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max planck institut
informatik

Shady Elbassuoni

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 5: Database and Information Systems
Building 46.1, Room 422
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

Email: Get my email address via email
Phone: +49 681 9325 522
Fax: +49 681 9325 599

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Research Interests

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• Structured-Information Retrieval
• Search Personalization
• Web-Data Mining

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Publications

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• Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
  "RDF Xpress: A Flexible Expressive RDF Search Engine"(pdf)
  Demo paper in the proceedings of the 35th SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2012), Portland, USA


• Mohamed Yahya, Klaus Berberich Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath Volker Tresp, Gerhard Weikum
  "Natural Language Questions for the Web of Data"
  The proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL'12), Jeju, Korea


• Mohamed Yahya, Klaus Berberich Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath Volker Tresp, Gerhard Weikum
  "Deep Answers for Naturally Asked Questions on the Web of Data"(pdf)
  The proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Lyon, France


• Shady Elbassuoni
  "Effective Searching of RDF Knowledge Bases"(pdf)
  PhD Thesis


• Steffen Metzger, Shady Elbassuoni, Katja Hose, Ralf Schenkel
  "S3K: Seeking Statement-Supporting top-K Witnesses"(pdf)
  The proceedings of the 20th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK


• Shady Elbassuoni, Roi Blanco
  "Keyword Search over RDF Graphs"(pdf)
  The proceedings of the 20th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK


• Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
  "Query Relaxation for Entity-Relationship Search"(pdf)
  The proceedings of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference(ESWC 2011), Heraklion, Greece


• Tran Anh Tuan, , Shady Elbassuoni, Nicoleta Preda, Gerhard Weikum
  "CATE: Context-Aware Timeline for Entity Illustration"(pdf)
  The proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference(WWW 2011), Hyderabad , India, 2011


• Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
  "Query Relaxation for Entity-Relationship Search"(pdf)
  Technical Report, December 2010


• Shady Elbassuoni, Katja Hose, Steffen Metzger, Ralf Schenkel
  "ROXXI: Reviving witness dOcuments to eXplore eXtracted Information" (pdf)
  Demo paper in the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010), Singapore, 2010


• Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard Weikum
  "Searching RDF Graphs with SPARQL and Keywords"(pdf)
  Article in the IEEE Data Enginerring Bulletin, Vol. 33 No. 1, March 2010


• Gjergji Kasneci, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weikum
  "MING: Mining Informative Entity-relationship Subgraphs" (pdf, bib)
  Proceedings of the ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong


• Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Ralf Schenkel, Marcin Sydow, Gerhard Weikum
  "Language-model-based Ranking for Queries on RDF-Graphs"(pdf, bib)
  Proceedings of the ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong


• Gjergji Kasneci, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weikum
  "MING: Mining Informative Entity-relationship Subgraphs" (pdf, bib)
  Technical Report MPII 2009


• Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
  "Language-Model-Based Ranking in Entity-Relation Graphs"(pdf, bib)
  Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data (KEYS 2009), Providence, USA, SIGMOD 2009


• Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weikum
  "Matching Task Profiles and User Needs in Personalized Web Search"(pdf, bib)
  Proceedings of the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, California


• Minko Dudev, Shady Elbassuoni, Julia Luxenburger, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
  "Personalizing the Search for Knowledge"(pdf, bib)
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness: Databases (PersDB 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, VLDB 2008


• Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weikum
  "Task Aware Search Personalization" (pdf, bib)
  Poster paper in the proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR 2008 Conference, Singapore


• Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifrim , Shady Elbasuoni, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
  "NAGA: Harvesting, Searching and Ranking Knowledge" (pdf, bib)
  Demo Paper at the ACM International Conference on Management Of Data (SIGMOD/PODS 2008), Vancouver, Canada


• Shady Elbassuoni, Julia Luxenburger, Gerhard Weikum
  "Adaptive Personalization of Web Search" (pdf, bib)
  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Web Information Seeking and Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, SIGIR 2007


• Shady Elbassuoni
  "Adaptive Personalization of Web Search" (click here to order, bib)
  Master's Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes and Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik, July 2007

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Recent Talks

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• "Keyword Search over RDF Graphs"
  CIKM 2011(slides)


• "Query Relaxation for Entity-Relationship Graphs"
  ESWC 2011 (slides)


• "Language-model-based Ranking for Queries on RDF-Graphs"
  CIKM 2009 (slides)


• "Language-Model Ranking in Entity-Relationship Graphs"
  FOWS 09 (slides)


• "Matching Task Profiles and User Needs in Personalized Web Search"
  CIKM 2008 (slides)


• "Personalizing the Search for Knowledge"
  PersDB 2008 (slides)

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Students

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• Anh Tuan Tran, Master thesis: "Context-Aware Timeline for Entity Illustration"

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Teaching

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• Teaching Assistant, "Information Retrieval and Data Mining" , Universität des Saarlandes, WS09.
• Teaching Assistant, "Database Systems" , Universität des Saarlandes, WS08.
• Teaching Assistant, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" , Universität des Saarlandes, WS06.
• Teaching Assistant, "Introduction to Computer Science", German University in Cairo (GUC), SS05.

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Recent Positions

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• Summer Intern at Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
• Ph. D. student at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
• Teaching assistant at the German University in Cairo (GUC)
• Software engineer at the library of Alexandria

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Education

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• July 2007 - present:
  Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
• October 2005 - June 2007:
  Master's in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
  Title of Master's' Thesis (Diplomarbeit): Adaptive Personalization of Web Search (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum, Advisor: Julia Luxenburger) (PDF, bib)
• July 2003:
  Bachelor of Computer Science, Alexandria university, Egypt
  Title of Bachelor's Thesis : Construction of Voronoi Diagram and its Dual, the Delaunay Triangulations, using Jumplists (Supervisor: Dr. Amr Elmasry)

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Personal

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I like

• Languages: focus on Spanish right now
• Dancing
• Travelling
• Reading: few of my favorite books are House of sleep - Harry Potter - Confessions of a shopaholic - Herr Lehmann - The world according to Garp - Kafka on the shore
• Statistics - Patterns - People - Randomness - Sushi

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