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Bachelor-/Master-Seminar (SS 2026)

General Information

  • This seminar is open for bachelor- and master students (BA AI, MA AI, CitH).
  • You find administrative information at UnivIS.
  • Participants should sign up for the course in the virtual campus.
  • The course is usually offered in the winter term.
  • Course language is Geman by default.

Topic: AI and Disinformation

Techniques for Automated Detection of Manipulative Texts

In the current times of rising extremist views on social media, in news outlets and political speeches, disinformation plays an integral role. To tackle this issue, in recent years different approaches have been proposed to automatically detect disinformation on a textual basis, as well as for combinations of different media types and even complete disinformation campaigns. In this seminar we want to focus on approaches to identify manipulative texts, using neurosymbolic AI methods which combine the advantages of Artificial Neural Networks and Classical Approaches. 

Recommended Reading / Links / Topics

Relevant Topics include Fact Checking, Claim Verification, Topic and Argument Mining, Neural Inductive Logic Programming and Explainable AI.

Additional info to be announced…

Previous Seminars

Bachelor/Master-Seminar: Explainable Artificial Intelligence: [WS 19/20] [WS 20]

KI-Seminare (KI gestern, heute, morgen):  [WS 18/19] [WS 17/18] [WS 16/17] [WS 15/16]

Bachelor Seminare: [WS 04/05] [WS 05/06] [WS 06/07] [WS 07/08] [WS 08/09] [WS 09/10]  [WS 10/11]    [SS 11] [WS 11/12] [WS 12/13] [WS13/14]

Master Seminare: [SS 05] [SS 06] [SS 08] [SS 09] [WS 09/10] [SS 10]  [WS 11/12] [WS 12/13] [WS 13/14] [SS20] [SS21] [SS22] [SS23] [SS24] [SS25]

Reading Clubs:

  • WS 14/15: Cognitive Models for Number Series Induction Problems  [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2014: Experimenting with a Humanoid Robot - Programming NAO to (Inter-)Act  [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2013: An introduction into statistic data analysis with R  [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2012: Transfer Learning  [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2011: Emotion Mining in Images and Text  [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2010: Aspects of Cognitive Robotics [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2009: Reading Club Decision Support Systems [Archiv Page]
  • WS 08/09: Algebraic Foundations of Functional Programming (together with Theoretical Computer Science) [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2008: Similarity (together with Statistics) [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2007: Automated Theorem Proving with Isabelle (together with Theoretical Computer Science) [Archiv Page]
  • SS 2006: Support Vector Machines [Archiv Page]