Time	Track	Session	Location
09:00 - 09:30		Opening Ceremony	Merrill Hall
09:30 - 10:30		Keynote: Jennifer Golbeck	Merrill Hall
10:30 - 11:00		Morning Break	Merrill Hall
		Entity Recognition and Linking Session 1.1   |   Chair: Harith Alani	Merrill Hall
11:00 - 11:20	Research	EARL: Joint Entity and Relation Linking for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs Mohnish Dubey, Debayan Banerjee, Debanjan Chaudhuri and Jens Lehmann
11:20 - 11:40	Research	An Ontology-Driven Probabilistic Soft Logic Approach to Improve NLP Entity Annotations Marco Rospocher
11:40 - 12:00	Resources	VoxEL: A Benchmark Dataset for Multilingual Entity Linking Henry Rosales-Méndez, Aidan Hogan and Barbara Poblete
12:00 - 12:20	Journal	Lessons Learnt from the Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Giuseppe Rizzo, Bianca Pereira, Andrea Varga, Marieke van Erp, Amparo Elizabeth Cano Basave
		Languages Session 1.2   |   Chair: Jeff Z. Pan	Chapel
11:00 - 11:20	Research	Semantics and Validation of Recursive SHACL Julien Corman, Juan L. Reutter and Ognjen Savkovic
11:20 - 11:40	Research	Representativeness of Knowledge Bases with the Generalized Benford's Law Arnaud Soulet, Arnaud Giacometti, Béatrice Markhoff and Fabian Suchanek
11:40 - 12:00	Research	Certain Answers for SPARQL with Blank Nodes Daniel Hernandez, Claudio Gutierrez and Aidan Hogan
12:00 - 12:20	Research	Efficient Handling of SPARQL OPTIONAL for OBDA Guohui Xiao, Roman Kontchakov, Benjamin Cogrel, Diego Calvanese and Elena Botoeva
		Querying Session 1.3   |   Chair: Axel Polleres	Fred Farr Forum
11:00 - 11:20	Research	WORQ: Workload-Driven RDF Query Processing Amgad Madkour, Ahmed Aly and Walid Aref
11:20 - 11:40	Research	Answering Provenance-Aware Queries on RDF Data Cubes under Memory Budgets Luis Galárraga, Kim Ahlstrøm Meyn Mathiassen, Katja Hose and Torben Bach Pedersen
11:40 - 12:00	Research	Bash Datalog: Answering Datalog Queries with Unix Shell Commands Thomas Rebele, Thomas Pellissier Tanon and Fabian M. Suchanek
12:00 - 12:20	Research	Towards Empty Answers in SPARQL: Approximating Querying with RDF Embedding Meng Wang, Ruijie Wang, Jun Liu, Yihe Chen, Lei Zhang and Guilin Qi
		Industry Session 1.4   |   Chair: Juan Sequeda	Kiln
11:00 - 11:15	Industry	Knowledge Graph Solutions in Healthcare for Improved Clinical Outcomes Jans Aasman and Parsa Mirhaji
11:15 - 11:30	Industry	Elsevier's Healthcare Knowledge Graph and the Case for Enterprise Level Linked Data Standards Alex DeJong, Radmila Bord, Will Dowling, Rinke Hoekstra, Ryan Moquin, Charlie O, Mevan Samarasinghe, Paul Snyder, Craig Stanley, Anna Tordai, Michael Trefry, and Paul Groth
11:30 - 11:45	Industry	Accelerating Drug Discovery in Rare and Complex Diseases Shima Dastgheib, Craig Webb, Qiaonan Duan, Rowan Copley, Gini Deshpande and Asim Siddiqui
11:45 - 12:00	Industry	Using Knowledge Graph to improve enterprise search experience Dmytro Dolgopolov and Elena Romanova
12:00 - 12:15	Industry	Supporting Predictive Models Results Interpretation for Comfortable Workplaces Iker Esnaola-Gonzalez, Jesús Bermúdez, Izaskun Fernandez and Aitor Arnaiz
12:20 - 14:00		Lunch	Crocker Hall
		Mentoring Lunch	Woodlands North
		Knowledge Access Session 2.1   |   Chair: Irene Celino	Merrill Hall
14:00 - 14:20	Research	Exploring RDF/S KBs Using Summaries Georgia Troullinou, Haridimos Kondylakis, Kostas Stefanidis and Dimitris Plexousakis
14:20 - 14:40	Research	What is the cube root of 27? Question Answering over CodeOntology Mattia Atzeni and Maurizio Atzori
14:40 - 15:00	Research	GraFa: Scalable Faceted Browsing for RDF Graphs José Moreno-Vega and Aidan Hogan
15:00 - 15:20	Resources	Wiki-MID: a very large Multi-domain Interests Dataset of Twitter users with mappings to Wikipedia Giorgia Di Tommaso, Stefano Faralli, Giovanni Stilo and Paola Velardi
		Ontologies & Data Integration Session 2.2   |   Chair: David Martin	Chapel
14:00 - 14:20	In-Use	Synthesizing Knowledge Graphs from web sources with the MINTE+ framework Diego Collarana, Mikhail Galkin, Maria-Esther Vidal, Christoph Lange, Sören Auer and Simon Scerri
14:20 - 14:40	Journal	Explaining and predicting abnormal expenses at large scale using knowledge graph based reasoning Freddy Lecue, Jiewen Wu
14:40 - 15:00	Resources	A Complex Alignment Benchmark: GeoLink Dataset Lu Zhou, Michelle Cheatham, Adila A. Krisnadhi and Pascal Hitzler
15:00 - 15:20	Resources	Audio Commons ontology: a data model for an audio content ecosystem Miguel Ceriani and Gyorgy Fazekas
		Semantics and Truthfulness Session 2.3   |   Chair: Denny Vrandečić	Fred Farr Forum
14:00 - 14:20	Research	Measuring Semantic Coherence of a Conversation Svitlana Vakulenko, Maarten de Rijke, Michael Cochez, Vadim Savenkov and Axel Polleres
14:20 - 14:40	Research	Combining Truth Discovery and RDF Knowledge Bases to their mutual advantage Valentina Beretta, Sébastien Harispe, Sylvie Ranwez and Isabelle Mougenot
14:40 - 15:00	Research	Cross-Lingual Classification of Crisis Data Prashant Khare, Gregoire Burel, Diana Maynard and Harith Alani
15:00 - 15:20	Research	Content based Fake News Detection Using Knowledge Graphs Jeff Z. Pan, Siyana Pavlova, Chenxi Li, Ningxi Li, Yangmei Li and Jinshuo Liu
		Industry Session 2.4   |   Chair: Vanessa Lopez	Kiln
14:00 - 14:15	Industry	Semantic Material Master Data Management at Aibel Martin G. Skjæveland, Anders Gjerver, Christian M. Hansen, Johan Wilhelm Klüwer, Morten R. Strand, Arild Waaler and Per Øyvind Øverli
14:15 - 14:30	Industry	From Data Search to Data Showcasing: The Role of Semantic Technologies in a New Service Peter Cotroneo, Wouter Haak, Gabriel Oscares, Eleonora Presani, Abhinav Rohatgi and Paul Groth
14:30 - 14:45	Industry	How to Maintain a Linked Data Cloud in a Deployed Semantic Portal Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala and Eero Hyvönen
14:45 - 15:00	Industry	Linking Media: adopting Semantic Technologies for multimodal media connection Delia Fernandez-Canellas, Elisenda Bou-Balust and Xavier Giro-I-Nieto
15:00 - 15:15	Industry	Product Search using Linked Data John Walker and Herman Elenbaas
15:20 - 16:00		Afternoon Break	Merrill Hall
		Embeddings and Deep Learning Session 3.1   |   Chair: Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez	Merrill Hall
16:00 - 16:20	Research	Fine-grained Evaluation of Rule- and Embedding-based Systems for Knowledge Graph Completion Christian Meilicke, Manuel Fink, Yanjie Wang, Daniel Ruffinelli, Rainer Gemulla and Heiner Stuckenschmidt
16:20 - 16:40	Research	KADE: Aligning Knowledge Base and Document Embedding Models using Regularized Multi-Task Learning Matthias Baumgartner, Wen Zhang, Bibek Paudel, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Abraham Bernstein and Huajun Chen
16:40 - 17:00	Research	Inducing Implicit Relations from Text using Distantly Supervised Deep Nets Michael Glass, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya and Gaetano Rossiello
		Information Extraction Session 3.2   |   Chair: Paul Groth	Chapel
16:00 - 16:20	Research	Enriching Knowledge Bases with Counting Quantifiers Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari and Gerhard Weikum
16:20 - 16:40	Research	QA4IE: A Question Answering based Framework for Information Extraction Lin Qiu, Hao Zhou, Yanru Qu, Weinan Zhang, Suoheng Li, Shu Rong, Dongyu Ru, Lihua Qian, Kewei Tu and Yong Yu
16:40 - 17:00	Research	Constructing a Recipe Web from Historical Newspapers Marieke van Erp, Melvin Wevers and Hugo Huurdeman
		Scholarly Data Session 3.3   |   Chair: Kalina Bontcheva	Fred Farr Forum
16:00 - 16:20	Research	TSE-NER: An Iterative Approach for Long-Tail Entity Extraction in Scientific Publications Sepideh Mesbah, Christoph Lofi, Manuel Valle Torre, Alessandro Bozzon and Geert-Jan Houben
16:20 - 16:40	Research	Ontology Driven Extraction of Research Processes Vayianos Pertsas, Panos Constantopoulos and Ion Androutsopoulos
16:40 - 17:00	In-Use	Reshaping the Knowledge Graph by connecting researchers, data and practices in ResearchSpace Diana Tanase and Dominic Oldman
		Blue Sky Ideas Session 3.4   |   Chair: Carolina Fortuna	Kiln
16:00 - 16:15	Blue Sky	Decentralizing the Semantic Web through Incentivized Collaboration Ruben Verborgh
16:15 - 16:30	Blue Sky	How much is a Triple? Heiko Paulheim
16:30 - 16:45	Blue Sky	Can children teach AI? Towards expressive human-AI dialogs Elena Demidova
16:45 - 17:00	Blue Sky	Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia Denny Vrandečić
17:00 - 18:00		Panel: Enterprise-Scale Knowledge Graphs	Merrill Hall
18:30 - 23:30		Conference Dinner	Monterey Bay Aquarium

  Spotlight papers (including Best Paper nominees)

Time	Track	Session	Location
09:30 - 10:30		Keynote: Natasha Noy	Merrill Hall
10:30 - 11:00		Morning Break	Merrill Hall
		Ontologies & Data Integration Session 1.1   |   Chair: Atanas Kiryakov	Merrill Hall
11:00 - 11:20	Resources	Drammar: a comprehensive ontological resource on drama Vincenzo Lombardo, Rossana Damiano and Antonio Pizzo
11:20 - 11:40	Resources	DOREMUS: A Graph of Linked Musical Works Manel Achichi, Pasquale Lisena, Konstantin Todorov, Raphaël Troncy and Jean Delahousse
11:40 - 12:00	Resources	HeLiS: An Ontology For Supporting Healthy Lifestyles Mauro Dragoni, Tania Bailoni, Rosa Maimone and Claudio Eccher
12:00 - 12:20	Resources	Knowledge Integration for Disease Characterization: A Breast Cancer Example Oshani Seneviratne, Sabbir Rashid, Shruthi Chari, Jim McCusker, Kristin Bennett, James Hendler and Deborah McGuinness
		Querying Session 1.2   |   Chair: Diego Calvanese	Chapel
11:00 - 11:20	Research	Canonicalisation of Monotone SPARQL Queries Jaime Salas and Aidan Hogan
11:20 - 11:40	Resources	Comunica: a Modular SPARQL Query Engine for the Web Ruben Taelman, Joachim Van Herwegen, Miel Vander Sande and Ruben Verborgh
11:40 - 12:00	Resources	Querying Large Knowledge Graphs over Triple Pattern Fragments: An Empirical Study Lars Heling, Maribel Acosta, Maria Maleshkova and York Sure-Vetter
12:00 - 12:20	Journal	Effective Searching of RDF Knowledge Graphs Hiba Arnaout and Shady Elbassuoni
		Ontologies & Linked Data Session 1.3   |   Chair: Kavitha Srinivas	Fred Farr Forum
11:00 - 11:20	Research	Detecting Erroneous Identity Links on the Web using Network Metrics Joe Raad, Wouter Beek, Frank Van Harmelen, Nathalie Pernelle and Fatiha Saïs
11:20 - 11:40	In-Use	Getting the Most out of Wikidata: Semantic Technology Usage in Wikipedia’s Knowledge Graph Stanislav Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry Gonzalez, Julius Gonsior and Adrian Bielefeldt
11:40 - 12:00	Research	Specifying, Monitoring, and Executing Workflows in Linked Data Environments Tobias Käfer and Andreas Harth
12:00 - 12:20	In-Use	Ontology-Based Recommendation of Editorial Products Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Francesco Osborne, Aliaksandr Birukou and Enrico Motta
		Blue Sky Ideas Session 1.4   |   Chair: Carolina Fortuna	Kiln
11:00 - 11:15	Blue Sky	Debiasing Knowledge Graphs: Why Female Presidents are not like Female Popes Krzysztof Janowicz, Bo Yan, Blake Regalia, Rui Zhu and Gengchen Mai
11:15 - 11:30	Blue Sky	Make Embeddings Semantic Again! Heiko Paulheim
11:30 - 11:45	Blue Sky	L’Inking You To A Knowledge Graph Riccardo Tommasini and Emanuele Della Valle
11:45 - 12:00	Blue Sky	What if the primary goal of the web was to foster curiosity? Praveen Paritosh
		Lunch	Crocker Hall
12:20 - 14:00		SWJ Editorial Board Lunch (invite-only)	Woodlands South
		JWS Editorial Board Lunch (invite-only)	Woodlands North
14:00 - 15:20		Minute Madness Session 2.1   |   Chair: Marieke van Erp and Medha Atre	Merrill Hall
		Ontologies & Data Integration Session 2.2   |   Chair: Fabian Suchanek	Chapel
14:00 - 14:20	Resources	SABINE: A Multi-Purpose Dataset of Semantically-Annotated Social Content Matteo Golfarelli, Stefano Rizzi, Enrico Gallinucci, Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Lorenzo Mosca, Cristian Vaccari and Stefano Montanelli
14:20 - 14:40	Research	SPgen: A Benchmark Generator for Spatial Link Discovery Tools Tzanina Saveta, Irini Fundulaki, Giorgos Flouris and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
14:40 - 15:00	Journal	PrivOnto: a Semantic Framework for the Analysis of Privacy Policies Alessandro Oltramari, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Sushain Cherivirala, Thomas B. Norton, N. Cameron Russell, Peter Story, Joel Reidenberg, Norman Sadeh
15:00 - 15:20	Research	Query-based Linked Data Anonymization Rémy Delanaux, Angela Bonifati, Marie-Christine Rousset and Romuald Thion
		Healthcare Applications Session 2.3   |   Chair: Peter Haase	Fred Farr Forum
14:00 - 14:20	Journal	A Systematic Analysis of Term Reuse and Term Overlap across Biomedical Ontologies Maulik R. Kamdar, Tania Tudorache, Mark A. Musen
14:20 - 14:40	In-Use	Semantic Technologies for Healthy Lifestyle Monitoring Mauro Dragoni, Marco Rospocher, Tania Bailoni, Rosa Maimone and Claudio Eccher
14:40 - 15:00	In-Use	Supporting Digital Healthcare Services Using Semantic Web Technologies Gintaras Barisevicius, Martin Coste, David Geleta, Damir Juric, Mohammad Khodadadi, Giorgos Stoilos and Ilya Zaihrayeu
15:00 - 15:20	Journal	Analyzing user interactions with biomedical ontologies: A visual perspective Maulik R. Kamdar, Simon Walk, Tania Tudorache, Mark A. Musen
		Ontologies & Linked Data Session 2.4   |   Chair: York Sure-Vetter	Kiln
14:00 - 14:20	Resources	A Framework to build Games with a Purpose for Linked Data Refinement Gloria Re Calegari, Andrea Fiano and Irene Celino
14:20 - 14:40	Resources	DistLODStats: Distributed Computation of RDF Dataset Statistics Gezim Sejdiu, Ivan Ermilov, Jens Lehmann and Mohamed Nadjib Mami
14:40 - 15:00	Resources	Browsing Linked Data Catalogs with LODAtlas Emmanuel Pietriga, Hande Gözükan, Caroline Appert, Marie Destandau, Šejla Čebirić, François Goasdoué and Ioana Manolescu
15:00 - 15:20	Resources	VoCaLS: Vocabulary & Catalog of Linked Streams Riccardo Tommasini, Yehia Abo Sedira, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Marco Balduini, Muhammad Intizar Ali, Danh Le Phuoc, Emanuele Della Valle and Jean-Paul Calbimonte
15:20 - 16:00		Afternoon Break	Merrill Hall
16:00 - 17:00		Town Hall Meeting	Chapel
17:00 - 19:00		JWS 15th Anniversary Party	Seascape
19:00 - 21:00	Poster/Demo	Posters & Demos Reception	Merrill Hall
21:00 - 23:00		Jam Session	Seascape

  Spotlight papers (including Best Paper nominees)

Time	Track	Session	Location
09:30 - 10:30		Keynote: Vanessa Evers	Merrill Hall
10:30 - 11:00		Morning Break	Merrill Hall
		Ontologies & Data Integration Session 1.1   |   Chair: Markus Krötzsch	Merrill Hall
11:00 - 11:20	Research	Practical Ontology Pattern Instantiation, Discovery, and Maintenance with Reasonable Ontology Templates Martin G. Skjæveland, Daniel P. Lupp, Leif Harald Karlsen and Henrik Forssell
11:20 - 11:40	Research	Mapping Diverse Data to RDF in Practice Alexandros Chortaras and Giorgos Stamou
11:40 - 12:00	Research	A Novel Approach and Practical Algorithms for Ontology Integration Giorgos Stoilos, David Geleta, Jetendr Shamdasani and Mohammad Khodadadi
12:00 - 12:20	Research	Pragmatic Ontology Evolution: Reconciling User Requirements and Application Performance Francesco Osborne and Enrico Motta
		Querying Session 1.2   |   Chair: Daniele Dell'Aglio	Chapel
11:00 - 11:20	Journal	LargeRDFBench: A billion triples benchmark for SPARQL endpoint federation Muhammad Saleem, Ali Hasnain, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
11:20 - 11:40	Journal	Impact analysis of data placement strategies on query efforts in distributed RDF stores Daniel Janke, Steffen Staab, Matthias Thimm
11:40 - 12:00	Journal	OptiqueVQS: a Visual Query System over Ontologies for Industry Ahmet Soylu, Evgeny Kharlamov, Dmitriy Zheleznyakov, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Martin Giese, Martin G. Skjæveland, Dag Hovland, Rudolf Schlatte, Sebastian Brandt, Hallstein Lie, Ian Horrocks
12:00 - 12:20	Journal	Distributed query processing in the presence of blank nodes Audun Stolpe, Jonas Halvorsen
11:00 - 12:20		Semantic Web Challenge Session 1.3   |   Chair: Dan Bennett	Fred Farr Forum
		Industry Session 1.4   |   Chair: Kavitha Srinivas	Kiln
11:00 - 11:15	Industry	Use Cases of the Industrial Knowledge Graph at Siemens Thomas Hubauer, Steffen Lamparter, Peter Haase and Daniel Herzig
11:15 - 11:30	Industry	Populating the FLE Financial Knowledge Graph Manuel Peña Muñoz, Alejandro Llaves and Terunobu Kume
11:30 - 11:45	Industry	Knowledge-based Question Answering for DIYers Doo Soon Kim, Zhe Feng and Lin Zhao
11:45 - 12:00	Industry	Amazon Neptune: Graph Data Management in the Cloud Bradley Bebee, Daniel Choi, Ankit Gupta, Andi Gutmans, Ankesh Khandelwal, Yigit Kiran, Sainath Mallidi, Bruce McGaughy, Mike Personick, Karthik Rajan, Simone Rondelli, Alexander Ryazanov, Michael Schmidt, Kunal Sengupta, Bryan Thompson, Divij Vaidya and Shawn Wang
12:20 - 14:00		Lunch	Crocker Hall
		ISWC OC Handover Lunch (invite-only)	Woodlands North
		Embeddings and Deep Learning Session 2.1   |   Chair: Abraham Bernstein	Merrill Hall
14:00 - 14:20	Research	Towards Encoding Time in Text-Based Entity Embeddings Federico Bianchi, Matteo Palmonari and Debora Nozza
14:20 - 14:40	Research	Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs Guided by Embedding Models Vinh Thinh Ho, Daria Stepanova, Mohamed H. Gad-Elrab, Evgeny Kharlamov and Gerhard Weikum
14:40 - 15:00	Research	A Novel Ensemble Method for Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation based on Neural Network Lorenzo Canale, Pasquale Lisena and Raphaël Troncy
		Information Extraction Session 2.2   |   Chair: Marieke van Erp	Chapel
14:00 - 14:20	Research	Structured Event Entity Resolution in Humanitarian Domains Mayank Kejriwal, Jing Peng, Haotian Zhang and Pedro Szekely
14:20 - 14:40	Journal	A Framework for Real-time Semantic Social Media Analysis Diana Maynard, Ian Roberts, Mark Greenwood, Dominic Rout, Kalina Bontcheva
14:40 - 15:00	Research	That's Interesting, Tell Me More! Finding Descriptive Support Passages for Explaining Knowledge Graph Relationships Sumit Bhatia, Purusharth Dwivedi and Avneet Kaur
		Scholarly Data Session 2.3   |   Chair: Anna Lisa Gentile	Fred Farr Forum
14:00 - 14:20	Journal	The Rijksmuseum Collection as Linked Data Chris Dijkshoorn, Lizzy Jongma, Lora Aroyo, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Guus Schreiber, Wesley ter Weele, Jan Wielemaker
14:20 - 14:40	Resources	The Computer Science Ontology: A Large-Scale Taxonomy of Research Areas Angelo Antonio Salatino, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Andrea Mannocci, Francesco Osborne and Enrico Motta
14:40 - 15:00	Resources	The SPAR Ontologies Silvio Peroni and David Shotton
15:00 - 15:30		Afternoon Break	Merrill Hall
15:30 - 16:30		Closing Remarks and Prize Announcements	Merrill Hall

  Spotlight papers (including Best Paper nominees)