Andreea Iana
Researcher
University of Mannheim
B6, 26, Room B 018
D-68159 Mannheim
Email: andreea.iana (at) uni-mannheim.de
Webpage: https://andreeaiana.github.io/
Research Interests
- Recommender systems
- Information retrieval
- Natural language processing
Teaching
Teaching Assistant:
- Data Mining (HWS 2024)
- Data Mining 2 (FSS 2024)
- Data Mining 1 (HWS 2023)
- Team Project (FSS 2022 – HWS 2022): Developing a Python Library for News Recommenders
- Team Project (HWS 2023 – FSS 2024): A Chatbot for Study Advice
Thesis Co-supervisor
- “Diversified Scientific Publication Recommendation”
- “A Comparative Analysis of Negative Sampling Techniques for News Recommenders”
Projects
Responsible News Recommender Systems (ReNewRS) – Investigating the influence of algorithmic news selection on shaping public opinion
Community Service
- ARR
- PC Member of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP)
- Reviewer for 21th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024) – Resource Track
- PC Member of 4th International Workshop on Computational Methods for Online Discourse Analysis (BeyondFacts'24)
- PC Member of 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis (BeyondFacts’23)
- Reviewer for Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG)
- PC Member of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political sciences (PoliticalNLP)
- Reviewer for 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2022) – Research Track
- Sub-reviewer for 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021) – Research Track
- Reviewer for Journal of Web Semantics
Publications
2024
- Iana, A., Alam, M. and Paulheim, H. (2024). A survey on knowledge-aware news recommender systems. Semantic Web, 15, 21–82.
- Iana, A., Glavaš, G. and Paulheim, H. (2024). MIND your language: A multilingual dataset for cross-lingual news recommendation. In , Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14–18, 2024 (S. 553–563). , ACM: New York.
2023
- Breit, A., Waltersdorfer, L., Ekaputra, F. J., Iana, A. and Paulheim, H. (2023). Combining machine learning and semantic web: a systematic mapping study (extended abstract). NeSy 2023: 17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, La Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy.
- Breit, A., Waltersdorfer, L., Ekaputra, F. J., Sabou, M., Ekelhart, A., Iana, A., Paulheim, H., Portisch, J., Revenko, A., Teije, A. . and van Harmelen, F. (2023). Combining machine learning and semantic web: A systematic mapping study. ACM Computing Surveys : CSUR, 55, 1–41.
- Iana, A., Alam, M., Grote, A., Nikolajevic, N., Ludwig, K., Müller, P., Weinhardt, C. and Paulheim, H. (2023). NeMig – A bilingual news collection and knowledge graph about migration. In , Proceedings of the International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics co-located with the 2023 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) (S. 1–22). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
- Iana, A., Glavaš, G. and Paulheim, H. (2023). NewsRecLib: A PyTorch-Lightning library for neural news recommendation. In , EMNLP 2023, The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing : proceedings of the system demonstrations (S. 296–310). , Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL: Stroudsburg, PA.
- Iana, A., Glavaš, G. and Paulheim, H. (2023). Simplifying content-based neural news recommendation: On user modeling and training objectives. In , Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23) (S. 2384-2388). , Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, United States.
- Ludwig, K., Grote, A., Iana, A., Alam, M., Paulheim, H., Sack, H., Weinhardt, C. and Müller, P. (2023). Divided by the algorithm? The (limited) effects of content- and sentiment-based news recommendation on affective, ideological, and perceived polarization. Social Science Computer Review : SSCORE, 41, 2188-2210.
- Waltersdorfer, L., Breit, A., Ekaputra, F. J., Sabou, M., Ekelhart, A., Iana, A., Paulheim, H., Portisch, J., Revenko, A., Teije, A. . and van Harmelen, F. (2023). Semantic web machine learning systems: An analysis of system patterns. In Compendium of neurosymbolic artificial intelligence (S. 77–99). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
2022
- Alam, M., Iana, A., Grote, A., Ludwig, K., Müller, P. and Paulheim, H. (2022). Towards analyzing the bias of news recommender systems using sentiment and stance detection. In , WWW '22 companion : Companion proceedings of the Web Conference 2022 (S. 448–457). , ACM: New York, NY.
2021
- Iana, A. and Paulheim, H. (2021). GraphConfRec: A Graph Neural Network-Based Conference Recommender System.
In , 2021 ACM/
IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Sept. 27 2021 to Sept. 30 2021, Champaign, IL, USA : conference proceedings (S. 90–99). , IEEE: New York, NY.
2020
- Iana, A. and Paulheim, H. (2020). More is not always better: The negative impact of A-box materialization on RDF2vec knowledge graph embeddings. In , CIKMW2020 : Proceedings of the CIKM 2020 Workshops co-located with 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020) Galway, Ireland, October 19–23, 2020 (S. Paper 5, 15–8). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
2019
- 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.].