GippLab wins ACL Best Paper Awards

We're excited to share that our work on multilingual resources has won two major awards at ACL 2025: Best Resource Paper and Best SemEval Task!  This project was the most popular task ever hosted on Codabench, with over 700 participants, 3,600 submissions, and nearly 100 system papers. The task spanned 30+ languages across seven language families, spotlighting emotion classification, intensity [...]

2025-08-04T17:41:45+02:00August 4th, 2025|

New Open-Access Book on Media Bias

We're excited to announce that the book Automated Detection of Media Bias: From the Conceptualization of Media Bias to its Computational Classification, by our team member Dr. Timo Spinde, is now available for free from Springer. The book summarizes the results of Timo's doctoral research on how technology can be used to detect bias in the media, exploring aspects ranging from [...]

2025-06-23T14:59:10+02:00June 22nd, 2025|

Collaborative AI project with our industry partner eschbach wins twice in the German Innovation Award 2025

Shiftconnector AI Suit, which is developed as a collaborative project between eschbach and GippLab, wins the German Innovation Award 2025 in two categories, standing out of 460 submissions: AI Methods Information Technologies | Industry Specific and Service Software SAMI (Shiftconnector Artificial Manufacturing Intelligence) spans over three functions: SAMI Search, SAMI Solutions, and SAMI Chat. SAMI helps process manufacturers facilitate faster [...]

2025-07-10T11:49:12+02:00May 20th, 2025|

DFG Funds Development of a Virtual Assistant to Facilitate Research in Libraries

How can we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to fundamentally simplify researchers' access to scientific information? Our research group, the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen (SUB), and the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) aim to develop a virtual assistant based on large language models that will make library research easier. The collaborative project LibraryAI is supported by [...]

2025-06-14T15:34:53+02:00May 9th, 2025|

Dr. Terry Ruas passes habilitation exam

We are excited to announce that our group member, Dr. Terry Ruas, has successfully passed his habilitation exam by demonstrating excellence in research and teaching. This great achievement has rightfully earned him the venia legendi (permission to lecture) in computer science and the Privatdozent (PD) title. Having obtained the highest university degree achievable in Germany allows him to independently teach [...]

2025-03-05T19:23:45+01:00March 5th, 2025|

“Smart Solutions” wins Best of Industry Award 2024

We are excited to announce that a result of our longstanding research collaboration with eschbach GmbH has been awarded the Best of Industry Award in the category of Artificial Intelligence for the second time in a row. The award recognizes the NLP-powered application Smart Solutions, a project driven by Anastasia Zhukova and Dr. Christian Matt with financial support from the [...]

2025-04-14T16:26:24+02:00January 17th, 2025|

Talk on the Ethical Challenges of AI in Bursfelde

On Oct. 23 2024, Bela Gipp will take part in the “Bursfelde Talks” series at the Bursfelde Monastery. The panelists will discuss the theological and ethical challenges of artificial intelligence. Will AI replace us? Will AI fundamentally improve and make our lives easier? What are the limits of its use, and can there even be any? These and other questions [...]

2024-10-21T15:28:31+02:00October 21st, 2024|

Federal Funding Approved for AI Research Collaboration with eschbach

We are thrilled to announce that the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has approved funding for a 30-month collaborative research project with our longstanding industry partner, eschbach, under the Central Innovation Program for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (ZIM). The newly funded project aims to develop advanced AI-driven multilingual search and recommendation algorithms tailored to handle the process [...]

2024-08-20T13:49:50+02:00August 19th, 2024|

Panel Discussion on the Future of Libraries with Prof. Bela Gipp: July 17, 17:00

Join us for an engaging and insightful panel discussion on the modern evolution and future perspectives of libraries. Date and Time: July 17, 2024, starting at 17:00 Location: Paulinerkirche, Göttingen Welcoming Address: Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan, President of the University of Göttingen Panelists: Dr. Anne Lipp, University Library Leipzig Rüdiger Eichel, Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture Prof. Dr. [...]

2024-07-04T18:55:18+02:00July 4th, 2024|
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