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WHALE

Funded project (October 2023 - September 2027)

Web-Scale Hybrid Explainable Machine Learning

About the project

WHALE (Web-Scale Hybrid Explainable Machine Learning) aims at developing scalable, transparent, and explainable AI systems for web-scale knowledge graphs. Building on advanced machine learning and semantic web technologies, WHALE focuses on enhancing the explainability of AI through novel class expression learning (CEL) techniques that combine traditional and cutting-edge methodologies.

Recognizing the challenges posed by the vast size and complexity of web data, WHALE employs hybrid machine learning approaches that integrate embeddings and tensor representations to process and analyze massive datasets efficiently. The project aims to improve the speed and scalability of AI models, making them more practical for real-world applications while maintaining rigorous standards of transparency and interpretability.

Funding program
This project is funded under the Lamarr Fellow Network programme by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW, LFN 1-04).

Publications

Facets in Argumentation: A Formal Approach to Argument Significance

By Johannes Klaus Fichte, Nicolas Fröhlich, Markus Hecher, Victor Lagerkvist, Yasir Mahmood, Arne Meier, Jonathan Persson

The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2025, 2025, #inproceedings

ANTS: Abstractive Entity Summarization in Knowledge Graphs

By Asep Fajar Firmansyah, Hamada M. Zahera, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Diego and Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

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

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

PCFWebUI: Data-driven WebUI for holistic decarbonization based on PCF-Tracking

By Ajay Kumar, Marius Naumann, Kevin Henne, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif

Joint Proceedings of Posters, Demos, Workshops, and Tutorials of the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems co-located with 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2024), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 17-19, 2024, 2024, #inproceedings

Facets in Argumentation: A Formal Approach to Argument Significance

By Johannes Klaus Fichte, Nicolas Fröhlich, Markus Hecher, Victor Lagerkvist, Yasir Mahmood, Arne Meier, Jonathan Persson

The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2025, 2025, #inproceedings

ANTS: Abstractive Entity Summarization in Knowledge Graphs

By Asep Fajar Firmansyah, Hamada M. Zahera, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Diego and Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

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