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Presentations at the CLEF 2024 conference

Oct

9

2024

On September 9-12, 2024, scientists from the Department of Information Systems PUEB presented their works at the CLEF 2024 conference, which took place in Grenoble (France). This was the 25th edition of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum), a key event in the field of information and language technologies, focusing on the ...

Panel discussion at the Wikimania 2024 conference (video)

Sep

28

2024

During the international conference Wikimania 2024, a panel discussion entitled “Keynote: Opening the Academia” took place. 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 ...

Measuring Americanization across the world using Wikidata and Wikipedia (video)

Aug

26

2024

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. ...

27th Poznań Festival of Science and Art

May

13

2024

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.

Automatic quality assessment of articles in multilingual Wikipedia and identification of its important information sources on various topics

Mar

9

2024

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, the methods and tools used to analyze and evaluate content ...

From science to practice: identifying important sources of information on Wikipedia

Dec

10

2023

During the webinar, the possibilities of identifying and automatically assessing the significance of information sources of Wikipedia articles from different language versions were presented. As part of the practical part, some of the capabilities of the BestRef tool were shown, which contains information about the results of the evaluation of millions of Internet sources in ...

Assessment results of millions of information sources on Wikipedia

Nov

13

2023

The principle of verifiability on Wikipedia mandates that all content must be verifiable by readers through reliable sources. Wikipedia insists on information being based on what has been previously reported in reputable publications, not the personal convictions or unpublished work of its contributors. If there are contrasting views from reliable sources, Wikipedia maintains an impartial ...

Guinness World Record for the longest time editing Wikipedia

Oct

13

2023

The Polish Wikipedia community enthusiastically celebrated the website’s 22nd anniversary by taking on an extraordinary challenge – breaking the Guinness record for the longest joint editing of Wikipedia in the world. The ambitious goal was achieved on September 26-30, 2023 – uninterrupted Wikipedia editing for 100 hours. The event was organized by the Wikimedia Polska ...

Seminar on Wikipedia quality at Tufts University

Sep

25

2023

The beginning of the academic year in the United States coincided with a seminar at Tufts University on the automation of the process of assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles and its information sources in various language versions. The event took place on September 7, 2023 at the Joyce Cummings Center (JCC). This is the ...

KES 2023 conference

Sep

15

2023

During the international conference KES 2023 (27th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems), research results on the use of scientific information sources in multilingual Wikipedia on various topics were presented. This year’s edition of the KES conference was organized in Athens (Greece) on September 6-8 in a hybrid mode.