Interesting: OpenFact - detecting fake news
Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
An article by our scientists entitled “OpenFact at CheckThat! 2024: Combining Multiple Attack Methods for Effective Adversarial Text Generation” has been published in open access. The paper describes the approach that won first place in an international competition in the area of information credibility.
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.
The article by employees of our Department was published in the journal “Networks and Spatial Economics” by Springer. The work analyzes the impact of international crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, on maritime traffic and their consequences for the global and local economy.
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.
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
On September 18-23, 2023, Dr. Milena Stróżyna is on a research visit to the University of Bayreuth (Germany) at the invitation of Prof. Agnes Koschmider. The aim of the visit is to exchange knowledge and experiences and establish scientific cooperation in the field of using Data Science and Process Mining in Industry 4.0.
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.
During the 26th Poznań Science and Art Festival, members of our Department conducted a lecture on recognizing false information on the Internet. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences, which further enriched the discussion and made the event not only educational, but also interactive.