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most citedPredicting Gene-Disease Associations with Knowledge Graph Embeddings over Multiple Ontologies

7 citations · 11 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.AI2026

An ontology for cross-sectoral crisis management: core and public health modules

Aldo Gangemi, Rita T. Sousa, Luigi Asprino +6

This paper presents the European Crisis Management Ontology (ECMO), a modular OWL-based ontology intended as a cross-sectoral reference for disaster risk reduction and response. EC…

cs.CL2026

Aligning Biomedical Texts and Knowledge Graphs: A Systematic Comparison of Lightweight Alignment Strategies

Artem Bisliouk, Elizaveta Nosova, Heiko Paulheim +2

Biomedical knowledge exists in two complementary but distinct forms: unstructured scientific literature and structured knowledge graphs (KGs). Aligning them is essential for knowle…

cs.LG2025

Improving Knowledge Graph Embeddings through Contrastive Learning with Negative Statements

Rita T. Sousa, Heiko Paulheim

Knowledge graphs represent information as structured triples and serve as the backbone for a wide range of applications, including question answering, link prediction, and recommen…

cs.LG2025

Bio-KGvec2go: Serving up-to-date Dynamic Biomedical Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Hamid Ahmad, Heiko Paulheim, Rita T. Sousa

Knowledge graphs and ontologies represent entities and their relationships in a structured way, having gained significance in the development of modern AI applications. Integrating…

cs.LG2025

Multi-dataset and Transfer Learning Using Gene Expression Knowledge Graphs

Rita T. Sousa, Heiko Paulheim

Gene expression datasets offer insights into gene regulation mechanisms, biochemical pathways, and cellular functions. Additionally, comparing gene expression profiles between dise…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Integrating Heterogeneous Gene Expression Data through Knowledge Graphs for Improving Diabetes Prediction

Rita T. Sousa, Heiko Paulheim

Diabetes is a worldwide health issue affecting millions of people. Machine learning methods have shown promising results in improving diabetes prediction, particularly through the…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Benchmark datasets for biomedical knowledge graphs with negative statements

Rita T. Sousa, Sara Silva, Catia Pesquita

Knowledge graphs represent facts about real-world entities. Most of these facts are defined as positive statements. The negative statements are scarce but highly relevant under the…

cs.LG2023

Explainable Representations for Relation Prediction in Knowledge Graphs

Rita T. Sousa, Sara Silva, Catia Pesquita

Knowledge graphs represent real-world entities and their relations in a semantically-rich structure supported by ontologies. Exploring this data with machine learning methods often…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

Predicting Gene-Disease Associations with Knowledge Graph Embeddings over Multiple Ontologies

Susana Nunes, Rita T. Sousa, Catia Pesquita

Ontology-based approaches for predicting gene-disease associations include the more classical semantic similarity methods and more recently knowledge graph embeddings. While semant…