Research

BMBF and Saxony-funded Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI): Member of the management board, and area lead on understanding language. [2022 - 2029]
Research on modeling, paraphrasing, and summarizing language, as well as argumentation, conversation, and causal knowledge.
Partners: 75+ partners at TU Dresden and Leipzig University

EU Project: OpenWebSearch.EU - Piloting a Cooperative Open Web Search Infrastructure to Support Europe's Digital Sovereignity: Work package lead for index generation and content analysis. [2022 - 2025]
Research on index generation and content analysis, search architectures and services, and search applications and user experience.
Partners: 15 partners at European universities, institutions, and companies.

DFG Project: A Multilayer Corpus for Ancient Greek and Latin [2022 - 2025]
Creation of a scalable corpus of interoperable annotation layers for Ancient Greek and Latin texts.
Principal investigator: Giuseppe G. A. Celano (Leipzig University)

Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs: Medical Question Answering [2022 - 2024]
Methods and tools that enable the direct answering of complex medical questions.
Beneficiary: Harrisen Paul Scells (Leipzig University)

DFG Project: Objective Argument Summarization in Search (OASiS) [2021 - 2024]
Research on the summarization of argumentative texts with special emphasis on rendering the summaries neutral.
Partners: H. Wachsmuth (Paderborn University)

BMBF Project: Shared Tasks as an innovative approach to implement AI and Big Data-based applications within universities (SharKI): Subproject on shared tasks for computer science and from a didactics perspective. [2021 - 2024]
Research on shared tasks as a learning exercise for undergraduate students and their didactic value.
Partners: S. Hofmann (Leipzig University), B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), J. Frochte (Bochum University of Applied Sciences)

BMBF Project: Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI): Subprojects on bias analytics, and web mining and crowdsourcing for scalable training data acquisition. [2019 - 2022]
Research on bias in machine learning-based systems and on the large-scale acquisition of training data through distant supervision.
Partners: 14 partners at Leipzig University and Dresden University

BMBF Project: Agile-AI – Agile Development of AI Systems: An Experiment Platform for Research, Education and Practice [2019 - 2022]
Development of an AI laboratory that allows for the cloud-based experimentation with AI systems and their evaluation.
Partners: N. Siegmund (Leipzig University), B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

BMBF Project: Phoenix – Scientific Authorship in Flux: Development of new Performance Criteria in Science [2019 - 2022]
Analyzing today's best practices in assigning authorship to scientific papers, and development of new indicators to measure scientific contribution.
Partners: C. Schendzielorz (DZHW), B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

BMBF Project: The Immersive Web Observatory [2017 - today]
Exploiting the Internet Archive's web archive for smart and immersive applications in economy, society, and science.
Partners: B. Stein, B. Fröhlich (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), M. Hagen (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)