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 [...]
Shiftconnector AI Suit, which is developed as a collaborative project between eschbach and GippLab, wins the German Innovation Award 2025 in two categories, standing out of 460 submissions: AI Methods Information Technologies | Industry Specific and Service Software SAMI (Shiftconnector Artificial Manufacturing Intelligence) spans over three functions: SAMI Search, SAMI Solutions, and SAMI Chat. SAMI helps process manufacturers facilitate faster [...]
We are excited to announce that a result of our longstanding research collaboration with eschbach GmbH has been awarded the Best of Industry Award in the category of Artificial Intelligence for the second time in a row. The award recognizes the NLP-powered application Smart Solutions, a project driven by Anastasia Zhukova and Dr. Christian Matt with financial support from the [...]
We are thrilled to announce that the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has approved funding for a 30-month collaborative research project with our longstanding industry partner, eschbach, under the Central Innovation Program for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (ZIM). The newly funded project aims to develop advanced AI-driven multilingual search and recommendation algorithms tailored to handle the process [...]
The Smart Search functionality our group helped to devise and integrate into the flagship product of our longstanding industry partner eschbach won the Best of Industry Award 2023 in the Artificial Intelligence category. Smart Search is integrated into Shiftconnector—eschbach's enterprise software platform for process manufacturing. The feature provides users with powerful and user-friendly search capabilities for explicit information and implicit [...]
Anastasia Zhukova won the international competition for the Women’s STEM Award 2019 (prize money 3,000 EUR) for her master’s thesis compiled in our group.The thesis titled“Automated Identification of Framing by Word Choice and Labeling to Reveal Media Bias in News Articles”is available for download.German Telekom and the students’ magazine audimax jointly organize the competition, which in 2019 attracted 140 submissions of high-profile graduate theses [...]
