23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)

May 10-14, 2026 | Dubrovnik , Croatia

Main Conference Day 2 (May 13th)

TimePrincess HallPrincess 2/4/6Princess 1/3/5
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
19:30 – 23:00
Gala Dinner