Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
On April 18-19, the First Poznań Conference “Bibliometric analyses of Open Science” was held. During this event, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski presented results of the research on scientific publications and other important sources of information in Wikipedia articles in different languages.
The scientific paper on automatic identification of important information sources on a specific topic in the multilingual Wikipedia based on analysis of more than 230 million references has been published on the Elsevier website. The study presents various models for automatic evaluation of information sources, which take into account the frequency of the information sources, the popularity of the content from readers and Wikipedia editors point of view.
The IEEE published a paper on the automatic identification of reliable sources of information about companies in the multilingual Wikipedia. The information source assessment models presented in the publication can help Internet users find valuable sources of information about companies using open data from Wikipedia, DBpedia and Wikidata.
During the international conference KES 2022 (26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems) the results of scientific research on the identification of important information sources in various topics and language versions of Wikipedia were presented. This year’s edition of the KES conference was organized in Verona (Italy) in a hybrid mode.
During the FedCSIS 2022 conference (17th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems), the results of scientific research of our team on the reliability assessment of the information sources about companies in different languages of Wikipedia were presented. This year’s edition of the FedCSIS conference was organized in Sofia (Bulgaria) in a hybrid mode.
During the international conference “The Web Conference” (formerly – WWW conference), a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects was held – Wiki Workshop 2022. As part of this event, the results of our department’s research in the area of reliability assessment of web sources information in Wikipedia on the COVID-19 pandemic in various months and in different language versions were presented.
On April 22-24, in the Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów, the conference “Wikimedians Spring Meetup 2022” was held. The event consisted of lectures, training sessions, workshops, work on project issues for people editing Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia, Wikidata and others). The conference was organized by the Polish public benefit organization “Wikimedia Polska”.
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
On March 14, 2018, during the celebration of the International Pi Day for students of the Karol Marcinkowski High School No. 1 in Poznań, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski gave an open lecture on automatic assessment of information quality in multilingual Wikipedia.
On April 4, 2016, at the Stefan Batory Continuing Education Center School Complex in Konin, an open lecture entitled “Information quality in national versions of Wikipedia” was held. The lecture was conducted by Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.