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Computer Science
Germany
2023

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Computer Science

D-Index
65
Citations
14028
World Ranking
2494
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Benno Stein is affiliated with Bauhaus University, Weimar in Germany and specializes in the field of computer science. Their research spans several subfields, including artificial intelligence, information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, sociology and political science, as well as molecular biology.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of main topics, prominently featuring:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Authorship Attribution and Profiling
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis

Benno Stein has published a substantial body of work primarily in renowned venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe), ACM SIGIR Forum, and the journal it - Information Technology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models", 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Learning Behavior Models for Hybrid Timed Systems", 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Conversational Search (Dagstuhl Seminar 19461)", 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Identifying the Human Values behind Arguments", 2022, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • "End-to-End Argumentation Knowledge Graph Construction", 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Martin Potthast, Johannes Kiesel, Matthias Hagen, Henning Wachsmuth, and Maik Fröbe, reflecting an extensive engagement with peers in related research areas.

Best Publications

  • A Stylometric Inquiry into Hyperpartisan and Fake News

    Martin Potthast;Johannes Kiesel;Kevin Reinartz;Janek Bevendorff

  • The Eras and Trends of Automatic Short Answer Grading

    Steven Burrows;Iryna Gurevych;Benno Stein

  • An Evaluation Framework for Plagiarism Detection

    Martin Potthast;Benno Stein;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Paolo Rosso

  • Cross-Language Text Classification Using Structural Correspondence Learning

    Peter Prettenhofer;Benno Stein

  • Overview of the 2nd International Competition on Plagiarism Detection

    Martin Potthast;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Andreas Eiselt;Benno Stein

  • Cross-language plagiarism detection

    Martin Potthast;Alberto Barrón-Cedeño;Benno Stein;Paolo Rosso

  • Overview of the 1st international competition on plagiarism detection

    Martin Potthast;Benno Stein;Andreas Eiselt;Alberto Barrón-Cedeno

  • Intrinsic plagiarism detection

    Sven Meyer zu Eissen;Benno Stein

  • A Wikipedia-based multilingual retrieval model

    Martin Potthast;Benno Stein;Maik Anderka

  • Overview of the 5th Author Profiling Task at PAN 2017: Gender and Language Variety Identification in Twitter.

    Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo;Paolo Rosso;Martin Potthast;Benno Stein

  • Overview of the 4th Author Profiling Task at PAN 2016: Cross-genre Evaluations

    Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo;Paolo Rosso;Ben Verhoeven;Walter Daelemans

  • TIRA Integrated Research Architecture.

    Martin Potthast;Tim Gollub;Matti Wiegmann;Benno Stein

  • Overview of the author identification task at PAN 2014

    Efstathios Stamatatos;Walter Daelemans;Ben Verhoeven;Benno Stein

  • Automatic vandalism detection in Wikipedia

    Martin Potthast;Benno Stein;Robert Gerling

  • Intrinsic plagiarism analysis

    Benno Stein;Nedim Lipka;Peter Prettenhofer

  • SemEval 2019 Task 4 - Hyperpartisan News Detection

    Johannes Kiesel;Maria Mestre;Rishabh Shukla;Emmanuel Vincent

  • Overview of the Author Identification Task at PAN 2015.

    Efstathios Stamatatos;Walter Daelemans;Ben Verhoeven;Patrick Juola

  • Computational Argumentation Quality Assessment in Natural Language

    Henning Wachsmuth;Nona Naderi;Yufang Hou;Yonatan Bilu

  • Improving the Reproducibility of PAN’s Shared Tasks:

    Martin Potthast;Tim Gollub;Francisco Rangel;Paolo Rosso

  • Building an Argument Search Engine for the Web

    Henning Wachsmuth;Martin Potthast;Khalid Al Khatib;Yamen Ajjour

  • TL;DR: Mining Reddit to Learn Automatic Summarization

    Michael Völske;Martin Potthast;Shahbaz Syed;Benno Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Potthast
Martin Potthast Leipzig University
Paolo Rosso
Paolo Rosso Universitat Politècnica de València
Efstathios Stamatatos
Efstathios Stamatatos University of the Aegean
Iryna Gurevych
Iryna Gurevych Technical University of Darmstadt
Gregor Engels
Gregor Engels University of Paderborn
Walter Daelemans
Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño University of Bologna
Chris Biemann
Chris Biemann Universität Hamburg
Norbert Fuhr
Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen
Hinrich Schütze
Hinrich Schütze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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