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*1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies*
Leipzig, Germany
June 12, 2025
https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23147/
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The 1st GOBLIN Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technologies welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to Knowledge Graphs, their applications, and associated technologies. We encourage submissions at the intersection of Knowledge Graphs with fields such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, and automation. Submissions should be original and must not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance.

= Topics of Interest =
Topics of interest include, 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 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time, UTC-12)
* Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2025 (11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time, UTC-12)

Submissions will be through EasyChair

= Author Guidelines and Submission =
* *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

Submissions must be in English, original, and not under review elsewhere. Papers should follow the *Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science* style

= Review and Evaluation Criteria =
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers may disclose their identities. Papers will be evaluated based on:

* Appropriateness
* Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
* Impact of results
* Technical quality of methods
* Soundness of evaluation
* Proper comparison to related work
* Clarity and quality of writing
* Reproducibility of results and resources

= Financial Support for Authors =
The GOBLIN COST Action has allocated a budget to support travel expenses for authors of accepted papers. One author per accepted paper may apply for financial support, subject to budget availability and COST reimbursement rules

= Proceedings =
Accepted papers will be published on Zenodo and shared on the workshop and GOBLIN COST Action websites.

= Workshop Chairs =
* Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
* Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany

For inquiries: goblin25@easychair.org

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

= Local Organisers =
* Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany
* Julia Holze, InfAI/DBpedia Association, Germany

= Acknowledgment =
This workshop is organized as part of the GOBLIN COST Action: CA23147 – Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)