Presentations at the Conference on Business Informatics – IwZ 2025

On November 26–28, 2025, the 11th edition of the Scientific Conference on Business Informatics “IwZ 2025” was held at the Faculty of Management of the University of Łódź. The main theme of this year’s edition, “Digital Transformation – (R)evolution in Management”, reflected current research trends in the field of business informatics. Three representatives of the Department of Information Systems participated in the conference: Dr. Elżbieta Lewańska, Dr. Piotr Stolarski, and … Read More

Automatic Quality Assessment of Data Visualizations: A Case Study of Polish Wikipedia

The article “Quality Measures for Data Visualization: A Case Study of Polish Wikipedia”, authored by our researchers, has been published in open access. The work focuses on analyzing the quality of data visualizations in the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The study draws on an extensive dataset of over one million articles, from which visual elements such as tables, charts, diagrams, and maps were extracted and classified.

Scientific Presentations: From Blockchain Trends to the Quality of Visualizations in Wikipedia

At the KES 2025 international scientific conference, papers authored by our researchers were presented, reporting the results of research on the evolution of scientific trends in blockchain technology and on the quality and distribution of data visualizations in the Polish Wikipedia.

Researchers’ Night 2025: Operation InfoVerification

During Researchers’ Night 2025, the staff of the Department of Information Systems conducted workshops titled “Operation InfoVerification” that were presented in the engaging form of a field game. The event introduced participants to the process of verifying information and identifying fake news. The workshops combined elements of adventure, investigation, and logic-based challenges, immersing participants in the fascinating world of fact-checking.

Presentation at the IJCAI 2025 conference

The paper on automatic analysis of Wikipedia content neutrality, authored by our researchers, was presented at IJCAI 2025 (the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence). The event took place on 16-22 August 2025 in Montreal, Canada.

Wikimania 2025: analysis of Wikipedia articles on climate change (video)

During the Wikimania 2025 conference, the results of scientific research on the comparative analysis of Wikipedia articles on climate change in different language editions were presented. By leveraging open datasets, the study assessed the quality of articles and compared their popularity in various languages. For example, an analysis of over one billion internal links (wikilinks) on Wikipedia enabled the identification of the most frequently cited articles in each language edition.

Are company descriptions on Wikipedia neutral? Sentiment-analysis tools in practice

A new paper by our researchers has been published on the Springer website. It explores the sentiment of Wikipedia articles about companies using a range of artificial-intelligence models. The study set out to determine how well each model copes with assessing the sentiment of Wikipedia’s characteristically long articles, and to examine how that sentiment varies across industries and article-quality classes.

Utilizing Citation Index and Synthetic Quality Measure to Compare Language Editions of Wikipedia

A research prepared by scientists from our Department was presented at Wiki Workshop 2025. The study delivers a comprehensive, topic-based analysis of Wikipedia articles across 55 language editions and employs an original approach that combines a citation index with a synthetic article-quality measure. A citation index was constructed by analysing 6.6 billion links between Wikipedia pages, enabling the identification of the most influential articles in each language edition.

Semantic mapping of disinformation: identifying fake news topics

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.

Panel discussion at the Wikimania 2024 conference (video)

During the international conference Wikimania 2024, a panel discussion entitled “Keynote: Opening the Academia” took place, in which Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski participated. The panel concerned the topic of open science and its various aspects. In particular, the challenges faced by academic institutions that try to implement the principles of open science and the obstacles that hinder these processes were discussed. The role of Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia, in the … Read More