COSEAL - Configuration and Selection of Algorithms
The COSEAL research group is an international consortium of researchers from all over the world (e.g. Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Denmark and Germany) which addresses current challenges from Algorithm Selection, Algorithm Configuration and Machine Learning.
Project status |
in progress |
Project time |
01.02.2013- 01.01.2030 |
Website |
http://www.coseal.net |
Keywords |
algorithm selection; configuration; machine learning |
Joint Research Project: Real-time detection and analysis of hybrid disinformation campaigns in online media (HybriD)
DemoRESILdigital: Democratic resilience in times of online-propaganda, fake news, fear- and hate speech
Project status |
in progress |
Project time |
01.01.2018- 31.12.2022 |
Website |
https://www.demoresildigital.uni-muenster.de/ |
Funding source |
MKW - Förderlinie „Digitale Gesellschaft“ - Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe |
Project number |
005-1709-0001 |
Keywords |
Online-Propaganda; Fake news; Fear speech; Hate speech; Media effects; Resilience; Computational Social Science; Communication Science; Digital Communication; Media Psychology; data science; information science |
Al, human rights and ethics: platform regulation and data protection (in context of the IVAC - International Virtual Academic Collaboration)
Project status |
in progress |
Project time |
01.10.2021- 30.09.2022 |
Website |
https://algorithmization.org/?page_id=578 |
Funding source |
DAAD - International Virtual Academic Collaboration |
Project number |
57599237 |
Keywords |
DAAD; Information Systems; Law; Economics; interdisciplinary |
Reducing the moderation effort of user comments with the help of automation using text analytical methods (MODERAT!)
In recent years, a rapid increase in racist, political and religiously motivated hate commentary has led many newspaper editors to deactivate their online comment functions on their websites. While this is understandable from an economic point of view for the individual publishers, serious problems for the public discourse arise in view of restriction quotas of up to 50%. The MODERAT! project aims to use an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to develop software tools and a web platform that will enable operators to moderate web debates with significantly less effort. Comments are analyzed automatically, so that only a small number of critical comments have to be viewed manually. In this way, media houses and publishers should be able to offer web debates again on their own websites and thus enter into a more active exchange with the readership.
Project status |
in progress |
Project time |
07.02.2019- 31.01.2022 |
Website |
https://www.moderat.nrw/ |
Funding source |
MKW - EFRE-Wettbewerb Neue Leitmärkte - CreateMedia.NRW |
Project number |
EFRE-0801431 |
Keywords |
Information Systems; Information Management |
Algorithmization and Social Interaction
Imagine you call a company and your request is no longer answered by a human being but by an artificial assistant - how does this affect you as an individual and society at large? And does the customization of information in social media and online environments limit our horizon, or even keeps us in a ‚filter bubble‘? These are just a few of the socially and politically relevant core questions of the interdisciplinary topical program „Algorithmization and Social Interaction“. Scholars from information systems, economy, social sciences, law and communication studies work together to explore, first, how (artificially intelligent) algorithms can be used to influence social interaction. Second, the topical program is interested in how society (including the public as well as political and societal elites) reacts to this increasing algorithmic governance.
Project status |
in progress |
Project time |
01.10.2020- 31.12.2021 |
Website |
http://algorithmization.org |
Funding source |
WWU-intern - Topical Programs |
Keywords |
Algorithmization; Artificial Intelligence; Society; (Social) Media; Data Science; Data Analytics |
Joint research project: Identifying, verifying, and stopping concealed propaganda attacks via online media - Sub-Project: Coordination of simulation, identification, and defense against concealed propaganda attacks
This project addresses the identification and verification of (semi-)automated concealed propaganda in online media (e.g. in social networks) as an interdisciplinary approach.
Project status |
in progress |
Project time |
01.06.2016- 30.11.2019 |
Website |
http://www.propstop.de |
Funding source |
Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
Project number |
16KIS0495K |
Keywords |
Information Systems; Social Media; Propaganda; Public Opinion; Web |
Benchmarking Network
The Benchmarking Network is an initiative that has emerged in summer 2019, with the idea to consolidate and to stimulate activities on benchmarking iterative optimization heuristics such as local search algorithms, swarm intelligence techniques, model- and/or surrogate-based heuristics, etc - in short, all algorithms that work by a sequential evaluation of solution candidates.
ERCIS Social Media Analytics Competence Center
The Social Media Analytics Competence Center (SMA CC) emerged from the funded BMBF project PropStop and comprises all partners of this consortium. In the meantime, the initial idea of Propstop (addressing the detection of automatically generated propaganda in online media) has become a major issue in societal and scientific discussion. This competence center aims at reaching beyond the boundaries of PropStop and etstablishes a community of researchers and practitioners to address the topics of Disinformation, Propaganda, and Manipulation via Online Media in a multidisciplinary approach.
Project status |
in progress |
Project time |
since 01.08.2018 |
Website |
https://sma.ercis.org/ |
Keywords |
Social Media Analytics; Social Media; Propaganda; Data Analytics; Social Bots |