IML - Publications

2025

Journal Article

Samuel Sousa, Michael Jantscher, Mark Kröll and Roman Kern Large Language Models for Electronic Health Record De-Identification in English and German Show publication in PURE

Mikuláš Muroň, František Dařena, David Procházka and Roman Kern Automatically generated place descriptions for accurate location identification: a hybrid approach with rule-based methods and LLM Show publication in PURE

Lea Demelius, Roman Kern and Andreas Trügler Recent Advances of Differential Privacy in Centralized Deep Learning: A Systematic Survey Show publication in PURE

Michael Poelzl, Roman Kern, Simonas Kecorius and Mario Lovrić Exploration of transfer learning techniques for the prediction of PM10 Show publication in PURE

2024

Journal Article

J. G. Hoffer, B. C. Geiger and R. Kern Robust Bayesian target vector optimization for multi-stage manufacturing processes Show publication in PURE

Markus Kattnig, Alessa Angerschmid, Thomas Reichel and Roman Kern Assessing trustworthy AI Show publication in PURE

Sebastian Gegenleithner, Manuel Pirker, Clemens Dorfmann, Roman Kern and Josef Schneider Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Real-time Flood Forecast Correction: A Case Study for an Underperforming Hydrologic Model Show publication in PURE

Samuel Sousa, Andreas Trügler and Roman Kern Assessing the impact of differential privacy in transfer learning with deep neural networks and transformer language models Show publication in PURE

Meng Cao, Hussain Hussain, Sandipan Sikdar, Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier and Roman Kern Recommendation Fairness in Social Networks Over Time Show publication in PURE

Valentino Petrić, Hussain Hussain, Kristina Časni, Milana Vuckovic, Andreas Schopper, Željka Ujević Andrijić, Simonas Kecorius, Leizel Madueno, Roman Kern and Mario Lovrić Ensemble Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Time Series Forecasting: Improving Prediction Accuracy for Hourly Concentrations of Ambient Air Pollutants Show publication in PURE

Bernhard C. Geiger and Roman Kern On the Role of Priors in Bayesian Causal Learning Show publication in PURE

David Cemernek, Shafaq Siddiqi and Roman Kern Effects of Class Imbalance Countermeasures on Interpretability Show publication in PURE

Mikuláš Muroň, František Dařena, David Procházka and Roman Kern User-Driven Toponym Disambiguation Using Dialogue Show publication in PURE

Asha Choudhary, Matej Vuković, Belgin Mutlu, Michael Haslgrübler and Roman Kern Interpretability of Causal Discovery in Tracking Deterioration in a Highly Dynamic Process Show publication in PURE

Heimo Gursch, Elke Schlager, Franz Thaler, Georg Waltner, Harald Ganster, Alfred Rinnhofer, Malte Jaschik, Christian Oberwinkler, Reinhard Meisenbichler, Horst Bischof and Roman Kern Image capturing, segmentation and data analysis of shredded refuse streams Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Alex Ghiriti, Wolfgang Göderle and Roman Kern Exploring the Capabilities of GPT4-Vision as OCR Engine Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries - 28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2024, Proceedings 3-12 Show publication in PURE

Gerda Langer, Thomas Hirsch, Roman Kern, Theresa Kohl and Gerald Schweiger Large Language Models for Fault Detection in Buildings’ HVAC Systems Energy Informatics - 4th Energy Informatics Academy Conference, EI.A 2024, Proceedings 49–60 Show publication in PURE

2023

Journal Article

Nikolaos Nikolaou, Ingo P Waldmann, Angelos Tsiaras, Mario Morvan, Billy Edwards, Kai Hou Yip, Alexandra Thompson, Giovanna Tinetti, Subhajit Sarkar, James M Dawson, Vadim Borisov, Gjergji Kasneci, Matej Petković, Tomaž Stepišnik, Tarek Al-Ubaidi, Rachel Louise Bailey, Michael Granitzer, Sahib Julka, Roman Kern, Patrick Ofner, Stefan Wagner, Lukas Heppe, Mirko Bunse, Katharina Morik and Luís F. Simões Lessons learned from the 1st Ariel Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting transiting exoplanet light curves for stellar spots Show publication in PURE

J.G. Hoffer, B.C. Geiger and R. Kern Solving multi-objective inverse problems of chained manufacturing processes Show publication in PURE

Georgios Koutroulis, Belgin Mutlu and Roman Kern A Causality-Inspired Approach for Anomaly Detection in a Water Treatment Testbed Show publication in PURE

Michael Jantscher, Felix Gunzer, Roman Kern, Eva Hassler, Sebastian Tschauner and Gernot Reishofer Information extraction from German radiological reports for general clinical text and language understanding Show publication in PURE

Houssam Razouk, Xing Lan Liu and Roman Kern Improving FMEA Comprehensibility via Common-Sense Knowledge Graph Completion Techniques Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Benjamin Gigerl, Yang Zhao, Johann Raminger, Jupiter Bakakeu, Roman Kern and Stefan Thalmann Predicting Partial Discharges of Transformers: Decision Support System for Factory Acceptance Test 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) Show publication in PURE

2022

Book Chapter

Houssam Razouk, Roman Kern, Martin Mischitz, Josef Moser, Mirhad Memic, Lan Liu, Christian Burmer and Anna Safont-Andreu AI-Based Knowledge Management System for Risk Assessment and Root Cause Analysis in Semiconductor IndustryArtificial Intelligence for Digitising Industry - Applications113-129 Show publication in PURE

Journal Article

Johannes Hoffer, Bernhard Geiger and Roman Kern Gaussian Process Surrogates for Modeling Uncertainties in a Use Case of Forging Superalloys Show publication in PURE

Samuel Sousa and Roman Kern How to keep text private? A systematic review of deep learning methods for privacy-preserving natural language processing Show publication in PURE

Joscha Eirich, Georgios Koutroulis, Belgin Mutlu, Dominik Jäckle, Roman Kern, Tobias Schreck and Jürgen Bernard ManEx: The Visual Analysis of Measurements for the Assessment of Errors in Electrical Engines Show publication in PURE

Houssam Razouk and Roman Kern Improving the Consistency of the Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) Documents in Semiconductor Manufacturing Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Hussain Hussain, Meng Cao, Sandipan Sikdar, Denis Helic, Elisabeth Lex, Markus Strohmaier and Roman Kern Adversarial Inter-Group Link Injection Degrades the Fairness of Graph Neural Networks. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 975-980 Show publication in PURE

Eileen Salhofer, Xing Lan Liu and Roman Kern Impact of Training Instance Selection on Domain-Specific Entity Extraction using BERT Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop 83-88 Show publication in PURE

Michael Jantscher and Roman Kern Causal Investigation of Public Opinion during the COVID-19 Pandemic via Social Media Text Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 211-226 Show publication in PURE

Xinglan Liu, Hussain Hussain, Houssam Razouk and Roman Kern Effective Use of BERT in Graph Embeddings for Sparse Knowledge Graph Completion Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2022 799–802 Show publication in PURE

Other Article

Patrick Damme, Matthias Boehm, Mark Dokter, Kevin Innerebner and Roman Kern DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines Show publication in PURE

2021

Journal Article

Hussain Hussain, Tomislav Duricic, Elisabeth Lex, Denis Helic and Roman Kern The interplay between communities and homophily in semi-supervised classification using graph neural networks Show publication in PURE

Jan Egger, Antonio Pepe, Christina Gsaxner, Yuan Jin, Jianning Li and Roman Kern Deep learning-a first meta-survey of selected reviews across scientific disciplines, their commonalities, challenges and research impact Show publication in PURE

Johannes G. Hoffer, Bernhard C. Geiger, Patrick Ofner and Roman Kern Mesh-Free Surrogate Models for Structural Mechanic FEM Simulation: A Comparative Study of Approaches Show publication in PURE

Maximilian Toller, Bernhard Geiger and Roman Kern Cluster Purging: Efficient Outlier Detection based on Rate-Distortion Theory Show publication in PURE

Georgios Koutroulis, Leo Happ Botler, Belgin Mutlu, Konrad Diwold, Kay Uwe Römer and Roman Kern KOMPOS: Connecting Causal Knots in Large Nonlinear Time Series with Non-Parametric Regression Splines Show publication in PURE

Mario Lovrić, Kristina Pavlović, Petar Žuvela, Adrian Spataru, Bono Lučić, Roman Kern and Ming Wah Wong Machine learning in prediction of intrinsic aqueous solubility of drug‐like compounds: Generalization, complexity, or predictive ability? Show publication in PURE

Mario Lovrić, Ivana Banić, Emanuel Lacić, Kristina Pavlović, Roman Kern and Mirjana Turkalj Predicting Treatment Outcomes Using Explainable Machine Learning in Children with Asthma Show publication in PURE

Mario Lovrić, Olga Malev, Göran Klobučar, Roman Kern, Jay J. Liu and Bono Lučić Predictive Capability of QSAR Models Based on the CompTox Zebrafish Embryo Assays: An Imbalanced Classification Problem Show publication in PURE

Ivana Banić, Mario Lovrić, Gerald Cuder, Roman Kern, Matija Rijavec, Peter Korošec and Mirjana Turkalj Treatment outcome clustering patterns correspond to discrete asthma phenotypes in children Show publication in PURE

Mario Lovrić, Tomislav Đuričić, Han T. N. Tran, Hussain Hussain, Emanuel Lacić, Morten A. Rasmussen and Roman Kern Should We Embed in Chemistry? A Comparison of Unsupervised Transfer Learning with PCA, UMAP, and VAE on Molecular Fingerprints Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Heimo Gursch, Harald Ganster, Alfred Rinnhofer, Georg Waltner, Christian Payer, Christian Oberwinkler, Reinhard Meisenbichler and Roman Kern KI-Waste - Combining Image Recognition and Time Series Analysis in Refuse Sorting Mensch und Computer 2021 - Workshopband 1-4 Show publication in PURE

Hussain Hussain, Tomislav Duricic, Elisabeth Lex, Roman Kern and Denis Helic On the Impact of Communities on Semi-supervised Classification Using Graph Neural Networks Complex Networks and Their Applications IX - Volume 2, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 15-26 Show publication in PURE

Hussain Hussain, Tomislav Duricic, Elisabeth Lex, Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier and Roman Kern Structack: Structure-based Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks HT 2021 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 111-120 Show publication in PURE

Other Article

Manuel Lienhart, Bohdan Andrusyak, Mark Kröll, Roman Kern, Michael Cik and Martin Fellendorf Automatisierte Qualitätssicherung der Umfelddatenerfassung für Autobahnen und Schnellstraßen Show publication in PURE

2020

Book Chapter

Roman Kern, Tarek Al-Ubaidi, Vedran Sabol, Sarah Krebs, Maxim L. Khodachenko and Manuel Scherf Astro- and Geoinformatics – Visually Guided Classification of Time Series DataKnowledge Discovery in Big Data from Astronomy and Earth Observation Show publication in PURE

Journal Article

Mario Lovrić, Richard Meister, Thomas Steck, Leon Fadljević, Johann Gerdenitsch, Stefan Schuster, Lukas Schiefermüller, Stefanie Lindstaedt and Roman Kern Parasitic resistance as a predictor of faulty anodes in electro galvanizing: a comparison of machine learning, physical and hybrid models Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Georgios Koutroulis, Tiago Filipe Teixeira dos Santos, Michael Wiedemann, Christian Faistauer, Roman Kern and Stefan Thalmann Enhanced Active Learning of Convolutional Neural Networks: A Case Study for Defect Classification in the Semiconductor Industry Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2020, Volume 1: KDIR, Budapest, Hungary, November 2-4, 2020 Show publication in PURE

Stefan Schrunner, Bernhard Geiger, Anja Zernig and Roman Kern A generative semi-supervised classifier for datasets with unknown classes Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 1066-1074 Show publication in PURE

Andi Rexha, Mauro Dragoni and Roman Kern A Neural-based Architecture For Small Datasets Classification JCDL' 20: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020 319–327 Show publication in PURE

Other Article

Mario Lovric, Kristina Pavlovic, Roman Kern, Stuart K. Grange, Matej Vukovic and Michael Haberl Air pollution 01.2014 - 05.2020 (including COVID-19 lockdown) data from Graz, Austria Show publication in PURE

2019

Journal Article

Mario Lovric, Roman Kern and Jose Molero PySpark and RDKit: Moving towards Big Data in Cheminformatics Show publication in PURE

Tiago Filipe Teixeira dos Santos, Stefan Schrunner, Bernhard Geiger, Olivia Pfeiler, Anja Zernig, Andre Kaestner and Roman Kern Feature Extraction From Analog Wafermaps: A Comparison of Classical Image Processing and a Deep Generative Model Show publication in PURE

Tiago Teixeira dos Santos, Simon Walk, Roman Kern, Markus Strohmaier and Denis Helic Activity Archetypes in Question-and-Answer (Q&A) Websites—A Study of 50 Stack Exchange Instances Show publication in PURE

Maximilian Toller, Tiago Filipe Teixeira dos Santos and Roman Kern SAZED: parameter-free domain-agnostic season length estimation in time series data Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Florian Steinbauer, Roman Kern and Mark Kröll Chatbots Assisting German Business Management Applications Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. From Theory to Practice 717-729 Show publication in PURE

Tiago Teixeira dos Santos, Simon Walk, Roman Kern, Markus Strohmaier and Denis Helic Self- and Cross-Excitation in Stack Exchange Question & Answer Communities The Web Conference (WWW) Show publication in PURE

Heimo Gursch, David Cemernek, Andreas Wuttei and Roman Kern Cyber-Physical Systems as Enablers in Manufacturing Communication and Worker Support Mensch und Computer 2019 481-485 Show publication in PURE

Dominik Kowald, Matthias Traub, Dieter Theiler, Heimo Gursch, Emanuel Lacic, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Roman Kern and Elisabeth Lex Using the Open Meta Kaggle Dataset to Evaluate Tripartite Recommendations in Data Markets REVEAL Workshop co-located with RecSys'2019 Show publication in PURE

Maximilian Toller, Bernhard Geiger and Roman Kern A Formally Robust Time Series Distance Metric Mile'TS @ SIGKDD Show publication in PURE

Other Article

Adrian Remonda, Sarah Krebs, Eduardo Enrique Veas, Granit Luzhnica and Roman Kern Formula RL: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Racing using Telemetry Data Show publication in PURE

Bernhard Geiger, Stefan Schrunner and Roman Kern An Information-Theoretic Measure for Pattern Similarity in Analog Wafermaps Show publication in PURE

2018

Journal Article

Andi Rexha, Mark Kröll, Roman Kern and Hermann Ziak Authorship identification of documents with high content similarity Show publication in PURE

Akim Bassa, Mark Kröll and Roman Kern GerIE - An Open Information Extraction System for the German Language Show publication in PURE

Robert Neuhold, Heimo Gerald Gursch, Roman Kern and Michael Cik Driver's dashboard – using social media data as additional information for motorway operators Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Andi Rexha, Mark Kröll, Roman Kern and Mauro Dragoni The CLAUSY System at ESWC-2018 Challenge on Semantic Sentiment Analysis Semantic Web Challanges 186-196 Show publication in PURE

Tiago Teixeira dos Santos and Roman Kern Understanding wafer patterns in semiconductor production with variational auto-encoders. Proc. 26th European Symp. on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN) Show publication in PURE

Bohdan Andrusyak, Thomas Kugi and Roman Kern Daily Prediction of Foreign Exchange Rates Based on the Stock Marke PEFnet 2017 7-13 Show publication in PURE

2017

Journal Article

Christin Seifert, Werner Bailer, Thomas Orgel, Louis Gantner, Roman Kern, Hermann Ziak, Albin Petit, Jörg Schlötterer, Stefan Zwicklbauer and Michael Granitzer Ubiquitous Access to Digital Cultural Heritage Show publication in PURE

Conference/Workshop Article

Maximilian Toller and Roman Kern Robust Parameter-Free Season Length Detection in Time Series MILETS 2017 @ International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Show publication in PURE

Hermann Ziak and Roman Kern Evaluation of Contextualization and Diversification Approaches in Aggregated Search TIR @ DEXA International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications Show publication in PURE

Stefan Schrunner, Olivia Bluder, Anja Zernig, Andre Kaestner and Roman Kern Markov Random Fields for Pattern Extraction in Analog Wafer Test Data International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA 2017) Show publication in PURE

Roman Kern, Stefan Falk and Andi Rexha Know-Center at SemEval-2017 Task 10: Sequence Classification with the CODE Annotator Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2017) Show publication in PURE

Heimo Gursch, David Cemernek and Roman Kern Multi-Loop Feedback Hierarchy Involving Human Workers in Manufacturing Processes Mensch und Computer 2017 - Workshopband Show publication in PURE

Matthias Traub, Heimo Gursch, Elisabeth Lex and Roman Kern Data Market Austria - Austria's First Digital Ecosystem for Data, Businesses, and Innovation Exploring a changing view on organizing value creation: Developing New Business Models. Contributions to the 2nd International Conference on New Business Models Show publication in PURE

Other Article

Andi Rexha, Mark Kröll, Hermann Ziak and Roman Kern Extending Scientific Literature Search by Including the Author's Writing Style Show publication in PURE

2016

Conference/Workshop Article

Stefan Falk, Andi Rexha and Roman Kern Know-Center at SemEval-2016 Task 5: Using Word Vectors with Typed Dependencies for Opinion Target Expression Extraction Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016) Show publication in PURE

Stefan Klampfl and Roman Kern Reconstructing the Logical Structure of a Scientific Publication using Machine Learning Semantic Web Challenges, Communications in Computer and Information Science Show publication in PURE

Hermann Ziak and Roman Kern KNOW At The Social Book Search Lab 2016 Suggestion Track CLEF 2016 Social Book Search Lab Show publication in PURE

Heimo Gursch and Roman Kern Internet of Things meets Big Data: An Infrastructure to Collect, Connect, and Analyse Sensor Data VDE Kongress 2016: Internet der Dinge (VDE Kongress 2016) Show publication in PURE

Heimo Gursch, Stefan Körner, Hannes Krasser and Roman Kern Parameter Forecasting for Vehicle Paint Quality Optimisation Mensch und Computer 2016 – Workshopband Show publication in PURE

Andi Rexha, Mark Kröll and Roman Kern Social Media Monitoring for Companies: A 4W Summarisation Approach European Conference on Knowledge Management Show publication in PURE

Roman Kern and Hermann Ziak Query Splitting For Context-Driven Federated Recommendations Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2016 27th International Workshop on Show publication in PURE

Tiago Santos and Roman Kern A Literature Survey of Early Time Series Classification and Deep Learning SamI40 workshop at i-KNOW'16 Show publication in PURE

Heimo Gursch, Roman Kern, Mark Kröll and Hermann Ziak Context-Driven Federated Recommendations for Knowledge Workers Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) Show publication in PURE

Roman Kern, Stefan Klampfl and Andi Rexha Identifying Referenced Text in ScientificPublications by Summarisation andClassification Techniques BIRNDL 2016 Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and NLP for Digital Libraries Show publication in PURE

Hermann Ziak, Andi Rexha and Roman Kern KNOW At The Social Book Search Lab 2016 Mining Track CLEF 2016 Social Book Search Lab Show publication in PURE

Other Article

Günter Christoph Urak, Hermann Ziak and Roman Kern Do Ambiguous Words Improve Probing For Federated Search? Show publication in PURE

Oliver Pimas, Andi Rexha, Mark Kröll and Roman Kern Profiling Microblog Authors using Concreteness and Sentiment Show publication in PURE

2015

Conference/Workshop Article

Roman Kern and Matthias Frey Efficient Table Annotation for Digital Articles 4th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications Show publication in PURE

Christopher Horn and Roman Kern Deriving Public Transportation Timetables with Large-Scale Cell Phone Data Procedia Computer Science Show publication in PURE

Raoul Rubien, Hermann Ziak and Roman Kern Efficient Search Result Diversification via Query Expansion Using Knowledge Bases Proceedings of 12th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR) Show publication in PURE

Hermann Ziak and Roman Kern Evaluation of Pseudo Relevance Feedback Techniques for Cross Vertical Aggregated Search 6th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF'15, Toulouse, France, September 8-11, 2015, Proceedings Show publication in PURE

Gunnar Schulze, Christopher Horn and Roman Kern Map-Matching Cell Phone Trajectories of Low Spatial and Temporal Accuracy 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Show publication in PURE

Heimo Gursch, Hermann Ziak and Roman Kern Uniﬁed Information Access for Knowledge Workers via a Federated Recommender System Mensch und Computer 2015 – Workshopband Show publication in PURE

Other Article

Oliver Pimas, Mark Kröll and Roman Kern Know-Center at PAN 2015 Author Identification Show publication in PURE

2013

Conference/Workshop Article

Roman Kern Grammar Checker Features for Author Identification and Author Profiling CLEF 2013 Evaluation Labs and Workshop – Working Notes Papers Show publication in PURE

Roman Kern, Ass.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.