Category: News

Scientific sources of information in Wikipedia articles across various topics and languages

The results of scientific research of employees of our Department were published in the journal “Procedia Computer Science” by Elsevier on the ScienceDirect website. As part of the work, hundreds of millions of references in Wikipedia articles from various language versions were analyzed to identify scientific sources of information. Additionally, Wikipedia articles have been divided into various topics using information from Wikipedia projects and based on semantic knowledge bases – … Read More

Workshops on generative artificial intelligence with experts from Microsoft and Żabka Group

Representatives of SRG Data Science took part in the “AI School” workshops for students, organized by Microsoft and Żabka Group. This meeting was an excellent opportunity to learn about the world of generative artificial intelligence. The classes consisted of two parts: theoretical and practical.

From science to practice: identifying important sources of information on Wikipedia

Wikipedia, being a widely available source of information in the digital era, attaches great importance to the verifiability of its content, which is fundamental to its credibility and trust. The platform’s verifiability rules require that all information, especially controversial or controversial information, be supported by credible, published sources. This ensures that the content in Wikipedia articles is not based on personal opinion or original research. However, the subjective nature of … Read More

Conversation with Żabka Group experts about a career in data science

In today’s world, data science has become a key element driving innovation in almost every industry. In light of this dynamically developing area, a certain set of skills and knowledge is emerging as essential for those who want to shape the future with data. In addition to knowledge of programming languages and data analysis tools, it is equally important to understand and use advanced statistical methods and machine learning. During … Read More

Doctoral promotion of Dominik Filipiak

During the ceremonial doctoral and habilitation promotion at the Poznań University of Economics and Business, Dr. Dominik Filipiak received a Ph.D. diploma in economics. His doctoral thesis entitled “Exploring features of paintings for modelling preferences of buyers on the Polish art market” was defended with distinction on October 17, 2022. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Witold Abramowicz, auxiliary supervisor: Prof. Agata Filipowska.

Research visit of Frederik Fonger

On October 24-27, 2023, Frederik Fonger from the Kiel University (Germany) was on a research visit to the Poznań University of Economics. Frederik is a member of the research team of Prof. Agnes Koschmider from the University of Bayreuth. The aim of the visit was to establish closer scientific cooperation between universities in the field of integration and processing of streaming and text data.

Presentation at the CLEF 2023 conference

Members of our department, Ewelina Księżniak and Marcin Sawiński, took part in the 14th edition of the international CLEF conference, which is devoted to natural language processing and information retrieval. During this event, our scientists presented a method for detecting check-worthy claims, which achieved the best result in a competition organized by one of the workshops – CheckThat!Lab. The workshop and competition is devoted to detecting fake news using artificial … Read More

Awards in the 26th Competition for the Best Diploma Theses in the field of Business Informatics

During the 10th International Scientific Conference “Knowledge and Information Technologies in Creating Entrepreneurship” and the 5th Congress of Business Informatics, prizes were awarded in the 26th edition of the of the Scientific Society of Business Informatics (Polish abbr. “NTIE”) for the best diploma theses in the field of business informatics defended in 2022. The works written under the supervision of scientists from the Department of Information Systems at the Poznań … Read More

Assessing the quality of student essays written by ChatGPT

The 10th International Scientific Conference “Knowledge and Information Technologies in Creating Entrepreneurship” and the 5th Congress of Business Informatics were held on October 5-6, 2023. During this event, representatives of our Department presented research results on assessing the quality of student essays written by ChatGPT. This year’s edition of the conference and congress was held in a hybrid mode (onsite in Olsztyn near Częstochowa and remotely). The organizers of these … Read More

Guinness World Record for the longest time editing Wikipedia

The Polish Wikipedia community enthusiastically celebrated the website’s 22nd anniversary by taking on an extraordinary challenge – breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest joint editing of Wikipedia. The ambitious goal was achieved on September 26-30, 2023 – uninterrupted Wikipedia editing for 100 hours. The event was organized by the Wikimedia Polska and aimed not only to set a new record, but also to promote Polish Heritage.