International Symposium on Data Technologies
(ISDT - 2026)
April 15 – 17, 2026
Islamabad, Pakistan
Organized by IT Directorate, NCP in Collaboration with ITU, Lahore
Dr. Johannes Kiesel
Leader of team BDA at GESIS
Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany
Dr. Johannes Kiesel's primary areas of interest include argument search, conversational search, human values, and web archives. He has co-organized the SemEval/PAN 2019 Task for Hyperpartisan News Detection (2019), the SemEval/Touché Task on Human Value Detection (2023, 2024), the SCAI-QReCC conversational question answering task (2021), the Touché Tasks on Image Retrieval for Arguments (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) and Retrieval-Augmented Debating (2025), and the TREC Interactive Knowledge Assistance Track (iKAT; 2025). I have been co-organizing the workshops SCAI (2024) and Touché (2022 , 2023 , 2024 , 2025).