Gerhard Johann Hagerer

Dr. rer. nat. M.Sc.



Current Research Interests

  • Legal NLP for automation of insurance business processes
  • Reasoning and planning capabilities of LLMs
  • Building NLP Benchmark datasets
  • NLP based hallucination detection and fact checking

Open Thesis Topics

List of open theses

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Supervised Theses

Student Name Thesis Type Submission Date Title
Lena Griesbeck Master’s thesis 02 2025 Automated Document Understanding for Insurance Claim Handling Based on Tool and Agent-Based LLMs
Benjamin Tegeler Master’s thesis 01 2024 Exploring Textual Features, Explainability, and Robustness in Classification of Insurance Claims
Tobias Zeulner Master’s thesis 06 2023 Leveraging Speech Features for Automated Analysis of Well-being in Teamwork Contexts
Tobias Müller Master’s thesis 06 2023 Predicting Well-Being in Team Collaboration from Video Data Using Machine Learning
Haixiang Zhang Master’s thesis 06 2021 Predicting youtube user-engagement from textual representations and emotional signals.
Benjamin Rösch Master’s thesis 11 2021 Multi-class and multi-label text classification for industrial scenarios using pretrained word embeddings.
Andreas Koch Master’s thesis 05 2021 Deep end-to-end learning for noisy annotations and crowdsourcing in natural language processing.
Maria Luisa Ripoll Dominguez Lab course report 03 2021 Interpretability in a question answering system via attention visualizations.
Jason Thies Master’s thesis 03 2021 Unsupervised topic and aspect modelling on massive video transcriptions.
David Szabo Guided research 03 2021 Annotation bias in natural language processing and sentiment analysis.
Laura Lahesoo Guided research 03 2021 Applied topic modeling on results of lecture evaluation surveys at tum.
Wenbin Le Guided research 03 2021 Cluster distributions as document representations to analyze the class structure of a qualitative market research study.
Wing Sheung Leung Master’s thesis 03 2021 Multi-class and multi-label text classification for industrial scenarios using pre-trained word embeddings.
Shabnam Sadegharmaki Master’s thesis 11 2020 Classification and class structure analysis for end-to-end opinion mining problems.
Yan Pan Master’s thesis 09 2020 Topic modeling for opinion mining.
Anjali Sasihithlu Master’s thesis 06 2020 End-to-end aspect extraction on social media comments using attention models.
Ibrar Arshad Master’s thesis 08 2020 Contextualized data augmentation for sentiment analysis using deep pre-trained language models.
Preethi Ballal Master’s thesis 04 2020 Implementation of an opinion mining framework for downloading and analyzing social media comments using pre-trained word embeddings.
Farrukh Mushtaq Guided research 02 2020 Predicting perception uncertainty for aspect-based sentiment analysis.
Liyan Jiang Master’s thesis 05 2020 Deep active learning methods for opinion mining.
Sudeshna Dasgupta Master’s thesis 10 2020 Deep learning approaches for opinion mining on conversational social media texts.
Juanita Mendonca Master’s thesis 12 2019 Siamese networks for opinion mining using deep contextualized textual embeddings.
Phuong Mai Master’s thesis 10 2019 Transfer learning for aspect-based sentiment analysis using siamese networks.
Ahmed Mosharafa Master’s thesis 10 2019 Deep learning approaches for cross-domain aspect-based sentiment analysis based on deep pre-trained embeddings and multi-task learning.
Mainak Ghosh Master’s thesis 10 2019 Multilingual opinion mining on social media comments using unsupervised neural clustering methods.
Shayoni Halder Master’s thesis 10 2019 Textual similarity embeddings for cross-lingual aspect extraction.
Shyam Arumugaswamy Guided research 10 2019 Generative language models for opinion mining.
Sudeshna Dasgupta Master’s thesis 10 2019 A survey on aspect based sentiment analysis on social conversational text.
Martin Kirchhoff Master’s thesis 11 2019 Summarizing opinions using neural topic modeling and graph-based visualizations.
Sebastian Erhardt Master’s thesis 03 2019 Generating language-independent neural sentence embeddings for natural language classification tasks.
Florian Kasischke Master’s thesis 03 2019 Descriptive analytics for a nlp-based opinion mining.
Sumit Dugar Master’s thesis 03 2019 Aspect-based sentiment analysis using deep neural networks and transfer learning.
Omar Shouman Master’s thesis 07 2019 Transfer learning, language modelling, and deep neural networks for aspect-based sentiment analysis.
Felix Schober Master’s thesis 04 2019 Transfer and multitask learning for aspect-based sentiment analysis using the google transformer architecture.
Sarthak Gupta Master’s thesis 04 2019 Neural transfer learning for natural language processing.
Abhilasha Mohania Master’s thesis 06 2019 Unsupervised aspect-based sentiment analysis applied on opinion research using deep learning and recent embedding techniques.
Kamal Datta Master’s thesis 06 2019 Aspect extraction using multi-instance learning and the google transformer architecture.
Christian Widmer Bachelor’s thesis 04 2018 Topic modeling for opinion mining.