23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)

May 10-14, 2026 | Dubrovnik , Croatia

PhD Symposium: ESWC 2026

Mentors

  • Annette ten Teije
  • Olaf Hartig
  • Victor de Boer
  • Enrique Iglesias
  • Michel Dumontier
  • Sabrina Kirrane
  • Maria-Esther Vidal
  • Marieke van Erp
  • Sabrina Kirrane
  • Disha Purohit
  • Yash Chudasama

Preliminary Program

TimeRoom 3
09:00 – 09:15Introduction
09:15 – 10:15Paper Session 1
LLM-supported Ontology Learning: Identifying optimal settings for low-resource ontologies
Upal Bhattacharya
Towards Explainable and Reliable Compositional Behavior in Knowledge Graph Question Answering Systems
David Maria Schmidt
Scalable Uncertainty Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs
Jingcheng Wu
Blending Ontology, Topology and Measure Theory
Samir Kipper
10:15 – 10:30Short Poster Session 1
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15Paper Session 2
Graph visualization for misinformation explanation
Tomáš Březina
Tackling Real-World Data Integration Challenges through Generic RML Extensions
Els de Vleeschauwer
In Data or Invisible: Toward a Better Digital Representation of Low-Resource Languages with Knowledge Graphs
Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue
Explainable Knowledge Graph Completion for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
Simon Blattner
AgriFLARE: Towards Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving AI in Smart Agriculture
Yazzed Hussein Younis Abdalla
12:15 – 12:30Short Poster Session 2
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15Paper Session 3
Advanced Negotiation of Data-Access Contracts in Data Spaces
Khensa Daoudi
From Prompting to Grounding: Active Alignment Mechanisms for Large Language Models
Vanessa Frohn
Conversational Agents for Knowledge Graph Construction
Nicole Obretincheva
A Taxonomy to Harmonize Actors, Rights, and Obligations across AI and Data Regulations
Gabriela Kurteva
Toward Intuitive Knowledge Graph Visualization for Digital Musicology: Design Principles for Exploring Lute Tablature Concordances
Ilias Kyriazis
15:15 – 15:30Short Poster Session 3
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00Paper Session 4
Semantic description of heterogeneous environmental monitoring data and its use with a context-aware decision support system
Chloé Jabéa
Towards a Sovereign Agentic Web: Decentralized Personalization and Proactive Risk Mitigation
Fernando Spadea
Inferring Sensitive Attributes from Knowledge Graph Embeddings: Attack and Defense Strategies
Yasmine Hayder
Evaluating Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Antrea Christou
17:00 – 17:30Short Poster Session 4 and Keynote/Panel/Activity
From 18:00Social Activity