The Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD) has officially launched at the University of Wuppertal, on March 25th, 2019. Our group is excited to be closely associated with this newly founded center, and Bela Gipp is looking forward to serving as a member of the steering committee. The successful launch event was attended by over 270 members of [...]
The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften has awarded us 3-year research grant for the project „Fake News and Collective Decision Making: Rapid Automated Assessment of Media Bias“ The project aims to automatically identify specific instances of media bias, thus ultimately helping news consumers to more effectively and efficiently become aware of media bias in news coverage. The interdisciplinary research will be [...]
An article about our group member Felix Petersen appeared in campus.kn. Felix won several prizes at Jugend forscht and will complete his Bachelor in Computer Science at the age of 19. Full article about Felix is published in campus.kn.
If you have ever browsed viral videos, chances are, you have come across accident footage recorded by dashcams. Dashboard cameras, or Dashcams, have become increasingly wide-spread among motorists. Especially in countries where drivers are more likely to ignore the rules of the road, or where insurance fraud is common, dashcam videos are a valuable tool for documenting traffic accidents in [...]
Bela Gipp will give a talk on blockchain technologies and visions at the event 'Blockchain – eine Kette an Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen' organized by the Wirtschaftsförderung Bodenseekreis and the competence centre cyberLAGO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fxb6QgHIDg
The project openlegaldata.io founded by our group member (doctoral researcher) Malte Schwarzer has won the 1st price of this year’s faculty4makers challenge. The competition was organized by Technische Universität Berlin for DIY-projects that students carry out in their spare time outside of the university. Students were encouraged to present their technical, engineering or scientific initiative, and demonstrate their creativity and scientific know-how for [...]
An article about our research on the automated identification of media bias appeared in uni'kon #68. For further information and contact information refer to Felix Hamborg's profile page or see here.
We are happy to announce that Dr. Tomas Foltynek of the Mendel University in Brno, Czechia, joined our research group for a 6-month research stay. Tomas is an expert for topics related to academic integrity and is especially interested in the application of text similarity analysis in the social sciences. He will strengthen our group's research on plagiarism detection. Click here to [...]
Bela Gipp gave a talk about the immutable research data trail at the 1st international Conference on Blockchain for Science, Research and Knowledge Creation held on 5-6 November in Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNVXc_2uJc
eCoach, an abbreviation for Electronic Coding Assigments Checker, is a teaching innovation project initiated at the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz. In 2017, the Department of Computer and Information Science provided seed funding to the eCoach project. The goal was to create the eCoach system by extending the open source software Praktomat and to test the newly created [...]
