SemSys highlights from November
Last month (November 2024), members of our team had the opportunity to participate in two great events: the 2024 AAAI Fall Symposium on Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph and Ontology Engineering and the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024). These events provided a platform to engage with the broader research community, showcase our work, and stay informed about the latest developments in our field.
The AAAI Fall Symposium brought together researchers to explore the exciting intersection of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs). The event featured a series of insightful talks, sparking discussions on current approaches, emerging trends, and key challenges in this growing research area. This event offered valuable opportunities to reflect on the progress being made and to exchange ideas for future directions in LLM and KG integration.
The engaging discussions carried over to ISWC 2024, where several works by members of the SemSys group were presented.
Within the ISWC workshop days, Stefani Tsaneva presented a collaborative work with Danilo Dessì, Francesco Osborne and Marta Sabou at the Sci-K 2024 workshop. Their paper titled “Enhancing Scientific Knowledge Graph Generation Pipelines with LLMs and Human-in-the-Loop” explored Human-LLM interaction patterns for the factual validation of automatically extracted knowledge graph triples. Check out the full paper here.
Majlinda Llugiqi and Katrin Schreiberhuber presented their work as part of the Doctoral Consortium and received valuable feedback and insight from their mentors and peers.
Majlinda presented her paper on “Exploring Knowledge Graphs for Machine Learning Enhancement”, discussing how the integration of semantic knowledge through knowledge graphs can address machine learning challenges such as data scarcity.
Katrin shared her work on “Semantics-enabled System Transparency: User-centered Explanations in Cyber-Physical Systems.” The paper investigates the role of semantic technologies for improving system transparency and delivering user-friendly explanations within cyber-physical systems.
ISWC 2024 included a special session on Harmonising Generative AI and Semantic Web Technologies which featured kickstarter talks by authors, followed by focussed discussions in smaller groups. We are excited to share that two short papers from our group were presented in this special session:
- Tsaneva, S., Herwanto, G. B., & Sabou, M..Benchmarking Ontology Validation Capabilities of LLMs. Check out the full paper here.
- Herwanto, G. B., Tsaneva, S., & Sabou, M. Ontology Corpora for LLM-based Knowledge Engineering Research Check out the full paper here.
We would like to thank the ISWC Student Grant Chairs, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) for supporting Katrin, Majlinda and Stefani through the ISWC 2024 Student Travel Grant.
