The document summarizes key topics in semantic web and knowledge graph research from 2014-2017, including conferences, hot research areas, applications, and papers. It discusses trends such as increasing focus on knowledge graph applications, integration, and construction using techniques like neural networks. Notable news includes Google calling for dataset metadata and Wikidata creating its 31 millionth entity. The road ahead may involve greater knowledge graph commercialization, enrichment, and making knowledge graphs more accessible on the Web.

1. Scope of review
• ISWC (2014—2016) 【CCF-B】
International Semantic Web Conference
• ESWC (2015—2017) 【CCF-C】
European/Extended Semantic Web Conference
• WWW (2015—2017) 【CCF-A】
The Web Conference/International World Wide Web Conference
• CIKM (2015—2016) 【CCF-B】
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

2. Outline
• Hot research
• Hot applications
• Highlighted papers
• Notable news
• Road ahead

3. Outline
• Hot research
• Hot applications
• Highlighted papers
• Notable news
• Road ahead

4. Hot sessions (ISWC 2014—2016)
• KG integration (ontology matching, data linkage)
• KG management (query answering, storage, streaming)
• KG representation (reasoning, ontology)
• KG applications
(search, interaction, IoT, smart planet, mining)
• KG construction
(NLP, neural network, semantic annotation)

5. Hot sessions (ISWC 2014—2016)
• KG representation (ontology, reasoning)
• KG integration (ontology matching)
• KG management (query answering, storage)
• KG applications (interaction, search, Web service)
• KG construction

6. Hotspot changes
• Peak
• KG integration (data linkage)
• KG management (query answering)
• Rising
• KG applications (IoT/streaming, search, smart XX)
• KG construction (neural network)
• Fluctuating
• KG representation (ontology)

7. Reason: increase of data and applications
Oct. 2007
（25 datasets）
Feb. 2017
（1,139 datasets）

9. Web Data Commons (October 2016)

10. Reason: increase of data and applications
• Peak
• KG integration
• KG management
• Rising
• KG applications
• KG construction
KG
variety
volume
value
needs

11. Research campaigns
• ISWC 2017
• Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI)
Tasks: ontology/instance/interactive matching
• Semantic Web Challenge (SWC)
Tasks: attribute prediction and validation
• ESWC 2017
• Mighty Storage (MOCHA)
Tasks: storage, streaming, versioning, browsing
• Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD)
Tasks: multilingual, hybrid, large-scale, Wikidata
• Open Knowledge Extraction (OKE)
Tasks: NER and entity linking, knowledge extraction
• Semantic Sentiment Analysis
Management
Management
Applications
Construction
Construction
Applications

12. Outline
• Hot research
• Hot applications
• Highlighted papers
• Notable news
• Road ahead

13. Best in-use paper awards/nominees
• ISWC
• [healthcare] Semantic Technologies for Data Analysis in Health Care
• [misc] Translating Ontologies in a Real-World Setting
• [misc] QuerioDALI: Question Answering over Dynamic and Linked Knowledge
Graphs
• [healthcare & life science] Extending SPARQL for data analytic tasks
• [security] Building and Using a Knowledge Graph to Combat Human Trafficking
• [life science] TR Discover: A Natural Language Interface for Querying and
Analyzing Interlinked Datasets
• [biology] Semantic Bridges for Biodiversity Science
• [transportation] Semantic Traffic Diagnosis with STAR-CITY: Architecture and
Lessons Learned from Deployment in Dublin, Bologna, Miami and Rio
• ESWC
• [misc] smartAPI: Towards a more intelligent network of Web APIs
• [healthcare] Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions through Large-scale Similarity-
Based Link Prediction
• [transportation] PADTUN - Using Semantic Technologies in Tunnel Diagnosis and
Maintenance Domain

14. More applications (Frank van Harmelen @JIST’15)

15. Outline
• Hot research
• Hot applications
• Highlighted papers
• Notable news
• Road ahead

16. Best research papers
• ISWC
• The multiset semantics of SPARQL patterns
• Unsupervised Entity Resolution on Multi-type Graphs
• LOD Lab: Experiments at LOD Scale
• AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities using
Linked Data
• ESWC
• Spatial Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Mobility Streams
• RDF Query Relaxation Strategies Based on Failure Causes
• A Context-Based Semantics for SPARQL Property Paths over the
Web
• WWW/CIKM
• Skolemising Blank Nodes while Preserving Isomorphism (nominee)
• Vandalism Detection in Wikidata
KG management
KG integration

17. Outline
• Hot research
• Hot applications
• Highlighted papers
• Notable news
• Road ahead

18. Notable news
• 2017/01: Google calls for dataset metadata.
• 2017/02: Quora uses Wikidata.
• 2017/03: Schema.org 3.2 is released.
• 2017/04: Tim Berners-Lee receives the Turing award.
• 2017/05: IBM and RPI collaborate on cognitive computing and healthcare.
• 2017/06: Wikidata creates the 31Mth entity.

20. Outline
• Hot research
• Hot applications
• Highlighted papers
• Notable news
• Road ahead

21. Road ahead
• KG commercialization
• KG enrichment
• Web-lized KG?

22. KG commercialization
• How to sell (license, business model, …)
 summarization, modularization, …
• How to market (search, e-business, …)
 retrieval, recommendation, …
• How to use (KG management, integration, …)
 tools and platforms

23. KG enrichment
• To improve quality
 correction + completion
• To improve utility
 reasoning over KG

24. Web-lized KG?
To improve Web
accessibility of
KG
To enrich linkage
among embedded
KG