master)

15. Recommending Datasets Based on Research Problem Descriptions (Ann-Kathrin Leisinger, Bachelor)

16. Recommending Neural Network Architectures Based on Scientific Problem Descriptions (Nicolas Weber, Bachelor)

17. Enhancing the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph (Lin Ao, Master)

18. Crunchbias – Analyzing Gender Bias In Venture Capital Financing using Crunchbase (Alexander Klein, Bachelor)

19. Linked Open Data Nutzung in Business Intelligence-Systemen (Marco Goltze, Master)

20. Evaluating Knowledge Graph-Agnostic Entity Linking (Rico Mix, Bachelor)

21. Physical modelling with Machine Learning (Michael Haas, Master)

22. Analyzing Crowdsourcing to Generate a Benchmark Dataset for News Bias Detection (Victoria Burkard, Bachelor)

23. Inhaltsbasierte Klassifizierung von Websites (Benjamin Scheer, Master)

2019

24. HybridCite: a Hybrid Embedding-IR Citation Recommendation System (Ashwath Sampath, Master)

25. Agnos - Knowledge Graph-Agnostic Optimization-Based Entity Linking (Kristian Noullet, Master)

26. Semantic Approaches to Citation Recommendation (Tarek Saier, Master)

27. Question Answering on Archives (Jiexin Wang, Master)

28. Finding and Recommending Interesting Contents from Document Archives (Hung I-Chen, Master)

2018

29. Creating and Analyzing an RDF CrunchBase Dataset Using a Linked Data Wrapper (Ali Aghaee, Master)

30. Developing a Text Annotation Tool for the Knowledge Graph Wikidata (Dimitar Jovanov, Master)

2017

31. Evaluation of Approaches for the Automated Categorization of Customer Feedback based on a Case Study in the Automotive Industry (Philipp Koch, Master)

32. Textannotation mit Wikidata (Samuel Printz, Bachelor)

33. A Probabilistic Model for Predicting Wikipedia Pages (Johannes Reiss, Master)

2016

34. Rule-based Noun Phrase Extraction Using Part-of-Speech Tags (Laurenz Vorderwülbecke, Bachelor)

35. Automatische Bestimmung der Textgüte (Felix Drabe, Master)

36. Feature Selection for Predicting the Creation of The New Wikipedia Articles (Zihan Lin, Bachelor)

37. Finding Events in Unstructured Text (Chris Konop, Bachelor)

38. Linked Data Qualität: Ein Vergleich von DBpedia, YAGO, Freebase, Wikidata und OpenCyc (Frederic Bartscherer, Master)

39. Detecting Emerging Entities based on News Texts (Peter Natterer, Master)

2015

40. Trend Detection: Predicting the emergence of Wikipedia articles (Steffen Strobl, Bachelor)

41. Knowledge Base Enrichment from OpenIE Input (Moritz Winckler, Bachelor)

42. Automatisches Hinzufügen von Referenzen im Text (Bo Liu, Bachelor)

43. Evaluation of performance gain of semantic search for experienced users and novices (Johannes Spohr, Master)

44. Anwendung selbstlernender Algorithmen auf fehlerhafte Datensätze (Chunyan Zhong, Master)

45. Analyse von Wikidata und Verbindung mit einer semantischen Suche (Alexander Kraetke, Master)

2014

46. Named Entity Recognition for Improving Entity Linking with Wikipedia and Detecting New Named Entities in Text Documents (Swetlana Stickhof, Bachelor)

47. Rechteverwaltung in Semantic MediaWiki (Wojtek Breiter, Diplom)

48. Implementierung einer Benutzerschnittstelle zur Visualisierung in Textdokumenten gefundener neuer Fakten (Frederic Engelen, Bachelor)

49. Identifikation von Aussagen in unbekannten Texten mittels SRL-Graphen und ML-Verfahren (David Kleinmann, Bachelor)

50. Relationsextraktion mit Hilfe von ML-Verfahren (Waldemar Koller, Master)

51. Technologie-Portfolios und Technologie-Roadmaps in semantischen Wikis (Wolf Quaschningk, Diplom)

52. Neuronale Netze zur Vorhersage der Stromproduktion aus Wasserkraftwerken (Georg Ertl, Master)

2013

53. Potenzial von Wissensmanagement im Einkauf (Philipp Kuepper, Master)

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