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Premier conference publications¹

• [24] Julien Romero, Simon Razniewski. Mapping and Cleaning Open Commonsense Knowledge Bases with Generative Translation, ISWC, 2023
• [23] Blerta Veselhi, Sneha Singhania, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Evaluating Language Models for Knowledge Base Completion, ESWC, 2023 – Acceptance rate: 19%
• [22] Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski, Aparna Varde, Gerhard Weikum. Extracting Cultural Commonsense Knowledge at Scale, WWW, 2023 – Acceptance rate: 19%
• [21] Julien Romero and Simon Razniewski. Do Children Texts Hold The Key To Commonsense Knowledge?, EMNLP, 2022
• [20] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum and Jeff Z. Pan. UnCommonSense: Informative Negative Knowledge about Everyday Concepts, CIKM, 2022 – Acceptance rate: 23%
• [19] Shrestha Ghosh, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Answering Count Query with Explanatory Evidence , SIGIR, 2022 – Acceptance rate: 25%
• [18] Vinh Thinh Ho, Koninika Pal, Simon Razniewski, Klaus Berberich and Gerhard Weikum. Extracting Contextualized Quantity Facts from Web Tables, WWW, 2021 – Acceptance rate: 21%
• [17] Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Advanced Semantics for Commonsense Knowledge Extraction, WWW, 2021 – Acceptance rate: 21%
• [16] Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. SANDI: Story-and-Images Alignment, EACL, 2021
• [15] Julien Corman, Davide Lanti, Diego Calvanese, Simon Razniewski. Counting Query Answers over a DL-Lite KB, IJCAI, 2020 – Acceptance rate: 13%
• [14] Cuong Xuan Chu, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. ENTYFI: Entity Typing in Fictional Texts, WSDM, 2020 – Acceptance rate: 15%
• [13] Simon Razniewski, Nitisha Jain, Paramita Mirza, Gerhard Weikum. Coverage of Information Extraction from Sentences and Paragraphs, EMNLP, 2019 – Acceptance rate: 20%
• [12] Julien Romero, Simon Razniewski, Koninika Pal, Jeff Z. Pan, Archit Sakhadeo, Gerhard Weikum. Commonsense Properties from Query Logs and Question Answering Forums, CIKM, 2019 – Acceptance rate: 20%
• [11] Cuong Xuan Chu, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. TiFi: Taxonomy Induction for Fictional Domains, WWW, 2019 – Acceptance rate: 20%
• [10] Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari and Gerhard Weikum. Enriching Knowledge Bases with Counting Quantifiers, ISWC, 2018 – Acceptance rate: 23%
• [9] Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski, Paramita Mirza and Gerhard Weikum. Completeness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs, ISWC, 2017 – Acceptance rate: 22%
• [8] Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari, Gerhard Weikum. Cardinal Virtues: Extracting Relation Cardinalities from Text, ACL, 2017 – Acceptance rate: 18%
• [7] Luis Galárraga, Simon Razniewski, Antoine Amarilli, Fabian M. Suchanek. Predicting Completeness in Knowledge Bases, WSDM, 2017 – Acceptance rate: 16%
• [6] Simon Razniewski. Optimizing Update Frequencies for Decaying Information, CIKM, 2016 – Acceptance rate: 23%
• [5] Simon Razniewski, Flip Korn, Werner Nutt, Divesh Srivastava. Identifying the Extent of Completeness of Query Answers over Partially Complete Databases, SIGMOD, 2015 – Acceptance rate: 26%
• [4] Simon Razniewski, Marco Montali and Werner Nutt. Verification of Query Completeness over Processes, BPM, 2013 – Acceptance rate: 14%
• [3] Fariz Darari, Werner Nutt, Giuseppe Pirro, Simon Razniewski. Completeness Statements about RDF Data Sources und Their Use for Query Answering, ISWC, 2013 – Acceptance rate: 22%
• [2] Werner Nutt and Simon Razniewski. Completeness of Queries over SQL Databases, CIKM, 2012 – Acceptance rate: 13%
• [1] Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Completeness of Queries over Incomplete Databases, VLDB, 2011 – Acceptance rate: 18%

¹Rank A* or A in the Core 2018 ranking (http://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal)

Journal publications

• [10] Simon Razniewski, Hiba Arnaout, Shrestha Ghosh, Fabian Suchanek. Completeness, Recall, and Negation in Open-World Knowledge Bases: A Survey, ACM CSUR, 2024
• [9] Jeff Z. Pan, Simon Razniewski, Jan-Christoph Kalo, Sneha Singhania, Jiaoyan Chen, Stefan Dietze, Hajira Jabeen, Janna Omeliyanenko, Wen Zhang, Matteo Lissandrini, Russa Biswas, Gerard de Melo, Angela Bonifati, Edlira Vakaj, Mauro Dragoni, Damien Graux. Large language models and knowledge graphs: Opportunities and challenges, TGDK, 2023
• [8] Shrestha Ghosh, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Answering Count Questions with Structured Answers from Text, JWS, 2023
• [7] Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski, Julien Romero and Gerhard Weikum. Refined Commonsense Knowledge from Large-Scale Web Contents , TKDE, 2022
• [6] Sneha Singhania, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Predicting Document Coverage for Relation Extraction, TACL, 2022
• [5] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum, Jeff Z. Pan. Negative Statements Considered Useful, JWS, 2021
• [4] Gerhard Weikum, Xin Luna Dong, Simon Razniewski, Fabian Suchanek. Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases , FnT, 2021
• [3] Shrestha Ghosh, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Uncovering Hidden Semantics of Set Information in Knowledge Bases, JWS, 2020
• [2] Fariz Darari, Werner Nutt, Simon Razniewski, Sebastian Rudolph. Completeness and Soundness Guarantees for Conjunctive SPARQL Queries over RDF Data Sources with Completeness Statements, SWJ, 2018
• [1] Fariz Darari, Werner Nutt, Giuseppe Pirro, Simon Razniewski. Completeness Management for RDF Data Sources, TWEB, 2018

Demo publications²

• [11] Hiba Arnaout, Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. UnCommonSense in Action! Informative Negations for Commonsense Knowledge Bases , WSDM, 2023
• [10] Shrestha Ghosh, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. CoQEx: Entity Counts Explained, WSDM, 2023
• [9] Aditya Bikram Biswas, Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski. Neguess: Wikidata-entity guessing game with negative clues, ISWC, 2021
• [8] Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Inside ASCENT: Exploring a Deep Commonsense Knowledge Base and its Usage in Question Answering, ACL, 2021
• [7] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum, Jeff Z. Pan. Wikinegata: A Knowledge Base with Interesting Negative Statements, VLDB, 2021
• [6] Cuong Xuan Chu, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. ENTYFI: A System for Fine-grained Entity Typing in Fictional Texts, EMNLP, 2020
• [5] Yohan Chalier, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Dice: A Joint Reasoning Framework for Multi-Faceted Commonsense Knowledge, ISWC, 2020
• [4] Julien Romero and Simon Razniewski. Inside Quasimodo: Exploring Construction and Usage of Commonsense Knowledge, CIKM, 2020
• [3] Shrestha Ghosh, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. CounQER: A System for Discovering and Linking Count Information in Knowledge Bases, ESWC, 2020
• [2] William Cheng, Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Gerard de Melo, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. SANDI: A Tool for Alignment of Images within Text, WSDM, 2020
• [1] Fariz Darari, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata, ISWC, 2017

² These tracks require fully-fledged implemented systems, and typically come with acceptance rates around 30%.

Other peer-reviewed publications

• [47] Koninika Pal, Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. FASETS: Discovering Faceted Sets of Entities, DCAI@WWW, 2024
• [46] Shrestha Ghosh, Simon Razniewski, Damien Graux and Gerhard Weikum. CardiO: Predicting Cardinality from Online Sources, WWW, 2024
• [45] Blerta Veseli, Simon Razniewski, Jan-Christoph Kalo, Gerhard Weikum. Evaluating the Knowledge Base Completion Potential of GPT, Findings of EMNLP, 2023
• [44] Millenio Ramadizsa, Fariz Darari, Werner Nutt, Simon Razniewski. Knowledge Gap Discovery: A Case Study of Wikidata, Wikidata Workshop@ISWC, 2023
• [43] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski. Can large language models generate salient negative statements?, KBC-LM Workshop@ISWC, 2023
• [42] Timo Schrader, Simon Razniewski, Lukas Lange, Annemarie Friedrich. BoschAI @ Causal News Corpus 2023: Robust Cause-Effect Span Extraction using Multi-Layer Sequence Tagging and Data Augmentation, CASE@RANLP, 2023
• [41] Lihu Chen, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Knowledge Base Completion for Long-Tail Entities, MATCHING@ACL, 2023
• [40] Sneha Singhania, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. Extracting Multi-valued Relations from Language Models, Repl4NLP@ACL, 2023
• [39] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Jeff Z. Pan. Wiki-based Communities of Interest: Demographics and Outliers, ICWSM, 2023
• [38] Shrestha Ghosh, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Class Cardinality Comparison as a Fermi Problem, WWW, 2023
• [37] Sneha Singhania, Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski. Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-trained Language Models, ISWC, 2022
• [36] Tuan-Phong Nguyen and Simon Razniewski. Materialized Knowledge Bases from Commonsense Transformers, CSRR@ACL, 2022
• [35] Hiba Arnaout, Trung-Kien Tran, Daria Stepanova, Mohamed H. Gad-Elrab, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Utilizing LM Probes for KG Repair, Wiki Workshop@WWW, 2022
• [34] Simon Razniewski, Andrew Yates, Nora Kassner, Gerhard Weikum. Language Models As or For Knowledge Bases, DL4KG@ISWC, 2021
• [33] Cuong Xuan Chu, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum. KnowFi: Knowledge Extraction from Long Fictional Texts, AKBC, 2021
• [32] Simon Razniewski, Hiba Arnaout, Shrestha Ghosh, Fabian Suchanek. Completeness, Recall, and Negation in Open-World Knowledge Bases, VLDB tutorial, 2021
• [31] Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Rajarshi Bhowmik, Hareesh Ravi, Gerard de Melo, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Exploiting Image–Text Synergy for Contextual Image Captioning, Lantern@EACL, 2021
• [30] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum, Jeff Z. Pan. Discovering the boundaries of open-world Wikidata with Wikinegata, Wiki Workshop@WWW, 2021
• [29] Nadyah Hani Ramadhana, Fariz Darari, Panca O. Hadi Putra, Werner Nutt, Simon Razniewski, and Refo Ilmiya Akbar. User-Centered Design for Knowledge Imbalance Analysis: A Case Study of ProWD, VOILA@ISWC, 2020
• [28] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Enriching Knowledge Bases with Negative Statements, ISWC best sister conference track, 2020
• [27] Simon Razniewski and Priyanka Das. Structured knowledge: Have we made progress? An empirical study of KB coverage over 19 years, CIKM poster, 2020
• [26] Julien Corman, Davide Lanti, Diego Calvanese, Simon Razniewski. Rewriting Count Queries over DL-Lite TBoxes with Cardinality Restrictions, DL, 2020
• [25] Yohan Chalier, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Joint Reasoning for Multi-Faceted Commonsense Knowledge, AKBC, 2020
• [24] Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Enriching Knowledge Bases with Negative Statements, AKBC, 2020
• [23] Avicenna Wisesa, Fariz Darari, Adila Krisnadhi, Werner Nutt and Simon Razniewski. Wikidata Completeness Profiling Using ProWD, K-CAP, 2019
• [22] Ioannis Dikeoulias, Jannik Strötgen, Simon Razniewski. Epitath or Breaking News? Analyzing and Predicting the Stability of Knowledge Base Properties, TempWeb@WWW, 2019
• [21] Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum. Knowledge Base Recall: Detecting and Resolving the Unknown Unknowns, SIGWEB newsletter, 2018
• [20] Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski, Paramita Mirza and Gerhard Weikum. Completeness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs, IJCAI best sister conference track, 2018
• [19] Fariz Darari, Werner Nutt, Simon Razniewski. Comparing Index Structures for Completeness Reasoning, IWBIS, 2018
• [18] Vevake Balaraman, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Recoin: Relative Completeness in Wikidata, Wiki Workshop@WWW, 2018
• [17] Simon Razniewski, Vevake Balaraman, Werner Nutt. Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, ADMA, 2017
• [16] Luis Galárraga, Katja Hose, Simon Razniewski. Enabling Completeness-aware Querying in SPARQL, WebDB@SIGMOD, 2017
• [15] Albin Ahmeti, Simon Razniewski, Axel Polleres. Assessing the Completeness of Entities in Knowledge Bases, ESWC poster, 2017
• [14] Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, ISWC poster, 2016
• [13] Simon Razniewski, Shazia Sadiq, and Xiaofang Zhou. Exploiting Hierarchies for Efficient Detection of Completeness in Stream Data, ADC, 2016
• [12] Radityo Eko Prasojo, Fariz Darari, Simon Razniewski, and Werner Nutt. Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD, COLD@ISWC, 2016
• [11] Simon Razniewski, Fabian Suchanek and Werner Nutt. But What Do We Actually Know?, AKBC, 2016
• [10] Simon Razniewski, Ognjen Savkovic and Werner Nutt. Turning The Partial-closed World Assumption Upside Down, AMW, 2016
• [9] Fariz Darari, Simon Razniewski, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Werner Nutt. Enabling Fine-grained RDF Data Completeness Assessment, ICWE, 2016
• [8] Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Long-term Optimization of Update Frequencies for Decaying Information, WebDB@SIGMOD, 2015
• [7] Vincenzo Del Fatto, Gabriella Dodero, Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Marco Montali, Simon Razniewski, Santina Torello, Xiaofeng Wang, Floriano Zini. Gamified Children Universities: An Exploratory Study, CHI PLAY, 2014
• [6] Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Adding Completeness Information to Query Answers over Spatial Data, SIGSPATIAL, 2014
• [5] Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Databases under the Partial Closed-world Assumption: A Survey, GvDB, 2014
• [4] Fariz Darari, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Bridging the Semantic Gap between RDF and SPARQL using Completeness Statements, ISWC poster, 2014
• [3] Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Assessing the Completeness of Geographical Data, BNCOD, 2013
• [2] Werner Nutt, Simon Razniewski and Gil Vegliach. Incomplete Databases: Missing Records and Missing Values, DQDI@DASFAA, 2012
• [1] Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt. Checking Query Completeness over Incomplete Data, LID@EDBT/ICDT, 2011

Patents

• [1] Simon Razniewski, Ioannis Dikeoulias, Jannik Stroetgen. Method for Predicting a Persistence Over Time of Entries of a Knowledge Base, US Patent 16/667,673, 2020

Dissertation

• Query-driven Data Completeness Management, PhD Thesis, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2014