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most citedTowards Analyzing the Bias of News Recommender Systems Using Sentiment and Stance Detection

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cs.AI2026

Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning

Soyoung Oh, Nursulu Sagimbayeva, Nicholas Jennings +3

In Theory-of-Mind (ToM) reasoning, large language models may correctly infer the agent's mental state but fail to use that inference when predicting or judging the agent's subseque…

cs.CL2026

LCoT-GV: Graph Attention Networks for Verifying Long Reasoning Chains in Large Language Models

Bérénice Jaulmes, Mehwish Alam

Large Reasoning Models produce Long Chains-of-Thought (LCoTs) which involve breaking down the problem into smaller reasoning steps before reaching the conclusion. However, these st…

cs.CL2026

ReLTEx: Reliable LLM-based Taxonomy Expansion

Zeinab Ghamlouch, Mehwish Alam

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in generating semantically relevant concepts and relations, making them promising tools for ta…

cs.CL2026

ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian

Cristian Santini, Sebastian Barzaghi, Paolo Sernani +3

This paper introduces ENEIDE (Extracting Named Entities from Italian Digital Editions), a silver standard dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NERL) in historical Ital…

cs.CL2026

Analysing Lightweight Large Language Models for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition on Diverse Ouput Formats

Pierre Epron, Adrien Coulet, Mehwish Alam

Despite their strong linguistic capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) are computationally demanding and require substantial resources for fine-tuning, which is unadapted to pr…

cs.IR2026

Enriching Taxonomies Using Large Language Models

Zeinab Ghamlouch, Mehwish Alam

Taxonomies play a vital role in structuring and categorizing information across domains. However, many existing taxonomies suffer from limited coverage and outdated or ambiguous no…

cs.CL2026

It's All About the Confidence: An Unsupervised Approach for Multilingual Historical Entity Linking using Large Language Models

Cristian Santini, Marieke Van Erp, Mehwish Alam

Despite the recent advancements in NLP with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), Entity Linking (EL) for historical texts remains challenging due to linguistic variation, no…

cs.CL2026

Thinking Before Constraining: A Unified Decoding Framework for Large Language Models

Ngoc Trinh Hung Nguyen, Alonso Silva, Laith Zumot +3

Natural generation allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce free-form responses with rich reasoning, yet the lack of structure makes outputs difficult to verify. Conversely,…

cs.CL2025

DELICATE: Diachronic Entity LInking using Classes And Temporal Evidence

Cristian Santini, Sebastian Barzaghi, Paolo Sernani +2

In spite of the remarkable advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing, the task of Entity Linking (EL) remains challenging in the field of humanities due to complex d…

cs.CL2025

T-REX: Table -- Refute or Entail eXplainer

Tim Luka Horstmann, Baptiste Geisenberger, Mehwish Alam

Verifying textual claims against structured tabular data is a critical yet challenging task in Natural Language Processing with broad real-world impact. While recent advances in La…

cs.LG2025

Two-dimensional Taxonomy for N-ary Knowledge Representation Learning Methods

Xiaohua Lu, Liubov Tupikina, Mehwish Alam

Real-world knowledge can take various forms, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Among these, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are structured representations that i…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Markov Process-Based Graph Convolutional Networks for Entity Classification in Knowledge Graphs

Johannes Mäkelburg, Yiwen Peng, Mehwish Alam +2

Despite the vast amount of information encoded in Knowledge Graphs (KGs), information about the class affiliation of entities remains often incomplete. Graph Convolutional Networks…

cs.AI2024

Neurosymbolic Methods for Dynamic Knowledge Graphs

Mehwish Alam, Genet Asefa Gesese, Pierre-Henri Paris

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have recently been used for many tools and applications, making them rich resources in structured format. However, in the real world, KGs grow due to the add…

cs.AI2024★ 4 cited

Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models

Yiwen Peng, Thomas Bonald, Mehwish Alam

Due to its collaborative nature, Wikidata is known to have a complex taxonomy, with recurrent issues like the ambiguity between instances and classes, the inaccuracy of some taxono…

cs.AI2024

Neurosymbolic Methods for Rule Mining

Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Luis Galarraga, Mehwish Alam +3

In this chapter, we address the problem of rule mining, beginning with essential background information, including measures of rule quality. We then explore various rule mining met…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

NeMig -- A Bilingual News Collection and Knowledge Graph about Migration

Andreea Iana, Mehwish Alam, Alexander Grote +5

News recommendation plays a critical role in shaping the public's worldviews through the way in which it filters and disseminates information about different topics. Given the cruc…

cs.AI2023

Towards Semantically Enriched Embeddings for Knowledge Graph Completion

Mehwish Alam, Frank van Harmelen, Maribel Acosta

Embedding based Knowledge Graph (KG) Completion has gained much attention over the past few years. Most of the current algorithms consider a KG as a multidirectional labeled graph…

cs.AI2022★ 3 cited

RAILD: Towards Leveraging Relation Features for Inductive Link Prediction In Knowledge Graphs

Genet Asefa Gesese, Harald Sack, Mehwish Alam

Due to the open world assumption, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are never complete. In order to address this issue, various Link Prediction (LP) methods are proposed so far. Some of these…

cs.CL2022

Entity Type Prediction Leveraging Graph Walks and Entity Descriptions

Russa Biswas, Jan Portisch, Heiko Paulheim +2

The entity type information in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) such as DBpedia, Freebase, etc. is often incomplete due to automated generation or human curation. Entity typing is the task o…

cs.IR2022★ 24 cited

Towards Analyzing the Bias of News Recommender Systems Using Sentiment and Stance Detection

Mehwish Alam, Andreea Iana, Alexander Grote +3

News recommender systems are used by online news providers to alleviate information overload and to provide personalized content to users. However, algorithmic news curation has be…

cs.AI2022★ 2 cited

A Knowledge Graph Embeddings based Approach for Author Name Disambiguation using Literals

Cristian Santini, Genet Asefa Gesese, Silvio Peroni +3

Scholarly data is growing continuously containing information about the articles from a plethora of venues including conferences, journals, etc. Many initiatives have been taken to…

cs.CL2021

On the Impact of Temporal Representations on Metaphor Detection

Giorgio Ottolina, Matteo Palmonari, Mehwish Alam +1

State-of-the-art approaches for metaphor detection compare their literal - or core - meaning and their contextual meaning using metaphor classifiers based on neural networks. Howev…

cs.CL2021

MigrationsKB: A Knowledge Base of Public Attitudes towards Migrations and their Driving Factors

Yiyi Chen, Harald Sack, Mehwish Alam

With the increasing trend in the topic of migration in Europe, the public is now more engaged in expressing their opinions through various platforms such as Twitter. Understanding…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 3 cited

Steps towards a Dislocation Ontology for Crystalline Materials

Ahmad Zainul Ihsan, Danilo Dessì, Mehwish Alam +2

The field of Materials Science is concerned with, e.g., properties and performance of materials. An important class of materials are crystalline materials that usually contain ``di…