Institute for Web Science and Technologies - WeST

Proposal for *Special Interest Group* in CHI' 2020 conference accepted 🥳 Korok Sengupta

SIG@CHI2020: Challenges and Opportunities of Leveraging Intelligent Conversational Assistant to Improve the Well-being of Older Adults | Institute WeST Recent advancements and economic feasibility have led to the widespread adoption of conversational digital assistants for everyday work. While research has focused on the use of these conversational assistants such as Siri, Google Assistant, or Alexa, by young adults and families, very little work f...

The eye tracking group of Institute WeST has two papers accepted at the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction ACM CHI 2020 🥳 Chandan Kumar Ramin Hedeshy Korok Sengupta Steffen Staab

The eye tracking group of Institute WeST has two papers accepted at the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction ACM CHI 2020 | Institute WeST We are delighted to announce that our papers “Leveraging Error Correction in Voice-based Text Entry by Talk-and-Gaze” and “TAGSwipe: Touch Assisted Gaze Swipe for Text Entry” have been accepted at ACM CHI 2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. From April 25th to 30th 2020, CH...

Alex Baier, staff member of the Institute WeST, is one of eleven prize winners of the seven universities who was awarded the Koblenz University Prize of the Koblenz Business and Science Alliance. Read more at https://west.uni-koblenz.de/news/06-11-2019-alex-baier-wins-prize-for-thesis

On the occasion of the 10th birthday of WeST a large crowd gathered in the Aula of the university in Koblenz. Read more at https://west.uni-koblenz.de/news/28-10-2019-happy-anniversary-for-west

EU Cutler Project: Consortium meeting in the pilot city of Antalya, Turkey. Read more at http://west.uni-koblenz.de/news/cutler-consortium-meeting-in-antalya.

University of Koblenz-Landau doubly successful in AI Innovation Competition of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Read more at

University of Koblenz-Landau doubly successful in KI Innovation Competition of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology | Institute WeST The Institute for Web Science and Technologies is represented in the "Service-Meister" servicemeister.org. Professor Dr. Steffen Staab, Director of the Institute, explains: "We want Made-in-Germany not only to be emblazoned on machines, but also German services to be outstanding around the clock and...

Artificial intelligence to summarise doctor's letters in a comprehensible way. Read more at https://west.uni-koblenz.de/news/07-09-2019-artificial-intelligence-summarise-doctors-letters

EU Project CUTLER: Successful first review meeting in Brussels. For more info see http://west.uni-koblenz.de/en/news/eu-project-cutler-successful-first-review-meeting-brussels

CLEARumor, achieves the second place in the RumourEval competition. More info at

CLEARumor @ NAACL | Institute WeST Recently, Ipek Baris and Lukas Schmelzeisen presented their CLEARumor system for determining rumor veracity and support at the SemEval workshop in Minneapolis, USA. The system achieved the second place in the RumourEval competition out of eleven submitted systems.

EU Project Co-inform review meeting in Limassol more info at:

EU Project Co-inform review meeting in Limassol | Institute WeST The EU project Co-inform aims to empower citizens, journalists, and policymakers with co-created socio-techni

Panel Discussion @ Koblenz Weeks of Democracy. For more details visit:

Panel Discussion @ Koblenz Weeks of Democracy | Institute WeST The Institute WeST organizes a panel discussion at the “Koblenz Weeks of Democracy” with the topic: What are Scientists doing for Democracy? A Glimpse into the Scientific Warfare against Misinformation, between Computer Science and Political Science. Program of the event:

announces three positions for PhD students/PostDoc researchers in the areas of KR (Forgetting in Ontologies), Knowledge Graphs, Text Mining, ... Join a kind, dedicated, mid-size team of 18 women and men from 8 nationalities. See https://west.uni-koblenz.de/en/jobs