2020 ← Lewoniewski

Award ceremony for the best PhD theses during the IwZ’2020

Dec

28

2020

During the 5th Scientific Conference “Computer Science in Management” IwZ’2020, a plenary session was held, during which awards were presented for the best doctoral dissertations defended in 2019. The ceremony took place online on December 3, 2020, while the diplomas were sent via post.

Quality assessment of Wikipedia and its sources

Dec

22

2020

During the Wikimedia Research Showcase the results of scientific works conducted by members of the Department of Information Systems in the area of information quality assessment in multilingual Wikipedia were presented. In particular, the models of automatic evaluation of the reliability of sources in this popular encyclopedia were discussed.

PUEB Entrepreneurship Days

Dec

13

2020

On December 2-3, 2020 as part of the 2nd edition of the PUEB Entrepreneurship Days, members of the Department of Information Systems gave lectures on contemporary challenges of innovative economy, the possibility of using open data and Data Science in the development of entrepreneurship.

Wikipedia data quality: automatic evaluation of infoboxes in different languages

Dec

10

2020

Infobox provides a summary of the most important information relating to a particular object described in a Wikipedia article. In other words — Wikipedia infobox summarize factoid knowledge.

First place in the competition for doctoral dissertations of the PUEB Foundation

Nov

28

2020

In the jubilee 15th edition of the PUE Foundation competition for the best doctoral dissertations defended at the Poznań University of Economics and Business in the 2018/2019 academic year, the work “The method of comparing and enriching information in multilingual wikis based on the analysis of their quality” took the first place. The PhD thesis ...

Browser extension assesses information quality in Wikipedia

Nov

20

2020

This add-on allows to assess the quality and popularity of Wikipedia articles directly from a web browser.

PhD thesis on Wikipedia was awarded in the NTIE competition

Oct

13

2020

In the 23rd Edition of the competition of the Scientific Society of Business Informatics (Polish abbr. “NTIE”), people associated with the Department of Information Systems at Poznań University of Economics and Business were awarded for the best diploma theses in the field of information systems.

3rd international workshop on Quality of Open Data (QOD 2020)

Jun

25

2020

The third edition of the QOD (Quality of Open Data) workshop took place on 9 June 2020 as part of the BIS 2020 conference (23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems). The organisers of the QOD 2020 workshop were Dr. Mouzhi Ge, Dr. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski and Dr. habil. Krzysztof Węcel.

Modeling Popularity and Reliability of Sources in Multilingual Wikipedia

Jun

22

2020

One of the most important factors impacting quality of content in Wikipedia is presence of reliable sources. By following references, readers can verify facts or find more details about described topic. A Wikipedia article can be edited independently in any of over 300 languages, even by anonymous users, therefore information about the same topic may ...

Cryptocurrencies Perception Using Wikipedia and Google Trends

May

15

2020

This scientific work presents different approaches to investigate the possible relationships between the largest crowd-based knowledge source and the market potential of particular cryptocurrencies.