Main Conference

Tuesday 19, 2019

08:00 - 17:00Registration (Lower Level Foyer)
08:00 - 09:00Breakfast (Lower Level Foyer)
09:00 - 10:30Tutorials and Workshops
Palisades Tutorial 1: Hybrid Techniques for Knowledge-Based NLP - Knowledge Graphs meet Machine Learning and All their Friends Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Ronald Denaux and and Raul Ortega
Malibu/Santa Monica Workshop 1: Second International Workshop on Hybrid Question Answering with Structured and Unstructured Knowledge (HQA'19) Franz Baader, Brigitte Grau and Yue Ma
Venice/Peninsula Workshop 2: 3rd International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge Daniel Garijo, Milan Markovic, Paul Groth, Idafen Santana, and Khalid Belhajjame
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30Tutorials and Workshops
Palisades Tutorial 1: Hybrid Techniques for Knowledge-Based NLP - Knowledge Graphs meet Machine Learning and All their Friends Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez and Ronald Denaux
Malibu/Santa Monica Workshop 1: Second International Workshop on Hybrid Question Answering with Structured and Unstructured Knowledge (HQA'19) Franz Baader, Brigitte Grau and Yue Ma
Venice/Peninsula Workshop 2: 3rd International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge Daniel Garijo, Milan Markovic, Paul Groth, Idafen Santana, and Khalid Belhajjame
12:00 - 13:30Lunch (Pacific I, II)
13:30 - 15:00Tutorials 2 and 3
Palisades Tutorial 2: Linking, Extending, Exploiting and Enhancing Tabular Data with Wikidata Daniel Garijo and Pedro Szekely
Malibu/Santa Monica Tutorial 3: Build a Large-Scale Cross-Lingual Text Search Engine from Scratch Carlos Badenes-Olmedo, José Luis Redondo-Garcia and Oscar Corcho
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00Tutorials 2 and 3
Palisades Tutorial 2: Linking, Extending, Exploiting and Enhancing Tabular Data with Wikidata Daniel Garijo and Pedro Szekely
Malibu/Santa Monica Tutorial 3: Build a Large-Scale Cross-Lingual Text Search Engine from Scratch Carlos Badenes-Olmedo, José Luis Redondo-Garcia and Oscar Corcho
18:00 - 21:00Posters and Reception (USC Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292)
ISI, 5th floorJointly Learning from Social Media and Environmental Data for Typhoon Intensity Prediction. Hamada Zahera, Mohamed Sherif and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
Towards Exploiting Generic Problem Structures in Explanations for Automated Planning. Alan Lindsay
An Approach Toward a Prediction of the Presence of Asbestos in Buildings Based on Incomplete Temporal Descriptions of Marketed Products. Thamer Mecharnia, Nathalie Pernelle, Lydia Chibout and Fayçal Hamdi
Open Research Knowledge Graph: Next Generation Infrastructure for Semantic Scholarly Knowledge. Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh, Allard Oelen, Kheir Eddine Farfar, Manuel Prinz, Jennifer D'Souza, Gábor Kismihók, Markus Stocker and Sören Auer
Appropriate Expressiveness of Planning Domain Models: An Urban Traffic Control Case Study. Leah Chrestien and Lukáš Chrpa
Searching for Evidence of Scientific News in Scholarly Big Data. Md Reshad Ul Hoque, Jian Wu, Jiang Li, Chiman Kwan, Agnese Chiatti and Dash Bradley
Understanding Financial Transaction Documents using Natural Language Processing. Prateek Jain, Kunal Verma, Aniket Gaikwad and Pramod Gadde
Contextual Entity Disambiguation in Domains with Weak Identity Criteria: Disambiguating Golden Age Amsterdamers Al Koudous Idrissou, Veruska Zamborlini, Frank Van Harmelen and Chiara Latronico
Mining Process Factor Causality Links with Multi-relational Associations. Mickael Wajnberg, Petko Valtchev, Mario Lezoche, Hervé Panetto and Alexandre Blondin-Massé
T2WML: Table To Wikidata Mapping Language Pedro Szekely, Daniel Garijo, Divij Bhatia, Jiasheng Wu, Yixiang Yao and Jay Pujara

Wednesday November 20, 2019

07:45 - 15:40Registration (Sierra Foyer)
07:45 - 08:45Breakfast (Sierra Foyer)
08:30 - 09:00Opening Ceremony
09:00 - 10:00Keynote Talk
Session Chair: Ken Barker
Project Aristo: Towards Machines that Capture and Reason with Science. Peter Clark (Allen Institute for AI)
10:00 - 10:20Coffee Break
10:20 - 12:00Named Entity Recognition and Embedding
Session Chair: Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez
Identifying Ambiguity in Semantic Resources (spotlight) Anni Coden, Anna Lisa Gentile, Daniel Gruhl and Steve Welch
A General Framework to Build and Assess the Quality of Authority Links. Michel Chein, Alain Gutierrez and Michel Leclère
Ranking Knowledge Graphs By Capturing Knowledge about Languages and Labels. Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Kemele M. Endris, Elena Simperl and Maria-Esther Vidal
Assessing the Lexico-Semantic Relational Knowledge Captured by Word and Concept Embeddings. Ronald Denaux and Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez
Exploring Word Embeddings in CRF-Based Keyphrase Extraction from Research Papers. Krutarth Patel and Cornelia Caragea
12:00 - 13:30Lunch (Pacific I, II)
13:30 - 15:10Ontology Development and Alignment
Session Chair: Oscar Corcho
Ontology Extraction on Large Ontologies via Modularity and Forgetting. Jieying Chen, Ghadah Abdulrahman S Alghamdi, Renate A. Schmidt, Dirk Walther and Yongsheng Gao
Do your Resources Sound Similar? On the Impact of using Phonetic Similarity in Link Discovery. Abdullah Fathi Ahmed Ahmed, Mohamed Sherif and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
Several Link Keys are Better than One, or Extracting Disjunctions of Link Key Candidates. Manuel Atencia, Jérôme David and Jérôme Euzenat
MontoloStats - Ontology Modeling Statistics (spotlight) Sven Lieber, Ben De Meester, Anastasia Dimou and Ruben Verborgh
On the Impact of sameAs on Schema Matching. Joe Raad, Erman Acar and Stefan Schlobach
15:10 - 15:40Coffee Break
15:40 - 17:00Multimodal Knowledge Capture
Session Chair: Anna Lisa Gentile
Interactive Supervision with t-SNE. Francois Luus, Naweed Khan and Ismail Akhalwaya
Capturing Themed Evidence, a Hybrid Approach (spotlight). Enrico Daga and Enrico Motta
Look, Read and Enrich - Learning from Scientific Figures and their Captions.Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez and Raul Ortega
Knowledge Capturing via Conceptual Reframing: A Dynamic Knowledge Generation System for Cognitive Agents. Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato, Federico Perrone and Eleonora Chiodino
17:15 - 18:00Town Hall

Thursday November 21, 2019

08:00 - 09:00Breakfast (Sierra Foyer)
08:45 - 09:00Announcements
09:00 - 10:00Keynote Talk
Session Chair: Raphaël Troncy
ConceptNet at Twenty: Reflections on Structured Common Sense in an Era of Machine LearningCatherine Havasi (MIT Media Lab)
10:00 - 10:20Coffee Break
10:20 - 12:00Knowledge Graph Completion, Link Prediction and Multilinguality
Session Chair: Mehwish Alam
Generating Rules to filter Candidate Triples for Their Correctness Checking. by Knowledge Graph Completion Techniques Agustin Borrego, Daniel Ayala, Inma Hernandez, Carlos R. Rivero and David Ruiz
Wikidata Completeness Profiling Using ProWD. Avicenna Wisesa, Fariz Darari, Adila Krisnadhi, Werner Nutt and Simon Razniewski
TransGCN:Coupling Transformation Assumptions with Graph Convolutional Networks for Link Prediction (spotlight). Ling Cai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan, Gengchen Mai and Rui Zhu
Utilizing Knowledge Graphs for Neural Machine Translation Augmentation. Diego Moussallem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Paul Buitelaar and Mihael Arcan
Scalable Cross-Lingual Document Similarity through Language-Specific Concept Hierarchies. Carlos Badenes-Olmedo, José Luis Redondo García and Oscar Corcho
12:00 - 13:30Lunch (Pacific I, II)
13:30 - 15:10Applications: Visualization, Question Answering and Open Science
Session Chair: Fatiha Saïs
Knowledge Based Situation Discovery for Avionics Maintenance (spotlight). Luis Palacios, Yue Ma, Chantal Reynaud and Gaëlle Lortal
GizMO - A Customizable Representation Model for Graph-Based Visualizations of Ontologies. Vitalis Wiens, Steffen Lohmann and Sören Auer
Contextual Graph Attention for Answering Logical Queries over Incomplete Knowledge Graphs. Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan, Rui Zhu, Ling Cai and Ni Lao
Peer Reviewing Revisited: Assessing Research with Interlinked Semantic Comments. Cristina-Iulia Bucur, Tobias Kuhn and Davide Ceolin
D-REPR: A Language for Describing and Mapping Diversely-Structured Data Sources to RDF. Binh Vu, Jay Pujara and Craig Knoblock
15:10 - 15:40Coffee Break
15:40 - 17:00Planning and Queries
Session Chair: Stefan Schlobach
Congenial Benchmarking of RDF Storage Solutions. Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Felix Conrads, Maximilian Pensel and Anni-Yasmin Turhan
On the Robustness of Domain-Independent Planning Engines: The Impact of Poorly-Engineered Knowledge (spotlight). Mauro Vallati and Lukas Chrpa
Cooperative Web Agents by Combining Semantic Technologies with Reinforcement Learning. Nicole Merkle and Patrick Philipp
Towards More Complete Resultset Retrieval from Large Heterogeneous RDF Data Sources. Andre Valdestilhas, Tommaso Soru and Muhammad Saleem
17:00 - 17:30Closing Ceremony