We are happy to announce that the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft accepted our proposal for extending a joint research project on hybrid semantic representations together with our friends and colleagues of the Language Technology Group of the University of Hamburg. The project, titled “Joining ...

We are happy to announce the release of Version 1.3 of the Web Data Integration Framework (WInte.r). WInte.r is a Java framework for end-to-end data integration. The framework implements a wide variety of different methods for data pre-processing, schema matching, identity resolution, data fusion, ...

Our long paper submission “Investigating the Role of Argumentation in the Rhetorical Analysis of Scientific Publications with Neural Multi-Task Learning Models " (Anne Lauscher, Goran Glavaš, Kai Eckert, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto) got accepted at the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in ...

André Melo has defended his PhD thesis on “Automatic Refinement of Large-Scale Cross-Domain Knowledge Graphs”, supervised by Prof. Heiko Paulheim. In his thesis, André has developed different methods to improve large-scale, cross-domain knowledge graphs along various dimensions. His contributions ...

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. 

The Data Mining Cup is an annual data mining competition for students from all over the world. Since 2014, students from Mannheim take part in the competition as an integral part of the Data Mining 2 lecture, held by Prof. Paulheim. In the course of the competition, the students have to solve a data ...

Our paper “Entity-Aspect Linking: Providing Fine-Grained Semantics of Entities in Context” has recently won the Vannevar Bush best paper award at the 2018 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), the top conference in the field of digital libraries! The work, coauthored by Federico Nanni, ...

We have three papers to be presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), the premier international conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Two short papers prepared in collaboration with our colleagues from the ...

Lydia Weiland has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Understanding the Message of Images” today.

We are happy to announce that Jakob Huber and Timo Sztyler reached the 1st place in the Hypo University Challenge that was hosted by Roche Diabetes Care GmbH and powered by IBM.