Funded Projects

Ongoing

BMBF Project: DIALOKIA. Call: Flexible, resilient, and efficient machine learning models. [2024 - 2027]
Integration of dialectical logic in AI architectures.
Partners: M. Hagen (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
DFG Project within the priority programme 2172: Curating the Feed [2023 - 2026]
Interdisciplinary perspectives onto digital image feeds and their curatorial assemblages.
Partners: S. Wirth (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), C. Bareither (Tübingen University)
EU-Horizon Project: OpenWebSearch.EU [2022 - 2025]
Piloting a cooperative open web search infrastructure to support Europe's digital sovereignty.
Partners: M. Granitzer (Passau University), M. Potthast (Leipzig University) and 11 other European partners
[publications]
IARPA Project: HIATUS [2022 - 2024]
Develop novel human-useable systems for attributing authorship and protecting author privacy.
Partners: SRI International plus 10 partners, mainly US
BMBF Project: SKILL [2021 - 2025]
An AI social science lab for for inquiry-based learning.
Partners: J. Neyer and K. Girgensohn (European University Viadrina), B. Fröhlich (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[project page: ENS] [publications]
DFG Project within the RATIO Priority Program 1999: LARGA [2021 - 2025]
Learning argumentation axioms from monological and dialogical texts.
Partners: M. Stede (Potsdam University)
[publications]
BMBF Project: SharKI [2021 - 2024]
Shared tasks as an innovative approach to implement AI- and Big-Data-based applications in the higher education.
Partners: M. Potthast, S. Hofmann (Leipzig University), J. Frochte (Bochum University)
[publications]
Thuringia National Program ProDigital: MetaReal [2020 - 2025]
Immersive knowledge access, collaborative exploration, and intelligent retrieval in a digital copy of our world.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, V. Rodehorst, H. Schmidgen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), W. Broll (TU Ilmenau)
[project page: BUW] [publications]
BMBF Project: The Immersive Web Observatory [2018 - 2025]
Exploiting the Internet Archive's web archive for smart and immersive applications in economy, society, and science.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, M. Hagen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), M. Potthast (Leipzig University)
[research]
Adobe Research Grant: Deep Text Analytics [2015 - today]
Basic research in the cross section of information retrieval and machine learning.

Completed

EFRE/TAB Funding: Text Image Structures [2021 - 2023]
Digital humanities and the discourse of modernity.
Partners: H. Schmidgen, V. Rodehorst (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[project page: BUW]
BMBF Project: PHOENIX [2019 - 2022]
Reflection, analysis, and quantification of the practice of authorship in scientific writing.
Partners: S. Hornbostel (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, DZHW), M. Potthast (Leipzig University)
[research]
BMBF Project: Agile-AI [2019 - 2022]
Agile development of software systems that operationalize complex machine learning experiments.
Partners: N. Siegmund, M. Potthast (Leipzig University)
[research]
DFG Project: Process-Oriented Discourse Analysis [2017 - 2022]
Technologies for discourse-based research in media history and the history of science.
Partners: Partners: H. Schmidgen, F. Simon-Ritz (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), B. Dotzler, G. Deinzer (Regensburg University)
[project page: BUW]
Cooperation with the DLR Data Science Institute: Reliability and Quality in Social Media [2018 - 2021]
Effective and efficient analysis of social media data such as Twitter news, Facebook posts, or Instagram messages regarding information quality and trust.
Partners: M. Potthast (Leipzig University)
Google Grant in the Digital News Initiative Program: Conversational News [2019 - 2020]
Research on how to bring written news articles from the web or print to smart speakers.
Partners: M. Hagen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
[research]
DFG Project: Arguana [2016 - 2020]
Argumentation analysis for the Web.
Partners: I. Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
[publications] [research]
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award [2018 - 2019]
Research grant which honors exceptional Ph.D. students, here devoted for developing computational argumentation technology.
Partners: Khalid Al-Khatib (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[project page: BUW]
BMBF Project: Provenance Analytics for 3D Digitizing, News Dissemination, Text Reuse and Forensics [2016 - 2019]
Interpreting the origin, possible causes, and the probable sources of information in data-driven and distributed applications.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, M. Hagen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), O. Niggemann (Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences), M. Granitzer (Passau University), ArcTron 3D Vermessungstechnik GmbH Altenthann
[project page: BUW]
BMBF Research Group: Big Data Analytics [2013 - 2018]
Technologies for reproducible analyses in very large data sets.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, M. Hagen (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[project page: BUW]
Google Grant in the Digital News Initiative Program: Clickbait [2016 - 2017]
Basic research and algorithms for clickbait detection.
[research]
Large-Scale Research Facility: Big Data Cluster (Betaweb) [2015]
Specification: 145 nodes, 1740 cores at 2.4 GHz, 27.2 TB RAM, 4060 TB HDD.
[project page: BUW]
DFG Project: CAIR II [2013 - 2015]
Semantic cluster analysis for information retrieval.
Partners: N. Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen)
[data] [project page: UDE] [publications] [research]
ESF/ELIAS Funding: PAN Network Initiative II [2014]
PAN evaluation lab on uncovering plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse.
[project page: PAN]
BMWi EXIST Startup Grant: PicaPica [2013 - 2014]
Web services for plagiarism detection.
[research]
DAAD Funding: Higher Education Dialog Program [2013 - 2014]
Expert forum for digital text forensics.
BMBF Project: Arguana [2012 - 2014]
Argumentation analysis for customer opinion mining.
Partners: s-Lab Paderborn University, Resolto Informatik GmbH Herford
[publications] [research]
EU-FP7 Project in the Marie Curie IRSES Program: WIQ-EI [2011 - 2014]
Web information quality evaluation initiative.
Partners: Know-Center Graz, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, University of the Aegean
Major Research Instrumentation (Art. 91b, German Basic Law): Digital Bauhaus Lab [2010 - 2014]
Interdisciplinary research center for digital media: information access, interfaces, analysis and retrieval, communities.
Partners: B. Stein, B. Fröhlich (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[project page: BUW]
DAAD Funding: Research Stay for Experienced Scientists [2013]
Automatic construction of debates stubs from wikipedia.
Partners: R. Awadallah, Palestine
DAAD Funding: Research Stay for Experienced Scientists [2013]
Concepts and methods for the characterization of question queries.
Partners: P. Braslavski, Yandex N.V. Ekaterinburg
ESF/ELIAS Funding: PAN Network Initiative I [2012]
PAN evaluation lab on uncovering plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse.
[project page: PAN]
DFG Project: CAIR I [2010 - 2012]
Semantic cluster analysis for information retrieval.
Partners: N. Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen)
[data] [events] [publications] [research]
BMBF Research Group: Intelligent Learning [2007 - 2012]
Innovative information technologies for knowledge management tasks.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, O. Kornadt (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[project page: BUW]
BMBF Project: InfexBA [2009 - 2011]
Information extraction algorithms for business applications.
Partners: s-Lab Paderborn University, Resolto Informatik GmbH Herford, Digital Collections Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Hamburg
[project page: UP] [publications] [research]
Thuringia National Program ProExzellenz: Robust Structures [2009 - 2011]
Strategies for the design and analysis of robust structures.
Partners: M. König, K. Beucke, B. Fröhlich, T. Gross, C. Könke (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[research]
BMBF Funding: Innoprofile Large-scale Facilities [2009]
Cluster scale-up, display technology, and dedicated lab infrastructure.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, O. Kornadt (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[project page: BUW]
EFRE Funding: Visual Analytics for Engineering [2008]
Visualization infrastructure for digital engineering research.
Partners: B. Fröhlich, C. Könke (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
dSPACE Research Grant [2006 - 2008]
Diagnosis algorithms for distributed, dynamic systems.
Partners: dSPACE GmbH Paderborn