My research interest is in Generative AI and Foundation Models on multiple modalities, with a focus on business data.
Talks
- Neural Relational Data: Tabular Foundation Models, LLMs… or both? Panel Discussion at VLDB 2025, London, Sep 2025
- Foundation Models on Linked Business Data. Keynote at WSDM 2025, Hannover, Mar 2025
- Foundation Models on Linked Business Data. Keynote at AutoML 24, Paris, Sep 2024
- Foundation Models x Linked Business Data. Invited talk at LMU Munich, May 2024
- Participated in panel discussion on Generative AI for companies: much attention, (too) many expectations? organised by PLS at Hannover Messe 2024, April 2024
- Foundation Models x Linked Business Data. Keynote at the Ellis Workshop on Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning at MFO, February 2024
- How Large Language Models are impacting business applications today … and what’s still to come. Future of AI, May 2023
- Generative KI und ChatGPT – müssen wir nicht mehr (selbst) denken? Presentation in the series acatech am Dienstag, March 2023
- Rich Text, Lean Knowledge Bases: Knowledge Extraction from Financial Documents. Keynote at The AAAI-21 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services (AAAI-KDF), February 2021
- Executable Credit Agreements – Goldman Sachs R&D Core AI at the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
vHLF 2020, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2020 - NLP in the Financial Domain: Extra Dimensions for Natural Language Processing.
SydneyNLP Meetup, Sydney, Australia, September 2020 - Natural Language Understanding and Knowledge Bases in Finance (and AI Research at Goldman Sachs).
NEC Labs Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, January 2020 - Riesige Mengen von Dokumenten besser durchsuchen und analysieren.
Bundeszentralamt für Steuern, Bonn, Germany, February 2017 - Knowledge Bases for Web Content Analytics.
Tutorial at the 24th International World Wide Web Conference, Florence, Italy, WWW 2015 - Discovering and Disambiguating Named Entities in Text.
Fudan University, Shanghai, China. November 2014 - Discovering and Disambiguating Named Entities in Text.
HPC Lab at ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy. October 2014 - Constructing a Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Base and using it to Process and Understand Natural Language Text.
Seoul National University (invited by Saltlux), Seoul, South Korea. August 2013 - Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text.
Google Zurich, Switzerland. August 2011
Publications
2015
Knowledge Bases for Web Content Analytics Proceedings Article
In: Tutorial at WWW 2015, Florence, Italy, pp. 1–1, 2015.
2014
STICS: Searching with Strings, Things, and Cats Proceedings Article
In: The 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2014, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, pp. 1247–1248, 2014.
AESTHETICS: Analytics with Strings, Things, and Cats Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, 2014.
AIDA-light: High-Throughput Named-Entity Disambiguation Proceedings Article
In: Linked Data on the Web at WWW2014, 2014.
Discovering emerging entities with ambiguous names Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web, WWW 2014, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 385–396, 2014.
2013
Efficient Computation of Relationship-Centrality in Large Entity-Relationship Graphs Proceedings Article
In: Posters and Demonstrations Track of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2013, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1–4, 2013.
YaLi: a Crowdsourcing Plug-In for NERD Proceedings Article
In: SIGIR 2013, Dublin, Ireland, 2013.
HYENA-live: Fine-Grained Online Entity Type Classification from Natural-language Text Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 133–138, 2013.
Crowdsourced Entity Markup Proceedings Article
In: CrowdSem Workshop at the 12th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2013, Sydney, Australia, 2013.
Discovering and Disambiguating Named Entities in Text Proceedings Article
In: PhD Symposion at ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2013, New York City, USA, pp. 43–48, 2013.
YAGO2s: Modular High-Quality Information Extraction with an Application to Flight Planning Proceedings Article
In: 15. GI-Fachtagung Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web, 2013.
YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia: Extended Abstract Proceedings Article
In: 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China, pp. 3161–3165, 2013.
YAGO2: A spatially and temporally enhanced knowledge base from Wikipedia Journal Article
In: Artificial Intelligence, vol. 194, pp. 28–61, 2013.
2012
HYENA: Hierarchical Type Classification for Entity Names Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2012, Mumbai, India, pp. 1361–1370, 2012.
KORE: Keyphrase Overlap Relatedness for Entity Disambiguation Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2012, Hawaii, USA, pp. 545–554, 2012.
Big Data Methods for Computational Linguistics Journal Article
In: IEEE Data Eng. Bull., vol. 35, pp. 46–55, 2012.
2011
Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 782–792, 2011.
YAGO2: Exploring and Querying World Knowledge in Space, Context, and Many Languages Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India, pp. 229–232, ACM, 2011.
AIDA: An Online Tool for Accurate Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text and Tables Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 1450–1453, 2011.
2010
YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia Technical Report
Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010.

