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The Data Science Chair (computer science institute JMU) is a highly interdisciplinary group of researchers led by Prof. Andreas Hotho and member of CAIDAS. We are active in data science and machine learning research with focus on deep learning and applications in multiple domains.

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University of Würzburg
Data Science Chair (Computer Science X)
Emil-Fischer-Straße 50
97074 Würzburg

Phone.: +49 931 31-89675
sekretariat.lsx@uni-wuerzburg.de

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Recent Publications

Assessing the State of the Art in Scene Segmentation. Zehe, Albin; Fischer, Elisabeth; Hotho, Andreas. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), L. Chiruzzo, A. Ritter, L. Wang (eds.), pp. 9922–9941. Association for Computational Linguistics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2025
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Modeling and Analyzing the Influence of Non-Item Pages on Sequential Next-Item Prediction. Fischer, Elisabeth; Zehe, Albin; Hotho, Andreas; Schlör, Daniel. In ACM Trans. Recomm. Syst. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2025
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Enriching Large Language Models with Knowledge Graphs for Computational Literary Studies. Hagen, Thora; Omeliyanenko, Janna; Ehrmanntraut, Anton; Hotho, Andreas; Zehe, Albin; Jannidis, Fotis. In Handbook on Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs. IOS Press, 2025
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PreAdapter: Pre-training Language Models on Knowledge Graphs. Omeliyanenko, Janna; Hotho, Andreas; Schl{ö}r, Daniel. In The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2024, G. Demartini, K. Hose, M. Acosta, M. Palmonari, G. Cheng, H. Skaf-Molli, N. Ferranti, D. Hern{á}ndez, A. Hogan (eds.), pp. 210–226. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2025
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Exploring Design Choices for Autoregressive Deep Learning Climate Models. Gallusser, Florian; Hentschel, Simon; Krause, Anna; Hotho, Andreas. In Tackling Climate Change With Machine Learning, International Conference on Learning Representation 2025 (ICLR 2025). 2025
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Identifying Axiomatic Mathematical Transformation Steps using Tree-Structured Pointer Networks. Wankerl, Sebastian; Pfister, Jan; Dulny, Andrzej; G{ö}tz, Gerhard; Hotho, Andreas. In Transactions on Machine Learning Research. 2025
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ModernGBERT: German-only 1B Encoder Model Trained from Scratch. Ehrmanntraut, Anton; Wunderle, Julia; Pfister, Jan; Jannidis, Fotis; Hotho, Andreas. 2025
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We Need to Rethink Benchmarking in Anomaly Detection. Röchner, Philipp; Klüttermann, Simon; Rothlauf, Franz; Schlör, Daniel. 2025
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Modeling and Analyzing the Influence of Non-Item Pages on Sequential Next-Item Prediction. Fischer, Elisabeth; Schlör, Daniel; Zehe, Albin; Hotho, Andreas. 2024, October
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Adapting Sequential Recommender Models to Content Recommendation in Chat Data using Non-Item Page-Models. Zehe, Albin; Fischer, Elisabeth; Kaiser, Jonas; Wagner, Toni; Hotho, Andreas. In Proceedings of the Sixth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop. 2024
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Bayesian Inference for Composition of Hypotheses in Sequential Data. Technical Report (Master thesis), . Levermann, Max Johann. Master thesis. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Professur für Inverse Probleme, 2024, September 28
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{S}uper{GLEB}er: {G}erman Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark. Pfister, Jan; Hotho, Andreas. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), K. Duh, H. Gomez, S. Bethard (eds.), pp. 7904–7923. Association for Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
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{O}tterly{O}bsessed{W}ith{S}emantics at {S}em{E}val-2024 Task 4: Developing a Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification Head for Large Language Models. Wunderle, Julia; Schubert, Julian; Cacciatore, Antonella; Zehe, Albin; Pfister, Jan; Hotho, Andreas. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), A. K. Ojha, A. S. Do{\u{g}}ru{ö}z, H. Tayyar Madabushi, G. Da San Martino, S. Rosenthal, A. Ros{á} (eds.), pp. 602–612. Association for Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
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Pollice Verso at SemEval-2024 Task 6: The Roman Empire Strikes Back. Kobs, Konstantin; Pfister, Jan; Hotho, Andreas. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), A. K. Ojha, A. S. Do{\u{g}}ruöz, H. Tayyar Madabushi, G. Da San Martino, S. Rosenthal, A. Rosá (eds.), pp. 1529–1536. Association for Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
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From Chat to Publication Management: Organizing your related work using BibSonomy & LLMs. Völker, Tom; Pfister, Jan; Koopmann, Tobias; Hotho, Andreas. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, of CHIIR ’24, pp. 386–390. Association for Computing Machinery, <conf-loc>, <city>Sheffield</city>, <country>United Kingdom</country>, </conf-loc>, 2024
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Generative Inpainting for Shapley-Value-Based Anomaly Explanation. Tritscher, Julian; Lissmann, Philip; Wolf, Maximilian; Krause, Anna; Hotho, Andreas; Schlör, Daniel. In The World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2024). 2024
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Marina: Realizing ML-Driven Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring at Terabit Scale. Seufert, Michael; Dietz, Katharina; Wehner, Nikolas; Geißler, Stefan; Schüler, Joshua; Wolz, Manuel; Hotho, Andreas; Casas, Pedro; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Feldmann, Anja. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, pp. 1–1. 2024
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CompTrails: comparing hypotheses across behavioral networks. Koopmann, Tobias; Becker, Martin; Lemmerich, Florian; Hotho, Andreas. In Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 2024
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Global Vegetation Modeling with Pre-Trained Weather Transformers. Janetzky, Pascal; Gallusser, Florian; Hentschel, Simon; Hotho, Andreas; Krause, Anna. 2024
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Modeling and Analyzing the Influence of Non-Item Pages on Sequential Next-Item Prediction. Fischer, Elisabeth; Schl{{ö}}r, Daniel; Zehe, Albin; Hotho, Andreas. In CoRR, Vol. abs/2408.15953. 2024
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ModernGBERT

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LLäMmlein grows to 7B and goes ACL!

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Sprachmodelle: Deutschlands Aufholjagd gegenüber den USA und China

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