• Oct 1, 2022 — I joined the Natural Language Processing Group at the Audio and Media Technologies division of Fraunhofer IIS as a Senior Researcher.
  • Nov 10, 2021 — Our book “Computational Analysis of Storylines: Making Sense of Events” (edited by Tommaso Caselli, Eduard Hovy, Martha Palmer, and Piek Vossen) has been published by Cambridge University Press, where I authored the chapter on “Event Causality“.
  • Aug 26, 2021 — Our paper “PRIDE: Predicting Relationships in Conversations” (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at EMNLP 2021.
  • June 23, 2021 — Our workshop proposal “Personal Knowledge Graphs” (with Krisztian Balog, Zhilin Wang and Martin Georg Skjæveland) has been accepted at AKBC 2021. More details: https://pkgs.ws/
  • May 6, 2021 — Our paper “AligNarr: Aligning Narratives on Movies” (with Mostafa Abouhamra and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (acceptance rate: 21.3%).
  • Dec 18, 2020 — Recognized as one of outstanding reviewers for EMNLP 2020.
  • Nov 29, 2020 — Our demo paper “Exploring Personal Knowledge Extraction from Conversations with CHARM” (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at WSDM 2021.
  • Sep 15, 2020 — Our paper “CHARM: Inferring Personal Attributes from Conversations” (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at EMNLP 2020 (acceptance rate: 22.4%).
  • Feb 13, 2020 — Our paper “RedDust: a Large Reusable Dataset of Reddit User Traits” (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at LREC 2020.
  • Sep 17, 2019 — Our paper “Discovering the Functions of Language in Online Forums” (with Youmna Ismaeil and Oana Balalau) has been accepted at W-NUT 2019: Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (at EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019).
  • Sep 16, 2019 — Awarded a $5,000 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) research credit grant for research proposal on “CArPeT: Conversational Agent for Personalized Travel” .
  • Aug 13, 2019 — Our paper “KnowledgeNet: A Benchmark Dataset for Knowledge Base Population” (with Filipe Mesquita, Matteo Cannaviccio, Jordan Schmidek and Denilson Barbosa) has been accepted at EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (acceptance rate: 23.8%).
  • Aug 13, 2019 — Our paper “Coverage of Information Extraction from Sentences and Paragraphs” (with Simon Razniewski, Nitisha Jain and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (acceptance rate: 23.8%).
  • Jan 21, 2019 — Our paper “Listening between the Lines: Learning Personal Attributes from Conversations” (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted as a FULL PAPER at The Web Conference (WWW) 2019 (acceptance rate: 18%).
  • May 25, 2018 — Our paper “Enriching Knowledge Bases with Counting Quantifiers” (with Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted to the research track of ISWC 2018.
  • April 29, 2018 — The abridged version of our ISWC 2017 paper “Completeness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs” (with Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted to the “Sister Conference Best Paper Track” at IJCAI 2018.
  • April 17, 2018 — Our system paper “KOI at SemEval-2018 Task 5: Building Knowledge Graph of Incidents” (with Fariz Darari and Rahmad Mahendra) has been invited for an oral presentation at SemEval 2018.
  • February 14, 2018 — Our demo paper “EMOFIEL: Mapping Emotions of Relationships in a Story” has been accepted at WWW 2018.
  • February 14, 2018 — NLP-highlight podcast offered by Matt Gardner and Waleed Ammar from AI2 about our paper “Cardinal Virtues: Extracting Relation Cardinalities from Text” at ACL 2017 is now live!
  • October 25, 2017 — Our paper “Completeness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs” was nominated for best student paper award at ISWC 2017.
  • August 28, 2017 — We are offering a block seminar on “Knowledge Bases” for the Winter Semester 2017/18. Check here for more details.
  • July 30-August 4, 2017 — Attending ACL 2017 in Vancouver, Canada
  • July 14, 2017 — Our paper “Completeness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs” (with Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at ISWC 2017.
  • June 27, 2017 — Giving a talk “Mining Temporal and Causal Relations From Text” as part of invited lecture series at the Department of Linguistics, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
  • March 31, 2017 — Our short paper “Cardinal Virtues: Extracting Relation Cardinalities from Text” (with Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at ACL 2017.
  • December 11-16, 2016 — Attending COLING 2016 in Osaka, Japan
  • October 17-21, 2016 — Attending ISWC 2016 in Kobe, Japan
  • September 21, 2016 — Our papers “CATENA: CAusal and TEmporal relation extraction from NAtural language texts” and “On the contribution of word embeddings to temporal relation classification” (with Sara Tonelli) have been accepted at COLING 2016.
  • August 4, 2016 — Our poster paper “Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinality Information” (with Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt) has been accepted at ISWC 2016.