I'm a third year PhD student at TU Vienna supervised by Allan Hanbury funded as a Early Stage Research under the EU Horizon 2020 project Domain Specific Systems for Information Extraction and Retrieval (DoSSIER).

My aim is to bring neural advances from Natural Language Processing and Information retrieval to domain-specific Information Retrieval in production including the legal, patent and medical domain.

Contact me via my email sophia.althammer@tuwien.ac.at
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Publications

2023 SIGIR-AP full
"Annotating Data for Fine-Tuning a Neural Ranker? Current Active Learning Strategies are not Better than Random Selection"
Sophia Althammer, Guido Zuccon, Sebastian Hofstätter, Suzan Verberne, Allan Hanbury

2022 ECIR full
"PARM: A Paragraph Aggregation Retrieval Model for Dense Document-to-Document Retrieval"
Sophia Althammer, Sebastian Hofstätter, Mete Sertkan, Suzan Verberne, Allan Hanbury

2022 CIKM short
"TripJudge: A Relevance Judgement Test Collection for TripClick Health Retrieval"
Sophia Althammer, Sebastian Hofstätter,  Suzan Verberne, Allan Hanbury

2021 DESIRES Abstract, Best presentation
"RUDI: Real-Time Learning to Update Dense Retrieval Indices"
Sophia Althammer

2021 SIGIR PatentSemTech, full
"Linguistically Informed Masking for Representation Learning in the Patent Domain"
Sophia Althammer, Mark Buckley, Sebastian Hofstätter, Allan Hanbury     

2021 ICAIL COLIEE, full
​"DoSSIER@COLIEE 2021: Leveraging dense retrieval and summarization-based re-ranking for case law retrieval"
Sophia Althammer, Arian Askari, Suzan Verberne, Allan Hanbury

2021 ECIR Reproducability
"Cross-domain Retrieval in the Legal and Patent Domains: a Reproducability Study"
Sophia Althammer, Sebastian Hofstätter, Allan Hanbury

Education

07/2020 - 12/2023 Phd in Informatics at TU Vienna
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Domain specific applications

07/2022-09/2022 Research visit at UQ Brisbane
Research visit at Ass. Prof. Guido Zuccons group, collaboration with Guido Zuccon

11/2021-12/2021 Research visit at Leiden University
Research visit at Ass. Prof. Suzan Verbernes group, collaboration with Suzan Verberne

2017-2020 Master in Mathematics at TU Munich
Deep learning, ​Natural language Processing, Optimization

2013-2017 Bachelor in Mathematics at TU Munich
Optimization, Algebra