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.

Research leaders

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Doctoral students

Publication list

2026

John Beverley, C. Maria Keet, Naveen Lamba, Patrick Lambrix, Sanju Tiwari, Stefano De Giorgis, Guendalina Righetti, Gabriele Sacco, João Luiz Rebelo Moreira, Walter Terkaj, Adrien Barton, Mattia Fumagalli, Oliver Kutz, Damion M. Dooley, Davide Audrito, Francesca Grasso, Roberto Nai, Emilio Sulis, Peter L. Elkin, Jeremy Ravenel, Ken Archer, José M. Parente de Oliveira, Alcides Lopes, Luana Bulla, Gabriele Tuccio, Giusy Giulia Tuccari, Ítalo Oliveira, Daniele Francesco Santamaria, Gal Engelberg, Gianpietro Castiglione, Giampaolo Bella, Antonis Bikakis, Roberta Ferrario, Stéphane Jean, Béatrice Markhoff, Alessandro Mosca, Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, Maria M. Hedblom, Bart Gajderowicz, Daniela Rosu, Janna Hastings, Jacqueline Csonka-Peeren, William D. Duncan, Julie Bowker, Hollen Reischer, Yongun He, Fabrício Henrique Rodrigues, Alessandro Umbrico, Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Fabio Longo (Editorship) (2026) (Conference proceedings (editor))
Patrick Lambrix, Ying Li (2026) Proceedings of the Workshop on Quality of Knowledge Graphs (QKG 2026): co-located with the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026), p. 29-41 (Conference paper)
Anna Sofia Lippolis, Mohammad Javad Saeedizade, Robin Keskisärkkä, Aldo Gangemi, Eva Blomqvist, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese (2026) SEMANTIC WEB-ISWC 2025, PT I, p. 502-520 (Conference paper)
Daniel de Leng, Aya Rizk (2026) (Report)

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