Hi there, I'm Max

About Me

Pronouns: He/Him
Doctoral Researcher @ GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
I have an MSc in Computational Linguistics from the University of Stuttgart, my thesis was on automatic political scaling from politicians' tweets
Previously, I was a student researcher for the SemChangeMWE project, looking into connections between the present-day degree of compositionality of noun compounds and the historical development of empirical properties.

Research Interests

Disagreement/Human Label Variation, Perspectivism
Computational Social/Political Science
- Political Scaling
- Stance and Ideology Detection
Semantics
- Cognitive and societal factors of meaning and meaning change
Fair and Interpretable NLP

Aside from academia stuff:

Check out our LLM-prompted poetry and prose in the Cogito Zine "Literature with and from Artificial Intelligence"!
Music production, did the mixing and mastering for the first EP of Die Schwimmen

Maximilian Maurer's Projects

focused-adapters

Repository for the Advanced Machine Learning for Speech and Language Processing course dealing with adapter-based multilingual language models trained on reading comprehension (RC) task

springfieldscraper

Movie and tv script scaper for the movie script website springfieldspringfield.

teamlab2022

Analysis of BERT's performance for increasing numbers of classes on an artist classification dataset. Project of the Team Laboratory Computational Linguistics Course at the University of Stuttgart.

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