GSoC 2026 @ DBpedia
Amharic DBpedia Ontology Mapping
Building an agentic pipeline to map Amharic text entities to DBpedia ontology classes using Afro-XLM-R and LangGraph. Weekly progress from Week 0 through Week 12.
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Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck
Project Mentor & Professor of Information Systems (AI & Explainability), Leuphana University
Leads national and international research on knowledge graphs, LLMs, chatbots, and AI for social purposes. Bridges research and application.
Andargachew Tibebe Merso
Co-Mentor & Lecturer, Addis Ababa University
Holds an MSc in Computer Science from University of Gondar. Interested in knowledge graphs and NLP.
Tilahun Abedissa Taffa
Co-Mentor & PhD Researcher, Leuphana University
Specializes in hybrid QA systems for low-resource languages like Amharic. Research associate at AI & Explainability group.
Hizkiel Mitiku Alemayehu
Co-Mentor & PhD Candidate, Paderborn University
Research focuses on NLP and Digital Humanities. Research assistant at Paderborn University, Germany.