Department of Informatics – DDIS

A paper based on controllable models for simplifying medical text, co-authored by our colleague Rosni Kottekulam Vasu and external collaborators, was accepted at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence! The paper is titled “Med-EASi: Finely Annotated Dataset and Models for Controllable Simplification of Medical Texts” and was jointly conducted with Chandrayee Basu, Michihiro Yasunaga […]

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In his Bachelor Thesis, Viktor Lakic investigated the decay happening in datasets when the resources that Web-URLs point to become unavailable. This Link-Rot can cause problems for reproducibility, as datasets can shrink over time, potentially changing the outcome of experiments which use them. A paper based on the data that Viktor collected in his thesis, […]

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Earlier this month, DDIS members Fynn Bachmann, Miklovana Tuci, Cristina Sarasua and Prof. Abraham Bernstein joined a seminar on “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society” at Dagstuhl. The seminar was co-organized by Prof. Bernstein, Anita Gohdes, Steffen Staab, and Beth Noveck. For five days, scholars in computer science, political science, law, and […]

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The paper “Capable but Amoral? Comparing AI and Human Expert Collaboration in Ethical Decision Making” by Suzanne Tolmeijer, Markus Christen, Serhiy Kandul, Markus Kneer, and Abraham Bernstein wins an honorable mention at CHI 2022, which takes place this week. The paper, which looks into how the kind of expert giving the advice — i.e., a […]

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Last week, our colleague Romana Pernischova presented her paper titled ‘ChImp: Visualizing Ontology Changes and their Impact in Protégé’ at the workshop VOILA, colocated with ISWC 2020. Together with Mirko Serbak, Daniele Dell’Aglio, and Abraham Bernstein, she looked at the needs of ontology engineers and created Protege plugin ChImp to help visualize changes and their […]

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During 24th to the 26th of March 2020, the Human Robot Interaction 2020 was supposed to take place in Cambridge, UK. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was canceled and paper presentations happened online. Our colleague Suzanne Tolmeijer and her coauthors got their paper accepted called ‘Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies‘. The presentation […]

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The Web Conference, the leading scientific forum on the web and related technologies, ran from April 20th to April 24th. Initially planned to be held in Taiwan, the conference moved to an online setting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this unusual setting, DDIS presented a study on differentially-private stream processing for the semantic web. […]

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Last weekend, from April 3 to April 5, Versus Virus an online-hackathon took place to address challenges imposed on Switzerland and its inhabitants by the ongoing crisis caused by Covid-19. Over the course of 48 hours, more than 4600 people contributed to solutions in 263 teams. Among the participants were also two members of DDIS, […]

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We are glad to announce that our colleague Suzanne Tolmeijer got a paper accepted at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020. This year, the conference will take place in Cambridge, UK from 23 to 26 March. The paper, titled ‘Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies‘, will be presented there. It is the […]

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A few weeks ago, the 18th International Semantic Web Conference took place in Auckland, New Zealand. A delegation of DDIS visited the conference and made some valuable contributions to the conference. A little overview of our work: On Saturday the 26th of October, Prof. Abraham Bernstein and Dr. Daniele Dell’Aglio ran a tutorial on Blockchain […]

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