Four DWS papers have been accepted for ACL (57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), the most prestigious conference in the area of natural language processing (NLP)!

The Papers “Anytime Bottom-Up Rule Learning for Knowledge Graph Completion” by Christian Meilicke, Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Daniel Ruffinelli and Heiner Stuckenschmidt and “PRoFET: Predicting the Risk of Firms from Event Transcripts” by Christoph Kilian Theil, Samuel Broscheit and Heiner ...

The Paper “newNECTAR: Collaborative active learning for knowledge-based probabilistic activity recognition” by Gabriele Civitarese, ClaudioBettini, TimoSztyler, DanieleRiboni, and HeinerStuckenschmidt has been accpeted for Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Impact Factor 2.974)

The joint paper with the Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management “A Data-Driven Newsvendor Problem: From Data to Decision” by Jakob Huber, Sebastian Müller, Moritz Fleischmann and Heiner Stuckenschmidt has been accepted for the European Journal on Operational Research (Impact Factor 3.428).

The paper “Real-Time Smart Charging Based on Precomputed Schedules” by Oliver Frendo, Nadine Gärtner and Heiner Stuckenschmidt has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (Impact Factor 7.364)

The Volkswagen founation provides seed funding to prepare a proposal on desolidarization effects of Smart City Applications. The corresponding consortium is led by Prof. Kai Eckert from Stuttgart Media University. From the Mannheim side the Chair of Artificial Intelligence (Prof. Stuckenschmidt) ...

Prof. Graeme Hirst from the University of Toronto is visiting the DWS Group during March. Graeme is well known for his work on natural language processing. He will work with PhD students from the AI and the NLP Area on advanced methods for argumentation analysis in natural language texts. For more ...

In the 2018 edition of the annual Bohnenspiel WM a new champion emerged! As integral part of the AI bachelor lecture, every year the students have the chance to participate in small groups in a tournament called the Bohnen-WM. For this tournament the students have to design and implement an AI that ...

The position paper “Automatic Assessment of Conceptual Text Complexity Using Knowledge Graphs” by Sanja Štajner and Ioana Hulpus has been accepted at the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), the premier international conference on Computational Linguistics.