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Johannes Hoffart

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 5: Database and Information Systems
Campus E1 4, Room 428
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

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Phone: +49 681 9325 5028
Fax: +49 681 9325 599

Research Interests

Knowledge Harvesting
Information Extraction

Publications

My Publications in the MPI database

YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia
Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Klaus Berberich, and Gerhard Weikum
to appear in Artificial Intelligence, 2012
AIDA: An Online Tool for Accurate Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text and Tables PDF
Mohamed Amir Yosef, Johannes Hoffart, Ilaria Bordino, Marc Spaniol, Gerhard Weikum
In: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2011, p. 1450–1453, Seattle, WA, 2011
Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text PDF BibTeX
Johannes Hoffart, Mohamed Amir Yosef, Ilaria Bordino, Hagen Fürstenau, Manfred Pinkal, Marc Spaniol, Bilyana Taneva, Stefan Thater, Gerhard Weikum
In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, p. 782–792, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2011
YAGO2: Exploring and Querying World Knowledge in Time, Space, Context, and Many Languages
Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Klaus Berberich, Edwin Lewis Kelham, Gerard de Melo, and Gerhard Weikum
In: Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web, WWW 2011, p. 229-232, Hyderabad, India, 2011
**Best Demo Award**
YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia PDF BibTeX
Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Klaus Berberich, and Gerhard Weikum
Research Report MPI-I-2010-5-007
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, November 2010
Discovering Links Using Semantic Relatedness
Johannes Hoffart, Daniel Bär, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych
In: INEX 2009 Workshop Preproceedings, p. 314-325, December 2009, Brisbane, Australia
An Architecture to Support Intelligent User Interfaces for Wikis by Means of Natural Language Processing
Johannes Hoffart, Torsten Zesch, and Iryna Gurevych
In: WikiSym '09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, October 2009, Orlando, FL, USA

Research Projects

YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia
AIDA: Accurate Online Disambiguation of Named Entities

Invited Talks

Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text.
Google Zurich, August 2011

Recent Activities

2012: Reviewer of the Springer book ‘The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources'
May 2011: PC member of the 1st International Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories

Education

June 2010 - present:
Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
January 2009 - May 2010:
Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
October 2002 - December 2008:
Studies in Computer Science at the University of Würzburg