Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2025 EU
21st International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 3 - 5, 2025
Important Dates:
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*Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025*
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*Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025*
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*Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025*
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*Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025*
*All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)*
*Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be
provided soon.*
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*.
Research and Innovation Track
The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the
Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research
contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to
the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also
encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other
scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange
and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been
published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must
adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any
additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a
rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews,
evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical
relevance of the work.
Topics of Interest
SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across
a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI.
We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where
semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language
models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
- Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
- Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
- Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model
grounding)
- Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG
- Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition,
extraction, integration, and publication workflows)
- Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
- Web agents
- Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia,
foundation models)
- Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
- Data Quality Management and Assurance
- Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI
- Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph
structures)
- Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes
- Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability,
decentralized knowledge representation)
- Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data
Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics)
- Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs
- Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data
updates in distributed settings)
- Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping
frameworks, ontology alignment)
- Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
- Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g.,
distributed querying, optimization)
- User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g.,
visualizations, intelligent user interaction)
- Explainable and Interoperable AI
- Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated
querying, link traversal)
Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but
not limited to:
- Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical
applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health)
- AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling
for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs)
- Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data
principles, enhanced scholarly communication)
- Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and
Museums)
- Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive
Maintenance
- Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and
legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act)
- Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces,
semantic service interoperability, data policy)
Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link.
For *Submission Guidelines* and * Review and Evaluation Criteria* please
head to the online call for papers:
*https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep*
<https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep>.
We would highly appreciate it if you could disseminate this call within
your network.
*We look forward to receiving your contributions!*
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
Kind Regards,
On behalf of the organising committee.
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Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi
ScaDS.AI Leipzig/Dresden, TU Dresden
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Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, November
20, at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732123800>. The theme for this showcase is
*A Look at External Factors that Help Different Language Versions of
Wikipedia Thrive*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/oH0PCNIzF0E. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative
analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editionsBy *Sejal Khatri*Why do
some peer production projects do a better job at engaging potential
contributors than others? We address this question by comparing three
Indian language Wikipedias, namely, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada. We
found that although the three projects share goals, technological
infrastructure, and a similar set of challenges, Malayalam Wikipedia’s
community engages language speakers in contributing at a much higher rate
than the others. Drawing from a grounded theory analysis of interviews with
18 community participants from the three projects, we found that experience
with participatory governance and free/open-source software in the
Malayalam community supported high engagement of contributors.
Counterintuitively, we found that financial resources intended to increase
participation in the Marathi and Kannada communities hindered the growth of
these communities. Our findings underscore the importance of social and
cultural context in the trajectories of peer production
communities.Low-Resource
Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding StudyBy *Hellina
Hailu Nigatu, UC Berkeley*Online Knowledge Repositories (OKRs) like
Wikipedia offer communities a way to share and preserve information about
themselves and their ways of living. However, for communities with
low-resourced languages—including most African communities—the quality and
volume of content available are often inadequate. One reason for this lack
of adequate content could be that many OKRs embody Western ways of
knowledge preservation and sharing, requiring many low-resourced language
communities to adapt to new interactions. In this talk, we will go through
findings from two studies: (1) a thematic analysis of Wikipedia forum
discussions and (2) a contextual inquiry study with 14 novice contributors
who create content in low-resourced languages. We will focus on three
Ethiopian languages: Afan Oromo, Amharic, and Tigrinya. Our analysis
revealed several recurring themes; for example, contributors struggle to
find resources to corroborate their articles in low-resourced languages,
and language technology support, like translation systems and spellcheck,
result in several errors that waste contributors’ time. Based on our
analysis, we will also outline design opportunities for building better
language support tools and interfaces for low-resourced language speakers.
Best,Kinneret
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Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Good afternoon,
Please be aware of a vacancy as a Research Group Leader in Professor Myrskylä's lab as well as the Summer Research Visit program situated at Professor Zagheni's lab:
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Deadline: December 12, 2024
More information can be found here<https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/research_gro…>.
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Dear all,
The European Commission is hosting a Q&A session webinar on the delegated act on data access for researchers under the DSA. It will take place online and it is targeted at researchers who would like to learn more about the delegated act and how it might benefit their research.
**Date and time: 19 November 2024, 10:00-11:30 (CET)**
You can sign up here:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/DataAccessInfoWebinar
Best,
Cristian
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HUMAINT team
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
European Commission
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Hi all!I am writing to let you all know about an upcoming change that may
affect your work. As you may recall from Leila’s email
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…>
about
a year ago, the Trust and Safety Product team (TSP) at WMF has been working
on releasing Temporary Accounts
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Accounts>
(previously
referred to as IP Masking), a major change to unregistered user identity in
our systems that is precipitated by legal and privacy imperatives. The team
has solidified deployment plans in place for rolling out Temporary Accounts
progressively on all our projects. *The first phase of this deployment
(Minor Pilots) will happen on October 29 and will roll out on approximately
12 small and medium-sized wikis *(see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376499). The second round of deployment
is tentatively scheduled for February 2025 and a final all-wiki deployment,
if all goes well, may happen in May 2025. This is a rather ambitious plan
that is driven by the importance and urgency of strengthening privacy for
all our logged-out editors.
This change may affect you if you are actively using IP addresses of
not-logged-in editors of the Wikimedia projects for your research or intend
to do so in the future.When WMF launches Temp Accounts, future edits from
not-logged-in users (sometimes referred to as unregistered users) will no
longer be attributed to their IP addresses. Instead, they will be assigned
auto generated temporary usernames that will be tied to a cookie on their
browsers. As long as the cookie persists, the edits will be attributed to
that user. After 90 days, the cookie will automatically expire. Users who
need access to IP addresses to protect Wikimedia projects from vandalism or
other abuse will be able to do so on a limited basis and for a limited
period of time (see
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Access_to_temporary_account_IP…).
IP addresses of not-logged-in users in the historical data will remain
unchanged. The Temporary Accounts rollout will affect future edits
(relative to the time of rollout) only.
*We are sending this message specifically to the Wikimedia research
communities because we predict these changes may have the following impacts
on data used by many of you:*
- New fields (user_is_temp and user_is_permanent) have been added to
data tables, which will help distinguish between temporary and permanent
accounts. The existing field user_is_anonymous will be false for temporary
users. This impacts how users are classified
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_account_types, and researchers might
need to adjust how they query and analyze data. *It’s important to
mention that while these fields have been added to tables, the work to make
this change visible is still in progress. We will send a further update
when this happens.*
- There will be a transitional period where both temporary and anonymous
user fields are active, but eventually, all editors will have a
username/user ID, and the user_is_anonymous field will be phased out.
- Researchers should think about how they want to handle and classify
temporary users in their projects moving forward, as the rollout will
affect all Wikimedia wikis.
You can stay updated about this project and contact the team leading this
work through the project’s dedicated page
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Acco…
.
Best,
Kinneret
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Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
I am reaching out to inform you of an initiative by the European Commission that may be of interest to you.
You may be aware that art. 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) provides vetted researchers with access to the data of designated Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs). As of today, there are 23 designated VLOPs and 2 designated VLOSEs (*).
The Commission has recently launched a public consultation aimed at gathering insights and perspectives on the development of new rules - through a Delegated Act - that will govern researchers' access to data from online platforms.
The primary objective of this consultation is to ensure that researchers have adequate access to data that will enable them to monitor and analyze systemic risks posed by digital services. These risks are defined in the DSA and include the spread of illegal content, adverse effects on election integrity, and the protection of public health, among others.
The consultation is open to a wide range of stakeholders, including academic researchers. Note that, in the current draft, the "vetted researcher" designation is not limited to people affiliated with academic institutions, but also to other organizations, such as NGOs and non-profits as long as they are a research organisation as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2019/790.
I encourage you to share your views and expertise on how such a data access framework should be structured.
Please follow this link to access the consultation document and submit your response: https://europa.eu/!8q9Y9T. Feedback can be sent in any official language of the EU, but the draft is available only in English at the moment.
The deadline for submitting contributions is the 26th of November 2024. After gathering public feedback, the Commission plans to adopt the rules in the first quarter of 2025.
Thank you for considering to participate in the public consultation.
Best regards,
Cristian Consonni
(*): Currently designated VLOPS are Alibaba AliExpress, Amazon Store, Apple AppStore, Booking.com, Facebook, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, PornHub, Shein Snapchat, Stripchat, Temu, TikTok, Wikipedia, X (formerly Twitter), XNXX, XVideos, YouTube and Zalando. Currently designated VLOSEs are Bing and Google Search.
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HUMAINT team
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
European Commission
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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Dear all
we are organising a conference at the University of Florence in Italy on Wikidata and research, June 5-6, 2025.
The call for papers is open until December 9, 2024: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_and_research/Call
It would be fantastic if you'd like to present something. There are also lightning talks for projects that still need to be completed and the possibility to submit posters.
my very best regards
iolanda
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Hello everyone,
We're happy to announce the *12th edition of Wiki Workshop* [1], our
largest Wikimedia research event of the year! This year’s workshop will be
held *virtually* on *Wednesday, May 21, 2025, from 14:00 to 18:00 UTC*
and *Thursday,
May 22, 2025, from 11:00 to 15:00 UTC.*
As you can see, we are experimenting with expanding the workshop from one
to two days. We hope this format will allow for deeper engagement and
better pacing across both days. This is currently a one-time change for
2025 and based on what we learn from this year, we’ll make informed
decisions for future events.
We look forward to your participation and contributions to make this year's
workshop a great success. Stay tuned for further details and registration
information.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Kinneret
on behalf of the organizing team
[1] see last year's program and website: https://wikiworkshop.org/2024/
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Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>