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Dr. rer. nat. Michael Röder
Senior Researchers
Speaking Hours
Monday, 14:00 - 16:00
Always write an e-mail to make an appointment before coming to the office. Otherwise, it is possible that I either won't have time for you or that I am not in the office (even throughout the speaking hours).
Thesis Supervision
I supervised/supported several bachelor and master theses (sorted by the year of submission).
2018
- FactCheck – An automatic approach to validate facts in a knowledge base
- Extraction of Linked Data from HTML webpages
2019
- Grammar-based Compression of RDF Graphs
2020
- Benchmarking of Dataset Linkage Recommendation Systems based on real-world Linked Data Application Scenarios
- A Recommender System for Basket Items
- Generation of Explainable Recommendations for Song Playlists
- Recommendation System using Embedding Models for Knowledge Graphs
2021
- Benchmarking of Dataset Linkage Recommendation Systems based on real-world Linked Data Application Scenarios
- A Recommender System for Basket Items
- Generation of Explainable Recommendations for Song Playlists
- Recommendation System using Embedding Models for Knowledge Graphs
2022
- Evaluation of Search Algorithms in Word and Knowledge Graph Embedding Models
- Knowledge Graph Embedding Model Ensemble
- Sedenion-valued Embeddings in Knowledge Graph Fact Validation
2023
- Algorithm Selection Applied to Fact Validation Ensemble Learning
2024
- Simulate RDF Graphs: A Simplex Approach
- Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search in Knowledge Graph Embedding Spaces
Research Interest
I am mainly interested in:
- Benchmarking Big Linked Data Systems and automatically analyze the results
- Analyzing Linked Data—especially with respect to its veracity
- Crawling the Data Web
Reviewing
My little free time seems to be partly consumed by reviewing, e.g.,
- International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) in 2013
- Journal of Biomedical Semantics on Bio-Medical Information Retrieval (JBMS Bio-IR) in 2015
- CIKM 2015 Workshop on Topic Models: Post-Processing and Applications
- Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) in 2018, 2019
- PLOS ONE in 2018
- Semantic Web Journal (1394, 1604, 1809, 2446, 2529, 3296, 3467)
- European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2020)
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)
- QuWeDa 2023
- GeoLD 2024
Projects
Publications
Evaluating Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search Systems on Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Semantic Web – 22nd International Conference, ESWC 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1-5, 2025, Proceedings, 2025, #inproceedings
LOLA - An Open-Source Massively Multilingual Large Language Model
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24, 2025, 2025, #inproceedings
FaVEL: Fact Validation Ensemble Learning
Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 24th International Conference, EKAW 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 26-28, 2024, Proceedings, 2024, #inproceedings
Benchmarking Low-Resource Machine Translation Systems
Proceedings of the The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024), 2024, #inproceedings
ExPrompt: Augmenting Prompts Using Examples as Modern Baseline for Stance Classification
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management -- CIKM 2024, 2024, #inproceedings
TEMPORALFC: A Temporal Fact Checking approach over Knowledge Graphs
The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2023, 2023, #inproceedings
HybridFC: A Hybrid Fact-Checking Approach for Knowledge Graphs
The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2022, 2022, #inproceedings
SynthG: Mimicking RDF Graphs Using Tensor Factorization
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2021, #inproceedings
LEMMING -- Example-based Mimicking of Knowledge Graphs
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2021, #inproceedings
Using Compositional Embeddings for Fact Checking
The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2021, 2021, #inproceedings
ORCA -- a Benchmark for Data Web Crawlers
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2021, #inproceedings
Applying Grammar-based Compression to RDF
Eighteenth Extended Semantic Web Conference - Research Track, 2021, #inproceedings
Squirrel - Crawling RDF Knowledge Graphs on the Web
The Semantic Web - ISWC 2020 - 19th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Greece, November 2-6, 2020, Proceedings, Part II, 2020, #inproceedings
A General Benchmarking Framework for Text Generation
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Generation from the Semantic Web (WebNLG+), 2020, #inproceedings
Applying edge-counting semantic similarities to Link Discovery: Scalability and Accuracy
Proceedings of Ontology Matching Workshop 2020, 2020, #inproceedings
Benchmarking the Lifecycle of Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge Graphs for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Applications and Challenges, 2020, #inbook
Ranking on Very Large Knowledge Graphs
Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 2019, #inproceedings
COPAAL -- An Interface for Explaining Facts using Corroborative Paths
Proceedings of the ISWC 2019 Satellite Tracks (Posters & Demonstrations, Industry, and Outrageous Ideas), 2019, #inproceedings
Unsupervised Discovery of Corroborative Paths for Fact Validation
The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2019, 2019, #inproceedings
Finding Datasets in Publications: The University of Paderborn Approach
Rich Search and Discovery for Research Datasets, 2019, #incollection
Entity Linking in 40 Languages using MAG
The Semantic Web, ESWC 2018, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018, #inproceedings
8th Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-8)
Joint proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-4) and NLIWoD4: Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data (NLIWOD-4) and 9th Question Answering over Linked Data challenge (QALD-9) co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, California, United States of America, October 8th - 9th, 2018., 2018, #inproceedings
BENGAL: An Automatic Benchmark Generator for Entity Recognition and Linking
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018, 2018, #inproceedings
FactCheck: Validating RDF Triples Using Textual Evidence
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018, #inproceedings
GERBIL - Benchmarking Named Entity Recognition and Linking consistently
Semantic Web, 2018, #article
Introducing the HOBBIT platform into the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Campaign
Proceedings of the Ontology Matching Workshop 2018, 2018, #inproceedings
MOCHA2018: The Mighty Storage Challenge at ESWC 2018
Semantic Web Evaluation Challenges, 2018, #inproceedings
Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge 2018
Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, 2018, #inproceedings
Characterizing Mention Mismatching Problems for Improving Recognition Results
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications & Services, 2017, #inproceedings
MOCHA2017: The Mighty Storage Challenge at ESWC 2017
Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, 2017, #inproceedings
Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge 2017
Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, 2017, #inproceedings
All That Glitters is not Gold -- Rule-Based Curation of Reference Datasets for Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking
The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, 2017, #inproceedings
MAG: A Multilingual, Knowledge-base Agnostic and Deterministic Entity Linking Approach
K-CAP 2017: Knowledge Capture Conference, 2017, #inproceedings
Eaglet -- a Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking Gold Standard Checking Tool
The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Proceedings, 2017, #inproceedings
7th Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-7)
Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, 2017, #inproceedings
HOBBIT: Holistic Benchmarking for Big Linked Data
ESWC, EU networking session, 2016, #inproceedings
DIESEL -- Distributed Search over Large Enterprise Data
ESWC, EU networking session, 2016, #inproceedings
Detecting Similar Linked Datasets Using Topic Modelling
The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 13th International Conference, ESWC 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 -- June 2, 2016, Proceedings, 2016, #inbook
GERBIL -- General Entity Annotation Benchmark Framework
24th WWW conference, 2015, #inproceedings
CETUS -- A Baseline Approach to Type Extraction
1st Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge @ 12th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015), 2015, #inproceedings
Developing a Sustainable Platform for Entity Annotation Benchmarks
ESWC Developers Workshop 2015, 2015, #inproceedings
Evaluating Entity Annotators Using GERBIL
Proceedings of 12th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015), 2015, #inproceedings
Exploring the Space of Topic Coherence Measures
Proceedings of the eight International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Shanghai, February 2-6, 2015, #inproceedings
AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Data
The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2014, 2014, #incollection
AGDISTIS - Agnostic Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Open Data
ECAI 2014 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 18-22 August 2014, Prague, Czech Republic - Including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2014), 2014, #inproceedings
Evaluation des Konfigurationsraumes von Kohärenzmaßen fur Themenmodelle
Proceedings of the 16th LWA Workshops: KDML, IR and FGWM, Aachen, Germany, September 8-10, 2014, #inproceedings
N$^3$ - A Collection of Datasets for Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation in the NLP Interchange Format
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), 2014, #inproceedings
Cross-Document Coreference Resolution using Latent Features
LD4IE---Linked Data for Information Extraction at ISWC 2014, 2014, #inproceedings
Investigating Quality Raters' Performance Using Interface Evaluation Methods
Informatik 2013, 43. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Informatik angepasst an Mensch, Organisation und Umwelt, 16.-20. September 2013, Koblenz, 2013, #inproceedings
Evaluating Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search Systems on Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Semantic Web – 22nd International Conference, ESWC 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1-5, 2025, Proceedings, 2025, #inproceedings
LOLA - An Open-Source Massively Multilingual Large Language Model
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24, 2025, 2025, #inproceedings
FaVEL: Fact Validation Ensemble Learning
Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 24th International Conference, EKAW 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 26-28, 2024, Proceedings, 2024, #inproceedings
Benchmarking Low-Resource Machine Translation Systems
Proceedings of the The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024), 2024, #inproceedings