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3 March 2026|HCDS

KONVENS 2026 – GermEval Shared Task, Workshops, and Tutorials

We are pleased to announce the 1st Call for Participation for the GermEval 2026 Shared Task on Harmful Content Detection in German Social Media, organized as part of KONVENS 2026 and led by Michael Spranger and Melanie Siegel.

In its second edition, the Shared Task focuses on four key challenges in...

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24 February 2026|HCDS

HCDS Featured on the “Code for Thought” Podcast – Spotlight on RSE Day

Our colleague Katrin Schöning-Stierand from the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) was recently featured on the podcast “Code for Thought.” In the latest episode, she joins host Peter Schmidt to discuss RSE Day 2025 in Hamburg and the growing importance of Research Software Engineering (RSE) for sustainable and...

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23 February 2026|HCDS

HCDS at EACL 2026 – A Strong Presence in Multilingual & Inclusive AI

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) will be represented at EACL 2026 (European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) with a diverse and impactful portfolio of accepted papers. The contributions span multilingual NLP, low-resource language technologies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)...

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18 February 2026|HCDS

Science in the Classroom: HCDS Participates in “Wir wollen’s wissen!”

Science does not only belong in lecture halls — it belongs in classrooms as well. Through the University of Hamburg’s outreach series “Wir wollen’s wissen!”, researchers visit schools to share their work directly with students. As the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS), we actively support this initiative and are...

Lehrprojekt Data-driven Solutions for the Smart City Hamburg

Photo: Marten Borchers/UHH

12 February 2026|HCDS

Final Presentation of the Teaching Project Data-driven Solutions for the Smart City Hamburg

On Wednesday, the final event of the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching project “Data-driven Solutions for the Smart City Hamburg” took place. The format has now been successfully implemented for the eighth time – in close collaboration between Hamburger Hochbahn AG, the University of Hamburg, and the Hub of...

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6 January 2026|HCDS

HCDS at ICIS: Designing Intelligent Situation Maps for Flood Emergency Management

At this year’s ICIS – International Conference on Information Systems, the flagship conference of the global AIS community, our paper
“Emergency Management: Designing Situation Maps to Support Rescue Forces during Flood Disasters” was presented by Marten Borchers.

The presentation was delivered on behalf of the co-authors...

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