Panel Discussion on May 6: “Artificial Intelligence – Assistant or Competitor?”

The rapid development of artificial intelligence confronts us with a fundamental question: are we witnessing the emergence of the ultimate tool or the devaluation of human uniqueness? As AI increasingly enters studios and offices, the boundaries between human inspiration and machine replaceability are becoming blurred. In this panel discussion, we explore the tension between technological empowerment and the fear of [...]

2026-04-27T11:23:57+02:00April 27th, 2026|
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Upcoming Talk on April 30: Creating Data and Tools for Open Cultural Analysis Activities: TORCHLITE and Beyond

How can researchers explore millions of digitized texts when much of the data remains under copyright? In this upcoming talk, Prof. J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will present new approaches to open cultural analytics through the HathiTrust Research Center’s TORCHLITE project. When: April 30, 2026, 4:30 pm Where: Historic Building of the State and University Library Göttingen (SUB), [...]

2026-04-10T16:01:06+02:00April 10th, 2026|
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DFG Funds Project on Paraphrase Types and Plagiarism Detection

In an age where AI can generate and manipulate text that is often indistinguishable from human writing, which characteristics can help us identify human and machine text more accurately? This is a central question at the heart of a new research project from PD Dr. Terry Ruas at the University of Göttingen, titled "Paraphrase Types: A New Paradigm for Paraphrase Generation and Detection", [...]

2026-02-26T12:46:24+01:00February 26th, 2026|
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Workshop on AI-Supported Research Software Engineering

We are excited to announce the Workshop on AI-Supported Research Software Engineering, an interactive event for research software engineers and scientists engaged in developing and maintaining research software in the era of AI. When: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 - Wednesday, 23 September 2026 Where: Göttingen The workshop addresses the challenges and opportunities research software engineers face in AI-supported research software [...]

2026-01-29T16:05:06+01:00January 26th, 2026|
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Virtual Research Librarian: campus | inform reports on the LibraryAI project

The current issue of campus | inform features LibraryAI, a joint research project of our group, the State and University Library Göttingen (SUB), and the GWDG. We aim to develop an AI-powered virtual librarian that supports researchers across disciplines by providing conversational access to scholarly resources. Read more about the project and its goals (in German).

2026-01-29T12:15:03+01:00January 22nd, 2026|
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GippLab Joins International Research Project to Detect Fake News

How can AI help reliably identify falsified and manipulated digital content such as deepfakes, synthetic voices, and multimodal misinformation? This question is at the center of the Korean National Police Academy’s fake news project, a joint initiative involving the State Criminal Police Office, University of Göttingen, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Soongsil University, Sungkyunkwan University, Yonsei University, and Hancom.  AI-generated media has significantly expanded the scope of digital crime. Highly realistic [...]

2026-01-14T13:33:42+01:00January 14th, 2026|
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Congratulations to Jan Philip Wahle on his successful PhD thesis defense

We are thrilled to announce that Jan Philip Wahle has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled Language Modeling and Understanding Through Paraphrase Generation and Detection. In the presence of his family, friends, and colleagues, Jan Philip delivered an outstanding presentation of his work, earning him the title of Dr. rer. nat. The entire team extends its heartfelt congratulations on this [...]

2026-02-25T14:11:35+01:00December 2nd, 2025|
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GippLab Presents Five Papers at EMNLP Conference in China

Our team, together with collaborators from Mercedes-Benz, eschbach, the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police Office, and JUST ADD AI, presents the following five papers at the EMNLP conference 2025—one of the flagship conferences in NLP (CORE rank A*)—taking place in Suzhou, China, from November 4-9. (1) SPaRC: A Spatial Pathfinding Reasoning Challenge by Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry [...]

2025-11-04T17:27:07+01:00November 4th, 2025|
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GippLab Showcases Research to DAAD President at NII Tokyo

GippLab members Dr. André Greiner-Petter and Dr. Timo Spinde had the honor of meeting Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), during his visit to the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo. During the meeting, our researchers presented their current research projects to highlight GippLab’s ongoing activities at the NII and the long-standing history of [...]

2025-10-24T19:13:47+02:00October 24th, 2025|
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We’re Hiring Eight New Researcher Positions

Our research group is growing, and we’re excited to announce that we are hiring up to eight new team members over the next few months. Most of these positions will start between December 2025 and March 2026. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are eager to contribute to innovative and impactful research projects in the areas of computer [...]

2025-10-06T12:20:16+02:00October 6th, 2025|
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