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Alexander Bondarenko

Short Curriculum Vitae

Alexander received his Diploma in Engineering in Russia and Masters's degree in Computer Science and Media from Bauhaus Universität Weimar in 2018 resulting in the thesis Identifying Comparative Questions on the Russian Web   . Alexander joined the Big Data Analytics group as a Research Assistant in Spring 2018. His research focuses on Natural Language Understanding, Question Answering Systems, Axiomatic Thinking and Argumentation in Information Retrieval.

• Project ACQuA

Publications

2021

• Viktoriia Chekalina, Alexander Bondarenko, Chris Biemann, Meriem Beloucif, Varvara Logacheva, and Alexander Panchenko. Which is Better for Deep Learning: Python or MATLAB? Answering Comparative Questions in Natural Language   . In 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021), April 2021. ACL. [bib   ] [demo   ] [research   ] [share   ]
• Alexander Bondarenko, Lukas Gienapp, Maik Fröbe, Meriem Beloucif, Yamen  Ajjour, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann, Benno Stein, Henning  Wachsmuth, Martin Potthast, and Matthias Hagen. Overview of Touché 2021: Argument Retrieval   . In Djoerd Hiemstra et al, editors, Advances in Information Retrieval. 43rd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2021), volume 12036 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, March 2021. Springer. [bib   ] [event   ] [share   ]

2020

• Janek Bevendorff, Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe, Sebastian Günther, Michael Völske, Benno Stein, and Matthias Hagen. Webis at TREC 2020: Health Misinformation Track   . In Ellen M. Voorhees and Angela Ellis, editors, 29th International Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2020), NIST Special Publication, November 2020. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [bib   ] [research   ] [share   ] [slides   ]
• Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe, Meriem Beloucif, Lukas Gienapp, Yamen  Ajjour, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann, Benno Stein, Henning  Wachsmuth, Martin Potthast, and Matthias Hagen. Overview of Touché 2020: Argument Retrieval   . In Linda Cappellato, Carsten Eickhoff, Nicola Ferro, and Aurélie Névéol, editors, Working Notes Papers of the CLEF 2020 Evaluation Labs, volume 2696 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, September 2020. [bib   ] [event   ] [lncs version   ] [publisher   ] [share   ] [slides   ] [video   ]
• Alexander Bondarenko, Alexander Panchenko, Meriem Beloucif, Chris Biemann, and Matthias Hagen. Answering Comparative Questions with Arguments   . Datenbank-Spektrum, 20 (2) : 155-160, July 2020. [bib   ] [demo   ] [doi   ] [publisher   ] [research   ] [share   ]
• Alexander Bondarenko, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast, Henning  Wachsmuth, Meriem Beloucif, Chris Biemann, Alexander Panchenko, and  Benno Stein. Touché: First Shared Task on Argument Retrieval   . In Pablo Castells et al, editors, Advances in Information Retrieval. 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2020), volume 12036 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 517-523, April 2020. Springer. [bib   ] [doi   ] [event   ] [publisher   ] [share   ]
• Alexander Bondarenko, Pavel Braslavski, Michael Völske, Rami Aly, Maik  Fröbe, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann, Benno Stein, and Matthias  Hagen. Comparative Web Search Questions   . In 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2020), February 2020. ACM. [bib   ] [data   ] [publisher   ] [research   ] [share   ]

2019

• Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe, Vaibhav Kasturia, Michael Völske, Benno Stein, and Matthias Hagen. Webis at TREC 2019: Decision Track   . In Ellen M. Voorhees and Angela Ellis, editors, 28th International Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2019), NIST Special Publication, November 2019. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [bib   ] [research   ] [share   ]
• Alexander Panchenko, Alexander Bondarenko, Mirco Franzek, Matthias Hagen, and Chris Biemann. Categorizing Comparative Sentences   . In Benno Stein and Henning Wachsmuth, editors, 6th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2019) at ACL, pages 136-145, August 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib   ] [data   ] [demo   ] [poster   ] [publisher   ] [research   ] [share   ]
• Artem Chernodub, Oleksiy Oliynyk, Philipp Heidenreich, Alexander  Bondarenko, Matthias Hagen, Chris Biemann, and Alexander Panchenko. TARGER: Neural Argument Mining at Your Fingertips   . In Martha R. Costa-jussà and Enrique Alfonseca, editors, 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019), pages 195-200, July 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [bib   ] [demo   ] [poster   ] [publisher   ] [research   ] [share   ]
• Matthias Schildwächter, Alexander Bondarenko, Julian Zenker, Matthias Hagen, Chris Biemann, and Alexander Panchenko. Answering Comparative Questions: Better than Ten-Blue-Links?   . In Martin Halvey et al, editors, 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2019), March 2019. ACM. [bib   ] [demo   ] [doi   ] [research   ] [share   ]

2018

• Alexander Bondarenko, Michael Völske, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann, Benno Stein, and Matthias Hagen. Webis at TREC 2018: Common Core Track   . In Ellen M. Voorhees and Angela Ellis, editors, 27th International Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2018), NIST Special Publication, November 2018. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [bib   ] [research   ] [share   ]

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