The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Knowledge Engineering, to be edited by Juan Sequeda, Paul Groth and Eva Blomqvist.
Submissions are due by January 20, 2022.
Knowledge graphs are central to a variety of intelligent
applications including semantic search, recommendation, conversational
agents and data analytics. Their
construction and maintenance is facilitated by complex combinations of machine (e.g. information extraction, schema
alignment) and human (crowdsourcing, curation) components. While there is significant previous work in
the field of knowledge engineering, large-scale knowledge graphs give rise to
new questions about knowledge modelling and knowledge acquisition, including
the balance between humans and machines, and the ability to maintain knowledge
and data at scale. In that light, this
special issue seeks novel research in the area of knowledge engineering that
tackles the challenges presented by large scale knowledge graphs,
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Knowledge engineering methodologies for human-machine teams
- Agile knowledge engineering and prototyping
- Knowledge engineering for machine learning
- Machine learning support for manual knowledge engineering
- Knowledge graph evolution and maintenance approaches
- The combination of modern software engineering and knowledge engineering
- Design patterns in the area of large-scale knowledge engineering
- Ontology debugging and diagnosis for knowledge at scale
- The combination of knowledge and data engineering
- User studies for knowledge engineering human-machine teams
Guest Editors
Paul Groth - University of Amsterdam, p.groth@uva.nl,
Paul is Professor of Algorithmic Data Science at the University
of Amsterdam where he leads the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab (INDElab). His
research focuses intelligent systems for the integration and use of diverse
information with a particular emphasis on data provenance. He has authored over 100 scientific publications
in leading venues. He has served in senior organizational roles at ISWC, ESWC, and the Web Conference.
Eva Blomqvist - Linköping University, eva.blomqvist@liu.se
Eva is associate professor in Computer Science at Linköping
University, in the Human-Centred Systems division, and the Semantic Web
research group. Her research targets knowledge modelling and engineering, in
particular the development and use of ontologies as schemas for knowledge
graphs, and the use of knowledge graphs for semantic interoperability in
various fields, such as security and e-health. Eva is the scientific program
co-chair of the International Semantic Web conference in 2021, and has chaired
several other scientific conferences. She has authored over 50 scientific
publications in high-quality venues.
Juan Sequeda - data.world - juan@data.world
Juan Sequeda is the Principal Scientist at data.world. Juan's
goal is to reliably create knowledge from inscrutable data. His research and
industry work has been on designing and building Knowledge Graph for enterprise
data integration where he has researched and developed technologies for
semantic and graph data virtualization, ontology and graph data modeling and
schema mapping, and data integration methodologies. Juan serves as a bridge
between academia and industry through standardization committees and organizers
of scientific venues, such as the general chair of The Web Conference 2023.
Review committee
- Frank van
Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Stefan
Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Steffen
Staab (Universität Stuttgart)
- Oscar
Corcho (UPM)
- Elena
Simperl (King’s College London)
- Enrico
Motta (Open University)
- Daniel
Garijo (UPM)
- Katja
Hose ( Aalborg University)
- Sofia
Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon)
- George
Fletcher (University of Eindhoven)
Additional reviewers TBC
Important Dates
- Call for papers: 12 August 2021
- Submission deadline: 20 January 2022
- Author notification: 31 March 2022
- Revisions: 29 April 2022
- Final Notification: 31 May 2022
- Publication: Q3 2022