09.07.20

Best Paper Award at Swiss Data Science Conference 2020

The paper “Annotating Web Tables through Knowledge Bases: A Context-Based Approach” by Yasamin Eslahi, Akansha Bhardwaj, Paolo Rosso, Kurt Stockinger and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux received the best paper award at the 7th Swiss Data Science Conference in…

07.04.20

A Methodology for Creating Question Answering Corpora Using Inverse Data Annotation: Paper accepted at ACL 2020

Our paper “A Methodology for Creating Question Answering Corpora Using Inverse Data Annotation” was accepted at ACL 2020 (Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics), which is the major international conference for…

28.01.20

Call for papers: Neural Network Conference ANNPR 2020, September 2nd-4th, 2020 in Winterthur

ANNPR 2020, the 9th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, will be held from September 2nd-4th, 2020, at ZHAW in Winterthur. The conference is organized by InIT and sponsored by the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive…

15.11.19

Datalab Seminar, PD Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker: "Neural networks for multimodal emotion recognition"

At Friday, 15th November from 12:00 to 13:00, we have a very interesting talk from Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker (Institute of Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Germany)- The event takes place in the room TB 504.

07.01.19

SwissText 2019: Call for presentations and workshops

Based on by the very positive feedback and experience from last years, SwissText 2019 will be held again as a two-day event. As in previous years, one main goal of the conference is to bring together practitioners and researchers based in…

12.12.18

6th Swiss Conference on Data Science 2019

The 6th Swiss Conference on Data Science 2019 (SDS2019, 14 June 2019, Bern) brings together researchers and practitioners, as well as decision-makers and opinion-leaders with interest in Data Science. The goal is to foster the exchange of ideas for…

25.10.18

Winner of ALTA 2018 Challenge

Fernando Benites a member of datalab won the ALTA 2018 challenge on Kaggle. Goal of the competition was to classify patent applications automatically, based on provided training data. Fernando and his team ("BMZ") outperformed 13 other teams with…

15.10.18

Proceedings of SwissText 2018

We are pleased to announce that the conference proceedings of the SwissText 2018, the 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference, are online now: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2226 In the proceedings, we gathered eight scientific papers, two invited Swiss…

11.10.18

Datalab in Silicon Valley

Datalab co-organizes a Data Science event in Silicon Valley as part of „Zurich meets San Francisco“. Datalab is represented by Kurt Stockinger. The event takes place on October 25 at 13:00 in San Jose,…

10.10.18

PhD Network in Data Science

The PhD Network in Data Science offers students in Switzerland with a master degree (including degrees from an university of applied sciences) the opportunity to obtain a PhD in cooperation between a university of applied sciences and a university.…

08.09.18

Digital Health Conference

The topic of the ZHAW's "Life in Numbers" conference is "Digital Health - Digital Technology for Innovating Health Care". This conference, organised by the Institute for Applied Simulation (IAS), covers a wide range of topics in the field of…

20.06.18

Deep Learning Day 2018

Dear deep learning enthusiasts, We had great fun organizing the first deep learning day 2016 and deep learning day 2017 and are pleased to announce the Deep Learning Day 2018 in September 14th https://tensorchiefs.github.io/dlday2018/ - the…

10.04.18

COST Conference AI in Finance and Industry

We aim to bring European academics, young researchers, students and industrial practitioners together in Switzerland to discuss the application of Artificial Intelligence to various practical fields. In a broader context, we want to promote…

22.01.18

SwissText 2018 - submit a presentation

We invite you to submit a presentation to the 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText 2018), which takes place on June 12-13 in Winterthur. Please see below for details on presentations types and how you can contribute to the…

14.01.18

Big Data Project presented in new official video of ZHAW

Our SNF Big Data Project on Bio-SODA was recently presented in the new official video of ZHAW School of Engineering. The video about Bio-SODA starts at min 4:50.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jys71tJFh4w&feature=youtu.be

18.12.17

ZHAW is world record holder in speaker recognition

As part of their bachelor thesis in computer science Yanick Lukic and Carlo Vogt have developed a software that can recognize and assign voices in audio files. Now the two were guests at a specialist congress in Japan to present their work to an…

24.10.17

5th Swiss Conference on Data Science

The 5th Swiss Conference on Data Science will be held on the June 7, 2018, at Kursaal Bern, Switzerland.

03.10.17

Paper "ZNS - Efficient Query Processing with ZurichNoSQL" accepted

03.04.17

Ca'Foscari scholarship

In conjunction with the Ca'Foscari University of Venice, we are going to offer a Ph.D. scholarship in Machine Learning in 2017 See www.zhaw.ch/datalab/teaching for more information.

27.03.17

Two new CTI-founded R&D projects

The Information Engineering group at InIT is happy to announce two new CTI-funded R&D projects in the area of deep learning: Ada will focus on automated machine learning, while QualitAI will innovate in the area of deep learning on small data sets…