How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) be used to make comprehensible decisions? This is the subject of a new project at the DWS group, which has received funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Knowledge graphs influence our lives on a daily basis and yet they are little ...

Nicolas Heist has successfully defended his thesis on “Exploiting Semi-Structured Information in Wikipedia for Knowledge Graph Construction”

We are happy to announce that four PhD Students from the AI group have their papers accepted for IJCAI 2024 (A* ranked) in Jeju, Korea: Julia Gastinger: “History repeats itself: A Baseline for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting” (Research Track) Andrej Tschalzev: “Enabling Mixed Effects Neural ...

The paper “MIND Your Language: A Multilingual Dataset for Cross-lingual News Recommendation” by Andreea Iana, Goran Glavaš,  and Heiko Paulheim has been accepted at the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Resource and Reproducibility Track.  ...

We are happy to announce that papers by DWS members based on the work referenced belwo have been accpepted for ICLR 2024 in Vienna: Jonas Belouadi, Anne Lauscher, Steffen Eger: AutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00367). Sascha ...

We are happy to announce, that the paper “RAISE the Bar: Restriction of Action Spaces for Improved Social Welfare and Equity in Traffic Management” by Michael Oesterle, Tim Grams, Christian Bartelt und Heiner Stuckenschmidt has been accepted as a full paper at the research Track of the International ...

Jan Portisch, a former PhD student at the Data and Web Science Group and now a Lead Software Architect at SAP Signavio, has received the SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award.

The paper “A Benchmark for Semi-Inductive Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs” by Adrian Kochsiek and Rainer Gemulla has been accepted at the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Abstract: Semi-inductive link prediction (LP) in knowledge graphs (KG) is the task ...

The paper “NewsRecLib: A PyTorch-Lightning Library for Neural News Recommendation” by Andreea Iana, Goran Glavaš,  and Heiko Paulheim has been accepted at the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, System Demonstrations Track. Abstract: NewsRecLib is an open-source ...

The BMBF funds a new project in the field of medical AI and systems medicine. The goal of the KI-DiabetesDetektion project is to integrate indication data from various sources in a knowledge graph and apply machine learning methods to improve the early stage detection of Diabetes.