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Are Knowledge Graph Embedding Models Biased, or Is it the Data That They Are Trained on?
Paper presentation by Wessel Radstok for 2nd Wikidata Workshop co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2982/ Radstok, Wessel, Melisachew Wudage Chekol, and Mirko Tobias Schafer. Are Knowledge Graph Embedding Models Biased, or Is it the Data That They Are Trained on? In: Proceedings of the 2nd Wikidata Workshop (Wikidata 2021), 20th…
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Insights into the Data School
This text is a translation of the original publication at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Network Society. In September 2021, Bennet Etsiwah, research associate in the research group “Data-driven Business Model Innovations” at the German Weizenbaum Institute, was a visiting researcher at the Data School (Data School). In the following report, he explains what this…
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New horizons
Starting March 1st, 2022, Data School (Data School) will become part of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Utrecht University under the joint deanship of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities. Investigating the implications of AI and datafication for our digital society requires concerted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary efforts. Over the past…
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Utrecht University AI Lab Digital Humanities funding awarded to Data School for a co-financed PhD position with De Groene Amsterdammer
Principal investigator: Karin van Es (Data School) Co-applications: Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Joris Veerbeek (both Data School), Kees van Deemter (Information and Computing Sciences), Ayoub Bagheri (Methodology and Statistics), Beatrice de Graaf and Pim Huijnen (both History); PhD ‘Employing text classification models for journalistic inquiry on public debates‘ – Joris Veerbeek, MA Together with Dutch…
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Cooperation between Data School and University of Helsinki
Data School will cooperate with the Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH). For the coming three years 2022-2023, Mirko Tobias Schäfer has been appointed a Visiting Professor to University of Helsinki. Mirko will cooperate closely with the groups of Minna Ruckenstein and Matti Nelimarkka. Mirko’s research interest revolves around datafication of citizens, government…