✨ 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗟 ✨

As the year comes to a close, we’d like to thank everyone who contributed to the SAIL research network in 2025. Through collaboration, exchange, and dialogue, SAIL continues to grow as an interdisciplinary community.
Wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a great start to 2026. 🎄✨

✨ 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 (𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟯)

The final months of 2025 brought hands-on research and exchange across SAIL.
🧠🤖 We hosted the SAIL Hackathon “AI in Health Sciences” at HSBI.
🌍 SAIL research was presented at ISWC (Nara), HAI (Yokohama) and K-CAP (Dayton), with award-winning contributions.
🤝 At GENIALE 2025, the Citizen Hackathon fostered public dialogue on sustainable AI.
🎓 Our SAIL Retreat in Bad Sassendorf rounded off the year.

See https://www.sail.nrw/2025/12/sail-in-2025-year-in-review-part-3/ for more info.

✨𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 (𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮)
Over the course of the year, SAIL showcased its breadth and strong connection to both the scientific community and the public.

🌍 SAIL members presented their research worldwide
🧠 In August, we hosted a workshop on Human–LLM interaction in Bielefeld
🎤 September featured the Science Slam “AI vs Mind” at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld
🔬 In October, Science Speed Dating made sustainable AI hands-on for the public

See https://www.sail.nrw/2025/12/sail-in-2025-year-in-review-part-2/ for more info!✨

✨𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 (𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭)

👏 The conference year began with COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, followed by many other international conferences throughout the year.
🤝 We welcomed Prof. Tibebe Beshah Tesema as a SAIL Fellow at Uni Paderborn.
🎓 In March, we hosted our Spring School at Uni Bielefeld.
🏛️ In July, we showcased the SAIL research at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute.
🚀 We also prepared major events with the Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld.

➡️ See https://www.sail.nrw/2025/12/sail-in-2025-year-in-review-part-1/ for more info!

😊 Together with colleagues from @diceresearch, SAIL members Michael Röder and Rupesh Sapkota travelled to Dayton, Ohio and presented their papers at K-CAP 2025.

🎓 "Explainable Benchmarking through the Lens of Concept Learning" by Quannian Zhang, Michael Röder, Nikit Srivastava, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, and Axel Ngonga.
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dTZEzNgH

🎓 "Parameter Averaging in Link Prediction" by Rupesh Sapkota, Caglar Demir, Arnab Sharma, and Axel Ngonga.
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dTVQSWuH

𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗦𝗪𝗖 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 — 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗮, 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻

👉 David M. Schmidt (Uni Bielefeld) presented “CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting.”
🏆 Awarded Best ORKG Comparison Award and nominated for Best Paper + Best Student Paper. 🎉

👉 Adel Memariani (Uni Paderborn) presented “Link Prediction Under Non-targeted Attacks: Do Soft Labels Always Help?”

👉 Tatiana Moteu (Uni Paderborn) presented “Benchmarking Knowledge Editing using Logical Rules.”

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗱𝘁: 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗜

🤩 At our Science Speed Dating during GENIALE 2025 in Bielefeld, visitors met our researchers and explored sustainable AI hands-on. From robots and sensors to explainable AI, interactive demonstrators invited people to touch, test, and discover.

🔍 Read more: https://www.sail.nrw/2025/11/science-speed-dating-at-the-wissenswerkstadt-hands-on-ki/

#SAIL #AI #ScienceCommunication #GENIALE2025 #Bielefeld

🎤 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝗺 “𝗔𝗜 𝘃𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱” @ 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

🤖 When AI meets human creativity! About 200 visitors joined us at Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld for an evening full of ideas, humor & collaboration between humans and AI — making complex research accessible in a fun way.

🙏 Thanks to our amazing contributors!

👉 Read more: https://www.sail-project.de/news/science-slam-ai-vs-mind

#ScienceSlam #AI #SAIL #Geniale2025

On August 28, we held the workshop “Jailbreaking and other Creative Practices in Human-LLM Interaction” at Bielefeld University.

A day full of great talks and discussions about how human-LLM interactions are co-produced by humans and machines, and about the challenges of designing and controlling LLM-based systems.

Thanks to everyone who joined and to the organizers Ole Pütz, Elena Esposito & Jonas Mieke!

#AI #LLM #HCI #Research