Launch of new Special Interest Group Active Learning

We are happy to announce the launch of a new Special Interest Group: Active Learning, initiated by prof. Rens van de Schoot.


The Special Interest Group Active Learning (SIG-AL) covers all aspects of using Active Learning for screening prioritization. To this end, the four specific objectives of this SIG are to advance state of the art by:
 

  • Developing and evaluating even better methods to improve efficiency: Even the most negligible improvements might result in hundreds of hours of screening time not being needed.
  • Developing Explainable AI (XAI) to understand the output produced by the machine and, as such, gain trust in the use of AL. 
  • Designing methods to ‘standardize’ and FAIR-ify the input data and all data produced by the active learning models for complete reproducibility and transparency. 
  • Applying active learning to use-cases beneficial to the general public. 

At the moment this is a SIG in the focus area Applied Data Science, but the  SIG is also seeking recognition by the focus area Human-centered Artificial Intelligence.

Hackathon

In light of this launch the ASReview-team is organizing a . To investigate the communication between Shell and the Dutch government, Follow the Money is gathering and scrutinizing many many documents. The goal of the Hackathon is to help Follow The Money (FTM) find the relevant documents sooner by using active learning instead of randomly reading all documents.