Department of Informatics – DDIS

In August a new project has started at DDIS. The aim of this research project is to investigate how people and AI can work together to solve data science tasks. In particular, we would like to develop new methods of human-machine cooperation, that allow both novice and expert users as well as machines to collaborate on […]

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Last January 2019, Mariam Farda-Sarbas (FU Berlin), Cristina Sarasua (DDIS, UZH), Claudia Müller-Birn (FU Berlin) and Abraham Bernstein (DDIS, UZH), co-organized a workshop on data quality in Wikidata, hosted at Wikimedia Deutschland. Data growth is more visible than ever before and with this growth trustworthiness of data is becoming a challenge. Wikidata is the central […]

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Research 2018 has been a turbulent and exciting year, and has provided many opportunities to do exciting research. More and more data is being produced, which calls for data mining & machine learning to make sense of this data. Technology is becoming more ubiquitous, and research on human computer interaction & computer supported cooperative work […]

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On Tuesday the 11th of December 2018, Bibek Paudel successfully defended his thesis ‘Improving recommendation diversity and identifying cultural biases for personalized ranking in large networks‘. As is customary, the team created a graduation hat symbolizing his time at DDIS. We wish him good luck and good research at his next position as postdoctoral researcher […]

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Yesterday some of our (former) group members had their official graduation ceremony. Congratulations to them on the official graduation! Our PhD graduates are doing well: Michael Feldman had joined another former graduate from DDIS, Patrick de Boer, to start their company PeakData. Tobias Grubenmann is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong. […]

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Daniele Dell’Aglio, postdoc at the Department of Informatics in the DDIS group, won the best poster award at the International Semantic Web Conference 2018, held in Monterey, California, from 8.10 to 12.10. The poster is a joint effort with researchers from Politecnico di Milano, Insight – NUI Galway, TU Berlin, and University of Applied Sciences […]

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DDIS members gave two successful presentations at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference ISWC’2018. First, DDIS PhD student Romana Pernischova gave her talk on the Stream Processing: The Matrix Revolutions at the 12th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base System. The paper presents an approach that integrates matrices, tuples, and triples in stream processing. […]

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This summer, Cristina Sarasua, from DDIS, wrote a piece for the Digital Society Initiative (DSI). In this article, she tells about the potential of the crowd, and how use this to the fullest (article in German).

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The University of Zurich (UZH) had the honour to host two conferences this summer: CI 2018, part of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conferences Series, and HCOMP, the 6th Annual AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. The conferences were co-located at UZH, with CI happening 7-8 July, and HCOMP taking place on 5-8 July. Both […]

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On Saturday June 16 we will host the Wikidata Zurich Datathon at UZH (BIN building): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Zurich_Datathon We will help data providers prepare and publish their data in a Wikidata-friendly way. The statistical offices of the city and the canton of Zurich (Open Data ZH and OGD Kanton ZH), Open Data Thurgau, SBB and PLAZI will […]

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