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Bettina Berendt

Bettina Berendt

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Computer Science

D-Index
32
Citations
7485
World Ranking
12913
National Ranking
121

Overview

Bettina Berendt is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium. Their research primarily lies at the intersection of computer science and social sciences, with a focus on artificial intelligence and its societal implications. The main fields of study for Bettina include Computer Science and Social Sciences, with subfields emphasizing Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, and Communication.

The research topics frequently explored include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, and Social Media and Politics.

Bettina Berendt has contributed to several significant publications. Notable papers include:

  • Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems-An introductory survey (2020), published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • AI in education: learner choice and fundamental rights (2020), published in Learning Media and Technology
  • Measuring Fairness with Biased Rulers: A Comparative Study on Bias Metrics for Pre-trained Language Models (2022), published in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • Algorithmic Tools in Public Employment Services: Towards a Jobseeker-Centric Perspective (2022), published in 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
  • Ethical Adversaries (2021), published in ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Pieter Delobelle, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Eirini Ntoutsi, Steffen Staab, and David Hartmann.

The publication venues where Bettina has appeared most often comprise arXiv (Cornell University), The International Review of Information Ethics, Lirias (KU Leuven), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and Learning Media and Technology.

Best Publications

  • Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems—An introductory survey

    Eirini Ntoutsi;Pavlos Fafalios;Ujwal Gadiraju;Vasileios Iosifidis

  • E-privacy in 2nd generation E-commerce: privacy preferences versus actual behavior

    Sarah Spiekermann;Jens Grossklags;Bettina Berendt

  • Privacy in e-commerce: stated preferences vs. actual behavior

    Bettina Berendt;Oliver Günther;Sarah Spiekermann

  • A Framework for the Evaluation of Session Reconstruction Heuristics in Web-Usage Analysis

    Myra Spiliopoulou;Bamshad Mobasher;Bettina Berendt;Miki Nakagawa

  • Towards Semantic Web Mining

    Bettina Berendt;Andreas Hotho;Gerd Stumme

  • Analysis of navigation behaviour in web sites integrating multiple information systems

    Bettina Berendt;Myra Spiliopoulou

  • Semantic Web Mining

    Gerd Stumme;Andreas Hotho;Bettina Berendt

  • The impact of site structure and user environment on session reconstruction in Web usage analysis

    Bettina Berendt;Bamshad Mobasher;Miki Nakagawa;Myra Spiliopoulou

  • AI in Education: Learner Choice and Fundamental Rights.

    Bettina Berendt;Allison Littlejohn;Mike Blakemore

  • E-Privacy in 2nd Generation E-Commerce: Privacy Preferences versus Actual Behavior

    Sarah Spiekermann;Bettina Berendt;Jens Grossklags

  • The impact of site structure and user environment on session reconstruction in web usage analysis

    Bettina Berendt;Bamshad Mobasher;Miki Nakagawa;Myra Spiliopoulou

  • RobBERT: a Dutch RoBERTa-based Language Model.

    Pieter Delobelle;Thomas Winters;Bettina Berendt

  • Ubiquitous Social Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Privacy-Aware User Modelling

    Sören Preibusch;Bettina Hoser;Seda Gürses;Bettina Berendt

  • Spatial Representation with Aspect Maps

    Bettina Berendt;Thomas Barkowsky;Christian Freksa;Stephanie Kelter

  • Conceptual user tracking

    Daniel Oberle;Bettina Berendt;Andreas Hotho;Jorge Gonzalez

  • AI for the Common Good?! Pitfalls, challenges, and ethics pen-testing

    Bettina Berendt

  • Investigating Distance Knowledge Using Virtual Environments

    Petra Jansen-Osmann;Bettina Berendt

  • Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web

    B. Berendt;A. Hotho;D. Mladenic;M.W. van Someren

  • A roadmap for Web mining: From Web to semantic Web

    Bettina Berendt;Andreas Hotho;Dunja Mladenic;Maarten van Someren

  • Peddling or Creating? Investigating the Role of Twitter in News Reporting

    Ilija Subašić;Bettina Berendt

  • Using Site Semantics to Analyze, Visualize, and Support Navigation

    Bettina Berendt

  • Better decision support through exploratory discrimination-aware data mining: foundations and empirical evidence

    Bettina Berendt;Sören Preibusch

  • A user-centric approach to identifying best deployment strategies for language tools: the impact of content and access language on Web user behaviour and attitudes

    Bettina Berendt;Anett Kralisch

  • Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web, First European Web Mining Forum, EMWF 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

    Bettina Berendt;Andreas Hotho;Dunja Mladenic;Maarten Van Someren

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Hotho
Andreas Hotho University of Würzburg
Myra Spiliopoulou
Myra Spiliopoulou Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Gerd Stumme
Gerd Stumme University of Kassel
Dunja Mladenic
Dunja Mladenic Jožef Stefan Institute
Bamshad Mobasher
Bamshad Mobasher DePaul University
Giovanni Semeraro
Giovanni Semeraro University of Bari Aldo Moro
Marko Grobelnik
Marko Grobelnik Jožef Stefan Institute
Tammy Schellens
Tammy Schellens Ghent University
Allison Littlejohn
Allison Littlejohn University College London
Christian Freksa
Christian Freksa University of Bremen

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