{"id":819,"date":"2024-02-12T00:12:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/?p=819"},"modified":"2024-02-12T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:12:20","slug":"reflecting-on-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/2024\/02\/12\/reflecting-on-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Reflecting on 2023<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Already more than one month into 2024, there is still time to reflect back on a year filled with numerous accomplishments, both on personal and team levels. We&#8217;re proud to share with you the accomplishments of DDIS throughout 2023!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>People<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also so pleased to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifi.uzh.ch\/en\/ddis\/people\/weijden.html\">Daan<\/a> as a PhD student working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/data.snf.ch\/grants\/grant\/205975\">SNSF D3: Digital Deliberative Democracy<\/a> project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research was published across a range of conferences and journals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Athina, Oana, Prof. Bernstein, and externals published the work <a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=HiimakFghr\">Algorithmically Mediated User Relations: Exploring Data&#8217;s Relationality in Recommender Systems <\/a>(Regulatable ML Workshop, NeurIPS \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Florian, Cristina, and Prof. Bernstein published the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2023.emnlp-main.320\">DREAM: Deployment of Recombination and Ensembles in Argument Mining<\/a> (EMNLP \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kathrin and Oana collaborated with externals on the project <a href=\"https:\/\/diglib.eg.org\/xmlui\/bitstream\/handle\/10.2312\/evp20231062\/037-039.pdf\">Interaction Tasks for Explainable Recommender Systems<\/a> (Eurovis \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luca together with externals published the papers:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ACCESS.2023.3248284\">Comparing Interactive Retrieval Approaches at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021<\/a> (IEEE Access)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-031-27077-2_53\">Exploring Effective Interactive Text-Based Video Search in vitrivr<\/a> (MMM \u201823 VBS)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-031-27077-2_49\">Traceable Asynchronous Workflows in Video Retrieval with vitrivr-VR<\/a> (MMM \u201823 VBS)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3591106.3592292\">A Comparison of Video Browsing Performance between Desktop and Virtual Reality Interfaces<\/a> (ICMR \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3592573.3593107\">The Best of Both Worlds: Lifelog Retrieval with a Desktop-Virtual Reality Hybrid System<\/a> (ICMR \u201823 LSC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00799-023-00367-0\">Gesture retrieval and its application to the study of multimodal communication<\/a> (International Journal on Digital Libraries)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00530-023-01143-5\">Interactive video retrieval in the age of effective joint embedding deep models: lessons from the 11th VBS<\/a> (Multimedia Systems Journal)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3617233.3617262\">Novice-Friendly Text-based Video Search with vitrivr<\/a> (CBMI&#8217;23)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3607542.3617358\">Spatially Localised Immersive Contemporary and Historic Photo Presentation on Mobile Devices in Augmented Reality<\/a> (SUMAC&#8217;23)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luca, along with Oana, Svenja, Florian, Ruijie, and Prof. Bernstein participated in the Lifelog Challenge with the work <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3592573.3593102\">Multi-Mode Clustering for Graph-Based Lifelog Retrieval<\/a> (ICMR \u201823 LSC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lucien, Prof. Bernstein, and externals published the short paper <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3604915.3608834\">Deliberative Diversity for News Recommendations: Operationalization and Experimental User Study<\/a> (RecSys \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oana together with externals published the papers:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.aaai.org\/index.php\/HCOMP\/article\/download\/27547\/27320\">Collect, measure, repeat: Reliability factors for responsible AI data collection<\/a> (best paper honorable mention, HCOMP \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11257-023-09363-0\">Evaluating explainable social choice-based aggregation strategies for group recommendation<\/a> (UMAP \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-28244-7_18\">Viewpoint diversity in search results<\/a> (ECIR \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2207.10062.pdf\">Dataperf: Benchmarks for data-centric ai development<\/a> (NeurIPS \u201823, Datasets and Benchmarks track)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rosni with externals published the work <a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.aaai.org\/index.php\/AAAI\/article\/view\/26649\/\">Med-EASi: Finely Annotated Dataset and Models for Controllable Simplification of Medical Texts<\/a> (AAAI \u201823)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ruijie, together with UZH student Zhiruo Zhang, Luca, Florian, Prof. Bernstein and collaborated on the work <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2311.07588\">NLQxform: A Language Model-based Question to SPARQL Transformer<\/a> (Scholarly QALD@ISWC 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DDIS alumni Suzanne, together with UZH student Vasiliki Arpatzoglou, Luca, and Prof. Bernstein published the work <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007%2Fs43681-023-00284-7\">Trolleys, crashes, and perception &#8211; a survey on how current autonomous vehicles debates invoke problematic expectations<\/a> (AI and Ethics)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UZH student Viktor Lakic, together with Luca, and Prof. Bernstein published the work <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-27077-2_37\">Link-Rot in Web-Sourced Multimedia Datasets<\/a> (best special session paper award MMM \u201823)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grants &amp; Scholarships<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosni was awarded the AAAI 2023 Student Scholarship and Volunteer Program and Lucien the GRC Travel Grant! Also, Athina and Fynn were selected for the DSI Excellence Program!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2023, we organized and participated in numerous events! Specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cristina presented in the <a href=\"https:\/\/digdemlab.io\/forms\/workshop2023.php\">DigDem Workshop \u201823<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lucien and Prof. Bernstein participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/ica2023.abstractcentral.com\/planner.jsp\">The Impact of Algorithm-Powered News Recommendation Systems<\/a> (ICA \u201823) and co-organized <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/normalizeworkshop\/call-for-papers\">NORMalize: The First Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems<\/a> (RecSys &#8217;23)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luca co-organized the Video Browser Showdown (VBS) \u201823 and the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) \u201823<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oana co-organized <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/quare-2023\/home\">QUARE: 2nd Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems<\/a> (RecSys \u201823), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.di.uniba.it\/~swap\/exum\">5th Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems<\/a> (UMAP&#8217;23), <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/art-of-safety\/home\">The ART of Safety: Workshop on Adversarial testing and Red-Teaming for generative AI<\/a> (AACL&#8217;23), and the<a href=\"https:\/\/dynabench.org\/tasks\/adversarial-nibbler\"> Adversarial Nibbler challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Student Theses and Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UZH student Konstantina Timoleon helped us to further improve the script of the Advanced Topics in AI lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the following master students completed their theses in DDIS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zhiruo Zhang &#8211; Answer Aggregation and Verbalization for Complex Question Answering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Domenic F\u00fcrer &#8211; Multimodal Feature Spaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jan Willi &#8211; Unified Multimedia Segmentation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nina Willis &#8211; Human Perception and Memory in Interactive Video Retrieval<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, in 2023 3 BSc theses and 5 Master Projects were completed under DDIS supervision!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>May 2024 be prosperous!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already more than one month into 2024, there is still time to reflect back on a year filled with numerous accomplishments, both on personal and team levels. 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