no code implementations • 28 Feb 2023 • Simon Gottschalk, Endri Kacupaj, Sara Abdollahi, Diego Alves, Gabriel Amaral, Elisavet Koutsiana, Tin Kuculo, Daniela Major, Caio Mello, Gullal S. Cheema, Abdul Sittar, Swati, Golsa Tahmasebzadeh, Gaurish Thakkar
Accessing and understanding contemporary and historical events of global impact such as the US elections and the Olympic Games is a major prerequisite for cross-lingual event analytics that investigate event causes, perception and consequences across country borders.
1 code implementation • 24 Feb 2023 • Sara Abdollahi, Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
This article introduces the novel task of language-specific event recommendation, which aims to recommend events relevant to the user query in the language-specific context.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2023 • Daria Gurtovoy, Simon Gottschalk
In addition, we apply StreetToPerson on all OSM streets in Germany, for which we identify more than 180, 000 links between streets and persons.
1 code implementation • 17 Feb 2023 • Elena Demidova, Alishiba Dsouza, Simon Gottschalk, Nicolas Tempelmeier, Ran Yu
Geographic data plays an essential role in various Web, Semantic Web and machine learning applications.
1 code implementation • 2 Feb 2023 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
We propose a one-shot learning approach that relies on these profiles to map a tabular dataset containing previously unseen instances to a domain ontology.
1 code implementation • 19 Jul 2022 • Tin Kuculo, Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
The provision of a cross-lingual knowledge graph of quotes that establishes the authenticity of quotes and their contexts is of great importance to allow the exploration of the lives of important people as well as topics from the perspective of what was actually said.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2021 • Alishiba Dsouza, Nicolas Tempelmeier, Ran Yu, Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
We describe the WorldKG knowledge graph, including its ontology that builds the semantic dataset backbone, the extraction procedure of the ontology and geographic entities from OpenStreetMap, and the methods to enhance entity annotation.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2021 • Nicolas Tempelmeier, Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is currently the richest publicly available information source on geographic entities (e. g., buildings and roads) worldwide.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2020 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
Research on notable accomplishments and important events in the life of people of public interest usually requires close reading of long encyclopedic or biographical sources, which is a tedious and time-consuming task.
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2020 • Sara Abdollahi, Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
An increasing need to analyse event-centric cross-lingual information calls for innovative user interaction models that assist users in crossing the language barrier.
no code implementations • 24 Apr 2020 • Tarcísio Souza Costa, Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
Semantic Question Answering (QA) is a crucial technology to facilitate intuitive user access to semantic information stored in knowledge graphs.
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2019 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
We address two tasks: 1) prediction of sub-event relations, and 2) inference of real-world events that happened as a part of event series and are missing in the knowledge graph.
no code implementations • 21 May 2019 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
In this article we address the problem of text passage alignment across interlingual article pairs in Wikipedia.
no code implementations • 21 May 2019 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
In this article we demonstrate an application of EventKG to biographical timeline generation, where we adopt a distant supervision method to identify relations most relevant for an entity biography.
no code implementations • 3 May 2018 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
The provision of multilingual event-centric temporal knowledge graphs such as EventKG enables structured access to representations of a large number of historical and contemporary events in a variety of language contexts.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2018 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
One of the key requirements to facilitate semantic analytics of information regarding contemporary and historical events on the Web, in the news and in social media is the availability of reference knowledge repositories containing comprehensive representations of events and temporal relations.
1 code implementation • 22 Jan 2018 • Hady Elsahar, Elena Demidova, Simon Gottschalk, Christophe Gravier, Frederique Laforest
We explore methods to extract relations between named entities from free text in an unsupervised setting.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2017 • Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova
Wikipedia articles representing an entity or a topic in different language editions evolve independently within the scope of the language-specific user communities.