Chatbot Bobbi at the Long Night of Science at the Center for Tangible AI and Digitalization (17-June-2023)

Author: Andreas Lommatzsch

The Long Night of Science (LNDW) is an annual event that takes place in Berlin and Potsdam. It is a science festival that offers visitors the opportunity to explore science and research in a fun and interactive way. In 2023, for the first time the Center for Tangible AI and Digitalization (ZEKI) […]

Presenting the Chatbot Bobbi on the “Hoffest” at the Red Townhall in Berlin

Author: Andreas Lommatzsch

The Hoffest (Courtyart Festival) at the Red Townhall in Berlin is traditional festival before the summer vacation. This year, Franziska Giffey, the Governing Mayor of Berlin, welcomed representatives from politics, business, science, diplomacy, culture, media and sports as well as citizens earned merits in the last months.

The DAI-Labor presented the robot […]

NewsREEL Multimedia at MediaEval’18

Author: Benjamin Kille

This year’s edition of our news recommendation challenge NewsREEL focused on multimedia data. We asked participants to estimate which articles would become popular solely based on their textual and visual features. A large-scale data set collected by our long-term partners at plista facilitated evaluating different algorithms.

The MediaEval benchmark brings different evaluation […]

1st Annual Meeting of the German Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence

Author: Andreas Lommatzsch

The first annual meeting of the German Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (GCAAI) took place at Porsche Digital Lab, on July 27th, 2018.

GCAAI promotes the exchange of educational resources between Germany and Chine in the field of artificial intelligence. They organize meetups and seminars focusing on AI topics. The events feature […]

6th Recommender Meetup Amsterdam

Author: Andreas Lommatzsch

The Recommender Meetup Amsterdam (www.recommenders.nl) is meetup focusing on innovative recommender algorithms and AI methods. The meetup is organized by the TU Delft and hosted by different companies in the Netherlands. The 6th RecSys:NL Meetup was held on September 28th at ORTEC Amsterdam.

There were three talks: First, Alexandros Karatzoglou (Telefonica Research, […]

NewsReel at the Algorithms & Data Challenges Meetup

Author: Till Plumbaum

We presented our CLEF Newsreel Challenge at the Algorithms with Friends II Meetup in Berlin with around 100 participants. Andreas talked about the challenges and findings of the third year of NewsReel, which focused on offline vs online evaluation and stream recommendations. We got very positive feedback from the crowd and are […]

Algorithms & Data Challenges Meetup

Author: Till Plumbaum

In March I presented the Deutsche Bahn Digital Header Challenge at the Algorithms & Data Challenges meetup.

On July 11th, the next Algorithms & Data Challenges meetup is hosted by Zalando and we are returning to present results. I will present results from the DB Challenge and Andreas Lommatzsch will present […]