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Abraham Bernstein

Abraham Bernstein

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
59
Citations
14277
World Ranking
3415
National Ranking
78

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Abraham Bernstein is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their research output includes 111 publications, with significant work in subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their research covers a range of main topics including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Video Analysis and Summarization
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks

Bernstein has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably Cristina Sarasua with 26 coauthored works, Luca Rossetto with 21, Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy with 12, Alberto Bacchelli with 11, and Daniele Dell'Aglio with 10 publications.

Their recent publications span a range of topics and venues, reflecting interdisciplinary interests:

  • "Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis" (2021, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)
  • "Implementations in Machine Ethics A Survey" (2020, Zurich Open Repository and Archive)
  • "Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study" (2022, Digital Journalism)
  • "Capable but Amoral? Comparing AI and Human Expert Collaboration in Ethical Decision Making" (2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
  • "A framework for differentially-private knowledge graph embeddings" (2021, Journal of Web Semantics)

Bernstein has published a book titled Wenn Algorithmen für uns entscheiden: Chancen und Risiken der künstlichen Intelligenz in 2020 through vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich eBooks.

They frequently publish in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 13 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 8 publications
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) with 6 publications
  • Journal of Web Semantics with 4 publications
  • Empirical Software Engineering with 3 publications

Best Publications

  • Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes

    Thomas W. Malone;Kevin Crowston;Jintae Lee;Brian Pentland

  • Hexastore: sextuple indexing for semantic web data management

    Cathrin Weiss;Panagiotis Karras;Abraham Bernstein

  • SPARQL basic graph pattern optimization using selectivity estimation

    Markus Stocker;Andy Seaborne;Abraham Bernstein;Christoph Kiefer

  • Fair and balanced?: bias in bug-fix datasets

    Christian Bird;Adrian Bachmann;Eirik Aune;John Duffy

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011: 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I

    Lora Aroyo;Chris Welty;Harith Alani;Jamie Taylor

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2009

    Abraham Bernstein;David R. Karger;Tom Heath;Lee Feigenbaum

  • Improving performance, perceived usability, and aesthetics with culturally adaptive user interfaces

    Katharina Reinecke;Abraham Bernstein

  • Knowing what a user likes: a design science approach to interfaces that automatically adapt to culture

    Katharina Reinecke;Abraham Bernstein

  • Toward intelligent assistance for a data mining process: an ontology-based approach for cost-sensitive classification

    A. Bernstein;F. Provost;S. Hill

  • Software infrastructure and design challenges for ubiquitous computing applications

    Guruduth Banavar;Abraham Bernstein

  • GINO – a guided input natural language ontology editor

    Abraham Bernstein;Esther Kaufmann

  • The missing links: bugs and bug-fix commits

    Adrian Bachmann;Christian Bird;Foyzur Rahman;Premkumar Devanbu

  • How useful are natural language interfaces to the semantic web for casual end-users?

    Esther Kaufmann;Abraham Bernstein

  • The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012

    Philippe Cudré-Mauroux;Jeff Heflin;Evren Sirin;Tania Tudorache

  • Querix: A Natural Language Interface to Query Ontologies Based on Clarification Dialogs

    Esther Kaufmann;Abraham Bernstein;Renato Zumstein

  • Searching for services on the semantic web using process ontologies

    Mark Klein;Abraham Bernstein

  • Applied Temporal RDF: Efficient Temporal Querying of RDF Data with SPARQL

    Jonas Tappolet;Abraham Bernstein

  • Toward high-precision service retrieval

    M. Klein;A. Bernstein

  • Evaluating the usability of natural language query languages and interfaces to Semantic Web knowledge bases

    Esther Kaufmann;Abraham Bernstein

  • How can cooperative work tools support dynamic group process? bridging the specificity frontier

    Abraham Bernstein

  • Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference

    Abraham Bernstein;David R. Karger;Tom Heath;Lee Feigenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Foster Provost
Foster Provost New York University
Harald C. Gall
Harald C. Gall University of Zurich
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Chrysanthos Dellarocas Boston University
Paul Groth
Paul Groth University of Amsterdam
Chris Welty
Chris Welty Google (United States)
Christian Bird
Christian Bird Microsoft (United States)
Andreas Zeller
Andreas Zeller Saarland University
Fabio Ciravegna
Fabio Ciravegna University of Turin
Peter Mika
Peter Mika Yahoo (United Kingdom)

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