Jens Lehmann

Principal Scientist
Amazon Alexa AI

Principal Investigator ScaDS.AI, TU Dresden

Member of Institute for Applied Informatics, Dresden / Leipzig

Profiles: LinkedIn, Google Scholar, DBLP, Web-ID

Office

Amazon Office: Großenhainer Str. 5a, 01097 Dresden
InfAI: Schnorrstraße 70, 01069 Dresden

Short CV


Jens Lehmann (http://www.jens-lehmann.org) works full time as a principal scientist at Amazon Alexa AI. He also leads the „Smart Data Analytics“ research group with his affiliated senior researchers at InfAI and TU Dresden as well as his PhD students. Previously, he was a lead scientist for Conversational AI and Knowledge Graphs at Fraunhofer IAIS and a full professor (W3) at the University of Bonn. His research interests involve Semantic Web, machine learning, question answering & dialogue systems, distributed computing and knowledge representation. Please see his website for more details.

Research Interests


  • Machine Learning
  • Semantic Web & Knowledge Graphs
  • Conversational AI

Publications


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2022

Rony, Md. Rashad Al Hasan; Kovriguina, Liubov; Chaudhuri, Debanjan; Usbeck, Ricardo; Lehmann, Jens

RoMe: A Robust Metric for Evaluating Natural Language Generation Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland, May 22-27, 2022, pp. 5645–5657, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022.

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Draschner, Carsten Felix; Jabeen, Hajira; Lehmann, Jens

SimE4KG: Distributed and Explainable Multi-Modal Semantic Similarity Estimation for Knowledge Graphs Proceedings Article

In: 5th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering, AIKE 2022, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, September 19-21, 2022, pp. 1–8, IEEE, 2022.

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Draschner, Carsten Felix; Jabeen, Hajira; Lehmann, Jens

Ethical and Sustainability Considerations for Knowledge Graph based Machine Learning Proceedings Article

In: 5th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering, AIKE 2022, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, September 19-21, 2022, pp. 53–60, IEEE, 2022.

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Kacupaj, Endri; Singh, Kuldeep; Maleshkova, Maria; Lehmann, Jens

Contrastive Representation Learning for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022, pp. 925–934, ACM, 2022.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Vahdati, Sahar; Khan, Md Tansen; Alam, Mirza Mohtashim; Wenige, Lisa; Behrend, Andreas; Lehmann, Jens

Dihedron Algebraic Embeddings for Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion Proceedings Article

In: The Semantic Web - 19th International Conference, ESWC 2022, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 29 - June 2, 2022, Proceedings, pp. 253–269, Springer, 2022.

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Ali, Mehdi; Berrendorf, Max; Galkin, Mikhail; Thost, Veronika; Ma, Tengfei; Tresp, Volker; Lehmann, Jens

Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using Hyper-Relational Facts (Extended Abstract) Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-29 July 2022, pp. 5259–5263, ijcai.org, 2022.

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Rony, Md. Rashad Al Hasan; Zuo, Ying; Kovriguina, Liubov; Teucher, Roman; Lehmann, Jens

Climate Bot: A Machine Reading Comprehension System for Climate Change Question Answering Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-29 July 2022, pp. 5249–5252, ijcai.org, 2022.

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Rony, Md. Rashad Al Hasan; Usbeck, Ricardo; Lehmann, Jens

DialoKG: Knowledge-Structure Aware Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation Proceedings Article

In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, Seattle, WA, United States, July 10-15, 2022, pp. 2557–2571, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022.

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Moghaddam, Farshad Bakhshandegan; Lehmann, Jens; Jabeen, Hajira

DistAD: A Distributed Generic Anomaly Detection Framework over Large KGs Proceedings Article

In: 16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2022, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, January 26-28, 2022, pp. 243–250, IEEE, 2022.

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Xu, Chengjin; Su, Fenglong; Xiong, Bo; Lehmann, Jens

Time-aware Entity Alignment using Temporal Relational Attention Proceedings Article

In: WWW '22: The ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, April 25 - 29, 2022, pp. 788–797, ACM, 2022.

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Alam, Mirza Mohtashim; Rony, Md. Rashad Al Hasan; Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Mohiuddin, Karishma; Akter, M. S. T. Mahfuja; Vahdati, Sahar; Lehmann, Jens

Language Model Guided Knowledge Graph Embeddings Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 76008–76020, 2022.

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Rony, Md. Rashad Al Hasan; Chaudhuri, Debanjan; Usbeck, Ricardo; Lehmann, Jens

Tree-KGQA: An Unsupervised Approach for Question Answering Over Knowledge Graphs Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 50467–50478, 2022.

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Rony, Md. Rashad Al Hasan; Kumar, Uttam; Teucher, Roman; Kovriguina, Liubov; Lehmann, Jens

SGPT: A Generative Approach for SPARQL Query Generation From Natural Language Questions Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 70712–70723, 2022.

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Westphal, Patrick; Grubenmann, Tobias; Collarana, Diego; Bin, Simon; Bühmann, Lorenz; Lehmann, Jens

Spatial concept learning and inference on geospatial polygon data Journal Article

In: Knowl. Based Syst., vol. 241, pp. 108233, 2022.

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Ali, Mehdi; Berrendorf, Max; Hoyt, Charles Tapley; Vermue, Laurent; Galkin, Mikhail; Sharifzadeh, Sahand; Fischer, Asja; Tresp, Volker; Lehmann, Jens

Bringing Light Into the Dark: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models Under a Unified Framework Journal Article

In: IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 8825–8845, 2022.

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Möller, Cedric; Lehmann, Jens; Usbeck, Ricardo

Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata: Datasets and approaches Journal Article

In: Semantic Web, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 925–966, 2022.

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2021

Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Vahdati, Sahar; Aykul, Can; Lehmann, Jens

5* Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Projective Transformations Proceedings Article

In: Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021, Thirty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI 2021, The Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2021, Virtual Event, February 2-9, 2021, pp. 9064–9072, AAAI Press, 2021.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Cil, Gökce Müge; Vahdati, Sahar; Osborne, Francesco; Kravchenko, Andrey; Angioni, Simone; Salatino, Angelo A.; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Motta, Enrico; Lehmann, Jens

Link Prediction of Weighted Triples for Knowledge Graph Completion Within the Scholarly Domain Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 116002–116014, 2021.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Vahdati, Sahar; Aykul, Can; Lehmann, Jens

5* Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Projective Transformations Proceedings Article

In: Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021, Thirty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI 2021, The Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2021, Virtual Event, February 2-9, 2021, pp. 9064–9072, AAAI Press, 2021.

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Galetzka, Fabian; Rose, Jewgeni; Schlangen, David; Lehmann, Jens

Space Efficient Context Encoding for Non-Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation with Graph Attention Transformer Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL/IJCNLP 2021, (Volume 1: Long Papers), Virtual Event, August 1-6, 2021, pp. 7028–7041, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.

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Draschner, Carsten Felix; Stadler, Claus; Moghaddam, Farshad Bakhshandegan; Lehmann, Jens; Jabeen, Hajira

DistRDF2ML - Scalable Distributed In-Memory Machine Learning Pipelines for RDF Knowledge Graphs Proceedings Article

In: CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021, pp. 4465–4474, ACM, 2021.

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Kacupaj, Endri; Plepi, Joan; Singh, Kuldeep; Thakkar, Harsh; Lehmann, Jens; Maleshkova, Maria

Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs with Transformer and Graph Attention Networks Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, EACL 2021, Online, April 19 - 23, 2021, pp. 850–862, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.

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Ravi, Manoj Prabhakar Kannan; Singh, Kuldeep; Shekarpour, Isaiah Onando Mulang'and Saeedeh; Hoffart, Johannes; Lehmann, Jens

CHOLAN: A Modular Approach for Neural Entity Linking on Wikipedia and Wikidata Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, EACL 2021, Online, April 19 - 23, 2021, pp. 504–514, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Vahdati, Sahar; Sallinger, Emanuel; Alam, Mirza Mohtashim; Yazdi, Hamed Shariat; Lehmann, Jens

Pattern-Aware and Noise-Resilient Embedding Models Proceedings Article

In: Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Virtual Event, March 28 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings, Part I, pp. 483–496, Springer, 2021.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Xu, Chengjin; Hoffmann, Franca; Alam, Mirza Mohtashim; Lehmann, Jens; Vahdati, Sahar

Knowledge Graph Representation Learning using Ordinary Differential Equations Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2021, Virtual Event / Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 7-11 November, 2021, pp. 9529–9548, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.

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Nedelchev, Rostislav; Lehmann, Jens; Usbeck, Ricardo

Proxy Indicators for the Quality of Open-domain Dialogues Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2021, Virtual Event / Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 7-11 November, 2021, pp. 7834–7855, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.

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Xu, Chengjin; Su, Fenglong; Lehmann, Jens

Time-aware Graph Neural Network for Entity Alignment between Temporal Knowledge Graphs Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2021, Virtual Event / Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 7-11 November, 2021, pp. 8999–9010, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.

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Chaudhuri, Debanjan; Rony, Md. Rashad Al Hasan; Lehmann, Jens

Grounding Dialogue Systems via Knowledge Graph Aware Decoding with Pre-trained Transformers Proceedings Article

In: The Semantic Web - 18th International Conference, ESWC 2021, Virtual Event, June 6-10, 2021, Proceedings, pp. 323–339, Springer, 2021.

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Kacupaj, Endri; Banerjee, Barshana; Singh, Kuldeep; Lehmann, Jens

ParaQA: A Question Answering Dataset with Paraphrase Responses for Single-Turn Conversation Proceedings Article

In: The Semantic Web - 18th International Conference, ESWC 2021, Virtual Event, June 6-10, 2021, Proceedings, pp. 598–613, Springer, 2021.

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Plepi, Joan; Kacupaj, Endri; Singh, Kuldeep; Thakkar, Harsh; Lehmann, Jens

Context Transformer with Stacked Pointer Networks for Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs Proceedings Article

In: The Semantic Web - 18th International Conference, ESWC 2021, Virtual Event, June 6-10, 2021, Proceedings, pp. 356–371, Springer, 2021.

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Wilhelm, Nico; Collarana, Diego; Lehmann, Jens

A Virtual Knowledge Graph for Enabling Defect Traceability and Customer Service Analytics Proceedings Article

In: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events - Virtual Event, June 6-10, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 245–248, Springer, 2021.

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Moghaddam, Farshad Bakhshandegan; Draschner, Carsten; Lehmann, Jens; Jabeen, Hajira

Literal2Feature: An Automatic Scalable RDF Graph Feature Extractor Proceedings Article

In: Further with Knowledge Graphs - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 6-9, 2021, pp. 74–88, IOS Press, 2021.

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Sadeghi, Afshin; Shahini, Xhulia; Schmitz, Martin; Lehmann, Jens

BenchEmbedd: A FAIR Benchmarking tool forKnowledge Graph Embeddings Proceedings Article

In: Joint Proceedings of the Semantics co-located events: Poster&Demo track and Workshop on Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling of Digital Twins co-located with Semantics 2021, Amsterdam and Online, September 6-9, 2021, CEUR-WS.org, 2021.

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Mohamed, Heba; Fathalla, Said; Lehmann, Jens; Jabeen, Hajira

A Scalable Approach for Distributed Reasoning over Large-scale OWL Datasets Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2021, Volume 2: KEOD, Online Streaming, October 25-27, 2021, pp. 51–60, SCITEPRESS, 2021.

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Esteves, Diego; Marcelino, José; Chawla, Piyush; Fischer, Asja; Lehmann, Jens

ŐRUS-NER: A Multimodal Named Entity Recognition Framework for Noisy Data Proceedings Article

In: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIX - 19th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2021, Porto, Portugal, April 26-28, 2021, Proceedings, pp. 89–100, Springer, 2021.

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Westphal, Patrick; Vahdati, Sahar; Lehmann, Jens

A Simulated Annealing Meta-heuristic for Concept Learning in Description Logics Proceedings Article

In: Inductive Logic Programming - 30th International Conference, ILP 2021, Virtual Event, October 25-27, 2021, Proceedings, pp. 266–281, Springer, 2021.

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Xu, Chengjin; Chen, Yung-Yu; Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Lehmann, Jens

Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion using a Linear Temporal Regularizer and Multivector Embeddings Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2021, Online, June 6-11, 2021, pp. 2569–2578, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.

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Sadeghi, Afshin; Malik, Hirra; Collarana, Diego; Lehmann, Jens

Relational Pattern Benchmarking on the Knowledge Graph Link Prediction Task Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks 1, NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021, December 2021, virtual, 2021.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Xu, Chengjin; Yaghoobzadeh, Yadollah; Vahdati, Sahar; Alam, Mirza Mohtashim; Yazdi, Hamed Shariat; Lehmann, Jens

Loss-Aware Pattern Inference: A Correction on the Wrongly Claimed Limitations of Embedding Models Proceedings Article

In: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 25th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2021, Virtual Event, May 11-14, 2021, Proceedings, Part III, pp. 77–89, Springer, 2021.

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Kacupaj, Endri; Premnadh, Shyamnath; Singh, Kuldeep; Lehmann, Jens; Maleshkova, Maria

VOGUE: Answer Verbalization Through Multi-Task Learning Proceedings Article

In: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2021, Bilbao, Spain, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part III, pp. 563–579, Springer, 2021.

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Sadeghi, Afshin; Collarana, Diego; Graux, Damien; Lehmann, Jens

Embedding Knowledge Graphs Attentive to Positional and Centrality Qualities Proceedings Article

In: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2021, Bilbao, Spain, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 548–564, Springer, 2021.

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Draschner, Carsten Felix; Lehmann, Jens; Jabeen, Hajira

DistSim - Scalable Distributed in-Memory Semantic Similarity Estimation for RDF Knowledge Graphs Proceedings Article

In: 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2021, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, January 27-29, 2021, pp. 333–336, IEEE, 2021.

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Ali, Mehdi; Berrendorf, Max; Galkin, Mikhail; Thost, Veronika; Ma, Tengfei; Tresp, Volker; Lehmann, Jens

Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using Hyper-relational Facts Proceedings Article

In: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2021 - 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, Virtual Event, October 24-28, 2021, Proceedings, pp. 74–92, Springer, 2021.

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Tahmasebzadeh, Golsa; Kacupaj, Endri; Müller-Budack, Eric; Hakimov, Sherzod; Lehmann, Jens; Ewerth, Ralph

GeoWINE: Geolocation based Wiki, Image, News and Event Retrieval Proceedings Article

In: SIGIR '21: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Virtual Event, Canada, July 11-15, 2021, pp. 2565–2569, ACM, 2021.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Cil, Gökce Müge; Vahdati, Sahar; Osborne, Francesco; Kravchenko, Andrey; Angioni, Simone; Salatino, Angelo A.; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Motta, Enrico; Lehmann, Jens

Link Prediction of Weighted Triples for Knowledge Graph Completion Within the Scholarly Domain Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 116002–116014, 2021.

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Bharadhwaj, Vinay Srinivas; Ali, Mehdi; Birkenbihl, Colin; Mubeen, Sarah; Lehmann, Jens; Hofmann-Apitius, Martin; Hoyt, Charles Tapley; Domingo-Fernández, Daniel

CLEP: a hybrid data- and knowledge-driven framework for generating patient representations Journal Article

In: Bioinform., vol. 37, no. 19, pp. 3311–3318, 2021.

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Grubenmann, Tobias; Lehmann, Jens

Geolog: Scalable Logic Programming on Spatial Data Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications), ICLP Technical Communications 2021, Porto (virtual event), 20-27th September 2021, pp. 191–204, 2021.

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Nayyeri, Mojtaba; Cil, Gökce Müge; Vahdati, Sahar; Osborne, Francesco; Rahman, Mahfuzur; Angioni, Simone; Salatino, Angelo A.; Recupero, Diego Reforgiato; Vassilyeva, Nadezhda; Motta, Enrico; Lehmann, Jens

Trans4E: Link prediction on scholarly knowledge graphs Journal Article

In: Neurocomputing, vol. 461, pp. 530–542, 2021.

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Oliveira, Italo Lopes; Fileto, Renato; Speck, René; Garcia, Lu'is Paulo F.; Moussallem, Diego; Lehmann, Jens

Towards holistic Entity Linking: Survey and directions Journal Article

In: Inf. Syst., vol. 95, pp. 101624, 2021.

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Ali, Mehdi; Berrendorf, Max; Hoyt, Charles Tapley; Vermue, Laurent; Sharifzadeh, Sahand; Tresp, Volker; Lehmann, Jens

PyKEEN 1.0: A Python Library for Training and Evaluating Knowledge Graph Embeddings Journal Article

In: J. Mach. Learn. Res., vol. 22, pp. 82:1–82:6, 2021.

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