Research Interests

• Information Extraction
• Machine Learning
• Knowledge Engineering
• Ontology Engineering

Publications

1. AnNER: Supporting Efficient Entity Annotation and Review Workflows for Knowledge Graph Construction
   Umayer Reza, Nicholas Pease, Jinwu Wang, Torsten Hahmann
   K-CAP '25, PDF · GitHub · Try AnNER
2. OnNER: An Ontology for Semantic Representation of Named Entities in Scholarly Publications
   Umayer Reza, Xuelian Zhang, Torsten Hahmann
   FOIS '24, PDF · GitHub · Documentation
3. Populating and Refining an Ontology of Cellulose Materials with Terms from Scientific Publications: Extended Abstract
   Umayer Reza, Torsten Hahmann
   FOIS '23, PDF

Presentations

1. AnNER: Supporting Efficient Entity Annotation and Review Workflows for Knowledge Graph Construction
   Umayer Reza, Nicholas Pease, Jinwu Wang, Torsten Hahmann
   Paper presentation, K-CAP '25, PDF
2. AnNER and OnNER: Key Components in the Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Construction Pipeline
   Umayer Reza, Torsten Hahmann
   Poster presentation, U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium '25, PDF
3. Populating and Refining an Ontology of Cellulose Materials with Terms from Scientific Publications
   Umayer Reza, Torsten Hahmann
   Poster presentation, FOIS '23, PDF
4. The Scientific Publication Ontology (SciPub): Linking publications’ content to the domain ontologies
   Umayer Reza, Xuelian Zhang, Torsten Hahmann
   Poster presentation, UMaine Student Symposium '23, PDF
5. CelloGraph – Accelerating Knowledge Discovery for Cellulosic Materials using AI and Knowledge Graphs
   Umayer Reza, Xuelian Zhang, Torsten Hahmann
   Poster presentation, Manufacturing RENEW3D '22, PDF