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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
107
Citations
47655
World Ranking
264
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2018 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics
  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2005 - ACM Fellow For contributions to distributed database systems.

Overview

Gerhard Weikum is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Communication, Management Science and Operations Research, as well as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, which include:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Gerhard Weikum has contributed extensively to academic literature, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Web Semantics
  • Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
  • UC Irvine

Some of the recent papers published by Weikum include:

  • "Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases," 2021, Foundations and Trends in Databases
  • "Conversational Question Answering on Heterogeneous Sources," 2022, Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
  • "Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements," 2020, UC Irvine
  • "Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata," 2021, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021

Frequent collaborators who have co-authored work with Weikum include:

  • Simon Razniewski
  • Hiba Arnaout
  • Rishiraj Saha Roy
  • Jeff Z. Pan
  • Andrew Yates

Recognition for Weikum's contributions includes being named an ACM Fellow in 2005 for work in distributed database systems.

Weikum is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2018, specifically in the informatics division, and has been a Member of Academia Europaea since 2011.

Best Publications

  • Yago: a core of semantic knowledge

    Fabian M. Suchanek;Gjergji Kasneci;Gerhard Weikum

  • YAGO2: A spatially and temporally enhanced knowledge base from Wikipedia

    Johannes Hoffart;Fabian M. Suchanek;Klaus Berberich;Gerhard Weikum

  • The LRU-K page replacement algorithm for database disk buffering

    Elizabeth J. O'Neil;Patrick E. O'Neil;Gerhard Weikum

  • YAGO: A Large Ontology from Wikipedia and WordNet

    Fabian M. Suchanek;Gjergji Kasneci;Gerhard Weikum

  • Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text

    Johannes Hoffart;Mohamed Amir Yosef;Ilaria Bordino;Hagen Fürstenau

  • RDF-3X: a RISC-style engine for RDF

    Thomas Neumann;Gerhard Weikum

  • The RDF-3X engine for scalable management of RDF data

    Thomas Neumann;Gerhard Weikum

  • The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems

    Jim Gray;Mamdouh Refaat;Jim Melton;Stephen Buxton

  • PATTY: A Taxonomy of Relational Patterns with Semantic Types

    Ndapandula Nakashole;Gerhard Weikum;Fabian Suchanek

  • YAGO2: exploring and querying world knowledge in time, space, context, and many languages

    Johannes Hoffart;Fabian M. Suchanek;Klaus Berberich;Edwin Lewis-Kelham

  • Equity of Attention: Amortizing Individual Fairness in Rankings

    Asia J. Biega;Krishna P. Gummadi;Gerhard Weikum

  • Concepts and applications of multilevel transactions and open nested transactions

    Gerhard Weikum;Hans-J. Schek

  • Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-Tuning RISC-Style Database System

    Surajit Chaudhuri;Gerhard Weikum

  • Principles and realization strategies of multilevel transaction management

    Gerhard Weikum

  • Data partitioning and load balancing in parallel disk systems

    Peter Scheuermann;Gerhard Weikum;Peter Zabback

  • The Claremont report on database research

    Rakesh Agrawal;Anastasia Ailamaki;Philip A. Bernstein;Eric A. Brewer

  • KLEE: a framework for distributed top-k query algorithms

    Sebastian Michel;Peter Triantafillou;Gerhard Weikum

  • Top-k query evaluation with probabilistic guarantees

    Martin Theobald;Gerhard Weikum;Ralf Schenkel

  • Foundations of statistical natural language processing

    Gerhard Weikum

  • Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010

    Feifei Li;Mirella M. Moro;Shahram Ghandeharizadeh;Jayant R. Haritsa

  • YAGO2: a spatially and temporally enhanced knowledge base from wikipedia (extended abstract)

    Johannes Hoffart;Fabian M. Suchanek;Klaus Berberich;Gerhard Weikum

  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems

    Dan Suciu;Gerhard Weikum

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Schenkel
Ralf Schenkel University of Trier
Fabian M. Suchanek
Fabian M. Suchanek Télécom ParisTech
Gerard de Melo
Gerard de Melo Hasso Plattner Institute
Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft (United States)
Thomas Neumann
Thomas Neumann Technical University of Munich
David B. Lomet
David B. Lomet Microsoft (United States)
Martin L. Kersten
Martin L. Kersten Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Jilles Vreeken
Jilles Vreeken Max Planck Society
Alon Halevy
Alon Halevy Facebook (United States)

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