Research Interests
I welcome applications for
doctoral study and post-doctoral visitors in areas relevant to
my research interests. Given the amount of incoming requests, I may not be able to respond to all of them.
- Knowledge Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge aware NLP
- Knowledge aware Learning
- Search, Recommendation and Question Answering
- Logic based Reasoning, Learning based Reasoning and Textual Entailment
- Explainable AI
- AI for Science
- Open Science
- Data Security and Privacy
- Software Engineering
- Healthcare
- Smart Cities
Software
Datasets
Projects
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For Prospective PhD Students
How to Do Research
Examiner of PhD Thesis
- Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- National University of Ireland (Ireland)
- Oxford University (UK)
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
- Queen Mary University of London (UK)
- Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
- Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
- Universite de Paris-Est (France)
- University of Aberdeen (UK)
- University of Alberta (Canada)
- University of Edinburgh (UK)
- University of Koblenz and Landau (Germany)
- University of Manchester (UK)
- University of Nottingham (UK)
- University of Zurich (Switzerland)
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Seminars by Visiting Researchers
- Panos Alexopoulos (Textkernel)
- Franz Baader (TU Dresden)
- Stephen Clark (Quantinuum)
- Gong Cheng (Nanjing University)
- Olivier Curé (University of Paris-Est)
- Thomas Eiter (TU Wien)
- Edward Grefenstette (UCL)
- Christophe Gueret (Accenture)
- Ian Horrocks (Oxford University)
- Freddy Lecue (Thales)
- Danh Le Phuoc (TU Berlin)
- Ru Li (Shanxi University)
- Yuan-Fang Li (Monash University)
- Fangzhen Lin (HKUST)
- Boris Motik (Oxford University)
- José Manuel Gómez Pérez (Expert Systems)
- Guilin Qi (Southeast University)
- Qun Liu (Huawei)
- Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Boris Villazon-Terrazas (iSOCO)
- Efi Tsamoura (Samsung)
- Haofen Wang (Go Wild Ltd)
- Chris Welty (Google)
- Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington)
- Ming Zhang (Peking University)
Latest News
- Feburary, 2024 - Our papers on 'TacoERE: Cluster-aware Compression for Event Relation Extraction' accepted at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).
- January, 2024 - Our papers on 'Archer: A Human-Labeled Text-to-SQL Dataset with Arithmetic, Commonsense and Hypothetical Reasoning' accepted at the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024).
- December, 2023 - Our papers on 'Knowledge-aware Neuron Interpretation for Scene Classification' accepted at the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24).
- November, 2023 - Our paper on 'Rethinking Uncertain Missing and Ambiguous Visual Modality in Multi-Modal Entity Alignment' received Honourable Mention of the Best Paper Award at the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023).
- November, 2023 - I am a Doctoral Consortium Chair of The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023).
- November, 2023 - I am a co-Chair of the ISWC 2023 Workshop on Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-Trained Language Models (KBC-LM 2023).
- November, 2023 - I am a co-Chair of the ISWC 2023 Semantic Web Challenge on Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-Trained Language Models (LM-KBC 2023) .
- October, 2023 - Our papers on 'Multi-view Contrastive Learning for Entity Typing over Knowledge Graphs', 'Improving Sequential Model Editing with Fact Retrieval', 'Instances and Labels: Hierarchy-aware Joint Supervised Contrastive Learning for Hierarchical Multi-Label Text Classification' and 'Code-Switching with Word Senses for Pretraining in Neural Machine Translation' are accepted at the conference and findings proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023).
- September, 2023 - Our papers on 'FastRAT: Fast and Efficient Cross-lingual Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing' and 'Retrieval Augmented Generation with Rich Answer Encoding' are accepted at the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (JCNLP-AACL 2023).
- August, 2023 - We have a tutorial on Knowledge-aware Zero-shot Learning (K-ZSL): Concepts, Methods and Resources at the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023).
- August, 2023 - Our paper on 'HyperFormer: Enhancing Entity and Relation Interaction for Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graph Completion' is accepted at the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023).
- July, 2023 - Our paper on 'MEAformer: Multi-modal Entity Alignment Transformer for Meta Modality Hybrid' is accepted at the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2023).
- July, 2023 - Our papers on 'Rethinking Uncertain Missing and Ambiguous Visual Modality in Multi-Modal Entity Alignment' and 'VOYAGE: A Large Collection of Vocabulary Usage in Open RDF Datasets' are accepted at the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023).
- May, 2023 - I am a Senior PC member of The Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023).
- May, 2023 - Our papers on 'BUCA: A Binary Classification Approach to Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering' and 'Trigger-Argument based Explanation for Event Detection' are accepted at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'23).
- May, 2023 - Our paper on 'Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning with Knowledge Graphs: A Comprehensive Survey' are accepted at the Proceedings of the IEEE.
- May, 2023 - Our paper of 'An Empirical Study of Pre-trained Language Models in Simple Knowledge Graph Question Answering' is accepted at the journal of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems.
- April, 2023 - I am a Senior PC member of The Web Conference 2023 (WebConf 2023).
- April, 2023 - Our paper on 'Generalizing to Unseen Elements: A Survey on Knowledge Extrapolation for Knowledge Graphs' is accepted at the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023).
- March, 2023 - Our paper on 'KATIE: A System for Key Attributes Identification in Product Knowledge Graph Construction' is accepted at the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
- January, 2023 - Our paper on 'Uncovering Implicit Inferences for Improved Relational Argument Mining' is accepted at the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023).
- November, 2022 - Our paper on 'Relational Message Passing for Fully Inductive Knowledge Graph Completion' is accepted at the 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2023).
- November, 2022 - Our papers on 'DUET: Cross-modal Semantic Grounding for Contrastive Zero-shot Learning' and 'Entity-Agnostic Representation Learning for Parameter-Efficient Knowledge Graph Embedding' are accepted at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).
- October, 2022 - I am a Senior PC member of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022).
- October, 2022 - I am a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on 'Knowledge-Graph-Enabled Methods and Applications for the Future Web' (World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems)
- October, 2022 - I am a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on 'Commonsense Knowledge and Reasoning: Representation, Acquisition and Applications' (MIR: Machine Intelligence Research).
- October, 2022 - Our paper on 'Transformer-based Entity Typing in Knowledge Graphs' was accepted at the the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).
- October, 2022 - Our paper on 'LaKo: Knowledge-driven Visual Question Answering via Late Knowledge-to-Text Injection' won the Best Application Paper Award at the the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs (IJCKG 2022).
- September, 2022 - Our poster on 'UnCommonSense: Informative Negative Knowledge about Everyday Concepts' was accepted at the the 4th Automatic Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2022).
- September, 2022 - Our paper on 'Benchmarking Knowledge-driven Zero-shot Learning' was accepted at the the Journal of Web Semantics.
- August, 2022 - Our submission 'Task-specific Pre-training and Prompt
Decomposition for Knowledge Graph Population
with Language Models' is ranked first in Track 1: a BERT track with low computational requirements of the ISWC2022 Challenge of LM-KBC Chellenge.
- August, 2022 - Our submission 'KEViN: A Knowledge Enhanced Validity and Novelty Classifier for Arguments' is ranked second in both Task A of "Validity/Novelty classification" and Task B of "Comparison of two conclusions in terms of Validity/Novelty" in the the ArgMining22 Shared Tasks.
- August, 2022 - Our paper on 'UnCommonSense: Informative Negative Knowledge about Everyday Concepts' was accepted at the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022).
- June, 2022 - The first annual symposium of the Knowledge Graph Group at the Alan Turing Institute.
- May, 2022 - Our paper on 'Disentangled Ontology Embedding for Zero-shot Learning' was accepted at the the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
AND DATA MINING (15% acceptance rate ).
- April, 2022 - Our paper on 'Type-aware Embeddings for Multi-Hop Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs' was accepted at the the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 22) (15% acceptance rate ).
- April, 2022 - The fourth community meetup of the Knowledge Graph Group at the Alan Turing Institute.
- Jan, 2022 - Our paper on 'A System for Aligning Geographical Entities from Large Heterogeneous Sources' was accepted at the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
- Dec, 2021 - Our submission 'LGESQL + ELECTRA + QT' is ranked first in the CSpider Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing leaderboard.
- Dec, 2021- I am a PC Chair of China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing 2021.
- Nov, 2021 - I am a co-organiser of the International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs (IJCKG 2021, in collaboration with ACM/SIGAI).
- Nov, 2021 - I am a co-organiser of the Knowledge Representation for Hybrid and Compositional AI Workshop (KRHCAI) at the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021)
- Oct, 2021 - I am a Senior PC member of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021).
- July, 2021 - The second community meetup of the Knowledge Graph Group at the Alan Turing Institute.
- June, 2021 - Our papers on 'Zero-shot Visual Question Answering using Knowledge Graph' and 'PCSG: Pattern-Coverage Snippet Generation for RDF Datasets' were accepted at ISWC 2021. The acceptance rate this year is 18%.
- June, 2021 - Our papers on 'BANDAR: Benchmarking Snippet Generation Algorithms for (RDF) Dataset Search' were accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- May, 2021 - Our paper on 'A Knowledge-Guided Framework for Frame Identification' was accepted at ACL-IJCNLP 2021.
- May, 2021 - Our paper on 'DTN: Deep Triple Network for Topic Specific Fake News Detection' was accepted at the Journal of Web Semantics.
- May, 2021 - Our demo on 'Wikinegata: a Knowledge Base with Interesting Negative Statements' was accepted at VLDB 2021.
- Apr, 2021 - Our paper on 'Knowledge-aware Zero-Shot Learning: Survey and Perspective' was accepted at the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21).
- March, 2021 - The first community meetup of the Knowledge Graph Group at the Alan Turing Institute.
- Jan, 2021 - Our paper on 'OntoZSL: Ontology-enhanced Zero-shot Learning' was accepted at the Web Conference 2021. One of the findings of the paper is that the proposed ontology-enhanced Zero-shot Learning framework can be applied to different domains, such as image classification (IMGC) and knowledge graph completion (KGC) with unseen relations.
- Dec, 2020 - Our paper on 'Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Dealing with Concept Drift in Machine Learning' was accepted at the Journal of Web Semantics. This paper addresses the problems of what knowledge should be encoded and how it can be integrated with stream learning methods for dealing with the issue of concept drift.
- Nov, 2020 - I was a PC Chair of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), Athens, Greece. ISWC2020 will start from November 1st. Here is the programme.
- Sept, 2020 - Our paper on 'Schema Aware Iterative Knowledge Graph Completion' was accepted at the Journal of Web Semantics. This paper addresses the problem of how to combine symbolic and sub-symbolic methods for highly productive Schema Aware Knowledge Graph Completion.
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