SAIL Research Network

We are looking forward to the next lecture in our "Robust AI" series: Feb 13, Annika Mütze will present on the topic "Influence of Texture, Shape and Color for Learning Semantic Segmentation".🤩🙌 👉As always, you can find all information on our website: sail.nrw/2025/01/lectur…

We would like to invite to our next SAIL Lecture! On Thursday, Jan 23 Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn will give a lecture on the topic ‘Designing for Human Value: A Human-Centered Perspective on AI System Design in Healthcare’.🙌👩‍🏫➡️All information here: sail.nrw/2025/01/lectur…

📣 Spring School 2025: Innovating AI Evaluation – Beyond Accuracy and Precision 📅 March 26–28 📍 CITEC, Bielefeld University Join us for an exciting line-up of tutorials, discussions, and networking opportunities! 🎓 ➡️More info & program: sail.nrw/springschool/

📢A quick reminder that Fabian Offerts's lecture “Has (AI) Critique Run Out of Steam?” will take place on Thursday.🧑‍💻➡️ All information is also available at: sail.nrw/2024/12/lectur…

We are grateful for a great year 2024 and are delighted with the many accomplishments we were able to achieve.🙌😊 We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone happy holidays and a healthy and successful new year! 🥳🎇🍀

Time to wrap up our 2024 review🎆We proudly look back on many international conferences where SAIL members presented their research, such as @emnlpmeeting or @cikm2024.🤩👏 Another highlight was our retreat, where we were able to exchange ideas intensively.💬🤝See you in 2025!🥳

We would like to announce our next event in the SAIL Lecture Series “Robust AI”: On January 9, Fabian Offert will be lecturing on the topic “Has (AI) Critique Run Out of Steam?”.👨‍💻💬 ➡️Please note, it is a different room and Zoom link this time. More: sail.nrw/2024/12/lectur…

Let's continue with our review of the 2024 highlights! From participating in Girls' Day to discussing SAIL topics at events like @republica, the SAIL Practice Day at #HSBI with lectures and a demonstrator exhibition as well as the first SAIL #Hackathon @THochschuleOWL. 🤩👏🤖

As another SAIL year comes to a close, we're filled with gratitude for all that we've accomplished.😊🙌 From our successful AI Winter School, participation in workshops, the continuation of our lecture series “Robust AI” to the joint event with @JohnsHopkins in DC. 🤝🤩

The proceedings from @emnlpmeeting are now available! Check out the latest research from SAIL members @sinazarriess, @sanne_hoeken and @judithsieker and their colleagues from @clausebielefeld.🤩👏 ➡️You can also find all publications on our website: sail.nrw/publications/

While the PIs held a board meeting at the SAIL retreat, the PhD students and PostDocs had the opportunity to practice archery.🏹 The takeaway from this activity? 👉Just like in research, with a good eye, some practice and the right technique, you can hit the bull's eye!🎯😅

It's time again for our annual retreat!⛵️ For this reason we met in Bad Sassendorf to present and discuss our current research results and the next steps of the SAIL research network.🚀🙌 Thanks to everybody who participated!🤝

4. "How LLMs Reinforce Political Misinformation: Insights from the Analysis of False Presuppositions" by Judith Sieker, Clara Lachenmaier, Sina Zarrieß. ➡️All belong to the @clausebielefeld working group, make sure to follow them for more updates!📢 (4/4)

3. "The Illusion of Competence: Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on Users' Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems" by Judith Sieker, Simeon Junker, Ronja Utescher, Nazia Attari, Heiko Wersing, Hendrik Buschmeier & Sina Zarrieß (3/4)

SAIL will be represented at the @emnlpmeeting conference in Miami🇺🇸 next week, with three papers in the main program and one at the BlackboxNLP workshop.🥳👏 We wish our colleagues @sinazarriess, Özge Alacam, @judithsieker and @sanne_hoeken much success and a great time!🍀 (1/4)

Our “Robust AI” lecture series continues on November 14.🙌 Be there when @HelgeRhodin from @unibielefeld gives a lecture on the topic of “What is left to do in visual computing?”.🤩 Participation is possible on site or via Zoom. ➡️Further information: sail.nrw/2024/11/lectur…

And @NgongaAxel gave a presentation on "ExPrompt: Augmenting Prompts Using Examples as Modern Baseline for Stance Classification" by @UQudus, @MichaDerStudent, Daniel Vollmers and @NgongaAxel.

Greetings to SAIL members Rupesh Sapkota and @NgongaAxel who are @cikm2024 in Boise/Idaho🇺🇸. Rupesh presents "EDGE: Evaluation Framework for Logical vs. Subgraph Explanations for Node Classifiers on Knowledge Graphs" by Rupesh Sapkota, Dominik Köhler & Stefan Heindorf. 👏😊(1/2)

Have you already seen our new SAIL brochure?🤩 It provides an informative insight into the interdisciplinary research of SAIL and the researchers involved.🤝👩‍💻👨‍🏫 👉Find out more and download our brochure now here: researchgate.net/publication/38…