Hallo gemeenschap! Up to 100 DBpedians joined the DBpedia Day on September 17, 2024, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This year’s DBpedia Day was again co-located with the SEMANTiCS conference.
First and foremost, we would like to thank the Institute for Applied Informatics for supporting our community and many thanks to the SEMANTiCS organization team for hosting this year’s DBpedia Day.
Opening of the DBpedia Day
Our CEO Sebastian Hellmann opened this year’s community meeting by giving the presentation “KG Operated by AI” (slides). Afterwards, Ruben Verborgh from the Ghent University – imec gave his fantastic keynote presentation “Trust me, I’m a Human”. You can read his abstract here. In his presentation, Ruben Verborgh explored the timeless nature of numbers and data, humorously linking their existence to key events in history, from the Big Bang to the development of the Web and GDPR. He concluded by highlighting the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022, playfully claiming it made all previous innovations obsolete.
Session: AI Applications on top of KGs
Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association and CTU Prague, started the second session “AI Applications on top of KGs” with a short welcome. The first speaker was Ricardo Alonso Maturana, GNOSS, with his presentation “Truth and reality in the early deployment of the AI Society (slides). About explainable AI and the role of Large, Global, Unified Knowledge Graphs.”. Shortly after, Purushotham Botla, Infinite Analytics, talked about “Leveraging LLMs on top of Knowledge Graphs and to Understand Place, People, and Product Relationships” (slides). Next, Kilian Pramschiefer, starki.berlin, talked about “AI for all – A bottom-up, symbolic approach to artificial reasoning” (slides). Finally, the last presentation “ORKG Ask: A Neuro-Symbolic Scholarly Search System” was given by Allard Oelen, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (slides).
Session: Design, Construction and Refinement of KGs by AI
This session focused on how AI can support Knowledge Graphs. New research on linking and consumption of the DBpedia Knowledge Graph and LLM were presented, as well as methods and tools. Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association and CTU Prague, chaired this session with three talks. Hereafter you will find the presentations given during this session:
- “Training an LLM for generating KG from raw transcript” by Michiel Buisman, CIO Office at UWV (slides)
- “Text2Networks: Bootstrapping Domain Ontologies and Inference Pipelines that Build Graphs from Textual Data Streams” by Chris Hokamp & Demian Gholipour Ghalandari, Shashank Mangla & Jack Boylan, Quantexa
- “LLM-assisted KG engineering” by Johannes Frey, InfAI (slides)
Discussion Session: DBpedia and AI
The session “Discussion Session on DBpedia and AI”, chaired by Sebastian Hellmann, InfAI/DBpedia Association, focused on the integration of large language models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs. Marvin Hofer, ScaDS.AI, presented his talk on “AI-Driven Knowledge Evolution: Leveraging DBpedia Databus and LLMs for Dynamic Graph Construction”, where he explored how AI can be used to enhance and automate the creation of knowledge graphs (slides). The session also included an interactive part, moderated by Sebastian Hellmann, encouraging audience participation and discussion (slides).
In case you missed the event, all slides are also available on our event page. Further insights, feedback and photos about the event are available on Twitter via #DBpediaDay.
We are now looking forward to more DBpedia events in the upcoming months and next year’s SEMANTiCS Conference, which will be held in Vienna, Austria..
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Maria & Julia
On behalf of the DBpedia Association
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