KR & KM Research Group: Mathias Niepert

Mathias Niepert

Postdoctoral Researcher

B6, 26 Room B 1.10
Tel.: +49 621 181 2652

Office hours (Sprechstunde): Mo 11-12, Fr 16-17

Selected Publications


	Articles:


1.	Rim Helaoui, Mathias Niepert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Recognizing interleaved and concurrent activities using qualitative and quantitative temporal relationships. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2011.


2.	Cameron Buckner, Mathias Niepert and Colin Allen. From Encyclopedia to Ontology: Toward A Dynamic Representation of the Discipline of Philosophy. Synthese, 2010, to be published.


3.	Mathias Niepert, Dirk Van Gucht and Marc Gyssens. Logical and Algorithmic Properties of Stable Conditional Independence. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 51, 2010, 5, 531-543.


4.	Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner, Jaimie Murdock and Colin Allen. InPhO: A System for Collaboratively Populating and Extending a Dynamic Ontology. Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 5, 2009, 1.


5.	Colin Allen, Cameron Buckner and Mathias Niepert. The World is Not Flat: Expertise and InPhO. First Monday, 13, 2008, 8.


	Bookchapters:


6.	Mathias Niepert, Jan Noessner, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Probabilistic-Logical Web Data Integration. ReasoningWeb2011, 2011.


	Contributions to Conferences:


7.	Rim Helaoui, Mathias Niepert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Recognizing Interleaved and Concurrent Activities. Proceedings of the ninth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2011), 2011.


8.	Johanna Völker and Mathias Niepert. Statistical Schema Induction. Proceedings of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 6643, LNCS, Springer, 2011, 124-138.


9.	Mathias Niepert, Jan Noessner and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Log-Linear Description Logics. Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), 2011.


10.	Jan Noessner and Mathias Niepert. ELOG: A Probabilistic Reasoner for OWL EL. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems RR 2011, 2011.


11.	Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Coherent Top-k Ontology Alignment for OWL EL. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management SUM 2011, 2011.


12.	Cäcilia Zirn, Mathias Niepert, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Michael Strube. Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis with Structural Features. IJCNLP, 2011, (Best Paper Award).


13.	Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Leveraging Terminological Structure for Object Reconciliation. European Semantic Web Conference - ESWC, 2010, Best Paper Award.


14.	Kai Eckert, Mathias Niepert, Christoph Niemann, Cameron Buckner, Colin Allen and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Crowdsourcing the Assembly of Concept Hierarchies. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL-2010, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.


15.	Robert Meusel, Mathias Niepert, Kai Eckert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Thesaurus Extension using Web Search Engines. International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), Brisbane, Australia, 2010.


16.	Rim Helaoui, Mathias Niepert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. A Statistical-Relational Activity Recognition Framework for Ambient Assisted Living Systems. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence ISAmI 2010. Guimarães, Portugal, 2010.


17.	Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. A Probabilistic-Logical Framework for Ontology Matching. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10) July 11 - 15 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010.


18.	Mathias Niepert. A Delayed Column Generation Strategy for Exact k-Bounded MAP Inference in Markov Logic Networks. Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2010), 2010, accepted.


19.	Nikolas Schmitt, Mathias Niepert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. BRAMBLE: A Web-based Framework for Interactive RDF-Graph Visualisation. ISWC, 2010, (demo paper), accepted.


20.	Mathias Niepert. Logical Inference Algorithms and Matrix Representations for Probabilistic Conditional Independence. Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2009.


21.	Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner and Colin Allen. Answer Set Programming on Expert Feedback to Populate and Extend Dynamic Ontologies. Proceedings of the 21st International FLAIRS Conference, AAAI Press, 2008, 500-505.


22.	Mathias Niepert, Dirk Van Gucht and Marc Gyssens. On the Conditional Independence Implication Problem: A Lattice-Theoretic Approach. Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2008, 435-443, (best student paper runner-up award).


23.	Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner, Jaimie Murdock and Colin Allen. InPhO: A System for Collaboratively Populating and Extending a Dynamic Ontology. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), ACM Press, 2008, 429, (demo abstract).


24.	Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner and Colin Allen. A Dynamic Ontology for a Dynamic Reference Work. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), ACM Press, 2007, 288-297.


	Contributions to Workshops:


25.	Jan Noessner and Mathias Niepert. CODI: Combinatorial Optimization for Data Integration. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, 2010.


26.	Noessner, Jan and Niepert, Mathias. CODI: Combinatorial Optimization for Data Integration--Results for OAEI 2010. Proceedings of the ISWC 2010 workshop on Ontology Matching, 2010.


27.	Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner and Colin Allen. Working the Crowd: Design Principles and Early Lessons from the Social-Semantic Web. Proceedings of the Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web - (SW)^2 at ACM Hypertext, 2009.


28.	Mathias Niepert and Dirk Van Gucht. Logical Properties of Stable Conditional Independence. Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM), 2008, 225-232.


	Miscellaneous:


29.	Mathias Niepert. Towards Collaboratively Learning and Populating Ontologies for the Social-Semantic Web. SIGWEB Newsletter, 2010.


30.	Cameron Buckner, Mathias Niepert and Colin Allen. InPhO: The Indiana Philosophy Ontology. APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 7, 2007, 1, 26-28.