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KMi’s report from SEMANTiCS 2025

Nancy Pontika, Monday 8 Sep 2025

The 21st edition of the International Conference on Semantic Systems, commonly known as SEMANTiCS, took place in Vienna last week. This yearly event brings together academics and industry professionals to transfer knowledge and advance innovation. Around 300 participants from across Europe and beyond attended SEMANTiCS 2025.

Major themes discussed included various combinations of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI (Artificial Intelligence), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and GraphRAG approaches, a logic-based copilot to help LLMs (Large Language Models) improve performance and mitigate hallucinations, new knowledge graphs and ontologies, and improved ways to generate knowledge graphs from datasets.

For the third consecutive year, KMi researchers were actively involved in the conference’s success. Dr Angelo Salatino served as Event Coordinator, bridging the local organisers with the various conference activities. His work over the past 12 months culminated in the “Distinguished Event Coordinator” award. Dr Francesco Osborne, as Program Chair, was also part of the organising team, ensuring that all activities, including workshops, tutorials, talks, and keynotes, fit cohesively into the program.

With the 2025 edition now over, the SEMANTiCS 2026 engine is already revving up. The 22nd edition will take place in Ghent, Belgium, from 15 to 17 September 2026, and Angelo will serve as General Chair. He is honoured and enthusiastic about this opportunity and looks forward to making the next edition even more successful.