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Lead Research Engineer
Enterprise Information System
Fraunhofer IAIS Dresden
Room 4.34.3
Zwickauer Str. 46, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Short CV
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck is a Lead Research Engineer at the Enterprise Information System of the Fraunhofer IAIS Dresden.
Research Interests
- Question Answering
- Natural Language Processing
- Semantic Web
- Machine Learning
- Dialog Systems
Projects
Publications
2015
Developing a Sustainable Platform for Entity Annotation Benchmarks Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2015 Satellite Events - ESWC 2015 Satellite Events Portorov z, Slovenia, May 31 - June 4, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 190–196, Springer, 2015.
CETUS - A Baseline Approach to Type Extraction Proceedings Article
In: Semantic Web Evaluation Challenges - Second SemWebEval Challenge at ESWC 2015, Portorov z, Slovenia, May 31 - June 4, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 16–27, Springer, 2015.
Evaluating Entity Annotators Using GERBIL Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2015 Satellite Events - ESWC 2015 Satellite Events Portorov z, Slovenia, May 31 - June 4, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 159–164, Springer, 2015.
MEX vocabulary: a lightweight interchange format for machine learning experiments Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2015, Vienna, Austria, September 15-17, 2015, pp. 169–176, ACM, 2015.
ASSESS - Automatic Self-Assessment Using Linked Data Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015 - 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 11-15, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 76–89, Springer, 2015.
DeFacto - Temporal and multilingual Deep Fact Validation Journal Article
In: J. Web Semant., vol. 35, pp. 85–101, 2015.
GERBIL -- General Entity Annotation Benchmark Framework Proceedings Article
In: 24th WWW conference, 2015.
HAWK - Hybrid Question Answering over Linked Data Proceedings Article
In: 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Portorov z, Slovenia, 31st May - 4th June 2015, 2015.
Answering Boolean Hybrid Questions with HAWK Proceedings Article
In: NLIWOD workshop at International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), including erratum and changes, 2015.
Analyse von Mikro-Blogging-Daten Journal Article
In: Informatik-Spektrum, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 400-405, 2015, ISSN: 0170-6012.
HAWK - Hybrid Question Answering Using Linked Data Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains - 12th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 31 - June 4, 2015. Proceedings, pp. 353–368, Springer, 2015.
GERBIL: General Entity Annotator Benchmarking Framework Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015, Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015, pp. 1133–1143, ACM, 2015.
Analyse von Mikro-Blogging-Daten - Korrelation und Visualisierung von Twitter Hashtags Journal Article
In: Inform. Spektrum, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 400–405, 2015.
2014
Combining Linked Data and Statistical Information Retrieval Proceedings Article
In: 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference, PhD Symposium, Springer, 2014.
AGDISTIS - Agnostic Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Open Data Proceedings Article
In: ECAI 2014 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 18-22 August 2014, Prague, Czech Republic - Including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2014), pp. 1113–1114, IOS Press, 2014.
CROCUS: Cluster-based Ontology Data Cleansing Proceedings Article
In: Joint Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice and Second International Workshop on Finance and Economics on the Semantic Web Co-located with 11th European Semantic Web Conference, WaSABi-FEOSW@ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Greece, May 26, 2014, CEUR-WS.org, 2014.
Lessons Learned - The Case of CROCUS: Cluster-Based Ontology Data Cleansing Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events - ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 14–24, Springer, 2014.
Towards an open question answering architecture Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2014, Leipzig, Germany, September 4-5, 2014, pp. 57–60, ACM, 2014.
NIF4OGGD - NLP Interchange Format for Open German Governmental Data Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-31, 2014, pp. 3524–3528, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2014.
Web-Scale Extension of RDF Knowledge Bases from Templated Websites Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2014 - 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, pp. 66–81, Springer, 2014.
Cross-Document Coreference Resolution Using Latent Features Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction (LD4IE 2014) co-located with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 20, 2014, pp. 33–44, CEUR-WS.org, 2014.
Multilingual Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Data Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the ISWC 2014 Posters & Demonstrations Track a track within the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 21, 2014, pp. 101–104, CEUR-WS.org, 2014.
AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Data Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2014 - 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, pp. 457–471, Springer, 2014.
N3 - A Collection of Datasets for Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation in the NLP Interchange Format Proceedings Article
In: The 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 26-31 May, Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 3529–3533, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2014.
An Incomplete and Simplifying Introduction to Linked Data Book Section
In: Perspectives on Ontology Learning, pp. 21–33, AKA / IOS Press, 2014.
Combining Linked Data and Statistical Information Retrieval - Next Generation Information Systems Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges - 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings, pp. 845–854, Springer, 2014.
A service-oriented search framework for full text, geospatial and semantic search Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2014, Leipzig, Germany, September 4-5, 2014, pp. 65–72, ACM, 2014.
Ntextbackslash(^3textbackslash) - A Collection of Datasets for Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation in the NLP Interchange Format Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-31, 2014, pp. 3529–3533, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2014.
2013
Investigating Quality Raters'Performance Using Interface Evaluation Methods Proceedings Article
In: 43. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Informatik angepasst an Mensch, Organisation und Umwelt, INFORMATIK 2013, Koblenz, Germany, September 16-20, 2013, pp. 137–139, GI, 2013.
Real-Time RDF Extraction from Unstructured Data Streams Proceedings Article
In: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2013 - 12th International Semantic Web Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 21-25, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, pp. 135–150, Springer, 2013.
Analyse von Mikro-Blog-Daten Proceedings Article
In: Informatiktage 2013 - Fachwissenschaftlicher Informatik-Kongress, 22. und 23. März 2013, B-IT Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology in Bonn, pp. 165–168, GI, 2013.
2011
Analyse divergenten Nutzerverhaltens in kollaborativen Tagging-Systemen Proceedings Article
In: Informatiktage 2011 - Fachwissenschaftlicher Informatik-Kongress, 25. und 26. März 2011, B-IT Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology in Bonn, pp. 135–138, GI, 2011.
On the distinctiveness of tags in collaborative tagging systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS 2011, Sogndal, Norway, May 25 - 27, 2011, pp. 62, ACM, 2011.