News from the research group Knowledge-Based Systems of January 24, 2015

Journal of Web Semantics calls for papers on "Knowledge Graphs"

The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions to a special issue on Knowledge Graphs to be edited by Markus Krötzsch and Gerhard Weikum. Submissions are due by 31 March 2015 (extended from 28 Februrary). The special issue is expected to appear in late 2015/early 2016.

Knowledge graphs are large networks of entities, their semantic types, properties, and relationships between entities. They have become a powerful asset for search, analytics, recommendations, and data integration. Rooted in academic research and community projects such as DBpedia, Freebase, Yago, BabelNet, ConceptNet, Nell, Wikidata, WikiTaxonomy, and others, knowledge graphs are now intensively used at big industrial stakeholders. Examples are the Google Knowledge Graph, Facebook's Graph Search, Microsoft Satori, Yahoo Knowledge, as well as thematically specialized knowledge bases in business, finance, life sciences, and more. Many of these knowledge sources are available as Linked Open Data or RDF exports.

The goal of this special issue is to provide a stage for research on recent advances in knowledge graphs and their underlying semantic technologies. Traditional challenges of scalability, information quality, and data integration are of interest, but also specific projects that publish, study, or use knowledge graphs in innovative ways.

Further details are found in the call for papers.

More info at: http://bit.ly/jwskg