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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. He is working in our offices on Campus Freudenberg (FC 0.12) and is currently spending his free time apartment hunting, since he has just moved to Wuppertal! Terry...

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 for a 3-year, interdisciplinary research project granted

The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften has awarded our group a 3-year research grant for our joint project with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay, University of Konstanz:

„Fake News and Collective Decision Making: Rapid Automated Assessment 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.