Awards

2024

Top-5 team in the Bremen Big Data Challenge 2024

Top-5 team out of 18 teams--Professional Track in the Bremen Big Data Challenge 2024.

Awarded to: Leonie N. Sieger

2023

Top-5 team in the Bremen Big Data Challenge 2023

Top-5 team out of 15 teams--Professional Track in the Bremen Big Data Challenge 2023.

Awarded to: N'Dah Jean Kouagou

2023

1st Place Winner in Open Problems Single Cell Perturbations Challenge at NIPS 2023

1st out of 1,097 teams in Open Problems Single Cell Perturbations Challenge 2023. The competition was part of NIPS 2023 and hosted on Kaggle. Overall, there were 6,641 registrants with 1,318 active participants. The team N. Jean Kouagou won the first place and presented his solution at NIPS 2023.

Awarded to: N'Dah Jean Kouagou

2020

NABU - Multilingual Graph-based Neural RDF Verbalizer

in the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020) (Spotlight paper and Runner-Up for Best student paper award)

Awarded to: Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Dwaraknath Gnaneshwar, Thiago Castro Ferreira

2020

OPTIC: A Deep Neural Network Approach for Entity Linking using Word and Knowledge Embeddings

in the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) (Runner-Up for Best research paper award)

Awarded to: Diego Moussallem, Italo Lopes Oliveira, Luís Paulo Faina Garcia, Renato Fileto

2019

Top-4 team in the Rich Context Competition

Top-4 team out of 20 teams in the Rich Context Competition. Longer description goes here if needed

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

2018

CostFed: Cost-Based Query Optimization for SPARQL Endpoint Federation

in Semantics Semantics 2018 (Best research paper award)

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Muhammad Saleem, Alexander Potocki, Tommaso Soru, Olaf Hartig

2018

Extending LargeRDFBench for Multi-Source Data at Scale for SPARQL Endpoint Federation

in ISWC Satellite Events and SSWS, 2018 (Best paper award)

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Muhammad Saleem, Ali Hasnainb, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

2018

Where is my URI?

Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) (Honorable mentioned)

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, A Valdestilhas, T Soru, M Nentwig, E Marx

2017

FOX: “Ensemble Learning for Named Entity Recognition”

Best Performing System at OKE 2017 for Tasks 1 and 2

Awarded to: René Speck, Michael Röder

2017

Leopard: a baseLinE approach to attribute Prediction And validation for knowledge graph population

Second-best score in ISWC Semantic Web Challenge 2017 tasks behind the IBMs system Socrates

Awarded to: René Speck

2017

SANSA Notebooks: “The Tale of Sansa Spark”

Best Demo Award

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Ivan Ermilov, Simon Bin, Jens Lehmann, Gezim Sejdiu, Buehmann Lorenz, Patrick Westphal, Claus Stadler, Nilesh Chakraborty, Henning Petzka, Hajira Jabeen

2017

Torpedo: Improving the State-of-the-Art RDF Dataset Slicing

Runner Up for Best Paper Award at ISCS 2017

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Muhammad Saleem, Edgard Marx, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Tommaso Soru, Adrian M.P. Brasoveanu, Ciro Baron, Albert Weichselbraun, Jens Lehmann, Soren Auer

2016

Next Einstein Forum Award

as one of the top-15 African researchers under 42

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

2016

Requirements to Modern Semantic Search Engines

Runner Up for Best Paper Award at KESW 2016

Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder, Muhammad Saleem

2015

CETUS – A Baseline Approach to Type Extraction

1st prize at Task 2 of Open Knowledge Extraction (OKE) Challenge at International Semantic Web Conference, 2015

Awarded to: Michael Röder, Ricardo Usbeck, René Speck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

2015

Evaluating entity annotators using GERBIL

Best Demo Award in The Semantic Web: ESWC 2015 Satellite Events, Revised Selected Papers, Demos & Posters, pages 159–164, 2015

Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, Michael Röder, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

2015

HAWK@QALD5 – Trying to Answer Hybrid Questions with Various Simple Ranking Techniques

2nd prize at Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD) 5 in CLEF 2015 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1391), 2015

Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

2014

CROCUS: Cluster-based Ontology Data Cleansing

Best of Workshop (WASABI) in Joint Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice and Second International Workshop on Finance and Economics on the Semantic Web at ESWC, 2014

Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck, D. Cherix, A. Both, J. Lehmann

2014

Cross-document coreference resolution using latent features

Best of Workshop (LD4IE) in 2nd International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction at the International Semantic Web Conference, pages 33–44, 2014

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder, Ricardo Usbeck

2014

GenomeSnip: Fragmenting the Genomic Wheel to augment discovery in cancer research

Best paper award at conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2014)

2014

Analyse von Mikro-Blogging-Daten

Best Paper (Informatiktage). Informatik-Spektrum, 38(5):400–405, 2014

Awarded to: Ricardo Usbeck

2014

Hybrid Acquisition of Temporal Scopes for RDF Data

Best Student Research Paper - Sponsored by FORGE

Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Anisa Rula, Matteo Palmonari, Daniel Gerber, Jens Lehmann, Lorenz Bühmann

2013

Fostering Serendipity through Big Linked Data

Semantic Web Challenge (Big Data Track Award) at ISWC 2013

2013

Linked Cancer Genome Atlas Database

I-Challenge Award (Linked Data Cup Award) at I-Semantics 2013

2013

Linked Open Data Statistics: Collection and Exploitation

Best System Description Award at KESW'2013 conference

Awarded to: Ivan Ermilov, M. Martin, J. Lehmann, S. Auer