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.
- 2025
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ASK-DBLP: Answering Questions over DBLP
Taffa, T., Neises, P., Ollinger, S., Westphal, P., Ackermann, M. R., Banerjee, D. & Usbeck, R., 02.11.2025, Joint Proceedings of Industry, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos of the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-C 2025). Vol. Vol-4085.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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HySQA: Hybrid Scholarly Question Answering
Taffa, T., Banerjee, D., Assabie, Y. & Usbeck, R., 26.08.2025, Linking Meaning: Semantic Technologies Shaping the Future of AI: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems, 3-5 September 2025, Vienna, Austria. Spahiu, B., Vahdati, S., Salatino, A., Pellegrini, T. & Havur, G. (eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press BV, p. 247-263 17 p. (Studies on the Semantic Web; vol. 62).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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DBLPLink 2.0 -- An Entity Linker for the DBLP Scholarly Knowledge Graph
Banerjee, D., Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 30.07.2025Research output: other publications › Other › Research
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Automating SPARQL Query Translations between DBpedia and Wikidata
Bartels, M. C., Banerjee, D. & Usbeck, R., 14.07.2025, Linking Meaning: Semantic Technologies Shaping the Future of AI: Cover 74617 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems, 3-5 September 2025, Vienna, Austria. Spahiu, B., Vahdati, S., Salatino, A., Pellegrini, T. & Havur, G. (eds.). IOS Press BV, p. 176-193 18 p. (Studies on the Semantic Web; vol. 62).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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ShortPathQA: A Dataset for Controllable Fusion of Large Language Models with Knowledge Graphs
Salnikov, M., Sakhovskiy, A., Nikishina, I., Usmanova, A., Kraft, A., Möller, C., Banerjee, D., Huang, J., Jiang, L., Abdullah, R., Yan, X., Tutubalina, E., Usbeck, R. & Panchenko, A., 2026, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 30th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2025, Proceedings. Ichise, R. (ed.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland, p. 95-110 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15836 LNCS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Biomedical Entity Linking with Triple-aware Pre-Training
Yan, X., Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 16.06.2025, Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data 2025. Dessi, R., Jeenu, J., Dessi, D., Osborne, F. & Aras, H. (eds.). Aachen: CEUR-WS, 8 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3979).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Bridge-Generate: Scholarly Hybrid Question Answering
Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 23.05.2025, WWW Companion 2025 - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025, April 28-May 2, 2025 Sydney, NSW, Australia. Long, G., Blumestein, M., Chang, Y., Lewin-Eytan, L., Huang, H. & Yom-Tov, E. (eds.). New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1321-1325 5 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Knowledge Graph Question Answering and Large Language Models
Banerjee, D., Hu, N., Tan, Y., Min, D., Wu, Y., Usbeck, R. & Qi, G., 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. 466-531 66 p. ( Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 400).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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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/works › Chapter
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SH-CoDE: Scholarly Hybrid Complex Question Decomposition and Execution
Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 05.02.2025, Proceedings - 2025 19th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2025: ICSC 2025, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, 3-5 February 2025; Proceedings. Piscataway: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 128-135 8 p. 11036317. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Junior fellows and distinguished dissertation of the GI and AI for crisis
Usbeck, R., Kraft, A. & Westphal, P., 01.02.2025, In: IT - Information Technology. 67, 1, p. 1-2 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Analyzing the Influence of Knowledge Graph Information on Relation Extraction.
Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 2025Research output: other publications › Other › Research
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Analyzing the Influence of Knowledge Graph Information on Relation Extraction
Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 2025, The Semantic Web: 22nd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2025 Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1–5, 2025 Proceedings, Part I. Curry, E., Acosta, M., Poveda-Villalón, M., van Erp, M., Ojo, A., Hose, K., Shimizu, C. & Lisena, P. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Vol. 1. p. 460-480 21 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 15718).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Best Practices in AI and Data Science Models Evaluation
Banerjee, D., Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 2025, 55. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, INFORMATIK 2025: The Wide Open - Offenheit von Source bis Science, Potsdam, Germany, September 16-19, 2025. Lucke, U., Stieglitz, S., Uebernickel, F., Lamprecht, A.-L. & Klein, M. (eds.). Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Vol. P-366. p. 1211-1219 9 p. (LNI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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DISCIE–Discriminative Closed Information Extraction
Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 2025, The Semantic Web – ISWC 2024 - 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings. Demartini, G., Hose, K., Acosta, M., Palmonari, M., Cheng, G., Skaf-Molli, H., Ferranti, N., Hernández, D. & Hogan, A. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 23-40 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15232 LNCS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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NFDI4DS: Shared Tasks for Scholarly Document Processing
Ahmad, R. A., Abdulla, R., Taffa, T. A., Auer, S., Giglou, H. B., Borisova, E., Chen, Z., Dietze, S., D'Souza, J., Elwes, M., Gesese, G. A., Jiang, S., Kutafina, E., Mayr, P., Rehm, G., Sadruddin, S., Schimmler, S., Schneider, D., Silva, K., Upadhyaya, S. & Usbeck, R., 2025, 55. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, INFORMATIK 2025: The Wide Open - Offenheit von Source bis Science, Potsdam, Germany, September 16-19, 2025. Lucke, U., Stieglitz, S., Uebernickel, F., Lamprecht, A.-L. & Klein, M. (eds.). Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Vol. P-366. p. 1195-1205 11 p. (LNI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2024
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Creative spaces in computer science
Kohler, M., Usbeck, R. & Edinger, J., 12.2024, In: IT - Information Technology. 66, 2-3, p. 39-41 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Bridging the Gap: Generating a Comprehensive Biomedical Knowledge Graph Question Answering Dataset
Yan, X., Westphal, P., Seliger, J. & Usbeck, R., 16.10.2024, ECAI 2024 : 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19-24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), Proceedings. Endriss, U., Melo, F. S., Bach, K., Diz, A. J. B., Alonso-Moral, J. M., Barro, S. & Heintz, F. (eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press BV, p. 1198-1205 8 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 392).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Entity Linking with Out-of-Knowledge-Graph Entity Detection and Clustering Using Only Knowledge Graphs
Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 11.09.2024, Knowledge Graphs in the Age of Language Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI- : Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 17-19 September 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Salatino, A. A., Alam, M., Ongenae, F., Vahdati, S., Gentile, A. L., Pellegrini, T. & Jiang, S. (eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press BV, p. 88-105 18 p. (Studies on the Semantic Web; vol. 60).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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TextGraphs 2024 Shared Task on Text-Graph Representations for Knowledge Graph Question Answering
Sakhovskiy, A., Salnikov, M., Nikishina, I., Usmanova, A., Kraft, A., Möller, C., Banerjee, D., Huang, J., Jiang, L., Abdullah, R., Yan, X., Ustalov, D., Tutubalina, E., Usbeck, R. & Panchenko, A., 01.08.2024, Proceedings of TextGraphs-17: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing: Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing, 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Ustalov, D., Gao, Y., Pachenko, A., Tutubalina, E., Nikishina, I., Ramesh, A., Sakhovskiy, A., Usbeck, R., Penn, G. & Valentino, M. (eds.). Kerrville: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 116-125 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Knowledge-Enhanced Language Models Are Not Bias-Proof: Situated Knowledge and Epistemic Injustice in AI
Kraft, A. & Soulier, E., 03.06.2024, 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT 2024. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1433-1445 13 p. (2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT 2024).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Event Extraction Alone Is Not Enough
Huang, J., Jiang, L., Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 05.2024, Narrative Extraction From Texts 2024: Proceedings of Text2Story — Seventh Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts held in conjunction with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024). Campos, R., Jorge, A. M., Jatowt, A., Bhatia, S. & Litvak, M. (eds.). Aachen: Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Vol. 3671. p. 105-114 10 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3671).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Understanding Environmental Posts: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Social Media Data
Amangeldi, D., Usmanova, A. & Shamoi, P., 07.03.2024, In: IEEE Access. 12, p. 33504-33523 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Surveying the FAIRness of Annotation Tools: Difficult to find, difficult to reuse
Borisova, E., Abu Ahmad, R., Garcia-Castro, L. J., Usbeck, R. & Rehm, G., 01.03.2024, LAW 2024 - 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Co-located with EACL 2024 - Proceedings of the Workshop: Proceedings of the Workshop. Henning, S. & Stede, M. (eds.). Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 29-45 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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D2R2 2024: Linked Data-driven Resilience Research 2024: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Linked Data-driven Resilience Research (D2R2'24) co-located with European Semantic Web Conference 2024 (ESWC 2024), May 27, 2024
Holze, J. (Editor), Tramp, S. (Editor), Martin, M. (Editor), Auer, S. (Editor), Usbeck, R. (Editor) & Krdzavac, N. (Editor), 2024, Aachen: Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3707)Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research
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Hybrid-SQuAD: Hybrid Scholarly Question Answering Dataset
Taffa, T. A., Banerjee, D., Assabie, Y. & Usbeck, R., 2024, (In preparation)Research output: other publications › Other › Research
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Incorporating Type Information into Zero-Shot Relation Extraction
Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 2024, TEXT2KG 2024 and DQMLKG 2024 : 3rd International workshop one knowledge graph generation from text. Data Quality meets Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs 2024. Tiwari, S., Mihindukulasooriya, N., Osborne, F., Kontokostas, D., D'Souza, J., Kejriwal, M., Pellegrino, M. A., Rula, A., Labra Gayo, J. E., Cochez, M. & Alam, M. (eds.). Aachen: Sun Site Central Europe (RWTH Aachen University), 10 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3747).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Conference contribution › peer-review
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Master of Disaster: A Disaster-Related Event Monitoring System From News Streams
Huang, J. & Usbeck, R., 2024Research output: other publications › Other › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Structuring Sustainability Reports for Environmental Standards with LLMs guided by Ontology
Usmanova, A. & Usbeck, R., 2024, ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop. Stammbach, D., Ni, J., Schimanski, T., Dutia, K., Singh, A., Bingler, J., Christiaen, C., Kushwaha, N., Muccione, V., Vaghefi, S. A. & Leippold, M. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 168-177 10 p. (ClimateNLP 2024 - 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change, Proceedings of the Workshop).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2023
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A Structure and Content Prompt-based Method for Knowledge Graph Question Answering over Scholarly Data
Jiang, L., Yan, X. & Usbeck, R., 14.12.2023, 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., Jaradeh, M. Y., Auer, S., Singh, G., Mutharaju, R. & Kapanipathi, P. (eds.). Aachen: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Vol. 3592. 7 p. 3. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3592).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Inflation Narratives from a Machine Learning Perspective
Möller, C., Huang, J., Weinig, M. V., Usbeck, R. & Fritsche, U., 01.10.2023, Digital Total - Computing & Data Science an der Universität Hamburg und in der Wissenschaftsmetropole Hamburg: Book of Abstracts. Semmann, M., Yimam, S. M., Schöning-Stierand, K. & Biemann, C. (eds.). Hamburg: Universitat Hamburg, p. 143 1 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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ARDIAS: AI-Enhanced Research Management, Discovery, and Advisory System
Banerjee, D., Yimam, S. M., Awale, S. & Biemann, C., 2023, Scientific Document Understanding 2023. Veyseh, A. P. B., Dernoncourt, F., Nguyen, T. H. & Lai, V. D. (eds.). Aachen: Sun Site Central Europe (RWTH Aachen University), 6 p. 4. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3656).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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BERTologyNavigator: Advanced Question Answering with BERT-based Semantics
Rajpal, S. & 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., Jaradeh, M. Y., Auer, S., Singh, G., Mutharaju, R. & Kapanipathi, P. (eds.). Aachen: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Vol. 3592. 8 p. 7. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3592).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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. (Editor), Usbeck, R. (Editor), Mihindukulasooriya, N. (Editor), Jaradeh, M. Y. (Editor), Auer, S. (Editor), Singh, G. (Editor), Mutharaju, R. (Editor) & Kapanipathi, P. (Editor), 2023, Aachen: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3592)Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2013
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Analyse von Mikro-Blog-Daten
Usbeck, R., 2013, Informatiktage 2013 - Fachwissenschaftlicher Informatik-Kongress, 22. und 23. März 2013. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., p. 165-168 4 p. (Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI); vol. S12).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research