Semantic Web Research

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The Semantic Web is an extension of the traditional Web in which interlinked data with well-described semantics has been added in a machine-processable form. As a result, we can view the whole Web as a large set of interconnected knowledge bases that can be queried and browsed both by software systems and by human users.

Research into the Semantic Web at LiU includes areas such as:

  • Ontologies and ontology engineering (ontology design patterns, ontology alignment and completion, ontology and alignment visualization).
  • Graph databases and triple stores.
  • Querying interlinked data on the web.
  • RDF stream processing
  • Complex event processing.

Our group

We are researchers from different labs in the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at LiU, with a common interest in the Semantic Web.

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Publication list

2026

Riley Capshaw (2026) Composing Meaning from Text: Improving Entity Representations for Ontology-based Document Modeling using Masked Language Models (Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary) https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/9789181186321
Ying Li (2026) Logic-based Repairing of Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs (Doctoral thesis, monograph) https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/9789181186185
Amath Sow, Daniel de Leng, Mariusz Wzorek, Fredrik Heintz (2026) Adaptive Neighborhood Selection for MAPF via Non-Stationary Bandits The journal of artificial intelligence research, Vol. 86, p. 1-27, Article 39 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.19324
Carolynn Bernier, Wan Li, Jesper Kuiper, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Elio Hbeich, Tassilo Pellegrini, Giray Havur, Albin Ahmeti, Robert David, Vladimir Alexiev, Haris Avgoustinos, Nikolaos Dimitriou, Holger Berg, Kévin Boutillier, Ioan Toma, Christiane Plociennik, Ali Nazeri, Fatima Danash, Dietmar Glachs, Felix Strohmeier, Ana Correia, Natalia Konchakova, Peter Klein, Arnab Sinha, Hossein Rimaz, Lindekrans Mikael, Eva Blomqvist, Huanyu Li, Abdelrahman Abdalla, Ken Wenzel, Quang-Duy Nguyen, Rigo Wenning (2026) AAS/RDF Interoperability Approaches for DPP: A White Paper by the AAS/RDF Volunteer Cross-Project Work Group (Report) https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20396377

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