[DL] Call for papers: ISWC 2024 special session **Harmonising Generative AI and Semantic Web Technologies: Opportunities, challenges, and benchmarks**

[Tamma, Valentina]

Call for papers: ISWC 2024 special session

**Harmonising Generative AI and Semantic Web Technologies: Opportunities, challenges, and benchmarks**

This special session aims to catalyse progress in Generative AI and Semantic Web Technologies by fostering in-depth discussions and collaborative problem-solving among researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders.
The session is organised in three dedicated slots, each focusing on a specific challenge or theme within the broader topic area. Through a combination of short paper presentations, focused discussions, and working groups, participants will share insights, identify open problems, and initiate collaborative projects. We encourage participation from researchers at all career stages.

The session is organised in three slots, each addressing a specific research agenda:

   • Slot 1: Benchmarking & Reproducibility in Gen AI for Knowledge Engineering
   • Slot 2: Bridging the Gap: Building Knowledge-Enhanced Gen AI
   • Slot 3: Spotlight on Applications and Success Stories in Gen AI + Semantic Web

Each of the three slots will follow a similar structure designed to maximise engagement and facilitate tangible outcomes. This will include a combination of the following activities (please note that timings are purely indicative).

More information on the slots is available at:

https://tinyurl.com/Special-Session-LLMs

**Session Format**:
Each of the three slots will follow and will include the following activities (please note that timings are purely indicative).
   • Slot kickstarter: short paper overview (15 minutes): A selection of short papers, submitted in advance, will be briefly pitched by the panellist to provide a concise overview of relevant research, tools, or datasets, that will kickstart the discussion.
   • Focused discussion (60 minutes): Moderated discussions will delve deeper into the presented topics, allowing participants to share perspectives, raise questions, and identify key challenges. Depending on the slot, these may include hands-on activities, brainstorming sessions, or collaborative exercises.
   • Follow-up (15 minutes): The idea of follow-up is for members to form and coordinate groups (with a leader) that meet up later in the conference (at coffee, lunch, dinner, etc.) and follow up on concrete actions. This is expected to generate concrete outputs, such as white papers, research agendas, or project proposals.

**Expected outcomes**
We anticipate the following outcomes from the special session:
   • White Papers: Each slot will lay the groundwork for a collaboratively authored white paper summarising key findings, open problems, and potential research directions. We anticipate publishing the white papers as part of a special issue in a journal (to be defined).
   • Research Agendas: The discussions and workshops are expected to generate research agendas outlining priority areas for future investigation.
   • Collaborative projects and open repositories: We hope the session will spark new collaborations and initiatives to address the identified challenges.

**Submissions**
We welcome short papers (4 pages max) that:

1) define one or more benchmark proposals for some specific tasks, preferably if accompanied by a GitHub repository with additional material,
2) describe methods for the enrichment of LLMs with ontologies and KGs, or
3) present successful deployments of Generative AI with Semantic web technologies. More information is available in the Call for Papers below.

To kickstart each slot, we invite the submission of short papers (4 pages max, excluding references) addressing relevant topics within the scope of the special session. Papers should specifically address one of the specific slots and focus on presenting novel research, tools, and datasets or identifying open problems and challenges. We highly welcome papers that are accompanied by a GitHub repository with further relevant materials. Papers can be submitted via Easychair (http://easychair.org/) and are single-anonymous.

**Important dates:**
Submission deadline: September 20, 2024.
Notifications: October 7, 2024
Camera ready papers: October 14, 2024

Submissions should be formatted using the CEURART 1-column style (CEURART 1-column style). The title should use the emphasising capitalised style, and the paper should have no page numbers.

Papers will be assessed for relevance, clarity, novelty, and potential impact. With respect to novelty, we will prioritise papers that present a novel perspective or insight rather than necessarily presenting novel research contributions.

**Organising committee:**

Reham Alharbi, University of Liverpool
Jacopo de Berardinis, University of Liverpool
Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam
Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King’s College London
Elena Simperl, King’s College London
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool
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Dr Valentina Tamma
Department of Computer Science    | http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli
University of Liverpool                      | tel. +44-151-795 4246
Ashton Building                                | fax +44-151-795 4235
Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK                    | email: V.Tamma at liverpool.ac.uk
                                                        | skype: valentinatamma



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