Thesis & Project Topics

Research Topics:

• (RDF) graph mining
• Association rules
• Rule mining
• Relation extraction
• Event extraction
• Preference prediction / recommendation
• Entity classification
• Ontology learning
• Structure generation
• Semantic parsing
• Link prediction
• Table understanding

Open Theses Topics:

• Development of a knowledge management platform for visionary solutions and challenges in the implementation of R-strategies in circular construction [BA, MA]

Running / Finished Theses Topics:

• Indirectly Knowledge-Informed Word Embeddings [BA, MA]
• Information extraction from material science literature [BA, MA]
• Mining Association Rules [BA, MA]
• Towards knowledge extraction: data acquisition and analysis of scientific literature [BA]
• Word embedding space exploration [BA, MA]

Interested? Please reach out to:
bell[at]techfak[dot]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Federated Learning
• Distributed Learning
• Explainable AI (SHAP, Counterfactual Explanations)
• Clinical Decision Support
• Distributed Data Analytics
• Privacy-preserving Data Science

Running / Finished Theses Topics:

• Constrained Counterfactual Explanations [BA, MA]
• Determinants of Successful Federated Learning [BA, MA]
• Federated Learning: Client Clustering with Soft Clusters [MA]
• Mining Association Rules [BA, MA]

Interested? Please reach out to:
cduesing[at]techfak[dot]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Question Answering over Linked Data
• Lexcial Knowledge
• Compositionality in AI
• Structure Generation
• Information Extraction
• Social Media Listening for Quality of Life Estimation

Interested? Please reach out to:
daschmidt[at]techfak[dot]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Commonsense Reasoning for Robots
• Actionable Knowledge Representation
• Task-Specific Knowledge Extraction
• LLM-based Task and Motion Planning
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (in Robotic Environments)
• Natural Language Task Decomposition

Open Theses Topics:

• Benchmarking Social Intelligence in Large Language Models [MA]

Running / Finished Theses Topics:

• Embodied Commonsense Knowledge in Robotic Simulators [IISY Project]
• Evaluating Commonsense Capabilities Through Prompt Engineering [BA, MA]
• Exchanging Knowledge in Robot Manipulation Tasks [BA]
• Extracting Object-Location Relations from a Knowledge Graph [BA]
• Extracting Task-Specific Knowledge for Unknown Objects in Robot Manipulation Scenarios [BA, MA]
• Generating Robot Manipulation Plans in Python Using LLMs [BA, MA]
• RAG for Robotic Plan Generation [BA, MA]
• Recreating and Evaluating a Food Cutting Ontology Using OntoGPT [BA]
• Turning Annotated Recipe Data Into a Knowledge Graph [BA]
• Video-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation [MA]

Interested? Please reach out to:
jtoeberg[at]techfak[dot]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• NLP for (Bio)medicine
• Gender Bias and Fairness in Language Models
• Uncertainty and Disagreement in Clinical Language Models
• Human Interaction with Conversational AI
• Evaluation of LLMs
• Hallucinations
• NLP for Slavic Languages

Interested? Please reach out to:
karolina.czok[at]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Information Extraction
• Event Extraction
• Synthetic Annotations
• Prompting Strategies

Interested? Please reach out to:
mgeromel[at]techfak[dot]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Subjective and Social Media Classification Tasks (Hatespeech, Toxicity, Argument Quality, ...)
• Ethics and NLP
• NLP for Computational Social Science
• Subjectivity in Annotation (Human Label Variation, Pluralistic Alignment, Perspectivism)

Interested? Please reach out to:
morlikowski[at]techfak[dot]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Causal inference from biomedical texts and structured data
• Explainable AI
• Clinical decision support systems using semantic reasoning and NLP
• Argument mining
• Human-AI collaboration

Interested? Please reach out to:
olivia.sanchez[at]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Text Simplification
• Text Readability Classification
• NLP for Social Good
• Evaluation of NLG Tasks
• NLP for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Interested? Please reach out to:
regina.stodden[at]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• Vague (Temporal) Adverbials
• Temporal Reasoning
• Probabilistic Modeling
• Cognitive Semantics
• Temporal Question Answering

Running / Finished Theses Topics:

• Close to or Far Away? Exploring Vague Spatial Adverbials [BA]
• Prompt Revision for LLMs [BA]

Interested? Please reach out to:
skenneweg[at]techfak[dot]uni-bielefeld[dot]de

Research Topics:

• (Generative) Information Retrieval
• Embedding Models
• Model-agnostic explainability techniques
• Question Answering with LLMs (RAG and advanced RAG techniques)
• Optimization of LLMs
• Hallucination Detection/Mitigation

Interested? Please reach out to:
viju.sudhi[at]uni-bielefeld[dot]de