Awards
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 NgomoMuhammad SaleemAlexander PotockiTommaso SoruOlaf 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 NgomoMuhammad SaleemAli HasnainbDietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
2018
Where is my URI?
Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) (Honorable mentioned)
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga NgomoA ValdestilhasT SoruM NentwigE Marx
2017
FOX: “Ensemble Learning for Named Entity Recognition”
Best Performing System at OKE 2017 for Tasks 1 and 2
Awarded to: 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 NgomoIvan ErmilovSimon BinJens LehmannGezim SejdiuBuehmann LorenzPatrick WestphalClaus StadlerNilesh ChakrabortyHenning PetzkaHajira 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 NgomoMuhammad SaleemEdgard MarxSaeedeh ShekarpourTommaso SoruAdrian M.P. BrasoveanuCiro BaronAlbert WeichselbraunJens LehmannSoren 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 UsbeckAxel-Cyrille Ngonga NgomoMichael RöderMuhammad 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 RöderRicardo UsbeckRené SpeckAxel-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 UsbeckMichael RöderAxel-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 UsbeckAxel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
2014
AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Data
Best Research Paper Award in International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), pages 457–471, 2014
Awarded to: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga NgomoMichael RöderRicardo UsbeckL. BuhmannD. GerberS. Athaide CoelhoS. AuerA. Both
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 UsbeckD. CherixA. BothJ. 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 NgomoMichael RöderRicardo 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 NgomoAnisa RulaMatteo PalmonariDaniel GerberJens LehmannLorenz 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 ErmilovM. MartinJ. LehmannS. Auer