BMBF Project: news-polygraph
With 10 partners from industry, research, and media outlets together, we will develop a multimodal disinformation detection platform for different journalistic use cases. 
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projects
DFG Project: Monetary Evaluation of Location Information
Project Duration: from 2020-02 until 2023-01
Funding Amount: EUR 233.220
Evaluating different methods for the economic perspective of privacy and association to other privacy constructs.
Climate Change Center Berlin-Brandenburg: ateSDG Project
Project Duration: from 2023-03 until 2023-12
Funding Amount: EUR 60.000
Automatic Extraction of Sustainable Development Goals from Text (ateSDG)
BMBF Project: VERANDA
Project Duration: from 2024-03 until 2026-09
Funding Amount: EUR 321.598,51 (total funding: 1.998.825)
Trustworthy anonymization of sensitive patient data for remote consultations.
BMBF Project: news-polygraph
Project Duration: from 2023-05 until 2026-04
Funding Amount: EUR 1.492.547 (total funding: 13.216.784,8)
news-polygraph - Multimodal Orchestration for Media-Content Verification
BIFOLD Project: FakeXplain
Project Duration: from 2024-05 until 2027-04
Funding Amount: EUR 269.100,36
FakeXplain – Development of transparent and meaningful explanations for disinformation detection
EU Project: Privacy for Smart Speech Technology (PSST)
Project Duration: from 2025-03 until 2028-02
Funding Amount: EUR 521.978 (total funding 4.067.942,4)
Privacy for Smart Speech Technology
BMBF Project: VeraXtract - Verification and Extraction of Disinformation Narratives with Individualized Explanations
Project Duration: from 2024-09 until 2027-08
Funding Amount: EUR 1.403.742
Research group funding
Overall funding aquired EUR 4.068.066 EUR
EU Marie Curie Funding: EUR 521.978, BMBF EUR 3.217.888, Other EUR 329.100
publications
Implications of the New Regulation Proposed by the European Commission on Automatic Content Moderation
Published in Schmitt, V., Solopova, V., Woloszyn, V., & de Pinho Pinhal, J. D. J. (2021). Implications of the New Regulation Proposed by the European Commission on Automatic Content Moderation. In Proc. 2021 ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication (pp. 47-51)., 2021
What is Your Location Privacy Worth? Monetary Valuation of Different Location Types and Privacy Influencing Factors
Published in Schmitt, Vera, Zhenni Li, Maija Poikela, Robert P. Spang, and Sebastian Möller. "What is your location privacy worth? Monetary valuation of different location types and privacy influencing factors." In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, pp. 19-29. 2023., 2023
Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis
Published in Schmitt, Vera, James Nicholson, and Sebastian Möller. "Is your surveillance camera app watching you? A privacy analysis." In Science and Information Conference, pp. 1375-1393. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023., 2023
Implications of Regulations on Large Generative AI Models in the Super-Election Year and the Impact on Disinformation
Published in Vera Schmitt, Jakob Tesch, Eva Lopez, Tim Polzehl, Aljoscha Burchardt, Konstanze Neumann, Salar Mohtaj, and Sebastian Möller (2024). Implications of Regulations on Large Generative AI Models in the Super-Election Year and the Impact on Disinformation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 28–38, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL., 2024
Privacy-Aware Decision Making: The Effect of Privacy Nudges on Privacy Awareness and the Monetary Assessment of Personal Information
Published in Vera Schmitt, James Nicholson, and Sebastian Möller (2024). Privacy-Aware Decision Making: The Effect of Privacy Nudges on Privacy Awareness and the Monetary Assessment of Personal Information. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), 15(3), 2024., 2024
Evaluating Human-Centered AI Explanations: Introduction of an XAI Evaluation Framework for Fact-Checking
Published in Vera Schmitt, Balázs P. Csomor, Joachim Meyer, Luis-Felipe Villa-Areas, Charlott Jakob, Tim Polzehl, and Sebastian Möller (2024). Evaluating Human-Centered AI Explanations: Introduction of an XAI Evaluation Framework for Fact-Checking. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 91–100., 2024
The Role of Explainability in Collaborative Human-AI Disinformation Detection
Published in Vera Schmitt, Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas, Nils Feldhus, Joachim Meyer, Robert P. Spang, and Sebastian Möller (2024). The Role of Explainability in Collaborative Human-AI Disinformation Detection. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2157–2174., 2024
Research concerning NLP
Published in , 2024
ITG Position Paper:
Prof. Rainer Martin, Prof. Stefan Brüggenwirth, Dr. Aljoscha Burchard, Prof. Tim Fingscheidt, Prof. Holger Hoos, Prof. Klaus Illgner, Dr. Henrik Junklewitz, Prof. André Kaup, Dr. Katharina von Knop, Dr. Joachim Köhler, Prof. Gitta Kutyniok, Prof. Dorothea Kolossa, Prof. Sebastian Möller, Dr. Ralf Schlüter, Dr. David Thulke, Dr. Vera Schmitt, Prof. Ingo Siegert, and Dr. Volker Ziegler (2024). “Large Language Models are Transformers in Artificial Intelligence, Industry, Education, and Society”, VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e. V.:
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talks
Panel Discussion: Big Data – Chance oder Risiko
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Eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema Verantwortung in Zeiten der Digitalisierung: „Big Data – Chance oder Risiko“ mit Konstantin von Notz, dem netzpolitischen Sprecher der GRÜNEN; Nikolaus Blome, stellvertretender Chefredakteur der BILD-Zeitung; Vera Schmitt, die Datenanalyse zu wohltätigen Zwecken bei CorrelAid durchführt und Denny Vorbrücken, Geschäftsführer im Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter Beayreuther Dialoge. Zusätzlich hate Vera Schmitt ein Seminar zum Thema “Data for Good: wie wir Datenkompetenzen für wohltätige Zwecke einsetezn können” gegeben.
Panel Discussion: Usable Security and Privacy Day 2021
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The panel discussion was organized by Prof. Möller and Vera Schmitt from TU Berlin, with Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi from TU Darmstadt, Prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner from Karlstad University, Prof. Joachim Meyer from Tel Aviv University, Dr. Aljoscha Burchardt senior researcher at DFKI, and CTO Philipp Berger co-founder of neXenio as panelists More Information.
Research Talk: Usable Security and Privacy
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Panel Discussion: AI-Regulation and Data-Protection: Perspectives from the World
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The panel discussion took part with the panelists Prof. Jennifer Williams, Prof. Sneha Das, Prof. Tom Bäckström, and Vera Schmitt, and was moderated by Prof. Ingo Siegert More information here.
Panel Discussion: Das Katz- und Mausspiel der Desinformation
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Panel discussion with: Dr. Eva Flecken (MABB), Jana Heigl (BR Faktenfuchs), Georg Heil (ARD-Politikmagazins “Kontraste”), Vera Schmitt (TU Berlin, DFKI), Stefan Voß (dpa) More information here.
Incubator Session: Fact Matters! The Role of AI in Combatting Digital Disinformation
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Together with Charlotte Freihse from the Bertelsmann Stiftung (Upgrade Democracy), Tim Polzehl from the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), and Vera Schmitt TU Berlin (and news-polygraph) hosted an incubator session about the current technical and legal challenges of disinformation detection to politicians from around the world.
Invited Talk: Do explanations make a difference? The influence of human-centered explanations on collaborative human-AI disinformation detection
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Presentation of ongoing research on human-AI collaboration for the disinformation detection task concerning several research projects I have acquired throughout the last years (news-polygraph, VERANDA, FakeXplain). Discussing with experts from Germany and the EUREGIO region challenges and upcoming research in the domain of legal compliant and transparent AI systems Program Link
Invited Talk SoftwareCampus: How to regulate AI?” introducing the AI Act, DSA and DA for LLM applications
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Presentation of ongoing research on the analysis of legal implications of the AI Act, DSA, Data Act, and GDPRon research and development.
Invited Talk: KI Wegweiser - what can we do with LLMs for fact-checking?
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“Wegweiser KI” expert workshops for journalists of media outlets in German-speaking countries to showcase how AI-based tools can support fact-checking Program Link
Interview: Deepfakes im Visier: KI als Waffe gegen digitale Manipulation
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Interview with the DFKI about the news-polygraph research project to develop AI-based tools to combat disinformation and deepfakes Link to Interview
Interview: Deepfakes - Our New Reality?
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Interview with rbb concerning the role of deepfakes and how we combat them by utilizing AI tools Link to Interview
Interview: Deepfakes erkennen mit KI
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Interview about the work of the XplaiNLP Team and the multiple research projects where we develop AI tools to combat dis-and misinformation online Link to Interview
Invited Talk: Deepfakes - Our New Reality
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We got invited to present our ongoing research at the XplaiNLP Team from TUB and SLT from DFKI concerning AI-based mis-and disinformation detection Program Link
teaching
Teaching Summer Term
Undergraduate course, Technische Universität Berlin, Quality and Usability Lab
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Teaching Winter Term
Undergraduate and graduate courses, Technische Universität Berlin, Qaulity and Usability Lab
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