Publications

2026

Ding Y, Li M, Garces Arias E, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C, Zhang C (2026) Min-k Sampling: Decoupling Truncation from Temperature Scaling via Relative Logit Dynamics Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 14932–14948. Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, United States.
Chatterjee A, Schöffel M, Aßenmacher M, Wiedner M, Garces Arias E (2026) Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities, pp. 276–296. Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, USA.
Özeren E, Assenmacher M (2026) Reinforcement Learning for Latent-Space Thinking in LLMs Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pp. 1–16. Association for Computational Linguistics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Loss G, Stephan A, Assenmacher M (2026) Enhancing Retrieval via Cognitively Motivated Document Expansion Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pp. 17–28. Association for Computational Linguistics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Chen Z, Heumann C, Assenmacher M (2026) An Efficient Approach for Answering Not Readily Attainable Questions for RAG-based Applications Proceedings of the 11th Edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pp. 29–51. Association for Computational Linguistics, Zurich, Switzerland.
Aßenmacher M, Biester L, Borg C, Kovács G, Mieskes M, Serrano S (eds) (2026) Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing (TeachNLP 2026). Association for Computational Linguistics, Rabat, Morocco.
Zehle T, Aßenmacher M (2026) Can Calibration of Positional Encodings Enhance Long Context Utilization? Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pp. 2268–2280. Association for Computational Linguistics, Rabat, Morocco.
Zehle T, Heiß T, Schlager M, Aßenmacher M, Feurer M (2026) promptolution: A Unified, Modular Framework for Prompt Optimization Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pp. 282–296. Association for Computational Linguistics, Rabat, Morocco.

2025

Urchs S, Thurner V, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C, Thiemichen S (2025) Fair Play in the Newsroom: Actor-Based Filtering Gender Discrimination in Text Corpora Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems, pp. 55–65. Association for Computational Linguistics, Mumbai, India.
Amin M, Aßenmacher M (2025) Do Companies Reveal Their Own Fraud? - A Novel Data Set for Fraud Detection Based on 10-K Reports Proceedings of The 10th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, pp. 148–166. Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou, China.
Gruber C, Alber H, Bischl B, Kauermann G, Plank B, Aßenmacher M (2025) Revisiting Active Learning under (Human) Label Variation Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP, pp. 75–86. Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou, China.
Ding Y, Garces Arias E, Li M, Rodemann J, Aßenmacher M, Chen D, Fan G, Heumann C, Zhang C (2025) GUARD: Glocal Uncertainty-Aware Robust Decoding for Effective and Efficient Open-Ended Text Generation Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pp. 7202–7226. Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou, China.
Garces Arias E, Blocher H, Rodemann J, Aßenmacher M, Jansen C (2025) Statistical Multicriteria Evaluation of LLM-Generated Text Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pp. 338–351. Association for Computational Linguistics, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Urchs S, Thurner V, Aßenmacher M, Bothmann L, Heumann C, Thiemichen S (2025) Are All Genders Equal in the Eyes of Algorithms? - Analysing Search and Retrieval Algorithms for Algorithmic Gender Fairness Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - KDIR, pp. 489–500. SciTePress.
Garces Arias E, Blocher H, Rodemann J, Li M, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2025) Towards Better Open-Ended Text Generation: A Multicriteria Evaluation Framework Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM^2), pp. 631–654. Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria.
Stephan A, Zhu D, Aßenmacher M, Shen X, Roth B (2025) From Calculation to Adjudication: Examining LLM Judges on Mathematical Reasoning Tasks Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM^2), pp. 759–773. Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria.
Ma B, Yoztyurk B, Haensch A-C, Wang X, Herklotz M, Kreuter F, Plank B, Aßenmacher M (2025) Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 1785–1809. Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria.
Urchs S, Thurner V, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C, Thiemichen S (2025) taz2024full: Analysing German Newspapers for Gender Bias and Discrimination across Decades Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pp. 10661–10671. Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria.
Debelak R, Koch T, Aßenmacher M, Stachl C (2025) From Embeddings to Explainability: A Tutorial on Transformer-Based Text Analysis for Social and Behavioral Scientists Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 8.
Schöffel M, Garces Arias E, Wiedner M, Ruppert P, Li M, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2025) Unveiling Factors for Enhanced POS Tagging: A Study of Low-Resource Medieval Romance Languages arXiv preprint 2506.17715
Rauch L, Wirth M, Huseljic D, Herde M, Sick B, Aßenmacher M (2025) No Free Lunch in Active Learning: LLM Embedding Quality Dictates Query Strategy Success arXiv preprint 2506.01992
Schöffel M, Wiedner M, Garces Arias E, Ruppert P, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2025) Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, pp. 334–349. Association for Computational Linguistics, Albuquerque, USA.
Wuttke A, Aßenmacher M, Klamm C, Lang MM, Würschinger Q, Kreuter F (2025) AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers Proceedings of the 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2025), pp. 179–204. Association for Computational Linguistics, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mironov M, Marquard A, Racek D, Heumann C, Thurner PW, Aßenmacher M (2025) A Geoparsing Pipeline for Multilingual Social Media Posts from Ukraine Proceedings of the GeoExT 2025: Geographic Information Extraction from Texts Workshop , pp. 6–17. Lucca, Italy.
Garces Arias E, Li M, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2025) Decoding Decoded: Understanding Hyperparameter Effects in Open-Ended Text Generation Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 9992–10020. Association for Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

2024

Garces Arias E, Rodemann J, Li M, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2024) Adaptive Contrastive Search: Uncertainty-Guided Decoding for Open-Ended Text Generation Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pp. 15060–15080. Association for Computational Linguistics, Miami, Florida, USA.
Aßenmacher M, Karrlein L, Schiele P, Heumann C (2024) Introducing wwm-german-18k - Can LLMs Crack the Million? (Or Win at Least 500 Euros?) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2024), pp. 287–296. Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento.
Urchs S, Thurner V, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C, Thiemichen S (2024) Detecting Gender Discrimination on Actor Level Using Linguistic Discourse Analysis Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pp. 140–149. Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand.
Aßenmacher M, Stephan A, Weissweiler L, Çano E, Ziegler I, Härttrich M, Bischl B, Roth B, Heumann C, Schütze H (2024) Collaborative Development of Modular Open Source Educational Resources for Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pp. 43–53. Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand.
Mittermeier A, Aßenmacher M, Schachtner B, Grosu S, Dakovic V, Kandratovich V, Sabel B, Ingrisch M (2024) Automatische ICD-10-Codierung Die Radiologie, 1–7.
Deiseroth B, Meuer M, Gritsch N, Eichenberg C, Schramowski P, Aßenmacher M, Kersting K (2024) Divergent Token Metrics: Measuring degradation to prune away LLM components – and optimize quantization Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 6764–6783. Association for Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico.
Mayer L, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2024) Can OpenSource beat ChatGPT? - A Comparative Study of Large Language Models for Text-to-Code Generation Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pp. 1–20. Association for Computational Linguistics, Chur, Switzerland.
Aßenmacher M, Sauter N, Heumann C (2024) Classifying multilingual party manifestos: Domain transfer across country, time, and genre Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pp. 21–31. Association for Computational Linguistics, Chur, Switzerland.
Solderer A, Hicklin S, Aßenmacher M, Ender A, Schmidlin P (2024) Influence of an allogenic collagen scaffold on implant sites with thin supracrestal tissue height: a randomized clinical trial Clinical Oral Investigations, 28, 313.
Gruber C, Hechinger K, Aßenmacher M, Kauermann G, Plank B (2024) More Labels or Cases? Assessing Label Variation in Natural Language Inference Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language, pp. 22–32. Association for Computational Linguistics, Malta.

2023

Garces Arias E, Pai V, Schöffel M, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2023) Automatic Transcription of Handwritten Old Occitan Language Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 15416–15439. Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore.
Schulze P, Wiegrebe S, Thurner PW, Heumann C, Aßenmacher M (2023) A Bayesian approach to modeling topic-metadata relationships AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis 108, 333–349.
Koch P, Nuñez GV, Garces Arias E, Heumann C, Schöffel M, Häberlin A, Aßenmacher M (2023) A tailored Handwritten-Text-Recognition System for Medieval Latin Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop, pp. 103–110. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria, Varna, Bulgaria.
Aßenmacher M, Rauch L, Goschenhofer J, Stephan A, Bischl B, Roth B, Sick B (2023) Towards Enhancing Deep Active Learning with Weak Supervision and Constrained Clustering Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Interactive Adaptive Learning (co-located with ECML-PKDD 2023)
Urchs S, Thurner V, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C, Thiemichen S (2023) How Prevalent is Gender Bias in ChatGPT? - Exploring German and English ChatGPT Responses Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Biased Data in Conversational Agents (co-located with ECML-PKDD 2023)
Öztürk IT, Nedelchev R, Heumann C, Garces Arias E, Roger M, Bischl B, Aßenmacher M (2023) How Different Is Stereotypical Bias Across Languages? 3rd Workshop on Bias and Fairness in AI (co-located with ECML-PKDD 2023)
Rauch L, Aßenmacher M, Huseljic D, Wirth M, Bischl B, Sick B (2023) ActiveGLAE: A Benchmark for Deep Active Learning with Transformers Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track. ECML PKDD 2023
Witte M, Schwenzow J, Heitmann M, Reisenbichler M, Aßenmacher M (2023) Potential for Decision Aids based on Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy, 52nd, (114322)
Vogel M, Aßenmacher M, Gubler A, Attin T, Schmidlin PR (2023) Cleaning potential of interdental brushes around orthodontic brackets-an in vitro investigation. Swiss Dental Journal 133.
Akkus C, Chu L, Djakovic V, Jauch-Walser S, Koch P, Loss G, Marquardt C, Moldovan M, Sauter N, Schneider M, Schulte R, Urbanczyk K, Goschenhofer J, Heumann C, Hvingelby R, Schalk D, Aßenmacher M (2023) Multimodal Deep Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04856.

2022 and earlier

Goschenhofer J, Ragupathy P, Heumann C, Bischl B, Aßenmacher M (2022) CC-Top: Constrained Clustering for Dynamic Topic Discovery Proceedings of the The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP (EvoNLP), pp. 26–34. Association for Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid).
Lebmeier E, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C (2022) On the current state of reproducibility and reporting of uncertainty for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), Springer International Publishing, Grenoble, France.
Aßenmacher M, Dietrich M, Elmaklizi A, Hemauer EM, Wagenknecht N (2022) Whitepaper: New Tools for Old Problems.
Koch P, Aßenmacher M, Heumann C (2022) Pre-trained language models evaluating themselves - A comparative study Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, pp. 180–187. Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland.
Aßenmacher M, Schulze P, Heumann C (2021) Benchmarking down-scaled (not so large) pre-trained language models Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2021), pp. 14–27, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Aßenmacher M, Corvonato A, Heumann C (2021) Re-Evaluating GermEval17 Using German Pre-Trained Language Models Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference 2021, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Winterthur, Switzerland (Online).
Lebmeier E, Hou N, Spann K, Aßenmacher M (2021) Creating a Customer Centricity Graph from unstructured customer feedback Applied Marketing Analytics 6, 221–229.
Meidinger M, Aßenmacher M (2021) A New Benchmark for NLP in Social Sciences: Evaluating the Usefulness of Pre-trained Language Models for Classifying Open-ended Survey Responses Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, pp. 866–873. SciTePress.
Schiergens TS, Drefs M, Dörsch M, Kühn F, Albertsmeier M, Niess H, Schoenberg MB, Assenmacher M, Küchenhoff H, Thasler WE, others (2021) Prognostic Impact of Pedicle Clamping during Liver Resection for Colorectal Metastases Cancers 13, 72.
Guderlei M, Aßenmacher M (2020) Evaluating Unsupervised Representation Learning for Detecting Stances of Fake News Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 6339–6349. Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain (Online).
Viellieber VD, Aßenmacher M (2020) Pre-trained language models as knowledge bases for Automotive Complaint Analysis arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02558.
Aßenmacher M, Heumann C (2020) On the comparability of pre-trained language models Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference and 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Zurich, Switzerland (Online).
Aßenmacher M, Kaiser JC, Zaballa I, Gasparrini A, Küchenhoff H (2019) Exposure-lag-response associations between lung cancer mortality and radon exposure in German uranium miners Radiation and Environmental Biophysics.
Sint A, Lutz R, Assenmacher M, Küchenhoff H, Kühn F, Faist E, Bazhin AV, Rentsch M, Werner J, Schiergens TS (2019) Monocytic HLA-DR expression for prediction of anastomotic leak after colorectal surgery Journal of the American College of Surgeons 229, 200–209.
Brandl C, Breinlich V, Stark KJ, Enzinger S, Aßenmacher M, Olden M, Grassmann F, Graw J, Heier M, Peters A, others (2016) Features of age-related macular degeneration in the general adults and their dependency on age, sex, and smoking: results from the German KORA study. PloS one 11, e0167181