News Archive

Latest updates and achievements from the DMKI Lab

2025

June 2025 (Award)

Kashif Rabbani, M. Lissandrini, and K. Hose received the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software: Theory and Practice.
The award was given for their paper “Extraction of Validating Shapes from Very Large Knowledge Graphs” published in VLDB 2023 (pdf).

IFIP TC2 Award
June 2025 (Team)

Johannes Schrott has joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome!

June 2025 (Vacancy)

We have new exciting PhD position available in our team in knowledge-graph driven factuality and explainability. Expected starting time: fall 2025, application deadline: July 31, 2025.
More details are available here.

May 2025 (Publication)

Our work on "Applicability Assessment of Technologies for Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics of Nephrology Big Data" by R. Stojanov, M. Jovanovik, S. Gramatikov, I. Mishkovski, E. Zdravevski, D. Sasanski, Z. Karapancheva, G. Spasovski, I. Vasileska, T. Eftimov, W. Zhuojun, J. Jankowski, D. Trajanov has been published in Proteomics.

May 2025 (Publication)

Our work on "Smart SPARQL Advisor: Guiding Users in Query Formulation with Performance Prediction" by A. Moharanaj, M. Lissandrini, and K. Hose has been accepted as a demo paper at VLDB 2025.

May 2025 (Preprint)

Our work on "RDFGraphGen: An RDF Graph Generator based on SHACL Shapes" by M. Jovanovik, M. Vecovska, M. Jakubowski, and K. Hose is now available on arxiv.org: preprint.

May 2025 (Preprint)

Our work on "MultiHal: Multilingual Dataset for Knowledge-Graph Grounded Evaluation of LLM Hallucinations" by E. Lavrinovics, R. Biswas, J. Bjerva, K. Hose is now available on arxiv.org: preprint.

May 2025 (Publication)

Our work on "Towards Generating Synthetic EHR Knowledge Graphs — a Probabilistic Approach" has been accepted at GOBLIN 2025, authors: M. Jovanovik, E. Milenkova, M. Jakubowski, K. Hose

May 2025 (Project)

We’re excited to announce the start of our Horizon Europe MSCA DN project ARMADA, focused on conversational data exploration. The project runs from 2025 to 2029.

May 2025 (Publication)

The paper "FHIR Lens: A Graph-Based Approach to Semantic EHR Exploration" by D. Tomaszuk, A. Smajevic, T. Sagi, and K. Hose has been accepted for publication at CBMS 2025.

April 2025 (Team)

Koumudi Ganepola has joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome!

April 2025 (Publication)

Our work on "PlanRGCN: Predicting SPARQL Query Performance" has been accepted at VLDB 2025, authors: A. Moharanaj, M. Lissandrini, K. Hose

April 2025 (Publication)

Our work on "The Limits of Graph Samplers for Training Inductive Recommender Systems" (preprint) has been accepted at VLDB 2025, authors: T. E. Jendal, M. Lissandrini, P. Dolog, K. Hose

March 2025 (Project)

Together with M. Jovanovik, T. Sagi, and S. El-Sherbiny I attended TARGET‘s annual consortium meeting in Lund.

March 2025 (Talk)

K. Hose gave a talk on "Knowledge Graphs: Challenges for GDBMS and AI" at EDBT 2025‘s industry event on Next-Generation Data Management Systems.

March 2025 (Award)

K. Hose received an EDBT 2025 distinguished meta-reviewer award.

March 2024 (Publication)

Martin presented our work on "Fantastic Tables and Where to Find Them: Table Search in Semantic Data Lakes" at EDBT 2025, authors: M. P. Christensen, A. Leventidis, M. Lissandrini, L. Di Rocco, R. J. Miller, K. Hose

March 2025 (Publication)

Davide and Matteo presented our work on "Towards Reliable Conversational Data Analytics" at EDBT 2025, authors: S. Amer-Yahia, J. Bogojeska, R. Facchinetti, V. Franceschi, A. Gionis, K. Hose, G. Koutrika, R. Kouyos, M. Lissandrini, S. Maniu, K. Mirylenka, D. Mottin, T. Palpanas, M. Rigotti, Y. Velegrakis

February 2025 (Keynote)

K. Hose gave a keynote on "Introduction to Knowledge Graphs" at the GOBLIN‘s 1st plenary meeting in Prague.

February 2025 (Team)

Milos Jovanovik has joined the team in Vienna as postdoc. Welcome!

January 2025 (Publication)

Our work on "Common Foundations of SHACL, ShEx, and PG-Schema" has been accepted at The Web Conference 2025, authors: S. Ahmetaj, I. Boneva, J. Hidders, K. Hose, M. Jakubowski, J.E.L. Gayo, W. Martens, F. Mogavero, F. Murlak, C. Okulmus, A. Polleres, O. Savkovic, M. Simkus, D. Tomaszuk

January 2025 (Event)

K. Hose participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar "Trust and Accountability in Knowledge Graph-Based AI for Self Determination"

2024

December 2024 (Publication)

Our work on "Knowledge Graphs, Large Language Models, and Hallucinations: An NLP Perspective" has been accepted at the Journal of Web Semantics,, authors: E. Lavrinovics, R. Biswas, J. Bjerva, K. Hose

November 2024 (Event)

K. Hose had the honor to co-chair the research track at ISWC 2024 and participated in the conference in Baltimore, USA.

October 2024 (Team)

Maxime Jakubowski has joined the team in Vienna as a postdoc. Welcome!

October 2024 (Podcast)

K. Hose did a podcast together with Shellie Boudreau talking about knowledge graphs and their role in data engineering, AI, and LLMs, as well as other aspects beyond research results. (youtoube)

October 2024 (Talk)

K. Hose gave a kexnote on "Knowledge Graphs: ready to power intelligent systems?" at BDA 2024 in Orléans.

October 2024 (Event)

K. Hose participated as Austrian MC member in the kickoff event of the COST Action GOBLIN (Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs) in Brussels.

October 2024 (Talk)

K. Hose gave a talk on "Knowledge Graph Challenges with, without, and for AI" at the BIFOLD Colloquium at TUB.

October 2024 (PhD)

K. Hose participated in Serafeim Papadias' PhD review committee and visit TU Berlin, topic: Mining Highly Dynamic Graphs, supervisors: Volker Markl, Zoi Kaoudi

October 2024 (Publication)

Our work on "Fantastic Tables and Where to Find Them: Table Search in Semantic Data Lakes" was accepted at EDBT 2025, authors: M. P. Christensen, A. Leventidis, M. Lissandrini, L. Di Rocco, R. J. Miller, K. Hose

October 2024 (PhD)

K. Hose participated in Thomas Mulder's PhD review committee and visited TU Eindhoven, topic: Optimization of Recursive Queries on Graphs, supervisors: George Fletcher, Nick Yakovets

2023

December 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Hypergraphs with Attention on Reviews for Explainable Recommendation" was accepted to ECIR 2024, authors: T. Jendal, TH Le, H. Lauw, M. Lissandrini, P. Dolog, K. Hose

December 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "How Does Knowledge Evolve in Open Knowledge Graphs?" was accepted to TGDK, authors: A. Polleres, R. Pernisch, A. Bonifati, D. Dell‘Aglio, D. Dobriy, D. Dumbrava, L. Etcheverry, N. Ferranti, K. Hose, E. Jiminez-Ruiz, M. Lissandrini, A. Scherp, R. Tommasini, J. Wachs

October 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Tunable Query Optimizer for Web APIs and User Preferences" was accepted at K-CAP 2023, authors: T. Zeimetz, K. Hose, R. Schenkel

October 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "moduli: A Disaggregated Data Management Architecture for Data-Intensive Workflows" was accepted at ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, authors: P. Ceravolo, T. Cartarci, M. Console, P. Cudré-Mauroux, S. Groppe, K. Hose, J. Pokorny, O. Romero, R. Wrembel

September 2023 (Talk)

K. Hose gave a keynote on "No Intelligence without Knowledge" at ADBIS 2023 in Barcelona

September 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "StarBench: Benchmarking RDF-star Triplestores" was accepted at the QuWeDa 2023 workshop at ISWC 2023, authors: G. Abuoda, C. Aebeloe, D. Dell‘Aglio, A. Keen, K. Hose

September 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "The Need for Better RDF Archiving Benchmarks" was accepted at the MepDAW 2023 workshop icw. ISWC 2023, authors: O. Pelgrin, R. Taelman, L. Galárraga, K. Hose

August 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "A Gated Architecture for Inductive Recommendation using Knowledge Graphs" was accepted at KARS 2023 workshop at RecSys 2023, authors: T. E. Jendal, M. Lissandrini, P. Dolog, K. Hose

June 2023 (Award)

Our work on "GLENDA: Querying RDF Archives with SPARQL" has won the best demo award at ESWC 2023, authors: O. Pelgrin, R. Taelman, L. Galárraga, K. Hose (details)

June 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Graph Neural Networks for Metagenomic Binning" was accepted at the CompBio Workshop at ICML 2023, authors: A. Lamurias, A. Tibo, K. Hose, M. Albertsen, T. D. Nielsen

May 2023 (Service)

The 1st international workshop on Data Management for Knowledge Graphs (DMKG) was held on May 29 at ESWC 2023, organizers: C. Aebeloe, A. Azzam, O. Hartig, K. Hose (website)

May 2023 (Award)

Our work on "Automated Ontology Evaluation: Evaluating Coverage and Correctness using a Domain Corpus" has won the Best Paper Award at the NLP4KGC workshop, authors: A. Zaitoun, T. Sagi, K. Hose

April 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Metagenomic Binning using Connectivity-constrained Variational Autoencoders" was accepted at ICML 2023, authors: A. Lamurias, A. Tibo, K. Hose, M. Albertsen, T. D. Nielsen

April 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Optimizing SPARQL Queries over Decentralized Knowledge Graphs" was accepted at the Semantic Web Journal, authors: C. Aebeloe, G. Montoya, K. Hose

April 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Environmental impact assessment reports in Wikidata and a Wikibase" was accepted at the SemTech4STLD workshop at ESWC 2023, authors: F. Årup Nielsen, I. Lyhne, D. Garigliotti, A. Butzbach, E. R. Boess, K. Hose, L. Kørnøv

April 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "GLENDA: Querying RDF Archives with SPARQL" was accepted as a demo at ESWC 2023, authors: O. Pelgrin, R. Taelman, L. Galárraga, K. Hose (details)

March 2023 (Conference)

K. Hose served as PC-cochair for EDBT 2023 together with S. Bhowmick!

March 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Patient Event Sequences for Predicting Hospitalization Length of Stay " was accepted at AIME 2023, authors: E. R. Hansen, T. D. Nielsen, T. Mulvad, M. N. Strausholm, T. Sagi, K. Hose

February 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "SHACTOR: Improving the Quality of Large-Scale Knowledge Graphs with Validating Shapes" was accepted as a demo at SIGMOD 2023, authors: K. Rabbani, M. Lissandrini, K. Hose (details)

February 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Diagnosis Prediction over Patient Data using Hierarchical Medical Taxonomies" was accepted at the HEDAI workshop at EDBT 2023, authors: E. R. Hansen, T. Sagi, K. Hose

January 2023 (Publication)

Our work on "Recommending Tasks based on Search Queries and Missions" was accepted at the Journal of Natural Language Engineering, authors: D. Garigliotti, K. Balog, K. Hose, J. Bjerva