- and listened to keynotes of well-known researchers like Frank van Harmelen, Natasha Noy and Enrico Motta
A huge thanks to everyone who made this week such a memorable experience! And, if you are Master's/PhD student or PostDoc, I cannot recommend too much to apply for the next iteration of #ISWS!

- worked in a research task force on building a reliable LLM-based metadata enrichment pipeline for cultural heritage objects (special thanks to our tutor Valentina Presutti and our whole team), as well as writing a corresponding white paper and presenting our results in the final session

During the last week, among many other things, I
- summarized the motivation of my work in a 45s "Minute Madness" session
- presented my work during a poster session, getting helpful feedback from students and tutors (special thanks to Aidan Hogan and Stefano De Giorgis)

The #ISWS2025 experience really managed to combine lots of fun activities, working with leading figures of the Semantic Web field as well as intense networking in a unique, wonderful way! It felt like a month worth of program items had been compressed to one magnificent piece of art.

Social media is acknowledged as an important source of patient experience data to learn about patients’ unmet needs, priorities, and preferences. The objective of this study was to evaluate to what extent SOTA LLMs can appropriately summarize posts shared by patients in web-based forums.

🎓 Authors: Rakhi Asokkumar Subjagouri Nair, Matthias Hartung, Philipp Heinisch, Janik Jaskolski, Cornelius Starke-Knäusel, Susana Veríssimo, David M. Schmidt, Philipp Cimiano

🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.2196/62909

NLP/Text Generation
EN: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4054
DE: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4053

NLP/Information Extraction
EN: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4059
DE: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4057

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me or Philipp directly!

We currently have two fully-funded open PhD positions in our group with a focus on #NLProc, #InformationExtraction and #TextGeneration. I can really recommend both the group as well as Philipp Cimiano as a supervisor, so take this opportunity!

💡 Interested? Try it yourself!

Tool: ag-sc.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ctvis/

For selecting clinical trials to be compared in systematic reviews, it is important they measure the same outcomes. Therefore, we developed a tool that provides an overview of the clinical trial information about glaucoma and type 2 diabetes and enables users to group them by outcomes.

💡 Interested? Try it yourself!

Zenodo artifact: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

GitHub repository: github.com/ag-sc/clinic...

In this work, we investigate the influence of grammar-constrained decoding (GCD) as well as pointer generators (PG) on the performance of a domain-specific information extraction (IE) system. We investigate whether the addition of GCD and PG improve IE results of fine-tuned encoder-decoder models.

🧑‍💻 Additionally, you can find the code and data if our approach on Zenodo, GitHub and DockerHub:
Zenodo artifact: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
GitHub repository: github.com/ag-sc/neodud...
DockerHub image: hub.docker.com/r/dvs23/neod...

💡Missed the talk or want to know more? You can find our paper here:
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

At the main conference, I presented our paper "Lexicalization Is All You Need: Examining the Impact of Lexical Knowledge in a Compositional QALD System" as well as an accompanying poster and demo illustrating the strengths of our lexicon-based, compositional question answering approach.