The DWS group is happy to announce the new release of the WebDataCommons Microdata, JSON-LD, RDFa and Microformat data corpus. The data has been extracted from the November 2018 version of the Common Crawl covering 2.5 billion HTML pages which originate from 32 million websites (pay-level domains).

The research focus in the field of entity resolution (aka link discovery or duplicate detection) is moving from traditional symbolic matching methods to embeddings and deep neural network based matching. A problem with evaluating deep learning based matchers is that they are rather training data ...

Our systems and applications paper Extending Cross-Domain Knowledge Bases with Long Tail Entities using Web Table Data (Yaser Oulabi, Christian Bizer) got accepted at the 22nd International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2019), one of the top-tier conferences in the data ...

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, ...

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 Data and Web Science Group is hosting the Data Science Conference LWDA 2018 in Mannheim on August 22–24, 2018. LWDA, which expands to „Lernen, Wissen, Daten, Analysen“ („Learning, Knowledge, Data, Analytics“), covers recent research in areas such as knowledge discovery, machine learning & data ...

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 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.