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       <a href="/assets/files/PR-NL4XAI_PhDTrainingDaysDec2022.pdf">Scientists and companies meet again to ‘teach’ AI how to explain itself </a> -- A new event organised in the framework of the H2020 European research project NL4XAI next December, will focus on the issue of how the quality of algorithms in this area should be assessed in the emerging field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).
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    <li> The third edition of The Academic Fringe Festival on the theme of <a href="https://www.academicfringe.org/events/designing-at-scale-with-human-ai-collaboration" target="_blank">"Designing at Scale with Human-AI Collaboration"</a> will begin on March 7, 2022 and run through till June, 2022.
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     <li> Three full papers from WIS Delft members have been accepted at the premier HCI conference ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, <a href="https://chi2022.acm.org" target="_blank">CHI 2022</a>!
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    <li> Three full papers from WIS Delft members have been accepted at the premier ACM Web Conference, <a href="" target="_blank">WWW 2022</a>!
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    <li> The members of the <a href="https://www.thedigitalsociety.info/themes/responsible-data-science/" target="_blank">Responsible Data Science</a> track of the <a href="https://www.thedigitalsociety.info" target="_blank">Digital Society</a> research program published a <a href="/disa-rds">roadmap on responsible use of data and algorithms</a>.
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    <li> We are happy to have WIS members involved into the organisation of DBML Workshop. More information can be found on
        the office webpage of the <a href="/dbml2022">workshop</a>.
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    <li>We are organizing this year's Dutch Belgian Database Day (DBDBD21) in Delft. More information can be found in
        the official <a href="/dbdbd2021">event page</a>.
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    <li>We are looking for a new colleague in NLP to join us at the Web Information Systems group. See details <a
            href="https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=4139&jobTitle=Two%20assistant%20professors%20Natural%20Language%20Processing">here</a>.
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    <li>Amazon Science <b>Best Paper Award</b> at <a href="https://www.humancomputation.com/index.html">AAAI HCOMP
        2021</a>. The paper presents a checklist to combat cognitive biases in crowdsourcing.
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    <li>Best <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3465480.3466920">paper</a> award in <a
            href="https://2021.debs.org">ACM DEBS</a>. The paper deals with transactions on stateful functions in the
        Cloud.
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    <li>We are honoured and happy that our group is part of (the) two consortia invited by NWO to work out a 10-year
        Long Term Programme. We are with our knowledge management and human computing expertises part of ROBUST for
        trusthworthy AI and of Plant-XR.
    <li><a href="https://delftdata.github.io/valentine/">Valentine</a>, an open source tool and benchmarking suite on
        matching techniques for dataset discovery will be presented in <a href="https://icde2021.gr">ICDE'21</a> and
        demoed in <a href="https://vldb.org/2021/">VLDB'21</a>.
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    <li>WIS Delft will be very well represented at the premier Human Computation and Crowdsourcing conference, <a
            href="https://www.humancomputation.com/index.html">AAAI HCOMP 2021</a>. We have 3 full research papers and 3
        demo papers accepted!
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    <li>Douglas Engelbert <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3465480.3466920">Best Paper Award</a> at <a
            href="https://t.co/T0hwW0tAGS?amp=1">ACM HT 2021</a>. The paper explores the obfuscation and labeling of
        search results to mitigate confirmation bias on the web.
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