Dr. Vera Schmitt

Dr. Vera Schmitt

Head of XplaiNLP Research Group at Technische Universität Berlin and guest researcher at Speech and Language Technology at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Selected Publications

XAI and HCI

The Role of Explainability in Collaborative Human-AI Disinformation Detection
Vera Schmitt, Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas, Nils Feldhus, Joachim Meyer, Robert P. Spang, and Sebastian Möller (2024). In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2157–2174.
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The Role of Explainability in Collaborative Human-AI Disinformation Detection
Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller, and Vera Schmitt (2024). Accepted at COLING.
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Evaluating Human-Centered AI Explanations: Introduction of an XAI Evaluation Framework for Fact-Checking
Vera Schmitt, Balázs P. Csomor, Joachim Meyer, Luis-Felipe Villa-Areas, Charlott Jakob, Tim Polzehl, and Sebastian Möller (2024). In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 91–100.
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NLP

ITG Position Paper: Large Language Models are Transformers in Artificial Intelligence, Industry, Education, and Society
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). VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e. V.:
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Towards a Novel Benchmark for Automatic Generation of ClaimReview Markup
Vinicius Woloszyn, Eduardo G. Cortes, Rafael Amantea, Vera Schmitt, Dante A. C. Barone, and Sebastian Möller (2021). In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 (WebSci '21).
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NewsPolyML: Multi-lingual European News Fake Assessment Dataset
Salar Mohtaj, Ata Nizamoglu, Premtim Sahitaj, Charlott Jakob, Vera Schmitt and Sebastian Möller (2024). In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD '24).
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Legal Analysis

Implications of Regulations on Large Generative AI Models in the Super-Election Year and the Impact on Disinformation
Vera Schmitt, Jakob Tesch, Eva Lopez, Tim Polzehl, Aljoscha Burchardt, Konstanze Neumann, Salar Mohtaj, and Sebastian Möller (2024). 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.
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Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis
Vera Schmitt, James Nicholson, and Sebastian Möller (2023). In: Intelligent Computing. SAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 739. Springer, Cham.
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Implications of the New Regulation Proposed by the European Commission on Automatic Content Moderation
Vera Schmitt, Veroniak Solopova, Vinicius Woloszyn, and Jessica J. de Pino Pinhal (2021). In Proceedings of the ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication, 47-51.
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Usable Privacy

Privacy-Aware Decision Making: The Effect of Privacy Nudges on Privacy Awareness and the Monetary Assessment of Personal Information.
Vera Schmitt, James Nicholson, and Sebastian Möller (2024). International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), 15(3), 2024.
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What is Your Location Privacy Worth? Monetary Valuation of Different Location Types and Privacy Influencing Factors
Vera Schmitt, Zhenni Li, Maija Poikela, Robert P. Spang, and Sebastian Möller (2023). In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 19–29.
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Dissertation: Monetary Valuation of Privacy: Analyzing the Consistency of Valuation Methods and Their Influencing Factors
Vera Schmitt (2024). Will be published with Springer in early 2025, and has been published with the TU Berlin library (see link below).
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Full list of papers can be accessed in the CV or Google Scholar.