Department of Information Systems
Poznań University of Economics and Business
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
The work of our scientists on the analysis of digital currency exchanges has been published on the Springer website. As part of the research, models for predicting the success and bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchanges were developed, based on financial data and information collected from open Internet sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. The aim of the work was to identify key aspects that can support the risk analysis process and … Read More
During the Wikimania 2024 conference, the results of scientific research on measuring Americanization in various regions of the world based on open data from Wikipedia and Wikidata were presented. The conducted research reveals differences in interest in American topics depending on the level of development of countries, offering a new perspective on global cultural dominance. At the same time, the analysis emphasizes the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata as tools … Read More
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.
The PUEB Open Doors 2024 took place in the Main Building of our University. During this event, candidates had the opportunity to talk to current students and lecturers about the courses offered at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. The Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics was represented by various departments, including members of our team: Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Oskar Riewe-Perła, Aleksandra Wojewoda.
The latest issue of the journal “Biblioteka” published an article on the analysis of citations to scientific works in Wikipedia. The analysis covered 332 million references in 61 million Wikipedia articles in 309 language versions. In order to standardize the metadata of important sources of information on multilingual Wikipedia, data from the OpenAlex, an open catalog of authors and scientific publications, were additionally used. The results of scientific research were … Read More
An open scientific seminar of the Institute of Informatics and Quantitative Economics on automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of important sources of its information on various topics was held at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. During the seminar, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski discussed the methods and tools used to analyze and evaluate content in a popular multilingual encyclopedia and ways of identifying and assessing … Read More
Scientific article entitled “Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias” was published in the Social Science Computer Review journal. The work is the first global, quantitative confirmation of issues often raised or assumed in the literature on Americanization and related phenomena.