@semsys-research
The Semantic Systems Research Lab. We perform foundational & applied research in the area of information systems enabled by Semantic (Web) Technologies. Based at the WU Vienna. https://semantic-systems.org/
We recently had the pleasure of welcoming Stefani back to the WU after her adventures at the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES) lab in Australia and her collaboration with Gianluca Demartini!
Read more about it in our blogpost:
semantic-systems.org/stefanis-res...
Welcome to our newest member Julia Schuller!
Read more about her in our blogpost:
semantic-systems.org/julia-schull...
We’ve officially kicked off DORSET, a new research project exploring how knowledge graph characteristics shape embedding strategies.
(@ekaputra.bsky.social, @majlinda.bsky.social , @martasabou.bsky.social)
Read more: semantic-systems.org/dorset-proje...
As part of an Erasmus+ program, Majlinda Llugiqi is participating in a long-term mobility initiative between WU and the University of Prishtina for the 2024–2027 period.
Read more: semantic-systems.org/majlindas-er...
Jan Maly co-authored a paper on fairly sampling cities for citizen assemblies. We are delighted to share that it has been accepted to AAAI!
semantic-systems.org/jan-malys-pa...
SemSys representatives Alex, Fajar J., Katrin, Majlinda, Marta and Stefani attended the 24th edition of ISWC Nara, Japan.
Read more about our experience and the papers we presented in the blog post: semantic-systems.org/semsys-at-is...
In a small throwback to September, you can now read about how our very own Hanna Kern experienced the @digitalhumanism.at summer school this year!
semantic-systems.org/hanna-kern-a...
"Spontan gefragt": How can computer science help make democratic processes like participatory budgeting fairer? Jan Maly went on Kurier TV to have a discussion with communication consultant Nina Hoppe and host Markus Hengstschläger. Give it a watch! (interview in German)
kurier.tv/spontan-gefr...
#𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑠 (KGs) stecken hinter Suchmaschinen, Social Media und Online-Shops. Sie helfen Computern 🖥️ zu verstehen, welche Beziehungen zwischen Daten bestehen.
Welche Potenziale haben KGs z. B. in der Medizin? Und wie kann Forschung an KGs neue Anwendungen ermöglichen? 👇️
We went travelling! Over the summer, Hanna Kern and @feliciaschmidt.bsky.social both went on months long research visits to Warsaw and Cambridge respectively.
Read all about their summers on our new blogpost:
semantic-systems.org/comsoc-abroa...
In late September, Feline Lindeboom (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) and Anton Baychkov (University of Warwick) visited us to work together on new ideas in computational social choice.
Read all about it on our newest blogpost!
semantic-systems.org/feline-linde...
We recently hosted Cogan Shimizu at WU’s Semantic Systems Research Group. During his visit, we had insightful discussions on Neurosymbolic AI, AI in education, and knowledge graphs, and explored potential future collaborations.
Read more: semantic-systems.org/cogan-shimiz...
Last week, our team attended SEMANTiCS 2025, connecting with peers and learning about the latest advancements in semantic technologies.
Read more in our blogpost: semantic-systems.org/semsys-at-se...
At #SEMANTiCS2025 in Vienna, the SENSE team hosted the SENTIS Workshop. 🎉
Our team member Katrin presented her work on combining causal discovery methods with expert knowledge to retrieve more complete causal graphs.
Read more: semantic-systems.org/sense-closin...
Alexander Prock represented our group at the BilAI Summer School and AIRoV 2025 in Klagenfurt.
Read more in our blogpost: semantic-systems.org/alex-attends...
🚀 We’re excited to share two new publications from our Semantic Systems group in the field of Neurosymbolic AI!
Check out the blog post for more details:
🔗 semantic-systems.org/new-publicat...
SemSys representatives @Alex, @ekaputra.bsky.social , @katrin, @majlinda.bsky.social , and @martasabou.bsky.social attended ESWC 2025 held June 1–5 in beautiful Portorož, Slovenia.
Read more about our experience and the papers we presented in the blog post: semantic-systems.org/semsys-at-es...
Our SENSE project members Katrin Schreiberhuber, Fajar J. Ekaputra, and Marta Sabou attended ESWC 2025, where Katrin presented the paper on ‘Exploring LLMs for Causal Discovery in Cyber-Physical Systems’.
Read more in our blog post: semantic-systems.org/sense-at-esw...
Last week, our group members Hanna Kern and @feliciaschmidt.bsky.social attended the EDDY conference in Paris!
Read all about it on our blog:
semantic-systems.org/felicia-and-...
In May, several of our SemSys group members had the opportunity to participate in the first ever Digital Humanism Conference @dighum.wien! The three day event featured exciting key notes, panels and discussions, read all about it in our newest blogpost:
semantic-systems.org/semsys-at-th...
Back in April, our team member Hanna Kern had the opportunity to visit Davide Grossi @dvdgrossi.bsky.social at her alma mater, the University of Groningen. A short summary of her experience is up on our blog!
semantic-systems.org/hanna-kern-v...
Last week, our group member Martin Lackner took part in an exciting panel discussion on the digital future of democracy. Read all about it on our blog!
semantic-systems.org/the-digital-...
Two journal papers just got accepted!
🧠 “Semantic-based Data Augmentation for ML Prediction Enhancement” in NAI journal.
🤝 “KG Validation with LLMs and Human-in-the-Loop” in IPM.
More 👉 [https://semantic-systems.org/pushing-forward-hybrid-ai-two-journal-papers-accepted/]
Hanna Kern and @feliciaschmidt.bsky.social attended the 3rd Amsterdam/St. Etienne workshop on Social Choice. They presented their current WIPs during a poster session.
Have a look at their research about novel ideas in participatory budgeting on our blog!
semantic-systems.org/semsys-at-th...
In February, Laura Waltersdorfer presented the paper “Provenance Question-based AI Transparency and Accountable AI Governance” at the AIGov workshop at AAAI 2025 🇺🇸, co-authored with Dominique Hausler & Tanja Auge.
🔗 Read more in our blogpost: semantic-systems.org/semsys-at-aa...
On Monday, the 5th General Assembly of the SENSE Project took place in Öblarn, Austria 🇦🇹.
Marta Sabou, Fajar J. Ekaputra, Katrin Schreiberhuber, and Gregor Kaefer represented our group, contributing to discussions and shaping next steps!
Check out our blogpost: semantic-systems.org/sense-projec...