23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
May 10-14, 2026 | Dubrovnik , CroatiaMain Conference Day 2 (May 13th)
| Time | Princess Hall | Princess 2/4/6 | Princess 1/3/5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:20 – 09:00 | For PhD Students: Start the day with a short, informal Q&A designed especially for PhD students. Session chairs will preview the day’s keynote and sessions, introduce the topics and speakers, and share practical tips on how to get the most out of the conference program. Come along to discover what not to miss, ask questions, and plan your day with confidence. | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Workshop Highlights | ||
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Keynote Prof. Isabelle Augenstein | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
Session 3A: KG Embeddings Chair: Heiko Paulheim | Session 3B: Multi-Modal Knowledge Graphs Chair: Maria Angela Pellegrino | Session 3C: Constraints, Validation and Fact Checking Chair: Jean-Paul Calbimonte | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Research ⭐ Link Prediction or Perdition: the Seeds of Instability in Knowledge Graph Embeddings Guillaume Méroué, Fabien Gandon and Pierre Monnin | Research Are a Thousand Words Better Than a Single Picture? Beyond Images - A Framework for Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Dataset Enrichment Pengyu Zhang, Klim Zaporojets, Jie Liu, Jia-Hong Huang and Paul Groth | Research From RDF Graph Validation to RDF Dataset Validation with SHACL-DS Davan Chiem Dao and Christophe Debruyne |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Research Fully Geometric Multi-Hop Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs With Transitive Relations Fernando Zhapa-Camacho and Robert Hoehndorf | Resource ArtKB: A Multimodal Art Knowledge Base for Cultural Heritage Giacomo Blanco, Ruben Peeters, Giuseppe Rizzo, Anastasia Dimou, Xuemin Duan, Tommaso Monopoli and Federico D'Asaro | Industry Multi-Level Data Validation for Knowledge Graph Construction Pipelines Lars Heling, Isaiah Onando Mulang', Hassan el Hajj and Felix Sasaki |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Industry DBpedia-Enriched Company Representation for B2B Lead Recommendation Yuyan Qian, Claude Montacie, Milan Stankovic and Victoria Eyharabide | In-Use Knowledge-Enhanced Multimodal Retrieval over Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs Xuemin Duan, Federico D'Asaro, Ruben Peeters, Giacomo Blanco, Tommaso Monopoli, Giuseppe Rizzo and Anastasia Dimou | Research Explainable Validation of Data Sharing Agreements using DPV, SHACL, and Human-in-the-Loop Review Julio Hernandez and Harshvardhan Pandit |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Research Robust Knowledge Graph Embedding via Denoising Tengwei Song, Xudong Ma, Yang Liu, Jie Luo and Robert Hoehndorf | Resource ⭐ CUBE-MT: A Cultural Benchmark for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Construction with Generative Models Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Xin Fan Guo, Nitisha Jain, Filip Birčanin, Timothy Neate, Thomas van Erven, Sándor Daranyi and Nasrine Olson | Research Structure is the Signal: Graph Encodings and GNNs for Constraint Repair in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs Miguel Vázquez, Kevin Innerebner, Alexander Prock, Günter Klambauer, Elisabeth Lex, Johannes Schimunek and Axel Polleres |
| 12:20 – 14:00 | Lunch Break Lunch Break and EU Project Networking Lunch | ||
Session 4A: Ontology Matching and Information Extraction Chair: Nathalie Aussenac | Session 4B: Linked Open Data Chair: Victor de Boer | Session 4C: Ontology Engineering (II) Chair: Raúl García-Castro | |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Research TIM: Tiered Iterative Knowledge Graph Matching Alexander Becker, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Mohamed Ahmed Sherif | Resource A Linked Open Data Service and Semantic Portal to Study the Assembly Minutes and Prosopography of the League of Nations (1920--1946) Petri Leskinen, Eero Hyvönen, Alexandre Lionnet, Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Pierre-Etienne Bourneuf, Davide Rodogno, Grégoire Mallard and Florian Cafiero | Resource ⭐ Bench4KE: Benchmarking Automated Competency Question Generation Anna Sofia Lippolis, Minh Davide Ragagni, Paolo Ciancarini, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese and Valentina Presutti |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | In-Use ⭐ Energy Domain Ontology Matching with Large Language Model Zhiyu Pan, Hanyang Li and Antonello Monti | Research ODRL Policy Comparison by Normalisation Jaime Osvaldo Salas Trejo, Paolo Pareti and George Konstantinidis | Research A Comparative Study of Competency Question Elicitation Methods from Ontology Requirements Reham Alharbi, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne and Jacopo de Berardinis |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Research Interpretable Context-Aware Models Improve Expert Validation in Ontology Matching Pedro Giesteira Cotovio, Susana Nunes, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz and Catia Pesquita | Resource ⭐ BOLD: A Simulation Framework for Dynamic Linked Data Environments and a Benchmark for Linked Data User Agents Tobias Käfer, Victor Charpenay and Andreas Harth | Industry City Orchestra: An Operational Knowledge Graph for Causal Impact Modeling and Rapid Urban Scenario Analysis Nicolas Bus, Audrey Bouet and Insaf Nahri |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Research No Need to Be a Know-It-All: Fact Checking with Shallow Knowledge Umair Qudus, Neha Pokharel, Michael Röder and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo | In-Use ⭐ A Wikidata-based Workflow for Entity Reconciliation Strategies Evaluation: A Study on Early Modern Polish Personal Names Luiz Do Valle Miranda, Maciej Mozolewski, Krzysztof Kutt and Grzegorz J. Nalepa | Resource SemTS: Ontology and Vocabularies for the Semantic Categorization of Time Series Knowledge Alexander Graß, Rohit Arunrao Deshmukh, Christoph Lange, Diego Collarana, Christian Beecks and Stefan Decker |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Posters, Demos, and EU Project Networking | ||
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Town Hall | ||
| 20:00 – 23:00 | Gala Dinner | ||