Professorship for Information Systems, in particular Artificial Intelligence and Explainability

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The research group on Artificial Intelligence and Explainability focuses on hybrid AI methods to make machines understand human-created data. That is, we combine modern, sub-symbolic machine learning approaches with symbolic knowledge engineering based on Knowledge Graphs to develop transparent AI systems. We focus on Knowledge Extraction, Speech Assistants, Question Answering, AI ethics, and more.

  1. Published

    Leveraging LLMs in Scholarly Knowledge Graph Question Answering

    Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 2023, Joint Proceedings of Scholarly QALD 2023 and SemREC 2023 co-located with 22nd International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2023, Athens, Greece, November 6-10, 2023. Banerjee, D., Usbeck, R., Mihindukulasooriya, N., Singh, G., Mutharaju, R. & Kapanipathi, P. (eds.). CEUR-WS.org, Vol. 3592. 10 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3592).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Low Resource Question Answering: An Amharic Benchmarking Dataset: An Amharic Benchmarking Dataset

    Taffa, T. A., Assabie, Y. & Usbeck, R., 2024, The Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages @LREC-COLING-2024 (RAIL): Workshop Proceedings. Mabuya, R., Matfunjwa, M., Setaka, M. & van Zaanen, M. (eds.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 124-132 9 p. (LREC proceedings)( International conference on computational linguistics).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Machine Learning Applications

    Arndt, N., Molitor, P. & Usbeck, R., 27.08.2023, In: IT - Information Technology. 65, 4-5, p. 139-141 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  4. Published

    Master of Disaster: A Disaster-Related Event Monitoring System From News Streams

    Huang, J. & Usbeck, R., 2024

    Research output: other publicationsOtherResearch

  5. Published

    Narration as Functions: from Events to Narratives

    Huang, J. & Usbeck, R., 2024, WNU 2024 - 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding: Proceedings of the Workshop. Lal, Y. K., Clark, E., Iyyer, M., Chaturvedi, S., Brei, A., Brahman, F. & Chandu, K. R. (eds.). Miami, Florida: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1-7 7 p. (WNU 2024 - 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Proceedings of the Workshop).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Neuro-Symbolic Relation Extraction

    Yan, X., Usmanova, A., Möller, C., Westphal, P. & Usbeck, R., 17.03.2025, Handbook on Neurosymbolic AI and Knowledge Graphs. Hitzler, P., Dalal, A., Mahdavinejad, M. S. & Norouzi, S. S. (eds.). IOS Press BV, p. 550-576 27 p. ( Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 400).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  7. Published

    Ontology-Guided, Hybrid Prompt Learning for Generalization in Knowledge Graph Question Answering

    Jiang, L., Huang, J., Moller, C. & Usbeck, R., 2025, Proceedings - 2025 19th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 28-35 8 p. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  8. In preparation

    Reporting and Analysing the Environmental Impact of Language Models on the Example of Commonsense Question Answering with External Knowledge

    Usmanova, A., Huang, J., Banerjee, D. & Usbeck, R., 2024, (In preparation) Sustainable AI Conference 2023: Sustainable AI Across Borders: Conference Proceedings. Vol. abs/2408.01453.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  9. Published

    Revisiting Supervised Contrastive Learning for Microblog Classification

    Huang, J. & Usbeck, R., 2024, The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Conference; November 12-16, 2024. Al-Onaizan, Y., Bansal, M. & Chen, Y.-N. (eds.). Kerrville: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 15644-15653 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Scholarly Question Answering Using Large Language Models in the NFDI4DataScience Gateway

    Babaei Giglou, H., Taffa, T. A., Abdullah, R., Usmanova, A., Usbeck, R., D’Souza, J. & Auer, S., 2024, Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs - 1st International Workshop, NSLP 2024, Proceedings. Rehm, G., Dietze, S., Schimmler, S. & Krüger, F. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland, p. 3-18 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14770 LNAI).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review