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
Tag: Krzysztof Węcel
QOD 2019 – the 2nd international workshop on Quality of Open Data
The second edition of the QOD workshop took place on 28 June 2019 as part of the BIS 2019 conference in Seville (Spain).
Włodzimierz Lewoniewski received PhD with distinction

By decision of the Council of the Faculty of Computer Science and Electronic Economy at the University of Economics in Poznań of March 8, 2019, the degree of doctor in the field of economic sciences was awarded to a member of our department Włodzimierz Lewoniewski. At the same time, the Faculty Council, supporting the proposal of the Doctoral Committee, recognized the doctoral dissertation as distinctive. Public defense of a doctoral … Read More
HANSA Project meeting in Oldenburg
On 12-13 February 2019 representatives of the Department of Economic Informatics: prof. Witold Abramowicz, Dr. Milena Stróżyna and Dr. Krzysztof Węcel participated in the HANSA project meeting in in Oldenburg (Germany). The meeting was attended by representatives of all HANSA consortium members: OFFIS e.V. (Germany), Sprint SA (Poland), NAVTOR AS (Norway) and In-innovative navigation GmbH (Germany). The host of the meeting was OFFIS, who in addition to the meeting itself, … Read More
QOD 2018 – the first international workshop on quality of open data
On 20 July 2018 the first workshop on Quality of Open Data (QOD 2018) was organized. It took place during the 21st edition of the Business Information Systems Conference (BIS 2018) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin. The aim of the workshop was to gather a community dealing with the subject of information quality in portals like Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata and other open knowledge bases. … Read More
The award for the most innovative article at the NATCON 2018 Conference
On the 25-27 June 2018 Dominik Filipiak and Milena Stróżyna participated in the 8th International Tech-Science Conference NATCON “Naval Technologies for Defence and Security”, in Gdańsk. The Conference was organized by the Polish Naval Academy and the International Gdańsk Fair. The article prepared for the Conference “Big Data for Anomaly Detection in Maritime. Surveillance: Spatial AIS Data Analysis for Tankers “, whose authors are: Dominik Filipiak, Milena Stróżyna, Dr. Krzysztof … Read More
Wikimania 2018 – the most important findings of the year
On July 18-22 Wikimania 2018 conference took place, during which the results of the most important findings of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects for the last year were presented. In particular, the research of scientists from the Poznań University of Economics and Business has been presented – “Relative Quality and Popularity Evaluation of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles” (authors: Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Krzysztof Węcel, Witold Abramowicz). The research concerns the automatic evaluation of … Read More
Best Paper Award at ICIST 2017 Conference
On October 14th, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski received the Best Paper Award at the 23rd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2017). The paper “Analysis of References Across Wikipedia Languages” was prepared together with Dr. Krzysztof Węcel and Prof. Witold Abramowicz. MSc. Lewoniewski is a PhD student at the Department of Information Systems and works on his doctoral thesis related to the comparing and enriching of information in various language … Read More
Wikipedia References & Citations challenge
Dr. Krzysztof Węcel received the award for the best paper in the Wikipedia Citations and Reference Challenge on September 15, 2016, as part of the DBpedia Community Meeting organized at the SEMANTiCS2016 conference in Leipzig. The materials for the presentation entitled “(Not only) Polish citations – analysis, comparison, directions” were largely collected during the summer student internships organized by the Department of Information Systems under the Pro-Quality Grant. Apart from … Read More