Nicolas Heist

Researcher

B6, 26, Room B 0.01

nico (at) informatik.uni-mannheim.de

Consultation hours by appointment

orcid.org/0000–0002-4354–9138

Research Interests

Semantic Web Technologies
Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data

Projects

CaLiGraph – A Knowledge Graph from Wikipedia Categories and List Pages

Teachings

Data Mining I – Exercise (HWS 2018, HWS 2019, HWS 2020, HWS 2021, HWS 2022)
Data Mining II - Exercise (FSS 2019, FSS 2020, FSS 2021, FSS 2022)
Supervised Team Projects
- Improving Interaction with Knowledge Graphs via Embeddings (HWS 2022 – FSS 2023)
- Do Vegans Dream of Eclectic Reach? – An Analysis of Vegan Communities in Instagram (FSS 2021 – HWS 2021)
- Knowledge Extraction from the Fine Print (FSS 2020 – HWS 2020)
- Bot Development for Wikipedia (HWS 2019 – FSS 2020)
- Knowledge Graph for International Tax Regulation (HWS 2019 – FSS 2020)

Community Service

PC Member

PC Member of 21st International Semantic Web Conference 2022 – In-Use Track
PC Member of 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2022 – Research Track
PC Member of 20th International Semantic Web Conference 2021 – In-Use Track
PC Member of 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2021 – Research/Resource Track
PC Member of 19th International Semantic Web Conference 2020 – In-Use Track
PC Member of 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2020 – Resources Track

Awards and Nominations

Runner up for best paper award at 6th Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs, 2022
Nicolas Heist and Heiko Paulheim: Transformer-based Subject Entity Detection in Wikipedia Listings
Outstanding reviewer award at Extended Semantic Web Conference 2022
Challenge Winner at Semantic Reasoning Evaluation Challenge 2021 (SemREC @ ISWC'21): Task 1 – Datasets
Nicolas Heist and Heiko Paulheim: The CaLiGraph Ontology as a Challenge for OWL Reasoners

Portisch, J., Heist, N. and Paulheim, H. (2022). Knowledge graph embedding for data mining vs. knowledge graph embedding for link prediction – two sides of the same coin? Semantic Web, 13, 399–422.
Heist, N., Hertling, S. and Paulheim, H. (2018). Language-agnostic relation extraction from abstracts in Wikis. Information, 9, 75.

Biswas, R., Sofronova, R., Alam, M., Heist, N., Paulheim, H. and Sack, H. (2021). Do judge an entity by its name! Entity typing using language models. In , The Semantic Web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events : virtual event, June 6–10, 2021, revised selected papers (S. 65–70). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u.a.].
Heist, N. and Paulheim, H. (2021). Information extraction from co-occurring similar entities. In , The Web Conference 2021 : Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference WWW 2021 (S. 3999–4009). , Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY [u.a.].
Heist, N. and Paulheim, H. (2021). The CaLiGraph ontology as a challenge for OWL reasoners. In , Semantic Reasoning Evaluation Challenge 2021 : proceedings of the Semantic Reasoning Evaluation Challenge (SemREC 2021), co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021); virtual event, October 27th, 2021 (S. 21–31). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Heist, N. and Paulheim, H. (2020). Entity extraction from Wikipedia list pages. In , The Semantic Web : 17th International Conference, ESWC 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 31-June 4, 2020, Proceedings (S. 327–342). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u.a.].
Lüdemann, N., Shiba, A., Thymianis, N., Heist, N., Ludwig, C. A. and Paulheim, H. (2020). A knowledge graph for assessing aggressive tax planning strategies. In , The Semantic Web – ISWC 2020 : 19th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Greece, November 2–6, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (S. 395–410). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u.a.].
Heist, N. and Paulheim, H. (2019). Uncovering the semantics of Wikipedia categories. In , The Semantic Web – ISWC 2019 : 18th International Semantic Web Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, October 26–30, 2019, Proceedings, Part I (S. 219–236). Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, Springer: Cham.
Schrage, F., Heist, N. and Paulheim, H. (2019). Extracting literal assertions for DBpedia from Wikipedia abstracts. In , Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs : 15th International Conference, SEMANTiCS 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9–12, 2019, Proceedings (S. 288–294). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u.a.].
Heist, N. (2018). Towards knowledge graph construction from entity co-occurrence. In , EKAW-DC 2018 : Proceedings of the EKAW Doctoral Consortium 2018 co-located with the 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2018) Nancy, France, November 13, 2018 (S. 1–8). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, RWTH Aachen: Aachen, Germany.
Heist, N. and Paulheim, H. (2017). Language-agnostic relation extraction from Wikipedia abstracts. In , The Semantic Web – ISWC 2017 : 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Vienna, Austria, October 21–25, 2017, proceedings, part I (S. 383–399). 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.
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.