Programme

SEMANTiCS 2018 will host the 12th edition of the DBpedia Community Meeting on the first day of the conference. 

 Community Meeting

DBpedia is an international crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons and to make this information available on the Web as Linked Open Data.

More than 150 DBpedia enthusiasts joined the 11th Community Meeting, which was co-located with the SEMANTiCS 2017 in Amsterdam. The success of the last community meetings and the increasing number of specific language chapters proves that the DBpedia community is constantly growing and gaining more and more significance and impact in the Semantic Web Community.

TU Wien Campus Gußhaus
Gußhausstraße 27-29
1040 Vienna

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our web form. Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions.

Organisation

  • Julia Holze, DBpedia Association
  • Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association

This year's topics

A central topic of this meeting is to discuss the new DBpedia databus. Other subjects will reflect the efforts of the DBpedia community on a general Public Data Infrastructure for a large, multilingual, Semantic Knowledge Graph. In addition, there will be a showcase session on current developments, the DBpedia Association hour as well as a special chapter session in which the DBpedia language chapters from different parts of Europe will present the latest developments.

Highlights include

  • Keynote presentation by Javier David Fernández García (WU Vienna)
  • Keynote presentation by Mathieu d'Aquin (NUI Galway)
  • DBpedia chapter session
  • DBpedia Association hour
  • Tutorials to learn about DBpedia and its tool
  • Space for the community to show their tools and success in presentations and posters

Tickets

DBpedia members get free admission. Please contact your nearest DBpedia chapter for a promotion code, or contact Julia Holze.

Register now!

Technical University, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna– view map

Time Ei 7 EI 8 Seminarraum 121
08:45 MEET & GREET
09:15 - 10:45
DBPEDIA 1

Opening Session

Chair: Sebastian Hellmann

  • Javier D. Fernández
    Linked Open Data cloud - act now before it's too late
  • Mathieu D'Aquin
    Dealing with open domain data.
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:45
DBPEDIA 2

DBpedia Showcase Session

Chair: Milan Dojchinovski, AKSW/KILT

  • DBpedia Panel 2
12:45 - 13:45 LUNCH BREAK
13:45 - 14:45
DBPEDIA 3

NLP & DBpedia

Chair: Milan Dojchinovski, AKSW/KILT

  • DBpedia Panel 3
DBPEDIA 3

DBpedia Association Hour: discussion/feedback

  • DBpedia Panel 4
14:45 - 15:15 COFFEE BREAK
15:15 - 16:45
DBPEDIA 4

Diversity of DBpedia - The DBpedia Language Chapters

Chair: Enno Meijers, National Library of the Netherlands

  • DBpedia Panel 5
16:45 - 17:00
DBPEDIA 5

Closing Session

Chair: Sebastian Hellmann

  • DBpedia Panel 7
FROM 17:00
DBPEDIA 6

Continue networking in a near pub over beer

  • DBpedia Networking

Technical University, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna – view map

Time EI 8 Potzl HS EI 11 Geodäsie HS Seminarraum 121 Seminarraum 127 Seminarraum 122 Seminarraum 124 Seminarraum 125
09:00 - 10:30
Governing Value: The Practice of Exploiting Data Value
OLGA an Ontology SDK
Methods and Tools for Developing Ontology-Based Data Management Solutions
The Fast Track to Knowledge Engineering
Successful Software Product Management & SlideWiki: Revolutionizing authoring, sharing and re-using of OER and OCW online
The bigger Picture of Digital Change – Going to bed as an industry, waking up as a software company
10:30 - 11:00
 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Governing Value: The Practice of Exploiting Data Value
OLGA an Ontology SDK
Methods and Tools for Developing Ontology-Based Data Management Solutions
The Fast Track to Knowledge Engineering
Successful Software Product Management & SlideWiki: Revolutionizing authoring, sharing and re-using of OER and OCW online
The bigger Picture of Digital Change – Going to bed as an industry, waking up as a software company
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 15:00
Governing Value: The Practice of Exploiting Data Value
Designing Semantic Technology Proof-of-Concept
GraphQL for JSON and SHACL/RDF Interoperability
SemFAEN 2018: Semantics for Future Food, Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition
The Fast Track to Knowledge Engineering
(Semi) automatic conversion of tabular data to Linked Data
Build a semantic search and discovery hub in under 3 hours
15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 17:30
Governing Value: The Practice of Exploiting Data Value
Designing Semantic Technology Proof-of-Concept
GraphQL for JSON and SHACL/RDF Interoperability
SemFAEN 2018: Semantics for Future Food, Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition
The Fast Track to Knowledge Engineering
(Semi) automatic conversion of tabular data to Linked Data
Build a semantic search and discovery hub in under 3 hours
from 19:00 MeetUp: It’s a kind of magic ... Semantics and AI

Hilton Danube Waterfront, Handelskai 269, 1020 Vienna – view map

Time Grandwaterfront Hall Danube Suite 1 Danube Suite 2 Meeting Room 5 Meeting Room 6 Danube Suite 3
09:00 - 09:15

Welcome to the 14th SEMANTICS conference

Brought to you by Semantic Web Company - Vienna, TU Vienna, VU University Amsterdam, Institut für Angewandte Informatik - Leipzig, University of Applied Science St. Pölten
09:15 - 10:15
Session 1.0

Keynote I

  • Alan Morrison
    Collapsing the IT Stack and Clearing a Path for AI Adoption
10:15 - 10:30 CHANGE ROOMS / SHORT BREAK
10:30- 12:00
Session 1.1

Semantic AI

  • Andreas Blumauer
    Six Core Aspects of Semantic AI
  • Matthias Lichtenthaler
    The Contradiction Bot - retrieving new insights from a vast amount of information
  • *
    Nicole MerkleStefan Zander
    Using a Semantic Simulation Framework for Teaching Machine Learning Agents
Session 1.2

Linking & Mapping

  • Giuseppe FutiaAntonio VetròAlessio MelandriJuan Carlos De Martin
    Training Neural Language Models with SPARQL queries for Semi-Automatic Semantic Mapping
  • Fabian OdoniPhilipp KuntschikAdrian MP BrasoveanuAlbert Weichselbraun
    On the Importance of Drill-Down Analysis for Assessing Gold Standards and Named Entity Linking Performance
  • Ziqi ZhangJohann PetrakDiana Maynard
    Adapted TextRank for Term Extraction: A Generic Method of Improving Automatic Term Extraction Algorithms
Session 1.4

Knowledge Graphs & Ontology Mgmt

  • Mohamed AliSaid FathallaShimaa IbrahimMohamed KholiefYasser Hassan
    Cross-Lingual Ontology Enrichment Based on Multi-Agent Architecture
  • Michael Debellis
    Short Paper: A Universal Moral Grammar (UMG) Ontology
  • André PompAlexander PaulusDaniel KlischiesChristian SchwierTobias Meisen
    Short Paper: A Web-based UI to Enable Semantic Modeling for Everyone
  • Umutcan ŞimşekElias KärleDieter Fensel
    Short Paper: Machine Readable Web APIs with Schema.org Action Annotations
Session 1.5

Solutions for Public Sphere

  • Harshvardhan Jitendra PanditDeclan O’SullivanDave Lewis
    Short Paper: Queryable Provenance Metadata For GDPR Compliance
  • Claudia Plaimauer
    Lessons learnt from using vacancy mining for validating and supplementing labour market taxonomies
  • Declan O’Sullivan
    Publishing Ordnance Survey Ireland’s geospatial data as Linked Data
Session 1.6

Data Science

  • Allan Hanbury
    Lexical and Statistical Semantics in Professional Search
  • Said FathallaSahar VahdatiSören AuerChristoph Lange
    SemSur: A Core Ontology for the Semantic Representation of Research Findings
  • Maarten Dammers
    Wikidata: The Linked Open Data hub
12:00 - 12:15 CHANGE ROOMS / SHORT BREAK
12:15 - 13:15
Posters 1.12

Catalogues

  • Alessandro MoscaBernardo RondelliGuillem RullFernando RodaXavi Gimenez
    UNiCS: The open data platform for Research and Innovation
  • Bernd-Peter IvanschitzThomas J. LampoltshammerVictor MirelesArtem RevenkoSven SchlarbLőrinc Thurnay
    A Semantic Catalogue for the Data Market Austria
Posters 1.13

Geo Services

  • Jeremy DebattistaEamon ClintonRob Brennan
    Assessing the Quality of Geospatial Linked Data – Experiences from Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi)
  • Florian KleedorferFabian SudaMaximilian StolzeChristian Huemer
    Hailing a Taxi on the Web of Needs
Posters 1.14

Process Improvement

  • Marco FrankeShantanoo DesaiQuan DengStefan WellsandtKarl A. HribernikKlaus-Dieter Thoben
    Semantic Web: Ontological Search Approach
  • Benjamin MörzingerMarta SabouFajar J. EkaputraNikolaus Sindelar
    Improving simulations-based industrial optimization with Semantic Web technologies
Posters 1.15

Integration

  • Jack VerhooselBarry Nouwt
    Integrating heterogeneous data sources using rule-based reasoning, backward-chaining and custom built-ins
  • Damien GrauxGezim SejdiuHajira JabeenJens LehmannDanning SuiDominik MuhsJohannes Pfeffer
    Profiting from Kitties on Ethereum: Leveraging Blockchain RDF with SANSA
Session 1.16

Vocarnival
13:15 - 14:45 LUNCH BREAK
14:45 - 15:45
Session 2.0

Keynote II

  • Ivo Willems
    Our journey into Semantics ; how to contextualize the meaning of Semantics for your organization
15:45 - 16:00 CHANGE ROOMS / SHORT BREAK
16:00 - 17:30
Session 2.1

Solutions for Media & Publisher

  • Markus KaindlMichele Pasin
    Springer Nature SciGraph Analytics: building business tools for the scholarly publishing domain using LOD and the ELK stack
  • Kris Van Damme
    Semantic guided search guides our customers to the answer
  • Noz Urbina
    The human side of semantic content
Session 2.2

Special Format on Semantic AI

  • Milena Yankova
    Semantic BI on Company Data and News: Relations, Investments, Impact
  • Kathryn LeeStefan Piruzevski
    How we got Canada’s public broadcaster excited about metadata
  • Marc Franco-Salvador
    Using AI to Build a Holistic Physchological Profiling Engine
Session 2.3

Solutions for NGOs & Cultural Heritage

  • Joop Vanderheiden
    Linked Data at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE)
  • Enno Meijers
    Building library networks with Linked Data
  • Joseph HilgerZach Wahl
    Developing a Semantic Hub for an International Development Bank
Session 2.4

Linked Data Management & Data Quality 1

  • Manuel MonteroFelix Sasaki
    Semantic Roundtripping for internal Processes and cross-company Data Integration
  • Hajira Jabeen
    Using the SANSA Stack on a 38 Billion Triple Ethereum Blockchain Dataset
  • Matthias T. FrankSebastian BaderViliam SimkoStefan Zander
    Short Paper: LSAnE: Collaborative Validation and Enrichment of Heterogeneous Observation Streams
Session 2.5

Solutions for Manufacturing 1

  • Karsten Schrempp
    Intelligent Information – Using meta data platforms to provide and improve the content of information portals in the machinery i
  • Seyyd Mohamad Bagher SajadiAli Hadian
    FarsBase: a cross-domain Farsi Knowledge Graph
  • Ricardo Eito-Brun
    Development of an ontology to support information retrieval in the media industry
Session 2.6

Data Science 2

  • Andreas EkelhartElmar KieslingKabul Kurniawan
    Taming the logs - Vocabularies for semantic security analysis
  • Abdullah AhmedMohamed SherifAxel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
    On the Effect of Geometries Simplification on Geo-spatial Link Discovery
  • *
    Vincent LullyPhilippe LaubletMilan StankovicFilip Radulovic
    Exploring the synergy between knowledge graph and computer vision for personalisation systems
from 19:00
Conference Dinner

* Nominated for Best Research and Innovation Paper Award

Hilton Danube Waterfront, Handelskai 269, 1020 Vienna – view map

Time Grandwaterfront Hall Danube Suite 1 Danube Suite 2 Meeting Room 5 Meeting Room 6 Danube Suite 3
09:00 - 10:00
Session 3.0

Keynote III

  • Daniel Rosenberg
    A quantitative history of data
10:00 - 10:15 CHANGE ROOMS / SHORT BREAK
10:15 - 11:15
Session 3.1

Sponsored talk

  • Jan-Kees Schakel
    Semantics and other clues to protect wildlife
  • Atanas Kiryakov
    Analytics on Big Knowledge Graphs deliver entity awareness and help data linking
Session 3.2

Digital Marketing & Analytics

  • Rajam Sidhant
    Semantics and Context Aware Hybrid Recommender System for Fashion Industry
  • Michael van Bekkum
    Data-driven semantic rule discovery for knowledge graphs using evolutionary computing
Session 3.3

Solutions for NGOs & Cultural Heritage

  • Andrea VolpiniDavid Riccitelli
    The Holy Grail of Semantic SEO: Tales from the Trenches by WordLift
  • Nuno FreireEnno MeijersRené VoorburgAntoine Isaac
    Aggregation of Cultural Heritage Collections through the Web of Data
Session 3.4

Linked Data Management & Data Quality 2

  • Sebastian Faubel
    modom.io – Using Linked Data for Model-Driven Software Development
  • Fredric Landqvist
    Sustainable Smart Cities - no AI without IA
  • Frank HermannPetra Sauer
    BIM in Facility Management - Applied approach with semantic web technologies
Session 3.5

Solutions for Manufacturing 2

  • Ahmed ShafeiJack HodgesSimon Mayer
    Ensuring Workplace Safety in Goal-based Industrial Manufacturing Systems
  • Edward ThomasJennifer Shorten
    Semantics Driven Data Integration
LegalTech I

The Road Ahead

Chair: Sophie Martinetz

  • Stefan Stockinger
    How technology shapes our legal profession – now semantics
  • Andreas Blumauer
    Semantic AI for Legal Experts
  • Bertram Burtscher
    Semantics as Lawyer
11:15 - 11:45 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 12:45
Session 4.1

Harvesting and enriching legacy data

  • Jan Oevermann
    Semantic PDF Segmentation for Legacy Documents in Technical Documentation
  • Christian DirschlKevin Feeney
    Model-based database re-engineering for an extensive business intelligence system
Session 4.2

Linked Data Management & Data Quality 3

  • Albin AhmetiRobert David
    SHACL-based data life cycle management
  • Vincent LullyPhilippe LaubletMilan StankovicFilip Radulovic
    Enhancing Explanations in Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs
Session 4.3

Solutions for NGOs & Cultural Heritage

  • Mary-Ann GrossetThierry VebrAndrés Barreneche
    STIP Compass or how to make the most of analytical surveys
  • Gary MunnellySeamus Lawless
    Constructing A Knowledge Base For Entity Linking On Irish Cultural Heritage Collections
Session 4.4

Government & Public Services

  • Miroslav Líška
    Slovpedia– A Database of Slovakian Linked Open (Government) Data
  • Aba-Sah DadzieVictoria UrenTim MillerAl-Amin Abba-Dabo
    Value-Driven Partner Search for Energy from Waste Projects
Session 4.5

Solutions for Manufacturing 3

  • John WalkerOnno Buijs
    Product Traceability in the Semiconductor Industry
  • Alexander HeußnerPatrick Sona
    Towards a semantically-based recommender system in Aviation Industry 4.0
LegalTech II

The Road Ahead

Chair: Sophie Martinetz

  • Linda Andersson
    Essence of Patent Text Mining
  • Andreas Geyrecker
    Aspects of intelligent Legal Research Solutions - the evolution of Semantic Search in the Legal domain
  • Alexander Skribe
    Limits and opportunities
12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 15:00
Session 4.0

Keynote IV

  • Elena Simperl
    One does not simply crowdsource the Semantic Web: 10 years with people, URIs, graphs and incentives
LegalTech III

Fishbowl

  • Christian DirschlSophie MartinetzUte John
    Deep Knowledge beats Deep Learning – Really Good News for Lawyers, the Endangered Species?
15:00 - 15:05 CHANGE ROOMS / SHORT BREAK
15:05 - 16:05
Session 5.1

Knowledge Organisation

  • Klaus Kater
    Using Semantic Technology to Solve Sparse Training Material Problem in Machine Learning for Classification of Company Websites
  • Michael Pöttschacher
    Building Bridges - linking structured to unstructured data
Session 5.2

Annotation & Labeling

  • Sebastian NeumaierVadim SavenkovAxel Polleres
    Geo-semantic labelling of Open Data
  • Maria KoutrakiFarshad Bakhshandegan-MoghaddamHarald Sack
    Temporal Role Annotation for Named Entities
Session 5.3

Linked Open Data & Data Markets

  • Martin Kaltenböck
    The Data Market Austria Knowledge Graph
  • Martin Kracker
    LOD from the European Patent Office: Patent Information and Technical Classification
Session 5.4

Querying

  • Ruben TaelmanRiccardo TommasiniJoachim Van HerwegenMiel Vander SandeEmanuele Della ValleRuben Verborgh
    On the Semantics of TPF-QS towards Publishing and Querying RDF Streams at Web-scale
  • *
    Muhammad SaleemAlexander PotockiTommaso SoruOlaf HartigAxel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
    CostFed: Cost-Based Query Optimization for SPARQL Endpoint Federation
Session 5.5

Data Quality & Information Behaviour

  • Philipp Schaumann
    The robots are coming - technical and societal aspects of autonomous vehicles
  • Lucie-Aimeé KaffeeElena Simperl
    The Human Face of the Web of Data: A Cross-sectional Study of Label
LegalTech IV

Technology Spotlights

Chair: Christian Dirschl

  • Benedict Whittam Smith
    SPECIAL
  • Christian SagederEelco Kruizinga
    Semantics to make compliance easy through Lynx
  • Tassilo Pellegrini
    DALICC - Data Licenses Clearance Center
16:05 - 16:30 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:00 Closing
Awarding of Best Paper and Best Poster and Vocarnival

* Nominated for Best Research and Innovation Paper Award

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