ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference

🏆 The ISWC 2025 Best #ORKG Comparison Award goes to: 📘 “CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting” 🎓 Authors: David Maria Schmidt, Raoul Schubert, and Philipp Cimiano 👏 Congratulations to the authors for their outstanding contribution! #ISWC2025 #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #AI #ResearchExcellence #LLMs #QALD #Awards

🎤 Day 3 at #ISWC2025 featured an inspiring keynote by Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Tokyo Expert Support Center. 🇯🇵 Titled “Human Society Challenged by AI?”, Yuko Harayama explored how AI is transforming everyday life, from business and public services to society as a whole, and reflected on global efforts to ensure responsible and trustworthy AI. Drawing on extensive experience across academia, government, and international organizations, Yuko Harayama offered a nuanced perspective on AI governance, policy, and the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent systems. 🌐 A thought-provoking keynote reminding us that as AI advances, so must our frameworks for ethics, trust, and collaboration. 🤝 #ISWC2025 #AI #AIGovernance #Ethics #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #Nara #AIpolicy

💬 The #ISWC2025 panel “Reimagining Knowledge: The Future and Relevance of Symbolic Representation in the Age of LLMs” took place today, sparking engaging discussions on the future of AI and knowledge representation. 🪑 Chaired by R.V. Guha (#Microsoft), the panel brought together leading voices at the intersection of symbolic and neural AI - Natasha Noy (#Google), Tara Raafat, PhD (#BloombergLP), Juan Sequeda(#ServiceNow), and Elena Simperl(#OpenDataInstitute). Each panelist brought their own perspective - from calls for flexibility to reflections on incentives and interoperability in knowledge systems. The panel wrapped up with a fun question from John Domingue: 🕰️ “If you could go back in time, what advice would you give to those who started working on the Semantic Web 30 years ago?” 💬 Tara Raafat, PhD replied: “Try to bridge the gap between research and applicability!” 💡 Elena Simperl added: “Think of motivation and incentives - and also invest in NVIDIA! 😄” A huge thank you to our panelists for sharing their expertise and sparking such an important dialogue! 👏 #ISWC2025 #SemanticWeb #AI #KnowledgeGraphs #PanelDiscussion #Nara #ResearchCommunity

🎤 Day 2 of the main #ISWC2025 conference began with a fascinating keynote by Satoshi Sekine (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) 🇯🇵 In his talk, “AI Safety and Large Language Models,” Professor Satoshi Sekine shared insights from the NII-LLMC, where his team is developing LLMs to ensure transparency, safety, and accountability in generative AI. The keynote highlighted Japan’s contribution in advancing safe, transparent, and responsible AI. #ISWC2025 #SemanticWeb #AI #AIsafety #NLP #LLM #Nara

🏆 Congratulations to the winners of the SWSA Ten-Year Award 2025! The paper “RDFox: A Highly-Scalable RDF Store” by Yavor Nenov, Robert Piro, Boris Motik, Ian Horrocks, Zhe Wu, and Jay Banerjee received this year’s #SWSA Ten-Year Award at #ISWC2025! 🎉 This influential work has had a lasting impact on the field of #SemanticWeb and #KnowledgeGraphs, advancing scalable reasoning and data management for the Web of Data. 🌐 👏 Congratulations to all the authors for this well-deserved recognition! #ISWC2025 #SWSA #RDFox #SemanticWeb #ResearchExcellence

🚀 We’re honoured to announce that RDFox® has won the SWSA Ten-Year Award! 🎉 “RDFox: A Highly-Scalable RDF Store” — co-authored by Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik, Yavor Nenov, Robert Piro, Zhe Wu and Jay Banerjee — has been recognised for its lasting impact on the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph community. The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) Ten-Year Award celebrates research that has stood the test of time, continuing to shape both academic innovation and industry practice a decade after publication. We’re immensely proud that the ideas behind this work have evolved into technologies now powering enterprise knowledge graphs, data interoperability, and AI-driven reasoning systems across sectors. A heartfelt thank you to the co-authors, SWSA, ISWC and the wider community for supporting our mission to help organisations find accurate answers to complex questions in an instant. 🏆 The award was presented by Elena Simperl live on stage at ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference 2025 in Nara, Japan — a fitting celebration of how foundational research continues to drive real-world value. 🔗 Learn more about the award: https://lnkd.in/eqxFxxh8 📄 Read the original paper: https://lnkd.in/eyJdUN37 To find out how RDFox® can transform your AI applications with accuracy and speed, get in touch! ✋ https://lnkd.in/eGREGRcH #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #AI #SWSA #ISWC2025 #ResearchToReality

🎤 Day 1 of #ISWC2025 began with an inspiring keynote by Denny Vrandečić: “Wikipedia and the Semantic Web” 🇯🇵 In a captivating talk, Denny Vrandečić traced the intertwined evolution of Wikipedia and the Semantic Web, from the early 2000s to today’s era of knowledge graphs and large language models. He showed how ideas born in the Semantic Web community shaped tools like #SemanticMediaWiki, #DBpedia, and ultimately #Wikidata which is now the world’s most-edited wiki. 🌐 Looking ahead, Denny shared an exciting vision where LLMs and knowledge graphs converge, offering new opportunities (and challenges) for Wikipedia, the Web, and open knowledge. A truly inspiring start to the main conference! 🙌 #ISWC2025 #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #Wikipedia #Wikidata #AI #Nara Anna Lisa Gentile Kouji Kozaki Blerina Spahiu Juan Sequeda Oktie Hassanzadeh Irene Celino Daniel Garijo Sabrina Kirrane Maribel Acosta Deibe Andrea Nuzzolese Angelo Salatino Cogan Shimizu Mayank Kejriwal Pablo Mendes Shenghui Wang Gong Cheng Sebastián Ferrada Aliaga Jenifer Tabita Ciuciu-Kiss Nandana Mihindukulasooriya Genet Asefa Gesese Akaichi Ines Atsuko Yamaguchi

🎉 The Main Conference of #ISWC2025 is Officially Open! 🇯🇵 After two inspiring days of workshops, tutorials, and the Doctoral Consortium, we are thrilled to kick off the main conference sessions today in the beautiful city of Nara! 🌸 Our conference chairs Anna Lisa Gentile and Kouji Kozaki opened the event together with Elena Simperl, representing the Semantic Web Science Association (#SWSA). Over the next three days, we’ll explore groundbreaking research, thought-provoking keynotes, and lively discussions shaping the future of #SemanticWeb, #KnowledgeGraphs, and #AI. Let’s make it an unforgettable week of ideas, collaboration, and community! 🌐✨ #ISWC2025 #SemanticWeb #ConferenceLife #ResearchCommunity #AI #KnowledgeGraphs #Nara #Japan Anna Lisa Gentile Kouji Kozaki Blerina Spahiu Juan Sequeda Oktie Hassanzadeh Irene Celino Daniel Garijo Sabrina Kirrane Maribel Acosta Deibe Andrea Nuzzolese Angelo Salatino Cogan Shimizu Mayank Kejriwal Pablo Mendes Shenghui Wang Gong Cheng Sebastián Ferrada Aliaga Jenifer Tabita Ciuciu-Kiss Nandana Mihindukulasooriya Genet Asefa Gesese Akaichi Ines Atsuko Yamaguchi

🤝 The #ISWC2025 Pre-Conference Welcome Reception is happening now in Nara! 🎉 It’s the first official social gathering of the conference — a warm, informal get-together to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, and ease into an exciting week ahead. 🇯🇵 📸 Sharing a few photos from this evening. #SemanticWeb #AI #ConferenceLife #Networking #ResearchCommunity #Nara

🎉 What a Night! The #ISWC2025 Students’ Party in Nara 🇯🇵 Last night, our amazing student community kicked off the week with laughter, delicious Japanese food, and great company at the ISWC 2025 Students’ Party — a night just for students, with no supervisors, no formalities… and plenty of fun! It was wonderful to see students from around the world connect and start building the friendships and collaborations that make ISWC so special. 💫 A huge thank you to Akaichi Ines and Atsuko Yamaguchi for doing a fantastic job organizing the party 🙏 📸 Here are a few snapshots from the night — full of smiles! #SemanticWeb #AI #ConferenceLife #StudentParty #Nara #ResearchCommunity