Tobias Koopmann, M.Sc.

Chair of Data Science (Informatik X)
University of Würzburg
Campus Hubland Nord
Emil-Fischer-Straße 50
97074 Würzburg
Germany

Email: koopmann@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Phone: (+49 931) 31 - 89363

Office: Room 50.03.07 (Building 50)

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Projects and Research Interests

I joined the DMIR group for my PhD studies after receiving my masters degree in Computer Science at the university of Würzburg in early 2019. At first, i was working on click trail analysis and human behavior prediction in the web based on Wikipedia click trails.

I started to work in the REGIO project. My contribution in the project is to analyse locally successful research cooperations based on different properties of the co-author network. For this we leverage the Bayesian approach HypTrails and apply it on graph- structured data. End 2021 after the project has been successfully finalized, I started working on the HydrAS project, which is a natural succession for my research topic.

Teaching

Winter term 23/24:

Seminar: Ausgewählte Themen des Machine Learning

Winter term 22/23:

Datenbanken

Summer term 22:

Seminar: Ausgewählte Themen des Machine Learning

Winter term 21/22:

Seminar: Ausgewählte Themen des Machine Learning

Summer term 21:

Seminar: Ausgewählte Themen des Machine Learning

Winter term 20/21:

Datenbanken

Summer term 20:

Summer term 19:

Praktikum: Natural Language Processing

Winter term 18/19:

Datenbanken

Publications

2023[ to top ]

Koopmann, T., Pfister, J., Markus, A., Carolus, A., Wienrich, C., and Hotho, A. (2023) “Higher-Order DeepTrails: Unified Approach to *Trails”, in Leyer, M. and Wichmann, J., eds., Proceedings of the {LWDA} 2023 Workshops: FGWM, FGKD, and FGDB, Marburg (Germany), Oktober 9-11th, 2023, {CEUR} Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org.
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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/lwa/Koopmann23, author = {Koopmann, Tobias and Pfister, Jan and Markus, André and Carolus, Astrid and Wienrich, Carolin and Hotho, Andreas}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LWDA} 2023 Workshops: FGWM, FGKD, and FGDB, Marburg (Germany), Oktober 9-11th, 2023}, editor = {Leyer, Michael and Wichmann, Johannes}, keywords = {research_sequential}, publisher = {CEUR-WS.org}, series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings}, title = {Higher-Order DeepTrails: Unified Approach to *Trails}, year = 2023 }

2021[ to top ]

Koopmann, T., Kobs, K., Herud, K., and Hotho, A. (2021) “CoBERT: Scientific Collaboration Prediction via Sequential Recommendation”, in 2021 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 45–54, available: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW53433.2021.00013.
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Collaborations are an Important factor for scientific success, as the joint work leads to results individual scientists cannot easily reach. Recommending collaborations automatically can alleviate the time consuming and tedious search for potential collaborators. Usually, such recommendation systems rely on graph structures modeling co-authorship of papers and content-based relations such as similar paper keywords. Models are then trained to estimate the probability of links between certain authors in these graphs.In this paper, we argue that the order of papers is crucial for reliably predicting future collaborations, which is not considered by graph-based recommendation systems. We thus propose to reformulate the task of collaboration recommendation as a sequential recommendation task. Here, we aim to predict the next co-author in a chronologically sorted sequence of an author’s collaborators. We introduce CoBERT, a BERT4Rec inspired model, that predicts the sequence’s next co-author and thus a potential collaborator. Since the order of co-authors of a single paper is not that important compared to the overall paper order, we leverage positional embeddings encoding paper positions instead of co-author positions in the sequence. Additionally, we inject content features about every paper and their co-authors. We evaluate CoBERT on two datasets consisting of papers from the field of Artificial Intelligence and the journal PlosOne. We show that CoBERT can outperform graph-based methods and BERT4Rec when predicting the co-authors of the next paper. We make our code and data available.

@inproceedings{koopmann2021cobert, abstract = {Collaborations are an Important factor for scientific success, as the joint work leads to results individual scientists cannot easily reach. Recommending collaborations automatically can alleviate the time consuming and tedious search for potential collaborators. Usually, such recommendation systems rely on graph structures modeling co-authorship of papers and content-based relations such as similar paper keywords. Models are then trained to estimate the probability of links between certain authors in these graphs.In this paper, we argue that the order of papers is crucial for reliably predicting future collaborations, which is not considered by graph-based recommendation systems. We thus propose to reformulate the task of collaboration recommendation as a sequential recommendation task. Here, we aim to predict the next co-author in a chronologically sorted sequence of an author’s collaborators. We introduce CoBERT, a BERT4Rec inspired model, that predicts the sequence’s next co-author and thus a potential collaborator. Since the order of co-authors of a single paper is not that important compared to the overall paper order, we leverage positional embeddings encoding paper positions instead of co-author positions in the sequence. Additionally, we inject content features about every paper and their co-authors. We evaluate CoBERT on two datasets consisting of papers from the field of Artificial Intelligence and the journal PlosOne. We show that CoBERT can outperform graph-based methods and BERT4Rec when predicting the co-authors of the next paper. We make our code and data available.}, author = {Koopmann, Tobias and Kobs, Konstantin and Herud, Konstantin and Hotho, Andreas}, booktitle = {2021 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)}, keywords = {selected}, month = {dec}, pages = {45-54}, title = {CoBERT: Scientific Collaboration Prediction via Sequential Recommendation}, year = 2021 }
Koopmann, T., Stubbemann, M., Kapa, M., Paris, M., Buenstorf, G., Hanika, T., Hotho, A., Jäschke, R., and Stumme, G. (2021) “Proximity dimensions and the emergence of collaboration: a HypTrails study on German AI research”, Scientometrics, available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03922-1.
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Creation and exchange of knowledge depends on collaboration. Recent work has suggested that the emergence of collaboration frequently relies on geographic proximity. However, being co-located tends to be associated with other dimensions of proximity, such as social ties or a shared organizational environment. To account for such factors, multiple dimensions of proximity have been proposed, including cognitive, institutional, organizational, social and geographical proximity. Since they strongly interrelate, disentangling these dimensions and their respective impact on collaboration is challenging. To address this issue, we propose various methods for measuring different dimensions of proximity. We then present an approach to compare and rank them with respect to the extent to which they indicate co-publications and co-inventions. We adapt the HypTrails approach, which was originally developed to explain human navigation, to co-author and co-inventor graphs. We evaluate this approach on a subset of the German research community, specifically academic authors and inventors active in research on artificial intelligence (AI). We find that social proximity and cognitive proximity are more important for the emergence of collaboration than geographic proximity.

@article{koopmann2021proximity, abstract = {Creation and exchange of knowledge depends on collaboration. Recent work has suggested that the emergence of collaboration frequently relies on geographic proximity. However, being co-located tends to be associated with other dimensions of proximity, such as social ties or a shared organizational environment. To account for such factors, multiple dimensions of proximity have been proposed, including cognitive, institutional, organizational, social and geographical proximity. Since they strongly interrelate, disentangling these dimensions and their respective impact on collaboration is challenging. To address this issue, we propose various methods for measuring different dimensions of proximity. We then present an approach to compare and rank them with respect to the extent to which they indicate co-publications and co-inventions. We adapt the HypTrails approach, which was originally developed to explain human navigation, to co-author and co-inventor graphs. We evaluate this approach on a subset of the German research community, specifically academic authors and inventors active in research on artificial intelligence (AI). We find that social proximity and cognitive proximity are more important for the emergence of collaboration than geographic proximity.}, author = {Koopmann, Tobias and Stubbemann, Maximilian and Kapa, Matthias and Paris, Michael and Buenstorf, Guido and Hanika, Tom and Hotho, Andreas and Jäschke, Robert and Stumme, Gerd}, journal = {Scientometrics}, keywords = {regio}, title = {Proximity dimensions and the emergence of collaboration: a HypTrails study on German AI research}, year = 2021 }

2020[ to top ]

Stubbemann, M. and Koopmann, T. (2020) “The German and International AI Network Data Set”, available: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3693604.
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@article{koopmann-germanai_2020, author = {Stubbemann, Maximilian and Koopmann, Tobias}, keywords = {regio}, month = {mar}, publisher = {Zenodo}, title = {The German and International AI Network Data Set}, year = 2020 }

2019[ to top ]

Koopmann, T., Dallmann, A., Hettinger, L., Niebler, T., and Hotho, A. (2019) “On the Right Track! Analysing and Predicting Navigation Success in Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT ’19, Hof, Germany: ACM, 143–152, available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3342220.3343650.
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@inproceedings{Koopmann:2019:RTA:3342220.3343650, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Koopmann, Tobias and Dallmann, Alexander and Hettinger, Lena and Niebler, Thomas and Hotho, Andreas}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media}, keywords = {wikipedia}, pages = {143–152}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {HT '19}, title = {On the Right Track! Analysing and Predicting Navigation Success in Wikipedia}, year = 2019 }

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