Category: Main result The main results of the team: they get shown on the first page under ‘Main recent results’.
CoopIS 2025: RDF Query Answering in the Presence of Access Restrictions
The paper “RDF Query Answering in the Presence of Access Restrictions” by Maxime Buron, Hritika Kathuria, Ioana Manolescu and George Siachamis has been accepted for publication in CoopIS 2025.
EMNLP 2025: “The Search for Conflicts of Interest: Open Information Extraction in Scientific Publications”
The paper “The Search for Conflicts of Interest: Open Information Extraction in Scientific Publications” by Garima Gaur, Oana Balalau, Ioana Manolescu and Prajna Upadhyay has been accepted for publication in EMNLP (Findings) 2025.
Three papers accepted to ACL 2025
The following papers have been accepted to ACL 2025:
- Structured Discourse Representation for Factual Consistency Verification (Findings, long paper)
Kun Zhang, Oana Balalau, Ioana Manolescu
- Benchmarking the Benchmarks: Reproducing Climate-Related NLP Tasks (Findings, long paper)
Tom Calamai, Oana Balalau, Fabian M. Suchanek
- Navigating the Political Compass: Evaluating …
Kun Zhang defends his PhD
The team is once again celebrating a major achievement by one of our own—Kun Zhang has successfully defended his PhD!
Kun’s thesis, “Contributions to Evaluating and Improving the Faithfulness for Text Generation,” is a remarkable achievement in a field that is both technically demanding and rapidly evolving. His research stands …
SIGMOD 2025: “Catching up with Disorder”
The demonstration
"Catching up with Disorder: Dynamic Graphs with Out-of-Order Updates"
by Angelos Anadiotis, Muhammad Ghufran Khan and Ioana Manolescu
has been accepted for presentation at SIGMOD 2025.
Salim Chouaki defends his PhD
This week, the CEDAR team had the immense pleasure of celebrating a significant milestone, Salim has successfully defended his PhD! His thesis, “Computational Methods for Analyzing Risks with Information Exposure on Social Media,” is a thorough exploration of how users engage with news media online, and exemplifies not only …
Vincent Jacob defends his PhD
Today, the CEDAR team is proud and honored to celebrate a remarkable milestone—our dear colleague, Vincent, has successfully defended his PhD!
His thesis, titled “High-Dimensional Time Series Anomaly Detection over Heterogeneous Domains,” is a true testament to his unwavering hard work, dedication, and passion for his research.
Qi Fan defends her PhD.
Today, the CEDAR team celebrates another remarkable achievement: Qi Fan has successfully defended her PhD!
Her thesis, titled “Multi-Objective Optimization for Data Analytics in the Cloud,” makes incredible contributions to her field.
Over the years, Qi has been more than just an exceptional researcher; she has been a wonderful colleague …
Information Systems: “Finding meaningful paths in heterogeneous graphs with PathWays”
The journal paper “Finding meaningful paths in heterogeneous graphs with PathWays” by Nelly Barret, Antoine Gauquier, Jia-Jean Law and Ioana Manolescu has been accepted for publication in Information Systems.
The main results of the team: they get shown on the first page under ‘Main recent results’.
CoopIS 2025: RDF Query Answering in the Presence of Access Restrictions
The paper “RDF Query Answering in the Presence of Access Restrictions” by Maxime Buron, Hritika Kathuria, Ioana Manolescu and George Siachamis has been accepted for publication in CoopIS 2025.
EMNLP 2025: “The Search for Conflicts of Interest: Open Information Extraction in Scientific Publications”
The paper “The Search for Conflicts of Interest: Open Information Extraction in Scientific Publications” by Garima Gaur, Oana Balalau, Ioana Manolescu and Prajna Upadhyay has been accepted for publication in EMNLP (Findings) 2025.
Three papers accepted to ACL 2025
The following papers have been accepted to ACL 2025:
- Structured Discourse Representation for Factual Consistency Verification (Findings, long paper)
Kun Zhang, Oana Balalau, Ioana Manolescu - Benchmarking the Benchmarks: Reproducing Climate-Related NLP Tasks (Findings, long paper)
Tom Calamai, Oana Balalau, Fabian M. Suchanek - Navigating the Political Compass: Evaluating …
Kun Zhang defends his PhD

The team is once again celebrating a major achievement by one of our own—Kun Zhang has successfully defended his PhD!
Kun’s thesis, “Contributions to Evaluating and Improving the Faithfulness for Text Generation,” is a remarkable achievement in a field that is both technically demanding and rapidly evolving. His research stands …
SIGMOD 2025: “Catching up with Disorder”
The demonstration
"Catching up with Disorder: Dynamic Graphs with Out-of-Order Updates"
by Angelos Anadiotis, Muhammad Ghufran Khan and Ioana Manolescu
has been accepted for presentation at SIGMOD 2025.
Salim Chouaki defends his PhD

This week, the CEDAR team had the immense pleasure of celebrating a significant milestone, Salim has successfully defended his PhD! His thesis, “Computational Methods for Analyzing Risks with Information Exposure on Social Media,” is a thorough exploration of how users engage with news media online, and exemplifies not only …
Vincent Jacob defends his PhD

Today, the CEDAR team is proud and honored to celebrate a remarkable milestone—our dear colleague, Vincent, has successfully defended his PhD!
His thesis, titled “High-Dimensional Time Series Anomaly Detection over Heterogeneous Domains,” is a true testament to his unwavering hard work, dedication, and passion for his research.
Qi Fan defends her PhD.

Today, the CEDAR team celebrates another remarkable achievement: Qi Fan has successfully defended her PhD!
Her thesis, titled “Multi-Objective Optimization for Data Analytics in the Cloud,” makes incredible contributions to her field.
Over the years, Qi has been more than just an exceptional researcher; she has been a wonderful colleague …
Information Systems: “Finding meaningful paths in heterogeneous graphs with PathWays”
The journal paper “Finding meaningful paths in heterogeneous graphs with PathWays” by Nelly Barret, Antoine Gauquier, Jia-Jean Law and Ioana Manolescu has been accepted for publication in Information Systems.