Faculty of Computer Science

Univ.-Prof. Dr. -Ing. Benjamin Roth, B.Sc. M.Sc.

Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning

Kolingasse 14-16
1090 Wien
Room : 05.17

T: +43-1-4277-79513

benjamin.roth(at)univie.ac.at

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Courses

Summer term 2026

053049 SE Master Seminar
053640 SE Master's Seminar
500501 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Data and Knowledge

Winter term 2025

052316 VU Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
053049 SE Master Seminar
053631 LP Data Analysis Project
136041 SE Explainability for LLMs
136102 UE Statistics and Machine Learning for (Computational) Linguists
500501 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Data and Knowledge

Summer term 2025

051062 LP Practical Software Course with Bachelor's Thesis
053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
053049 SE Master Seminar
053631 LP Data Analysis Project
053640 SE Master's Seminar
136040 VU Practical Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
420007 SE Digital Text and Language Sciences
500501 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Data and Knowledge

Publications

Influential Training Data Retrieval for Explaining Verbalized Confidence of LLMs. / Xia, Yuxi; Schoenegger, Loris ; Roth, Benjamin.
The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) . 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Explaining Generalization of AI-Generated Text Detectors Through Linguistic Analysis. / Xia, Yuxi; Stańczak, Kinga; Roth, Benjamin.
the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Agree, Disagree, Explain: Decomposing Human Label Variation in NLI through the Lens of Explanations. / Hong, Pingjun; Chen, Beiduo; Peng, Siyao et al.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/arxiv.org/pdf/2510.16458

Compact Example-Based Explanations for Language Models. / Schoenegger, Loris ; Roth, Benjamin.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.03786

One and a Half Years of ChatGPT – An Umbrella Review of Large Language Model (LLM) Perception Across Time and Research Fields. / Bergmann, Leonardo; Beckenbach, Robin; Zach, Lisa et al.
In: Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, Vol. 234, No. 1-2, 2026, p. 88-97.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000609

Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions. / Luz de Araujo, Pedro Henrique; Hedderich, Michael A.; Modarressi, Ali et al.
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

From Calculation to Adjudication: Examining LLM Judges on Mathematical Reasoning Tasks. / Stephan, Andreas; Zhu, Dawei; Aßenmacher, Matthias et al.
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the GEM² Workshop. Kerrville: ACL Anthology, 2025. p. 759-773.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Influences on LLM Calibration: A Study of Response Agreement, Loss Functions, and Prompt Styles. / Xia, Yuxi; Luz de Araujo, Pedro Henrique; Zaporojets, Klim et al.
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). ed. / Wanxiang Che; Joyce Nabende; Ekaterina Shutova; Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. Kerrville: ACL Anthology, 2025. p. 3740 - 3761.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.188

Helpful assistant or fruitful facilitator? Investigating how personas affect language model behavior. / Luz de Araujo, Pedro Henrique (Corresponding author); Roth, Benjamin.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 20, No. 6, e0325664, 30.06.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325664

Exploring prompts to elicit memorization in masked language model-based named entity recognition. / Xia, Yuxi; Sedova, Anastasiia; Luz de Araujo, Pedro Henrique et al.
In: PLoS ONE, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Projects

LACOS: Active Learning with Large Language Models for Cross-lingual Pseudo-labeling in Computational Social Science

Roth, B. (Project Lead) & Karan, V. (Co-Lead)

1/09/25 → 31/08/27

Project: Research funding

Understanding Language in Context

Schuster, S. (Project Coordinator) & Roth, B. (Project Lead)

1/04/25 → 31/03/33

Project: Research funding

Linguistic Methods for the Detection of Implicit Abuse

Wiegand, M. (Project Lead), Roth, B. (Co-Lead) & Ruppenhofer, J. (Co-Lead)

1/07/24 → 30/06/27

Project: Research funding

Knowledge-infused Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

Roth, B. (Project Lead) & Plant, C. (Co-Lead)

1/09/20 → 31/08/28

Project: Research funding