--- title: "Denny Vrandečić — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Denny Vrandečić, Wikimedia Foundation: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2026), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-vrandecic/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-vrandecic/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Denny Vrandečić # Denny Vrandečić Denny Vrandečić has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2026, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/); often with [Elena Simperl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elena-simperl/), [Markus Krötzsch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-krotzsch/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5018023802) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9593-2294) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18618629) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5018023802) · [53 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018023802) · [5,170 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018023802&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-vrandecic/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 670 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-vrandecic/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3220](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3220) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Denny+Vrande%C4%8Di%C4%87) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Denny+Vrande%C4%8Di%C4%87) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Denny+Vrande%C4%8Di%C4%87) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Denny+Vrande%C4%8Di%C4%87) ## Affiliations [🤝**Wikimedia Foundation** San Francisco · United States 2021–2026 · 9 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/wikimedia-foundation/) · [🎓**Karlsruhe Institute of Technology** Karlsruhe · Germany 2004–2018 · 23 papersEducation 2004–2010Employment 2004–2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2013–2020 · 5 papersEmployment since 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🤝**Wikimedia Deutschland** Berlin · Germany 2012–2013 · 1 paperEmployment 2012–2013](https://ror.org/03e9gte70) · [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1997–2004Education 1997–2004Education 1998–2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) 🏛️**Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Sillenbuch** Stuttgart · [Germany](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/germany/) 1988–1997Education 1988–1997 From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Knowledge graph · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/knowledge-graph/) · [Natural language processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/natural-language-processing/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-vrandecic/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-vrandecic/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vrandecic-2014-wikidata-free-collaborative-knowledgebase/)** *(2014 · 670 citations)* Wikipedia has accumulated a large number of structured facts: numbers, dates, coordinates, and relations between entities. 2. **[Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/quaremba-2026-multilingual-cross-lingual-citation-needed/)** *(2026)* Wikipedia editors mark unsupported statements with a "citation needed" tag. Automating this step, called Citation Needed Detection (CND), has mostly been studied for large Wikipedias, and recent fact-checking pipelines tend to rely on costly proprietary LLMs. The authors build MCN, a corpus of sentences drawn from… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase Communications of the ACM 57(10)**Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch*2014 · 670 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vrandecic-2014-wikidata-free-collaborative-knowledgebase/) 2. **[Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/quaremba-2026-multilingual-cross-lingual-citation-needed/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Gerrit Quaremba, Amy Rechkemmer, Elizabeth Black, et al.*2026* 3. **[A community‐driven vision for a new knowledge resource for AI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.70035) AI Magazine · no summary yet**Vinay K. Chaudhri et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Elena Simperl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elena-simperl/) - [Markus Krötzsch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-krotzsch/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - AI Magazine - Communications of the ACM 57(10) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 670 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [66 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-vrandecic/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026