Institute for Web Science and Technologies · Universität Koblenz
Institute WeST

Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab

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Short CV

I have studied computer science and computational linguistics at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and at the University of Pennsylvania. I worked in the previous computational linguistics research group at the Universität Freiburg and did my Ph.D. in computer science in the faculty for technology in 1998. Afterwards I joined Universität Stuttgart, Institute IAT & Fraunhofer IAO, before I moved on to the Universität Karlsruhe (now: KIT), where I progressed from project lead, over lecturer and senior lecturer and did my habilitation in 2002. In 2004 I became professor for databases and information systems at Universität Koblenz, where I founded the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) in 2009. In parallel, I hold a Chair for Web and Computer Science at University of Southampton since March 2015.

Research Interests

Data represent the world on our computers. While the world is very intriguing, data may be quite boring, if one does not know what they mean. I am interested in making data more meaningful to find interesting insights in the world outside.

How does meaning arise?

  • One can model data and information. Conceptual models and ontologies are the foundations for knowledge networks that enable the computer to treat data in a meaningful way.
  • Text and data mining as well as information extraction find meaningful patterns in data (e.g. using ontology learning of text clustering) as well as connections between data and its use in context (e.g. using smartphones). Hence, knowledge networks may be found in data.
  • Humans communicate information. In order to understand what data and information means, one has to understand social interactions. In the context of social network knowledge networks become meaningful for human consumption.
  • Eventually meaning is nothing that exists in the void. Data and information must be communicated to people who may use insights into data and information. Interaction between humans and computers must happen in a way that matches the meaning of data and information.

The World Wide Web is the largest information construct made by mankind to convey meaningful data. Web Science is the discipline that considers how networks of people and knowledge in the Web arise, how humans deal with it and which consequences this has for all of us. The Web is a meaning machine that I want do understand by my research.

Where else you might find me?

In my office (room B110), traveling, running in the local forest or in Changa or at AHS. Watch out! 

Projects

Teaching

Publications

2020

  • Hedeshy, R. et al. 2020. GIUPlayer: A Gaze Immersive YouTube Player Enabling Eye Control and Attention Analysis. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (Stuttgart, Germany, 2020). [PDF | DOI:10.1145/3379157.3391984 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Menges, R. et al. 2020. A Visualization Tool for Eye Tracking Data Analysis in the Web. ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (Stuttgart, Germany, 2020). [PDF | DOI:10.1145/3379156.3391831 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Rienstra, T. et al. 2020. Concept Contraction in the Description Logic EL. to appear in 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2020, Rhodes, Greece, September 12-18, 2020 (2020). [BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sengupta, K. et al. 2020. Leveraging Error Correction in Voice-based Text Entry by Talk-and-Gaze. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Oahu, Hawaii, USA, 2020), 11. [DOI:10.1145/3313831.3376579 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Kumar, C. et al. 2020. Eye tracking for Interaction: Evaluation Methods. Signal Processing to Drive Human-Computer Interaction: EEG and eye-controlled interfaces. S. Nikolopoulos et al., eds. Institution of Engineering and Technology. 117–144. [DOI:10.1049/PBCE129E_ch6 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Menges, R. et al. 2020. Eye tracking for Interaction: Adapting Multimedia Interfaces. Signal Processing to Drive Human-Computer Interaction: EEG and eye-controlled interfaces. S. Nikolopoulos et al., eds. Institution of Engineering and Technology. 83–116. [DOI:10.1049/PBCE129E_ch5 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Hogan, A. et al. 2020. Knowledge Graphs. CoRR. abs/2003.02320, (2020). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]

2019

  • Baris, I. et al. 2019. CLEARumor at SemEval-2019 Task 7: ConvoLving ELMo Against Rumors. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2019), 1105–1109. [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Boukhers, Z. et al. 2019. An End-to-end Approach for Extracting and Segmenting High-Variance References from PDF Documents. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2019), 1–10. [DOI:10.1109/JCDL.2019.00035 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Kumar, C. et al. 2019. TouchGazePath: Multimodal Interaction with Touch and Gaze Path for Secure Yet Efficient PIN Entry. 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (Suzhou, China, 2019), 329–338. [DOI:10.1145/3340555.3353734 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Kügler, P. et al. 2019. Cascading Forgetting in Product Development Challenges and Evaluation. 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design, 5 -- 8 August 2019, Delft, The Netherlands (2019). [BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sengupta, K. et al. 2019. Impact of Variable Positioning of Text Prediction in Gaze-based Text Entry. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (Denver, Colorado, 2019), 74:1–74:9. [PDF | DOI:10.1145/3317956.3318152 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Skubella, A. et al. 2019. BeSEPPI: Semantic-based benchmarking of property path implementations. The Semantic Web - 15th International Conference (06/06/19) (2019). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Staab, S. 2019. Concepts in Application Context. ICFCA (2019), 45–52. [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Menges, R. et al. 2019. Improving User Experience of Eye Tracking-based Interaction: Introspecting and Adapting Interfaces. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 26, 6 (2019), 37:1–37:46. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3338844. [DOI:10.1145/3338844 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Schmelzeisen, L. and Staab, S. 2019. Learning Taxonomies of Concepts and not Words using Contextualized Word Representations: A Position Paper. CoRR. abs/1902.02169, (2019). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Seifer, P. et al. 2019. Semantic Query Integration With Reason. Programming Journal. 3, 3 (2019), 13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2019/3/13. [PDF | DOI:10.22152/programming-journal.org/2019/3/13 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Staab, S. et al. 2019. Web science in Europe: beyond boundaries. Commun. ACM. 62, 4 (2019), 74. [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]

2018

  • Janke, D. and Staab, S. 2018. Compressing and Maintaining Statistics Information about Resource Occurrences in a Distributed RDF Store. ISWC 2018 Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks (Aachen, 2018). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Kügler, P. et al. 2018. Ontology-based approach for the use of Intentional Forgetting in product development. DESIGN 2018 - 15th International Design Conference (2018). [PDF | DOI:10.21278/idc.2018.0402 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Menges, R. et al. 2018. Enhanced Representation of Web Pages for Usability Analysis with Eye Tracking. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (Warsaw, Poland, 2018), 18:1–18:9. [PDF | DOI:10.1145/3204493.3204535 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Ramadan, Q. et al. 2018. Model-based discrimination analysis: a position paper. FairWare@ICSE (2018), 22–28. [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Schon, C. et al. 2018. Metaproperty-guided Deletion from the Instance-Level of a Knowledge Base. to appear in Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 21st International Conference, EKAW 2018, Nancy, France, November 12-16 (2018). [PDF | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sengupta, K. et al. 2018. Hands-free web browsing: enriching the user experience with gaze and voice modality. ETRA (2018), 88:1–88:3. [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Timm, I.J. et al. 2018. Intentional Forgetting in Artificial Intelligence Systems: Perspectives and Challenges. KI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 41st German Conference on AI, Berlin, Germany, September 24-28, 2018, Proceedings (2018), 357–365. [PDF | DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-00111-7\_30 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Janke, D. and Staab, S. 2018. Storing and Querying Semantic Data in the Cloud. Reasoning Web. Learning, Uncertainty, Streaming, and Scalability: 14th International Summer School 2018, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, September 22--26, 2018, Tutorial Lectures. C. d'Amato and M. Theobald, eds. Springer International Publishing. 173–222. [PDF | DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-00338-8_7 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Staab, S. et al. eds. 2018. Social Informatics - 10th International Conference, SocInfo 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 25-28, 2018, Proceedings, Part I. Springer. [DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-01129-1 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Staab, S. et al. eds. 2018. Social Informatics - 10th International Conference, SocInfo 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 25-28, 2018, Proceedings, Part II. Springer. [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Janke, D. et al. 2018. Impact analysis of data placement strategies on query efforts in distributed RDF stores. Journal of Web Semantics. (2018). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2018.02.002. [PDF | DOI:10.1016/j.websem.2018.02.002 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sun, J. et al. 2018. Understanding Social Networks Using Transfer Learning. Computer. 51, 6 (2018), 52–60. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.2701640. [PDF | DOI:10.1109/MC.2018.2701640 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Teymourlouie, M. et al. 2018. Detecting Hidden Errors in an Ontology Using Contextual Knowledge. Expert Systems with Applications. 95, (2018), 312–323. [BibTeX | BibSonomy]

2017

  • Hartenfels, C. et al. 2017. Type-Safe Programming with OWL in Semantics4J. International Semantic Web Conference (Posters, Demos & Industry Tracks) (2017). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Janke, D. et al. 2017. Koral: A Glass Box Profiling System for Individual Components of Distributed RDF Stores. ISWC 2017 Posters & Demonstrations and Industry Tracks (Aachen, 2017). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Janke, D. et al. 2017. Evaluating SPARQL 1.1 Property Path Support. Joint Proceedings of BLINK2017: Benchmarking Linked Data and NLIWoD3: Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data (BLINK2017-NLIWoD3) (Aachen, 2017). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Janke, D. et al. 2017. Koral: A Glass Box Profiling System for Individual Components of Distributed RDF Stores. Joint Proceedings of BLINK2017: Benchmarking Linked Data and NLIWoD3: Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data (BLINK2017-NLIWoD3) (Aachen, 2017). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Janke, D. et al. 2017. On Data Placement Strategies in Distributed RDF Stores. Proceedings of The International Workshop on Semantic Big Data (Chicago, Illinois, 2017), 1:1–1:6. [PDF | DOI:10.1145/3066911.3066915 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Kumar, C. et al. 2017. Assessing the usability of gaze-adapted Interface against conventional eye-based input emulation. 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems (2017). [PDF | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Kumar, C. et al. 2017. Chromium Based Framework to Include Gaze Interaction in Web Browser. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (Perth, Australia, 2017), 219–223. [PDF | DOI:10.1145/3041021.3054730 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Leinberger, M. et al. 2017. The Essence of Functional Programming on Semantic Data. Programming Languages and Systems - 26th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2017, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017, Uppsala, Sweden, April 22-29, 2017, Proceedings (2017), 750–776. [PDF | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Menges, R. et al. 2017. Schau genau! A Gaze-Controlled 3D Game for Entertainment and Education. Journal of Eye Movement Research (2017), 220. [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sarasua, C. et al. 2017. Methods for Intrinsic Evaluation of Links in the Web of Data. The Semantic Web - 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, Portorož, Slovenia, May 28 - June 1, 2017, Proceedings, Part I. (2017), 68–84. [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Schon, C. and Staab, S. 2017. Towards SPARQL Instance-Level Update in the Presence of OWL-DL TBoxes. Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2017 Episode 3: The Tyrolean Autumn of Ontology, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017. (2017). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sengupta, K. et al. 2017. Usability Heuristics for Eye-controlled User Interfaces. (2017). [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sengupta, K. et al. 2017. Analyzing the Impact of Cognitive Load in Evaluating Gaze-based Typing. 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems (2017). [PDF | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Sengupta, K. et al. 2017. GazeTheKey: Interactive Keys to Integrate Word Predictions for Gaze-based Text Entry. IUI Companion (2017), 121–124. [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Ianni, G. et al. eds. 2017. Reasoning Web. Semantic Interoperability on the Web - 13th International Summer School 2017, London, UK, July 7-11, 2017, Tutorial Lectures. Springer. [DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-61033-7 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Hall, W. et al. 2017. A Manifesto for Web Science @ 10. CoRR. abs/1702.08291, (2017). [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]

2016

  • Staab, S. et al. 2016. Observing and Recommending from a Social Web with Biases. University of Southampton. [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Homscheid, D. et al. 2016. Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects: A Social Capital Perspective. Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) (2016). [BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Ji, Y. et al. 2016. Quality-Driven Disorder Handling for M-way Sliding Window Stream Joins. 2016 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (2016), 493–504. [PDF | DOI:10.1109/ICDE.2016.7498265 | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Menges, R. et al. 2016. eyeGUI: A Novel Framework for Eye-Controlled User Interfaces. (2016). [PDF | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • d'Amato, C. et al. 2016. Ontology Enrichment by Discovering Multi-Relational Association Rules from Ontological Knowledge Bases. Proc. of the ACM Int. Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2016) (2016). [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Nejdl, W. et al. eds. 2016. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2016, Hannover, Germany, May 22-25, 2016. ACM. [DOI:10.1145/2908131 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Kumar, C. et al. 2016. Eye-Controlled Interfaces for Multimedia Interaction. IEEE MultiMedia. 23, 4 (2016), 6–13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/MMUL.2016.52. [DOI:10.1109/MMUL.2016.52 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Leinberger, M. et al. 2016. LambdaDL: Syntax and Semantics (Preliminary Report). CoRR. abs/1610.07033, (2016). [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Scheglmann, S. et al. 2016. SEPAL: Schema Enhanced Programming for Linked Data. KI. 30, 2 (2016), 189–192. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0418-4. [PDF | DOI:10.1007/s13218-015-0418-4 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Scheglmann, S. et al. 2016. SEPAL: Schema Enhanced Programming for Linked Data. KI. 30, 2 (2016), 189–192. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0418-4. [DOI:10.1007/s13218-015-0418-4 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Staab, S. et al. 2016. Observing and Recommending from a Social Web with Biases. CoRR. abs/1604.07180, (2016). [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]

2015

  • Kling, C.C. et al. 2015. Voting Behaviour and Power in Online Democracy: A Study of LiquidFeedback in Germany's Pirate Party. Proc. Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (2015). [URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Perl, J. et al. 2015. Twitter as a Political Network -- Predicting the Following and Unfollowing Behavior of German Politicians. Proc. Web Science Conf. (2015). [BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Vogel, I.C. et al. 2015. Glaubwürdigkeit und Vertrauen von Online-News. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit. 40, 5 (2015), 1–5. [BibTeX | BibSonomy]

2014

  • Leinberger, M. et al. 2014. Semantic Web Application Development with LITEQ. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2014 - 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part II (2014), 212–227. [PDF | DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-11915-1_14 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Scheglmann, S. et al. 2014. IDE Integrated RDF Exploration, Access and RDF-Based Code Typing with LITEQ. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events - ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (2014), 505–510. [PDF | DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-11955-7_75 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Scheglmann, S. et al. 2014. Property-based typing with LITEQ. Proceedings of the ISWC 2014 Posters & Demonstrations Track a track within the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 21, 2014. (2014), 149–152. [PDF | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]
  • Staab, S. et al. 2014. Programming the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges - 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings (2014), 1–5. [DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_1 | URL | BibTeX | BibSonomy]