We’re excited to share our latest paper “Human-Centric Evaluation of Semantic Resources: A Systematic Mapping Study” accepted at ACM Computing Surveys. This paper, authored by Marta Sabou, Stefani Tsaneva, Miriam Fernandez, María Poveda Villalón and Mari CarmenSuárez-Figueroa, reviews 15 years of research, highlighting key approaches and trends in evaluating semantic resources with human-in-the-loop methods. We

In recent years, the use of digital and social media to enhance democratic processes and improve governance outcomes, usually through the transformation of the interactions between society, government, the public sector, the private sector and civil society. Digital democracy is both the subject of a large canon of academic research, as well as the focus of numerous initiatives around the world. However, most of the

Stefani Tsaneva recently had the pleasure of spending three months as a visiting researcher at The University of Queensland, where she worked closely with Prof. Gianluca Demartini on collaborative Human–AI knowledge engineering. The main focus of the visit was the design of a system in which AI supports students in constructing and refining structured knowledge

We are very happy to welcome a new member into the SemSys group! Julia Schuller holds a bachelor’s degree in Informatics & Philosophy of Technology from TU Munich and a master’s degree in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford. After several years of experience in software engineering research and the medtech

How can machine learning models learn more effectively from knowledge graphs? While knowledge graphs capture rich relationships between entities, current knowledge graph embedding methods often struggle to fully exploit their structure and semantics. Understanding why this happens is a key step towards more powerful AI-driven insights. This question is at the heart of our newly

As part of the Erasmus+ program “Higher Education Staff Mobility with the Western Balkans region, supported by Erasmus+ funds”, Majlinda is participating in a long-term mobility initiative between the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and the University of Prishtina (UP) for the 2023–2026 period. Within this program, academic staff mobility supports teaching and

We’re excited to share that the paper City Sampling for Citizens’ Assemblies, co-authored by Jan Maly alongside Paul Gölz, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Markus Utke, and Philipp C. Verpoort, has been accepted to AAAI. The work tackles a timely challenge: how to design sampling methods that fairly and efficiently select participants for citizens’ assemblies, an increasingly important

From 8-12 September, Hanna Kern attended the 4th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School in Vienna. The week had many interesting sessions, including talks by George Metakides, Erich Prem, and Victoria Dignum. A highlight of the week was the talk by Francesco Ricci on recommender systems which was interestingly related to sparse/incomplete preferences, something Hanna

Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie entscheiden mit, wofür Ihre Stadt Geld ausgibt: für Spielplätze, Radwege oder Kultur. Klingt nach Utopie? - ist längst Realität. Doch wie fair sind diese Verfahren? Darüber d...

Marta Sabou erhält eine renommierte Förderung des Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds für Forschung an Knowlege Graphs für KI-Anwendungen.

Hanna Kern visits the University of Warsaw From 30 June to 29 August, I (Hanna Kern) had the pleasure of visiting Piotr Skowron at the University of Warsaw. There he is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics. His research interests lie in the field of computational social choice, in particular

From 22.09-25.09, we had the pleasure of hosting two inspiring visitors, Feline Lindeboom and Anton Baychkov. Feline is PhD student at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen under the supervision of Davide Grossi and Pradeep Murukannaiah. She works primarily within the field of (computational) social choice, combining elements from mathematics, theoretical computer science, (political) philosophy and economics, to ask

Human-centred automation with positive societal impact

Human-centred automation with positive societal impact

Human-centred automation with positive societal impact