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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Our group showcased its research on automated fawn rescue using self-designed, built, and programmed FPV quadcopters at the IdeenExpo fair in Hanover from June 8 to 16. The State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Prof. Dr. Joachim Schachtner, was among the many interested visitors we welcomed at the University of Göttingen booth. Those who could [...]
The State and University Library Göttingen (SUB) will receive new leadership. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann and Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp will take over as the Director and Scientific Director, respectively. The Head of Library Operations, Kathrin Brannemann, and a soon-to-be-appointed deputy will continue to oversee the library-related and administrative tasks at SUB. For details, please check this link. Bela Gipp [...]
We are excited to announce that the business start-up project tegami.ai, which our group hosts and supports, has secured funding for one year by receiving an Exist Business Start-up Grant. The founding team consists of Fei Wu, Tomáš Horych, Christoph Mandl, and our doctoral researcher, Timo Spinde. tegami.ai seeks to provide an innovative platform for text analysis that assists businesses [...]
In the latest issue of campusinform, our group member André Greiner-Petter reports on his research stays in Tokyo, experiences in Japan, and the DAAD scholarship programs he benefitted from and recommends to others. Visit this page to learn more about the opportunities for paid research stays in Tokyo our group offers to master's, Ph.D., and post-doctorate students.
Bela Gipp has recently accepted a new full professorship at the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Website, Wikipedia page). The new position will be at the intersection of the Department of Computer Science and the research department of the State and University Library (Website, Wikipedia page). The starting date of the new position is April 1, 2022. However, Bela Gipp and his team will still [...]
