Jan Heinrich Merker
Researcher and PhD candidate
Jan Heinrich Merker finished his studies on computer science at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where he specialized on information retrieval. He wrote his Master’s thesis on Identifying and Answering Health-Related QuestionsExternal link. Since May 2023 Heinrich is researcher at the chair of databases and information systems and part of the Webis GroupExternal link. He conducts research mostly on information retrieval for health-related queries, web mining, and on the evaluation of information retrieval approaches.
Lehre
Supervised theses:
- Adrien Klose. LLM-based Medical Question Answering using Knowledge Graph AugmentationExternal link
- Aljoscha Labonte. Agent-Based Biomedical Question AnsweringExternal link
- Julian Klüber. Analyzing Toxicity on Mastodon
- Benjamin Schneg. Verifying Query Logs from Unkown SourcesExternal link
- Luca-Philipp Grumbach. Automatically Estimating the Trustworthiness of Wikipedia ArticlesExternal link
- Fatihah Ulya Hakiem. Health-Related Queries in Large Scale Query Logs
- Maximilian Ernst. Building a Mastodon Corpus for Conducting IR and NLP ExperimentsExternal link
- Lukas Zeit-Altpeter. Answering Health-Related Questions using Trusted SourcesExternal link
- Simon Reich. Improving the Validity of Information Retrieval Experiments by Making Test Collections ExchangeableExternal link
Jan Heinrich Merker
Researcher and PhD candidate
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- +49 3641 9-46504
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- To course administration FriedolinExternal link