Awards
International Paper Awards
AMiner Most Influential Scholar Awards for Knowledge Engineering in 2023 and 2024
(ranked 3rd worldwide in both of those years)
Semantic Web Journal 10 Year Best Paper Award 2022
for “LinkedGeoData: A Core for a Web of Spatial Open Data” with C. Stadler, K. Höffner, S. Auer.
See also: Amazon Science Blog Post for the award
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2021, Best Research Paper Award
for “Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using Hyper-Relational Facts”, with M. Ali, M. Berrendorf, M. Galkin, V. Thost, T. Ma, V. Tresp
AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award for Knowledge Engineering in 2021 and 2020
(ranked 3rd and 4th worldwide in those years)
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) 2020, Best Resource Paper Award
for “Let’s build Bridges, not Walls: SPARQL Querying of TinkerPop Graph Databases with Sparql-Gremlin”, with H. Thakkar, R. Angles, M. Rodriguez
Elected as ELLIS (European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Fellow by the ELLIS Section Committee, 2020
Award for the SPEAKER project at the AI innovation competition of the BMWi 2019
Distinguished Reviewer Award at IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) 2018
Semantics 2017 Best Paper Award
for “Trying Not to Die Benchmarking – Orchestrating RDF and Graph Data Management Solution Benchmarks Using LITMUS”, with H. Thakkar, Y. Keswani, M. Dubey, S. Auer
International Semantic Web Conference (2017), Best Demo Award
for “The Tale of SANSA Spark”, with I. Ermilov, G. Sejdiu, L. Bühmann, P. Westphal, C. Stadler, S. Bin, N. Chakraborty, H. Petzka, M. Saleem, A. Ngonga Ngomo, H. Jabeen
Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) 10 Ten-Year Award 2017
for “DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data”, with S. Auer, C. Bizer, G. Kobilarov, R. Cyganiak, Z. Ives
International Semantic Web Conference (2016), Best Resource Paper Award
for “LODStats: The Data Web Census Dataset”, with I. Ermilov, M. Martin, and S. Auer
WASABI (2014) Best Workshop Paper Award and Extended Semantic Web Conference “Best of Workshops” Award
for “CROCUS: Cluster-based ontology data cleansing”, with D. Cherix, R. Usbeck, A. Both
Extended Semantic Web Conference (2014), Best Student Paper Award
for “Hybrid Acquisition of Temporal Scopes for RDF Data”, with A. Rula, M. Palmonari, A. Ngonga, D. Gerber and L. Bühmann
Extended Semantic Web Conference (2014), 7-Years Most Influential Paper Award
for “What have Innsbruck and Leipzig in common? Extracting Semantic from Wiki Content, with S. Auer
Semantic Web Journal Outstanding (Best Paper of the Year) Award (2014)
for “DBpedia – A Large-scale, Multilingual Knowledge Base Extracted from Wikipedia”, with R. Isele, M. Jakob<, A. Jentzsch, D. Kontokostas, P. Mendes, S. Hellmann, M. Morsey, P. van Kleef, S. Auer, C. Bizer
KESW Best System Description Paper at the Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (2013)
for “Linked Open Data Statistics: Collection and Exploitation”, with I. Ermilov, M. Martin, S. Auer
Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence (2013)
for “DBpedia and the Live Extraction of Structured Data from Wikipedia”, with M. Morsey, S. Auer, C. Stadler, S. Hellmann
International Semantic Web Conference Best Research Paper Award (2011)
for “DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark”, with M. Morsey, S. Auer and A.-C- Ngonga Ngomo
Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) 2007
for “A Refinement Operator Based Learning Algorithm for the ALC Description Logic” and “Foundations of Refinement Operators for Description Logics” (USD 1500 price), with P. Hitzler
Journal of Web Semantics Most Cited Paper (2006-2010) Award
for “DBpedia – A Crystallization Point for the Web of Data”, with C. Bizer, G. Kobilarov, S. Auer, C. Becker, R. Cyganiak and S. Hellmann
Other Awards and Nomination
Other Awards and Nomination
Best Student Paper Candidate at KEOD 2021
for “A Scalable Approach for Distributed Reasoning over Large-scale OWL Datasets”, with H. Mohamed, S. Fathalla, H. Jabeen
First runner-up for best paper award at the WISE conference 2020
for “Encoding Knowledge Graph Entity Aliases in Attentive Neural Network for Wikidata Entity Linking-2020”, with Isaiah Onando Mulang’, Kuldeep Singh, Akhilesh Vyas, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Maria-Esther Vidal, Jens Lehmann, Soren Auer
Best Student Paper Candidate at ISWC 2020
for “Temporal Knowledge Graph Embedding Model based on Additive Time Series Decomposition”, with Chengjin Xu, Nayyeri Mojtaba, Fouad Alkhoury, Hamed Shariat Yazdi
ICEGOV Award Nomination 2019
with Fathoni Musyaffa, Hajira Jabeen (see https://sda.tech/paper-accepted-at-icegov/)
Runner Up for Best Paper Award at ISCS (International Conference on Semantic Computing) 2017
for “Torpedo: Improving the State-of-the-Art RDF Dataset Slicing”, with E. Marx, S. Shekarpour, T. Soru, A. Brasoveanu, M. Saleem, C. Baron, A. Weichselbraun, A. Ngonga Ngomo, S. Auer
Fraunhofer IAIS Paper of the Month Award
for “AskNow: A Framework for Natural Language Query Formalization in SPARQL” March 2017, with M. Dubey, S. Dasgupta, A. Sharma, K. Höffner
Best Paper at CSCUBS 2017 student conference
for “Dialogue Response Generation using Neural Networks with Attention and Background Knowledge”, with S. Kosovan and A. Fischer
Fraunhofer IAIS Paper of the Month Award 2017
for “LC-QuAD: A Corpus for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs”, November 2017, with P. Trivedi, G. Maheshwari, M. Dubey
International Semantic Web Conference (2017) Best Student Resource Paper Award Nomination
for “LC-QuAD: A Corpus for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs, November 2017, with P. Trivedi, G. Maheshwari, M. Dubey
The META Seal of Recognition 2015 for DBpedia
(see http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-seal)
DBpedia selected by ReadWriteWeb 2009
as top 10 Semantic Web product
Runner up in the ISWC 2009 Semantic Web challenge for LinkedGeoData
with S. Auer and C. Stadler
Nomination for the 2008 Award
of the Andrew W. Mellon foundation for DBpedia