SEMANTiCS 2019

Knowledge sharing and networking at the cross-section of research and business

SEMANTiCS conference is the leading European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI. Researchers, industry experts and business leaders can develop a thorough understanding of trends and application scenarios in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science, Linked Data and Natural Language Processing. The 15th edition will be hosted this year in Karlsruhe (Germany).

About the conference

Semantics 2018 set the stage for the legal profession, what a great move! You could feel the pioneering spirit in all the presentations and discussions. Semantics and law are natural twins, so certainly more to come.

Stefan Stockinger

Corporate Legal, Contracts & Projects - OMV

The SEMANTiCS conference offers a good mix of academic and industry participants, making it a great place for exchanging ideas and views on different topics. Its Job Fair offers industries the possibility to contact people with very interesting profiles.

Josiane Parreira

Senior Research Scientist, Siemens AG Austria

The SEMANTiCS Conference is a really great place to come and look for inspiration, implementation, partners, for ideas and for business models.

EMILIE BOILLAT

Information Architect and Business Developer at Liip Zürich, Founder twygg

The level of conversation, the level of expectation of the participants and the level of sophistication of what they’re presenting is really astounding.

Jeanne Holm

former Chief Knowledge Architect and Digital Strategy Manager at NASA

Keynote speakers

Michel Dumontier

Distinguished Professor of Data Science

Accelerating biomedical discovery with an Internet of FAIR data and services

Michael J. Sullivan

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

Hybrid Knowledge Management Architectures

Willem Manders

Head of Knowledge Management

To be annonced.

Valentina Presutti

Coordinator at Semantic Technology Laboratory

To be announced soon

News

Information Extraction with Intelligence Augmentation

SEMANTiCS 2019 Workshops & Tutorials Chair Anna Lisa Gentile is a researcher in the Intelligence Augmentation group at IBM Research. Her main areas are Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web. Anna Lisa explains these areas as well as she highlights benefits of both, submitting and attending Workshops and Tutorials.

Robust identifiers leading to quality data

SEMANTiCS 2014 Keynote Speaker Phil Archer joined GS1 in 2017 to bring an in-depth knowledge of the Web to the world of supply chains for retail, healthcare and more. Before that, Phil was the Data Activity Lead at W3C. Phil talks about Linked Data and semantics in supply chain and consumer data and creating value out of them.

Explainable AI in the fuzzy world of LegalTech

SEMANTiCS 2019 Industry Chair Christian Dirschl is Chief Content Architect at Wolters Kluwer Germany. He is responsible for content structures, metadata, text mining- and automatic topical classification projects, and beyond. We talked about Digital Transformation impacting customer relationships and getting started with AI.

Can Knowledge Graphs help Data Mining Algorithms?

SEMANTiCS 2019 Poster and Demo Chair Mehwish Alam is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy. In this Interview she talks about Data Mining, Machine Learning/Deep Learning techniques for Semantic Web and Text processing and the combination of AI, Knowledge Graphs and NLP.