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26 November 2025|HCDS

HCDS at PIER Day 2025: AI & Data Science

On 25 November 2025, the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) at the University of Hamburg took part in this year's PIER Day on the DESY campus in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The HCDS was represented by its Scientific Director, Prof. Chris Biemann, who engaged in discussions with stakeholders from research and infrastructure...

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17 November 2025|HCDS

Four New Research Projects Launched at the HCDS

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) at the University of Hamburg is starting the new academic year with four innovative research projects that strengthen its role as a catalyst for data-driven science, digital transformation, and societal impact.

Spanning education, climate research, global health, and the future...

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5 September 2025|HCDS

HCDS & LT to Co-Organize Two Shared Tasks at SemEval 2026

The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) is one of the most popular venues in the NLP community for advancing methods through shared tasks. For SemEval 2026, the Language Technology group (LT) and the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) are proud to co-organize two tasks.

Task 4: Narrative Story...

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27 August 2025|HCDS

HCDS at DLI2025 – Best Paper Award for African Language Research

The Deep Learning Indaba (DLI) is the largest gathering of the African AI community, bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners from across the continent each year. Its mission is to strengthen excellence in machine learning and AI, foster exchange across regions, and build sustainable structures for...

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14 August 2025|HCDS

HCDS at SANORD 2025 – Rethinking Technology through a Decolonial Lens

Our colleagues Seid Muhie Yimam and Martin Semmann from the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) represented us at this year’s SANORD Conference at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University.

As part of the “Decolonial technology design” panel, organized by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Rachel...

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1 August 2025|HCDS

Double Success for HCDS & Language Technology at ACL 2025 in Vienna

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) and the Language Technology (LT) group at Universität Hamburg proudly received two awards at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) in Vienna:

BRIGHTER – awarded Best Resource Paper Award
SemEval Task – awarded Best Task Award

These...

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