CfP: Deadline Extension for Challenges Proposals at ISWC 2025 (March 4)
24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025)
Nara, Japan
November 2-6, 2025
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A great way to advance the state of the art in a given domain is to create competition. We invite you to propose an ISWC 2025 Challenge, in which you define an open competition on a problem of your choice within the Semantic Web domain.
Topics:
For ISWC 2025, Challenge proposals are invited for any challenge involving Semantic Web tasks, including but not limited to:
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Ontology and knowledge graph alignment -
Ontology and knowledge graph quality assurance (QA) -
Knowledge graph construction and refinement -
Graph embeddings and graph neural networks -
Query and reasoning scalability -
Open information extraction -
Neurosymbolic reasoning -
Semantic Web and data mining -
Semantic Web, machine learning, and neuro-symbolic AI -
Link prediction -
Question answering -
Stream processing and reasoning -
Semantic table understanding -
Agents (especially using neuro-symbolic methods) and agentic workflows -
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Proposal Stage:
ISWC 2025 will run multiple challenges with the aim of evaluating and comparing software solutions for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs in a systematic way. To propose a challenge, you are required to:
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Specify a task to be addressed. -
Provide an evaluation dataset. -
Define evaluation measures to compare the performance of participating systems.
Important Date:
Challenge proposal submission due March 4th, 2025
Website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/calls/challenges
Semantic Web Challenge Chairs:
Contact: iswc2025-challenge@easychair.org
Mayank Kejriwal
University of Southern California, United States
Pablo Mendes
Upwork, United States
Would you like to know about the host city, Nara? Check out this blog: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/blogs/host