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SAIL

Funded project (August 2022 - July 2026)

Sustainable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems

About the project

SAIL addresses the next stage of AI development by looking at the entire life cycle of AI systems and their technological and societal implications. Accordingly, SAIL is interdisciplinary in nature involving researchers from the core areas of AI, engineering, computer science, and the social sciences and humanities. The research program is divided into three research pillars and two application areas. Basic research will look at the interaction of AI and human partners in evaluating and coordinating errors and goals. In addition, mature AI systems are analyzed to model and mitigate their potentially undesirable long-term effects at the functional, cognitive, and societal levels. Finally, the entire AI lifecycle is considered in terms of efficiency to enable the practical deployment of AI systems with minimal energy, time, and storage requirements and low cognitive effort on the part of the human partner. The application areas of SAIL are intelligent industrial work environments and adaptive assistance systems for healthcare.
Funding program
Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW), NW21-059D

Publications

Contextual Augmentation for Entity Linking using Large Language Models

By Daniel Vollmers, Hamada M. Zahera, Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

COLING 2025, 2025, #article

Dung's Argumentation Framework: Unveiling the Expressive Power with Inconsistent Databases

By Yasir Mahmood, Markus Hecher, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

AAAI-25, Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, February 25 - March 4, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2025, #inproceedings

Fact Checking Knowledge Graphs - A Survey

By Umair Qudus, Michael Röder, Muhammad Saleem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

ACM Comput. Surv., 2025, #article

Evaluating Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search Systems on Knowledge Graph Embeddings

By Gaurav Pandit, Michael Röder, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Semantic Web – 22nd International Conference, ESWC 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1-5, 2025, Proceedings, 2025, #inproceedings

GLIDE: Knowledge Graph Linking using Distance-Aware Embeddings

By Alexander Becker, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif

The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2025, 2025, #inproceedings

Benchmarking Knowledge Editing using Logical Rules

By Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Hamada M. Zahera, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2025, 2025, #inproceedings

LOLA - An Open-Source Massively Multilingual Large Language Model

By Nikit Srivastava, Denis Kuchelev, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Kshitij Shetty, Michael Röder, Hamada M. Zahera, Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24, 2025, 2025, #inproceedings

ROCES: Robust Class Expression Synthesis in Description Logics via Iterative Sampling

By N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Stefan Heindorf, Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-24, 2024, #inproceedings

Evaluating Negation with Multi-way Joins Accelerates Class Expression Learning

By Nikolaos Karalis, Alexander Bigerl, Caglar Demir, Liss Heidrich, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2024, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 9-13, 2024, Proceedings, Part VI, 2024, #inproceedings

Rejection in Abstract Argumentation: Harder Than Acceptance?

By Johannes Klaus Fichte, Markus Hecher, Yasir Mahmood, Arne Meier

ECAI 2024 - 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19-24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), 2024, #inproceedings

Efficient Evaluation of Conjunctive Regular Path Queries Using Multi-way Joins

By Nikolaos Karalis, Alexander Bigerl, Liss Heidrich, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

ESWC, 2024, #inproceedings

Inference over Unseen Entities, Relations and Literals on Knowledge Graphs

By Caglar Demir, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Arnab Sharma, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

ECAI Workshops, 2024, #inproceedings

Benchmarking Low-Resource Machine Translation Systems

By Ana Silva, Nikit Srivastava, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Michael Röder, Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Proceedings of the The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024), 2024, #inproceedings

Universal Knowledge Graph Embeddings

By N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Caglar Demir, Hamada M. Zahera, Adrian Wilke, Stefan Heindorf, Jiayi Li, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, 2024, #inproceedings

MST5 -- Multilingual Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

By Nikit Srivastava, Mengshi Ma, Daniel Vollmers, Hamada Zahera, Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

To appear, 2024, #article

EDGE: Evaluation Framework for Logical vs. Subgraph Explanations for Node Classifiers on Knowledge Graphs

By Rupesh Sapkota, Dominik Köhler, Stefan Heindorf

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024, #inproceedings

ExPrompt: Augmenting Prompts Using Examples as Modern Baseline for Stance Classification

By Umair Qudus, Michael Röder, Daniel Vollmers, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management -- CIKM 2024, 2024, #inproceedings

BLINK: Blank Node Matching Using Embeddings

By Alexander Becker, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2024, 2024, #inproceedings

Generating SPARQL from Natural Language Using Chain-of-Thoughts Prompting

By Hamada M. Zahera, Manzoor Ali, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Knowledge Graphs in the Age of Language Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS), 17-19 September 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024, #inproceedings

Neural Class Expression Synthesis (Extended Abstract)

By N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Stefan Heindorf, Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

NeSy 2023, 17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, 2023, #inproceedings

A Topic Model for the Data Web

By Michael Röder, Denis Kuchelev, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web, 2023, #inproceedings

Lingua Franca - Entity-Aware Machine Translation Approach for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

By Nikit Srivastava, Aleksandr Perevalov, Denis Kuchelev, Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Andreas Both

Proceedings of the 12th Knowledge Capture Conference 2023, K-CAP 2023, Pensacola, FL, USA, December 5-7, 2023, 2023, #inproceedings

Learning Permutation-Invariant Embeddings for Description Logic Concepts

By Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XXI: 21st International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2023, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, April 12--14, 2023, Proceedings, 2023, #inproceedings

Neuro-Symbolic Class Expression Learning

By Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023, 2023, #inproceedings

Neural Class Expression Synthesis in ALCHIQ(D)

By N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Stefan Heindorf, Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2023, #inproceedings

TEMPORALFC: A Temporal Fact Checking approach over Knowledge Graphs

By Umair Qudus, Michael Röder, Sabrina Kirrane, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2023, 2023, #inproceedings

COBALT: A Content-Based Similarity Approach for Link Discovery over Geospatial Knowledge Graphs

By Alexander Becker, Abdullah Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

SEMANTiCS, 2023, #inproceedings

Neural Class Expression Synthesis

By N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Stefan Heindorf, Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The Semantic Web - 20th International Conference, ESWC 2023, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 28 - June 1, 2023, Proceedings, 2023, #inproceedings

Explainable Integration of Knowledge Graphs using Large Language Models

By Abdullah Fathi Ahmed, Asep Fajar Firmansyah, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Diego Mousallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB, 2023, #inproceedings

Native Execution of GraphQL Queries over RDF Graphs Using Multi-way Joins

By Nikolaos Karalis, Alexander Bigerl, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

SEMANTiCS, 2023, #inproceedings

Clifford Embeddings – A Generalized Approach for Embedding in Normed Algebras

By Caglar Demir, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, 2023, #inproceedings

Contextual Augmentation for Entity Linking using Large Language Models

By Daniel Vollmers, Hamada M. Zahera, Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

COLING 2025, 2025, #article

Dung's Argumentation Framework: Unveiling the Expressive Power with Inconsistent Databases

By Yasir Mahmood, Markus Hecher, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

AAAI-25, Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, February 25 - March 4, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2025, #inproceedings

Fact Checking Knowledge Graphs - A Survey

By Umair Qudus, Michael Röder, Muhammad Saleem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

ACM Comput. Surv., 2025, #article

Evaluating Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search Systems on Knowledge Graph Embeddings

By Gaurav Pandit, Michael Röder, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Semantic Web – 22nd International Conference, ESWC 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1-5, 2025, Proceedings, 2025, #inproceedings

GLIDE: Knowledge Graph Linking using Distance-Aware Embeddings

By Alexander Becker, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif

The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2025, 2025, #inproceedings