Publications

• Reducing the Transformer Architecture to a Minimum
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Tomas Hrycej, Massimo Pavone, Julianus Kath, Siegfried Handschuh
  KDIR2024, 16th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Porto, Portugal.
  November 2024
  Poster Presentation
  

  paper, poster on ResearchGate, paper on ResearchGate, preprint, preprint on ArXiv, preprint on ResearchGate

• Efficient Neural Network Training via Subset Pretraining
  Jan Spörer, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Tomas Hrycej, Niklas Limacher, Siegfried Handschuh
  KDIR2024, 16th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Porto, Portugal.
  November 2024
  Paper Presentation (by Jan Spörer)
  

  paper, slides on ResearchGate, paper on ResearchGate, preprint, preprint on ArXiv, preprint on ResearchGate

• Exploring the Usefulness of Open and Proprietary LLMs in Argumentative Writing Support
  Reto Gubelmann, Michael Burkhard, Rositsa Ivanova, Christina Niklaus, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  AIED2024, 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Recife, Brazil.
  July 2024
  Presented by Rositsa Ivanova
  

  paper, paper on ResearchGate

• Investigating a Second-Order Optimization Strategy for Neural Networks
  Bernhard Bermeitinger
  Universität Passau, Fakultät für Informatik und Mathematik, Passau, Germany.
  April 2024
  Published Dissertation (cumulative)
  

  officially at Universität Passau, on Zenodo, on ResearchGate, PDF, slides (Rigorosum) on Zenodo, slides (Rigorosum) on ResearchGate

• Make Deep Networks Shallow Again
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Tomas Hrycej, Siegfried Handschuh
  KDIR2023, 15th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Rome, Italy.
  November 2023
  Paper Presentation, Nominated for Best Student Paper
  

  paper, slides on ResearchGate, paper on ResearchGate, preprint, preprint on ArXiv, preprint on ResearchGate

• FinBERT-FOMC: Fine-Tuned FinBERT Model with Sentiment Focus Method for Enhancing Sentiment Analysis of FOMC Minutes
  Sandro Gössi, Ziwei Chen, Wonseong Kim, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  ICAIF2023, 4th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, New York, US.
  November 2023
  Poster Presentation
  

  paper, poster, on ResearchGate

• Mathematical Foundations of Data Science
  Tomas Hrycej, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Matthias Cetto, Siegfried Handschuh
  Texts in Computer Science, Springer, Cham.
  April 2023
  Textbook
  

  on SpringerLink, on ResearchGate

• Training Neural Networks in Single vs Double Precision
  Tomas Hrycej, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  KDIR2022, 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Valetta, Malta.
  October 2022
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, slides, on ResearchGate, preprint

• Number of Attention Heads vs Number of Transformer-Encoders in Computer Vision
  Tomas Hrycej, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  KDIR2022, 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Valetta, Malta.
  October 2022
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, slides, on ResearchGate, preprint

• How to Compute a Shape: Optical Character Recognition for Hieratic
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Svenja A. Gülden, Tobias Konrad
  Handbook of Digital Egyptology: Texts (Monografías de Oriente Antiguo 1), Gracia Zamacona, C. & J. Ortiz-García (eds.).
  February 2022
  Alcalá de Henares: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá (pages 121-138), Antiguo
  

  book description, chapter on ResearchGate

• Space, Time and Period - The Neoclassica Approach
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Siegfried Handschuh
  Data for History 2020, Berlin, Germany (online due to Corona).
  May 2021
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, slides

• Towards a Classification of Neoclassical Objects in Interior Scenes
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  Bilddaten in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften, Canan Hastik, Philipp Hegel.
  November 2020
  Book Chapter, DOI 10.13173/9783447114608.149
  

  chapter, on ResearchGate

• Multimodaler Bedeutungstransfer vom Text zum Bild. Granulare Bildklassifikation durch Verteilungssemantik.
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  DHd2020: Spielräume, Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation, 7. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum”, Paderborn, Germany.
  March 2020
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, slides, full book of abstracts, translated preprint (arXiv)

• Representational Capacity of Deep Neural Networks: A Computing Study
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Tomas Hrycej, Siegfried Handschuh
  KDIR2019, 11th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria.
  October 2019
  Paper Presentation
  

  preprint (PDF), paper, slides, full proceedings

• Singular Value Decomposition and Neural Networks
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Tomas Hrycej, Siegfried Handschuh
  ICANN2019, 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (Deep Learning), Munich, Germany.
  October 2019
  Presented as Poster
  

  preprint (PDF), paper, poster, full proceedings

• SemAntic: A Semantic Image Annotation Tool For The Humanities
  Simon Wagner, Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Simon Donig, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  DH2019, Digital Humanities 2019: Complexities, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  July 2019
  Presented as Poster
  

  paper, poster, GitLab: University Passau, GitLab: University St.Gallen

• Deep Watching: Towards New Methods of Analyzing Visual Media in Cultural Studies
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Sebastian Gassner, Siegfried Handschuh, Gernot Howanitz, Erik Radisch, Malte Rehbein
  DH2019, Digital Humanities 2019: Complexities, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  July 2019
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, slides

• Vom Bild zum Text und wieder zurück
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Siegfried Handschuh
  DHd2019: multimedial & multimodal, 6. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum”, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
  March 2019
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, slides, book of abstracts

• A Multilingual Test Collection for the Semantic Search of Entity Categories
  Juliano Efson Sales, Siamak Barzegar, Wellington Franco, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Tiago Cunha, Brian Davis, André Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh
  LREC2018, Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Miyazaki, Japan.
  May 2018
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, <i class=”fa-solid fa-researchgate”</i>> on ResearchGate

• Contextualising Bandera. Eine Distant Watching-Methode
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Gernot Howanitz, Erik Radisch
  DHd2018: Kritik der digitalen Vernunft, 5. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum”, Cologne, Germany.
  March 2018
  Paper Presentation
  

  abstract, slides

• Bildanalyse durch Distant Viewing – Zur Identifizierung von klassizistischem Mobilar in Interieurdarstellungen
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Siegfried Handschuh
  DHd2018: Kritik der digitalen Vernunft, 5. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum”, Cologne, Germany.
  March 2018
  Paper Presentation
  

  abstract, slides

• Object Classification in Images of Neoclassical Artifacts using Deep Learning
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, André Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh
  DH2017, Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, Canada.
  August 2017
  Paper Presentation
  

  abstract, slides

• Neoclassica – An Open Framework for Research in Neoclassicism
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  DH2017, Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, Canada.
  August 2017
  Poster Presentation
  

  abstract

• A Sentence Simplification System for Improving Relation Extraction
  Christina Niklaus, Bernhard Bermeitinger, André Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh
  COLING 2016, 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, Osaka, Japan.
  December 2016
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper

• Object Classification in Images of Neoclassical Furniture Using Deep Learning
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, André Freitas, Simon Donig, Siegfried Handschuh
  CHDDH 2016, Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, Dublin, Ireland.
  November 2016
  Paper Presentation
  

  paper, book

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Presentations

• Chatbots für das Lernen und Bildungsinformationen
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  Fachtagung Fachinformationssystem Bildung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  29.06.2022
  Invited talk (German)
  

  slides

• Lernen mit Chatbots
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  Märztagung 2022 online: Lernwelten in der digitalen Transformation – heute und in Zukunft, Visp, Switzerland.
  24.03.2022
  Invited talk (German)
  

  slides

• Deep Watching: New Methods for Analyzing Visual Media
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Gernot Howanitz, Erik Radisch, Sebastian Gassner, Malte Rehbein, Siegfried Handschuh
  Exploring Audiovisual Composition — Images of Crisis, Potsdam, Germany.
  15.11.2019
  Presentation at a workshop
  

  slides

• AI for the historical disciplines? Epistemological value, methodological challenges, perspectives and the transformation of research practices – the Neoclassica experience.
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  Digital Hermeneutics: From Research to Dissemination, Washington DC, USA.
  17.10.2019
  Presentation by Simon Donig
  

  slides

• Representational Capacity of Deep Neural Networks: A Computing Study
  Bernhard Bermeitinger, Tomas Hrycej, Siegfried Handschuh
  12th Computational Social Science Workshop, St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  09.10.2019
  Presentation at a workshop
  

  slides

• Das digitale Abbild als Interface zum Objekt
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  XXXV. Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag 2019, Göttingen, Germany.
  01.03.2019
  Presentation
  

  slides

• Towards a Classification of Neoclassical Objects in Interior Scenes
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  Bilddaten in den Digitalen Geistesund Kulturwissenschaften – Interoperabilität und Retrieval, Darmstadt, Germany.
  01.10.2017
  Workshop Presentation
  

  slides

• Visual Artefacts through the Black Box: Analysing Deep Learning Classifcation of Neoclassical Furniture Images
  Simon Donig, Maria Christoforaki, Bernhard Bermeitinger, Siegfried Handschuh
  (Art-)History goes Digital, Munich, Germany.
  01.07.2017
  Workshop Presentation
  

  slides

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PCs

• LREC-COLING2024
  Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation
  Turin, Italy.
  May 2024
  Program Committee

• IJHAC
  International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
  Journal.
  October 2023
  Peer Reviewer

• LREC2022
  13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
  Marseille, France.
  June 2022
  Scientific Committee

• ICANN2021
  The 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.
  Online.
  September 2021
  Reviewer

• IJCAI-PRICAI 2020
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  Pacifico Yokohama, Japan (Postponed due to Corona-Pandemic).
  January 2021
  Program Committee

• ICANN2020
  The 29th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.
  Bratislava, Slovakia (Online due to Corona-Pandemic).
  September 2020
  Reviewer, (Publication)

• ECAI2020
  24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Online due to Corona-Pandemic).
  August 2020
  Program Committee

• NLDB2020
  25th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems
  Saarbrücken, Germany (Online due to Corona-Pandemic).
  June 2020
  Subreviewer

• LREC2020
  12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
  Marseille, France (Cancelled due to Corona-Pandemic).
  May 2020
  Scientific Committee

• TheWebConf2020
  The Web Conference
  Taipei, Taiwan (Online due to Corona-Pandemic).
  April 2020
  Program Committee

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Teaching

• Introduction to Big Data Infrastructures [Bachelor Computer Science, BCS]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2025-02 – 2025-05 (FS)
  Lecturer
  

• Grundlagen und Methoden der Informatik für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2025-02 – 2025-05 (FS)
  Lecturer
  

• Algorithmen & Datenstrukturen [Assessment Computer Science]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2025-02 – 2025-05 (FS)
  Lecturer
  

• Integrative Master Project [Master Computer Science, MCS]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2024-09 – 2024-12 (HS)
  Lecturer
  

• Fundamentals and Methods of Computer Science for Business Studies [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2024-09 – 2024-12 (HS)
  Lecturer
  

• Deep Learning [Master Computer Science, MCS]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2024-09 – 2024-12 (HS)
  Lecturer
  

• Capstone-Projekt: Unternehmerische Informatik [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2024-09 – 2024-12 (HS)
  Lecturer
  

• Bachelor Project [Bachelor Computer Science, BCS]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2024-09 – 2024-12 (HS)
  Lecturer
  

• Machine Learning [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2024-02 – 2024-05 (FS)
  Lecturer
  

• Grundlagen und Methoden der Informatik für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2024-02 – 2024-05 (FS)
  Lecturer
  

• Data Science [Master Computer Science]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2023-09 – 2023-12 (HS)
  Exercises, Lecture
  

• Capstone-Projekt: Unternehmerische Informatik [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2023-09 – 2023-12 (HS)
  Lecturer
  

• Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning [Master Computer Science]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2023-02 – 2023-05 (FS)
  Exercises, Lecture
  

• Data Science [Master Computer Science]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2022-09 – 2022-12 (HS)
  Exercises, Lecture
  

• Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning [Master Computer Science]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2022-02 – 2022-05 (FS)
  Exercises, Lecture
  

• Fundamentals and Methods of Computer Science for Business Studies [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2021-09 – 2021-12 (HS)
  Tutor, Coaching
  

• Data Science [Master Computer Science]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2021-09 – 2021-12 (HS)
  Exercises, Lecture
  

• Grundlagen und Methoden der Informatik für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2021-02 – 2021-08 (FS)
  Teaching Assistant, Tutor, and Coaching
  

• Einführung in Text Mining mit Python [Master Business Innovation, MBI]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2021-02 – 2021-08 (FS)
  Tutor, Lecturer
  

• Fundamentals and Methods of Computer Science for Business Studies [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2020-09 – 2020-12 (HS)
  Tutor, Coaching
  

• Einführung in Text Mining mit Python [Master Business Innovation, MBI]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2020-09 – 2020-12 (HS)
  Tutor, Lecturer
  

• Grundlagen und Methoden der Informatik für Wirtschaftswissenschaften [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2020-02 – 2020-08 (FS)
  Tutor
  

• Einführung in Text Mining mit Python [Master Business Innovation, MBI]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2020-02 – 2020-08 (FS)
  Tutor, Lecturer
  

• Fundamentals and Methods of Computer Science for Business Studies [Bachelor in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, BBWL]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2019-09 – 2019-12 (HS)
  Tutor
  

• Einführung in Text Mining mit Python [Master Business Innovation, MBI]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2019-09 – 2019-12 (HS)
  Tutor, Lecturer
  

• Einführung in Text Mining mit Python [Master Business Innovation, MBI]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2019-02 – 2019-05 (FS)
  Tutor, Lecturer
  

• Einführung in Text Mining mit Python [Master Business Innovation, MBI]
  University of St.Gallen (HSG), St.Gallen, Switzerland.
  2018-09 – 2018-12 (HS)
  Tutor, Lecturer
  

• Text Mining [Master Informatik]
  University Passau, Passau, Germany.
  2018-04 – 2018-09 (SS)
  Tutor, Lecturer
  

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Impress

Dr. Bernhard Bermeitinger
Bettenwiesenstrasse 4
9300 Wittenbach, SG
Schweiz

research.bermeitinger@gmail.com