Daniel Ruffinelli
Researcher
Email: d r u f f i n e l l i (at) uni-mannheim.de
(Feel free to insist if I do not reply to your email quickly enough)
B6, 26 Room C 106
DBLP – Google Scholar – GitHub
About
I am a PostDoc working on Natural Language Processing with Prof. Dr. Simone Ponzetto. Prior to this, I did a PhD on learning representations of knowledge graphs with Prof. Dr. Rainer Gemulla.
Research Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Representation learning
- Machine learning
Teaching
- I've been regularly advising on MSc and BSc theses since 2018.
- Advanced Methods in Text Analytics – Lectures and Tutorials (Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
- Information Retrieval – Lectures (Fall 2024)
- Deep Learning – Tutorials (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
- Machine Learning – Tutorials (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
- Hot Topics in Machine Learning – Tutorials (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
- Data Mining and Matrices – Tutorials (Spring 2019)
- Large Scale Data Management – Tutorials (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
- Data Mining – Tutorials (Spring 2017, Spring 2018)
Selected Publications
- D. Ruffinelli, R. Gemulla
Beyond Link Prediction: On Pre-Training Knowledge Graph Embeddings
In RepL4NLP@ACL (workshop), 2024 - H. Widjaja, K. Gashteovski, W. B. Rim, P. Liu, C. Malon, D. Ruffinelli, C. Lawrence, G. Neubig
KGxBoard: Explainable and Interactive Leaderboard for Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Models
In EMNLP, 2022 (demo paper) - D. Ruffinelli, S. Broscheit, R. Gemulla
You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks! On Training Knowledge Graph Embeddings
In ICLR, 2020 - Y. Wang, D. Ruffinelli, R. Gemulla, S. Broscheit, C. Meilicke
On Evaluating Embedding Models for Knowledge Base Completion (Outstanding Paper)
In RepL4NLP@ACL (workshop), 2019 - C. Meilicke, M. W. Chekol, D. Ruffinelli, H. Stuckenschmidt
Anytime Bottom-up Rule Learning for Knowledge Graph Completion
In IJCAI, 2019 - C. Meilicke, M. Fink, Y. Wang, D. Ruffinelli, R. Gemulla, H. Stuckenschmidt
Fine-grained Evaluation of Rule- and Embedding-based Systems for Knowledge Graph Completion
In ISWC, 2018