2026 Philipp Cimiano: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	64	2594	2514	114	111	371	17085

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

Overview

Philipp Cimiano is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany. Their primary research area lies within Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence, encompassing 104 publications. Additional fields of study include Information Systems, Molecular Biology, General Health Professions, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The scientist's research interests cover multiple key topics:

Topic Modeling
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Machine Learning in Healthcare

Cimiano has contributed to a variety of recent publications, including:

"Patient listening on social media for patient-focused drug development: a synthesis of considerations from patients, industry and regulators," 2024, Frontiers in Medicine
"Beyond one-shot explanations: a systematic literature review of dialogue-based xAI approaches," 2025, Artificial Intelligence Review
"Scalable Event-Based Clustering of Social Media Via Record Linkage Techniques," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Explanation as a Social Practice: Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Social Design of AI Systems," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
"Recent Developments for the Linguistic Linked Open Data Infrastructure," 2020, OPUS (Augsburg University)

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Journal of Biomedical Semantics
it - Information Technology
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Collaborators who have co-authored with Philipp Cimiano extensively include:

Basil Ell
Mohammad Fazleh Elahi
Christoph Düsing
Olivia Sanchez-Graillet
Christian Witte

Cimiano has also contributed to book literature, publishing one book through Springer Science+Business Media titled Natural Language Processing and Information Systems in 2020.

Best Publications

Ontology Learning and Population from Text: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications

Philipp Cimiano

890
Citations
Learning concept hierarchies from text corpora using formal concept analysis

Philipp Cimiano;Andreas Hotho;Steffen Staab

830
Citations
Semantic annotation for knowledge management: Requirements and a survey of the state of the art

Victoria Uren;Philipp Cimiano;José Iria;Siegfried Handschuh

769
Citations
Text2Onto: a framework for ontology learning and data-driven change discovery

Philipp Cimiano;Johanna Völker

763
Citations
Template-based question answering over RDF data

Christina Unger;Lorenz Bühmann;Jens Lehmann;Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

652
Citations
Ontology Learning from Text: Methods, Evaluation and Applications

B. Magnini;P. Buitelaar;P. Cimiano

572
Citations
Towards the self-annotating web

Philipp Cimiano;Siegfried Handschuh;Steffen Staab

547
Citations
Ontology Learning from Text: An Overview

Paul Buitelaar;Philipp Cimiano;Bernardo Magnini

444
Citations
Top-k Exploration of Query Candidates for Efficient Keyword Search on Graph-Shaped (RDF) Data

Thanh Tran;Haofen Wang;Sebastian Rudolph;Philipp Cimiano

399
Citations
Natural language interfaces : what's the problem? -a data-driven quantitative analysis

Philipp Cimiano;Michael Minock

367
Citations
Ontology-based interpretation of keywords for semantic search

Thanh Tran;Philipp Cimiano;Sebastian Rudolph;Rudi Studer

334
Citations
Learning Taxonomic Relations from Heterogeneous Sources of Evidence

Philipp Cimiano;Aleksander Pivk;Lars Schmidt-Thieme;Steffen Staab

319
Citations
Linking lexical resources and ontologies on the semantic web with lemon

John McCrae;Dennis Spohr;Philipp Cimiano

296
Citations
Gimme' the context: context-driven automatic semantic annotation with C-PANKOW

Philipp Cimiano;Günter Ladwig;Steffen Staab

282
Citations
Interchanging lexical resources on the Semantic Web

John Mccrae;Guadalupe Aguado-De-Cea;Paul Buitelaar;Philipp Cimiano

266
Citations
Comparing conceptual, divisive and agglomerative clustering for learning taxonomies from text

Philipp Cimiano;Andreas Hotho;Steffen Staab

261
Citations
Towards Linguistically Grounded Ontologies

Paul Buitelaar;Philipp Cimiano;Peter Haase;Michael Sintek

244
Citations
Learning by googling

Philipp Cimiano;Steffen Staab

239
Citations
Conceptual Knowledge Processing with Formal Concept Analysis and Ontologies

Philipp Cimiano;Andreas Hotho;Gerd Stumme;Julien Tane

224
Citations
Evaluating question answering over linked data

Vanessa Lopez;Christina Unger;Philipp Cimiano;Enrico Motta

223
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart

Peter Haase Metaphacts

Andreas Hotho University of Würzburg

Fabio Ciravegna University of Turin

Sebastian Rudolph TU Dresden

Asunción Gómez-Pérez Technical University of Madrid

Hans Werner Müller Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

York Sure Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Lars Schmidt-Thieme University of Hildesheim

Michael Sintek German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

External Links

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