Awards

ISWC 2024 Awards

Best Paper Award, Research Track

“Relationships are Complicated! An Analysis of Relationships Between Datasets on the Web”

Kate Lin, Tarfah Alrashed and Natasha Noy

Other Nominees:

  • Alexander Becker, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo. BLINK: Blank Node Matching Using Embeddings.
  • Benjamín Farías, Wim Martens, Carlos Rojas and Domagoj Vrgoč. PathFinder: Returning Paths in Graph Queries

Best Student Paper, Research Track

“PathFinder: Returning Paths in Graph Queries”

Benjamín Farías, Wim Martens, Carlos Rojas and Domagoj Vrgoč

 


Best Paper Award, Resources Track

“CimpleKG: A Continuously Updated Knowledge Graph on Misinformation, Factors and Fact-Checks”

Gregoire Burel, Martino Mensio, Youri Peskine, Raphaël Troncy, Paolo Papotti and Harith Alani

Other Nominees:

  • Dylan Van Assche, David Chaves-Fraga and Anastasia Dimou. KROWN: A Benchmark for RDF Graph Materialisation
  • Rosni Vasu, Cristina Sarasua and Abraham Bernstein. SciHyp: A Fine-grained Dataset Describing Hypotheses and Their Components from Scientific Article

Best Paper Award, In-Use Track

“Intelligent Urban Traffic Management via Semantic Interoperability across Multiple Heterogeneous Mobility Data Sources”

Mario Scrocca, Marco Grassi, Marco Comerio, Valentina Anita Carriero, Tiago Delgado Dias, Ana Vieira Da Silva and Irene Celino

Other Nominees:

  • Sebastian Barzaghi, Ivan Heibi, Arianna Moretti and Silvio Peroni. Developing Application Profiles for Enhancing Data and Workflows in Cultural Heritage Digitisation Processes
  • Dwight Van Lancker, Steven Logghe, Julian Andres Rojas, Annelies De Craene, Ziggy Vanlishout and Pieter Colpaert. Semantic and technically interoperable data exchange in the Flanders Smart Data Space

Best Poster

“Implementing Usage Control Policies Using Reification with RDF-Star and SPARQL-Star”

Ines Akaichi, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki and Sabrina Kirrane

Honorable mentions:

  • Eleni Ilkou and Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz. Towards a Knowledge Graph for Teaching Knowledge Graphs.
  • Jesse Wright, Jos De Roo and Ieben Smessaert. EYE JS: A client-side reasoning engine supporting Notation3 and RDF Surfaces.
  • Nora Abdelmageed, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Oktie Hassanzadeh and Birgitta König-Ries. KG2Tables: Your way to generate an STI benchmark for your domain.


Best Demos

“openCypher over RDF: Connecting Two Worlds”

Michael Schmidt, Brad Bebee, Willem Broekema, Mohamed Elzarei, Carlos Manuel Lopez Enriquez, Marcin Neyman, Florian Schmedding, Andreas Steigmiller, Bryan Thompson, Geo Varkey, Gregory Todd Williams and Amanda Xiang

“Towards Authoring of Vocabularies and Application Profiles using Dataspecer”

Jakub Klímek, Štepán Stenchlák, Adam Polický, Petr Škoda and Martin Nečaský

Honorable Mentions:

  • Jesse Wright. Here’s Charlie! Realising the Semantic Web vision of Agents in the age of LLMs.
  • Flavio De Paoli, Roberto Avogadro, Marco Ripamonti and Matteo Palmonari. Interactive Enrichment of Tabular Data with SemTUI.

SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award

Hiba Arnaout

“Enriching Open-world Knowledge Graphs with Expressive Negative Statements”

 


LM-KBC: Knowledge Base Construction from Pretrained Language Models (Challenge)

Davide-Mario-Ricardo Bara

“Prompt engineering for tail prediction in domain-specific knowledge graph completion tasks”


The Second Scholarly QALD Challenge

Fomubad Borista Fondi, Azanzi Jiomekong, Gaoussou Camara

“Integrating SPARQL and LLMs for Question Answering over Scholarly Data Sources”


SemTab 2024: Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching

Winner Tabular Metadata to KG Track

Nathan Vandemoortele, Bram Steenwinckel, Sofie Van Hoecke, Femke Ongenae.  Adwan Team.

Winner Accuracy and STI vs LLMs Track

Jean Petit Bikim, Carick Atezong, Azanzi Jiomekong, Allard Oelen, Gollam Rabby, Jennifer D’Souza, Sören Auer. TSOTSA Team.

 


Anomaly Detection on Dynamic Knowledge Graphs (ADDKG)

Xiaohua Lu & Leshanshui Yang. KanelBulle Team.


Best Research Track Senior PC Member

Domagoj Vrgoč

Honorable mentions:

  • Anastasia Dimou
  • Maria-Esther Vidal

Best Research Track PC Member

Giorgos Flouris

Outstanding PC Members:

  • Antoine Zimmerman
  • Armando Stellato
  • Bernardo Pereira Nunes
  • Christophe Debruyne
  • Claudia d’Amato
  • Daniel Faria
  • David Eyers
  • David Tena Cucala
  • Elmar Kiesling
  • Emanuel Sallinger
  • Fouad Zablith
  • Jose Emilio Labra Gayo
  • Luis Ibanez-Gonzalez
  • Maxime Lefrancois
  • Miguel Romero Orth
  • Oktie Hassanzadeh
  • Peter Patel-Schneider
  • Pouya Ghiasnezhad Omran
  • Sebastián Ferrada
  • Sebastian Skritek
  • Shrestha Ghosh
  • Sven Hertling
  • Werner Nutt

Best Resources Track Senior PC Members

Milan Markovic
Lionel Medi

Honorable mention:

  • Anastasia Dimou

Best Resources Track PC Member

Antoine Isaac

Honorable Mentions:

  • Lars Heling
  • Francesco Corcoglioniti

Best In-Use Track PC Members

Pavel Klinov
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles