Markus Schröder

I am a senior researcher in the Smart Data & Knowledge Services department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

Research & Interests

• Knowledge Graph Construction
• Semantic Web: Semantic Technologies, Semantic Desktop
• Personal Information Management
• Human-in-the-Loop

Selected Projects

• TransferLab Cybermapping: Cyber Risks in the Financial Sector, 04/2022-03/2025
• SensAI: Self-organizing Personal Knowledge Assistants in Evolving Corporate Memories, 08/2020-07/2023
• Geobox: Standardisierung der Geobox-Infrastruktur, 10/2018-09/2020
• SDSD: Smarte Daten & Wissensdienste, 6/2017-6/2020
• PRO-OPT: Big Data Produktionsoptimierung in Smart Ecosystems, 2/2015-2/2018
• SuGraBo: Search Engine for Graphical User Interfaces, 3/2016–8/2017

Community Groups & Schools

• W3C Knowledge Graph Construction Community Group
  Kick-Off on 12th October 2020 at TPAC, Bi-Weekly Meetings, Online Streaming
• European Summer School on Explainable Data Science
  10-13 September 2019, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
  Organised by the European Association for Data Science (EuADS)
  Certificate

Miscellaneous

• Knowledge Work Tools (KWT) (2022)
• Hephaistos Toolkit (2022)
• Semantic Technologies for Busy People - Tutorial (2022)
• A Pattern Language for Spreadsheets (2021)
• Linked Open Game Data (LOGD) (2020) (powered by LDAF)
• Simple RDFS Editor: Editor to simply create RDFS based ontologies (2019)
• RDF RPG: A role-play game (RPG) engine using the resource description framework (RDF) (2019)
• Preferant: The Preference Ant - a tool for easily conducting preference polls (2015)

2024

• Markus Schröder, Jacqueline Krüger, Neda Foroutan, Philipp Horn, Christoph Fricke, Ezgi Delikanli, Heiko Maus, and Andreas Dengel:
  Towards Cyber Mapping the German Financial System with Knowledge Graphs
  In: The Semantic Web - 21st International Conference, ESWC 2024, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 26 - May 30.
  ESWC 2024 Best In-Use Paper Award, Springer, Preprint
• Neda Foroutan, Markus Schröder, Andreas Dengel:
  CO-Fun: A German Dataset on Company Outsourcing in Fund Prospectuses for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction
  Preprint

2023

• Markus Schröder:
  Building Knowledge Graphs from Messy Enterprise Data
  PhD thesis, TU Kaiserslautern, 2022
  KLUEDO

2022

• Johannes Bayer, Mina Karami Zadeh, Markus Schröder, Andreas Dengel:
  Functional Component Descriptions for Electrical Circuits based on Semantic Technology Reasoning
  In: 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA 2022), July 11 - July 13, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  A Human-in-the-Loop Approach for Personal Knowledge Graph Construction from File Names
  In: Third International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction at 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-22), May 29 - June 2, Hersonissos, Greece, 2022
  CEUR, OpenReview, Demo, Code

2021

• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  Spread2RML: Constructing Knowledge Graphs by Predicting RML Mappings on Messy Spreadsheets
  In: 11th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2021), Online, December 2-3, 2021
  K-CAP 2021 Best Research Paper Award, ACM, Preprint, Demo, Code
• Michael Schulze, Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  ptpDG: A Purchase-To-Pay Dataset Generator for Evaluating Knowledge-Graph-Based Services
  In: 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-21), Online, October 24-28, 2021
  Website
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  A Linked Data Application Framework to Enable Rapid Prototyping
  In: Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/2104.13605, arXiv, 4/2021
  OpenReview, Preprint, Demo, Code
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  Mapping Spreadsheets to RDF: Supporting Excel in RML
  In: Second International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction at 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-21), Online/Hersonissos, Greece, June 6-10, 2021
  Teaser, CEUR, OpenReview, Preprint, Demo, Code
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  Dataset Generation Patterns for Evaluating Knowledge Graph Construction
  In: 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-21), Online/Hersonissos, Greece, June 6-10, 2021
  Teaser, OpenReview, Preprint, Demo, Code
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Michael Schulze, Andreas Dengel:
  Interactively Constructing Knowledge Graphs from Messy User-Generated Spreadsheets
  In: Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/2103.03537, arXiv, 3/2021
  Preprint
• Michael Schulze, Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Torsten Albers, Heiko Maus, Andreas Dengel:
  P2P-O: A Purchase-To-Pay Ontology for Enabling Semantic Invoices
  In: 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-21), Online/Hersonissos, Greece, June 6-10, 2021
  Preprint, Website
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Michael Schulze, Andreas Dengel:
  The Person Index Challenge: Extraction of Persons from Messy, Short Texts
  In: 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART-21), Online Streaming, February 4-6, 2021
  Paper, Preprint, Poster, Code
• Markus Schröder, Michael Schulze, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  Bridging the Technology Gap Between Industry and Semantic Web: Generating Databases and Server Code From RDF
  In: 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART-21), Online Streaming, February 4-6, 2021
  Paper, Preprint, Poster, Code

2020

• Julian Klose, Markus Schröder, Silke Becker, Ansgar Bernardi, Arno Ruckelshausen:
  Datenaufbereitung in der Landwirtschaft durch automatisierte semantische Annotation - Basis für vielfältige Smarte Dienste
  In: 40. GIL-Jahrestagung, Campus Weihenstephan, Freising, 17.-18. Februar 2020
  Paper, Code

2019

• Julian Klose, Markus Schröder, Silke Becker, Ansgar Bernardi, Arno Ruckelshausen:
  Data Preparation in Agriculture Through Automated Semantic Annotation - Basis for a Wide Range of Smart Services
  In: Computing Research Repository (CoRR), arXiv, 2019
  Preprint, Code
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  Interactive Concept Mining on Personal Data - Bootstrapping Semantic Services
  In: Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/1903.05872, arXiv, 3/2019
  Preprint, Demo
• Markus Schröder:
  Efficient High-Level Semantic Enrichment of Undocumented Enterprise Data
  In: Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2019 Satellite Events, PhD Symposium, June 2 - 6, 2019, Portorož, Slovenia
  Preprint, Poster

2018

• Christian Jilek, Markus Schröder, Rudolf Novik, Sven Schwarz, Heiko Maus, Andreas Dengel:
  Inflection-Tolerant Ontology-Based Named Entity Recognition for Real-Time Applications
  In: 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019), Leipzig, Germany, May 20-23, 2019, OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Vol. 70, pp. 11:1-11:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019
  LDK 2019 Best Research Paper Award, Preprint
• Christian Jilek, Jessica Chwalek, Sven Schwarz, Markus Schröder, Heiko Maus, Andreas Dengel:
  Advanced Memory Buoyancy for Forgetful Information Systems
  In: AIS Transactions on Enterprise Systems, Special Issue: Intentional Forgetting in Organizations and Work Settings – Conference on Intentional Forgetting in Organizations and Work Settings (CoInFo 2018), Potsdam, Germany, September 11-12, 2018, Gito mbH Verlag, 2018
  Preprint
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Jörn Hees, Andreas Dengel:
  Towards Semantically Enhanced Data Understanding
  In: Computing Research Repository (CoRR), arXiv
  Preprint, Demo
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  Deep Linking Desktop Resources
  In: Proceedings of the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (Posters & Demos) (ESWC 2018), June 3 - 7, 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
  Preprint, Demo
• Markus Schröder, Jörn Hees, Ansgar Bernardi, Daniel Ewert, Peter Klotz, Steffen Stadtmüller:
  Simplified SPARQL REST API - CRUD on JSON Object Graphs via URI Paths
  In: Proceedings of the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (Posters & Demos) (ESWC 2018), June 3 - 7, 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
  Preprint, Demo
• Christian Jilek, Markus Schröder, Sven Schwarz, Heiko Maus, Andreas Dengel:
  Context Spaces as the Cornerstone of a Near-Transparent & Self-Reorganizing Semantic Desktop
  In: Proceedings of the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (Posters & Demos) (ESWC 2018), June 3 - 7, 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
  Preprint, Demo
• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Jörn Hees, Sven Hertling and Andreas Dengel:
  An Easy & Collaborative RDF Data Entry Method using the Spreadsheet Metaphor
  In: Computing Research Repository (CoRR), arXiv
  Preprint, Demo

2017

• Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Jörn Hees, Sven Hertling, Andreas Dengel:
  RDF Spreadsheet Editor: Get (G)rid of Your RDF Data Entry Problems
  In: Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (Posters & Demos) (ISWC 2017), October 21 - 25, 2017, Vienna, Austria
  CEUR, Poster, Demo
• Sven Hertling, Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, Andreas Dengel:
  Where is that Button again?! – Towards a Universal GUI Search Engine
  In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART-17), February 24 - 26, 2017, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 2, pages 217-227, ISBN 978-989-758-220-2, SCITEPRESS, Portugal, 2/2017
  ICAART 2017 Best Paper Award, Paper

2016

• Sven Hertling, Markus Schröder, Christian Jilek, and Andreas Dengel:
  Top-k shortest paths in directed labeled multigraphs
  In: The Semantic Web: ESWC 2016 Challenges. Extended Semantic Web inproceedings (ESWC-16), 13th Extended Semantic Web inproceedings, May 29 - June 2, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Springer, 2016
  ESWC 2016 Top-K Shortest Paths in Large Typed RDF Graphs Challenge Winner, Preprint, Paper, Demo

2015

• Markus Schröder:
  Discovery of interaction patterns with graphical user interface usage mining
  Master's thesis, Telecooperation Group, TU Darmstadt, 2015

Year	Summer Term	Winter Term
2022	Project: (One topic proposal) Seminar: (One topic proposal)	A lecture in Applications of Machine Learning and Data Science (AMLDS) about Knowledge Graphs Seminar: Virtual Knowledge Graphs
2021	Project: (One topic proposal)	A lecture in Applications of Machine Learning and Data Science (AMLDS) about Knowledge Graph Construction
2020	Project: Automated Extraction, Classification and Recommendation in the Domain of Video Games Three Students Seminar: Creation and Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs	Seminar: Building Knowledge Graphs with a Human-in-the-Loop
2019		Project: Daily Meal Plan Predictor Seminar: (One topic proposal)
2018	Project: (One topic proposal)	Project: Semantically Leverage Personal Information with Feedback Three Students
2017	Project: Spreadsheet Transformation Seminar: Semantic Enrichment of Databases Master Thesis: User-centric Sematification: Making Data Collections Available For Semantic Services Master Thesis: Scalable Desktop GUI Interaction Pattern Frequency Mining	Master Thesis: Scalable Outlier Detection over Categorical Big Data Streams
2016	Project: (Three topic proposals) Seminar: (Two topic proposals) Diplomarbeit: Maschinelles Lernen und Semantische Analysen auf Big Data Automobil Diagnosedaten zur Produktionsoptimierung	Project: Collaborative Knowledge Work Two Students (Discontinued) Seminar: (One topic proposal)
2015	Project: Agile Methoden II Three Students Seminar: Obervation of the Graphical User Interface	Project: (One topic proposal) Seminar: Semantic Information Retrieval Tutor: ESKI

12 research assistants (students) supervised.

Academic Education

Since 2/2015 - Researcher and PhD student at DFKI in the Smart Data & Knowledge Services department

2/2015 - M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt

10/2012 - B.Sc. in Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt

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