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Integrating Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Extraction and Validation of Textual Data

Large manufacturing companies in mission-critical sectors like aerospace, healthcare, and defense, typically design, develop, integrate, verify, and validate products characterized by high complexity and low volume. They carefully document all phases for each product but analyses across products are challenging due to the heterogeneity and unstructured nature of the data in documents. In our research, … Continue reading Integrating Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Extraction and Validation of Textual Data

Interpretable Network Visualizations: A Human-in-the-Loop Approach for Post-hoc Explainability of CNN-based Image Classification

Transparency and explainability in image classification are essential for establishing trust in machine learning models and detecting biases and errors. State-of-the-art explainability methods generate saliency maps to show where a specific class is identified, without providing a detailed explanation of the model's decision process. Striving to address such a need, we introduce a post-hoc method … Continue reading Interpretable Network Visualizations: A Human-in-the-Loop Approach for Post-hoc Explainability of CNN-based Image Classification

Unveiling Human-AI Interaction and Subjective Perceptions About Artificial Intelligent Agents

We developed a research that focuses on human-AI interactions, employing a crowd-based methodology to collect and assess the reactions and perceptions of a human audience to a dialogue between a human and an artificial intelligent agent. The study is conducted through a live streaming platform where human streamers broadcast interviews to a custom-made GPT voice … Continue reading Unveiling Human-AI Interaction and Subjective Perceptions About Artificial Intelligent Agents

Policy Sandboxing: Empathy As An Enabler Towards Inclusive Policy-Making

Digitally-supported participatory methods are often used in policy-making to develop inclusive policies by collecting and integrating citizen's opinions. However, these methods fail to capture the complexity and nuances in citizen's needs, i.e., citizens are generally unaware of other's needs, perspectives, and experiences. Consequently, policies developed with this underlying gap tend to overlook the alignment of … Continue reading Policy Sandboxing: Empathy As An Enabler Towards Inclusive Policy-Making

Discovering Hidden Communication Patterns and Informal Organization in Companies through Graph Analysis

In this study, we present a comprehensive framework for capturing, processing, and analyzing large-scale digital communication data to uncover hidden informal communication patterns within a real-world corporate environment. We run our study on a unique dataset of 40.425.247 email messages exchanged within a banking company, spanning a two-year period. Based on this information, we construct … Continue reading Discovering Hidden Communication Patterns and Informal Organization in Companies through Graph Analysis

Exploring the bi-verse: a trip across the digital and physical ecospheres

I've been invited to give a keynote talk at the WISE 2022 Conference. Thinking about it, I decided to focus on my idea of a bi-verse. To me, the bi-verse is the duality between the physical and digital worlds. On one side, the Web and social media are the environments where people post their content, … Continue reading Exploring the bi-verse: a trip across the digital and physical ecospheres