Tuesday, May 30th, 2017
From To Track 1 - Room: Emerald Track 2 - Room: Mediteranea Track 3 - Room: Adria
09:00 09:30

ESWC Opening Ceremony
09:30 10:30  

Keynote Speech
Kevin Crosbie: "Bringing Semantic Intelligence to Financial Markets"

Session Chair: Aldo Gangemi

 
10:30 11:00

Coffee break
11:00

12:30

Session: NLP 1 (Entities)

Session Chair: Fabio Ciravegna

11:00-11:30

All That Glitters is not Gold -- Rule-Based Curation of Reference Datasets for Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking
Kunal Jha, Michael Röder and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

11:30-12:00

Harnessing Diversity in Crowds and Machines for Better NER performance
Oana Inel and Lora Aroyo

12:00-12:30

Beyond Time: Dynamic Context-aware Entity Recommendation
Nam Khanh Tran, Tuan Tran and Claudia Niederée

Session: Reasoning 1

Session Chair: Claudia d'Amato

11:00-11:30

Lean Kernels in Description Logics
Rafael Peñaloza, Carlos Mencía, Alexey Ignatiev and Joao Marques-Silva

11:30-12:00

Learning Commonalities in RDF
Sara El Hassad, Francois Goasdoue and Helene Jaudoin

12:00-12:30

Updating Wikipedia via DBpedia Mappings and SPARQL
Albin Ahmeti, Javier D Fernández, Axel Polleres and Vadim Savenkov

ESWC Challenges (1)

Chair: Monika Solanki

11:00 - 11:15

Presentation of the challenges (submission, data, info, etc.) - Monika Solanki

11:15 - 11:45

Semantic Publishing Challenge

11:45 - 12:15

Semantic Sentiment Analysis
12:30 14:00

Lunch
14:00 15:30

Session: Linked Data

Session Chair: Valentina Presutti

14:00-14:30

Entity Deduplication on Scholarlydata
Ziqi Zhang, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese and Anna Lisa Gentile

14:30-15:00

Exploiting Source-Object Network to Resolve Object Conflicts in Linked Data
Wenqiang Liu, Jun Liu, Haimeng Duan, Wei Hu and Bifan Wei

15:00-15:30

Methods for Intrinsic Evaluation of Links in the Web of Data
Cristina Sarasua, Steffen Staab and Matthias Thimm

 

Session: Ontologies 1 (Design)

Session Chair: Heiko Paulheim

14:00-14:30

Chaudron: Extending DBpedia with measurements
Julien Subercaze

14:30-15:00

Rule-based OWL Modeling with ROWLTab Protégé Plugin
Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, Adila A Krisnadhi, David Carral and Pascal Hitzler

15:00-15:30

SM4MQ: A Semantic Model for Multidimensional Queries
Jovan Varga, Ekaterina Dobrokhotova, Oscar Romero, Torben Bach Pedersen and Christian Thomsen

ESWC Challenges (2)

Chair: Monika Solanki

14:00 - 14:30

Question Answering over Linked Data

14:30 - 15:00

Mighty Storage Challenge

15:00 - 15:30

Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge

15:30 16:00

Coffee break
16:00 17:30

Session: Machine Learning 1 (Linking)

Session Chair: Pascal Hitzler

16:00-16:30

WOMBAT: A Generalization Approach for Automatic Link Discovery
Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Jens Lehmann

16:30-17:00

Online Relation Alignment for Linked Datasets
Maria Koutraki, Nicoleta Preda and Dan Vodislav

17:00-17:30

Synthesizing Knowledge Graphs for Link and Type Prediction Benchmarking
Andre de Oliveira Melo and Heiko Paulheim

Session: Mobile Web, sensors and streams

Session Chair: Andreas Harth

16:00-16:30

AGACY Monitoring: a hybrid model for activity recognition and uncertainty handling
Hela Sfar, Amel Bouzeghoub, Nathan Ramoly and Jérome Boudy

16:30-17:00

Spatial Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Mobility Streams
Patrik Schneider, Thomas Eiter and Josiane Xavier Parreira

17:00-17:30

Optimizing the Performance for Concurrent RDF Stream Processing Queries
Chan Le Van, Feng Gao and Muhammad Intizar Ali
17:30 19:00

Panel: The Future of Proceedings Publication: the Perspective of the Semantic Web Community
19:00

Welcome Reception
 

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
From To Track 1 - Room: Emerald Track 2 - Room: Mediteranea Track 3 - Room: Adria
09:15 09:30

Announcements
09:30 10:30

 

Keynote Speech
John Sheridan: ”Semantic Web technologies for Digital Archives

Session Chair: Diana Maynard

 
10:30 11:00

Coffee break
11:00 12:30

Session: Social Media

Session Chair: Lora Aroyo

11:00-11:30

A Semantic Graph-based Approach for Radicalisation Detection on Social Media
Hassan Saif, Miriam Fernandez, Leon Kastler, Thomas Dickinson and Harith Alani

11:30-12:00

Crowdsourced Affinity: A Matter of Fact or Experience
Chun Lu, Milan Stankovic, Filip Radulovic and Philippe Laublet

12:00-12:30

Linked Data Notifications
Sarven Capadisli, Amy Guy, Christoph Lange, Sören Auer and Tim Berners-Lee

Session: In-Use 1 (Out there ideas)

Session chair: Paolo Bouquet

11:00-11:30

BalOnSe: Temporal Aspects of Dance Movement and its Ontological Representation
Katerina El Raheb, Theofilos Mailis, Vladislav Ryzhikov and Yannis Ioannidis

11:30-12:00

From Data to City Indicators: A Knowledge Graph for Supporting Automatic Generation of Dashboards
Henrique Santos, Victor Dantas, Vasco Furtado, Paulo Pinheiro and Deborah McGuinness

12:00-12:30

Reasoning on Engineering Knowledge: Applications and Desired Features
Constantin Hildebrandt, Matthias Glawe, Andreas W Müller and Alexander Fay

 

 

 

 

 
12:30 14:00

Lunch
14:00 15:30

Session: Transparency 1

Session chair: Axel Polleres

14:00-14:30

Adopting Semantic Technologies for Effective Corporate Transparency
Maria Mora-Rodriguez, Ghislain Auguste Atemezing and Chris Preist

14:30-15:00

Modeling and Querying Greek Legislation using Semantic Web Technologies
Ilias Chalkidis, Charalampos Nikolaou, Panagiotis Soursos and Manolis Koubarakis

15:00-15:30

Removing Barriers to Transparency: a Case Study on the Use of Semantic Technologies to Tackle Procurement Data Inconsistency
Giuseppe Futia, Alessio Melandri, Antonio Vetrò, Federico Morando and Juan Carlos De Martin

Session: In-Use 2 (Networks)

Session chair: Riccardo Tommasini

14:00-14:30

A Compressed, Inference-enabled Encoding Scheme for RDF Stream Processing
Jeremy Lhez, Xiangnan Ren, Badre Belabbess and Olivier Curè

14:30-15:00

A Hypercat-enabled Semantic Internet of Things Data Hub
Ilias Tachmazidis, Sotiris Batsakis, John Davies, Alistair Duke, Mauro Vallati, Grigoris Antoniou and Sandra Stincic Clarke

15:00-15:30

smartAPI: Towards a more intelligent network of Web APIs
Amrapali Zaveri, Shima Dastgheib, Trish Whetzel, Ruben Verborgh, Paul Avillach, Gabor Korodi, Raymond Terryn, Kathleen Jagodnik, Pedro Assis, Chunlei Wu and Michel Dumontier

EU project networking

Chair: Lyndon Nixon and Maria Maleshkova

14:00-14:30


The European Research Council: Funding opportunities for investigator-driven frontier research (Miklos Nagy)


14:45 - 15:30

Project Presentations I:

  1. Data4UrbanMobility: Data-Driven Mobility Services for Smart Cities
  2. KNOWMAK: Knowledge in the Making in the European Society
  3. ALOOF: Autonomous Learning of the Meaning of Objects and its Application to Robotics
  4. EW-Shopp: Supporting Event and Weather-based Data Analytics and Marketing along the Shopper Journey
  5. VALCRI: Applying Semantic-web Technologies to Visual Analytics for Criminal Intelligence
  6. The ALIGNED Method and Tools for Engineering AGILE Big Data Systems
  7. BigDataOcean - Exploiting Oceans of Data for Maritime Applications

 
15:30 16:00

Coffee break
16:00 17:30

Session: NLP 2

Session Chair: Diego Reforgiato

16:00-16:30

Combining word and entity embeddings for entity linking
Jose Moreno, Romaric Besançon, Romain Beaumont, Eva D'Hondt, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Sophie Rosset, Xavier Tannier and Brigitte Grau

16:30-17:00

Mapping Natural Language to Description Logic
Bikash Gyawali, Anastasia Shimorina and Claire Gardent

17:00-17:30

Semantic Annotation of Data Processing Pipelines in Scientific Publications
Sepideh Mesbah, Kyriakos Fragkeskos, Christoph Lofi, Alessandro Bozzon and Geert-Jan Houben

Session: In-Use 3 (Data)

Session Chair: Ilaria Tiddi

16:00-16:30

Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Assess Maintenance Tasks from Operational Interruptions: A Use-Case at Airbus
Ghislain Auguste Atemezing

16:30-17:00

ArmaTweet: Detecting Events by Semantic Tweet Analysis
Alberto Tonon, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Vincent Lenders, Albert Blarer and Boris Motik

17:00-17:30

Declarative Data Transformations for Linked Data Generation: the case of DBpedia
Ben De Meester, Wouter Maroy, Anastasia Dimou, Ruben Verborgh and Erik Mannens

EU project networking

Chair: Lyndon Nixon and Maria Maleshkova

16:00 - 16:45

Project Presentations II:

  1. SPECIAL: Scalable Policy-awarE Linked Data arChitecture for prIvacy, trAnsparency and compLiance
  2. SUPERSEDE - SUpporting Evolution and Adaptation of PERsonalized Software by Exploiting Contextual Data and End-user Feedback
  3. euBusinessGraph
  4. InVID - In Video Veritas, Verification of Social Media Video Content for the News Industry
  5. WDAqua ITN: Answering Questions using Web Data
  6. IASIS: Big Data for Supporting PrecisionMedicine and Public Health Policy-Making
16:45 - 17:30

Project Speed Dating
17:30 18:30

Minute Madness, Chairs: Katja Hose and Heiko Paulheim
20:00

Gala Dinner
 

Thursday, June 1st, 2017
From To Track 1 - Room: Emerald Track 2 - Room: Mediteranea
 Track 3 - Room: Adria
09:00 11:00

POSTERS & DEMOS
Session Chairs: Katja Hose and Heiko Paulheim
11:00 11:30

Coffee Break
11:30 12:30  

Keynote Speach
Lora Aroyo: Disrupting the Semantic Comfort Zone

Chair: Eva Blomqvist

 
12:30 14:00

Lunch
14:00 15:30

Session: Machine Learning 2

Session Chair: Maria Maleshkova

14:00-14:30

Actively Learning to Rank Semantic Associations for Personalized Contextual Exploration of Knowledge Graphs
Federico Bianchi, Matteo Palmonari, Marco Cremaschi and Elisabetta Fersini

14:30-15:00

Embedding Learning for Declarative Memories
Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma, Stephan Baier and Yinchong Yang

15:00-15:30

Terminological Cluster Trees for Disjointness Axiom Discovery
Giuseppe Rizzo, Claudia D'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi and Floriana Esposito

 

 

Session: Ontologies 2

Session Chair: Peter Haase

14:00-14:30

Data-driven Joint Debugging of the DBpedia Mappings and Ontology
Heiko Paulheim

14:30-15:00

Using insights from psychology and language to improve how people reason with Description Logics
Paul Warren, Paul Mulholland, Trevor Collins and Enrico Motta

15:00-15:30

Patterns for Heterogeneous TBox Mappings to Bridge Different Modelling Decisions
Pablo Fillottrani and C Maria Keet

 

Session: Cross-Track (Relevance)

Session Chair: Harald Sack

14:00-14:30

Modeling Company Risk & Importance in Supply Graphs
Lucas Carstens, Jochen L Leidner, Krzysztof Szymanski and Blake Howald

14:30-15:00

Tuning Personalized PageRank for Semantics-aware Recommendations based on Linked Open Data
Cataldo Musto, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco De Gemmis and Pasquale Lops

15:00-15:30

Exploring Importance Measures for Summarizing RDF/S KBs
Alexandros Pappas, Georgia Troullinou, Giannis Roussakis, Haridimos Kondylakis and Dimitris Plexousakis

 

 
15:30 16:00

Coffee Break
16:00 17:30

Session: Big Data

Session Chair: Andrea Nuzzolese

16:00-16:30

Traffic Analytics for Linked Data Publishers
Luca Costabello, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Gofran Shukair, Corine Deliot and Neil Wilson

16:30-17:00

Explaining Graph Navigational Queries
Valeria Fionda and Giuseppe Pirrò

17:00-17:30

A SPARQL extension for generating RDF from heterogeneous formats
Maxime Lefrançois, Antoine Zimmermann and Mohammad Noorani Bakerally

 

 

Session: Transparency 2

Session Chair: Amrapali Zaveri

16:00-16:30

NdFluents: An Ontology for Annotating Statements in Linked Data
José M Giménez-García, Antoine Zimmermann and Pierre Maret

16:30-17:00

Self-Enforcing Access Control for Encrypted RDF
Javier D Fernández, Sabrina Kirrane, Axel Polleres and Simon Steyskal

17:00-17:30

Ontology-Driven Unified Governance in Software Engineering: The PoolParty case study
Monika Solanki, Christian Mader, Helmut Nagy, Margot Mückstein, Mahek Hanfi, Robert David and Andreas Koller

 
17:30

Closing session