We are excited to announce that we will hold the 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies on June 12, 2025 in Leipzig, Germany.

Knowledge Graphs are transforming the way we model, integrate, and analyze complex data, with applications spanning various domains, such as finance, health, and robotics, as well as in technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automation. We invite researchers and industry experts to submit papers to the 1st GOBLIN workshop focusing on cutting-edge developments in Knowledge Graph technologies.

The workshop aims to explore innovations, applications, and challenges in engineering, managing, and utilizing knowledge graphs across various domains. We welcome contributions encompassing methods, tools, applications, datasets, benchmarks, and frameworks, as well as other relevant advances beyond these areas.

The 1st GOBLIN Workshop edition is organized under the umbrella of the GOBLIN COST Action (http://cost.eu/actions/CA23147/). The GOBLIN Action aims to increase and enhance the public open knowledge available in Europe and beyond, by providing a large-scale, high-quality, cross-domain, and multilingual knowledge graph technology that is free to use, reuse, and redistribute.

Topics of Interest

We welcome contributions on the following list of Knowledge Graph topics, but are not limited to:

• Modeling, designing, and integrating KGs, including ontology engineering and enrichment.
• Development, publication, maintaining, and versioning of knowledge graphs, including schema evolution and data updates.
• Techniques for extracting, linking, and improving knowledge graphs, ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Methods for reasoning and discovering insights, patterns, and relationships within large-scale KGs.
• Strategies for safeguarding knowledge graphs, addressing access control, bias detection, and data protection.
• Leveraging KGs in deep learning, large language models, and natural language processing, KGs for LLMs and LLMs for KGs.
• Enhancing search, recommendations, and question-answering systems using knowledge graph-based techniques.
• Success stories and lessons learned in real-world implementations of KGs in healthcare, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing, and beyond.
• Applications of KGs in various contexts, such as content analysis, misinformation detection, and social media insights.
• Evaluation of knowledge graph development tasks based on LLMs/GenAI.
• Knowledge Graph-based retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2025

All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12).

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being reviewed for this workshop.

Workshop papers must be self-contained, in English, and in PDF format in the style of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj).

The workshop welcomes the following types of submissions:

• Full research papers (4-6 pages + max 2 pages references)
• Short research papers (2-4 pages + 1 page references)
• In Use and Experience papers (2-4 pages + 1 page references)
• Position and Vision papers (2-4 pages + 1 page references)
• System/demo papers (2-4 pages + 1 page references)

All submissions have to be made through the following EasyChair link:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=goblin25

If accepted, you will be invited to present your work in Leipzig, Germany on 12 June, 2025.

Who can submit

The call is open to submissions from everyone.

Members of the GOBLIN COST Action are particularly encouraged to submit their work.

Special consideration is given to young researchers and innovators (under 40 years old) and researchers affiliated with institution(s) in Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs)^[1], who are strongly encouraged to participate in the workshop.

In the case of closely ranked submissions, preference will be given to those from young researchers and innovators and individuals affiliated with institutions in ITC countries.

Financial support for authors of accepted papers

The GOBLIN COST Action has allocated a budget to cover the travel expenses for authors of the accepted papers. One author per accepted paper can apply for financial support in case they are not covered by other sources. However, the receipt of financial support is not automatic and will be subject to budget availability and COST reimbursement rules. For more, see the COST Annotated Rules (https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2025/02/COST-094-21-V2.0-Annotated-Rules-for-COST-Actions-Level-C.pdf).

Proceedings

The papers will be collected and published on Zenodo and announced and shared on the workshop website and the GOBLIN COST Action website.

Workshop Chairs

• Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany

For any inquiries please reach out to goblin25@easychair.org.

Programe Committee

• …to be updated
• Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
• Krzysztof Węcel, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
• Verginica Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romania
• Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Weiler Andreas, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland

Local Organiser

• Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany
• Julia Holze, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany

Acknowledgment

This workshop is organized upon work from the GOBLIN COST Action: CA23147 – Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs (CA23147), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). https://www.cost.eu

[1] Inclusiveness Target Country (ITC) – The current list of ITCs include: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine.For more see https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/excellence-and-inclusiveness/