The surge in online scientific, technical, and legal data  has made large-scale analysis and processing of such data a crucial task. Effectively harnessing this wealth of information requires advanced methods to analyze, enrich, and interlink data using state-of-the-art Semantic Web technologies and AI techniques. Addressing these challenges involves leveraging tools like Semantic Web technologies, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), and Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform complex datasets into accessible, machine-readable, and semantically enriched formats.This workshop aims to unite researchers and professionals from these domains to discuss challenges, share ideas, and foster collaborations, driving innovative solutions for enriching and interlinking complex datasets. 

The SemTech4STLD'25 Workshop will be held as a half-day workshop at the ESWC'25. 

• Workshop Website:  https://semtech4stld.github.io/

 Important Dates

• Abstract Submissions: February 28th, 2025
• Paper Submissions: March 6th, 2025
• Notifications: April 3rd, 2025
• Camera-Ready Contributions: April 17th, 2025
• Final papers zip archive: April 17th, 2025
• Workshop: June 1st or 2nd, 2025

      All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth).

List of Topics

We invite contributions on topics related to Semantic Web technologies and deep learning, particularly in the context of scientific, technical, and legal data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:

Data Collection:

• Leveraging LLMs for generating scientific, technical, and legal data.
• New tools and systems for capturing scientific, technical, and legal data such as scientific articles, patent publications, etc.
• Procedures and tools for storing, sharing, and preserving data.
• Collecting and sharing data sets such as benchmarks, training data, etc.
• Pipelines and protocols to capture peculiarities from data.
• Employing Semantic Web Technologies to represent and preserve sensitive data in terms of ethics, privacy, security, trust, etc.

Novel Semantic Technologies for scientific, technical, and legal data:

• Ontologies and annotation schemas to model such data.
• Annotation, linking and disambiguation of the data.
• Knowledge graph construction. 
• Models (DL, LLM) and methods for transforming natural language queries (e.g. to SPARQL, cypher, etc.) for querying domain-specific KGs.
• LLMs to generate metadata, vocabularies, ontologies, and semantic models for specific data.

Applications for patents, scientific, technical, and legal data by exploiting semantic technologies:

• Exploiting knowledge graphs to drive document similarity, question answering, search etc. 
• Recommender systems.
• Semantic content-based retrieval.
• Natural language processing techniques for classification, summarization, etc. 
• Exploratory search using semantic technologies on scientific, technical, and legal data.
• Key enabling tools (also based on LLMs) for semantic technologies on specific data and domains. 
• Applications based on Generative AI and LLMs.
• Lessons learned or/and use cases both from academia and industry around semantic models and LLMs for data in specific domains.

Submission Guidelines

The submissions must be in English and adhere to the  CEURS-WS one column format. The papers should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. The review process will follow a single-blind protocol.

Key Participation Requirement: At least one author per paper must be register for the workshop, attend in person and present their work and that ESWC is a 100% in-person conference.

1. Full research papers (8-12 pages): 

1. Should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art.
2. State the proposal's contribution in the application domain. even if presenting preliminary results.
3. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be reproducible, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature is encouraged.

2. Short papers (5-7 pages):

• Should describe significant novel work in progress.
• Contributions may be narrower in scope, be applied to a narrower set of application domains, or have weaker empirical support than that expected for a full paper. Submissions likely to generate discussions in new and emerging scientific, technical, and legal data areas are encouraged.

3. Position or industry papers (3-5 pages):

•  should introduce a new point of view in the workshop topics or summarize the experience of a group in the field.

4. Extended abstracts (1-2 pages):

• Should introduce an ongoing work that aligns with the main scope of the workshop.

Page Limit: Submissions should not exceed the indicated number of pages for their category, including any diagrams and references.

Each submission will be reviewed by three independent reviewers based on relevance for the workshop, novelty/originality, significance, technical quality and correctness, quality and clarity of presentation, quality of references and reproducibility. The accepted papers will be available on the Workshop website. The proceedings will be published in CEUR-WS volume and consequently indexed in Google Scholar, DBLP and Scopus.

Workshop Chairs

1. Hidir Aras

• FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany
• https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/de/forschung/patents4science
• Email: hidir.aras@fiz-karlsruhe.de

2. Rima Dessi´

• Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• Email: rdessi@hct.ac.ae

3. Jeenu Joy

• FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany
• https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/de/forschung/patents4science
• Email: jeenu.joy@fiz-karlsruhe.de

4. Danilo Dessi´

• Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Engineer-ing, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
• https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/Academics/Faculty-And-Staff/Danilo-Dessi
• Email: ddessi@sharjah.ac.ae

5. Francesco Osborne

• The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
• http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/francesco/
• Email: francesco.osborne@open.ac.uk

Programme Committee

TBA

Venue

The workshop will be held in conjunction with ESWC'25, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1-5, 2025.

Contact

For general inquiries on the workshop, please send an email to ddessi@sharjah.ac.ae or Jeenu.Joy@fiz-Karlsruhe.de