SemSys at  ISWC 2026

Last month, SemSys members (Alex, Fajar, Majlinda and Stefani) attended the 25th edition of ISWC in Bari, Italy. The conference was very well organised and offered a great mix of activities. The programme included interesting keynote talks, engaging workshops and several social events, making it a great opportunity to learn, exchange ideas and meet other participants.

The SemSys team was represented across different sessions:

• Fajar co-organised the 3rd KG-NeSy workshop, a full day workshop on the intersection of knowledge graphs and neurosymbolic AI. The workshop featured an inspiring keynote by Alessandro Oltramari on “Physical AI and Reasoning”, followed by presentations of 12 accepted papers. These papers were selected from 25 submissions, reflecting the growing interest in this research area.

• The KG-NESY workshop program included a presentation by Majlinda introducing the DORSET  project, a four-year research project investigating how Knowledge Graph characteristics influence Knowledge Graph Embedding performance, with the aim of advancing both embedding methods and knowledge engineering practices.

• Alex presented his research proposal on “Trustworthy Agentic AI for Knowledge Engineering” in the doctoral consortium. The doctoral consortium offered valuable opportunities to receive feedback and insights from senior members of the community, while also connecting with peers. The program included an ice-breaker poster session the evening before, a keynote by Irene Celino, and a panel session chaired by Chris Welty.

• The conference program included the 4th edition of the ELMKE workshop, where “OntoLLMJudge: A Framework for Neurosymbolic Evaluation of LLM Generations” was presented- a paper co-authored by Barbara Gendron (who visited our group earlier this year), Stefani and Marta. We are excited to share that our paper received the best paper award. 

We look forward to attending the next edition of ISWC!