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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 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.
Dec 16, 2022
Congratulations to Thiviyan and Emile, for the acceptance of their ICLR workshop proposal. The workshop will focus on neurosymbolic generative models. Have a look at the website or its twitter feed for more information.
Nov 21, 2022
Congratulations to Tae and Michael, for their AAAI accepted paper "A Machine with Short-Term, Episodic, and Semantic Memory Systems".
Nov 1, 2022
We are pleased to welcome Romy Vos to the team. She will join us as a PhD student on the LeapFrog project, investigating the application of learning and reasoning to drug safety.

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