Publications

2021

Invited	“A Hitchhiker's Guide to Ontology” Fabian M. Suchanek Design of Experimental Search and Information Retrieval Systems (DESIRES)
Conference	“Reasoning with Transformer-based Models: Deep Learning, but Shallow Reasoning” Chadi Helwe, Chloé Clavel, Fabian M. Suchanek Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) See also: Project page
Conference	“The Vagueness of Vagueness in Noun Phrases” Pierre-Henri Paris, Syrine El Aoud, Fabian M. Suchanek Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) See also: Project Web page
Tutorial	“On the Limits of Machine Knowledge: completeness, recall, and negation” Simon Razniewski, Hiba Arnaout, Shrestha Ghosh, Fabian M. Suchanek International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) See also: Fabian's part, on recall assessment
Short P.	“Non-named entities - the silent majority” Pierre-Henri Paris, Fabian M. Suchanek Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) See also: Project Web page
Conference	“Confident Interpretations of Black Box Classifiers (STACI)” Nedeljko Radulović, Albert Bifet, Fabian M. Suchanek International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) See also: Project Web page
Conference	“Neural Knowledge Base Repairs” Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Fabian M. Suchanek Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) Best Paper Award
Conference	“A Lightweight Neural Model for Biomedical Entity Linking” Lihu Chen, Gaël Varoquaux, Fabian M. Suchanek AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Journal	“Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases” Gerhard Weikum, Luna Dong, Simon Razniewski, Fabian M. Suchanek Foundations and Trends in Databases

2020

Workshop	“Query Rewriting On Path Views Without Integrity Constraints” Julien Romero, Nicoleta Preda, Fabian M. Suchanek DataMod Workshop (DataMod)
Workshop	“Extracting Complex Information from Natural Language Text: A Survey” Mechket Emna Mahouachi, Fabian M. Suchanek Semantic and knowledge graph advances for journalism (Semantic Journalism) at CIKM See also: Project page See also: NoRDF project
Demo	“Computing and Illustrating Query Rewritings on Path Views with Binding Patterns” Julien Romero, Nicoleta Preda, Antoine Amarilli, Fabian M. Suchanek International conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM) See also: Demo See also: Github page
Journal	“An Experimental Study of State-of-the-Art Entity Alignment Approaches” Xiang Zhao, Weixin Zeng, Jiuyang Tang, Wei Wang, Fabian M. Suchanek IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Workshop	“The Need to Move Beyond Triples” Fabian M. Suchanek International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story) at ECIR See also: NoRDF project See also: slides See also: Recorded talk
Journal	“NeuroQuery: comprehensive meta-analysis of human brain mapping” Jérôme Dockès, Russell Poldrack, Romain Primet, Gözükan Hande, Tal Yarkoni, Fabian M. Suchanek, Bertrand Thirion, Gaël Varoquaux eLife Journal (eLife)
Conference	“Equivalent Rewritings on Path Views with Binding Patterns” Julien Romero, Nicoleta Preda, Antoine Amarilli, Fabian M. Suchanek Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) See also: Video of the talk See also: Demo See also: Github page
Conference	“Fast and Exact Rule Mining with AMIE 3” Jonathan Lajus, Luis Galárraga, Fabian M. Suchanek Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) See also: AMIE project
Conference	“YAGO 4: A Reason-able Knowledge Base” Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian M. Suchanek Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
Workshop	“Toward Visual Interactive Exploration of Heterogeneous Graphs” Irène Burger, Ioana Manolescu, Emmanuel Pietriga, Fabian M. Suchanek Search, Exploration, and Analysis in Heterogeneous Datastores (SEAData) at EDBT

2019

Book Ch.	“Knowledge Harvesting: Achievements and Challenges” Gerhard Weikum, Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek Springer: Computing and Software Science (LNCS)
Invited	“Knowledge Representation and Rule Mining in Entity-Centric Knowledge Bases” Fabian M. Suchanek, Jonathan Lajus, Armand Boschin, Gerhard Weikum Reasoning Web Summer School (RW)
Conference	“Anytime Large-Scale Analytics of Linked Open Data” Arnaud Soulet, Fabian M. Suchanek International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
Demo	“Querying the Edit History of Wikidata” Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Fabian M. Suchanek Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
Conference	“Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History” Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux, Fabian M. Suchanek The Web Conference (WWW)

2018

Conference	“Text to brain: predicting the spatial distribution of neuroimaging observations from text reports” Jérôme Dockès, Demian Wassermann, Russell Poldrack, Fabian M. Suchanek, Bertrand Thirion, Gaël Varoquaux International Conference On Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Conference	“Bash Datalog: Answering Datalog Queries with Unix Shell Commands” Thomas Rebele, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Fabian M. Suchanek International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Spotlight paper See also: Bash Datalog Project See also: slides See also: technical report
Conference	“Representativeness of Knowledge Bases with the Generalized Benford’s Law” Arnaud Soulet, Arnaud Giacometti, Béatrice Markhoff, Fabian M. Suchanek International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Best Paper Nominee See also: Project Web page
Demo	“Demoing Platypus – A Multilingual Question Answering Platform for Wikidata” Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Marcos Dias de Assunção, Eddy Caron, Fabian M. Suchanek Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
Workshop	“A Knowledge Base for Personal Information Management” David Montoya, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Serge Abiteboul, Fabian M. Suchanek Linked Data on the Web workshop (LDOW) at WWW
Conference	“Adding Missing Words to Regular Expressions” Thomas Rebele, Katerina Tzompanaki, Fabian M. Suchanek Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) See also: Project Web page
Conference	“Are All People Married? Determining Obligatory Attributes in Knowledge Bases” Jonathan Lajus, Fabian M. Suchanek Web Conference (WWW) See also: Project Web page

2017

Workshop	“Using YAGO for the Humanities” Thomas Rebele, Arash Nekoei, Fabian M. Suchanek Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHISE) at ISWC
Demo	“Visualizing the addition of missing words to regular expressions” Thomas Rebele, Katerina Tzompanaki, Fabian M. Suchanek International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) See also: Demo
Conference	“VICKEY: Mining Conditional Keys on Knowledge Bases” Danai Symeonidou, Luis Galárraga, Nathalie Pernelle, Fatiha Saïs, Fabian M. Suchanek International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) See also: VICKEY project Web page
Short P.	“Relating Brain Structures To Open-Ended Descriptions Of Cognition” Jérôme Dockès, Olivier Grisel, Joan Massich, Fabian M. Suchanek, Bertrand Thirion, Gaël Varoquaux Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN)
Book Ch.	“Extraction d’informations” Fabian M. Suchanek Les Big Data à découvert
Conference	“Predicting Completeness in Knowledge Bases” Luis Galárraga, Simon Razniewski, Antoine Amarilli, Fabian M. Suchanek International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)

2016

Short J.	“Ten Years of Knowledge Harvesting: Lessons and Challenges” Gerhard Weikum, Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek Data Engineering Bulletin
Demo	“What if machines could be creative?” Fabian M. Suchanek, Colette Menard, Meghyn Bienvenu, Cyril Chapellier International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) See also: Combinatorial Creativity Web page
Demo	“Thymeflow, a personal knowledge base with spatio-temporal data” David Montoya, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Serge Abiteboul, Fabian M. Suchanek International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Conference	“Can you imagine... a language for combinatorial creativity?” Fabian M. Suchanek, Colette Menard, Meghyn Bienvenu, Cyril Chapellier International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) See also: Combinatorial Creativity Web page
Conference	“YAGO: a multilingual knowledge base from Wikipedia, Wordnet, and Geonames” Thomas Rebele, Fabian M. Suchanek, Johannes Hoffart, Joanna “Asia” Biega, Erdal Kuzey, Gerhard Weikum International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) See also: YAGO Web page
Demo	“Open Digital Forms” Hiep Le, Thomas Rebele, Fabian M. Suchanek Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL/ECDL) See also: Online tool
Workshop	“But What Do We Actually Know?” Simon Razniewski, Fabian M. Suchanek, Werner Nutt Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at NAACL
Keynote	“A Hitchhiker's Guide to Ontology” Fabian M. Suchanek French Workshop on the Quality of Data on the Web (QLOD)

2015

Journal	“Fast Rule Mining in Ontological Knowledge Bases with AMIE+” Luis Galárraga, Christina Teflioudi, Katja Hose, Fabian M. Suchanek VLDB Journal (VLDBJ) See also: AMIE Web page
Keynote	“A Hitchhiker's Guide to Ontology” Fabian M. Suchanek Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Text (KET)
Short P.	“The elephant in the room: getting value from Big Data” Serge Abiteboul, Luna Dong, Oren Etzioni, Divesh Srivastava, Gerhard Weikum, Julia Stoyanovich, Fabian M. Suchanek Web and Databases (WebDB) See also: SIGMOD blog post
Tutorial	“Knowledge Bases for Web Content Analytics” Johannes Hoffart, Nicoleta Preda, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum World Wide Web (WWW) See also: tutorial
Workshop	“IBEX: Harvesting Entities from the Web Using Unique Identifiers” Aliaksandr Talaika, Joanna “Asia” Biega, Antoine Amarilli, Fabian M. Suchanek Web and Databases (WebDB) at SIGMOD See also: technical report See also: IBEX project Web page
Demo	“DIVINA: Discovering Vulnerabilities of Internet Accounts” Ziad Ismail, Danai Symeonidou, Fabian M. Suchanek World Wide Web Conference (WWW) See also: DIVINA demo
Conference	“YAGO3: A Knowledge Base from Multilingual Wikipedias” Farzaneh Mahdisoltani, Joanna “Asia” Biega, Fabian M. Suchanek Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) See also: YAGO Web page

2014

Workshop	“Towards a Numerical Rule Mining Language” Luis Galárraga, Fabian M. Suchanek Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at NIPS
	“Advancing the Utility of Large Knowledge Bases” Fabian M. Suchanek French Habilitation thesis (HDR)
Tutorial	“Knowledge Bases in the Age of Big Data Analytics” Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum Very Large Databases (VLDB) See also: tutorial
Conference	“Canonicalizing Open Knowledge Bases” Luis Galárraga, Kevin P. Murphy, Geremy Heitz, Fabian M. Suchanek Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Invited	“Recent Research Topics around the YAGO Knowledge Base” Antoine Amarilli, Luis Galárraga, Nicoleta Preda, Fabian M. Suchanek Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWEB)
Short P.	“Semantic Culturomics” Fabian M. Suchanek, Nicoleta Preda Very Large Databases (VLDB) See also: slides See also: poster
Book Ch.	“Information Extraction for Ontology Learning” Fabian M. Suchanek Völker and Lehman: Perspectives on Ontology Learning
Keynote	“For intelligence in search - in search for intelligence” Fabian M. Suchanek French Conference on Extraction and Management of Knowledge (EGC)
	“À la recherche des connaissances du Web” Serge Abiteboul, Fabien Gandon, Fabian M. Suchanek 1024 - Bulletin de la société informatique de France, number 2
Conference	“WebChild: Harvesting and Organizing Commonsense Knowledge from the Web” Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)

2013

Short J.	“Discovering semantic relations from the web and organizing them with PATTY” Ndapandula Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian M. Suchanek SIGMOD Record
Workshop	“Mining History with Le Monde” Thomas Huet, Joanna “Asia” Biega, Fabian M. Suchanek Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at CIKM See also: Project Web page
Workshop	“Mining Rules to Align Knowledge Bases (ROSA)” Luis Galárraga, Nicoleta Preda, Fabian M. Suchanek Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at CIKM
Demo	“Inside YAGO2s: A Transparent Information Extraction Architecture” Joanna “Asia” Biega, Erdal Kuzey, Fabian M. Suchanek World Wide Web Conference (WWW) See also: YAGO Web page
Short J.	“Databases, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management: Exploring Paths and Crossing Bridges” Mouna Kacimi, Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna Varde SIGMOD Records
Short J.	“Advances in Automated Knowledge Base Construction” Fabian M. Suchanek, James Fan, Raphael Hoffmann, Sebastian Riedel, Partha Talukdar SIGMOD Records
Journal	“Discovering Interesting Information with Advances in Web Technology” Richi Nayak, Pierre Senellart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna Varde SIG KDD Explorations
Tutorial	“Knowledge Harvesting in the Big-Data Era” Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum SIGMOD/PODS (SIGMOD) See also: tutorial
Conference	“AMIE: Association Rule Mining under Incomplete Evidence in Ontological Knowledge Bases” Luis Galárraga, Christina Teflioudi, Katja Hose, Fabian M. Suchanek International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) Best student paper award See also: technical report See also: AMIE Web site
Tutorial	“Knowledge Harvesting from Text and Web Sources” Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum International Conference on Data engineering (ICDE) See also: tutorial
Demo	“YAGO2s: Modular High-Quality Information Extraction with an Application to Flight Planning” Fabian M. Suchanek, Johannes Hoffart, Erdal Kuzey, Edwin Lewis-Kelham German Database Symposium (BTW) See also: YAGO Web page
Conference	“SUSIE: Search Using Services and Information Extraction” Nicoleta Preda, Fabian M. Suchanek, Wenjun “Clement” Yuan, Gerhard Weikum International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
Journal	“YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia” Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Klaus Berberich, Gerhard Weikum Artificial Intelligence Prominent Paper Award See also: YAGO Web page

2012

Keynote	“From Big Data to Good Data” Fabian M. Suchanek Web of Linked Entities (WOLE) at ISWC
Short J.	“Big Data Methods for Computational Linguistics” Gerhard Weikum, Johannes Hoffart, Ndapandula Nakashole, Marc Spaniol, Fabian M. Suchanek, Mohamed Amir Yosef IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin
Workshop	“Query-Time Reasoning in Uncertain RDF Knowledge Bases with Soft and Hard Rules” Ndapandula Nakashole, Mauro Sozio, Fabian M. Suchanek, Martin Theobald Very Large Data Search (VLDS) at VLDB
Workshop	“Dealing with the Deep Web and all its Quirks” Meghyn Bienvenu, Daniel Deutch, Davide Martinenghi, Pierre Senellart, Fabian M. Suchanek Very Large Data Search (VLDS) at VLDB
Workshop	“Provenance for Web 2.0 Data” Meghyn Bienvenu, Fabian M. Suchanek, Daniel Deutch Secure Datamanagement (SDM) at VLDB See also: slides
Demo	“Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web” Ndapandula Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian M. Suchanek Very Large Databases (VLDB)
Conference	“PATTY: A Taxonomy of Relational Patterns with Semantic Types” Ndapandula Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian M. Suchanek Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Runner-up to the best paper award
Demo	“Adding Fake Facts to Ontologies” Fabian M. Suchanek, David Gross-Amblard World Wide Web (WWW) See also: slides
Conference	“PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema” Fabian M. Suchanek, Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Senellart Very Large Databases (VLDB) See also: slides See also: PARIS Web site See also: recorded talk

2011

Conference	“Watermarking for Ontologies” Fabian M. Suchanek, David Gross-Amblard, Serge Abiteboul International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) See also: slides
Book Ch.	“Ontologies in Practice” Fabian M. Suchanek Web Data Management
Book Ch.	“An Application: Extending SUMO with Wikipedia” Gerard de Melo, Fabian M. Suchanek, Adam Pease Adam Pease: Ontology: A Practical Guide.
Demo	“YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia” Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Klaus Berberich, Edwin Lewis-Kelham, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum World Wide Web (WWW) Best demo award See also: YAGO Web page
Book Ch.	“Towards an Ontological Representation of Services in Search Computing” Fabian M. Suchanek, Alessandro Bozzon, Emanuele Della Valle, Alessandro Campi, Stefania Ronchi Stefano Ceri and Marco Brambilla (eds.): New Trends in Search Computing
Tutorial	“The Hidden Web, XML and Semantic Web: A Scientific Data Management Perspective” Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna Varde, Richi Nayak, Pierre Senellart International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
Tutorial	“Semantic Knowledge Bases from Web Sources” Fabian M. Suchanek, Martin Theobald, Gerhard Weikum, Hady W. Lauw, Ralf Schenkel International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI) See also: tutorial

2010

Short J.	“Emerging multidisciplinary research across database management systems” Anisoara Nica, Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna Varde SIGMOD Record
Tutorial	“Harvesting Knowledge from Web Data and Text” Hady W. Lauw, Ralf Schenkel, Fabian M. Suchanek, Martin Theobald, Gerhard Weikum Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Conference	“Active Knowledge: Dynamically Enriching RDF Knowledge Bases by Web Services (ANGIE)” Nicoleta Preda, Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Thomas Neumann, Wenjun “Clement” Yuan, Gerhard Weikum Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD)

2009

Demo	“ANGIE: Active Knowledge for Interactive Exploration” Nicoleta Preda, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci, Thomas Neumann, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum Very Large Databases (VLDB)
Tutorial	“Knowledge Discovery over the Deep Web, Semantic Web and XML” Aparna Varde, Fabian M. Suchanek, Richi Nayak, Pierre Senellart Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) See also: slides
Short P.	“GRAFFITI: Node Labeling in Heterogeneous Networks” Ralitsa Angelova, Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
Conference	“SOFIE: A Self-Organizing Framework for Information Extraction” Fabian M. Suchanek, Mauro Sozio, Gerhard Weikum World Wide Web Conference (WWW) See also: technical report
Conference	“STAR: Steiner Tree Approximation in Relationship-Graphs” Gjergji Kasneci, Maya Ramanath, Mauro Sozio, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

2008

	“Automated Construction and Growth of a Large Ontology” Fabian M. Suchanek PhD-Thesis See also: slides
Short J.	“The Future of DB and IR” Gerhard Weikum, Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Maya Ramanath Communications of the ACM
Short J.	“The YAGO-NAGA Approach to Knowledge Discovery” Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum SIGMOD record See also: YAGO Web page
Demo	“Semantic Full-Text Search with ESTER: Scalable, Easy, Fast” Holger Bast, Fabian M. Suchanek, Ingmar Weber International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Conference	“Integrating YAGO into the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology” Gerard de Melo, Fabian M. Suchanek, Adam Pease International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) See also: technical report
Conference	“Social Tags: Meaning and Suggestions” Fabian M. Suchanek, Milan Vojnovic, Dinan Gunawardena Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Workshop	“TOB: Timely Ontologies for Business Relations” Qi Zhang, Fabian M. Suchanek, Lihua Yue, Gerhard Weikum Web and Databases (WebDB) at SIGMOD
Demo	“NAGA: Harvesting, Searching and Ranking Knowledge” Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifrim, Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum Management of Data (SIGMOD/PODS)
Journal	“Yago - A Large Ontology from Wikipedia and WordNet” Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci, Gerhard Weikum Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics See also: YAGO Web page
Conference	“NAGA: Searching and Ranking Knowledge” Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifrim, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

2007

Conference	“ESTER: Efficient Search on Text, Entities and Relations” Holger Bast, Alexandru Chitea, Fabian M. Suchanek, Ingmar Weber Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
Short P.	“How NAGA Uncoils: Searching with Entities and Relations” Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum World Wide Web (WWW)
Conference	“Yago - A Core of Semantic Knowledge” Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci, Gerhard Weikum World Wide Web Conference (WWW) Seoul Test of Time Award 2018 See also: YAGO Web page
	“Searching knowledge instead of Web pages” Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum year book of the Max Planck Society
Conference	“YAWN: A Semantically Annotated Wikipedia XML Corpus” Ralf Schenkel, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci German Database Symposium (BTW)

2006

Workshop	“Automated Reasoning Support for First Order Ontologies” Peter Baumgartner, Fabian M. Suchanek Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR) at ESWC
Short P.	“Combining Linguistic and Statistical Analysis to Extract Relations from Web Documents” Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifrim, Gerhard Weikum Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)
Workshop	“LEILA: Learning to Extract Information by Linguistic Analysis” Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifrim, Gerhard Weikum Ontology Learning and Population at COLING

2005

“Ontological Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding”
Fabian M. Suchanek
Master's Thesis