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Our research groups moves to the University of Göttingen
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...

Felix Hamborg defends his PhD Thesis with 'summa cum laude'
We are delighted to announce that Felix Hamborg has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Towards Automated Frame Analysis: Natural Language Processing Techniques to Reveal Media Bias in News Articles” on January 31st. The research objective of...

André Greiner-Petter receives his PhD with 'summa cum laude'
We are delighted to announce that André Greiner-Petter has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘‘Making Presentation Math Computable’’ this January, 2022. Congratulations, André! In his thesis, André researched and developed a context-sensitive...

Panel Discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises
Bela Gipp participated in the panel discussion Mega Trends vs. Mega Challenges for Enterprises as an expert on New Technologies. Other participants were Marc Wagner (on the subject of New Work) and Simon Schnetzer (on the subject New Generations). The...

TV report on our plagiarism detection research
The regional TV station WDR reports on our plagiarism detection research and our system HyPlag.

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 academia can be directly applied to real-world problems, allowing...

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 plagiarism and fraud in academia and presents...

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 funding sum of 633,000 Euro will be made available over...

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...

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).

University of Wuppertal reports on our HyPlag project
A news post (in German) featured on the main page of the University of Wuppertal’s website reports on our plagiarism detection research as part of the HyPlag project.

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 contains information on the variables E, m, and c....

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. Click on the image...

Bela Gipp to give keynote at KO:MON Convention 2019
Bela Gipp will give a Keynote at the KO:MON convention in Bremen on September 19th. KO:MON is Germany’s largest industry forum for monitoring and control room technology. Due to the growing demand for intelligent systems in industry,...

DKE welcomes new team member
We're happy to announce that this week, Terry Ruas (Ph.D.) joined our research group. Terry Ruas has a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan – Dearborn (USA). His research interests lie at the intersection of natural...

Prof. J. Stephen Downie, Co-Director of the HathiTrust research center and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to visit DKE
On September 9th, 2019, Prof. J. Stephen Downie will visit our research group and give a talk titled ‘‘Extracted Features: HathiTrust and Beyond’’. The talk will take place in our seminar room (FC 0.10) at 2 p.m. and is open to all students and faculty...

DAAD presents new stipend program and interviews Bela Gipp
The DAAD, or the German Academic Exchange Service, has recently announced a new Stipend Program called ''IFI'' (Internationale Forschungsaufenthalte für Informatikerinnen und Informatiker). The IFI Program is available to Master’s students, Ph.D....

Bela Gipp to give a talk at ETH Zürich
ETH Zurich's DOI Desk is organizing a full-day event on "Persistent Identifiers in Research" to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) help ensure the discoverability of digital objects on the Internet. For example, the...

Anastasia Zhukova wins Women’s STEM Award 2019
Anastasia Zhukova won the international competition for the Women’s STEM Award 2019 (prize money 3,000 EUR) for her master’s thesis compiled in our group. The thesis titled“Automated Identification of Framing by Word Choice and Labeling to Reveal Media...

Opportunities for research stays at NII Tokyo
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Planas, Director Global Liaison Office of the National Institute of Informatics (NII) presented opportunities for research stays at the NII in Tokyo for master students and researchers (Ph.D. / Postdoc) in computer science or related...

BUW introduces Bela Gipp as new professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering
Dr. Bela Gipp, previously Junior-Professor of Information Science at the University of Konstanz, has been appointed Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal. You can find the German press release here. At the School...

Monique Meuschke wins ISINA Best Poster Award
A poster summarizing Monique’s doctoral research won the first prize in a nationwide contest held by the Interdisciplinary Symposium for Women in the MINT Field (ISINA). The winning poster is titled “Visualization, Classification and Interactive...

Launch event of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD)
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...

Funding granted for a 3-year, interdisciplinary research project
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...

Article about our group member Felix Petersen

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.

Talk on the immutable research data trail at conference on Blockchain for Science

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.

German supreme court cites our research in its ruling on dashcam recordings

'Should Dashcam recordings be admitted as usable evidence in court in an accident liability lawsuit?' The Federal Court of Germany, or Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), which acts as Germany’s supreme court, has arrived at a landmark verdict on this question....

The eCoach teaching innovation project receives funding from Wikimedia Germany, the Stifterverband, and the Volkswagen Stiftung

The eCoach system supports programming courses by automatically checking students’ coding assignments upon submission. The system provides benefits for students and teachers alike. Students benefit from the immediate feedback provided by the system and...

Talk on blockchain technologies at the 'Bodensee Mittelstand 4.0' talk series

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.