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 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.