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  • Presentation @ UMAP ’24

    I’m (Thomas Kolb) happy to share that I presented two of our research papers from the Christian Doppler Lab for Recommender Systems at the workshops of ACM UMAP 2024! 🎉 Evaluating Group Fairness in News Recommendations: A Comparative Study of Algorithms and Metrics (Blake Huebner, Thomas Kolb, Julia Neidhardt)Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3631700.3664897 Classifying User Roles in Online…

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  • Publication at LREC-COLING 2024

    Our lab proudly announces the publication of “PopAut: An Annotated Corpus for Populism Detection in Austrian News User Comments.” Authored by Ahmadou Wagne, with support from Julia Neidhardt and Thomas Kolb, this work provides the first German-language corpus annotated for populist motives.The research, presented as a poster at the joint LREC-COLING conference in Torino, Italy, sparked engaging discussions and…

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  • Hands-on Session AI @ AK-Tag

    It was a pleasure for me to conduct a hands-on session on the possibilities, limitations, and challenges of AI at the AK-Tag 2024 [1] of the Federal Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAK)! This showcase was created in collaboration with my colleague Ahmadou Wagne as part of our research in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Recommender Systems.…

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