Modeling Popularity and Reliability of Sources in Multilingual Wikipedia

One of the most important factors impacting quality of content in Wikipedia is presence of reliable sources. By following references, readers can verify facts or find more details about described topic. A Wikipedia article can be edited independently in any of over 300 languages, even by anonymous users, therefore information about the same topic may be inconsistent. This also applies to use of references in different language versions of a … Read More

New DIS website

Since today a new website of the Department of Information Systems has been launched. The website is online for over 20 years. We invite you to read our website history.

Kick-off meeting of the SIMMO II project

On 22-23 January 2020 Poznań University of economics and Business hosted the kick-off meeting of the SIMMO II project: System for Intelligent Maritime Monitoring II. PUEB was represented by the Department of Information Systems: prof. Witold Abramowicz, Dr. Milena Stróżyna, Dr. Krzysztof Węcel and Dominik Filipiak, who are members of the project’s team. SIMMO II is a research and development project, ordered by the European Defense Agency (Cat B Project) … Read More

Prof. Witold Abramowicz awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Award ceremony. Author of the photo: Krzysztof Siktowski / KPRP

Head of the Department of Information Systems Prof. Witold Abramowicz was awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding achievements in scientific and research work. This is the second Polish state order, the highest state award after the Order of the White Eagle. Congratulations! Author of the photo: Krzysztof Siktowski / KPRP

SRG Data Science: organizational meeting 2019/2020

On 22 October 2019 at the Poznan University of Economics and Business an organizational meeting of the of the Student Research Group (SRG) “Data Science” took place. During the meeting, the key directions of development of the student research group in the academic year 2019/2020 were discussed, as well as the basic issues related to the area of interest of SRG Data Science. Students and members of the board of … Read More

Researchers’ Night 2019

During the Researchers’ Night, which took place on 27 September 2019, the employees of the Department of Information Systems conducted a workshops entitled “Wikipedia: how to find the necessary information with the highest quality?” (Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski) and “How does artificial intelligence work?” (Piotr Kałużny, MSc.). The Researchers’ Night is an event taking place all over Europe. This year in Poznań, seven scientific institutions took part in the event, including … Read More

Speech at the SEMANTiCS 2019 conference

The international conference SEMANTiCS 2019 took place in Karlsruhe (Germany) from 9th to 13th September and was attended by more than 400 participants. During the conference Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski presented the research “Reference Extraction from Wikipedia Infoboxes“. The SEMANTiCS conference is the leading European conference on semantic technologies and artificial intelligence. Researchers, industry experts and business leaders can develop a deep understanding of trends and application scenarios in machine learning, … Read More

Speech at the Wikimania 2019

An international Wikimania conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 14-18 August, with about 800 participants. During the conference, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski delivered a research “Multilingual Ranking of Wikipedia Articles with Quality and Popularity Assessment“. Wikimania is an annual conference celebrating all free knowledge projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation – Commons, MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary – with three-day conferences, discussions, meetings, … Read More