I am a PhD candidate and researcher at the Professorship of Distributed Information Systems at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. My academic work combines computer science, semantic technologies, and knowledge representation. My early research focused on Natural Language Processing, particularly named entity recognition and large language models for legal norm analysis and digital public services. More recently, my research focus has shifted toward Knowledge Graphs, with an emphasis on the representation of uncertainty in interdisciplinary contexts, including applications in copolymer chemistry. My goal is to develop robust semantic models that support complex decision-making across domains.
- PhD Candidate in Computer Science / Information Systems — Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (ongoing)
- Master’s Degree — Computer Science / Information Systems, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, completed Dec. 2023
- Master’s Thesis awarded the Dean’s Prize (2024)
- Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science / Information Systems
- Recipient of the Ada Lovelace Prize (2019) for committed service to the student community
- American Semester Program — Michigan State University, East Lansing
- Semester abroad - supported by a Promos scholarship
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Examining the Representation of Uncertainty in Knowledge Graphs: A Case Study in Copolymer Chemistry ISWC 2025 Companion Proceedings, 2025 — Explores semantic and ontological approaches to modeling experimental uncertainty in Knowledge Graphs, reflecting a shift toward interdisciplinary and uncertainty-aware knowledge representation.
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Extracting Legal Norm Analysis Categories from German Law Texts with Large Language Models Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o ’24), 2024 — Investigates the use of LLMs for structured analysis of German legal texts.
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GerPS-Compare: Comparing NER Methods for Legal Norm Analysis arXiv preprint, 2024 — A comparative evaluation of named entity recognition approaches tailored to legal norm analysis.
- Landesgraduiertenstipendium (State Graduate Scholarship) — Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 2025–2027 Competitive doctoral scholarship awarded by the State of Thuringia.
- Dean’s Prize for Master’s Thesis — Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 2024
- Ada Lovelace Prize — 2019
- Promos Scholarship to support a stay abroad
Email: sarah.bachinger@uni-jena.de
ORCID: 0009-0005-5422-2164
Affiliation: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena