Research & Knowledge Transfer Office reports on our group’s research and its impact on society
Scientific research does not occur in a vacuum. Instead, scientists and society both benefit from continuous and close collaboration. In this manner, new insights and solutions from [...]
Newspaper FAZ reports on our research to detect and deter academic plagiarism
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) describes how our research on novel plagiarism detection methods and blockchain-backed decentralized trusted timestamping facilitates combating plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. Read the article on [...]
Editorial for the KlarText Award reports on our research on plagiarism detection and trusted timestamping
The KlarText Award recognizes excellent achievements in understandably communicating scientific findings to a general audience. The editorial for the KlarText Award 2020 discusses the longstanding problem of [...]
Funding approved for 3-year research project by the DFG (German Research Foundation)
We are happy to announce that the DFG (German Research Foundation), has awarded our group a research grant for our project: “Analyzing Mathematics to Detect Disguised Academic Plagiarism”. The total [...]
DFG approves funding for Research Training Group: ‘Document – Text – Edition’
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the continuation application of the University of Wuppertal to fund a Research Training Group (DFG Graduiertenschule) centered around the topic of: "Document - Text – Edition. Conditions and Forms of Transformation and Modeling: a Transdisciplinary Perspective". Bela Gipp is among the [...]
Newspaper WZ reports about Corinna Breitinger’s research in recommender systems for COVID-19 publications
The full article is available here.
Newspaper WZ reports on our plagiarism detection system HyPlag
The Westdeutsche Zeitung interviewed our group member Norman Meuschke about HyPlag and our other efforts to aid in the prevention and detection of academic plagiarism. Read the report (in German).
Wikipedia rolls out our research on providing semantic information for mathematical formulae
As of January 9, Wikipedia allows semantically enhancing mathematical formulae with the definitions of the terms they contain. For example, the formula of the famous mass-energy equivalence E=mc² now [...]
