Dr. Sven Hertling

Substitute Professor for Data Science

B6, 26, Room B 0.01

sven.hertling (at) uni-mannheim.de

Consultation hours by appointment

Research Interests

Knowledge Graph Generation
Ontology / Instance Matching
Knowledge Graph Fusion

Teaching

Lectures
- Knowledge Graphs (HWS 2024)
- Databases for Data Scientists (FSS 2025)
- Data Mining (HWS 2024, FSS 2025)
Exercises
- Knowledge Graphs / Semantic Web Technologies (HWS 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- Database Technologies (HWS2017, FSS2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- Data Mining 1 (HWS2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, FSS 2022)
Team Projects (FSS 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, HWS 2017, 2020, 2024)

Awards

Research Track PC Member – Honorable Mention @ International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2024
Best Student Paper Nominee: OLaLa: Ontology Matching with Large Language Models. International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) 2023
Best Paper: DBkWik++ – Multi Source Matching of Knowledge Graphs Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web (KGSWC) 2022
Best Paper Nominee: Order Matters: Matching Multiple Knowledge Graphs. International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) 2021
Best Demo: Scikit-learn Pipelines meet Knowledge Graphs – The Python kgextension Package. ESWC 2021
Runner Up for Best Poster: On-Demand and Lightweight Knowledge Graph Generation – a Demonstration with DBpedia. Semantics 2021
Best Paper: 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (S.Hertling, M.Schröder, C. Jilek, A. Dengel: Where is that Button Again?! – Towards a Universal GUI Search Engine) ICAART 2017 – News Page
Winner of the ESWC 2016 Top-K Shortest Paths in Large Typed RDF Graphs Challenge (S.Hertling, M.Schröder, C. Jilek, A. Dengel: Top-k Shortest Paths in Directed Labeled Multigraphs)
Best Poster, ISWC 2013 (H. Paulheim, S. Hertling: Discoverability of SPARQL Endpoints in Linked Open Data)

Third Party Funding

Software Campus: Software Campus is a leadership development program for outstanding PhD students of computer science. Project: SuGraBo: Search engine for graphical user interfaces (100,000€)

Invited Talks

Talk at MaRDI Annual Meeting about “Construction of Knowledge Graphs”
Talk at Software Campus Alumni about “Knowledge Graph Generation – the Past and the Future”

Community Service

Workshop Organization

Chair

Proceedings Chair of ESWC 2023

PC Member

PC Member of ACM The Web Conference 2025
PC Member of 23th International Semantic Web Conference 2024 – Research Track
PC Member of ACM The Web Conference 2024
PC Member of 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) – Research Track
PC Member of 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2023 – Research Track
PC Member of 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2022 – Resource Track
PC Member of 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2022 – Research Track
PC Member of 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2021 – Research Track
PC Member of 19th International Semantic Web Conference 2020 – Reproducibility
PC Member of 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2020 – Resource Track
PC Member of 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2019 – Posters and Demos
PC Member of 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance, UbiComp'19
PC Member of 17th International Semantic Web Conference 2018 – Posters and Demos
PC Member of 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2018 – Posters and Demos
PC Member of 16th International Semantic Web Conference 2017 – Posters and Demos
PC Member of 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2017 – Posters and Demos
PC Member of 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Personal Guidance of Human Behavior
PC Member of 15th International Semantic Web Conference 2016 – Posters and Demos
PC Member of 1st Smarticipation Workshop, UbiComp'16

Reviewer for Journals

Publications

Sven Hertling @ Google Scholar, @ DBLP, @ORCID: 0000-0003-0333-5888

2024

Hertling, S. (2024). Knowledge graph : generation and integration at scale. Dissertation. Mannheim.

2023

Abd Nikooie Pour, M., Algergawy, A., Buche, P., Castro, L. J., Chen, J., Coulet, A., Cufi, J., Dong, H., Fallatah, O., Faria, D., Fundulaki, I., Hertling, S., He, Y., Horrocks, I., Huschka, M., Ibanescu, L., Jain, S., Jiménez-Ruiz, E., Karam, N., Lambrix, P., Li, H., Li, Y., Monnin, P., Nasr, E., Paulheim, H., Pesquita, C., Saveta, T., Shvaiko, P., Sousa, G., Trojahn, C., Vataščinová, J., Wu, M., Yaman, B., Zamazal, O. and Zhou, L. (2023). Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2023. In , OM 2023: Ontology Matching : proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023) : Athens, Greece, November 7, 2023 (S. 97–139). CEUR workshop proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Heist, N., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2023). KGrEaT: a framework to evaluate knowledge graphs via downstream tasks. In , CIKM '23 : Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (S. 3938-3942). , Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2023). OLaLa results for OAEI 2023. In , OM 2023: Ontology Matching : proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023) : Athens, Greece, November 7, 2023 (S. 170–177). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2023). OLaLa: Ontology matching with large language models. In , K-CAP ‘23 : proceedings of the 12th Knowledge Capture conference 2023, Pensacola, Florida, USA (S. 131–139). , Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2023). Transformer based semantic relation typing for knowledge graph integration. In , The semantic web: 20th international conference, ESWC 2023 Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 28–June 1, 2023 : proceedings (S. 105–121). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].

2021

Abd Nikooie Pour, M., Algergawy, A., Amardeilh, F., Amini, R., Fallatah, O., Faria, D., Fundulaki, I., Harrow, I., Hertling, S., Hitzler, P., Huschka, M., Ibanescu, L., Jiménez-Ruiz, E., Karam, N., Laadhar, A., Lambrix, P., Li, H., Li, Y., Michel, F., Nasr, E., Paulheim, H., Pesquita, C., Portisch, J., Roussey, C., Saveta, T., Shvaiko, P., Splendiani, A., Trojahn, C., Vataščinová, J., Yaman, B., Zamazal, O. and Zhou, L. (2021). Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2021. In , OM 2021, Ontology Matching 2021 : Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021), virtual conference, October 25, 2021 (S. 62–108). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Brockmeier, M., Liu, Y., Pateer, S., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2021). On-demand and lightweight knowledge graph generation – a demonstration with DBpedia. In , Joint proceedings of the Semantics co-located events: Poster&Demo track and Workshop on Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling of Digital Twins co-located with Semantics 2021, Amsterdam and Online, September 6–9, 2021 (S. 1–5). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Bucher, T.-C., Jiang, X., Meyer, O., Waitz, S., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2021). Scikit-learn pipelines meet knowledge graphs. In , The semantic web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events : virtual event, June 6–10, 2021, revisted selected papers (S. 9–14). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
Heist, N., Hertling, S., Ringler, D. and Paulheim, H. (2021). Wissensgraphen im Web : Überblick und Vergleich. In Semantische Datenintelligenz im Einsatz (S. 127–151). Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2021). ATBox results for OAEI 2021. In , OM 2021, Ontology Matching 2021 : Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021), virtual conference, October 25, 2021 (S. 137–143). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2021). Order matters: Matching multiple knowledge graphs. In , K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference (S. 113–120). , Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY.
Hertling, S., Portisch, J. and Paulheim, H. (2021). Matching with transformers in MELT. In , OM 2021, Ontology Matching 2021 : Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021), virtual conference, October 25, 2021 (S. 13–24). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.

2020

Abd Nikooie Pour, M., Algergawy, A., Amini, R., Faria, D., Fundulaki, I., Harrow, I., Hertling, S., Jiménez-Ruiz, E., Jonquet, C., Karam, N., Khiat, A., Laadhar, A., Lambrix, P., Li, H., Li, Y., Hitzler, P., Paulheim, H., Pesquita, C., Saveta, T., Shvaiko, P., Splendiani, A., Thiéblin, E., Trojahn, C., Vataščinová, J., Yaman, B., Zamazal, O. and Zhou, L. (2020). Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2020. In , OM 2020Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020) Virtual conference (originally planned to be in Athens, Greece), November 2, 2020 (S. 92–138). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Gashteovski, K., Gemulla, R., Kotnis, B., Hertling, S. and Meilicke, C. (2020). On aligning OpenIE extractions with Knowledge Bases: A case study. In , Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems : proceedings of the first workshop, november 20, 2020 (S. 143–154). , Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Stroudsburg, PA 18360, USA.
Heist, N., Hertling, S., Ringler, D. and Paulheim, H. (2020). Knowledge Graphs on the web – An overview. In Knowledge Graphs for eXplainable artificial intelligence : foundations, applications and challenges (S. 3–22). Amsterdam; Heidelberg: IOS Press / AKA.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2020). ATBox results for OAEI 2020. In , OM 2020 : Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020) Virtual conference (originally planned to be in Athens, Greece), November 2, 2020 (S. 168–175). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2020). DBkWik: extracting and integrating knowledge from thousands of Wikis. Knowledge and Information Systems, 62, 2169-2190.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2020). The knowledge graph track at OAEI : Gold standards, baselines, and the golden hammer bias. In , The semantic web : 17th international conference, ESWC 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31-June 4, 2020 : proceedings (S. 343–359). , Springer: Cham.
Hertling, S., Portisch, J. and Paulheim, H. (2020). Supervised ontology and instance matching with MELT. In , OM 2020 : Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020) Virtual conference (originally planned to be in Athens, Greece), November 2, 2020 (S. 60–71). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Portisch, J., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2020). Visual analysis of ontology matching results with the MELT Dashboard. In , The semantic web: ESWC 2020 satellite events : ESWC 2020 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31 – June 4, 2020 : revised selected papers (S. 186–190). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].

2019

Algergawy, A., Faria, D., Ferrara, A., Fundulaki, I., Harrow, I., Hertling, S., Jiménez-Ruiz, E., Karam, N., Khiat, A., Lambrix, P., Li, H., Montanelli, S., Paulheim, H., Pesquita, C., Saveta, T., Shvaiko, P., Splendiani, A., Thiéblin, E., Trojahn, C., Vataščinová, J., Zamazal, O. and Zhou, L. (2019). Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2019. In , OM 2019 : Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) Auckland, New Zealand, October 26, 2019 (S. 46–85). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Gashteovski, K., Wanner, S., Hertling, S., Broscheit, S. and Gemulla, R. (2019). OPIEC: An open information extraction corpus. In , AKBC 2019 : 1st Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) : May 20–22, 2019, Monday-Wednesday, Amherst, MA (S. 1–19). , OpenReview.net: Amherst, MA.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2019). DOME Results for OAEI 2019. In , OM 2019 : Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) Auckland, New Zealand, October 26, 2019 (S. 123–130). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Hertling, S., Portisch, J. and Paulheim, H. (2019). MELT – Matching EvaLuation Toolkit. In , Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs : 15th International Conference, SEMANTiCS 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9–12, 2019, Proceedings (S. 231–245). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
Iana, A., Jung, S., Naeser, P., Birukou, A., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2019). Building a conference recommender system based on SciGraph and WikiCFP. In , Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs : 15th International Conference, SEMANTiCS 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9–12, 2019, Proceedings (S. 117–123). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].

2018

Algergawy, A., Cheatham, M., Faria, D., Ferrara, A., Fundulaki, I., Harrow, I., Hertling, S., Jiménez-Ruiz, E., Karam, N., Khiat, A., Lambrix, P., Li, H., Montanelli, S., Paulheim, H., Pesquita, C., Saveta, T., Schmidt, D., Shvaiko, P., Splendiani, A., Thiéblin, E., Trojahn, C., Vataščinová, J., Zamazal, O. and Zhou, L. (2018). Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2018. In , OM 2018 : Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) Monterey, CA, USA, October 8, 2018 (S. 76–116). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Heist, N., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2018). Language-agnostic relation extraction from abstracts in Wikis. Information, 9, 75.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2018). DBkWik: A consolidated knowledge graph from thousands of Wikis. In , 9th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2018, Singapore, November 17–18, 2018 : proceedings (S. 17–24). , IEEE Computer Society: Piscataway, NJ [u. a.].
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2018). DOME results for OAEI 2018. In , OM 2018 : Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) Monterey, CA, USA, October 8, 2018 (S. 144–151). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2018). Provision and usage of provenance data in the WebIsALOD Knowledge Graph. In , CKGSemStats 2018 : Joint Proceedings of the International Workshops on Contextualized Knowledge Graphs, and Semantic Statistics co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, USA, October 8th, 2018 (S. Article 6). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Jiménez-Ruiz, E., Saveta, T., Zamazal, O., Hertling, S., Röder, M., Fundulaki, I., Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C., Sherif, M. A., Annane, A., Bellahsene, Z., Ben Yahia, S., Diallo, G., Faria, D., Kachroudi, M., Khiat, A., Lambrix, P., Li, H., Mackeprang, M., Mohammadi, M., Rybinski, M., Balasubramani, B. S. and Trojahn, C. (2018). Introducing the HOBBIT platform into the ontology alignment evaluation campaign. In , OM 2018 : Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018) Monterey, CA, USA, October 8, 2018 (S. 49–60). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.

2017

Hertling, S. (2017). WikiV3 results for OAEI 2017. In , OM 2017 : Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21, 2017 (S. 190–195). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2017). WebIsALOD: providing hypernymy relations extracted from the web as linked open data. In , The Semantic Web – ISWC 2017 : 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Vienna, Austria, October 21–25, 2017, proceedings, part II (S. 111–119). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
Hertling, S., Schröder, M., Jilek, C. and Dengel, A. (2017). Where is that button again?! – Towards a universal GUI search engine. In , Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence : ICAART-17, February 24–26, Porto, Portugal (S. 217–227). , SCITEPRESS: Setúbal.
Hofmann, A., Perchani, S., Portisch, J., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2017). DBkWik: towards knowledge graph creation from thousands of wikis. In , ISWC-P&D-Industry 2017 : Proceedings of the ISWC 2017 Posters & Demonstrations and Industry Tracks co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 23rd to 25th, 2017 (S. Paper 540). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Schröder, M., Jilek, C., Hees, J., Hertling, S. and Dengel, A. (2017). RDF spreadsheet editor : get (G)rid of your RDF data entry problems. In , ISWC-P&D-Industry 2017 : Proceedings of the ISWC 2017 Posters & Demonstrations and Industry Tracks co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 23rd to 25th, 2017 (S. Paper 635). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.