Program Overview

Challenges

Two challenges co-located with Text2KG at ESWC25:
1. Second Biochemical Knowledge Extraction Challenge
Organiser: Edgard Marx, Marilia Valli, Sanju Tiwari
Website: https://aksw.github.io/bike/
2. First Text2SPARQL Challenge
Organiser: Edgard Marx, Sebastian Tramp, Diego Moussalem
Website: https://text2sparql.aksw.org/

Workshops and Tutorials

Day 1 – Sunday, June 1st 2025

TimeRoom 1
Aurora I Floor 0
Room 2
Aurora II Floor 0
Room 3
Aurora III Floor 0
Room 4
Adria I Floor 11
Room 5
Adria II Floor 11
Room 6
Daphnia Floor 0
Room 7
Nautilus Floor 0
Room 8
Mediteranea Floor 11
09:00 – 10:308th International Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics (SeWeBMeDA-2025)The Third International Workshop Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2025)Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph ConstructionThird Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal DataODRL and Beyond: Practical Applications and Challenges for policy-base Access and Usage ControlMaRA: DaMaLOS and AIRDeMChallenges co-located with 4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GENERATION FROM TEXTThe 3nd Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability Workshop – KG4S
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:308th International Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics (SeWeBMeDA-2025)The Third International Workshop Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2025)Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph ConstructionThird Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal DataODRL and Beyond: Practical Applications and Challenges for policy-base Access and Usage ControlMaRA: DaMaLOS and AIRDeMChallenges co-located with 4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GENERATION FROM TEXTThe 3nd Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability Workshop – KG4S
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:308th International Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics (SeWeBMeDA-2025)The Third International Workshop Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2025)Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph ConstructionCausal Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence (Causal-NeSy)ODRL and Beyond: Practical Applications and Challenges for policy-base Access and Usage ControlMaRA: DaMaLOS and AIRDeMTUTORIAL: Shaping Knowledge GraphsThe 3nd Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability Workshop – KG4S
15:30 – 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:008th International Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics (SeWeBMeDA-2025)The Third International Workshop Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2025)Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph ConstructionCausal Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence (Causal-NeSy)ODRL and Beyond: Practical Applications and Challenges for policy-base Access and Usage ControlMaRA: DaMaLOS and AIRDeMTUTORIAL: Shaping Knowledge GraphsThe 3nd Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability Workshop – KG4S

Day 2 – Monday, June 2nd 2025

TimeRoom 1
Aurora I Floor 0
Room 2
Aurora II Floor 0
Room 3
Aurora III Floor 0
Room 4
Adria I Floor 11
Room 5
Adria II Floor 11
Room 6
Daphnia Floor 0
Room 7
Nautilus Floor 0
Room 8
Mediteranea Floor 11
09:00 – 10:30PhD Symposium4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GENERATION FROM TEXT2nd Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge GraphsSemDH2025: Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital HumanitiesSemGenAge – 1st Workshop on Semantic Generative Agents on the WebTUTORIAL: Nanopublications: Technology and Ecosystem1st International Workshop on Explainable AI and Knowledge Graphs (XAI+KG)ELMKE: Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30PhD Symposium4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GENERATION FROM TEXT2nd Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge GraphsSemDH2025: Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital HumanitiesSemGenAge – 1st Workshop on Semantic Generative Agents on the WebTUTORIAL: Nanopublications: Technology and Ecosystem1st International Workshop on Explainable AI and Knowledge Graphs (XAI+KG)ELMKE: Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 -15:30PhD Symposium4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GENERATION FROM TEXT2nd Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge GraphsSemDH2025: Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital HumanitiesSemGenAge – 1st Workshop on Semantic Generative Agents on the WebTUTORIAL: Nanopublications: Technology and EcosystemKnowledge Graphs for Responsible AIELMKE: Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering
15:30 – 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00PhD Symposium4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GENERATION FROM TEXT2nd Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge GraphsSemDH2025: Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital HumanitiesSemGenAge – 1st Workshop on Semantic Generative Agents on the WebTUTORIAL: Nanopublications: Technology and EcosystemKnowledge Graphs for Responsible AIELMKE: Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering

Main Conference

🌟indicates best paper nominees.

Day 1 – Tuesday, June 3rd 2025

TimeEmerald hall Floor 11Mediteranea hall Floor 11
09:00

09:20
Welcome
09:20

09:30
ESWC / SWSA Joint Statement
09:30

10:30
Keynote by Raphael Troncy
Building Knowledge Graphs For 20 Years: Should We Keep Doing This?
10:30

11:00
Coffee Break
Session 1: Ontology and Entity Matching (Harald Sack)Session 3: KG Embeddings I (Axel Polleres)
11:00

11:20
Research
On Evaluation Metrics for Complex Matching based on Reference Alignments [pdf]
by Guilherme Henrique Santos Sousa, Rinaldo Lima and Cassia Trojahn
Research
🌟Designing Hierarchies for Optimal Hyperbolic Embedding [pdf, Best Research Nominee]
by Melika Ayoughi, Max van Spengler, Pascal Mettes and Paul Groth
11:20

11:40
Resource
🌟OntoAligner: A Comprehensive Modular and Robust Python Toolkit for Ontology Alignment [pdf, Best Resource Nominee]
by Hamed Babaei Giglou, Jennifer D’Souza, Oliver Karras and Sören Auer
Research
Multi-dataset and transfer learning using gene expression knowledge graphs for patient diagnosis [pdf]
by Rita T. Sousa and Heiko Paulheim
11:40

12:00
Research
Predicting the Road Ahead: A Knowledge Graph based Foundation Model for
Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving [pdf]
by Hongkuan Zhou, Stefan Schmid, Yicong Li, Lavdim Halilaj, Xiangtong Yao
and Wei Cao
Research
GeoRDF2vec — Learning Location-Aware Entity Representations in Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Martin Böckling, Heiko Paulheim and Sarah Detzler
12:00

12:20
Research
AvengER: Ensembling and Fine-Tuning LLMs for Select Prompts in Entity
Resolution [pdf]
by Alexandros Zeakis, George Papadakis, Dimitrios Skoutas and Manolis Koubarakis
Research
Inductive Higher Order Embeddings [pdf]
by Giuseppe Pirrò
12:20

14:00
Lunch Break
Session 2: Knowledge Graph Construction (Umutcan Serles)Session 4: Privacy and Security (Patricia Serrano Alvarado)
14:00

14:20
Research
🌟An Algebraic Foundation for Knowledge Graph Construction [pdf, Best Research Nominee]
by Sitt Min Oo and Olaf Hartig
Research
Balancing Privacy and Utility: Semantic Anonymization of Time-aware Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Prachi Naik and Vinu Venugopal
14:20

14:40
In-Use
LLM-Supported Mapping Generation for Semantic Manufacturing Treasure Hunting [pdf]
by Wilma Johanna Schmidt, Irlan Grangel-González, Tobias Huschle, Lena Wagner, Evgeny Kharlamov and Adrian Paschke
Resource
🌟Interoperable Interpretation and Evaluation of ODRL Policies [pdf, Best Resource Nominee]
by Wout Slabbinck, Julian Rojas, Beatriz Esteves, Pieter Colpaert and Ruben Verborgh
14:40

15:00
In-Use
Knowledge Graph Construction for Health, Lifestyle and Fitness Applications [pdf]
by Carlo Allocca, Alessio Antonini, Riccardo Pala, Angelo Salatino, Iman Naja,
Rohit Ail, Muhammad Salman Haleem, Laura Lopez-Perez, Eugenio Gaeta,
Leandro Pecchia and Giuseppe Fico
Research
RDF-based Semantics for Selective Disclosure and Zero-knowledge Proofs on Verifiable Credentials [pdf]
by Christoph Braun and Tobias Käfer
15:00

15:30
Coffee Break
15:30

15:50
Workshop highlights
15:50

17:30
Minute Madness (Posters, Demos, PhD + EU Project Networking)
18:30

20:30
Posters + Demos + PhD + EU Project Networking (Location: San Bernadine)
19:30

20:00
A Celebration of Dieter Fensel (Location: San Bernadine)

Day 2 – Wednesday, June 4th 2025

TimeEmerald hall Floor 11Mediteranea hall Floor 11
09:00

09:30
Welcome
09:30

10:30
Keynote by Leonid Libkin
Languages for property graphs: progress overview and future directions
10:30

11:00
Coffee Break
Session 5: Evolving Knowledge (Pieter Colpaert)Session 6: Querying and Searching Knowledge (Elena Simperl)
11:00

11:20
Research
Explainable Temporal Fact Validation Through Constraints Discovery in Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Thibaut Soulard, Fatiha Saïs and Joe Raad
Research
Information-aware Entity Indexing in Knowledge Graphs to Enable Semantic Search [pdf]
by Samuel García and Carlos Bobed
11:20

11:40
Research
🌟Predicting clinical outcomes from patient care pathways represented with temporal knowledge graphs [pdf, Best Research Nominee]
by Jong Ho Jhee, Alberto Megina, Pacôme Constant Dit Beaufils, Matilde Karakachoff, Richard Redon, Alban Gaignard and Adrien Coulet
Resource 
Incremunica: Web-based Incremental View Maintenance for SPARQL [pdf]
by Maarten Vandenbrande, Ruben Taelman, Pieter Bonte and Femke Ongenae
11:40

12:00
Resource 
DBpedia-TKG: Capturing Wikipedia’s Evolution as Temporal Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Marvin Hofer, Maximilian Töpfer, Christopher Rost and Erhard Rahm
Research
Towards Practicable Algorithms for Rewriting Graph Queries beyond DL-Lite [pdf]
by Bianca Löhnert, Nikolaus Augsten, Cem Okulmus and Magdalena Ortiz
12:00

12:20
Research
🌟Delete/Rederive with Marking for Update Streams [pdf, Best Research Nominee]
by Moritz Illich and Birte Glimm
Research
Training-free Score Calibration for Complex Query Decomposition [pdf]
by Simon Ott, Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt
12:20

14:00
Lunch Break + EU Project Networking lunch
Industry Track (Josiane Xavier Parreira and Diego Collarana)Session 7: Linked Open Data (Rafiq ul Haque)
14:00

14:20
Industry
Gen-AI Co-Pilot for Semantic Mapping in Large Enterprise Data Lakes [pdf]
by Stefan Schmid, Lavdim Halilaj and Yi Tan
In-Use
🌟Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation [pdf, Best In-use Nominee]
by Matthäus Zloch, Danilo Dessì, Jennifer D’Souza, Leyla Jael Castro, Benjamin Zapilko, Saurav Karmakar, Brigitte Mathiak, Markus Stocker, Wolfgang Otto, Sören Auer and Stefan Dietze
14:20

14:40
Industry
Using off-the-shelf LLMs to Query Enterprise Data by Progressively Revealing Ontologies [pdf]
by Cristina Civili, Evgeny Sherkhonov and Kurt Stirewalt
Resource
MOOC on Linguistic Linked Data [pdf]
by Jorge Gracia, Slavko Žitnik, Max Ionov, Christian Chiarcos, Dagmar Gromann,
Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti, Armando Stellato, John P. McCrae, Gilles Sérasset, Andon Tchechmedjiev, Sara Carvalho, Penny Labropoulou and Rute Costa
14:40

15:00
Industry
GraphEase: A Visual Knowledge Graph Explorer for Building Systems [pdf]
by Ganesh Ramanathan, Maria Husmann, Alida Gassmann and Nick Ciardiello
In-Use
Towards Open Archival Linked Data (ALD): The Case of Swedish National Archives [pdf]
by Maria Ioanna Maratsi, David Haskiya, Mats Berggren, Yannis Charalabidis and Charalampos Alexopoulos
15:00

15:20
Industry
A Domain-Specific Question-Answering System for Railway Data: A Hybrid Approach [pdf]
by Andreas Both, Kai Herbst, Rene Krieg, Magdalena Landmann, Martin Raphael Alef and Anton Diettrich
Resource
🌟ShowVoc: a Thorough Platform for Publishing and Browsing Linked Open Datasets [pdf, Best Resource Nominee]
by Armando Stellato, Manuel Fiorelli, Tiziano Lorenzetti, Andrea Turbati, Willem van Gemert, Denis Dechandon, Aniko Gerencser and Enrico Francesconi
15:20

16:00
Coffee Break
Session 8: Shapes, Constraints and Validation (Fajar Ekaputra)
16:00

16:20
Industry
Knowledge-Graph-based Multi-Agent System for Energy Production Scheduling (KEMASS) [pdf]
by Fatma-Zohra Hannou, Somsakun Maneerat and Stéphane Ternot
In-Use
🌟OWL strict: A Constrained OWL Fragment to avoid Ambiguities for Knowledge Graph Practitioners [pdf, Best In-use Nominee]
by Robert David, Albin Ahmeti, Shqiponja Ahmetaj and Axel Polleres
16:20

16:40
Industry
Using Knowledge Graphs to Analyze Geomechanical Events in Daily Drilling Reports [pdf]
by Jonas Queiroz, Luis Afonso, Nelson Choueri Jr., Marcelo A. Jaculli, Ivan R. Guilherme, Bruno E. Penteado, José R.P. Mendes, Stephan R. Perrout and Felipe L. Oliveira
Research
Shape Expressions with Inheritance [pdf]
by Iovka Boneva, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Eric Prud’Hommeaux, Andra Waagmeester and Katherine Thornton
16:40

17:00
Industry
LLM-based Template Generation with Knowledge Graphs for Daily Drilling Reports [pdf]
by Luis H. Morelli, Giovani Candido, Jonas Queiroz, Marcelo A. Jaculli, Nelson Choueri Jr., Arnaldo Cândido Jr., Bruno E. Penteado, Ivan R. Guilherme, João P. Papa, Stephan R. Perrout and Felipe L. Oliveira
In-Use
🌟Language-Based Testing for Knowledge Graphs [pdf, Best In-use Nominee]
by Tobias John, Einar Broch Johnsen, Eduard Kamburjan and Dominic Steinhöfel
17:00

18:00
Town Hall
19:00

22:00
Gala Dinner

Day 3 – Thursday, June 5th 2025

TimeEmerald hall Floor 11Mediteranea hall Floor 11
Session 9: Taxonomies, Vocabularies and Ontologies (Pieter Colpaert)Session 10: KG Embeddings II (Sanju Tiwari)
09:00 – 09:20Research
Ontology Generation using Large Language Models [pdf]
by Anna Sofia Lippolis, Mohammad Javad Saeedizade, Robin Keskisärkkä, Sara Zuppiroli, Miguel Ceriani, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Eva Blomqvist and Aldo Gangemi
Research
Evaluating Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search Systems on Knowledge Graph Embeddings [pdf]
by Gaurav Pandit, Michael Röder and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
09:20 – 09:40Research
Taxonomy Inference for Tabular Data Using Large Language Models [pdf]
by Zhenyu Wu, Jiaoyan Chen and Norman Paton
Research
ReaLitE: Enrichment of Relation Embeddings in Knowledge Graphs using Numeric Literals [pdf]
by Antonis Klironomos, Baifan Zhou, Zhuoxun Zheng, Mohamed H. Gad-Elrab, Heiko Paulheim and Evgeny Kharlamov
09:40 – 10:00Resource 
mobilityDCAT-AP: a Metadata Specification for Enhanced Cross-border Mobility Data Sharing [pdf]
by Mario Scrocca, Lina Molinas Comet, Benjamin Witsch, Daham Mohammed Mustafa, Christoph Lange, Marco Comerio and Peter Lubrich
Research
Robustness Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models under Non-targeted Attacks [pdf]
by Sourabh Kapoor, Arnab Sharma, Michael Röder, Caglar Demir and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
10:00 – 10:20Resource 
Procedural Knowledge Ontology (PKO) [pdf]
by Valentina Anita Carriero, Mario Scrocca, Ilaria Baroni, Antonia Azzini and Irene Celino
Research
ANTS: Abstractive Entity Summarization in Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Asep Fajar Firmansyah, Hamada M. Zahera, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Diego Moussallem and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
10:20 – 11:00Coffee Break
Session 11: Extraction and Mining (Paul Groth)Session 12: Semantic Technologies (Marta Sabou)
11:00 – 11:20Research
🌟Analyzing the Influence of Knowledge Graph Information on Relation Extraction [pdf, Best Research Nominee]
by Cedric Möller and Ricardo Usbeck
In-Use
py-amr2fred: A Python Library for Converting Text into OWL-Compliant RDF Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
by Aldo Gangemi, Arianna Graciotti, Valentina Presutti, Antonello Meloni, Andrea Nuzzolese, Diego Reforgiato and Alessandro Russo
11:20 – 11:40Research
RelCheck: Improving Relation Extraction with Ontology-Guided and LLM-Based Validation [pdf]
by Mounir Ourekouch, Mohammed-Amine Koulali and Mohammed Erradi
Resource
The Semantic Web Language Server: enhancing the developer experience for Semantic Web practitioners [pdf]
by Arthur Vercruysse, Julian Rojas and Pieter Colpaert
11:40 – 12:00Resource 
LLMs4SchemaDiscovery: A Human-in-the-Loop Workflow for Scientific Schema Mining with Large Language Models [pdf]
by Sameer Sadruddin, Jennifer D’Souza, Eleni Poupå Watkins, Hamed Babaei Giglou, Anisa Rula, Bora Karasulu, Sören Auer, Adrie Mackus and Erwin Kessels
In-Use
Semantic Technologies for Global Governance: A Hybrid AI Approach to Tracking and Monitoring WHO Resolutions [pdf]
by Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Francesco Poggi, Luca Bassi and Monica Palmirani
12:00 – 12:20Research
Kastor: Fine-tuned Small Language Models for Shape-based Active Relation Extraction [pdf]
by Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel and Hanna Abi Akl
Resource
LLM-KG-Bench 3.0: A Compass for Semantic Technology Capabilities in the Ocean of LLMs [pdf]
by Lars-Peter Meyer, Johannes Frey, Desiree Heim, Felix Brei, Claus Stadler, Kurt Junghanns and Michael Martin
12:20 – 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00Keynote by Sonja Zillner
Responsible AI Engineering
15:00 – 16:00Closing Ceremony

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