Weaponizing Migration: The Case of Italy
The Italian island of Lampedusa, located 113 kilometres from the coast of Tunisia, recently witnessed a huge influx of undocumented migrants. Today, the island’s 6,500 inhabitants are neighbours with some…
Crossing the Mediterranean Sea
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, more than 2,500 irregular migrants have either lost their life or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea in the first three quarters of…
From Raw Data to Actionable Insights
"In God we trust; all others must bring data". This famous quote, widely attributed to the US statistician W. Edwards Deming, refers mainly to the importance of data for any…
Towards Factuality Assessment
The generation of news around the world is growing at a fast speed, even faster with continuously improved versions of AI content generators like GPT. Such text generators (for example:…
Dangerous Migration Routes
In mid-June 2023, some 500 migrants – including women and children – lost their lives when their fishing boat capsized off the coast of southern Greece, prompting Jonas Grimheden, Frontex’s…
CRiTERIA at IC2S2, July 17-20 in Copenhagen, Denmark
We are pleased to announce that our colleagues from the L3S Research Center will be presenting at the upcoming 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), July 17-20, 2023 in Copenhagen, DenmarkThe…
The CRiTERIA Visual Analytics Dashboard
CRiTERIA is an innovative, EU-funded research project that uses semantic technologies in conjunction with interactive visualisation techniques to empower European border agencies and other stakeholders within the European Union. Its…
Free-Text Video Search
Predicting Information Needs Predicting the information needs of a user is not always possible. While in some cases the information needs may be known in advance, e.g. in the form…
Watch the Video Teaser for the “Migration Reframed? A multilingual analysis on the stance shift in Europe during the Ukrainian crisis” Presentation at the ACM Web Conference 2023
The Web Conference 2023 took place in Austin, Texas, USA from April 30 - May 4. Sergej Wildemann, Claudia Niederée, and Erick Elejalde from the L3S Research Center participated with…
The Benefits of the CRiTERIA Project for the Malta Police Force
The CRiTERIA project offers a wide range of benefits that are specifically designed to assist the Malta Police Force in carrying out its mission to maintain law and order. By…