In this panel discussion, we explore the tension between technological empowerment and the fear of being replaced. Join us in discussing a future that has already begun.

Moderator:
Stefan Geier (science journalist)

Speakers:

• Motte Jansen (film director)
• Jürgen Geuter (computer scientist and philosopher, Stifterverband)
• Dr. Sabrina Patsch (physicist and journalist)
• Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp (Professor of Scientific Information Analytics, University of Göttingen)

Date & Time:
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 18:30–20:00

Location:
Forum Wissen
(Berliner Str. 28, 37073 Göttingen)

Admission: Free (registration required at https://forum-wissen.de/event/salon-debatte-ki/)

Der Beitrag Panel Discussion on May 6: “Artificial Intelligence – Assistant or Competitor?” erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

When: April 30, 2026, 4:30 pm
Where: Historic Building of the State and University Library Göttingen (SUB), room 1.207
What:
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) provides analytic access to 19 million volumes found in the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL). Roughly 10 million of the volumes in the collection are under copyright restrictions and cannot be freely shared with scholars. To provide more open access to HathiTrust’s materials, the HTRC has released its Extracted Features (EF) 2.5 Dataset, which contains over 3 trillion unigram tokens found on each of the 6 billion pages in the corpus.

Prof. Downie will provide a briefing update on the HTRC’s ongoing “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction” (TORCHLITE) project. Funded by the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), TORCHLITE strives to create easy-to-use text analysis tools, dashboards, and application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate open cultural analytics research using the uniquely valuable HTDL data. The talk will highlight motivations, challenges, and accomplishments of the TORCHLITE to date, along with its upcoming next steps that envision the creation of an international consortium of similar groups, tentatively called the “International Consortium for Open Cultural Analytics,” which is designed to encourage Extracted Feature access to otherwise closed collections. The talk will conclude with a conversation about the upcoming sunsetting of HTRC and the role that EF will play in continuing the work of the HTRC team and other digital humanities scholars.

Speaker:
J. Stephen Downie is a professor and the Executive Associate Dean at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the Illinois Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center. Professor Downie conducts work in Digital Libraries, Digital Humanities and Music Information Retrieval. He holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario, including a BA (music theory and composition), a Master’s of Library and Information Science (MLIS), and a PhD in Library and Information Science.

Der Beitrag Upcoming Talk on April 30: Creating Data and Tools for Open Cultural Analysis Activities: TORCHLITE and Beyond erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

• When: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 – Wednesday, 23 September 2026
• Where: Göttingen

Refer to this website for upcoming program details and registration.

Your orga team: Stephan Janosch, Inga Ulusoy, Mustafa Dogan, Bernadette Fritzsch, Bela Gipp, Lukas Netz, Sebastian Nielebock

P.S. Interested in participating in the organization and contributing to the program? Would you like to get involved in teaching hands-on sessions or presenting at the workshop? Please get in touch at ai-in-rse-workshop26@listserv.dfn.de by February 28, 2026.

Der Beitrag Workshop on AI-Supported Research Software Engineering erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Read more about the project and its goals (in German).

Der Beitrag Virtual Research Librarian: campus | inform reports on the LibraryAI project erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

(1) SPaRC: A Spatial Pathfinding Reasoning Challenge
by Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, and Bela Gipp

TL;DR: SPaRC is a 2D pathfinding dataset that necessitates multi-step spatial and rule-based reasoning, underscoring a significant gap in spatial understanding between human and AI reasoning models.

Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.526 or https://sparc.gipplab.org

Poster: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/emnlp-2025-poster-sparc-a-spatial-pathfinding-reasoning-challenge/284023981

Presentation: Wed. Nov. 5, 14:30-16:00, Hall C

(2) Contrastive Learning Using Graph Embeddings for Domain Adaptation of Language Models in the Process Industry
by Anastasia Zhukova*, Jonas Lührs*, Christian E. Lobmüller, and Bela Gipp (*equal contribution)

TL;DR: We explore the use of knowledge graphs for fine-tuning language models, specifically the text encoder, when the text domain data is low-resource.

Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-industry.103/

Poster: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/contrastive-learning-using-graph-embeddings-for-domain-adaptation-of-language-models-in-the-process-industry/283913368

Presentation: Wed., Nov. 5, 14:30-16:00, Hall C, Industry Poster Session 1

(3) MALLM: Multi-Agent Large Language Models Framework
by Jonas Becker*, Lars Benedikt Kaesberg*, Niklas Bauer, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, and Bela Gipp (*equal contribution)

TL;DR: A framework for multi-agent debate to conduct your research experiments. Evaluate agent personas, response generators, discussion paradigms, and decision protocols.

Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-demos.29/ or https://mallm.gipplab.org

Poster: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/mallm-multi-agent-large-language-models-framework-emnlp-2025/284028707

Presentation: Thu., Nov. 6, 16:30-18:00, Hall C

(4) TrojanStego: Your Language Model can Secretly Be A Steganographic Privacy Leaking Agent
by Dominik Meier, Jan Philip Wähle, Paul Röttger, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

TL;DR: We explore a novel threat model where LLMs secretly embed information in their output.

Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1386/

Poster: https://pdfhost.io/v/WsBM3XwhdJ_TrojanStego-Dm-JW-2-1

Presentation: Fri., Nov. 7, 10:30-12:00, Hall C

(5) Re-FRAME the Meeting Summarization SCOPE: Fact-Based Summarization and Personalization via Questions
by Frederic Kirstein, Sonu Kumar, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

TL;DR: We introduce FRAME, a fact-centric pipeline that incorporates statement–context tuples, along with SCOPE, a reason-out-loud personalization protocol, and P-MESA, a reader-aligned metric. We reframe summarization as enrichment, cutting hallucination/omission, and improving relevance, goal alignment, and knowledge fit in meeting summaries.

Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.1094/

Poster: https://de.slideshare.net/slideshow/emnlp25-poster/284036994

Presentation: Fri., Nov. 7, 12:30-13:30, Hall C

Der Beitrag GippLab Presents Five Papers at EMNLP Conference in China erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Der Beitrag New Open-Access Book on Media Bias erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-orten/innenstadt/

See also this video (minute 1:12):

Der Beitrag Nacht des Wissens erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

The collaborative project LibraryAI is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with more than one million euros for three years, starting in December 2025.

The virtual research assistant will enable users to “interact” with the library via chat: asking questions, summarizing or translating content, and navigating through complex source collections. The special feature is that the assistant not only responds quickly and accurately, but also understands scientific terminology, thanks to customized AI models trained explicitly for the context of libraries and research.

“LibraryAI will not be a generic chatbot, but a reliable companion in everyday research – tailored to the needs of scientific users,” says principal investigator Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, deputy director of SUB and head of our research group. The AI will be closely integrated with the existing library systems at SUB Göttingen, allowing it to access current catalog data, full texts, and subject-specific resources without inheriting the typical weaknesses of generative AI, such as outdated content or incorrect statements.

The system is based on a modular, open architecture and will be developed so that other scientific libraries can adopt it. “With our project, we aim to make an important contribution to the digital transformation of library services in Germany,” says Gipp.

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Der Beitrag DFG Funds Development of a Virtual Assistant to Facilitate Research in Libraries erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

Having obtained the highest university degree achievable in Germany allows him to independently teach and supervise graduate students and PhD researchers. We wholeheartedly congratulate him on this significant milestone in his academic career!

Der Beitrag Dr. Terry Ruas passes habilitation exam erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.

The newly funded project aims to develop advanced AI-driven multilingual search and recommendation algorithms tailored to handle the process industry’s unique terminology and language conventions. The enhanced AI capabilities will significantly elevate the Smart Search functionality of eschbach’s flagship product, Shiftconnector, by enabling seamless searches and recommendations across multiple languages. This innovation is particularly vital for global organizations utilizing Shiftconnector in production facilities worldwide.

eschbach and GippLab have collaborated successfully on research and development projects since 2015. Our joint efforts won multiple prestigious awards for product improvements and benefited the research community. This newly secured grant will mark a new chapter in our collaboration, supporting critical research, data science, and software development roles at both eschbach and GippLab.

Please visit this page to learn more about our fruitful research collaboration with eschbach.

Der Beitrag Federal Funding Approved for AI Research Collaboration with eschbach erschien zuerst auf Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen, GippLab.