Conference Program

December 10, December 11, December 12


Time (EST) December 10th
9:00 - 17:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening
9:15 - 10:35 - 15:20 Session 1: Knowledge Graph Embeddings, Representation, and link Predicition Chair: Sebastián Ferrada
9:15 - 9:35 Improving Knowledge Graph Embeddings through Contrastive Learning with Negative Statements. Rita T. Sousa and Heiko Paulheim
9:35 - 9:55 Minimizing Hyperbolic Embedding Distortion with LLM-Guided Hierarchy Restructuring. Melika Ayoughi, Pascal Mettes and Paul Groth
9:55 - 10:15 Parameter Averaging in Link Prediction. Rupesh Sapkota, Caglar Demir, Arnab Sharma and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
10:15 - 10:25 [SHORT] Semantic Similarity for Drug Slang Identification: A Comparative Analysis of Word2Vec and BERT. Srikar Reddy Gadusu and Hande McGinty
10:25 - 10:35 [SHORT] GLIIDE: Global-Local Image Integration via Descriptive Extraction. Aryan Singh Dalal, Soheil Abadifard and Hande Kucuk McGinty
10:35 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 Keynote
Dr. Pascal Hitzler:
MOMo's Journey: Addressing Knowledge Acquisition
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:20 Session 2: Knowledge Graph Extraction, Construction, Annotation, & Entity Linking Chair: Stefan Schlobach
14:00 - 14:20 Overcoming the Generalization Limits of SLM Finetuning for Shape-Based Extraction of Datatype and Object Properties. Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel and Hanna Abi Akl
14:20 - 14:40 Bridging Data Gaps: Harnessing Semantic Associations for Knowledge Discovery in Colonial Heritage. Sarah Binta Alam Shoilee, Victor de Boer, Annastiina Ahola, Heikki Rantala, Eero Hyvönen, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Susan Legêne
14:40 - 14:50 [SHORT] On Property Constraints in PG-Schema. Dominik Tomaszuk and José Emilio Labra Gayo
14:50 - 15:00 [SHORT] Make Soil Healthy Again: Construction of Ontology-Compliant Soil Health Knowledge Graph with Large Language Models. Beichen Wang, Luís Moreira De Sousa and Anna Fensel
15:00 - 15:10 [SHORT] WikiConflict: A New Dataset for Conflicting Data Reconciliation in Knowledge Graph Construction. Lucas Jarnac, Yoan Chabot and Miguel Couceiro
15:10 - 15:20 [SHORT] TrustFuse: A Fusion Testbed for Uncertain Knowledge ReconciliationLucas Jarnac, Yoan Chabot and Miguel Couceir
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Session 3: Reasoning, Question-Answering, and Explainability Chair: Michael Röder
16:00 - 16:20 Neural Reasoning for Robust Instance Retrieval in SHOIQ. Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou, Luke Friedrichs, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Caglar Demir, Yasir Mahmood, Stefan Heindorf and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
16:20 - 16:40 Q²Forge: Minting Competency Questions and SPARQL Queries for Question-Answering Over Knowledge Graphs. Yousouf Taghzouti, Franck Michel, Tao Jiang, Louis Felix Nothias and Fabien Gandon
16:40 - 16:50 [SHORT] Evaluation of Entity and Relation Linking for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. Daniel Vollmers, René Speck, Hamada Zahera and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
16:50 - 17:00 [SHORT] NeuReg: Neuro-Symbolic QA Generation from Regulatory Compliance. Umair Arshad, David Corsar and Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji
17:00 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION

Time (EST) December 11th
9:15 - 10:35 Session 4: Knowledge Graph Embeddings, Representation, and link Predicition 2 Chair: Rita T. Souza
9:15 - 9:35 CommonSense to DomainSense: Distilling Commonsense Reasoning to Domain-specific Knowledge Graphs. Narotam N, Mohammad Kaif, Neemesh Yadav, Raghava Mutharaju and Md. Shad Akhta
9:35 - 9:55 Capturing Symbolic Knowledge of Constraints and Incompleteness to Guide Inductive Learning in Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Completion. Disha Purohit, Yashrajsinh Chudasama and Maria-Esther Vidal
9:55 - 10:15 Eco-Friendly Witches: Improving Generalization Through Suspension of Disbelief for Zero-Shot Fact Extraction . Riley Capshaw, Andreas Bueff and Eva Blomqvist
10:15 - 10:25 [SHORT] Finding Good Neighbors: Examining the Importance of Neighborhood Selection for Link Prediction. Moritz Blum, Moritz Plenz, Basil Ell and Philipp Cimiano
10:25 - 10:35 [SHORT] Who Can Fix This? User Recommendation for Knowledge Graph Repair via Embedding-Based Clustering. Nicolas Ferranti, Dayane Guimaraes, Jairo Souza and Axel Polleres
10:35 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 Keynote
Dr. Oscar Corcho:
25 Years of Ontology Engineering: A Personal View
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:20 Session 5: Ontologies and Semantic Frameworks Chair: Nicola Carboni
14:00 - 14:20 CST-Onto: An Ontological Framework for Culturally-Grounded Narrative Generation in Arabic. Mossab Ibrahim, Pablo Gervás, and Gonzalo Mendez
14:20 - 14:40 TIDO: The Threat Intelligence Decision Ontology. Ritten Roothaert, Stefan Schlobach, Fabio Massacci and Lise Stork
14:40 - 14:50 [SHORT] Lessons Learned from OWL and SHACL. Edna Ruckhaus, John Toledo, Edgar Alexis Martínez Sarmiento and Oscar Corcho
14:50 - 15:00 [SHORT] A Semantic Framework for the Contextual Interpretation of ADHD Symptom Manifestations . Ibrahim Traore, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil, Konstantinos Vlachos, Imen Megdiche, Jérôme Marquet-Doléac and Lotfi Chaari
15:00 - 15:10 [SHORT] Improving BPMN Model Generation from Text through Prompt-Guided Fusion of NLP and LLM Approaches. Intissar Boujmil and Wiem Chebil
15:10 - 15:20 [SHORT] DBLP QuAD 2.0: Scholarly Natural Questions from SPARQL Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, Patrick Neises, Stefan Ollinger, Patrick Westphal, Marcel R. Ackermann, Debayan Banerjee and Ricardo Usbeck
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Session 6: KG-Enhanced Agents, Languages/Planning & Interactive Systems Chair: Franck Michel
16:00 - 16:20 Extracting Commonsense Knowledge for Robotic Agents from LLMs. Adamik, Tiddi, Schlobach
16:20 - 16:40 Natural Language Interaction for Editing Visual Knowledge Graphs. Shahriari, Ragan, Ruiz
16:40 - 16:50 [SHORT] AEPIS: Agent-Enabled Planning at Scale. Schmid, Gui, Freund, Wehr, Harth
16:50 - 17:00 [SHORT] AnNER: Supporting Efficient Entity Annotation and Review Workflows for KG Construction. Reza, Pease, Wang, Hahmann
17:30 - 21:00 Gala Dinner @ Dayton Art Institute

Time (EST) December 12th
9:00 - 10:20 Session 7: Language, Processes, and Semantic Modeling Chair: Sebastian Schmid
9:00 - 9:20 LP-4P: Link Prediction over Annotated Knowledge Graphs with Four Patterns. Kieffer, Chabane, Serrano Alvarado, Belhajjame
9:20 - 9:40 sBPMN: A Framework for Capturing Business Process Semantics in Dynamic Knowledge Graphs. Franz Krause, Heiko Paulheim, Amparo Vázquez and Alejandro Espert
9:40 - 10:00 MM-GTA: Morphological Modeling via Graph-based Text Adaptation for Arabic Dialect Transfer. Ibrahim, Gervás, Méndez
10:00 - 10:10 [SHORT] Hidden Neuron Activation Analysis on Labeled Text Data. Das, Dalal, Hitzler
10:00 - 10:20 [SHORT] A Guided and Flexible LLM-based Approach for Knowledge Extraction from Text . Songuon, Chabot, Jarnac, Huynh
10:20 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:35 Session 8: Knowledge Graph Reasoning & Explainability Chair: Alexis Ellis
10:45 - 11:05 Capturing Legal Reasoning Paths from Facts to Law in Court Judgments using Knowledge Graphs. Kondo, Matsuoka, Yoshida, Yamasawa, Hisano
11:05 - 11:25 Explainable Benchmarking through the Lens of Concept Learning. Zhang, Röder, Srivastava, Kouagou, Ngonga Ngomo
11:25 - 11:35 [SHORT] NL2LS: LLM-based Automatic Linking of KGs. Ihtassine, Firmansyah, Srivastava, Ali, Ngonga Ngomo, Sherif
11:35 - 12:00 Closing Ceremony