Publications

2026

• The Second Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026). I Frommholz, CK Kreutz, P Mayr, G Cabanac; ECIR 2026 (Workshop) [webpage]
• Sim4IA-Bench: A User Simulation Benchmark Suite for Next Query and Utterance Prediction. AK Kruff, CK Kreutz, T Breuer, P Schaer, K Balog; ECIR 2026 [preprint] [code] [data]

2025

• THM@SimpleText 2025 - Task 1.1: Revisiting Text Simplification based on Complex Terms for Non-Experts. N Hofmann, J Dauenhauer, NO Dietzler, ID Idahor, CK Kreutz; SimpleText@CLEF 2025: 4276-4285 [paper] [preprint] [code] [slides]
• Data Discovery using LLMs - A Study of Data User Behaviour. CK Kreutz, A Perry, T Friedrich; TPDL 2025: 17–35 [paper] [preprint] [code] [data] [slides] [IASSIST slides]
• Demonstrating Narrative Pattern Discovery from Biomedical Literature. H Kroll, P Sackhoff, BM Thang, CK Kreutz, W-T Balke; TPDL 25: 258–266 (Demo) [paper] [preprint] [poster] [code]
• First Workshop on Building Innovative Research Systems for Digital Libraries (BIRDS 2025). CK Kreutz, H Kroll; TPDL 2025 (Workshop) [preprint] [webpage]
• Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025). P Schaer, CK Kreutz, K Balog, T Breuer, AK Kruff; SIGIR 2025: 4172-4175 (Workshop) [paper] [preprint] [webpage]
• Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access co-located with 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, April 10th, 2025. I Frommholz, P Mayr, G Cabanac, S Verberne, CK Kreutz; CEUR Workshop Proceedings 4022 [proceedings]
• First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA). I Frommholz, P Mayr, G Cabanac, S Verberne, CK Kreutz; ECIR 2025: 326–331 (Workshop) [paper] [webpage]

2024

• Building an Explainable Graph-based Biomedical Paper Recommendation System. H Kroll, CK Kreutz, BM Thang, P Schaer, W-T Balke; AI4LAC@JCDL 2024 [extended preprint] [code] [slides]
• SimIIR 3: A Framework for the Simulation of Interactive and Conversational Information Retrieval. L Azzopardi, T Breuer, B Engelmann, C Kreutz, S MacAvaney, D Maxwell, A Parry, A Roegiest, X Wang, S Zerhoudi; SIGIR-AP 2024: 197-202 [paper] [code]
• Requirements for a Digital Library System: A Case Study in Digital Humanities. H Kroll, CK Kreutz, M Jehn, T Risse; JCDL 2024: 68, 1-3 (Poster) [paper] [extended preprint] [poster]
• CIR at TREC 2024 RAG: Task 2 - Augmented Generation with Diversified Segments and Knowledge Adaption. J Keller, B Engelmann, F Haak, P Schaer, H Kroll, CK Kreutz; TREC 2024 RAG [paper] [code]
• ARTS: Assessing Readability & Text Simplicity 🎨. B Engelmann, CK Kreutz, F Haak, P Schaer; EMNLP 2024 (Findings): 14925-14942 [paper] [code] [data]
• BATS: BenchmArking Text Simplicity 🦇. CK Kreutz, F Haak, B Engelmann, P Schaer; ACL 2024 (Findings): 11968–11989 [paper] [code] [data] [slides] [poster]
• Investigating Bias in Political Search Query Suggestions by Relative Comparison with LLMs. F Haak, B Engelmann, CK Kreutz, P Schaer; WebSci 2024: 5-7 (Poster) [paper] [preprint]
• Evaluating Stability of Information Needs. CK Kreutz, P Schaer, R Schenkel; BIR@ECIR 2024: 15-29 [paper] [data] [slides]
• SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024). P Schaer, CK Kreutz, K Balog, T Breuer, N Fuhr; SIGIR 2024: 3058-3061 (Workshop) [paper] [webpage]
• Report on the Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024) at SIGIR 2024. T Breuer, CK Kreutz, N Fuhr, K Balog, P Schaer, N Bernard, I Frommholz, M Gohsen, K Ji, GJF Jones, J Keller, J Liu, M Mladenov, G Pasi, J Trippas, X Wang, S Zerhoudi, C Zhai; ACM SIGIR Forum 58(2): 1-14 (2024) [paper] [preprint]
• Report on the Collab-a-Thon at ECIR 2024. S MacAvaney, A Roegiest, A Lipani, A Parry, B Engelmann, CK Kreutz, C Meng, E Frayling, E Yang, F Schlatt, G Faggioli, H Scells, I Atanassova, J Friese, J Bevendorff, J Sanz-Cruzado, J Trippas, K Pathak, K Dhole, L Azzopardi, M Fröbe, M Bertin, N Prasad, S Zerhoudi, S Wang, S Chatterjee, T Jaenich, U Kruschwitz, X Wang, Z Lon; ACM SIGIR Forum 58(1): 1-11 (2024) [paper]
• Report on the 8th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) at CHIIR 2024. A Frummet, A Papenmeier, M Fröbe, J Kiesel, V Adlakha, N Braunschweiler, M Dubiel, S Ghosh, M Gohsen, C Kreutz, M Momeni, M Nilles, SP Cherumanal, A Pirmoradi, P Thomas, JR Trippas, I Zelch, O Zendel; ACM SIGIR Forum 58(1): 1-12 (2024) [paper]

2023

• Aspect-Driven Structuring of Historical Dutch Newspaper Archives. H Kroll, CK Kreutz, M Cuper, BM Thang, W-T Balke; TPDL 2023: 31–46 [paper] [preprint] [code] [slides] [wikiworkshop paper] [wikiworkshop video] [wikiworkshop slides]
• Text Simplification of Scientific Texts for Non-Expert Readers. B Engelmann, F Haak, CK Kreutz, N Nikzad Khasmakhi, P Schaer; SimpleText@CLEF 2023: 2987-2998 [paper] [preprint] [code (ChatGPT)] [code (s2s models)] [slides]
• Evaluating Digital Library Search Systems by using Formal Process Modelling. CK Kreutz, M Blum, P Schaer, R Schenkel, B Weyers; JCDL 2023: 1-12 [paper] [preprint] [data] [slides]
• Enriching Simple Keyword Queries for Domain-Aware Narrative Retrieval. H Kroll, CK Kreutz, P Sackhoff, W-T Balke; JCDL 2023: 143-154 [paper] [preprint] [video] [slides]
• Bibliometric Data Fusion for Biomedical Information Retrieval. T Breuer, CK Kreutz, P Schaer, D Tunger; JCDL 2023: 107-118 [paper] [preprint]
• Capturing Stability of Information Needs in Digital Libraries. CK Kreutz, P Schaer, R Schenkel; JCDL 2023: 276-278 (Poster) [paper] [preprint] [poster]
• RevASIDE: Evaluation of Assignments of Suitable Reviewer Sets for Publications from Fixed Candidate Pools. CK Kreutz, R Schenkel; Journal of Data Intelligence 4(1&2): 101-133 (2023) [paper]

2022

• Scientific Paper Recommendation Systems: a Literature Review of recent Publications. CK Kreutz, R Schenkel; IJDL 23(4): 335-369 (2022) [paper] [preprint]
• SchenQL: A query language for bibliographic data with aggregations and domain-specific functions. CK Kreutz, M Blum, R Schenkel; JCDL 2022: 37:1-37:5 (Demo) [paper] [preprint] [video] [minute madness]
• SchenQL: In-Depth Analysis of a Query Language for Bibliographic Metadata. CK Kreutz, M Wolz, J Knack, B Weyers, R Schenkel; IJDL 23(2): 113–132 (2022) [paper]

2021

• Diverse Reviewer Suggestion for Extending Conference Program Committees. CK Kreutz, K Balog, R Schenkel; WI-IAT 2021: 79-86 [paper] [preprint] [code] [video]
• RevASIDE: Assignment of Suitable Reviewer Sets for Publications from Fixed Candidate Pools. CK Kreutz, R Schenkel; iiWAS 2021: 57–68 [paper] [preprint] [data]

2020

• SchenQL: Evaluation of a Query Language for Bibliographic Metadata. CK Kreutz, M Wolz, B Weyers, R Schenkel; ICADL 2020: 323-339 [paper] [video] 🏆 Best Paper Award
• Segmenting and Clustering Noisy Arguments. L Dumani, CK Kreutz, M Biertz, A Witry, R Schenkel; LWDA 2020: 23-34 [paper]
• Evaluating semantometrics from computer science publications. CK Kreutz, P Sahitaj, R Schenkel; Scientometrics 125(3): 2915-2954 (2020) [paper] [code] [data]

2017-2019

• SchenQL: A Concept of a Domain-Specific Query Language on Bibliographic Metadata. CK Kreutz, M Wolz, R Schenkel; ICADL 2019: 239-246 [paper]
• Revaluating Semantometrics from Computer Science Publications. CK Kreutz, P Sahitaj, R Schenkel; BIRNDL@SIGIR 2019: 42-55 [paper] [data]
• SchenQL - A Domain-Specific Query Language on Bibliographic Metadata. CK Kreutz, M Wolz, R Schenkel; CoRR abs/1906.06132 (2019) [preprint]
• FacetSearch: A Faceted Information Search and Exploration Prototype. CK Kreutz, P Boesten, A Witry, R Schenkel; LWDA 2018: 215-226 [paper] [video]
• A Hybrid Approach for Dynamic Topic Models with Fluctuating Number of Topics. CK Kreutz; Grundlagen von Datenbanken 2018: 35-40 [paper]
• Trend Mining on Bibliographic Data. CK Kreutz; FDIA 2017 [paper] 🏆 Best Poster Award