David M. Schmidt
dmschmidt.bsky.social
David M. Schmidt
@dmschmidt.bsky.social
#NLProc PhD Student & Research Associate at Bielefeld University
Working on: Question Answering over Linked Data, Semantic Web, Lexical Knowledge & Compositionality in AI
https://davidmschmidt.de
I am incredibly happy to share that our paper "CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting" has been accepted as a research track paper at ISWC @iswc-conf.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the paper and see you all in Japan!
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
What a week! I just had the incredible opportunity to attend the International Semantic Web Research Summer School 2025 @isws-summerschool.bsky.social. I hoped for an intense week filled with inspiring keynotes, people and opportunities to present my work - and I got so much more than "just" that!
June 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🚀 New paper! 🚀

I am happy to announce our paper "Summarizing Online Patient Conversations Using Generative Language Models: Experimental and Comparative Study," which has just been published in JMIR Medical Informatics!
Summarizing Online Patient Conversations Using Generative Language Models: Experimental and Comparative Study
Background: Social media is acknowledged by regulatory bodies (eg, the Food and Drug Administration) as an important source of patient experience data to learn about patients’ unmet needs, priorities,...
doi.org
April 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🚀 We are #hiring! Are you interested in Natural Language Processing, Text Generation or Information Extraction and want to pursue a PhD? Then you now have the chance to become a part of the Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University!

Application Deadline: 20.03.2025
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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📣 Spring School 2025: Innovating AI Evaluation – Beyond Accuracy and Precision

📅 March 26–28
📍 CITEC, Bielefeld University

Join us for an exciting line-up of tutorials, discussions, and networking opportunities! 🎓

➡️More info & program: www.sail.nrw/springschool/
Spring School 2025: Innovating AI Evaluation – Beyond Accuracy and Precision - SAIL
Join us for the SAIL Spring School 2025! We are excited to invite you to the SAIL Spring School 2025, taking place March 26-28 at the CITEC lecture hall at Bielefeld University! We have put together a...
www.sail.nrw
January 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🚀 New month, new paper! 🚀

Our paper "Open challenges for the automatic synthesis of clinical trials" has been published at BMC Research Notes!

🎓 Authors: Olivia Sánchez Graillet, David M. Schmidt, Christian Kullik and Philipp Cimiano

🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s131...
Open challenges for the automatic synthesis of clinical trials - BMC Research Notes
Objective An important criterion for selecting clinical trials to be compared in systematic reviews and meta-analyses is that they measure the same outcomes. However, this represents a challenge as th...
doi.org
February 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🚀 New year, new paper! 🚀

Proud to share our paper "Grammar-constrained decoding for structured information extraction with fine-tuned generative models applied to clinical trial abstracts" has been published at Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence!

🔗 doi.org/10.3389/frai...
January 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It has been an exciting week at EKAW 2024 in Amsterdam! Lots of interesting talks, inspiring discussions and entertaining social events! #ekaw2024
November 28, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Time for a starter pack on information retrieval: go.bsky.app/MXPJoTn
November 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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A starter pack for #NLP #NLProc researchers! 🎉

go.bsky.app/SngwGeS
November 4, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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November 17, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Hey all! I started a second starter pack with people who didn't make the first one, please let me know if you'd like to be added:

go.bsky.app/JgneRQk
November 13, 2024 at 12:15 AM
🚨 Thrilled to announce a new preprint!

📝 Title: Lexicalization Is All You Need: Examining the Impact of Lexical Knowledge in a Compositional QALD System
👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 Authors: David M. Schmidt, Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Philipp Cimiano
🔗 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2411.03906
Lexicalization Is All You Need: Examining the Impact of Lexical Knowledge in a Compositional QALD System
In this paper, we examine the impact of lexicalization on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD). It is well known that one of the key challenges in interpreting natural language questions with re...
arxiv.org
November 17, 2024 at 10:38 PM