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Kai Eckert moved to Mannheim

Wed, Mar 29, 2023

After 8 years at Stuttgart Media University, Kai Eckert accepted a professorship for Artificial Intelligence at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.

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The new website will be here: www.kaiec.de.

For Magnus Pfeffer, see his profile at IAAI.

Our paper “Easy and complex: new perspectives for metadata modeling using RDF-star and Named Graphs” just got accepted for the Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference. The research emerged collaboratively from the CAIUS and the Judaicalink project.

Paper accepted for JCDL 2022

Tue, Mar 15, 2022

Our paper “X-SCITLDR: Cross-Lingual Extreme Summarization of Scholarly Documents” just got accepted for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

Paper accepted for the Data Science Journal

Mon, Feb 21, 2022

Our paper “Persistent Identification for Conferences” just got accepted for the Data Science Journal.

Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing accepted at COLING

Mon, Nov 22, 2021

At COLING 2022, the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, we will be part of the third workshop on Scholarly Document Processing. Our VADIS team will organize a shared task on Survey Variable Identification in Social Science Publications.

AI & Data Science projects, Winter Term 21/22

Fri, Oct 1, 2021

As usual, in the upcoming semester, we offer exciting projects for students in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. More information at the IAAI institute.

VADIS Kickoff Workshop

Sun, Sep 5, 2021

We will officially kick off our VADIS project with a public workshop on September 23-24 2021, featuring a key note by Arman Cohan (Allen Institute for AI) with the title “Facilitating scientific knowledge discovery through improved representation learning and extreme summarization”. The full program is online.

Maral Dadvar contributes to the IPBES Values Assessment

Mon, Mar 1, 2021

Dr Maral Dadvar has been invited to be a Contributing Author for the IPBES Values Assessment.

Maral Dadvar elected as an Executive Board member of YASAS

Mon, Mar 1, 2021

Dr Maral Dadvar has been elected as an Executive Board member of the Young Academies Science Advice Structure (YASAS).

Consequences of Artificial Intelligence for Urban Societies

Thu, Dec 24, 2020

The project “Consequences of Artificial Intelligence for Urban Societies: Using Impact-Aware AI to Make Smart Cities Socially Equitable (CAIUS)” is exploring the benefits and risks of using AI systems in the context of smart cities. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundatation and is conducted together with researchers from Mannheim University. The funding amount is 1.5 million Euros. Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert leads the project for Stuttgart Media University.

WISS at DaWaK2020

Thu, Oct 1, 2020

DaWak, the annual International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, is a high-quality forum for researchers, practitioners and developers in the field of Big Data Analytics, in a broad sense. This year, at DaWak2020, WISS contributed with a paper co-authord by Dr Maral Dadvar and Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert on Cyberbullying Detection in Social Networks Using Deep Learning Based Models .

How is your mood during the Corona Crisis?

Tue, May 12, 2020

Our third semester information science students develped a barometer app within the lecture “Web Programming” by Prof. Eckert. It is publicly available and can be used to get a quick feedback to a question like “How are you today?”.

Benjamin Schnabel joins WISS

Wed, Apr 15, 2020

We welcome Benjamin Schnabel as new doctoral student in our group. He aims at conducting a doctoral thesis in Digital Humanities, at the intersection of Jewish Studies and Information Science/Computer Science.

Data analysis and visualisation for Deutsche Welle

Wed, Apr 15, 2020

Within a research collaboration with Deutsche Welle (DW), our student assistants Max Botta, Marcel Pleyer and Tobias Reumann developed under supervision of Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert a data analysis and visualisation tool that helps DW editors to manage and optimise the dw.com website with a high volume of daily articles in 30 languages.

Marco Rovera joins WISS

Sat, Jun 1, 2019

We welcome Marco Rovera as new postdoctoral research fellow in our group. Currently he is supporting us in the preparation of the new Institute for Artificial Intelligence, from September, he will work on our FID Judaica project.

Grand Opening of Institute for Applied AI

Wed, Apr 3, 2019

At Thursday, April 25th, 2019, we launch our new institute: The HdM Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence.

WISS Research Group will become part of this institute, Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert is one of the chairmen.

The opening takes place from 14:00 - 17:30 at Nobelstraße 8 - 70569 Stuttgart.

Please register here: http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/ai

Japanese Visual Media Graph

Mon, Jan 7, 2019

The project proposal “Japanese Visual Media Graph” got accepted for funding by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Workshop on Linked Open Citations

Wed, Sep 12, 2018

On November 6th, 2018, there will be the second public workshop where we present the results of our DFG funded “Linked Open Citations Database” project.

Maral Dadvar joined LIBER

Thu, Sep 6, 2018

Dr Maral Dadvar has become a member at Association of European Research Libraries (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche, LIBER).

Open Positions at Bosch

Mon, Aug 27, 2018

Bosch currently has the following job openings which might be of interest to you.

Dr Dadvar at Parlamentarischer Abend; Digitalization in Science and Society

Tue, Feb 27, 2018

Dr Maral Dadvar will be delivering a keynote talk “Provision of Specialized Literature through Innovative Information Technologies” at the Parlamentarischer Abend in Magdeburg on 07th March.

Congratulations!

Tue, Nov 7, 2017

On November 6th, 2017, Dominique Ritze successfully defended her PhD thesis “Web-Scale Web Table to Knowledge Base Matching” at University of Mannheim magna cum laude.

Workshop on Linked Open Citations

Wed, Sep 27, 2017

On November 7th, 2017, there will be the first public workshop where we present the results of our DFG funded “Linked Open Citations Database” project.

Big Data and Data Science Day 2017

Sat, Jul 1, 2017

On July 25th, there will be the 2017 Big Data and Data Science Day in the context of our Master program “Data Science and Business Analytics”.

GameJam: Code for Culture

Fri, May 19, 2017

With 25 students, we participate in the Code for Culture GameJam. The GameJam takes place from June 16-18 at the shackspace Stuttgart.

Featured Project: JudaicaLink

Wed, Mar 1, 2017

JudaicaLink is a project of our research group that has been established in 2013. The original goal was the creation of data representation from online encyclopediae.

Since the publication of the first data versions of encyclopediae, the project had been quite dormant. Now, in the context of our FID Judaica project, JudaicaLink got a new mission statement to create a rich knowledge graph for the domain of Jewish studies.

For starters, the whole technical setup has been changed to become more stable and better manageable. Furthermore, the project moved to a new and more powerful server.

Invitation to Global Young Academy

Tue, Feb 28, 2017

Dr Maral Dadvar has been officially invited to join the Global Young Academy.

Prof. Eckert appointed to DFG AWBI Committee

Fri, Jan 20, 2017

Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert has been appointed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to the Committee for Scientific Libraries and Information Systems (Ausschuss für Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken und Informationssysteme, AWBI).

IBM Faculy Award 2016

Fri, Dec 16, 2016

Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert received the IBM Faculty Award 2016 for innovative teaching concepts in the Data Science and Business Analytics Master program.

Prof. Dr. Mari Itoh visits WISS

Thu, Sep 1, 2016

Congratulations!

Mon, Jul 11, 2016

On July 8th, 2016, Thomas Hartmann successfully defended his PhD thesis “Validation Framework for RDF-based Constraint Languages” at KIT, Karlsruhe summa cum laude.

Linked Open Citation Data Base (LOC-DB)

Mon, Jul 11, 2016

New research assistant

Fri, Jul 1, 2016

We welcome Anh Duc Nguyen in our group as new student research assistant (Hiwi). He supports us in the InFoLiS project on various tasks and is concerned with the application of IBM Watson technologies in data mining and data integration.

Journal article accepted

Wed, Jun 22, 2016

Dr. Maral Dadvar joins WISS

Mon, Jun 6, 2016

New Master Program: Data Science and Business Analytics

Wed, Jun 1, 2016

Part-Time, Extra-Occupational Master Program (M.Sc.) German English Data Science and Business Analytics.

PhD defense of Thomas Hartmann

Mon, May 9, 2016

On July 8th, 2016, Thomas Hartmann will defend his PhD thesis at KIT, Karlsruhe. His thesis has the title “Validation Framework for RDF-based Constraint Languages” and is supervised by Kai Eckert and York Sure-Vetter from KIT.

LIS International Summer School 2016

Mon, May 2, 2016

Stuttgart Media University is pleased to announce the 2016 LIS Summer School which will be held at the Stuttgart Media University, Germany, on 19 - 24 September 2016.

New research assistant

Fri, Apr 1, 2016

We welcome Jens Steilen in our group as new student research assistant (Hiwi). He supports us in the InFoLiS project on various tasks regarding data preparation and integratioon and software and content management.

We are hiring!

Thu, Mar 17, 2016

Are you interested in a research position in our group? Would you like to pursue a PhD? If you love to work with data to drive innovative research applications, apply ~~here~~.

Update (2016-04-19): The application period is over.

BibCamp 2016

Fri, Feb 19, 2016

BibCamp 2016 takes place April 8th and 9th 2016 at Stuttgart Media University and is organized by our students. BibCamp is a barcamp or unconference, where practitioners and researchers from the field of information science gather to discuss various topics. The registration is open at Eventbrite!