Publications

Jing Yang, Nils Feldhus, Salar Mohtaj, Leonhard Hennig, Qianli Wang, Eleni Metheniti, Sherzod Hakimov, Charlott Jakob, Veronika Solopova, Konrad Rieck, David Schlangen, Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

XplaiNLP at SemEval-2026 task 1: BVAHAHA-benign violation algorithm for humor and harmless absurdity

B Bubus, N Soyal, V Schmitt, N Feldhus, V Solopova

Uncovering Temporal Framing in the News

Tarek Mahmoud, Veronika Solopova, Premtim Sahitaj, Ariana Sahitaj, Max Upravitelev, Mervat Abassy, Hana Fatima Shaikh, Neda Foroutan, Vera Schmitt, Preslav Nakov

The 5th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD'26)

Dan-Cristian Stanciu, Symeon Papadopoulos, Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Bogdan Ionescu, Adrian Popescu, Roberto Caldelli, Milica Gerhardt, Vera Schmitt

RUBIN-news-polygraph-Verbundvorhaben: MOVERA-Multimodal Orchestration for Media-Content Verification; Teilvorhaben 3: TextBase: Text-basierte Analyseverfahren für Multi-Modale …

V Solopova, V Schmitt, C Jakob, M Sebastian

Parallel Universes, Parallel Languages: A Comprehensive Study on LLM-based Multilingual Counterfactual Example Generation

Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Yihong Liu, Fedor Splitt, Nils Feldhus, Christin Seifert, Hinrich Schütze, Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

Judge Circuits

Nils Feldhus, Tanja Baeumel, Elena Golimblevskaia, Qianli Wang, Van Bach Nguyen, Aaron Louis Eidt, Selin Kahvecioglu, Christopher Ebert, Wojciech Samek, Jing Yang, Vera Schmitt, Sebastian Möller, Simon Ostermann

hermeneutichools at SemEval-2026 Task 4: Multiperspectivity as a Resource for Narrative Similarity Prediction

M Upravitelev, V Solopova, J Yang, C Jakob, P Sahitaj, A Sahitaj, ...

Graph-Based Detection of Disinformation Narrative Diffusion between Russian and Ukrainian Telegram Channels

Y Vistak, V Makovska, V Schmitt, V Solopova

From Articles to Premises: Building PrimeFacts, an Extraction Methodology and Resource for Fact-Checking Evidence

Premtim Sahitaj, Jawan Kolanowski, Ariana Sahitaj, Veronika Solopova, Max Upravitelev, Daniel Röder, Iffat Maab, Junichi Yamagishi, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt

Fine-tuning with Hierarchical Prompting for Robust Propaganda Classification Across Annotation Schemas

Lukas Stähelin, Veronika Solopova, Max Upravitelev, David Kaplan, Premtim Sahitaj, Ariana Sahitaj, Charlott Jakob, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt

Ethical and Legal Limits of Aligning Large Language Models: The Illusion of Control

V Schmitt, S Ostermann, V Solopova

Can Large Language Models Still Explain Themselves? Investigating the Impact of Quantization on Self-Explanations

Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus, Pepa Atanasova, Fedor Splitt, Simon Ostermann, Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

AI Development and Governance: Navigating Trust, Transparency, Innovation, and the Challenges of Information Warfare

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

Deepfakes–Unsere neue Realität?

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

Truth or twist? optimal model selection for reliable label flipping evaluation in llm-based counterfactuals

Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus, Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas, Christin Seifert, Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

PolBiX: Detecting LLMs Political Bias in Fact-Checking through X-phemisms

Charlott Jakob, David Harbecke, Patrick Parschan, Pia Wenzel Neves, Vera Schmitt

Multilingual Datasets for Custom Input Extraction and Explanation Requests Parsing in Conversational XAI Systems

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Fedor Splitt, Jiaao Li, Yoana Tsoneva, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt

FitCF: A Framework for Automatic Feature Importance-guided Counterfactual Example Generation

Qianli Wang, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas, Prof. Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

Exploring Semantic Filtering Heuristics For Efficient Claim Verification

Max Upravitelev, Premtim Sahitaj, Arthur Hilbert, Veronika Solopova, Jing Yang, Nils Feldhus, Tatiana Anikina, Simon Ostermann, Vera Schmitt

Improving Sentiment Analysis for Ukrainian Social Media Code-Switching Data

Yurii Shynkarov, Veronika Solopova, Vera Schmitt

Hybrid Annotation for Propaganda Detection: Integrating LLM Pre-Annotations with Human Intelligence

Ariana Sahitaj, Premtim Sahitaj, Veronika Solopova, Jiaao Li, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt

Comparing LLMs and BERT-based Classifiers for Resource-Sensitive Claim Verification in Social Media

Max Upravitelev, Nicolau Duran-Silva, Christian Woerle, Giuseppe Guarino, Salar Mohtaj, Jing Yang, Veronika Solopova, Vera Schmitt

MAD25 - 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation

Dan-Cristian Stanciu, Bogdan Ionescu, Symeon Papadopoulos, Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Adrian Popescu, Roberto Caldelli, Milica Gerhardt, Vera Schmitt

Integrating Video, Text, and Images for Multimodal Disinformation Detection

Thomas Hetzner, Veronika Solopova, Vera Schmitt, Dorothea Kolossa

Beyond Transparency: Evaluating Explainability in AI-Supported Fact-Checking

Vera Schmitt, Isabel Bezzaoui, Charlott Jakob, Premtim Sahitaj, Qianli Wang, Arthur Hilbert, Max Upravitelev, Jonas Fegert, Sebastian Möller, Veronika Solopova

Utilising Large Language Models for Adversarial Attacks in Text-to-SQL: A Perpetrator and Victim Approach

Ariana Sahitaj, Markus Nilles, Ralf Schenkel, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

Towards Automated Fact-Checking of Real-World Claims: Exploring Task Formulation and Assessment with LLMs

Premtim Sahitaj, Iffat Maab, Junichi Yamagishi, Jawan Kolanowski, Prof. Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

XplaiNLP at CheckThat! 2025: Multilingual Subjectivity Detection with Finetuned Transformers and Prompt-Based Inference with Large Language Models

Ariana Sahitaj, Jiaao Li, Pia Wenzel Neves, Fedor Splitt, Premtim Sahitaj, Charlott Jakob, Veronika Solopova, Vera Schmitt

Through a Compressed Lens: Investigating the Impact of Quantization on LLM Explainability and Interpretability

Qianli Wang, Mingyang Wang, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Yuan Cao, Hinrich Schütze, Sebastian Möller, Vera Schmitt

Signals of Strain: Using Biosignals to Assess Fatigue in Video Conferencing

Lucy v. Pagel, Tanja Kojic, Vera Schmitt, Wafaa Wardah, Philipp L. Harnisch, Sebastian Möller, Robert P. Spang

PolBiX: Detecting LLMs' Political Bias in Fact-Checking through X-phemisms

Charlott Jakob, David Harbecke, Patrick Parschan, Pia Wenzel Neves, Vera Schmitt

Monetary Valuation of Privacy - Analyzing the Consistency of Valuation Methods and Their Influencing Factors

Vera Schmitt

Monetary Valuation of Privacy

V Schmitt

Large Language Models are Transformers in Artificial Intelligence, Industry, Education, and Society VDE Position Paper

S Brüggenwirth, A Burchard, T Fingscheidt, H Hoos, K Illgner, ...

dfkinit2b at CheckThat! 2025: Leveraging LLMs and Ensemble of Methods for Multilingual Claim Normalization

Tatiana Anikina, Ivan Vykopal, Sebastian Kula, Ravi Kiran Chikkala, Natalia Skachkova, Jing Yang, Veronika Solopova, Vera Schmitt, Simon Ostermann

Anchored Alignment for Self-Explanations Enhancement

Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas, Ata Nizamoglu, Qianli Wang, Prof. Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

From Construction to Application: Advancing Argument Mining with the Large-Scale KIALOPRIME Dataset

Premtim Sahitaj, Ramon Ruiz-Dolz, Ariana Sahitaj, Ata Nizamoglu, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Cross-Refine: Improving Natural Language Explanation Generation by Learning in Tandem

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Simon Ostermann, Prof. Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

CoXQL: A Dataset for Parsing Explanation Requests in Conversational XAI Systems

Qianli Wang, Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus, Dr. Simon Ostermann, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Disentangling User States in QoE: Situation-Dependent and Independent Factors

Robert P Spang, Maximilian Warsinke, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas, Navid Ashrafi, Prof. Sebastian Möller

NewsPolyML: Multi-lingual European News Fake Assessment Dataset

Salar Mohtaj, Ata Nizamoglu, Premtim Sahitaj, Charlott Jakob, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Implications of Regulations on Large Generative AI Models in the Super-Election Year and the Impact on Disinformation

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Jakob Tesch, Eva Lopez, Luis-Felipe Villa-Areas, Tim Polzehl, Aljoscha Burchardt, Konstanze Neumann, Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Evaluating Human-Centered AI Explanations: Introduction of an XAI Evaluation Framework for Fact-Checking

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Balázs Patrik Csomor, Joachim Meyer, Luis-Felipe Villa-Areas, Charlott Jakob, Tim Polzehl, Prof. Sebastian Möller

The Role of Explainability in Collaborative Human-AI Disinformation Detection

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas, Nils Feldhus, Joachim Meyer, Robert P Spang, Prof. Sebastian Möller

How Much is Your Instagram Data Worth? Economic Perspective of Privacy

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Paul Michel Dit Ferrer, Arooj Anwar Khan

Classifying Sustainability Reports Using Companies Self-Assessments

Charlott Jakob, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Towards a Computational Framework for Distinguishing Critical and Conspiratorial Texts by Elaborating on the Context and Argumentation with LLMs

Ariana Sahitaj, Premtim Sahitaj, Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Sebastian Möller, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

Privacy-Aware Decision Making: The Effect of Privacy Nudges on Privacy Awareness and the Monetary Assessment of Personal Information.

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, James Nicholson, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Large Language Models are Transformers in Artificial Intelligence, Industry, Education, and Society

S Brüggenwirth, A Burchard, T Fingscheidt, HH Hoos, K Illgner, K Knop, ...

Improving a Pupillometry Signal Through Video Luminance Modulation

Leon Schreiber, Wafaa Wardah, Vera Schmitt, Sebastian Möller, Robert P. Spang

Dissecting Speech Quality: Investigating the Interplay between Overall Quality and Dimensional Perceptions

W Wardah, R Spang, V Schmitt, S Möller

Augmented Political Leaning Detection: Leveraging Parliamentary Speeches for Classifying News Articles

Charlott Jakob, Pia Wenzel, Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

What is Your Information Worth? A Systematic Analysis of the Endowment Effect of Different Data Types

Daniel Sivizaca Conde, Premtim Sahitaj, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Prof. Sebastian Möller

How Risky is Multimodal Fake News Detection? A Review of Cross-Modal Learning Approaches under EU AI Act Constrains

Razieh Khamsehashari, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Tim Polzehl, Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Sebastian Möller

A Transfer Learning Approach for SDGs Classification of Sustainability Reports

Ata Nizamoglu, Lea Dahm, Talia Sari, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Unraveling the Hangry Rater: Non-linear Effects of Hunger on Multimedia Quality Perception

Robert P Spang, Wafaa Wardah, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Comparing Simulated and Real Conversations for QoE Assessments: Insights from ARKit-Based Facial Configuration Analyses

Robert P. Spang,, Wafaa Wardah, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Fighting Disinformation: Overview of Recent AI-Based Collaborative Human-Computer Interaction for Intelligent Decision Support Systems

Prof. Sebastian Möller, Tim Polzehl, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Nils Feldhus, Joachim Meyer

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, Sebastian Möller

Protect and Extend - Using GANs for Synthetic Data Generation of Time-Series Medical Records

Navid Ashrafi, Vera Schmitt, Robert P. Spang, Sebastian Möller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

Multi-task Learning for German Text Readability Assessment

Salar Mohtaj, Vera Schmitt, Razieh Khamsehashari, Sebastian Möller

Multi-Task Learning for German Text Readability

Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Razieh Khamsehashari, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis

V Schmitt, J Nicholson, S Möller

Is Privacy a Trait or a State? Examining Hangriness and its Influence on Individual's Privacy Perception

Vera Schmitt, Robert P. Spang, Wafaa Wardah, Sebastian Möller

How Much is Your Instagram Data Worth? Economic Perspective of Privacy in the Social Media Context

Vera Schmitt, Paul Michel Dit Ferrer, Arooj Anwar Khan, Ina Kern, Sebastian Möller

A Feature Extraction based Model for Hate Speech Identification

Salar Mohtaj, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Influence of Privacy Knowledge on Privacy Attitudes in the Domain of Location-Based Services

Vera Schmitt

Android Permission Manager, Visual Cues, and their Effect on Privacy Awareness and Privacy Literacy

Vera Schmitt, Maija Poikela, Sebastian Möller

Towards Automatic Green Claim Detection

Vinicius Woloszyn, Joseph Kobti, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt

Implications of the New Regulation Proposed by the European Commission on Automatic Content Moderation

Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Dr. Veronika Solopova, Vinicius Woloszyn, Jessica J. De Pino Pinhal

Towards a Novel Benchmark for Automatic Generation of ClaimReview Markup

Vinicius Woloszyn, Eduardo G. Cortes, Rafael Amantea, Prof. Dr. Vera Schmitt, Dante A. C. Barone, Prof. Sebastian Möller

Willingness to Pay for the Protection of Different Data Types

Vera Schmitt, Maija Poikela, Sebastian Möller