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🌐 DICE was represented with 5 papers at the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) in Dubrovnik, Croatia (May 10–14)!
Congratulations to all authors and thank you to the organizers for a wonderful conference! 🙌
#ESWC2026 #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #DICEontour

DICE May 6

📢 Two paper acceptances at international conferences!
👉 "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 15–21, 2026).
👉 "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 20–23, 2026).
👏 Congratulations to all authors!

DICE Apr 28

🚀Our colleague Amgad Abdulmaqsod presented "PBFF-KG: A FAIR Knowledge Graph towards Sustainable Design of Plant-Based Fermented Foods" at FOODSIM'2026 in Ghent. 👏
➡️See full paper here: https://papers.dice-research.org/2026/FoodSIM_PBFF-KG/public.pdf
#DICEontour #FOODSIM

DICE Mar 27

🎉 Paper accepted at NLDB 2026!

Our paper “Noisy Optimization in Finetuning LMs for Neural Ranking” was accepted 👏 Congrats to Daniel Vollmers, Arnab Sharma & Axel Ngonga!

📍 Trondheim, Norway | June 17–19, 2026

#NLDB2026 #NLP #LLM #Research

DICE Mar 9

🎉 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱!
“Rethinking Explanations: Formalizing Contrast in Description Logics” by Yasir Mahmood, Arnab Sharma, Axel Ngonga & Balram Tiwari has been accepted at #XAI2026 in Fortaleza, Brazil.
🔗 https://xaiworldconference.com/2026/
Congrats to all authors! 👏

DICE Mar 4

🚀 Kick-off of the 2nd funding phase of TRR 318 “Constructing Explainability”!

The Collaborative Research Centre between Paderborn University and Bielefeld University explores how AI explanations can be co-constructed with users.

Our group contributes to two projects:
👉 INF – building a data & information management infrastructure with RAG-based QA
👉 C07 – interactive, dialogue-based explanations with LLMs

Thanks to the organizing team for a great kick-off!

🔗 https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/

DICE Feb 10

🚀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀: 𝗢𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻, 𝗢𝗪𝗟𝗔𝗣𝗬 & 𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀

Ontolearn: Refactored concept & neural learners, improved triple store, and new SAT-based learners.👉https://github.com/dice-group/Ontolearn

OWLAPy: Introducing AGen-KG, a scalable agentic KG generation model from text with prompt-based customization.
👉 https://github.com/dice-group/owlapy

DICE Embeddings: New KGE models, ensemble & weight-averaging strategies, improved evaluation workflows, tutorials, and bug fixes.
👉https://github.com/dice-group/dice-embeddings?tab=readme-ov-file

DICE Feb 6

Yesterday, we hosted the HNI Forum 2026 at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, bringing together researchers to discuss Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence.

🎤Prof. Hector Geffner (RWTH Aachen University) spoke on "Representation learning to act and plan”
🎤Prof. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo presented “Explainable neurosymbolic machine learning on knowledge graphs”

Great discussions and interdisciplinary exchange—thanks to everyone who joined! 🙌
#NeurosymbolicAI #ExplainableAI #AIResearch #HNI

DICE Feb 3

🚀 We’re excited to announce two paper acceptances The Web Conference (#TheWebConf2026), taking place April 13–17 in Dubai.

👉"A Simplex Approach to Synthetic Knowledge Graph Generation" by Ana Silva, Atul Bhopalsing Pundir, Michael Röder & Axel Ngonga.

👉"Discrete Diffusion-Based Model-Level Explanation of Heterogeneous GNNs with Node Features" by Pallabee Das & Stefan Heindorf.

👏 Congratulations to all authors!

DICE Jan 27

🎙️ New podcast episode (in German): Kernel und Kernobst #073 “Does AI Always Have to Be Friendly?”
@NgongaAxel was a guest and discussed everyday questions about AI, taking a deeper, more academic look at how AI works.
👉https://trommelspeicher.de/podcast/muss-eine-ki-immer-freundlich-sein
#AI #Podcast

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