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15th International Conference, SEMANTiCS 2019
Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9–12, 2019
Proceedings
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11702
Founding Editors
Gerhard Goos
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Peking University, Beijing, China
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TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
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RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Semantic Systems
The Power of AI
and Knowledge Graphs
15th International Conference, SEMANTiCS 2019
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Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9 12, 2019
Proceedings
Editors
Maribel Acosta Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology University of Fribourg
Karlsruhe, Germany Fribourg, Switzerland
Maria Maleshkova Tassilo Pellegrini
University of Bonn St.PöltenUniversity
Bonn,Germany of AppliedScience
St.Pölten,Austria
Harald Sack
FIZ Karlsruhe– Leibniz Institute York Sure-Vetter
for Information Infrastructure Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Karlsruhe, Germany
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Preface
SEMANTiCS 2019 took place during September 9–12, 2019, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
SEMANTiCS offers a forum for the exchange of latest scientific results in semantic
systems and complements these topicswithnew research challenges inareas like data
science,machinelearning, logicprogramming,contentengineering,socialcomputing,
Semantic Web, and many more. This year was the 15th edition of the SEMANTiCS
conferenceseries,whichhasdevelopedintoaninternationallyvisibleandprofessional
academic event.
Participants learn from top researchers and industry experts about emerging trends
and topics in the wide area of semantic computing. The SEMANTiCS community is
highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas such as artificial
intelligence, knowledge discovery and management, big data analytics, e-commerce,
enterprise search, technical documentation, document management, business
intelligence, and enterprise vocabulary management.
This year the SEMANTiCS conference’s subtitle was “The Power of AI and
KnowledgeGraphs,”andespeciallywelcomedsubmissionstothefollowinghottopics:
– Web Semantics and Linked (Open) Data
– Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management, and Deep Semantics
– Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques
– Semantic Information Management and Knowledge Integration
– Terminology, Thesaurus, and Ontology Management
– Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
– Reasoning, Rules, and Policies
– Natural Language Processing
– Data Quality Management and Assurance
– Explainable Artificial Intelligence
– Semantics in Data Science
– Semantics in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
– Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
– Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems
We additionally issued calls for two special tracks:
– Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
– LegalTech
Following the great success of SEMANTiCS 2018 in Vienna, we received 88
submissions. In order to properly provide high-quality reviews to these submissions,
wesetupaProgramCommittee(PC)comprisingof111memberstohelpusselectthe
papers with thehighestimpact andscientificmerit. Foreachsubmission,atleastthree
reviews were written independently from the assigned reviewers in a single-blind
reviewprocess(authornamesarevisibletoreviewers,butreviewersstayanonymous).
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After all reviews were submitted, the PC chairs compared the reviews and discussed
discrepancies and different opinions with the reviewers to facilitate a meta-review and
suggest a recommendation to accept or reject the paper. Overall, we accepted 20 full
papers and 8 short papers from the 88 submissions which resulted in a full paper
acceptance rate of 23%.
The program of SEMANTiCS 2019 was structured as follows. In the main
conference, the contributors of full papers including posters and industry talks gave
their presentations in thematically grouped sessions. These presentations covered a
broadpaletteoncurrenttrendsanddevelopmentsinsemantictechnologies.Tosupport
the knowledge transfer between the academic and industrial communities, scientific
papersandindustrypapersweregroupedaccordingtothefollowingthematicsessions:
– Semantic Information Management
– Knowledge Discovery and Semantic Search
– Knowledge Graphs
– Knowledge Extraction
– Natural Language Processing
– Thesaurus and Ontology Management
– Linked Data and Data Integration
– Distributed Ledger Technologies
– Smart Connectivity and Interlinking
– Special Track: LegalTech
– Special Track: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
– Special Track: Knowledge Organization and Application for Complex Industry
Settings
The Posters and Demos Track provided an opportunity to present late-breaking
research results, smaller contributions, and innovative work in progress. 29 original
submissions and 2 re-submissions from the research track were accepted to this track,
selectedwithapeer-reviewingprocessfromatotalof47posteranddemosubmissions.
Thereviewingcommittee,whichincluded88members,providedatleastthreereviews
persubmission.TheacceptedworkshavebeenpublishedwithintheCEURWorkshop
Proceedings series.
Besides the scientific track of the conference, a call for industry presentations was
launched,whichresultedin47submissionsofwhich37wereacceptedforpresentation
in the industry track. Additionally, an exhibition took place where organizations
presented their semantics-based products and services.
Deliberatelongbreaks,inawell-suitedvenue,tookplacethroughouttheconference
and social events provided excellent opportunities for networking with people
interested in semantics-related topics from different disciplines and parts of the world.
Wearegratefultoourkeynoteandinvitedspeakersforsharingtheirideasaboutthe
futuredevelopmentofknowledgemanagement,newmedia,andsemantictechnologies
with our attendees:
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Keynote Speakers:
– Michael J. Sullivan (Oracle): “Hybrid Knowledge Management Architectures”
– Michel Dumontier (Maastricht University): “Accelerating Biomedical Discovery
with an Internet of FAIR Data and Services”
– Andy Boyd and Brendan Nielsen (Shell): “High-grading Business Decisions
through Semantic Technology”
– Valentina Presutti (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche): “Looking for Common
Sense in the Semantic Web”
– Katja Hose (Aalborg University): “Querying the Web of Data”
Invited Speakers:
– Andreas Harth (Fraunhofer Institute): “From Representing Knowledge to
Representing Behaviour”
– Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer): “LegalTech – To whom it may concern”
Many thanks also go to all authors who submitted papers and of course to the PC
who provided careful reviews in a quick turnaround time.
Special thanks go to Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer Germany) and Andreas
Blumauer(SemanticWebCompany) whoorganizedall industry related activities. We
also would like to thank Thomas Thurner and Martin Kaltenböck from the Semantic
WebCompanyforprovidingtheorganizationalinfrastructureandtakingcareofallthe
operationaltasks.Additionally,wewouldalsoliketothankourlocalorganizationteam
Stefan Summesberger, Viviene Vetter, and Julia Holze, as well as all those helpful
hands that are too many to name for supporting this year’s conference and turning it
into a success.
We would also like to thank our sponsors (i.a.o.):
– Premium Sponsors: eccenca, PoolParty, FIZ Karlsruhe, and CAS
– Gold Sponsors: Semiodesk, metaphacts, and i-views
– Silver Sponsors: Siemens, Ontotext, Franz Inc., Allegrograph, Enterprise Knowl-
edge, Deloitte, and HP Motion Content
– BronzeandResearch:CID,FraunhoferIAIS,Bosch,inovex,Oracle,Prêt-à-LLOD,
STI Innsbruck, GNOSS, Klarso, Ontopic, and SICK
Special thanks also go to the partners of the conference who are:
University of Basel, BID - Bibliothek & Information International, Cefriel,
Connected Data London, Consiglo Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cyberforum, DBpedia,
eccenca, FIZ Karlsruhe, GFWM, IBM, KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TIB,
UniversityofPaderborn,UniversityofFribourg,SpringerLNCS,WoltersKluwer,and
WU Vienna.
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We hope that SEMANTiCS 2019 will provide you with new inspirations for your
researchandwithopportunitiesfor partnershipswithotherresearchgroups,academic,
and industrial participants.
September 2019 Maribel Acosta
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
Maria Maleshkova
Tassilo Pellegrini
Harald Sack
York Sure-Vetter
Organization Chairs
Conference Chairs
Harald Sack FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information
Infrastructure, Germany
York Sure Vetter Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Tassilo Pellegrini St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Research and Innovation Chairs
Maribel Acosta Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Special Track Chairs
Sabrina Kirrane InstituteforInformationBusinessofWUWien,Austria
Victor de Boer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Industry and Use Case Chairs
Christian Dirschl Wolters Kluwer Germany, Germany
Andreas Blumauer Semantic Web Company, Austria
Poster and Demo Track Chairs
Mehwish Alam FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information
Infrastructure, Germany
Ricardo Usbeck Paderborn University, Germany
Workshop and Satellite Events Chairs
Anna Lisa Gentile IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Irene Celino Cerfriel, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Proceedings Chairs
Maria Maleshkova University of Bonn, Germany
Tassilo Pellegrini St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
