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20242026
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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Do General NLP Embeddings Capture Ontological Reasoning?

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer

General-purpose NLP embedding models perform well on linguistic tasks, but their ability to capture symbolic ontological structure remains unclear. We introduce AVA, a systematic f…

cs.AI2026

OntoAligner-Ensemble: Voting-Based Fusion across Heterogeneous Ontology Alignment Techniques

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Sören Auer, Peio Popov +2

Ontology alignment (OA) has evolved through several methodological paradigms, ranging from lexical and structural aligners to knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models and, more recen…

cs.AI2026

When Does Bigger Help? A Controlled Study of LLM Scale for Ontology Learning

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Sören Auer, Jennifer D'Souza

The effect of Large Language Model (LLM) scale on ontology learning (OL) performance remains insufficiently characterized. We present a controlled evaluation of 13 models spanning…

cs.DL2026

SciSchema.org: A Multidisciplinary Collection of Schemas for Structured Scientific Process Descriptions

Jennifer D'Souza, Sameer Sadruddin, Anisa Rula +23

Scientific processes are often described in heterogeneous article discourse, with details needed for comparison, reproducibility, reuse, and automation dispersed across prose, tabl…

cs.AI2026

OntoLearner: A Modular Python Library for Ontology Learning with Large Language Models

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, Andrei Aioanei +2

Ontology learning (OL) aims to automatically construct structured knowledge models from text, yet progress remains fragmented across methods, domains, and evaluation practices. Des…

cs.AI2025

OntoAligner Meets Knowledge Graph Embedding Aligners

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer +1

Ontology Alignment (OA) is essential for enabling semantic interoperability across heterogeneous knowledge systems. While recent advances have focused on large language models (LLM…

cs.AI2025

DeepResearch: A Recursive Agentic Workflow for Complex Scientific Question Answering in Ecology

Jennifer D'Souza, Endres Keno Sander, Andrei Aioanei

We introduce DeepResearch, a novel agentic LLM-based system for automated scientific synthesis that supports recursive, depth- and breadth-controlled exploration of…

cs.CL2025

YESciEval: Robust LLM-as-a-Judge for Scientific Question Answering

Jennifer D'Souza, Hamed Babaei Giglou, Quentin Münch

Large Language Models (LLMs) drive scientific question-answering on modern search engines, yet their evaluation robustness remains underexplored. We introduce YESciEval, an open-so…

cs.CL2025

LLMs4SchemaDiscovery: A Human-in-the-Loop Workflow for Scientific Schema Mining with Large Language Models

Sameer Sadruddin, Jennifer D'Souza, Eleni Poupaki +7

Extracting structured information from unstructured text is crucial for modeling real-world processes, but traditional schema mining relies on semi-structured data, limiting scalab…

cs.AI2025

OntoAligner: A Comprehensive Modular and Robust Python Toolkit for Ontology Alignment

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, Oliver Karras +1

Ontology Alignment (OA) is fundamental for achieving semantic interoperability across diverse knowledge systems. We present OntoAligner, a comprehensive, modular, and robust Python…

cs.CL2024

LLMs4Synthesis: Leveraging Large Language Models for Scientific Synthesis

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer

In response to the growing complexity and volume of scientific literature, this paper introduces the LLMs4Synthesis framework, designed to enhance the capabilities of Large Languag…

cs.CL2024

LLMs4OL 2024 Overview: The 1st Large Language Models for Ontology Learning Challenge

Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D'Souza, Sören Auer

This paper outlines the LLMs4OL 2024, the first edition of the Large Language Models for Ontology Learning Challenge. LLMs4OL is a community development initiative collocated with…