We are delighted to announce an upcoming invited talk by Dr. Johannes Kiesel from the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), taking place on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at 16:00 in Room 1101.F138 (Welfengarten 1).
# Speaker
Dr. Johannes Kiesel
Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS)
www.gesis.org/en/institute/about-us/staff/person/Johannes.Kiesel
# Time and location
Tuesday, July 15, 16:00
1101.F138 (Welfengarten 1)
# Title
Connecting Claims, Images, and Facts
# Abstract
Is the trust in science eroding? Given a question whose answers are controversial, the task of argument retrieval is to find arguments that reflect the associated points of view. Next to “classical” argument retrieval, that presents textual arguments, I have been working in the last years on retrieving images that convey arguments. In my talk I will give a brief primer on argument retrieval, an overview of the shared task on image retrieval for arguments I have been organizing for some years [1], and my thoughts on a new variant of this task that focuses on the retrieval of charts as conveyors of data. I will end my talk with a brief overview of my new tasks at GESIS.
[1] touche.webis.de/shared-tasks.html