Lucie-Aimée Kaffee

Lucie-Aimée Kaffee

NLP and Knowledge Graphs Researcher

ESWC 2018 (Crete, Greece)

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For the second time, I attended the ESWC conference - this time in Crete. It was great to see known faces again and meet researchers in the field of semantic web.

Particularly great for me was of course that we published a research paper at the main conference, so I not only got to present the work we had been preparing for quite a while but also had many fascinating discussions afterwards. The general topic of text generation from linked data is something many researchers in the community seemed rather excited about and I could discuss different usecases with them. Furthermore, underserved languages in linked data, how to support them better and how to work with the communities of those languages was a discussion I had multiple times.

I am very glad about the input and the chance of meeting people in the field - something I like about ESWC in particular. Everyone is rather approachable and interested in exchanging ideas and directions for future work.

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (Prague, Czechia)

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The Wikimedia hackathon is an event to bring together the technical community, that works on the MediaWiki code and technical projects around Wikipedia, Wikidata, WikiSource, and all the other Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia hackathon 2019 took place in Prague. It has been my fourth time at the hackathon, and it is still one of my favorite events of the Wikimedia events and certainly my favorite hackathon ever. As someone that was there for the first time said: “It is not a typical hackathon, it is more about the people.”

NAACL 2018 (New Orleans, USA)

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NAACL was the first conference in the area of computational linguistics that I was able to attend. It was very interesting, as many topics are very relatable. It is an interesting mix of students and professors working on linguistics and machine learning problems and combining those two. It was also the biggest conference in academia that I have attended thus far. It was interesting to see the different concepts of such a big conference- for example, most papers were presented as posters, even full research papers. This made interaction with authors much easier and allowed for individually discussion of the topics. Many topics were fascinating to me, as many authors tried to solved challenges provided by working on under-resourced languages. Especially in the area of machine learning this brings a lot of challenges, I was happy to be able to discuss. Further, I had interesting discussions on the topic of code-switching, when user speak one language and use words from a different language in it (e.g. Hindi speakers using English words), a topic I have been following with interest.

The Web Conference 2018 (Lyon, France)

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The Web Conference is one of the most established conferences in the field of research around the web. I had the opportunity to attend this year’s version of it. Below are some of my personal highlights summarized.