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Biosketch
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science and Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Palakkad. Before joining here, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Gerhard Weikum's group at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken Germany. I received my Ph.D. degree from Technical University Kaiserslautern under the supervision of Prof. Sebastian Michel in 2018.
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Research
My research interests broadly cover the area of information extraction and knowledge base curation. I worked on extracting and canonicalizing interesting commonsense assertions from the web and harvesting peer entities for an entity using facts from knowledge bases and web tables. I am working on building an end-to-end question-answering system to efficiently handle quantitative queries. My dissertation focused on building smart indexing methods for efficient querying of ranked lists and mining interesting categories for exploring ranked entities, extracted from web tables.
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Teaching
- Data Analytics (offering this semester)
- Information Retrieval (offering this semester)
- Database Systems Jan-May 2025, 2024
- Natural Language Processing Aug-Dec 2023
- CS3020 Database Management Systems Jan-May 2022
- CS3120 Database Management Systems Lab Jan-May 2022
- DS5603 Information Retrieval, Sept-Dec 2022
- Data Engineering Lab, Sept-Dec 2022
- CS5621 Information Retrieval, Sept-Dec 2021
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Research Group
I am leading Databases and Information Systems group at IIT Palakkad
Team Members:
- Gayathri R (PhD, Since July 2022)
- Mohammed Taufeeq (MS, Since July 2022)
- Remya G (PhD, Since July 2024)
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Additional Information
TitlePublicationDescription
- Arun Sankar, Lekshmi R Nair, Koninika Pal: TComQA: Extracting Temporal Commonsense from Text, Accepted in IR-RAG@SIGIR 2025
- R. Gayathri
, Koninika Pal: Understanding Numerical Context by Asking Quantitative Questions. ECIR (5) 2025 - Koninika Pal, Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum: FASETS: Discovering Faceted Sets of Entities. WWW (Companion Volume) 2024
- Vinh Thinh Ho, Koninika Pal, Gerhard Weikum: QuTE: Answering Quantity Queries from Web Tables. SIGMOD Conference 2021
- Vinh Thinh Ho, Koninika Pal, Simon Razniewski, Klaus Berberich, Gerhard Weikum: Extracting Contextualized Quantity Facts from Web Tables. WWW 2021
- Koninika Pal, Vinh Thinh Ho, Gerhard Weikum: Co-Clustering Triples from Open Information Extraction. COMAD/CODS 2020
- Vinh Thinh Ho, Koninika Pal, Niko Kleer, Klaus Berberich, Gerhard Weikum:
Entities with Quantities: Extraction, Search, and Ranking. WSDM 2020
Please find the full list here
