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September 23, 2024
BBC published an article based on an interview with Filip: When robots can't riddle: What puzzles reveal about the depths of our own minds. The article is part of the series "AI v. the Mind," which explores "the limits of cutting-edge AI and learns a little about how our own brains work along the way."
September 06, 2024
Mayank Kharbanda joins us as a visitor from Sep 2024 until March 2025
September 01, 2024
Hossein Khojasteh joins us as a PhD student, working with Filip.
July 17, 2024
Frank gave a keynote "Ontologies for Machine Learning" at the FOIS conference
May 27, 2024
Zhan Qu will join us as a visitor from KIT in Karlsruhe for 2 weeks at the end of May.
May 26, 2024
Filip is co-chairing the First International Workshop on Generative Neuro-Symbolic AI (GeNeSy), co-located with ESWC 2024. The workshop features three keynotes, one of which will be given by Frank.
May 14, 2024
Filip and his co-authors won the best paper and presentation awards at the Web Conference workshop "Workshop on Multimodal Content Analysis for Social Good". Their paper studies the grounding of internet memes "in the wild" (Reddit and Discord) to an Internet meme KG using visual transformers.
May 6, 2024
Ting Liu successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled A gut feeling: Biomedical knowledge graphs for interrelating the gut microbiome and mental health.
May 2, 2024
prof. Wael Abd Almageed from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering visited our group for a seminar and discussions.
April 24, 2024
Frank gave an invited talk on Hybrid Intelligence at the UK summit on AI & Healthcare.
April 22, 2024
Tamar Cucumides from the University of Antwerp visited us and presented her framework for approximate answers to conjunctive queries over knowledge graphs.
April 8, 2024
Klim Zaporojets from Aarhus University visited us and gave a seminar on aligning unstructured text with knowledge graphs for problems like provenance detection and fact checking.
April 5, 2024
Frank gave the first talk in the new series of online talks for the new Neuro-symbolic AI journal: NAI Webinar Series #1: Frank van Harmelen - YouTube with the title: neuro-symbol ≠ neuro-semantic
March 29, 2024
Congratulations to Floris and co-authors, for their NAACL Findings accepted paper "Conformal Intent Classification and Clarification for Fast and Accurate Intent Recognition".
March 13, 2024
Many congratulations to Filip for being awarded a €900k AINed Fellowship Grant to work on Synergistic AI Agents with Common Sense.
March 11-15, 2024
Annette and Floris contributed a talk on neuro-symbolic medical AI to the AI & Health Winter School.
November 29-30, 2023
Dimitrios Alivanistos, Daniel Daza, Xander Wilcke, Ruud van Bakel, Taewoon Kim, Yannick Brunink, and Michael Cochez of the L&R group, together with Shujian Yu from the QDA group, and Thom Pijnenburg from Elsevier hosted the Learning on Graphs Amsterdam meet-up. The event took place in the Elsevier office in Amsterdam with help of the Discovery Lab. It included talks and posters by Taraneh Younesian, Selene Baez Santamaria, and Daniel Daza.
November 24, 2023
Andreas gave an invited talk for the Intelligent and Interactive Systems group at the University of Innsbruck.
October 23, 2023
Daniel Daza and Michael Cochez gave a tutorial at the CIKM 2023 conference on Reasoning beyond Triples: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graph Embeddings https://kg-beyond-triple.github.io/
September 13, 2023
Michael Cochez gave a keynote talk at the 3rd Workshop DL4LD: Addressing Deep Learning, Relation Extraction, and Linguistic Data
September 1, 2023
We are pleased to have Floris in our team. Floris will be working on an RL-based assistant for patient-centric decision making within the Hybrid Intelligence centre.
September 1, 2023
We are pleased to have Fabian in our team.
June 15, 2023
We are happy to welcome Francesco Manigrasso to the group for a 3 month visit. We will use his time with us to work on using Real Logic and Logic Tensor Networks to probe large language models for logical knowledge and inference.
June 15, 2023
Michael was teaching and acted as a tutor at the 5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data.
May 4, 2023
Thiviyan and Emile are hosting a NeSy-GeMs (Neurosymbolic Generative Models) workshop at ICLR 2023. Take a look at the website.
May 2
Frank is quoted on the NOS website, following Geoffrey Hinton's departure from Google, and his comments about the future of AI.
May 1, 2023
Frank is invited as a keynote speaker at the ISWS 2023 summer school, held from the 11th to 17th of June.
Apr 27, 2023
Peter's work on Transformers, e.g., ChatGPT, has been featured in a NYT article.
Apr 5, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Xu has successfully defended his PhD.
Mar 28, 2023
Congratulations to Lise and Annette, for their ESWC accepted paper "Explainable Drug Repurposing in Context via Deep Reinforcement Learning".
Mar 24, 2023
Congratulations to Shuai, Peter, and Frank, for their ESWC accepted paper "Refining Large Integrated Identity Graphs using the Unique Name Assumption".
Mar 13, 2023
Congratulations to Annette and Frank, for their ACM Computing Surveys accepted paper "Combining Machine Learning and Semantic Web: A Systematic Mapping Study".
Feb 13, 2023
Frank gave a keynote on "Combining knowledge graphs with machine learning, with examples from healthcare and life sciences", at SWAT4HCLS in Basel
Jan 18, 2023
Congratulations to Andreas, for their CLEAR accepted paper "A Meta-Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Causal Discovery".
Jan 15, 2023
We are pleased to welcome Ruud van Bakel to the team. He will join us as a PhD student on the GraphMassivizer project, studying how to scale up knowledge graph learning methods.
Jan 4, 2023
Congratulations to Nikos and Annette, for their AAMAS accepted paper "Establishing Shared Query Understanding in an Open Multi-Agent System".
Jan 1, 2023
We joined the LEMUR project.
Jan 1, 2023
We joined the GraphMassivizer project.

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