How has the economic literature changed over the last fifteen years? The ICE-Map Visualization, introduced by Eckert et al. (2007) and described comprehensively in the dissertation of Kai Eckert (2012), lets one see such changes at a glance: it shows a whole thesaurus as a single picture and colours every concept by how its usage differs between two document collections.
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Katharina Salewski and Kai Eckert took part in this year’s Klausurtagung of the Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) at Stuttgart Media University. The yearly retreat took place in Huzenbach in the Black Forest.
On October 20th, 2026, Sotaro Takeshita successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Scholarly Document Summarization: from Foundation to Application” at the University of Mannheim, with the highest distinction: summa cum laude. Congratulations, Sotaro!
The streaming platform Twitch has become an important social environment where players and viewers interact in real time, form communities, and develop shared norms. At the same time, these communities can be affected by harmful behavior, including harassment, abusive language, and discrimination.
In the upcoming winter term, we offer three elective courses: Advanced Natural Language Processing (ANLP, Master), the Virtual Reality Projekt (VRP, …
The summer semester 2026 edition of our Game Engineering course (GAE) has come to an end, and once again the students were in it with a lot of fun and …
Mental health matters just as much as physical health — and academia is no exception. Kai Eckert has completed the MHFA Ersthelfer course and is now …
This year marks ten years since our research group began collaborating with Deutsche Welle (DW). Yesterday, Kai Eckert visited DW in person to mark …
On June 15, 2026, Kai Eckert returns to the Zentrum für Lehre und Lernen (ZLL) at Mannheim Technical University with a follow-up talk in the lecture …
On June 10, 2026, Kai Eckert will give a talk at the Liselotte-Gymnasium Mannheim as part of their Medienabend (Media Evening) — an event organized …
