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.