Interesting: BIS 2027 will be held in Poznań
Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026) took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 24 to 29 October 2026. It is one of the leading international research conferences in the field of natural language processing (NLP). During the conference, Dr. Milena Stróżyna presented the paper entitled “Multi-Model Framework for Sentiment Annotation: A Use Case of Multilingual Wikipedia”. The study introduces an approach in which multiple artificial … Read More
Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski and Izabela Czumałowska have been selected as finalists in the 6th edition of the competition to become a speaker at Pyrkon’s Scientific Zone. Winning the competition will give them the opportunity to deliver their own presentation at Pyrkon 2027, one of Europe’s largest fantasy and science fiction festivals.
At the international conference “Open Knowledge: Wikimedia & Research in the CEE Region”, held on October 9–10, 2026, in Katowice, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski delivered a talk entitled “Measuring Wikipedia Quality at Scale: Assessment of Content, Information Sources, Data Visualizations”. The presentation focused on the use of artificial intelligence and advanced data analysis methods to automatically assess the quality of information on Wikipedia.
At the invitation of Arizona State University, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski delivered a talk entitled “Methods and Tools for Automatic Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles and Their Information Sources”. The talk focused on the challenges associated with the automatic assessment of information quality in multilingual Wikipedia.
On November 26–28, 2025, the 11th edition of the Scientific Conference on Business Informatics “IwZ 2025” was held at the Faculty of Management of the University of Łódź. The main theme of this year’s edition, “Digital Transformation – (R)evolution in Management”, reflected current research trends in the field of business informatics. Three representatives of the Department of Information Systems participated in the conference: Dr. Elżbieta Lewańska, Dr. Piotr Stolarski, and … Read More
The article “Quality Measures for Data Visualization: A Case Study of Polish Wikipedia”, authored by our researchers, has been published in open access. The work focuses on analyzing the quality of data visualizations in the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The study draws on an extensive dataset of over one million articles, from which visual elements such as tables, charts, diagrams, and maps were extracted and classified.
At the KES 2025 international scientific conference, papers authored by our researchers were presented, reporting the results of research on the evolution of scientific trends in blockchain technology and on the quality and distribution of data visualizations in the Polish Wikipedia.
During Researchers’ Night 2025, the staff of the Department of Information Systems conducted workshops titled “Operation InfoVerification” that were presented in the engaging form of a field game. The event introduced participants to the process of verifying information and identifying fake news. The workshops combined elements of adventure, investigation, and logic-based challenges, immersing participants in the fascinating world of fact-checking.
The paper on automatic analysis of Wikipedia content neutrality, authored by our researchers, was presented at IJCAI 2025 (the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). The event took place on 16-22 August 2025 in Montreal, Canada.
During the Wikimania 2025 conference, the results of scientific research on the comparative analysis of Wikipedia articles on climate change in different language editions were presented. By leveraging open datasets, the study assessed the quality of articles and compared their popularity in various languages. For example, an analysis of over one billion internal links (wikilinks) on Wikipedia enabled the identification of the most frequently cited articles in each language edition.