New Year at SDA – Looking back at 2018 – Smart Data Analytics

Artificial intelligence/machine learning and semantic technologies/knowledge graphs are central topics for SDA. Throughout the year, we have been able to accomplish a range of interesting research achievements. One particularly active area was question answering and dialogue systems (with and without knowledge graphs). We acquired new projects for more than a million Euro this year and were able to transfer our expertise to industry via successful projects at Fraunhofer. External interest in our results has been remarkably high. Furthermore, we extended our already established position in scalable distributed querying, inference, and analysis of large RDF datasets. Among the race for ever-improving achievements in AI, which has gone far beyond what many could have imagined 10 years ago, our researchers were able to deliver important contributions and continued to shape different sub-areas of the growing AI research landscape.