๐ DICE was represented with 5 papers at the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) in Dubrovnik, Croatia (May 10โ14)!
Congratulations to all authors and thank you to the organizers for a wonderful conference! ๐
#ESWC2026#SemanticWeb#KnowledgeGraphs#DICEontour
๐ "ABox Abduction for Inconsistent Knowledge Bases under Repair Semantics" by Anselm Haak, Patrick Koopmann, Yasir Mahmood, and Anni-Yasmin Turhan has been accepted at KR 2026 (Lisbon, July 20โ23, 2026).
๐ Congratulations to all authors!
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๐ข Two paper acceptances at international conferences!
๐ "Diversity of Extensions in Abstract Argumentation" by Johannes Fichte, Markus Hecher, Yasir Mahmood, and Zhengjun Wang has been accepted at IJCAI-ECAI 2026 (Bremen, August 15โ21, 2026). (1/2)
๐Our colleague Amgad Abdulmaqsod presented "PBFF-KG: A FAIR Knowledge Graph towards Sustainable Design of Plant-Based Fermented Foods" at FOODSIM'2026 in Ghent. ๐
โก๏ธSee full paper here: https://t.co/aYFDB2z2kA
#DICEontour#FOODSIM
๐ Paper accepted at NLDB 2026! Our paper โNoisy Optimization in Finetuning LMs for Neural Rankingโ was accepted ๐Congrats to Daniel Vollmers, Arnab Sharma & @NgongaAxel!
๐ Trondheim, Norway | June 17โ19, 2026
#NLDB2026#NLP#LLM#Research
๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ!
โRethinking Explanations: Formalizing Contrast in Description Logicsโ by @Yaa_Siir, Arnab Sharma, @NgongaAxel & Balram Tiwari has been accepted at #XAI2026 in Fortaleza, Brazil ๐ง๐ท.
๐ https://t.co/uYJnisOdCP
Congrats to the authors! ๐
๐Kick-off of the 2nd funding phase of TRR 318 โConstructing Explainabilityโ!
DICE contributes to two subprojects:
๐INF โ building a data & information management infrastructure with RAG-based QA
๐C07 โ interactive, dialogue-based explanations with LLMs.
๐ DICE Embeddings: New KGE models, ensemble & weight-averaging strategies, improved evaluation workflows, tutorials, and bug fixes.
๐https://t.co/CsV202c9Yp
โ ๏ธ Minimum Python version is now 3.11 for all three libraries.
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๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐: ๐ข๐ป๐๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป, ๐ข๐ช๐๐๐ฃ๐ฌ & ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐
Weโve released new versions across our neuro-symbolic AI tools, bringing new features, performance improvements, and important updates.๐
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๐ง Ontolearn: Refactored concept & neural learners, improved triple store, and new SAT-based learners.๐https://t.co/mC5CbPR2Jm
๐งฉ OWLAPy: Introducing AGen-KG, a scalable agentic KG generation model from text with prompt-based customization.
๐ https://t.co/26pw4tAmMw
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Yesterday, we hosted the HNI Forum 2026 at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute.
๐Prof. Hector Geffner (RWTH Aachen) on "Representation learning to act and plan"
๐ Prof. Axel Ngonga on โExplainable neurosymbolic machine learning on knowledge graphsโ
Thanks to all who joined! ๐
๐"Discrete Diffusion-Based Model-Level Explanation of Heterogeneous GNNs with Node Features" by P. Das & S. Heindorf.
๐ Congratulations to all authors!
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๐ Weโre excited to announce two paper acceptances @TheWebConf (#TheWebConf2026), taking place April 13โ17 in Dubai
๐"A Simplex Approach to Synthetic Knowledge Graph Generation" by A. Silva, A. Bhopalsing Pundir, M. Rรถder & @NgongaAxel.
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๐๏ธ New podcast episode (in German): Kernel und Kernobst #073 โDoes AI Always Have to Be Friendly?โ
@NgongaAxel was a guest and discussed everyday questions about AI, taking a deeper, more academic look at how AI works.
๐https://t.co/LmMfDtDvmR
#AI#Podcast
๐ "Can You Tell the Difference? Contrastive Explanations for ABox Entailments" by Patrick Koopmann, Yasir Mahmood, @NgongaAxel & Balram Tiwari
Wishing you a great time and many inspiring exchanges with the AI community! ๐
#DICEontour#AI#Research#AAAI2026
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Weโre excited that our colleague @Yaa_Siir is presenting two papers at the AAAI Conference in Singapore! ๐ธ๐ฌ
๐ "Structure-Aware Encodings of Argumentation Properties for Clique-width" by Yasir Mahmood, Markus Hecher, Johanna Groven & Johannes K. Fichte
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โจ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐๐๐โจ
As 2025 comes to an end, weโd like to thank everyone who contributed to a great year of research, collaboration, and exchange.
We wish you happy holidays and a wonderful start to 2026! ๐๐
โจ๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ โ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ (๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ)
๐ New project Learn2RAG launched
๐ Public engagement at 100 years Heinz Nixdorf
๐ Research presented at IJCAI, ECML PKDD, ISWC, K-CAP
๐ 100K+ downloads for DICE Embeddings, Ontolearn & OWLAPY
On to 2026!๐
โจ๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ (๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ญ)
๐ Research presented worldwide (eg COLING & ESWC)
๐ค Prof. Tibebe Beshah Tesema as SAIL Fellow
๐ฅ Growing team & new members
๐ EU project ENEXA successfully completed
๐ PhD defence by @kouagou_dah
Stay tuned for Part 2!
5. "NL2LS: LLM-based Automatic Linking of Knowledge Graphs" by Reda Ihtassine, @affia007, Nikit Srivastava, @engr_manzoor, @NgongaAxel & @MAhmedSherif.
๐https://t.co/yf87tLelFK
With this, we wrap up K-CAP 2025 and our final conference of the year.๐
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Weโre proud to have been part of K-CAP 2025 in Dayton, Ohio, presenting five papers from DICE! ๐
1) โParameter Averaging in Link Predictionโ by Rupesh Sapkota, @_CaglarDemir, Arnab Sharma & @NgongaAxel.
๐https://t.co/aIoX5SGqHB
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#DICEontour#DICEreadme#KCAP2025
4. โExplainable Benchmarking through the Lens of Concept Learningโ by Quannian Zhang, Michael Rรถder, Nikit Srivastava, N'Dah Jean Kouagou & @NgongaAxel.
๐https://t.co/uXj4YlZPuP
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