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Romana Pernisch

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specifically in the Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence group and the Discovery Lab. I work on problems around Knowledge Graph Evolution and want to study and enable KG lifecycles through Software Engineering approaches. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, snowboarding, reading and crafts like sewing and knitting.

APPOINTMENTS

  • 2021-09-01 – ongoing

    Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • 2018-09-01 – 2021-08-31

    Doctoral Student at University of Zurich, Switzerland

AWARDS

  • Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant for visit to Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
  • VU Teaching Innovation Grant for Implementing Ontology Engineering tools in the classroom
  • Danish Data Science Association Travel Grant for visit to Aalborg University, Denmark
  • ISWC 2020 Best Demo of the Day Award
  • ISWC 2019 Best Poster Award

RECENT ROLES

  • Poster and Demo Chair of the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)
  • Poster and Demo Chair of the 18th International Conference on Distsributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS 2024)
  • Web and Publicity Chair of the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Knowledge Graph Lifecycle Management and Solutions
  • Knowledge Evolution and Change
  • Knowledge Change Impact
  • Semantic Web

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

[All Publications]
  1. Propagating Ontology Changes to Declarative Mappings in Construction of Knowledge Graphs
    Diego Conde-Herreros, Lise Stork, Romana Pernisch, María Poveda-Villalón, Óscar Corcho, and David Chaves-Fraga
    In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction co-located with 21th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024), Hersonissos, Greece, May 27, 2024, vol. 3718, 2024
  2. Supporting Companion Planting with the CoPla Ontology
    Giacomo Zamprogno, Mark Adamik, Ritten Roothaert, Ameneh Naghdipour, Lise Stork, Patrick Koopmann, Romana Pernisch, Benno Kruit, Jieying Chen, Ilaria Tiddi, and Stefan Schlobach
    In KG4S@ESWC, vol. 3753, pp. 29–41, 2024
  3. When Ontologies met Knowledge Graphs: A Methodology Tale
    Romana Pernisch, María Poveda-Villalón, Diego Conde-Herreros, David Chaves-Fraga, and Lise Stork
    In The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, May, 2024
  4. ORKA: An Ontology for Robotic Knowledge Acquisition
    Mark Adamik, Romana Pernisch, Ilaria Tiddi, and Stefan Schlobach
    In Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-24), Nov, 2024
  5. Advancing Robotic Perception with Perceived-Entity Linking
    Mark Adamik, Romana Pernisch, Ilaria Tiddi, and Stefan Schlobach
    In The Semantic Web - ISWC 2024, Nov, 2024

PROJECTS

A screen shot of the explore companions functionality of the companion planting decision support front-end.

2024

Decision support for Companion Planting with CoPla Ontology
The companion planting decision support includes the CoPla ontology and a web application, for the purpose of understanding and implementing companion planting strategies.
A screenshot of the ChImp plugin.

2022

ChImp - Change Impact Protégé Plugin
A Protege plugin that displays the impact of changes, while editing an ontology.

27th October 2023

Alice & Eve Workshop 2023
Alice & Eve is a free one-day workshop for celebrating women studying and working in computing! Alice & Eve aims to bring together talents in the field of computing. The 4th edition of this workshop will be hosted on 27th October 2023 by the University of Amsterdam.
Luca Rossetto presenting the LifeGraph at ISWC 2020.

2020 and 2021

LifeGraph and VideoGraph
We used a knowledge graph to retrieve lifelogs and videos to participate in two information retrieval challenges with a team from DDIS (UZH).