A week-long hackathon orgainzed by #spp_ratio is coming to an end. Participants have worked on frame / keypoint identification as well as controverstial question argument retrieval. Stay tuned for the results. It has been a very successful week, thanks to all participants. Seminare

I am happy to announce that the Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) has a brand new website. uni-bielefeld.de/zwe/citec/ Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology Bielefeld University

There is an open position as "Independent Research Group Leader" on Explainability at Bielefeld University. The position will be associated to the Collaborative Research Center "Constructing Explainability". TRR 318 Constructing Explainability uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/2514/…

🏅 Our paper "Federated Learning to Improve Counterfactual Explanations for Sepsis Treatment Prediction" by @ChristophDusing and Philipp Cimiano has been runner-up for the John Fox Award at the AI in Medicine conference! Thanks #AIME2023 Paper here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

I am shocked and deeply sad about the sudden death of Thierry Declerck. I am honoured to have had the chance to work with him on multiple projects in the last 20 years. He was a great researcher and a wonderful person and colleague. I will certainly miss him. RIP

Gemeinsames Center für das Zukunftsthema Ko-konstruktive #KünstlicheIntelligenz gegründet: Bielefeld University, Universität Bremen und Universität Paderborn bündeln Forschungskompetenzen, um KI-Systeme zu entwickeln, die Menschen bei Aufgaben gezielt unterstützen können. aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2023/07/10/gem…

Joint centre founded for future topic of co-constructive #ArtificialIntelligence: Bielefeld University, Universität Bremen and Universität Paderborn bundle research competences to develop AI systems that can specifically support people in tasks. aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2023/07/10/new…

I am honoured to have been mentioned as outsanding reviewer at ACL 2023.

The universities of Bielefeld, Bremen and Paderborn join forces! With the foundation of the #CoAI joint research center, the 3 universities bundle their excellence in the field of cooperative and cognition-enabled AI. coai-jrc.de Bielefeld University Universität Paderborn @UniBremen

The 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Robust Argumentation Machines will take place from June 5th-7th, 2024 in Bielefeld, Germany. 2nd CFP is out. Full paper submission deadline: November 10th, 2023. ratio-conference.net

I am proud that Philipp Heinisch and Dimitry Mindlin from my lab have received the best paper award at the Argmining Workshop for our work on unsupervised argument reframing. #emnlp2023

I am excited that our workshop proposal on Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robotics (AKR^3) has been accepted at ESWC Conferences 2024. Deadline for papers is March 7th. kr3-workshop.net

I am honoured to share that my lab has received the best paper award at the IEEE Robotic Computing Conference. ieee-irc.org Congrats to my co-author and student Jan-Philipp Töberg.

Check out the program for the 1st Int. Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO): ratio-conference.net/program-overvi… With 3 excellent keynote speakers (Elena Cabrio, Yufang Hou and Henning Wachsmuth) and 20+ contributed papers the conference promises to be exciting.

I am excited to co-organise the workshop on multimodal, affective and interactive eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (MAI-XAI), collocated with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), sites.google.com/view/mai-xai24…

Lars Kunze from Bristol / Oxford Robotics Institute in Action, giving a keynote at the workshop on Actionable Knowledge Representation for robots, collocated with ESWC Conferences 2024. kr3-workshop.net

The 2nd day of the 1st International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO24) comes to an end with a great panel discussion involving Yufang Hou @logicMachines (Paul Piwek), Elena Cabrio, Julia Romberg, Henning Wachsmuth and Sebastian Haunss. #RATIO

Great team of chairs and invited speakers making the 1st International Conference on Robust Argumentation Machines a big success!

Happy to announce that our paper "Measuring User Understanding in Dialogue-based XAI Systems" has been accepted at #ECAI2024. This is the 1st work measuring model understanding in a dialogue XAI setting, showing that it outperforms static explanations. Bielefeld University Semantic Computing Group

We are looking forward to our group's participation at ECAI 2024. The Semantic Computing Lab from Bielefeld University will present 1 paper at the main conference, 2 workshop papers and 1 doctoral consortium paper. Santiago, we are coming. Semantic Computing Group