Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
The scientific article of our Department’s employees entitled “Sentence Embeddings and Semantic Entity Extraction for Identification of Topics of Short Fact-Checked Claims” has been published in open access. The paper describes an approach to assigning topics to claims verified by fact-checking agencies.
Prof. Witold Abramowicz, advisor to the rector for artificial intelligence and digital transformation, presented issues related to automatic identification of fake news using generative artificial intelligence during the Polish Security Congress – Total Security. The event was attended by several hundred representatives of government, local government, business and science.
During the 28th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2024), Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski presented a paper entitled “Exploring the Challenges and Potential of Generative AI: Insights from an Empirical Study” and a paper entitled “Supporting fact-checking process with IT tools”. The conference was held on September 11-13, 2024 in hybrid mode.
A team of scientists from the Department of Information Systems at the Poznań University of Economics and Business took part in the “CheckThat! 2024” organized as part of the international conference CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum). The goal was to verify the robustness of popular text classification approaches used for credibility assessment problems.
The National Center for Research and Development has completed the evaluation of the results of the second phase of the INFOSTRATEG program. The evaluation included the results achieved by three competing teams whose task is to develop solutions for detecting fake news using artificial intelligence.
As part of the 27th Poznań Festival of Science and Art, workshops on fake news detection were held. During the event, participants had the opportunity to learn how to distinguish fake news from real information and what tools they can use to verify content on social media.
On February 27, 2024, Prof. Preslav Nakov from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) visited the Department of Information Systems at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. During the meeting, the next stages of cooperation in the field of fake news detection using artificial intelligence were discussed.
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
The scientific work of members of our Department was published in the Economics and Business Review journal. The article “Artificial intelligence – friend or foe in fake news campaigns” focuses on analyzing the impact of large language models (LLM) on the phenomenon of fake news. On the one hand decent text‐generation capabilities can be misused for mass fake news production. On the other, LLMs trained on huge volumes of text … Read More
The OpenFact project team took part in the CheckThat! organized as part of the international conference CLEF 2023 (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum). The method proposed by our scientists took first place. This method detects English sentences that need to be reviewed because of potential misleading and therefore are worth fact-checking.