SRG Data Science: organizational meeting 2019/2020

On 22 October 2019 at the Poznan University of Economics and Business an organizational meeting of the of the Student Research Group (SRG) “Data Science” took place. During the meeting, the key directions of development of the student research group in the academic year 2019/2020 were discussed, as well as the basic issues related to the area of interest of SRG Data Science. Students and members of the board of … Read More

Researchers’ Night 2019

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

Speech at the SEMANTiCS 2019 conference

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

Speech at the Wikimania 2019

An international Wikimania conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 14-18 August, with about 800 participants. During the conference, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski delivered a research “Multilingual Ranking of Wikipedia Articles with Quality and Popularity Assessment“. Wikimania is an annual conference celebrating all free knowledge projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation – Commons, MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary – with three-day conferences, discussions, meetings, … Read More

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

Workshops at the Children’s University

On December 1 and December 15, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski conducted the workshops at the University of Children entitled "Is the clock accurate?". During the workshops various types of clocks were presented: electronic, mechanical, solar, hourglass (sand, water), candles. During practical assignments, students of the Children’s University measured time using some of them, and finally answered questions about the choice of a particular type of clock depending on the situation in everyday … Read More

SRG Data Science: organizational meeting

On December 6, at the Poznan University of Economics and Business, an organizational meeting of the Student Research Group “Data Science” took place, attended by over 100 people. During the meeting, the key directions of the student research group development were discussed. Members Board of the SRG Data Science in particular presented the following topics: Action program for the coming year (Ksawery Smoczyński) Conferences and meetings about data science (Alex … Read More

Presentation of scientific research on enrichment of information during Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018

On October 13-15, in Lviv, Ukraine, a conference of the Wikipedia community and other Wikimedia projects of the Central and Eastern Europe region (Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018) took place. During the conference were presented scientific works of the Department of Informations Systems on the evaluation of the quality of articles and the enrichment of information in the multilingual Wikipedia. The main goal of the meetings is to promote, support and … Read More