Welcome to BISS! We're a hub for bright minds diving into the fascinating world of data. At BISS, we're not just about teaching and researching data science; we're on a mission to make a real impact on society. By harnessing the power of AI and data science, we aim to tackle important challenges and create positive change. Join us in shaping a smarter, data-driven future at BISS!
Our work
AI to prevent poverty and debt
1 in 14 children in the Netherlands grow up in poverty. This is unacceptable, so we are doing something about it!
Inspiration sessions Data science
3 inspiration sessions where participants will get insights and tools to increase the impact of data in their work.
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🔎 Explore how Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) and a bit of ingenuity can go a long way in extracting actionable insights from complex legal text! Shashank Chakravarthy recently participated in the LegalLens Shared Task at the Natural Legal Language Processing 2024 Workshop, where he developed a model to identify key elements in unstructured legal text, including: - Violation - Violated-by - Violated-on - Relevant Law With limited time and resources, he opted for a straightforward approach: CRFs paired with feature engineering. Despite the low-resource dataset, this approach performed well—better than rule-based methods! If you're interested in understanding the approach and results in de
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📢 Research software available! 👇 🎉 I am happy to announce the release of Lawnotation, a software platform that allows for the annotation of legal (and other) documents. It's a one-stop shop for finding data (court cases atm), creating projects, calculating interrater agreement, and sharing your data. 🔓🆓 The platform is opensource and freely available. We avoid clunky clicking. 🏠 Website: www.lawnotation.org. 💡 Interested in creating an annotation project or contributing to our software? Let us know! Thanks to my collaborators at the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab and BISS - Brightlands Institute for Smart Society who have been developing the platform: Carlos Eduardo Aguilera Medina
Enhancing customer support with AI
Improving the efficiency of customer support by using AI to answer the most common questions.
Prevent factory shutdowns
How can we ensure an operator responds effectively to alarms and takes appropriate actions?
Legal Research Software
Open source software for legal research tasks.
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PUBLICATION | Deciphering disagreement in the annotation Excited to share the latest paper by Gijs van Dijck, Carlos Eduardo Aguilera Medina and Shashank Chakravarthy "Deciphering disagreement in the annotation of EU legislation" published in Artificial Intelligence and Law. This study delves into the complexities of handling disagreement when labeling data—particularly EU legislation. The team explored the impact of disagreement feedback among annotators. Key takeaway: Include revision rounds in your annotation process and consider multiple annotators for at least a portion of your data to boost reliability. Want to know more? Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/eepzKJ_X Congratulati
Flying Forward: Drones that fly on their own
How can drones follow the laws and rules that apply in a region, country and continent?
Towards Holistic Automated Financial Advice: Definition and Ethical Challenges
Challenges of automated financial advice: Definition and ethical considerations.
Can automated systems give good financial advice?
We investigate what good automated financial advice is, the ethical aspects, and communication.
Training Data Interpretation, Ethics & Security
In 2 days, data science will be explained in an interdisciplinary manner using a case from the organization.
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Outstanding partnership in empowering digital innovation
The Brightlands Institute for Smart Society has been located on the Brightlands Smart Services Campus since its founding in 2016 and our collaboration goes far beyond technology alone. Within the Brightlands ecosystem, we work on smart digital services, each in our own role. It is a very pleasant collaboration with short lines of communication based on our shared ambition to empower people and organizations through the socially responsible application of digital technologies and that improve the quality of life.
Outstanding partnership in empowering digital innovation
The Brightlands Institute for Smart Society has been located on the Brightlands Smart Services Campus since its founding in 2016 and our collaboration goes far beyond technology alone. Within the Brightlands ecosystem, we work on smart digital services, each in our own role. It is a very pleasant collaboration with short lines of communication based on our shared ambition to empower people and organizations through the socially responsible application of digital technologies and that improve the quality of life.
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