The Extended Semantic Web Conference (abbreviated as ESWC), formerly known as the European Semantic Web Conference, is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the Semantic Web. The event began in 2004, as the European Semantic Web Symposium. The goal of the event is "to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web".
Topics covered at the conference include linked data, machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval, ontologies, reasoning, semantic data management, services, processes, and cloud computing, social Web and Web science, in-use and industrial, digital libraries and cultural heritage, and e-government.
List of conferences Past and future ESWC conferences include: Year Conference City CountryProceedings Awards2026ESWC2026DubrovnikCroatiaLNCS vol. 16549, LNCS vol. 165502025ESWC2025PortorožSloveniaLNCS vol. 15718, LNCS vol. 157192024ESWC2024HersonissosGreeceLNCS vol. 14664, LNCS vol. 146652023ESWC2023HersonissosGreeceLNCS vol. 138702022ESWC2022HersonissosGreeceBest Paper: Never Mind the Semantic Gap: Modular, Lazy and Safe Loading of RDF Data by Eduard Kamburjan, Vidar Norstein Klungre, and Martin Giese Best Student Paper: The Problem with XSD Binary Floating Point Datatypes in RDF by Jan Martin Keil & Merle Gänßinger2021ESWC2021OnlineLNCS vol. 127312020 ESWC2020 Heraklion GreeceLNCS vol. 121232019 ESWC2019 Portorož SloveniaLNCS vol. 11503 Best Paper: Hai Huang and Fabien Gandon: Learning URI Selection Criteria to Improve the Crawling of Linked Open Data Best Student Paper: Matthäus Zloch, Maribel Acosta, Daniel Hienert, Stefan Dietze and Stefan Conrad: A Software Framework and Datasets for the Analysis of Graph Measures on RDF Graphs2018 ESWC2018 Heraklion GreeceLNCS vol. 108432017 ESWC2017 Portorož SloveniaLNCS vol. 10249, LNCS vol. 10250 Best Paper: Patrik Schneider, Thomas Eiter and Josiane Xavier Parreira: Spatial Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Mobility Streams Best Student Paper: Sarven Capadisli, Amy Guy, Christoph Lange, Sören Auer and Tim Berners-Lee: Linked Data Notifications2016 ESWC2016 Anissaras, Crete Greece Best Paper: Géraud Fokou, Stéphane Jean, Allel Hadjali, and Michael Baron: RDF Query Relaxation Strategies Based on Failure Causes2013 ESWC2013 Montpellier FranceLNCS vol. 7882 Best Paper: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Lars Kolb, Norman Heino, Michael Hartung, Sören Auer and Erhard Rahm: When to Reach for the Cloud: Using Parallel Hardware for Link Discovery Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata and Fabien Gandon: A Support Framework for Argumentative Discussions Management in the Web2012 ESWC2012 Heraklion GreeceLNCS vol. 7295 Best Paper: Uta Lösch, Stephan Bloehdorn, Achim Rettinger: Graph Kernels for RDF Data 2011 ESWC2011 Heraklion GreeceLNCS vol. 6643, LNCS vol. 6644 Best Paper: Carlos Buil Aranda, Oscar Corcho and Marcelo Arenas: Semantics and optimization of the SPARQL 1.1 federation extension 2010 ESWC2010 Heraklion GreeceLNCS vol. 6088, LNCS vol. 6089 Best Paper: Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt: Leveraging Terminological Structure for Object Reconciliation 2009 ESWC2009 Heraklion GreeceLNCS vol. 5554Best Paper: Olaf Hartig: Querying Trust in RDF Data with tSPARQL 2008 ESWC2008 Tenerife SpainLNCS vol. 5021 2007 ESWC2007 Innsbruck Austria 2006 ESWC2006 Budva Montenegro 2005 ESWC2005 Heraklion GreeceLNCS vol. 3532 2004 ESWS2004 Heraklion Greece
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External links ESWC website