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Presentation “KI im Einsatz” (AI in Action) @ ÖVG Herbsttagung
We are pleased to share our participation as speakers at the Autumn Conference of the Österreichischen Verwaltungswissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (ÖVG) and the Wiener Juristischen Gesellschaft (WJG) on November 5, 2024 at the Rechnungshof (Court of Audit). Our colleagues Ahmadou Wagne and Thomas Kolb delivered a presentation on “KI im Einsatz” (AI in Action), providing an overview of the current applications of…
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Evaluating the Fairness of News Recommender Algorithms Within Detected User Communities
Author: Bernhard Steindl Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt, Co-Supervisor: Thomas E. Kolb Awards: Bernhard Steindl won the ASAI Masterthesis Prize 2025 (Informatics Website) Abstract This work addresses the problem of unfair treatment of different user groups in the recommendations they receive from recommendation algorithms. Recommender systems (RS) are algorithms that suggest items to a user that are…
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Exploration of Content-Based Cross-Domain Podcast Recommender Systems
Author: Matthias Hofmaier Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt, Co-Supervisor: Thomas E. Kolb Abstract Podcasts have become a popular medium in the last decade. The huge amount of data available motivates research on podcast recommender systems to make this data accessible to users. Since interaction-based datasets for podcasts are only available to the large streaming providers, content-based methods…