Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

KDIR 2024

Best Paper Award

Learning to Rank for Query Auto-Complete with Language Modelling in Enterprise Search
Colin Daly and Lucy Hederman

Best Student Paper Award

Knowledge Discovery in Optical Music Recognition: Enhancing Information Retrieval with Instance Segmentation
Elona Shatri and György Fazekas

Best Poster Award

Federated Learning for XSS Detection: A Privacy-Preserving Approach
Mahran Jazi and Irad Ben-Gal

Honorable Mention: Utilizing Data Analysis for Optimized Determination of the Current Operational State of Heating Systems
Ahmed Qarqour, Sahil-Jai Arora, Gernot Heisenberg, Markus Rabe and Tobias Kleinert

KDIR 2023

Best Paper Award

Evaluating the Use of Interpretable Quantized Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource-Constrained Deployment
Harry Rogers, Beatriz De La Iglesia and Tahmina Zebin

Best Student Paper Award

Visual Counterfactual Explanations Using Semantic Part Locations
Florence Böttger, Tim Cech, Willy Scheibel and Jürgen Döllner

Best Poster Award

Collaborative Emotion Annotation: Assessing the Intersection of Human and AI Performance with GPT Models
Hande Aka Uymaz and Senem Kumova Metin

KDIR 2022

Best Paper Award

Safe Screening for Logistic Regression with ℓ –ℓ Regularization
Anna Deza and Alper Atamtürk

Best Student Paper Award

Generalization of Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis to k-partite Graphs
Yohann Salomon and Pietro Pinoli

Best Poster Award

Adapting Transformers for Detecting Emergency Events on Social Media
Emanuela Boros, Gaël Lejeune, Mickaël Coustaty and Antoine Doucet

KDIR 2021

Best Paper Award

Improved Session-based Recommender System by Context Awareness in e-Commerce Domain
Ramazan Esmeli, Mohamed Bader-El-Den, Hassana Abdullahi and David Henderson

Best Student Paper Award

A Case Study and Qualitative Analysis of Simple Cross-lingual Opinion Mining
Gerhard Hagerer, Wing Sheung Leung, Qiaoxi Liu, Hannah Danner and Georg Groh

Best Poster Award

From Implicit Preferences to Ratings: Video Games Recommendation based on Collaborative Filtering
Rosária Bunga, Fernando Batista and Ricardo Ribeiro

KDIR 2020

Best Paper Award

Amharic Document Representation for Adhoc Retrieval
Tilahun Yeshambel, Josiane Mothe and Yaregal Assabie

Best Student Paper Award

The Max-Cut Decision Tree: Improving on the Accuracy and Running Time of Decision Trees
Jonathan Bodine and Dorit S. Hochbaum

Best Poster Award

Moving towards a General Metadata Extraction Solution for Research Data with State-of-the-Art Methods
Benedikt Heinrichs and Marius Politze

KDIR 2019

Best Paper Award

A Discretized Enriched Technique to Enhance Machine Learning Performance in Credit Scoring
Roberto Saia, Salvatore Carta, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Gianni Fenu and Marco Saia

Best Student Paper Award

Chemical Named Entity Recognition with Deep Contextualized Neural Embeddings
Zainab Awan, Tim Kahlke, Peter J. Ralph and Paul J. Kennedy

Best Poster Award

Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning Proceedings in Energy Consumption
Nédra Mellouli, Mahdjouba Akerma, Minh Hoang, Denis Leducq and Anthony Delahaye

IC3K 2018

Best Paper Award

Iterated Algorithmic Bias in the Interactive Machine Learning Process of Information Filtering
Wenlong Sun, Olfa Nasraoui and Patrick Shafto

Automated Compliance Verification in ATM using Principles from Ontology Matching
Audun Vennesland, Joe Gorman, Scott Wilson, Bernd Neumayr and Christoph G. Schuetz

Exploring RDF Datasets with LDscout
Anna Goy, Diego Magro and Francesco Conforti

Best Student Paper Award

Graph Convolutional Matrix Completion for Bipartite Edge Prediction
Yuexin Wu, Hanxiao Liu and Yiming Yang

Redefining Hearst Patterns by using Dependency Relations
Ahmad Issa Alaa Aldine, Mounira Harzallah, Berio Giuseppe, Nicolas Béchet and Ahmad Faour

KDIR 2018

Best Paper Award

Iterated Algorithmic Bias in the Interactive Machine Learning Process of Information Filtering
Wenlong Sun, Olfa Nasraoui and Patrick Shafto

Best Student Paper Award

Graph Convolutional Matrix Completion for Bipartite Edge Prediction
Yuexin Wu, Hanxiao Liu and Yiming Yang

KDIR 2017

Best Paper Award

Deriving Realistic Mathematical Models from Support Vector Machines for Scientific Applications
Andrea Murari, Emmanuele Peluso, Saeed Talebzadeh, Pasqualino Gaudio, Michele Lungaroni, Ondrej Mikulin, Jesus Vega and Michela Gelfusa

Best Student Paper Award

An Information Theory Subspace Analysis Approach with Application to Anomaly Detection Ensembles
Marcelo Bacher, Irad Ben-Gal and Erez Shmueli

KDIR 2016

Best Paper Award

Unsupervised Irony Detection: A Probabilistic Model with Word Embeddings
Debora Nozza, Elisabetta Fersini and Enza Messina

Best Student Paper Award

A Machine Learning Approach for Layout Inference in Spreadsheets
Elvis Koci, Maik Thiele, Oscar Romero and Wolfgang Lehner

IC3K 2015

Best Paper Award

Leveraging Entity Linking to Enhance Entity Recognition in Microblogs
Pikakshi Manchanda, Elisabetta Fersini and Matteo Palmonari

Designing the Content of a Social e-Learning Dashboard - The Study is based on Novel Key Performance Indicators
Paolo Avogadro, Silvia Calegari and Matteo Dominoni

Learning Non-taxonomic Relationships of Financial Ontology
Omar El Idrissi Esserhrouchni, Bouchra Frikh and Brahim Ouhbi

Best Student Paper Award

An Approach for Semantic Search over Lithuanian News Website Corpus
Tomas Vileiniškis, Algirdas Šukys and Rita Butkienė

Predicting the Empirical Robustness of the Ontology Reasoners based on Machine Learning Techniques
Nourhène Alaya, Sadok Ben Yahia and Myriam Lamolle

Recommending Access Policies in Cross-domain Internet
Nuno Bettencourt, Nuno Silva and João Barroso

KDIR 2015

Best Paper Award

Leveraging Entity Linking to Enhance Entity Recognition in Microblogs
Pikakshi Manchanda, Elisabetta Fersini and Matteo Palmonari

Best Student Paper Award

An Approach for Semantic Search over Lithuanian News Website Corpus
Tomas Vileiniškis, Algirdas Šukys and Rita Butkienė

IC3K 2014

Best Paper Award

Using Hypergraph-based User Profile in a Recommendation System
Hilal Tarakci and Nihan Kesim Cicekli

“Made with Knowledge” - Disentangling the IT Knowledge Artifact by a Qualitative Literature Review
Federico Cabitza and Angela Locoro

Company Mention Detection for Large Scale Text Mining
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Tifara Ramelson and Boyi Xie

Best Student Paper Award

Cross-domain Text Classification through Iterative Refining of Target Categories Representations
Giacomo Domeniconi, Gianluca Moro, Roberto Pasolini and Claudio Sartori

Data-driven Diachronic and Categorical Evaluation of Ontologies - Framework, Measure, and Metrics
Hlomani Hlomani and Deborah A. Stacey

An Ontology Roadmap for Crowdsourcing Innovation Intermediaries
Cândida Silva and Isabel Ramos

KDIR 2014

Best Student Paper Award

Cross-domain Text Classification through Iterative Refining of Target Categories Representations
Giacomo Domeniconi, Gianluca Moro, Roberto Pasolini and Claudio Sartori

IC3K 2013

Best Paper Award

Universal Enterprise Adaptive Object Model
David Aveiro and Duarte Pinto

Knowing More about Knowledge Management at ESA
Roberta Mugellesi Dow, Damiano Guerrucci, Raul Cano Argamasilla, Diogo Bernardino and Siegmar Pallaschke

Mining the Long Tail of Search Queries - Finding Profitable Patterns
Michael Meisel, Maik Benndorf and Andreas Ittner

Best Student Paper Award

Mapping Text Mining Taxonomies
Katja Pfeifer and Eric Peukert

An Approach to Manage the Web Knowledge
Filippo Eros Pani, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Giulio Concas and Gavina Baralla

A Risk Diagnosing Methodology Web-based Tool for SME’s and Start-up Enterprises
Luís Pereira, Alexandra Tenera, João Bispo and João Wemans

KDIR 2013

Best Student Paper Award

Mapping Text Mining Taxonomies
Katja Pfeifer and Eric Peukert

IC3K 2012

Best Paper Award

String Searching in Referentially Compressed Genomes
Sebastian Wandelt and Ulf Leser

Improving Supply-Chain-Management based on Semantically Enriched Risk Descriptions
Sandro Emmenegger, Emanuele Laurenzi and Barbara Thönssen

Using DEMO-based SLAs for Improving City Council Services
Carlos Mendes, Mário Almeida, Nuno Salvador and Miguel Mira da Silva

Best Student Paper Award

Ontology Alignment for Classification of Low Level Sensor Data
Marjan Alirezaie and Amy Loutfi

Facilitating Experience Sharing in Groups - Collaborative Trace Reuse and Exploitation
Qiang Li, Marie-Hélène Abel and Jean-Paul Barthès

Improving Toponym Disambiguation by Iteratively Enhancing Certainty of Extraction
Mena B. Habib and Maurice van Keulen

KDIR 2012

Best Paper Award

String Searching in Referentially Compressed Genomes
Sebastian Wandelt and Ulf Leser

IC3K 2011

Best Paper Award

A MULTI-SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT ALGORITHM FOR WEB TEMPLATE DETECTION
Filippo Geraci and Marco Maggini

SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF UNKNOWN WORDS BASED ON GRAPH-BASED SEMI-SUPERVISED CLUSTERING
Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki

A FEATURE-BASED ANALYSIS OF OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR ENTERPRISE 2.0 - Open Source Tools for Team Collaboration in SMEs
Bettina Schauer, Michael Zeiller and Robert Matzinger

Best Student Paper Award

A WEAKLY SUPERVISED APPROACH FOR LARGE-SCALE RELATION EXTRACTION
Ludovic Jean-Louis, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Adrien Durand

COMPARING SERVICES USING DEMO
Carlos Mendes, João Ferreira and Miguel Mira da Silva

A METHOD FOR DISCOVERING THE RELEVANCE OF EXTERNAL CONTEXT VARIABLES TO BUSINESS PROCESSES
Eduardo Costa Ramos, Flavia Maria Santoro and Fernanda Baião

KDIR 2011

Best Paper Award

A MULTI-SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT ALGORITHM FOR WEB TEMPLATE DETECTION
Filippo Geraci and Marco Maggini

Best Student Paper Award

A WEAKLY SUPERVISED APPROACH FOR LARGE-SCALE RELATION EXTRACTION
Ludovic Jean-Louis, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret and Adrien Durand

KDIR 2010

Best Paper Award

GENERATING LITERATURE-BASED KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERIES IN LIFE SCIENCES USING RELATIONSHIP ASSOCIATIONS
Steven B. Kraines, Weisen Guo, Daisuke Hoshiyama, Haruo Mizutani and Toshihisa Takagi

Best Student Paper Award

VISUALLY SUMMARIZING THE EVOLUTION OF DOCUMENTS UNDER A SOCIAL TAG
André Gohr, Myra Spiliopoulou and Alexander Hinneburg

KDIR 2009

Best Paper Award

SUMMARIZING SETS OF CATEGORICAL SEQUENCES - Selecting and Visualizing Representative Sequences

Best Student Paper Award

TRIGRAMS’N’TAGS FOR LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION