Welcome to the Faculty of Computer Science
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The faculty of Computer Science and its six institutes cover a broad range of Core Informatics and Applied Informatics. Special fields in Economics and Information Management complement these areas.This broad scope in research and teaching offers students attractive options. It positions the faculty within a high-ranking international research field, and it provides manifold links for knowledge transfer with industry and society.
- News
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Jun 18, 2019
CLEARumor acheves the second place in the RumourEval competition
Recently, Ipek Baris and Lukas Schmelzeisen presented their CLEARumor system for determining rumor veracity and support at the SemEval workshop in Minneapolis, USA.
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Jun 12, 2019
EU Project Co-inform review meeting in Limassol
The EU project Co-inform aims to empower citizens, journalists, and policymakers with co-created socio-technical solutions, to increase resilience to misinformation, and to allow more informed behaviours and policies.
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Apr 11, 2019
Panel Discussion @ Koblenz Weeks of Democracy
The Institute WeST organizes a panel discussion at the “Koblenz Weeks of Democracy” with the topic: What are Scientists doing for Democracy? A Glimpse into the Scientific Warfare against Misinformation, between Computer Science and Political Science.
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Jan 15, 2019
Introducing ETWEB co-located event at ETRA conference
Chandan Kumar and Raphael Menges are organizing the co-located event ETWEB, Eye Tracking for the Web, at the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, Denver, Colorado, USA, which will take place from 25th to 28th of June.
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Oct 01, 2018
Daniel Janke and Steffen Staab give lecture and tutorial at the Reasoning Web Summer School
In the last years knowledge graphs have received a lot of attention. During the 14th Reasoning Web Summer School at Luxembourg, 22nd-26th September, the participants learned what knowledge graphs are and how they are created.
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Sep 24, 2018
Matthias Thimm and Tjitze Rienstra at the International Conference on Computational Models of Argument
The International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA) is one of the main forums for presentation and exchange of the latest research results related to computational aspects of argumentation.
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Sep 03, 2018
Reference Extraction Made Easy
Speaking at the Open Citation Workshop in Bologna, Dr. Philipp Mayr-Schlegel (GESIS) on behalf of the EXCITE project consortium has accounced and demonstrated the release of the novel EXCITE toolchain that allows for extracting literature references from PDFs and matching them against available bibliographic databases.
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Aug 13, 2018
Award for Best Video at the International Eye Tracking Conference ETRA in Warsaw
The contributors of the GazeMining project have been decorated with the Best Video Award at the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking (ETRA) in Warsaw, June 2018.
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Jun 12, 2018
Invited Talk by Tjitze Rienstra at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation
Tjitze Rienstra will give an invited talk On the relationship between argumentation networks and Bayesian networks at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2018).
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Jun 11, 2018
GazeTheWeb project integrates multimodal browsing with gaze and voice input
Human voice and eyes are the most natural sources that can provide input signals to facilitate hands-free human-computer interaction.
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