Mehwish Alam

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23ranked-venue papers
8as first author
12since 2021 · last 2026
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 15 · 5 first-author · 8 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 11 · 4 first-author · 6 since 2021Theory of computation · 3 · 2 first-authorGraphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Analysing Lightweight Large Language Models for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition on Diverse Ouput Formats
Pierre Epron, Adrien Coulet, Mehwish Alam
LREC3
2026 ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian
Cristian Santini, Sebastian Barzaghi, Paolo Sernani, Emanuele Frontoni, Laura Melosi, Mehwish Alam
LREC6
2025 Enriching Taxonomies Using Large Language Models
abstract
Taxonomies play a vital role in structuring and categorizing information across domains. However, many existing taxonomies suffer from limited coverage and outdated or ambiguous nodes, reducing their effectiveness in knowledge retrieval. To address this, we present Taxoria, a novel taxonomy enrichment pipeline that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance a given taxonomy. Unlike approaches that extract internal LLM taxonomies, Taxoria uses an existing taxonomy as a seed and prompts an LLM to propose candidate nodes for enrichment. These candidates are then validated to mitigate hallucinations and ensure semantic relevance before integration. The final output includes an enriched taxonomy with provenance tracking and visualization of the final merged taxonomy for analysis.
Zeinab Ghamlouch, Mehwish Alam
ECAI2
2025 Markov Process-Based Graph Convolutional Networks for Entity Classification in Knowledge Graphs
Johannes Mäkelburg, Yiwen Peng, Mehwish Alam, Tobias Weller, Maribel Acosta
ICAART (2)3
2024 Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models
abstract
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 taxonomic paths, the presence of cycles, and the high level of redundancy across classes. Manual efforts to clean up this taxonomy are time-consuming and prone to errors or subjective decisions. We present WiKC, a new version of Wikidata taxonomy cleaned automatically using a combination of Large Language Models (LLMs) and graph mining techniques. Operations on the taxonomy, such as cutting links or merging classes, are performed with the help of zero-shot prompting on an open-source LLM. The quality of the refined taxonomy is evaluated from both intrinsic and extrinsic perspectives, on a task of entity typing for the latter, showing the practical interest of WiKC.
Yiwen Peng, Thomas Bonald, Mehwish Alam
CIKM3
2024 Workshop on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG)
abstract
The use of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) which constitute large networks of real-world entities and their interrelationships, has grown rapidly. A substantial body of research has emerged, exploring the integration of deep learning (DL) and large language models (LLMs) with KGs. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers in the field to discuss and foster collaborations on the intersection of KG and DL/LLMs.
Mehwish Alam, Davide Buscaldi, Michael Cochez, Genet Asefa Gesese, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero
KDD1
2024 YAGO 4.5: A Large and Clean Knowledge Base with a Rich Taxonomy
abstract
International audience
Fabian M. Suchanek, Mehwish Alam, Thomas Bonald, Lihu Chen, Pierre-Henri Paris, Jules Soria
SIGIR2
2022 On the Impact of Temporal Representations on Metaphor Detection
abstract
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. However, metaphorical expressions evolve over time due to various reasons, such as cultural and societal impact. Metaphorical expressions are known to co-evolve with language and literal word meanings, and even drive, to some extent, this evolution. This poses the question of whether different, possibly time-specific, representations of literal meanings may impact the metaphor detection task. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that examines the metaphor detection task with a detailed exploratory analysis where different temporal and static word embeddings are used to account for different representations of literal meanings. Our experimental analysis is based on three popular benchmarks used for metaphor detection and word embeddings extracted from different corpora and temporally aligned using different state-of-the-art approaches. The results suggest that the usage of different static word embedding methods does impact the metaphor detection task and some temporal word embeddings slightly outperform static methods. However, the results also suggest that temporal word embeddings may provide representations of the core meaning of the metaphor even too close to their contextual meaning, thus confusing the classifier. Overall, the interaction between temporal language evolution and metaphor detection appears tiny in the benchmark datasets used in our experiments. This suggests that future work for the computational analysis of this important linguistic phenomenon should first start by creating a new dataset where this interaction is better represented.
Giorgio Ottolina, Matteo Palmonari, Manuel Vimercati, Mehwish Alam
LREC4
2022 Entity Type Prediction Leveraging Graph Walks and Entity Descriptions
Russa Biswas, Jan Portisch, Heiko Paulheim, Harald Sack, Mehwish Alam
ISWC5
2022 Special Issue on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs
Mehwish Alam, Anna Fensel, Jorge Martinez-Gil, Bernhard Moser 0001, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Harald Sack
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.1
2021 Cat2Type: Wikipedia Category Embeddings for Entity Typing in Knowledge Graphs
abstract
The entity type information in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) such as DBpedia, Freebase, etc. is often incomplete due to automated generation. Entity Typing is the task of assigning or inferring the semantic type of an entity in a KG. This paper introduces an approach named Cat2Type which exploits the Wikipedia Categories to predict the missing entity types in a KG. This work extracts information from Wikipedia Category names and the Wikipedia Category graph which are the sources of rich semantic information about the entities. In Cat2Type, the characteristic features of the entities encapsulated in Wikipedia Category names are exploited using Neural Language Models. On the other hand, a Wikipedia Category graph is constructed to capture the connection between the categories. The Node level representations are learned by optimizing the neighbourhood information on the Wikipedia category graph. These representations are then used for entity type prediction via classification. The performance of Cat2Type is assessed on two real-world benchmark datasets DBpedia630k and FIGER. The experiments depict that Cat2Type obtained a significant improvement over state-of-the-art approaches.
Russa Biswas, Radina Sofronova, Harald Sack, Mehwish Alam
K-CAP4
2021 LiterallyWikidata - A Benchmark for Knowledge Graph Completion Using Literals
Genet Asefa Gesese, Mehwish Alam, Harald Sack
ISWC2
2020 CSSA'20: Workshop on Combining Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Methods and their Applications
abstract
There has been a rapid growth in the use of symbolic representations along with their applications in many important tasks. Symbolic representations, in the form of Knowledge Graphs (KGs), constitute large networks of real-world entities and their relationships. On the other hand, sub-symbolic artificial intelligence has also become a mainstream area of research. This workshop brought together researchers to discuss and foster collaborations on the intersection of these two areas.
Mehwish Alam, Paul Groth, Pascal Hitzler, Heiko Paulheim, Harald Sack, Volker Tresp
CIKM1
2020 Entity-Based Short Text Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Mehwish Alam, Qingyuan Bie, Rima Dessi, Harald Sack
EKAW1
2020 Weakly Supervised Short Text Categorization Using World Knowledge
Rima Dessi, Lei Zhang 0034, Mehwish Alam, Harald Sack
ISWC (1)3
2018 Amnestic Forgery: An Ontology of Conceptual Metaphors
abstract
This paper presents Amnestic Forgery, an ontology for metaphor semantics, based on MetaNet, which is inspired by the theory of Conceptual Metaphor. Amnestic Forgery reuses and extends the Framester schema, as an ideal ontology design framework to deal with both semiotic and referential aspects of frame and role mappings. The description of the resource is supplied by a discussion of its applications, with examples taken from metaphor generation, and the referential problems of metaphoric mappings. Both schema and data are available from the Framester SPARQL endpoint.
Aldo Gangemi, Mehwish Alam, Valentina Presutti
FOIS2
2018 Exploratory knowledge discovery over Web of Data
Mehwish Alam, Aleksey Buzmakov 0002, Amedeo Napoli
Discret. Appl. Math.1
2017 A Proposal for Classifying the Content of the Web of Data Based on FCA and Pattern Structures
Justine Reynaud, Mehwish Alam, Yannick Toussaint, Amedeo Napoli
ISMIS2
2017 Event-based knowledge reconciliation using frame embeddings and frame similarity
Mehwish Alam, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Misael Mongiovì, Aldo Gangemi, Petar Ristoski
Knowl. Based Syst.1
2016 Framester: A Wide Coverage Linguistic Linked Data Hub
Aldo Gangemi, Mehwish Alam, Luigi Asprino, Valentina Presutti, Diego Reforgiato Recupero
EKAW2
2015 Interactive exploration over RDF data using formal concept analysis
abstract
With an increased interest in machine processable data, many datasets are now published in RDF (Resource Description Framework) format in Linked Data Cloud. These data are distributed over independent resources which need to be centralized and explored for domain specific applications. This paper proposes a new approach based on interactive data exploration paradigm using Pattern Structures, an extension of Formal Concept Analysis, to provide exploration and navigation over Linked Data through concept lattices. It takes RDF triples and RDF Schema based on user requirements and provides one navigation space resulting from several RDF resources. This navigation space allows user to navigate and search only the part of data that is interesting for her.
Mehwish Alam, Amedeo Napoli
DSAA1
2015 Mining Definitions from RDF Annotations Using Formal Concept Analysis
Mehwish Alam, Aleksey Buzmakov 0002, Víctor Codocedo, Amedeo Napoli
IJCAI1
2010 PDTB XML: the XMLization of the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0
Xuchen Yao, Irina Borisova, Mehwish Alam
LREC3