We are delighted to announce the contributions that were given Best Paper Awards and Best Reviewer Awards. Congratulations to all for making ESWC 2025 a remarkable conference!
🔹 Best Paper Awards
🏆 Best Research Paper Award
🥇 An Algebraic Foundation for Knowledge Graph Construction [pdf]
by Sitt Min Oo, Olaf Hartig
📌 Nominees:
- 🌟 Designing Hierarchies for Optimal Hyperbolic Embedding [pdf]
by Melika Ayoughi, Max van Spengler, Pascal Mettes, Paul Groth - 🌟 Predicting Clinical Outcomes from Patient Care Pathways Represented with Temporal Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Jong Ho Jhee, Alberto Megina, Pacôme Constant Dit Beaufils, Matilde Karakachoff, Richard Redon, Alban Gaignard, Adrien Coulet - 🌟 Delete/Rederive with Marking for Update Streams [pdf]
by Moritz Illich, Birte Glimm
🏆 Best Student Research Paper
🏅 Analyzing the Influence of Knowledge Graph Information on Relation Extraction [pdf]
by Cedric Möller, Ricardo Usbeck
🏆 Dieter Fensel Visionary Contribution Award
🥇 Representing and Querying Data Tensors in RDF and SPARQL [pdf] [online poster]
by Piotr Marciniak, Piotr Sowiński, Maria Ganzha
🏆 Best Resource Paper Award
🥇 OntoAligner: A Comprehensive Modular and Robust Python Toolkit for Ontology Alignment [pdf]
by Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D’Souza, Oliver Karras, Sören Auer
📌 Nominees:
- 🌟 Interoperable Interpretation and Evaluation of ODRL Policies [pdf]
by Wout Slabbinck, Julian Rojas, Beatriz Esteves, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh - 🌟 ShowVoc: A Thorough Platform for Publishing and Browsing Linked Open Datasets [pdf]
by Armando Stellato, Manuel Fiorelli, Tiziano Lorenzetti, Andrea Turbati, Willem van Gemert, Denis Dechandon, Aniko Gerencser, Enrico Francesconi
🏆 Best In-Use Paper Award
🥇 Language-Based Testing for Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Tobias John, Einar Broch Johnsen, Eduard Kamburjan, Dominic Steinhöfel
📌 Nominees:
- 🌟 OWL strict: A Constrained OWL Fragment to Avoid Ambiguities for Knowledge Graph Practitioners [pdf]
by Robert David, Albin Ahmeti, Shqiponja Ahmetaj, Axel Polleres - 🌟 Research Knowledge Graphs: The Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation [pdf]
by Matthäus Zloch, Danilo Dessì, Jennifer D’Souza, Leyla Jael Castro, Benjamin Zapilko, Saurav Karmakar, Brigitte Mathiak, Markus Stocker, Wolfgang Otto, Sören Auer, Stefan Dietze
🏆 Best PhD Symposium Paper
🥇 Neuro-Symbolic AI for Conflict-Aware Learning over Knowledge Graphs [pdf] [online poster]
by Laura Balbi
📌 Nominee:
- 🌟 AI Risk Management for System Design: An Ontology-Driven Approach Integrating Engineering Principles and Ethical Insights [pdf]
by Muhammad Ikhsan
🏆 Best Poster Award
🥇 Representing and Querying Data Tensors in RDF and SPARQL [pdf] [online poster]
by Piotr Marciniak, Piotr Sowiński, Maria Ganzha
📌 Nominees:
- 🌟 How Low Can We Go? Quantization Effects on LLM SPARQL Generation [pdf] [online poster]
by Matt Murtagh-White, P.J. Wall, D O’Sullivan - 🌟 MYAM: LLM-Supported Mapping Generation for Semantic Manufacturing RetrievalWilma Johanna Schmidt [pdf] [online poster]
by Irlan Grangel-González, Tobias Huschle, Lena Wagner, Evgeny Kharlamov, Adrian Paschke
🏆 Best Demo Award
🥇 A User-Friendly SPARQL Query Editor Powered by Lightweight Metadata [pdf] [online poster]
by Vincent Emonet, Ana-Claudia Sima, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias
📌 Nominees:
- 🌟 SparqLLM: Retrieval-Augmented SPARQL Query Processing [pdf] [online poster]
by Pascal Molli, Hala Skaf-Molli, Sébastien Ferré, Alban Gaignard, Peggy Cellier - 🌟 PM-SAMPO: Semantic Portal for Heritage Object Provenance Research [pdf] [online poster]
by Sarah Binta Alam Shoilee, Annastiina Ahola, Heikki Rantala, Eero Hyvönen, Victor de Boer, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Susan Legêne
🔹 Best Reviewer Awards
🏆 Research Track
🥇 Best Reviewer Award: Lionel Medini
🌟 Honourable Mentions: Albin Zehe, Andreas Hoth, Carlos Bobed, Carlos Buil Aranda, Femke Ongenae, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Gerard Pons (subreviewer), Ieben Smessaert, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Ruben Verborgh, Terry Payne, Xander Wilcke, Xiaowang Zhang
🥇 Best Senior PC Reviewer Award: Antoine Zimmermann
🌟 Honourable Mentions: Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Manolis Koubarakis
🏆 Resource Track
🥇 Best Reviewer Award: Victor de Boer
🌟 Honourable Mention: Armando Stellato
🥇 Best Senior PC Reviewer Award: Irene Celino
🏆 In-Use Track
🥇 Best Reviewer Award: Edelweis Rohrer
🌟 Honourable Mentions: Abdul Wahid, Tomi Kauppinen
🏆 PhD Symposium
🥇 Best Mentor Award: Maribel Acosta
🏆 Poster & Demos Track
🥇 Best Reviewer Award: Aidan Hogan
🌟 Honourable Mentions: Sylvie Cazalens, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Pieter Colpaert, Alessandro Russo