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In July 2025, eight members of the XplaiNLP research group had the opportunity to attend the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) in Vienna. What began with great anticipation turned into a week filled with inspiring discussions, cutting-edge research insights, and valuable connection.

In a BR24 article highlighting the dangers of AI fact-checking, expert Dr. Vera Schmitt explains that chatbots are fundamentally unreliable for this task because they are designed to generate statistically probable text rather than verify truthfulness.

Dr. Vera Schmitt assisted in fact-checking “AI influencer” accounts for a DW News report.

Friday 27.01.25, Vera participated in an intriguing panel discussion with Alexandra Geese, Jörg Müller, Patrick Stegemann, Moritz Demmig and Dr. David Biesinger moderated by Jörg Thadeusz at the rooftop lounge (Studio 14) at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg!

Qianli Wang, a member of the XplaiNLP research group at Technische Universität Berlin and Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), has been accepted at COLING 2025! 🎉

“AI should not only help to disseminate information more quickly, but also to check its validity immediately.”

Announcing Our New Research Group Lead Vera Schmitt for Disinformation Narrative Detection and eXplainable AI (xAI)

Exciting News from hashtag#EMNLP2024! 🚀 I’m delighted to share that Qianli Wang from the XplaiNLP research group Technische Universität Berlin and Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) presented our latest work at EMNLP 2024! 🎤

🎉 This week, I had the incredible opportunity to present my first research paper at the CLEF 2024 Conference. The conference was held in Grenoble, but I skipped the airport lines and presented from Berlin instead. No lost luggage, but I definitely missed out on some French pastries and mountain views!