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University of Koblenz-Landau doubly successful in AI Innovation Competition of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
19.09.19. More than 130 associations from science and industry have submitted concepts for the innovation competition "Artificial intelligence as a driver for economically relevant ecosystems" of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi). After a pre-selection, a six-month conception phase and a final selection of the best innovation ideas, the BMWi has now announced the sixteen winning consortia. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Koblenz is involved in two of these consortia. [read more...]
Artificial intelligence to summarise doctor's letters in a comprehensible way
07.09.19. Many doctor's letters are difficult to understand. Artificial intelligence is supposed to process them on a massive scale so that doctors can better understand them. [read more...]
EU Project CUTLER: Successful first review meeting in Brussels
12.08.19. The EU project CUTLER’s progress was evaluated by EU project monitors and the project officer in the first review meeting at Brussels Coven Garden. The CUTLER consortium partners presented the scientific development, and series of demos showcasing project achievement in the first phase. Institute WeST was represented by Dr. Chandan Kumar and Jun Sun. We demonstrated our work on data extraction, analytics (topic modeling, sentiment analysis, opinion summarization), and visualization of social data (Twitter, GDELT, News comments, survey data). [read more...]
CLEARumor acheves the second place in the RumourEval competition
18.06.19. Recently, Ipek Baris and Lukas Schmelzeisen presented their CLEARumor system for determining rumor veracity and support at the SemEval workshop in Minneapolis, USA. The system achieved the second place in the RumourEval competition out of eleven submitted systems. The workshop was co-located with NAACL, the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, one of the most important conferences in the field of natural language processing. [read more...]
EU Project Co-inform review meeting in Limassol
12.06.19. The EU project Co-inform aims to empower citizens, journalists, and policymakers with co-created socio-technical solutions, to increase resilience to misinformation, and to allow more informed behaviours and policies. In the first week of June 2019, the mid-term review meeting brought together the nine international project partners in Limassol, Cyprus. [read more...]
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- 11.04.19 Panel Discussion @ Koblenz Weeks of Democracy
- 15.01.19 Introducing ETWEB co-located event at ETRA conference
- 15.12.18 Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab awarded the Academy Prize 2018 of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 27.11.18 What is fact-checking and why is it important?
- 31.10.18 How is Co-Inform aligned with the EU strategy to tackle disinformation?
- 01.10.18 Daniel Janke and Steffen Staab give lecture and tutorial at the Reasoning Web Summer School
- 24.09.18 Matthias Thimm and Tjitze Rienstra at the International Conference on Computational Models of Argument
- 03.09.18 Reference Extraction Made Easy
- 13.08.18 Award for Best Video at the International Eye Tracking Conference ETRA in Warsaw
- 19.07.18 Nine private things Amazon knows about you – which you might not have expected
- 12.06.18 Invited Talk by Tjitze Rienstra at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation
- 11.06.18 GazeTheWeb project integrates multimodal browsing with gaze and voice input
- 09.06.18 Award Winning Eye-Controlled Web Browser "GazeTheWeb" as live demo at CEBIT 201
- 08.06.18 EVOWIPE Paper Received Reviewers' Favorite Recognition of the International DESIGN Conference
- 30.05.18 Tutorial on Implementing KR Approaches with Tweety at KR’18
- 24.05.18 DKB/KIK2018 - The 7th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief and the 6th Workshop KI & Kognition
- 17.05.18 Deutsche Welle interviews Professor Staab about provenance information in Facebook
- 30.04.18 SAFA2018 - The Second International Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation
- 30.04.18 Record number of new international students on Campus Koblenz
- 25.04.18 E-Democracy-Workshop: Political Opinion Formation in Social Media
- 22.04.18 Structured Knowledge on the Web 7.0
- 18.04.18 GazeMining Project presents the enhanced representation method for usability analysis
- 18.04.18 Fourth Workshop on Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated Reasoning
- 27.03.18 EXCITE project collaborates with the Open Citation Corpus
- 31.01.18 Research Project GazeMining Develops the Future of Eye Tracking and Asks for Assistance
- 16.01.18 EU Project CUTLER started with a Kick-off meeting at Thessaloniki
- 15.12.17 WeST Team reaches final of the Digital Imagination Challenge
- 14.12.17 Two former WeST employees found the company datapeutics
- 11.12.17 Dissertation on Trajectory Extraction by WeST employee Zeyd Boukhers
- 30.11.17 WeST Researcher Christoph Kling Receives University Prize for his Dissertation
- 15.11.17 Research Focus E-Democracy on Social Bots and Echo Chambers at the Democracy Day Rhineland-Palatinate
- 13.10.17 Four Open Positions in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Ontology Reasoning
- 22.09.17 Keynotes and Tutorials of the WSTNet Web Science' 16 Summer School online
- 13.09.17 E-Democracy Project Analyses Social Media for the German Bundestag Elections
- 12.09.17 Meeting of the network ITC & New Media at the University of Koblenz-Landau
- 11.09.17 Startup Weekend 2017 in Koblenz - 2nd place for Web Science students
- 16.08.17 IEEE CBMS 2017 - Best Student Paper Award
- 15.08.17 Documentation of the Leopoldina-Symposium on digitalization and its impact on individuals and society is accessible online
- 29.06.17 Talks of the WebScience@10 event in Berlin available online
- 24.05.17 WeST is offering three full time researcher positions in machine learning and data mining
- 30.04.17 The University of Koblenz-Landau at the IT fair IT2KO
- 25.04.17 Institute WeST extends study programme cooperation with Chinese Universities
- 12.04.17 International appreciation for the work on gaze-based Web accessibility by the Institute for Web Science & Technologies
- 23.02.17 WeST and GESIS host workshop about reference extraction and citation networks
- 10.02.17 The impact of social bots on political discourses and elections: Expert talk with Markus Strohmaier from the University of Koblenz-Landau in the German Bundestag
- 08.02.17 Michal Kosinski guest speaker at University of Koblenz-Landau
- 23.01.17 Fake news and politics: Interview by phoenix with Markus Strohmaier from the Computer Science department at the University Koblenz-Landau
- 21.12.16 Student Research Lab Wikiwhere about Tendencies in Wikipedia Content creates Media Attention
- 15.12.16 Successful dissertation about Provenance in the Semantic Web by Renata Queiroz Dividino at Institute WeST
- 14.12.16 New Brochure of the Institute for Web Science and Technologies available
- 12.12.16 Southampton University, RPI and WeST publish Web Science Manifesto
- 02.12.16 Eight new Web Science graduates and an IT award for WeST member Martin Körner
- 29.11.16 Happy Birthday Web Science! Watch the Live Web Science TV Channel on Tuesday, 29th November
- 17.11.16 Excellent dissertation about topic models by Christoph Kling at WeST and GESIS
- 16.11.16 Four open researcher positions in E-Goverment
- 11.11.16 WeST congratulates Andreas Kasten for successfully defending his Semantic Web PhD thesis!
- 09.11.16 Kick-off meeting of the DFG project EVOWIPE about Intentional Forgetting at WeST
- 02.11.16 The Faculty of Computer Science from Koblenz University at the Night of Technology on 5th November
- 24.10.16 WeST welcomes 28 new Web Science students at the University of Koblenz-Landau
- 12.10.16 Get the Web Science Trust brochure and celebrate 10 years of Web Science!
- 06.10.16 Steffen Staab from Institute WeST about automatic and semi-automatic analysis of online contents
- 04.10.16 Kick-off meeting of the DFG project EXCITE about reference extraction at WeST
- 28.09.16 WeST and GESIS open topic modeling portal for researchers
- 23.09.16 Steffen Staab is keynote speaker at the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web
- 22.09.16 Foundation of the Business and Science Alliance Koblenz: Prof. Korflesch from Koblenz in board of directors
- 21.09.16 René Pickhardt from Institute WeST as keynote speaker at WikiCon about Open Educational Resources
- 21.07.16 German Internet Institute about to be founded – Institute WeST involved in concept
- 02.07.16 Registration for Second Summer School on Argumentation open
- 22.06.16 Public Keynotes about the World Wide Web from 30th June to 6th July
- 15.06.16 WeST/IfI successful at the ACM SIGKDD' conference in San Francisco
- 13.06.16 WeST spin-off EYEVIDO attracts new investor for web based eye tracking studies
- 08.06.16 German News service Tagesschau mentions EU project REVEAL about Social Media
- 25.05.16 Heise Online about WebSci’16 and the Web Science Trust
- 18.05.16 Cats and Hamsters online – Jérôme Kunegis from WeST wins Science Slam at the International Conference on Web and Social Media
- 07.05.16 Web Science student Aemal Sayer wins first prize at Startup Weekend Koblenz
- 01.04.16 Claudia Wagner becomes Assistant Professor for Computational Social Science at the Institute for Computer Science
- 14.03.16 WeST is winner of the fOERder award 2016
- 14.03.16 GazeTheWeb – Prototype for gaze controlled browsing the Web
- 15.02.16 WeST Co-organises Workshop on Trust in Online Crowd Work at WebSci16
- 10.02.16 Job Offering in the Area of Semantic Web
- 04.02.16 Best Poster Award for Explaining Co-editing at Wikipedia in Different Languages
- 27.01.16 Announcing the WSTNet Web Science Summer School 2016
- 25.01.16 Successful Habilitation of Dr. Matthias Thimm from Institute WeST
- 22.01.16 Vote for WeST at the fOERder award 2016!
- 05.01.16 Computer Science in Koblenz is Excellent in Teaching and Research
- 17.12.15 Master programme in Web Science congratulates its first graduate
- 09.11.15 EYEVIDO: A start-up from Koblenz about eyetracking with the crowd
- 12.10.15 Institute WeST contributes to Web Science Conference 2016
- 20.08.15 Human Behaviour in Social Media: Faculty of Computer Science coorganises ICWSM'16 in Cologne
- 14.08.15 Vote for our Master Programme in Web Science to Receive the Audience Award of “Land of Ideas”!
- 23.07.15 Vote for our Master Programme in Web Science to Receive the Audience Award of “Land of Ideas”!
- 16.07.15 Best Paper Award at ACM Web Science 2015 for Paper by WeST/IWVI, GESIS and TU Graz
- 30.06.15 WeST co-organises Wikidata Edit-a-thon About the City of San Sebastián
- 19.06.15 Award Ceremony for the Master Programme in Web Science by „Germany – Land of Ideas“
- 15.06.15 WeST Starts Working on the European Eye Tracking Project MAMEM
- 09.06.15 Open Positions at WeST
- 03.06.15 Honourable Mention for Research on LiquidFeedback by WeST, IWVI and GESIS.
- 27.05.15 Best Paper Award at World Wide Web 2015 Conference for WeST/IWVI and Partners
- 12.05.15 Master Program in Web Science Earns „Landmarks in the Land of Ideas“ Award
- 07.04.15 Scholarships for New Web Science Students
- 02.04.15 EU Project "Live+Gov" has concluded
- 25.03.15 Open positions at WeST
- 19.02.15 WeST reveices Horizon 2020 research grant for computer interaction by eye movement and mental commands
- 09.02.15 Two Open Positions and Scholarships at WeST
- 03.02.15 WeST researchers' report about gender inequality on Wikipedia catches media attention
- 30.01.15 Interview with René Pickhardt about language models, open source and his PhD
- 21.01.15 Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs
- 19.01.15 Short DAAD scholarships to study abroad
- 14.01.15 PhD candidate Julia Perl from WeST successfully defends her dissertation
- 04.12.14 René Pickhardt (WeST) wins first prize at the Wikipedia contest „Digital Society“
- 27.11.14 Ph.D. Scholarship in „Methods and Applications of Eye Tracking“
- 24.09.14 Student group made 2nd place at the Multiagent Contest 2014
- 14.09.14 Scholarships for Web Science students at the University of Koblenz-Landau
- 08.09.14 Eye-Tracking with the crowd: Members of WeST and colleagues receive IKT funding award
- 26.08.14 Email: technically outdated, socially established. An interview with WeST by Rhein-Zeitung
- 15.07.14 Best Paper Award bei der ISAGA 2014
- 23.06.14 Steffen Staab elected as ECCAI Fellow
- 04.06.14 Best Paper Award der ICWSM
- 21.05.14 WeST presents four papers at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- 20.05.14 Usability test of two WeST members makes 3rd place at the ideas competition Rhineland-Palatinate
- 17.04.14 Time-limited Scholarships for WebScience students
- 10.04.14 Semantic Web Keynote and Papers of WeST at this year’s ESWC-Conference
- 21.03.14 Mining Text and Social Media Papers at 4 Top Conferences
- 31.01.14 Koblenz Eye-Tracking Research Excels at Premier Human-Computer Interaction Conferences
- 17.11.13 WeST Researcher Klaas Dellschaft Receives University Award for his Dissertation
- 09.11.13 „Schau Genau!“ at „Nacht der Technik“
- 25.10.13 Unusual Massive Open Online Course on Web Science
- 23.05.13 ROBUST Featured in STCSN E-letter
- 23.04.13 WeST Brochure Digitally Available
- 17.04.13 Jun.-Prof. Dr. Schaarschmidt joins Institute WeST
- 19.03.13 Five Papers Accepted at Prestigious Web Conferences
- 15.03.13 Workshop on Metrics, Analysis and Tools for Online Community Management
- 15.01.13 Introducing the Web Observatory Wiki
- 09.01.13 Masterstudiengang Web Science an der Universität in Koblenz mit ausgezeichneten Berufsaussichten
- 08.11.12 What you always wanted to ask about Web Science, ...
- 02.11.12 Beitragsaufruf für Workshops und Tutorials
- 30.10.12 Web Science Master accredited
- 03.10.12 Spicing Up Text with Structured Information for More Insightful Text Mining
- 23.08.12 Diplomarbeit mit VDI Förderpreis Mittelrhein ausgezeichnet
- 16.08.12 Microsoft reports about Spring Mindswap
- 15.08.12 WeST-Broschüre digital verfügbar