About Me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student of Department of Computer Science in University of Oxford. I work in the Data and Knowledge Group, advised by Prof. Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Prof. Ian Horrocks, and Dr. David Tena Cucala. Before that, I achieved my M.S. degree from Nanjing University, supervised by Prof. Gong Cheng and Prof. Yuzhong Qu.

My C.V. is available here.

Research Interests

My research interests include knowledge graph, neuro-symbolic reasoning, and semantic technologies applied in intelligent systems.

Currently, I focus on interpreting neural network models, especially for knowledge graph reasoning, with symbolic rules, to achieve explainable and effective systems. I have also worked on semantic search algorithms applied in dataset search systems, mainly related to data summarization, query analysis, and information retrieval.

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Xiaxia Wang, David J. Tena Cucala, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks. Faithful Rule Extraction for Differentiable Rule Learning Models. In Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024). [code]

Xiaxia Wang, Gong Cheng, Jeff Z. Pan, Evgeny Kharlamov, Yuzhong Qu. BANDAR: Benchmarking Snippet Generation Algorithms for (RDF) Dataset Search. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 35(2) (TKDE 2023). [code]

Xiaxia Wang, Gong Cheng, Tengteng Lin, Jing Xu, Jeff Z. Pan, Evgeny Kharlamov, Yuzhong Qu. PCSG: Pattern-Coverage Snippet Generation for RDF Datasets. In Proc. of the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021). [code] [slides] *With Student Grant

Xiaxia Wang, Jinchi Chen, Shuxin Li, Gong Cheng, Jeff Z. Pan, Evgeny Kharlamov, Yuzhong Qu. A Framework for Evaluating Snippet Generation for Dataset Search. In Proc. of the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), Part 1. [code] [slides]

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