Nov 11, 2024 We’re at ISWC this week. Jan-Christoph is co-organizing the LM-KBC workshop. Paul is part of debate on KGs and LLMs as well as co-organizing the special session on Gen AI and semantic techology where Brad is also talking. Lise is attending as well. Say hi!
Nov 7, 2024 We’re pleased to welcome Imane El Ghabi as a new PhD student to the lab. She’s will be working on decentralized digital twins.
Nov 7, 2024 Paul is presenting at the Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on AI and Academic Publishing.
Nov 5, 2024 Paul presented about AI in Science to the National Academy of Technologis of France.
Oct 28, 2024 Victoria is presenting the DiTEC project system paper entitled DiTEC: Digital Twin for Evolutionary Changes in Water Distribution Networks at the ISOLA symposium.
Oct 22, 2024 We’re happy to be at both ECAI and CIKM this week where our work on entity linking under temporal change led by Pengyu is being presented. The papers are: TIGER: Temporally Improved Graph Entity Linker and CYCLE: Cross-Year Contrastive Learning in Entity-Linking.
Oct 22, 2024 Lucas is presenting his work on LLM-based query generation for official statistics at PAIS co-located with ECAI.
Oct 18, 2024 Paul led the AI4Science panel at the successful UvA Data Science Day.
Oct 15, 2024 Lise was at the kick-off of the GOBLIN cost action on multilingual open knowledge graphs. She is on the management committee as a representative of the Netherlands.
Oct 1, 2024 We’re pleased to welcome Antonis Georgakopoulos as a new PhD student in the lab. He’ll be working on hybrid human / AI knowledge engineering workflows.
Sep 30, 2024 We’re happy to be at ECCV this week. Melika is presenting her work on continual hyperbolic learning at the Instance-Level Recognition Workshop as well as her work on self-supervised pretraining for precise spatial understanding at the self-supervised learning workshop. Teresa is also attending. Say hi!
Sep 30, 2024 Paul is presenting at the SIKS Course on Generative AI talking about the role of data governance.
Sep 24, 2024 We’re pleased to welcome Lucas Lageweg as a new PhD student in the lab. With Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek), he will be working on table retrieval and answerability in official statistics.
Sep 15, 2024 Daphne and Paul are attending a Shonan seminar on the why of data and knowledge models.
Aug 26, 2024 Paul will be part of a NISO webinar on the importance of metadata in AI - Sept 11.
Aug 26, 2024 We are happy to be VLDB this week where Hazar is organizing the workshop on quality in databases and our paper on characterizing table embeddings with University of Michigan is being presented.
Jul 25, 2024 We have a new publication out entitled How different is different? Systematically identifying distribution shifts and their impacts in NER datasets in the Journal of Language Resources an Evaluation. Congrats Effy who was leading the project :tada:
Jul 17, 2024 We are hiring! Postdocs in the broad area of AI and data management focused on the retail domain. This is an open call until the positions are filled.
Jul 11, 2024 We are hiring! A PhD student in knowledge engineering focused on AI and domain expert workflows for scholarly application. Due date: August 12.
Jul 9, 2024 Congrats to Stefan for having a workshop paper entitled Instrumentation and Analysis of Native ML Pipelines via Logical Query Plans accepted at the VLDB 2024 PhD workshop :tada: !
Jul 8, 2024 Congrats to Victoria, Erkan and collaborators from the University of Groningen and Vitens who had a paper entitled DiTEC: Digital Twin for Evolutionary Changes in Water Distribution Networks accepted at the ISoLA 2024 conference :tada: !
Jul 5, 2024 Congrats to Pengyu who had a paper entitled “TIGER: Temporally Improved Graph Entity Linker” accepted at ECAI 2024 conference :tada: ! The paper is co-authored by Congfeng Cao from the ILLC institute and and Paul.
Jun 18, 2024 Congrats to Danru and collaborators for having a workshop paper entitled A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning accepted at the 9th Causal Inference Workshop as part of UAI conference :tada: !
Jun 9, 2024 We’re at SIGMOD this week! Stefan and Effy are presenting at the Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM) workshop. Effy on data wrangling with LLMs using code generation and Stefan on improving ML data preparation code. Daphne is organizing and presenting at the DataEd workshop. Hazar will attend as well. Say hello!
Jun 8, 2024 We were happy to be part of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School both as tutors and participants.
Jun 3, 2024 We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Daphne Miedema and Dr. Lise Stork as new assistant professors in the group!
Jun 2, 2024 Trip Report: ESWC 2024
May 26, 2024 We’re happy to be at ESWC this week. We have a paper in the special track on LLMs and knowledge engineering. Paul is giving a keynote talk at the Text2KG workshop, is on panel at the DQMLKG workshop. Our project ENEXA will also be in the poster session and Discovery Lab is well represented throughout the event.
May 15, 2024 Jan-Christoph, Brad, and Paul were awarded outstanding reviewers at the Web Conference.
May 13, 2024 We’re pleased to be at ICDE 2024 this week in Utrecht. Zeyu and co-authors have a paper at DBML 2024. Say hi!
May 12, 2024 Paul is talking at a May 13 webinar on AI and academic publishing presented by EU scientific advice mechanism.
May 6, 2024 Congrats to Danru and co-authors for their ICLR spotlight paper on multiview casual representation learning.
Apr 16, 2024 New policy report for the European Commission on AI & Science. Paul was a member of the working group that produced the report.
Apr 11, 2024 We’re pleased to welcome Klim Zaporojets as a guest as part of his EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship.
Apr 10, 2024 A vision paper entitled Red Onions, Soft Cheese and Data: From Food Safety to Data Traceability for Responsible AI is published in the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin! Congrats to Stefan, Zeyu, Sebastian and their collaborator Ce Zhang from University of Chicago!
Mar 20, 2024 We’re pleased to welcome Yichun as a new PhD student in the group. She will be working on the integration of AI technologies in data quality, and addressing the ethical and regulatory dimensions.
Feb 20, 2024 Madelon will defend her PhD dissertation entitled ‘Table Representation Learning’ on the 23rd of February, 16:00-17:30 at Agnietenkapel :tada:. You can watch this PhD defence ceremony here.
Feb 19, 2024 The IN-SIGHT project we are involved with has an event on the 21st of February for the release of a survey exploring the relation between public values, human rights, and technology design.
Feb 12, 2024 We are hiring: A PhD position in Data Quality for and using AI. Closing date: March 17.
Jan 10, 2024 We are hiring: A PhD position in Knowledge Transfer for Distributed Digital Twins. Closing date: Feb. 5, 2024
Jan 8, 2024 We’re pleased to welcome Teresa Liberatore to INDElab as a PhD student in collaboration with the Amsterdam Business School. She’s will be working on new methods to study patterns of influence in arts and entertainment.
Dec 22, 2023 We have a new systematic review out on the use of ontologies in digital twins appearing in the journal Future Generation Computer Systems. This work was led by Erkan and was done in colloboration with Flavio during his stay.
Dec 20, 2023 New paper out, led by Daniel, in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics on embedding multimodal biomedical knowlege graphs.
Dec 19, 2023 We are pleased to have an article in the inaugural issue of the Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge. It’s on Knowledge Engineering using Large Languge models. Done with Brad, Paul and Lise Stork from the VU.
Dec 19, 2023 Paul was on the Weaviate Podcast talking about AI native databases.
Dec 6, 2023 We’re happy to be at NeurIPS 2023 this week. We have papers in the main conference on complex query answering and neurosymbolic inference as well as papers in the Table Representation Learning, Causal Representation Learning and Graph Frontiers Workshops. Say hi to Daniel, Danru and Madelon (alum) if you’re there.
Dec 6, 2023 We’re attending K-CAP 2023 this week.
Nov 24, 2023 Viktoriya co-chaired the Amsterdam AI Thesis Award committee. Congrats to the winners!
Nov 5, 2023 INDE lab is 5 years old! :birthday: :rocket:
Nov 2, 2023 Paul gave a day course on Modern Data Governance.
Nov 1, 2023 Interesting article by Sebastian about the importance of data quality, and how his research in collaboration with Stefan is used in practice at Amazon.
Oct 31, 2023 We’re happy to be at ISWC next week! Check out Erkan, Viktoriya and Paul’s paper on rule learning from time series and KGs at the SemIIM 2023 workshop. Also, Jan-Christoph is organizing the KBC-LM workshop, where Effy, Fina and Paul have a paper on relation extraction with finetuned LMs and a challenge paper with collaborators.
Oct 25, 2023 We are pleased to welcome Dr. Hazar Harmouch as a new assistant professor in the group!
Oct 19, 2023 Paul gave on talk at the ICAI Deep Dive on Provenace in the Age of AI.
Oct 10, 2023 We have an opening for a data engineering assistant professor as part of the MacGillavry Fellowship program for female scientist. Due date: Nov. 30
Sep 29, 2023 Paul gave a talk on knowledge graphs and language models at the UIUC Knowledge Graphs & Semantic Computing Series.
Sep 27, 2023 Congrats to Daniel and Thiviyan who had papers accepted at NeurIPS 2023. Thiviyan’s paper with colleagues from the VU L&R group was on scalable probalistic neurosympbolic inference. Daniel worked with the VU, Edinburgh and Copenhangen to study data efficient complex query answering.
Sep 14, 2023 We are hiring: a PhD student in Data Quality in AI Applications. Closing date Oct. 31.
Sep 14, 2023 Madelon is presenting at Transformers at Work 2023 on table representation learning.
Sep 13, 2023 Sebastian presented at the BIFOLD Berlin summer school on AI and ecological sustainability.
Sep 12, 2023 Fina is at Linguistics, Data & Knowlege conference talking about her paper on cycle training for tackling LLM hallucinations.
Aug 25, 2023 We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jan-Christoph Kalo as a new assistant professor in the group!
Aug 8, 2023 Congrats to Qingzhi for having her MSc thesis work on KGs for Impact Investing Scoring with Daniel, Paul and collaborators from Robeco, published at the KDD Fragile Earth Workshop!
Aug 7, 2023 We will be at the Knowledge Prompting Hackathon this week hosted by King’s College London.
Jul 31, 2023 Viktoriya attended the Future of Computing Workshop at the Lorentz Center
Jul 25, 2023 Sebastian has a new paper at SIGIR on unlearning data from recommendation models. James and Paul have a new paper on the impact of data integration on complex network diffusion models at the Journal of Complex Networks.
Jul 24, 2023 Paul is giving an invited talk on Knowledge Engineering in the Language Model Era at UK ISKO Conference.
Jul 4, 2023 James is presenting a paper on Data Integration Landscapes at ICCS this week. A fruitful collaboration with Michael Lees.
Jun 30, 2023 Paul has a new paper out in collaboration with Enrico Daga on Data journeys: Explaining AI workflows through abstraction in the Semantic Web journal.
Jun 23, 2023 Stefan, Shubha and Sebastian won an ACM SIGMOD Best Demo Runner Up Award for the demo on Proactively Screening Machine Learning Pipelines with ArgusEyes. Sebastian was also part of the large group of contributors to Apache Flink, who won the ACM SIGMOD Systems Award 2023! Congrats, all!
Jun 7, 2023 We are pleased to have 2 papers (mlwhatif, GitTables) and a demo on ARGUSEYES at SIGMOD 2023. Madelon also gives a tutorial and co-organizes DEEM at SIGMOD 2023.
May 29, 2023 Paul gives a keynote at the Semantics for Events and Stories workshop at ESWC 2023.
May 23, 2023 Paul gave a lecture on Data Governance at The Government.
May 14, 2023 Trip Report: Web Conf 2023
May 2, 2023 Thiviyan is at ICLR in Kigali, Rwanda this week where he co-chairs the NeSy-GeMs workshop. He also presents his work on Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Inference with collaborators from the VU and TU Eindhoven. Come say hi!
Apr 30, 2023 We are at the Web Conference this week for the Provenance Week workshop. Presenting mlinspect, brief thoughts on ML + provenance, and celebrating 10 years of the W3C Provenance recommendations.
Apr 13, 2023 We have a new PhD position in collaboration with ABN-AMRO on Systems for AI Data Quality in Finance. This project is with Sebastian Schelter, Kristina Irion, Paul Groth and Stefania Milan. Applications are due 21 May 2023. Find more info and apply here.
Apr 10, 2023 New Dagstuhl Seminar report out on the future of knowledge engineering and knowledge graphs. Paul co-organized this seminar with colleagues from Kings College London, Wikidata and the KNAW humanites cluster. Do check out Brad’s contribution on the history of knowledge engineering.
Apr 6, 2023 Viktoriya and collaborators have a new paper accepted at ACM DEBS 2023 on adaptive quality aware event processing for IoT.
Apr 3, 2023 We were happy to be at ICDE 2023 in California this week where Shubha was presenting work on data cleaning and fairness.
Mar 28, 2023 New paper out in TMLR on parameter efficient node classification. Led by a former MSc student Lucas Prieto together with a local startup socialdatabase.
Mar 27, 2023 Erkan has a new paper out on using machine learning approaches for semantic matchmaking in IoT infrastructures. This is work done during his masters degree.
Mar 12, 2023 We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Flavio Pileggi and Bradley Allen as guest researchers to the INDE Lab!
Mar 6, 2023 We’re happy to be at BTW and WU Vienna this week. Paul is giving a talk at WU Vienna about Data Curation and Debugging for Data-Centric AI. Sebastian and Madelon will attend the ML for Systems and Systems for ML workshop at BTW to talk about Provenance-based Screening of ML pipelines and Table Representation Learning, respectively.
Feb 17, 2023 We’re pleased to welcome Danru Xu as a new PhD student in the group. Danru will be working on the intersection of causal representation learning and multimodal data fusion.
Feb 7, 2023 The paper Self-Contained Entity Discovery from Captioned Videos was published at ACM TOMM! The project, led by Melika, was a collaboration between INDE Lab and the VIS Lab.
Jan 28, 2023 We’re pleased to welcome Erkan as a new PhD student in the group. He’ll be working on Knowledge Models and Reasoning Systems for Digital Twins.
Jan 27, 2023 We are hiring! We have a new PhD position in collaboration with the UvA Amsterdam Business School on Artificial Intelligence and Patterns of Influence in the Arts and Entertainment Industries. Applications are due 31 March.
Jan 18, 2023 Paul was part of a panel of SSP discussing definitions, challenges, risks, and opportunities on the intersection of AI and Scholarly Publishing. Read a summary here!
Jan 16, 2023 We’re pleased to welcome Fina Polat as a new PhD student in the group. She’ll be working on the intersection of language models and knowledge graphs.
Jan 15, 2023 Paul has a new book chapter out with collaborators from Maastricht, Vienna and DANS about interdisciplinarity and importance of users in studying research data practice. It also has a knitted figure.
Jan 11, 2023 We were happy to be at CIDR. Sebastian gave a short talk, check it out here!
Dec 19, 2022 We are hiring! An Assistant Professor in Data Engineering. Due date Feb 27, 2023.
Dec 16, 2022 It was fun to meet our local colleagues at the Dutch-Belgian Database Day. Paul gave a keynote on Knowlegdge Graph as Systems and we presented the mlwhatif work led by Stefan.
Dec 16, 2022 Thiviyan is co-organizing the ICLR 2023 Neurosymbolic Generative Models workshop. Check it out and submit!
Dec 11, 2022 Madelon is co-organizing the Data Management for End-End ML (DEEM) Workshop at SIGMOD. Check it out and submit!
Dec 4, 2022 We were happy to be at NeurIPS 2022.
Dec 1, 2022 We’re happy to be part of the Horizon Europe Efficient Explainable Learning on Knowledge Graphs (ENEXA) project.
Nov 17, 2022 Check out this interview with Jacobijn on setting up the new UvA Bachelor program Computational Social Science.
Nov 4, 2022 New paper out in the Wikidata 2022 workshop on using patterns to improve schema reuse. Collaboration between Paul and University of Bologna. Results from the visit by Valentina Carriero to INDELab in 2021.
Nov 2, 2022 The work led by Thiviyan deeply reproducing RGCNs - Relational graph convolutional networks: a closer look - has been published in the journal PeerJ Computer Science. Congrats to Thivyian and co-authors!
Nov 1, 2022 Sara is moving to work with our colleagues across the hall at AMLab. She will continue to collaborate with INDElab. Congrats to Sara on the move!
Oct 20, 2022 We are hiring! A data engineer to help our lab and department with data stewardship and advanced developement. Applications due Nov. 16.
Oct 13, 2022 We were pleased to part of the 2nd annual UvA Data Science Day hosted by the UvA Data Science Centre. It was great to see all the interdisciplinary data science work going on at the UvA. Both Paul and Shuba presented.
Oct 6, 2022 We’re pleased to welcome Zeyu Zhang as a new PhD student in INDE lab. He will be working on responsible data mangement and NLP for mental health. This in context with the AMC through the UvA’s Data Science Centre.
Sep 27, 2022 We’re pleased to welcome Pengyu Zhang as a new PhD student in the lab. He’ll be working on knowledge acquistion for knowledge graphs
Sep 26, 2022 Corey will be presenting his paper on question answering for the rapid revelopment of new knowledge extraction pipelines at EKAW 2022.
Sep 13, 2022 Paul co-organized, with collabortors from Wikimedia, King’s College and the KNAW, a Dagstuhl seminar on knowledge graphs and their role in the future of knowledge engineering.
Aug 25, 2022 Congrats to Thiviyan and the whole team who won the Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-trained Language Models (LM-KBC) challenge. Preprint.
Aug 16, 2022 Yet more hiring! Check out this postdoc position in the Innovation Center for Artifical Intelligence AIRlab. Due date September 15.
Aug 4, 2022 We are hiring even more! A PhD position in Causal Representation Learning and Fusion from Multiple Modalities. Due date September 15.
Aug 1, 2022 We are hiring! A PhD position in Knowledge Models and Resasoning Systems for Digital Twins. Due date September 5.
Jul 27, 2022 We are hiring. A PhD position in Combining Language Models & Knowledge Graphs. Due date Aug 19.
Jul 17, 2022 We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Viktoriya Degeler to the group as an assistant professor.
Jul 13, 2022 Paul gave a talk at Sigma Computing Data Curation and Debugging for Data Centric AI.
Jul 7, 2022 The IvI has a nice article on Sebastian’s work on responsible data management.
Jul 6, 2022 We are happy to be co-organizing two workshops at Neurips 2022. Madelon is co-organizing the table Representation workshop and Sara the workshop on causality and dynamic systems.
Jul 3, 2022 Paul was a tutorial speaker at the 2022 International Semantic Web Summer School.
Jun 22, 2022 Sara spoke about Causality-inspired ML at the ICAI Mercury Machine Learning Lab Webinar
Jun 12, 2022 We are at SIGMOD 2022 this week. Stefan is giving a talk at the DEEM workshop on what-if analysis for ML pipelines. Sebastian has a paper in the main research track with Barrie Kersbergen and Olivier Sprangers from AIR Lab: Serenade - Low-Latency Session-Based Recommendation in e-Commerce at Scale.
Jun 8, 2022 We are extremely happy to have co-authors on not one but two articles in the June issue of the Communications of the ACM. One article co-authored by Sebastian on Responsible Data Management and the other on the Common Workflow Language co-authored by Stian.
Jun 7, 2022 Trip Report: ESWC 2022
May 29, 2022 We are at ESWC 2022 this week! Paul is general chair also giving an invited talk at the NLIWoD workshop. Xue is presenting at the PhD symposium on her research plan for causal domain adaption for information extraction.
May 27, 2022 Madelon is part of the organizing team of the SemTab 2022 challenge on tables and knowledge graphs. Check it out!
May 23, 2022 Daniel is will be presenting his paper SlotGAN: Detecting Mentions in Text via Adversarial Distant Learning at the Structured Prediction for NLP workshop at ACL 2022. Here’s a nice tweet summary.
May 18, 2022 Paul gave an invited talk at the Metadata4KG workshop part of an EU COST action on distributed knowledge graphs.
May 16, 2022 CITRIS: Causal Identifiability from Temporal Intervened Sequences was accepted at ICML 2022! The paper is co-authored by Sara and a team from around the UvA and Qualcomm.
May 11, 2022 Paul gave an invited talk at the 2022 VOGIN-IP-lezing on data reuse.
May 9, 2022 We are happy to be participating at ICDE’22. Paul is giving a keynote at the Databases and ML workshop. Also at the workshop is a paper on GitSchemas led by Till Döhmen and co-authored with Madelon and Sebastian. Sebastian is also on a panel for the PhD Symposium.
Apr 30, 2022 New paper out in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methdology on the Knowledge Graph development process. Co-authored by Paul.
Apr 20, 2022 New special issue out of the IEEE Data Engineeering Bulletin on GDPR-Compliant Data Systems edited by Sebastian.
Apr 14, 2022 We are hiring! A PhD position in Causality-Inspired ML/RL. Applications due June 15.
Apr 12, 2022 Our project IN-SIGHT.it on assisting public values and standards with knowledge graphs is hosting its kick-off event at our collaborators NEN.
Apr 7, 2022 We were happy to be at ICT.OPEN 2022 presenting our work in the Discovery Lab.
Apr 2, 2022 This semester Sara is visiting the Simons Institute as a long term particpant in their program on causality.
Mar 30, 2022 We are happy to be a co-organizer of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Science with TU/e and data.world.
Mar 9, 2022 Madelon was a contributor to SemTab 2021 with GitTables. The paper documenting the results has now been published.
Mar 4, 2022 We are hiring! PhD Position in Responsible NLP and Data Management for Mental Health
Mar 1, 2022 Sara gave a talk at the The University of Edinburgh Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation seminar series.
Feb 28, 2022 We are hiring! Postdoc in Causal Knowlege Extraction & Fusion
Feb 22, 2022 Sebastian is talking at Algorithm Watch’s Sustainable AI event.
Feb 8, 2022 We’re pleased to welcome Anca Serbanescu who is visiting us from Politecnico di Milano. She’s working on human-ai collaboration.
Feb 5, 2022 Congratulations to Sara and Fan on their new paper in ICLR 2022 with colleagues from CMU & Cambridge: “AdaRL: What, Where, and How to Adapt in Transfer Reinforcement Learning.” This is a spotlight paper!
Jan 31, 2022 Massive paper on mlinspect out in the VLDB Journal led by Stefan with colleagues from NYU: Data distribution debugging in machine learning pipelines
Jan 31, 2022 New paper out in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics with colleagues from Rostok on capturing research data provenance from electron lab notebooks.
Jan 11, 2022 We are hiring! Check out our opening for an Assistant Prof. in Data Management Methodologies. Due date: Feb 13.
Jan 10, 2022 New paper out in the Data Science Journal: “Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate” led by Stian with a large number of collaborators
Nov 30, 2021 Sara is giving a keynote on causality-inspried ML at The First International AXxIA Workshop on Causality (Causal-Italy 2021)
Nov 18, 2021 The paper “The non-linear impact of data handling on network diffusion models” led by James has been published in Cell Patterns. Collaboration with our friends in the IvI’s Computational Science Lab.
Nov 18, 2021 Sebastian gave a keynote at the Data Centric AI workshop hosted by Stanford HAI and ETH AI Center.
Nov 15, 2021 Sara gave a keynote at the 2021 Causal Science meeting. The other keynote was recent Nobel prize winner Guido Imbens.
Nov 3, 2021 Check out Sebastian on the bol.com Techlab podcast taking about the AIRlab and recommendations.
Oct 27, 2021 Madelon was an orgazier for SemTab 2021 which featured GitTables as one of the datasets.
Oct 25, 2021 We presented two papers at Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs at ISWC 2021: Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graph Hierarchies using KG-BERT led by Kinga Szarkowska in a colloboration with Elsevier & GraphPOPE: Retaining Structural Graph Information Using Position-aware Node Embeddings led by Jeroen Den Boef in a colloboration with Socialdatabase.
Oct 22, 2021 Sebastian together with Iacer Calixto was awarded funding for aninterdisciplinary PhD position at the intersection of mental health research, responsible data management and NLP as part of the UvA Data Science Centre.
Oct 21, 2021 Two abstracts were accepted for short presentations at CIDR’22. Screening Native Machine Learning Pipelines with ArgusEyes) led by Sebastian joint with ETH Zürich. & Making Table Understanding Work in Practice led by Madelon with Sigma Computing and University of Texas.
Oct 20, 2021 Congrats to Effy who had her paper The Challenges of Cross-Document Coreference Resolution for Email accepted at K-Cap 2021.
Oct 18, 2021 Manolis Stamatogiannakis who was co-supervised by Paul and Herbert Bos from the VU security group received his PhD for his thesis High-Fidelity Provenance: Exploring the Intersection of Provenance and Security.
Sep 14, 2021 We’re pleased to welcome Valentina Carriero who is visiting us this fall from the University of Bologna.
Sep 13, 2021 Paul was co-organizer of the workshop Combination of Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Methods and Their Applications co-located at ECML/PKDD2022.
Sep 10, 2021 Daniel gave a talk at Transformers at Work hosted by our friends over at ZetaAlpha.
Aug 17, 2021 Sebastian was on a round table at VLDB 2021 on systems for ML.
Aug 14, 2021 Corey & team won the best task paper award at SemEval 2021 for MeasEval! Congrats! Excellent collaboration between Elsevier Labs and INDE Lab.
Jul 23, 2021 Sebastian had two papers at the ICML workshop on Challenges in Deploying and Monitoring ML Systems. One in collaboration with CWI.
Jun 21, 2021 Congrats to Sebastian and the AIR Lab team who built a new recommendation system that is in production on bol.com!
Jun 17, 2021 We were at SIGMOD 2021 with a demo of mlinspect, a keynote at the DEEM workshop, and a paper on machine unlearning.
Jun 16, 2021 Check out our new dataset GitTables - a large scale corpus of relational tables extracted from Github. Cooperation with Sigma Computing.
Jun 15, 2021 Paul spoke at ConTech Forum on Data Communities and making data reusable.
Jun 9, 2021 Check out Sebastian’s ICAI interview on tackling data management questions and ML.
Jun 7, 2021 Paul gave an invited talk at the ESWC 2021 PhD Symposium.
Jun 1, 2021 We’re hiring for an assistant professor in data managment methdologies. Application date July 31.
May 27, 2021 Congrats to Sara and co-authors with their paper on verifiably safe RL which won the best paper award at the ACM Conf on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2021).
May 9, 2021 Consider submitting to the Special Issue on Causal Discovery and Causality-Inspired Machine Learning for IEEE TNNLS co-edited by Sara. Due date Oct 22.
May 4, 2021 Sara gave a talk at the Online Causal Inference Seminar on causality and domain adaption. Video.
Apr 30, 2021 Daniel gave a talk at Search Engines Amsterdam.
Apr 15, 2021 Fan Feng joined as a guest from the City University of Hong Kong.
Mar 31, 2021 Congrats to Daniel and co-authors for winning one of the 8 outstanding paper awards at ICLR for their paper Complex Query Answering with Neural Link Predictors. 🎉
Mar 25, 2021 Sebastian edited the March special issue of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin on Data Validation for Machine Learning Models and Applications.
Mar 24, 2021 INDElab at EDBT 2021. Sebastian and colleagues presented their work on automated data quality validation and the study of data errors. Paul served as vice-chair for the databases in data science track.
Mar 23, 2021 Sara gave a talk on Causality Inspried ML at CNR IAC seminar series on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. Note the talk is in Italian.
Mar 2, 2021 Congratulations Dr. Kathleen Gregory! She graduated with her PhD cum laude from Maastricht University on data discovery practices in research. Paul was one of Kathleen’s promotors.
Feb 23, 2021 Sebastian together with Barrie Kersbergen have had their paper about learnings from a real world recommender system at one of Europe’s largest e-commerce platforms accepted at ICDE 2021.
Feb 22, 2021 Sebastian, Stefan together with Shubha Guha and Julia Stoyanovich (NYU) have a demo of mlinspect accepted at SIGMOD 2021. Congrats!
Feb 18, 2021 Daniel gave a talk at the Lunch at ICAI: Discovery & Perception meetup on his recent work on inductive entity representations.
Feb 10, 2021 Paul chaired the Big Data / Data Sharing track at ICT Open 2021.
Feb 3, 2021 Sebastian has two papers at EDBT 2021 on data quality validation for dynamic data and tools to study the impact of data errors on machine learning.
Feb 1, 2021 We’re pleased to welcome Stefan Grafberger to the lab as a new PhD student. He’ll be working on data mangement for ML in the context of ICAI AI for Retail (AIR) Lab.
Jan 28, 2021 Come work with us! We have an opening for a PhD student in causality-inspried machine learning. Closing date April 15.
Jan 22, 2021 Paul gave a talk at NEC Labs on Knowledge Graph Maintenace.
Jan 18, 2021 Our paper led by Daniel on Inductive Entity Representations from Text via Link Predication was accepted in 2021 Web Conference. The tweet length summary.
Jan 15, 2021 Sebastian was at CIDR 2021 presenting his co-authored paper Lightweight Inspection of Data Preprocessing in Native Machine Learning Pipelines. Collaboration with NYU and TU Munich. Video here.
Jan 13, 2021 Congratulations to Daniel whose co-authored work on Complex Query Answering with Neural Link Predictors was accepted to ICLR as an oral presentation. Joint work with VU and UCL.
Nov 19, 2020 New paper - Effective distributed representations for academic expert search in the Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing at EMNLP 2020. Collaboration with Zeta Alpha Vector.
Nov 4, 2020 New paper out in Cell Patterns - Data Reuse: Toward Translating Principles to Practice in collaboration with King’s College London. Tweet summary.
Nov 3, 2020 Dr. Sara Magliacane has joined the lab as an assistant professor. Her research is focused on causality and machine learning. Welcome!
Nov 2, 2020 Frank Nack and Hartmut Koenitz are at ICIDS 2020 this week. Amongst other things, they will be on a panel discussing the discipline of interactive digital narrative.
Oct 27, 2020 New paper out: Talking datasets – understanding data sensemaking behaviours in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies in Collaboration with King’s College London and DANS.
Oct 26, 2020 The UvA announced a new Data Science Center, which will be led by Paul. Blog post about it at Amsterdam Data Science.
Oct 26, 2020 Hartmut is a member of the recently funded CIVIC Project about the characterizing the veracity of information online related to COVID-19.
Oct 20, 2020 We helped organize the Workshop on Combining Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Methods and Their Applications at CIKM this year. It was excellent including a keynote from Maximilian Nickel at Facebook AI research on geometric representation learning.
Oct 14, 2020 We’re pleased to welcome Effy Xue Li to the lab. She’ll be doing her PhD on knowledge graph construction in the context of an NWO funded project on co-designing for public values in standards-making.
Oct 6, 2020 New report out on the state of altmetrics on its 10 year anniversary with contributions from Paul.
Oct 6, 2020 Melika Ayoughi has joined as a PhD student in the group working on knowledge graphs and video. Her work will be in collaboration with Pascal Mettes.
Sep 25, 2020 Sebastian gave the keynote at the RecSys 2020 Workshop on Online Recommender Systems and User Modeling (ORSUM).
Sep 23, 2020 James Nevin has joined the lab as a new PhD student and is part of a joint collaboration with the IvI’s Computational Science Lab.
Sep 1, 2020 We’re pleased to be welcome Madelon Hulsebos to the lab as a new PhD student.
Aug 3, 2020 We’re pleased to be part of the organization of the SemEval2021 task - MeasEval. Check it out and participate.
Jul 20, 2020 Paper on Apache Mahout co-authored by Sebastian has been published in JMLR.
Jul 16, 2020 We’re pleased to welcome Ji Zhang as a guest researcher in the group working with us on AI for data management topics.
Jul 12, 2020 Daniel presented his work on message passing query embedding at the ICML Workshop on Graph Representation Learning.
Jul 1, 2020 Trip Report - Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2020) by Daniel.
Jun 26, 2020 Sebastian gave a talk at CWI on unit testing for data with Deequ.
Jun 5, 2020 Interview (in German) with Sebastian by the Goethe Institute on online algorithms.
Jun 4, 2020 Paul spoke on the ESWC panel on Knowledge Graphs: Past, Present and Future. Slides.
May 28, 2020 We are hiring together with AIRLab, a Research Engineer for supporting our research work. Deadline June 30.
May 16, 2020 With colleagues at NYU, Sebastian’s paper on instrumenting data pre-processing pipelines to mitigate bias has been published at the HILDA workshop @ SIGMOD 2020.
May 16, 2020 New paper published in LREC 2020 on entity spaces.
May 15, 2020 We are hiring! Assistant Professor Data Engineering and AI. Come join the team. Deadline June 24. Interviews are scheduled for July 6th.
May 6, 2020 Paul is giving a talk on Knowledge Graph Maintenance at The Knowledge Graph Conference. Virtual Trip Report.
May 1, 2020 Our paper on how researchers search for data has been published in Harvard Data Science Review. Analyzing data from a survey of over 1600 researchers. Led by Kathleen Gregory.
Apr 23, 2020 New paper published on PANDACap with colleagues from VUSec. PANDACap makes it easier to capture execution traces.
Apr 21, 2020 Paul gave an invited talk for Elsevier Labs lecture series on PROV and the importance of provenance.
Apr 21, 2020 Are you a Knowledge Scientist? New pre-print and initiative with Juan Sequeda (data.world) and George Fletcher (TU/e) identifying a crucial member of data teams. The tweet.
Mar 24, 2020 We’re please to welcome Corey Harper to the lab. He’ll be doing his PhD with us.
Mar 15, 2020 We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Sebastian Schelter as a new Assistant Professor in the lab together with ILPS. He manages the AI for Retail Lab.
Mar 9, 2020 Stian and Paul attended the Automated Workflow Composition in the Life Sciences workshop at the Lorentz Center.
Mar 4, 2020 New paper by Frank Nack and collaborators from Nagoya University mining the imageability of works from crawled image data.
Mar 1, 2020 We’re hiring. Two fully funded PhD positions: Knowledge Graphs & Video and Data Integration & Multi-Scale Models. Apply by April 1.
Feb 13, 2020 We’re hiring: Fully funded PhD Position in Knowledge Graphs & Complex Conversations. Apply by March 20. (closed)
Jan 29, 2020 Paul spoke at the University of Zurich’s Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group.
Jan 27, 2020 Paul is speaking at eXascale Infolab at University of Fribourg.
Jan 27, 2020 Daniel Daza has joined the lab furthering our cooperation with the VU’s Knowledge Representation & Reasoning group.
Jan 20, 2020 We’re happy to welcome Valentin Vogelmann to INDElab. He’ll be working on knowledge graph construction from dialogue.
Dec 5, 2019 Paul gave a talk at the Deloitte NL Analytics Meetup on data integration and reuse.
Nov 26, 2019 Excite to announce our project “Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance” was funded by the NWO. Collaboration with NEN, Groningen Law and UvA Humanities.
Nov 22, 2019 Lobke Kolhoff and Frank Nack were at ICIDS 2019 presenting their paper on user engagement and perceived agency in interactive digital narratives.
Nov 18, 2019 Paul gave a keynote at the Standards Technology and Business Forum discussing the impact of AI on standards and standards organizations.
Oct 29, 2019 Paul gave a talk on knowledge graphs and provenance at the Universidad de La Rioja - Data Provenance Staff Week.
Oct 23, 2019 New paper out P. Groth, H. Cousijn, T. Clark & C. Goble. FAIR data reuse – the path through data citation. Data Intelligence 2(2020)
Oct 16, 2019 Happy to be co-hosting a visit by Chris Gorgolewski from the Google Dataset Search team.
Oct 10, 2019 Inaugural lecture of Paul. Fantastic turnout. Video here
Oct 1, 2019 Paul spoke at the kick-off of the GO FAIR Inter network on data search.
Sep 27, 2019 Paul gave a talk at Booking.com’s ML Speaker Series talking about knowledge graph construction and data search.
Sep 25, 2019 On October 10th, in conjunction with, Paul’s inaugural lecture, we will be hosting an exciting seminar, The work behind data. Both events are open. Do come. These are co-hosted with Amsterdam Data Science.
Sep 25, 2019 Do university rankings measure anything at all? Blog post by Cameron Neylon covering our joint work led by Friso Selten on analyzing university rankings preprint.
Sep 10, 2019 Anthi Symeonidou (one of our masters students) won best poster paper at SEMANTICS 2019 for her paper “Transfer Learning for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition with BioBERT”
Sep 1, 2019 Massive new study led by Kathleen Gregory surveying over 1600 researchers on their approach to searching for data.
Aug 24, 2019 Our paper surveying Data Search technology with the University of Southampton and the Open Data Institute has been published in VLDB.
Aug 19, 2019 Thiviyan Thanapalasingam joins the lab as a PhD student.
Aug 18, 2019 New blog post explaining transformers from scratch by Peter Bloem.
Aug 12, 2019 Peter Bloem joins us. Continuing our cooperation with the Knowledge Representation & Reasoning group at the VU.
Jul 17, 2019 Welcome Stian Soiland-Reyes a new PhD student in the lab.
Jul 15, 2019 We’re hiring! Applications due next week - tenure track assistant professor at the intersection of AI and data engineering.
Jul 15, 2019 Trip Reports: ESWC 2019 and SIGMOD 2019
Jul 3, 2019 Our project mapping interventions for ethical data use in squads with Prof. Van Noord in the UvA’s Research Priority Area Human(e) AI has been funded.
Jun 12, 2019 Paul is giving an invited talk at the Institute for Information Business at WU Wien
Jun 2, 2019 AKBC 2019 Trip Report
Jun 2, 2019 Paul is presenting at Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs workshop about learning to perform structured queries over text (paper).
May 29, 2019 We’re hiring! Come help build the lab as a tenure track assistant professor at the intersection of AI and data engineering.
May 9, 2019 Paul is presenting at the University of Bologna’s DH/ARC Data Science Seminar.
Apr 9, 2019 Dr. Hannes Mühleisen joins INDELab for 1 day a week. Welcome Hannes!
Apr 3, 2019 Paul will give a talk on Flexible & Transparent Data Reuse at the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science seminar.
Mar 25, 2019 The Dagstuhl Report from Seminar 18371 on Knowledge Graphs has been published. We contributed to a number of sections in the report.
Mar 12, 2019 Our paper reviewing the literature on how researchers search for data has been published in JASIST.
Feb 6, 2019 We’re hiring! Fully-funded PhD position on adaptive knowledge graph construction. Apply by March 5.
Jan 4, 2019 New preprint surveying data search with collaborators from the University of Southampton and the Open Data Institute.
Jan 2, 2019 The UvA Faculty of Science is offering six tenure track positions for women through its MacGillavry Fellowship. Data Science is one of the ares. Apply by Feb 4.
Dec 6, 2018 We’re presenting at Amsterdam Data Science’s end of the year Drinks & Data highlights event.
Nov 20, 2018 We’re hiring! Come help build the lab as a tenure track assistant professor at the intersection of AI and data engineering. (closed)
Nov 18, 2018 New preprint on answering structured queries over text.
Nov 7, 2018 Paul is moderating a panel on knowledge graphs at Connected Data London
Nov 5, 2018 Hello world! - INDE Lab is live