The paper “YAGO2: Exploring and Querying World Knowledge in Time, Space, Context, and Many Languages” co-written by J. Hoffart, F. Suchanek, K. Berberich, E. Lewis-Kelham, G. de Melo and G. Weikum, has been accepted for presentation In Proc. of WWW2011 in Hyderabad, India on March 28th-April 1st, 2011

The paper “Re-ranking Web Service Search Results Under Diverse User Preferences” co-written by D. Skoutas, M. Alrifai, W. Nejdl and presented in PersDB’10 - in conjunction with VLDB, 2010

The paper entitled “Searching through time in the New York Times” has been co-written by M. Matthews, J. Atserias, P. Tolchinski, P. Mika, R. Blanco and H. Zaragoza from Yahoo! and presented at HCIR Challenge 2010 in New Brunswick, NJ USA on August 22, 2010

The paper “Efficiently Identifying Insightful Time Point” written by K. Berberich has been presented at VLDB 2010 in Singapore on September 13th-17th, 2010

The paper “Time-Based exploration of news archive” co-written by Alonso, O., K. Berberich, S. Bedathur and G. Weikum has been presented at HCIR ‘10 in New Brunswick, NJ, USA on August 22nd, 2010

The paper “DivQ: Diversification for Keyword Search over Structured Databases” co-written by Demidova, Fankhauser, Zhou and Nejdl, has been presented at SIGIR 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland on July 19th-23rd, 2010

The paper “Exploiting Click-Through Data for Entity Retrieval” co-written by Billerbeck, Demartini, Firan, Iofciu and Krestel, has been presented at SIGIR 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland on July 19th-23rd, 2010 and published on ACM Digital Libraries

The paper “Finding Support Sentences for Entities” co-written by R. Blanco and H. Zaragoza has been presented at SIGIR 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland on July 19th-23rd, 2010

The paper “Caching Search Engine Results over Incremental Indices” co-written by R; Blanco, E. Bortnikov, F. Junqueira, R. Lempel, L. Telloli and H. Zaragoza, has been presented at SIGIR 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland on July 19th-23rd, 2010

The paper “Exploring a corpus of scientific texts using data mining” co-written by Teich and Fankhauser has been published in Corpus-linguistic applications, Current studies, new directions; Gries, Stefan Th., Stefanie Wulff and Mark Davies (Eds.), Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2010

The paper “Syntactic and Semantic Structure for Opinion Expression Detection” co-written by R. Johansson and A. Moschitti has been presented at CoNLL 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden on July 15th-16th, 2010

The paper “Semantic Content Access using Domain-Independent NLP Ontologies” co-written by Witte and Krestel has been presented at NLDB 2010 in Cardiff, Wales, UK on June 23rd-25th, 2010

The paper “Ranking Entities Using Web Search Query Logs” co-written by Bodo Billerbeck (Microsoft Research), Gianluca Demartini,
Claudiu S. Firan, Tereza Iofciu, and Ralf Krestel from L3S has been accepted for presentation at ECDL 2010 on September 6th-10th in Glasgow, U.K.

The paper “Why Finding Entities in Wikipedia Is Difficult, Sometimes” co-written by G. Demartini,Claudiu S. Firan, Tereza Iofciu, Ralf Krestel and Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S) has been published in “Information retrieval” journal, special Issue on Focused Retrieval and Result Aggregation, 2010.

The paper “Find your Advisor: Robust Knowledge Gathering from the Web” co-written by N. Nakashole, M. Theobald and G. Weikum has been presented at WebDB 2010 in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 6th, 2010

The paper “A Flexible Representation of Heterogeneous Annotation Data” has been co-written by R. Johansson and A. Moschitti and presented at LREC 2010 in Malta on May 17th-23rd, 2010

The paper “Dear search engine: what’s your opinion about…?: sentiment analysis for semantic enrichment of web search results” co-written by Demartini and Siersdorfer, has been presented at WWW2010 in Raleigh, NC, USA on April 26th-30th, 2010

The paper “Dealing with Diversity in Web Search Results” co-written by Skoutas, Minack, Nejdl has been presented at WebSci10 in Raleigh, NC, USA on April 26th-27th, 2010

The paper ” Automatically Annotating the MIR Flickr Dataset: Experimental Protocols, Openly Available Data and Semantic Spaces” co-written by J. Hare and P. Lewis has been presented at MIR 2010 in National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 29th-31st, 2010

The paper “Privacy on the Data Web” co-written by K. O’Hara and N. Shadbolt has been published in Communications of the ACM, 53 (3). pp. 39-41. ISSN 0001-0782

The paper on “Efficient Semantic-Aware Detection of Near Duplicate Resources” from E. Ioannou, O. Papapetrou, D. Skoutas and W. Nejdl has been accepted for presentation In Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference in Heraklion, Greece on 30 May - 03 June 2010.

The paper “How useful are your comments?- Analyzing and Predicting YouTube Comments and Comment Ratings” co-written by S. Siersdorfer, S. Chelaru, W. Nejdl and J. San Pedro has been accepted for presentation at 19th International World Wide Web Conference in Raleigh, USA on April 26-30, 2010

G. Demartini, C. S. Firan, M. Georgescu, T. Iofciu, R. Krestel and W. Nejdl published the paper on “An Architecture for Finding Entities on the Web” and presented it at the 7th Latin American Web Congressin Mérida, Yucátan, México on 9-11 November, 2009

S. Elbassuoni, M. Ramanath, R. Schenkel, M. Sydow, G. Weikum co-wrote the paper on “Language-model-based ranking for queries on RDF-graphs” and presented it in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in Hong Kong, China on November 2-6, 2009

The paper entitled “A Vector Space Model for Ranking Entities and Its Application to Expert Search” and published by G. Demartini, J. Gaugaz and W. Nejdl has been accepted for presentation at Advances in Information Retrieval, 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009

G. Weikum gave a talk on “Harvesting, searching, and ranking knowledge on the web” in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2009, Barcelona, Spain, February 9-11, 2009

The paper ““Gathering and Ranking Photos of Named Entities with High Precision, High Recall, and Diversity” co-written by B. Taneva, M. Kacimi and G. Weikum, has been presented at WSDM 2010 in New York City, USA on February 3rd-6th, 2010

The paper “Syntactic Structural Kernels for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases” co-written by A. Giordani and A. Moschitti has been presented at ECML PKDD 2009 in September 7th-11th, 2009 in Bled, Slovenia

The paper “The LivingKnowledge Project: Exploring the Spectrum of Opinions over Time” from R. Johansson and A. Moschitti has been presented at the Workshop on AT4DL 2009 in Trento, Italy on September 8th, 2009

The paper “Bridging the Terminology Gap in Web Archive Search” co-written by Berberich, K., S. Bedathur, M. Sozio and G. Weikum, has been presented at WebDB 2009 in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 28, 2009

The paper entitled “Benchmarking Fulltext Search Performance of RDF Stores” and co-written by E. Minack, W. Siberski and W. Nejdl, has been presented at ESWC 2009 in Heraklion, Greece, on May 31st- June 4th, 2009.

The paper “Harvesting, Searching, and Ranking Knowledge on the Web” from G. Weikum has been presented at WSDM 2009 in Barcelona, Spain on February 9-12, 2009