Martin Becker
Dr. Martin Becker
University of Würzburg
Department for Artificial Intelligence
and Applied Computer Science
Am Hubland
D-97074 Würzburg
Contact:
becker<at>informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Homepage: https://martin-becker.net
Twitter: @mgbckr
Github: https://github.com/mgbckr
After a stay at the University of Texas, Austin, I have received my diploma degree in Computer Science in 2011 at the University of Würzburg working on subgroup discovery and exceptional model mining. Subsequently, I have been part of the DMIR Research Group lead by Andreas Hotho, where, in 2018, I finished my PhD thesis on"Understanding Human Navigation using Bayesian Hypothesis Comparison" with the best possible grade (summa cum laude). In the same year, I started working atNima Agheepour's lab at Stanford University researching in the field of "Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Multiomics Integration for Clinical Immunology".
With the DMIR group, I have been working on a variety interesting research subjects including behavioral change in participatory sensing campaigns and the internet of things (EveryAware), semantics (Posts II), digital humanities (Kallimachos), and sport analytics. My main focus was navigational behavior models in different contexts such as human mobility as well various forms of web navigation, e.g., in crowdsourcing environments, social bookmarking systems like BibSonomy, or Wikipedia. On a methodological level I passionately worked on Bayesian methods such as model comparison via Bayes factors or Bayesian models for explaining sequential data.
Please note that this page is not actively maintained. For more current information please visit: https://martin-becker.net
Projects at DMIR
For an overview of all DMIR projects, click here.
- EveryAware
- Posts II
- Kallimachos
- p2map
PC Member
(as of 2018)
- ICWSM 2018, http://www.icwsm.org/2018/
- ESWC 2018, https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/
- ECML/PKDD 2017, http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org/
- ECML/PKDD 2016, http://www.ecmlpkdd2016.org/
- IoP 2017, http://ieee-smartworld.org/2017/iop/
- IoP 2016, http://iop2016.sciencesconf.org/
- LWDA 2017 (KDML), https://www.wiwi.uni-rostock.de/lwda2017/fg-kdml-2017/
- LWDA 2016, http://hpi.de/mueller/lwda-2016.html
- LWA 2015, http://lwa2015.wi2.uni-trier.de/
Workshop PC Member
(as of 2018)
- KDML 2015: Workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning
http://lwa2015.wi2.uni-trier.de/call-for-papers-kdml-2015/ - MUSE 2015: 6th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/muse2015 - MUSE 2014: 5th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/muse2014
Publications
2020 [ nach oben ]
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Integration of Mechanistic Immunological Knowledge into a Machine Learning Pipeline Increases Predictive Power. Culos, Anthony; Tsai, Amy S.; Stanley, Natalie; Becker, Martin; Ghaemi, Mohammad S.; Mcilwain, David R.; Fallahzadeh, Ramin; Tanada, Athena; Nassar, Huda; Ganio, Edward; Peterson, Laura; Han, Xiaoyuan; Stelzer, ina; Ando, Kazuo; Gaudilliere, Dyani; Phongpreecha, Thanaphong; Mari’c, Ivana; Chang, Alan L.; Shaw, Gary M.; Stevenson, David K.; Bendall, Sean; Davis, Kara L.; Fantl, Wendy; Nolan, Garry P.; Hastie, Trevor; Tibshirani, Robert; Angst, Martin S.; Gaudilliere, Brice; Aghaeepour, Nima in bioRxiv (2020).
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OpenLUR: Off-the-shelf air pollution modeling with open features and machine learning. Lautenschlager, Florian; Becker, Martin; Kobs, Konstantin; Steininger, Michael; Davidson, Padraig; Krause, Anna; Hotho, Andreas in Atmospheric Environment (2020). 233 117535.
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VoPo leverages cellular heterogeneity for predictive modeling of single-cell data. Stanley, Natalie; Stelzer, Ina A.; Tsai, Amy S.; Fallahzadeh, Ramin; Ganio, Edward; Becker, Martin; Phongpreecha, Thanaphong; Nassar, Huda; Ghaemi, Sajjad; Maric, Ivana; Culos, Anthony; Chang, Alan L.; Xenochristou, Maria; Han, Xiaoyuan; Espinosa, Camilo; Rumer, Kristen; Peterson, Laura; Verdonk, Franck; Gaudilliere, Dyani; Tsai, Eileen; Feyaerts, Dorien; Einhaus, Jakob; Ando, Kazuo; Wong, Ronald J.; Obermoser, Gerlinde; Shaw, Gary M.; Stevenson, David K.; Angst, Martin S.; Gaudilliere, Brice; Aghaeepour, Nima in Nature Communications (2020). 11(1) 3738--.
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MapLUR: Exploring a New Paradigm for Estimating Air Pollution Using Deep Learning on Map Images. Steininger, Michael; Kobs, Konstantin; Zehe, Albin; Lautenschlager, Florian; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas in ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) (2020). 6(3) 1–24.
2018 [ nach oben ]
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Understanding Human Navigation using Bayesian Hypothesis Comparison. Technical Report (PhD dissertation), Becker, Martin (2018).
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Air Trails--Urban Air Quality Campaign Exploration Patterns. Becker, Martin; Lautenschlager, Florian; Hotho, Andreas (2018).
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Adaptive kNN Using Expected Accuracy for Classification of Geo-spatial Data. Kibanov, Mark; Becker, Martin; Mueller, Juergen; Atzmueller, Martin; Hotho, Andreas; Stumme, Gerd in SAC ’18 (2018). 857–865.
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EveryAware Gears: A Tool to visualize and analyze all types of Citizen Science Data. Lautenschlager, Florian; Becker, Martin; Steininger, Michael; Hotho, Andreas D. Burghardt, S. Chen, G. Andrienko, N. Andrienko, R. Purves, A. Diehl (eds.) (2018).
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pysubgroup: Easy-to-Use Subgroup Discovery in Python. Lemmerich, Florian; Becker, Martin in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, U. Brefeld, E. Curry, E. Daly, B. MacNamee, A. Marascu, F. Pinelli, M. Berlingerio, N. Hurley (eds.) (2018). (Vol. 11053) 658–662.
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Burrows’ Zeta: Exploring and Evaluating Variants and Parameters. Schöch, Christof; Schlör, Daniel; Zehe, Albin; Gebhard, Henning; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas J. G. Palau, I. G. Russell (eds.) (2018). 274–277.
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Healing Time Correlates With the Quality of Scaring: Results From a Prospective Randomized Control Donor Site Trial. Werdin, Frank; Tenenhaus, Mayer; Becker, Martin; Rennekampff, Hans-Oliver in Dermatologic Surgery (2018). 44(4) 521–527.
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A White-Box Model for Detecting Author Nationality by Linguistic Differences in Spanish Novels. Zehe, Albin; Schlör, Daniel; Henny-Krahmer, Ulrike; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas J. G. Palau, I. G. Russell (eds.) (2018). 519–521.[ BibTeX ]
2017 [ nach oben ]
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Applications for Environmental Sensing in EveryAware. Atzmueller, Martin; Becker, Martin; Molino, Andrea; Mueller, Juergen; Peters, Jan; Sirbu, Alina in Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness, V. Loreto, M. Haklay, A. Hotho, V. D. Servedio, G. Stumme, F. Tria, J. Theunis (eds.) (2017). 135–155.
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Collective Sensing Platforms. Atzmueller, Martin; Becker, Martin; Mueller, Juergen in Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness, V. Loreto, M. Haklay, A. Hotho, V. D. Servedio, G. Stumme, F. Tria, J. Theunis (eds.) (2017). 115–133.
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MixedTrails: Bayesian hypothesis comparison on heterogeneous sequential data. Becker, Martin; Lemmerich, Florian; Singer, Philipp; Strohmaier, Markus; Hotho, Andreas in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2017). 31(5) 1359–1390.
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Experimental Assessment of the Emergence of Awareness and Its Influence on Behavioral Changes: The Everyaware Lesson. Gravino, Pietro; Sirbu, Alina; Becker, Martin; Servedio, Vito DP; Loreto, Vittorio in Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness (2017). 337–362.
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Comparing Hypotheses About Sequential Data: A Bayesian Approach and Its Applications. Lemmerich, Florian; Singer, Philipp; Becker, Martin; Espin-Noboa, Lisette; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Helic, Denis; Hotho, Andreas; Strohmaier, Markus (2017). 354–357.
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Learning Semantic Relatedness from Human Feedback Using Relative Relatedness Learning. Niebler, Thomas; Becker, Martin; Pölitz, Christian; Hotho, Andreas N. Nikitina, D. Song, A. Fokoue, P. Haase (eds.) (2017).
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Sedentary Behavior among National Elite Rowers during Off-Training—A Pilot Study. Sperlich, Billy; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas; Wallmann-Sperlich, Birgit; Sareban, Mahdi; Winkert, Kay; Steinacker, Jürgen M.; Treff, Gunnar in Frontiers in Physiology (2017). 8 655.
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Eleven-Week Preparation Involving Polarized Intensity Distribution Is Not Superior to Pyramidal Distribution in National Elite Rowers. Treff, Gunnar; Winkert, Kay; Sareban, Mahdi; Steinacker, Jürgen M.; Becker, Martin; Sperlich, Billy in Frontiers in Physiology (2017). 8 515.
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Towards Sentiment Analysis on German Literature. Zehe, Albin; Becker, Martin; Jannidis, Fotis; Hotho, Andreas (2017). 387–394.
2016 [ nach oben ]
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SparkTrails: A MapReduce Implementation of HypTrails for Comparing Hypotheses About Human Trails. Becker, Martin; Mewes, Hauke; Hotho, Andreas; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Lemmerich, Florian; Strohmaier, Markus in WWW ’16 Companion (2016). 17–18.
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Mining Subgroups with Exceptional Transition Behavior. Lemmerich, Florian; Becker, Martin; Singer, Philipp; Helic, Denis; Hotho, Andreas; Strohmaier, Markus in KDD ’16 (2016). 965–974.
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FolkTrails: Interpreting navigation behavior in a social tagging system. Niebler, Thomas; Becker, Martin; Zoller, Daniel; Doerfel, Stephan; Hotho, Andreas in CIKM ’16 (2016). 2311–2316.
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Extracting Semantics from unconstrained navigation on wikipedia. Niebler, Thomas; Schlör, Daniel; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas in KI - Künstliche Intelligenz (2016). 30(2) 163–168.
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Prediction of Happy Endings in German Novels. Zehe, Albin; Becker, Martin; Hettinger, Lena; Hotho, Andreas; Reger, Isabella; Jannidis, Fotis P. Cellier, T. Charnois, A. Hotho, S. Matwin, M.-F. Moens, Y. Toussaint (eds.) (2016). 9–16.
2015 [ nach oben ]
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Exploratory Subgroup Analytics on Ubiquitous Data. Atzmueller, Martin; Mueller, Juergen; Becker, Martin in Mining, Modeling and Recommending ’Things’ in Social Media, M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) (2015). 1–20.
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Exploratory Subgroup Analytics on Ubiquitous Data. Atzmueller, Martin; Mueller, Juergen; Becker, Martin M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) (2015). 1–20.
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MicroTrails: Comparing Hypotheses About Task Selection on a Crowdsourcing Platform. Becker, Martin; Borchert, Kathrin; Hirth, Matthias; Mewes, Hauke; Hotho, Andreas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc (2015). 10:1–.
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Photowalking the City: Comparing Hypotheses About Urban Photo Trails on Flickr. Becker, Martin; Singer, Philipp; Lemmerich, Florian; Hotho, Andreas; Helic, Denis; Strohmaier, Markus T.-Y. Liu, C. N. Scollon, W. Zhu (eds.) (2015). 227–244.
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VizTrails: An Information Visualization Tool for Exploring Geographic Movement Trajectories. Becker, Martin; Singer, Philipp; Lemmerich, Florian; Hotho, Andreas; Helic, Denis; Strohmaier, Markus in HT ’15 (2015). 319–320.
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Genre Classification on German Novels. Hettinger, Lena; Becker, Martin; Reger, Isabella; Jannidis, Fotis; Hotho, Andreas (2015). 249–253.
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ConDist: A Context-Driven Categorical Distance Measure. Ring, Markus; Otto, Florian; Becker, Martin; Niebler, Thomas; Landes, Dieter; Hotho, Andreas A. Appice, P. P. Rodrigues, V. S. Costa, C. Soares, J. Gama, A. Jorge (eds.) (2015). 251–266.
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Participatory patterns in an international air quality monitoring initiative. Sirbu, Alina; Becker, Martin; Caminiti, Saverio; De Baets, Bernard; Elen, Bart; Francis, Louise; Gravino, Pietro; Hotho, Andreas; Ingarra, Stefano; Loreto, Vittorio; Molino, Andrea; Mueller, Juergen; Peters, Jan; Ricchiuti, Ferdinando; Saracino, Fabio; Servedio, Vito D. P.; Stumme, Gerd; Theunis, Jan; Tria, Francesca; Van den Bossche, Joris in PLoS ONE (2015). 10(8) e0136763.
2014 [ nach oben ]
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Ubicon and its applications for ubiquitous social computing. Atzmueller, Martin; Becker, Martin; Kibanov, Mark; Scholz, Christoph; Doerfel, Stephan; Hotho, Andreas; Macek, Bjoern-Elmar; Mitzlaff, Folke; Mueller, Juergen; Stumme, Gerd in New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (2014). 20(1) 53–77.
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Subjective vs. Objective Data: Bridging the Gap. Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas; Mueller, Juergen; Kibanov, Mark; Atzmueller, Martin; Stumme, Gerd (2014).
2013 [ nach oben ]
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Awareness and learning in participatory noise sensing. Becker, Martin; Caminiti, Saverio; Fiorella, Donato; Francis, Louise; Gravino, Pietro; Haklay, Mordechai (Muki); Hotho, Andreas; Loreto, Vittorio; Mueller, Juergen; Ricchiuti, Ferdinando; Servedio, Vito D. P.; Sirbu, Alina; Tria, Francesca in PLOS ONE (2013). 8(12) e81638.
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A Generic Platform for Ubiquitous and Subjective Data. Becker, Martin; Mueller, Juergen; Hotho, Andreas; Stumme, Gerd in UbiComp ’13 Adjunct (2013). 1175–1182.
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Difference-Based Estimates for Generalization-Aware Subgroup Discovery. Lemmerich, Florian; Becker, Martin; Puppe, Frank in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, H. Blockeel, K. Kersting, S. Nijssen, F. Zelezny (eds.) (2013). 288–303.
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Tag Recommendations for SensorFolkSonomies. Mueller, Juergen; Doerfel, Stephan; Becker, Martin; Hotho, Andreas; Stumme, Gerd in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (2013).
2012 [ nach oben ]
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Ubicon: Observing Social and Physical Activities. Atzmueller, Martin; Becker, Martin; Doerfel, Stephan; Kibanov, Mark; Hotho, Andreas; Macek, Björn-Elmar; Mitzlaff, Folke; Mueller, Juergen; Scholz, Christoph; Stumme, Gerd (2012). 317–324.
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Generic Pattern Trees for Exhaustive Exceptional Model Mining. Lemmerich, Florian; Becker, Martin; Atzmueller, Martin P. A. Flach, T. De Bie, N. Cristianini (eds.) (2012). 277–292.
2011 [ nach oben ]
Teaching
Seminar Ausgewählte Themen des Web 2.0
- summer term 2015
- winter term 2014
- summer term 2014
- winter term 2013
- summer term 2013
- winter term 2012
- summer term 2012
- winter term 2011
Information Retrieval
- summer term 2015
- summer term 2014
- summer term 2013
- summer term 2012
- summer term 2011