Funded Projects

DFG Project: AQL. Call: Data corpora for artificial intelligence [2027 - 2030]
An Industry-level Benchmark for Universal Retrieval.
Partners: H. Scells (University of Tübingen)

EU-Horizon Project: CoopAIFA. Call: HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COAIF-03. [2026 - 2029]
Cooperation of AI Factories and Antennas.
Partners: T. Biro (CSC), M. Granitzer (Passau University), and 54 other European partners

BMFTR Projekt: Agent CRIS. Call: Data Use (Potential) and Interdisciplinary Data-Intensive Research Collection and Use of Research Information in Academia. [2026 - 2029]
An AI Agent for Dynamic Real-Time Analysis of Research Information from Heterogeneous Sources with KDSF Synthesis.
Partners: M. Schmidt (DZHW), M. Knierim (University of Kassel), M. Granitzer (Passau University)

BMFTR Project: SOURCE. Call: Trust in democracy and the state: Recognizing and countering digital disinformation. [2026 - 2029]
Scalable, Open, and Comprehensive Detection of Disinformation Campaigns on the Web
Partners: M. Granitzer (Passau University), S. Voigt (Open Search Foundation), M. Sharikadze (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), B. Zeeb (Alliance4Europe)

BMFTR Project: CORAL. Call: Flexible, resilient, and efficient machine learning models. [2024 - 2027]
Constrained retrieval-augmented language models.
Partners: G. Heyer (Institute for Applied Informatics), C. Hänig (Hochschule Anhalt), P. Leinen (German National Library, DNB)

BMBF and Saxony-funded Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) [2022 - 2026]
Member of the board of directors and area lead on understanding language.
Partners: 75+ partners at TU Dresden and Leipzig University

DFG Project within the RATIO Priority Program 1999: OASiS [2021 - 2026]
Objective Argument Summarization in Search.
Partners: H. Wachsmuth (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
[events] [publications]

BMBF Project: The Immersive Web Observatory [2018 - 2029]
Exploiting the Internet Archive's web archive for smart and immersive applications in economy, society, and science.
Partners: M. Hagen, B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[research]

Interactive Knowledge Curation based on Recall-oriented Retrieval-Augmented Generation. [2025]
Developing foundations for systematic reviewing in the IR Anthology.
Partners: R. Ewerth (University of Marburg)

hessian.AI Consular Space at the University of Kassel. [2025]
Laboratory infrastructure for the exchange between the University of Kassel and the hessian.AI Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Partners: Research Center for Information Systems Design (ITeG)

EU-Horizon Project: OpenWebSearch.EU [2022 - 2026]
Piloting a cooperative open web search infrastructure to support Europe's digital sovereignty.
Partners: M. Granitzer (Passau University), B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) and 11 other European partners
[publications]

DFG Project: A Multilayer Corpus for Ancient Greek and Latin. [2022 - 2025]
Creation of a scalable corpus of interoperable annotation layers for Ancient Greek and Latin texts.
Partners: Principal investigator: Giuseppe G. A. Celano (Leipzig University)

BMBF Project: SharKI [2021 - 2024]
Shared tasks as an innovative approach to implement AI- and Big-Data-based applications in the higher education.
Partners: B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), S. Hofmann (Leipzig University), J. Frochte (Bochum University)
[publications]

Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs: Medical Question Answering. [2022 - 2024]
Methods and tools that enable the direct answering of complex medical questions.
Partners: Beneficiary: Harrisen Paul Scells (Leipzig University)

BMBF Project: Agile-AI [2019 - 2022]
Agile development of software systems that operationalize complex machine learning experiments.
Partners: N. Siegmund, B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[research]

BMBF Project: PHOENIX [2019 - 2022]
Reflection, analysis, and quantification of the practice of authorship in scientific writing.
Partners: S. Hornbostel (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, DZHW), B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
[research]

BMBF Project: Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI). [2019 - 2022]
Bias analytics, and web mining and crowdsourcing for scalable training data acquisition.
Partners: 14 partners at TU Dresden and Leipzig University

BMBF Project: Scalable Data Services 2 (ScaDS 2) [2018 - 2021]
Intelligent text analysis with applications in the Digital Humanities.
Partners: 16 partners at TU Dresden and Leipzig University

Cooperation with the DLR Data Science Institute: Reliability and Quality in Social Media [2018 - 2021]
Effective and efficient analysis of social media data such as Twitter news, Facebook posts, or Instagram messages regarding information quality and trust.
Partners: B. Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

Google Grant in the Digital News Initiative Program: Clickbait [2016 - 2017]
Basic research and algorithms for clickbait detection.
[research]

ESF/ELIAS Funding: PAN Network Initiative II [2014]
PAN evaluation lab on uncovering plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse.
[project page: PAN]

BMWi EXIST Startup Grant: PicaPica [2013 - 2014]
Web services for plagiarism detection.
[research]

DAAD Funding: Higher Education Dialog Program [2013 - 2014]
Expert forum for digital text forensics.

DAAD Funding: Research Stay for Experienced Scientists [2013]
Concepts and methods for the characterization of question queries.
Partners: P. Braslavski, Yandex N.V. Ekaterinburg

ESF/ELIAS Funding: PAN Network Initiative I [2012]
PAN evaluation lab on uncovering plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse.
[project page: PAN]