Chair of Knowledge-Aware AI

Prof. Dr. Simon Razniewski
E-Mail: simon.razniewski@tu-dresden.de
Office: Strehlener Str. 12-14, Room 646B, 01069 Dresden, Germany (Google Maps)
Secretary: Thomas Bruderrek, Jin Zhang
Phone: +49 (0)351 463 40900 (Secretary)

About Simon Razniewski

Simon Razniewski is professor for knowledge-aware AI at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig and TUD Dresden University of Technology, where he develops novel methods for extracting and consolidating knowledge from and with language models and knowledge bases.

He was previously a research scientist at the Bosch Center for AI (2023-2024), senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2017-2021), where he was heading the Knowledge Base Construction and Quality area, and assistant professor at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano¹ (2014-2017). He holds a PhD from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2014), and a Diplom (MSc.) from TUD Dresden University of Technology (2010; not this Dresden). He spent time as visitor at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (2016), the University of Queensland (2015), AT&T Labs-Research (2013), the University of California, San Diego (2012), and has previous industrial experience from Globalfoundries (2010) and Siemens IT (2009). He has published >20 papers at premier² conferences in the area of artificial intelligence (and more than 60 papers in total).

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Acquired grants (selection)

• DFG individual research grant of 312,000 € for compiling negative knowledge at web scale, 2021
• Diffbot grant of $30,000 for KB construction in fiction, 2020
• Google Cloud Credit grant of $5,000 for research on commonsense knowledge, 2019
• NVIDIA hardware grant (~$1,100) for research on information extraction, 2018
• Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, acquired projects grants Recall (20,000 €, 2016-17), TQTK (20,000 €, 2016-17), TaDaQua (50,000 €, 2016-18)
• Province of South Tyrol, open research call, coauthored project MAGIC (250,000 €, 2013-16)

Other grant proposals

• ERC starting grant 2020: Proposal received grade A but not funded due to budget constraints

Organization

• Guest editor of SWJ special issue on Wikidata (2023), on commonsense knowledge (2021)
• Co-organizer, Wikidata workshop at ISWC 2023, 2022, 2021
• Co-organizer, KBC-LM workshop at ISWC 2023
• Co-organizer, LM-KBC challenge at ISWC 2024, 2023, 2022
• Website chair, ESSLLI 2016 summer school

Reviewing

• 2025: PC member of WSDM Industry track
• 2024: senior PC member of CIKM, ESWC, PC member of ACL RR, ISWC P/D, IJCAI demos, KaLLM workshop@ACL, LREC-Coling, KI, AKR³ workshop, TGDK, KG-STAR@CIKM
• 2023: Area chair of EMNLP and EACL, senior PC member of CIKM, ESWC, PC member of ACL ARR, neurIPS, VLDB demos, IJCAI demos, LDK, VLDB tutorials, board member of TGDK, reviewer for TODS
• 2022: Senior PC member of WWW, CIKM, PC member of WSDM, ESWC, EMNLP, VLDB demos, reviewer for neurIPS
• 2021: Area chair of IJCAI, senior PC member of CIKM, PC member of WSDM, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ESWC, WWW, TKDE, CSKGs workshop@AAAI, LDK, QOD
• 2020: Senior PC member of CIKM, IJCAI, ISWC, PC member of WSDM, ACL, ESWC, QOD, Wikidata workshop@ISWC, SemDeep-6@IJCAI
• 2019: PC member of WWW, ACL, AAAI, NAACL, ISWC, K-CAP, AKBC, LDK, Data Quality in Wikidata workshop, Quality of Open Data workshop, Commonsense Inference workshop@EMNLP
• 2018: PC member of ACL, CIKM, EMNLP, DASFAA, SemDeep-4, DL4KGs, QOD, RoD. Reviewer for VLDB Journal
• 2017: PC member of CIKM, WebDB. Reviewer for SWJ
• 2011-2016: External reviewer for AAMAS 2016, SEBD 2015, CIKM 2014, COOPIS 2013, TbiLLC 2013, CIKM 2011, BNCOD 2011.

Grant reviewing

• DFG (2024, 2023, 2020)
• Jönköping University (2024)
• GACR (2021)

Media appearances

• “Was ist wichtig, was ist richtig”, Südtiroler Wirtschaftszeitung, April 2018 (in German)
• “Knowledge expansion for computers”, Max Planck Society, 2021

Demo systems

• Ascent (2021): Advanced semantics for commonsense knowledge
• Wikinegata (2021): Negative knowledge for Wikidata
• Entyfi (2020): Entity typing in fiction
• Sandi (2020): Story-image alignment
• Dice (2020): Joint reasoning for multifaceted commonsense knowledge
• CounQER (2020): Counting queries and entity valued relations
• ReCoin (2017): A user script for adding relative completeness annotations to Wikidata. Developed by Vevake Balaraman and Albin Ahmeti in the context of the TaDaQua project (Video in Danish)
• COOL-WD (2017): A completeness tool for Wikidata. Developed by Radityo Eko Prasojo and Fariz Darari
• MAGIC (2012): A tool for reasoning about the completeness of relational databases, developed by Ognjen Savkovic, Paramita Mirza and Alex Tomasi
• Lookslikescanned: A website to make PDFs look appear like scanned

Other scripts and datasets

• Cinex: Code, experiment data and SPARQL endpoint with Wikipedia results for counting quantifier extraction
• Property Ranking: Dataset of 350 (entity, property1, property2) pairs for humans in Wikidata, along with a preference judgment [O18]
• A dataset of about 2000 crowdsourced completeness assertions for YAGO and Wikidata.