Event Goals
Address common challenges in the organization of scientific knowledge.
Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between AI experts and scientific researchers.
Define the future research directions for the organization of scientific knowledge.
Key Highlights:
AI techniques like Connectionist AI, Symbolic AI, and Neuro-Symbolic AI.
Practical applications of LLMs and Knowledge Graphs for extracting and organizing scientific knowledge.
Advance and Democratize Artificial Intelligence through Open Source and Open Science
Dr. Azanzi Jiomekong is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon and Guest Researcher at TIB. Since 2012, by contributing to national (e.g., EPICAM), regional (e.g., MABO), and international (e.g., ORKG) projects, he has significantly advanced the application of Artificial Intelligence in the food and health domains in Africa, impacting Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, and 17. He received the second and third ORKG curation grants in 2022 and 2023, and was selected for the AAAI'23 New Faculty Highlights program in 2023. He is currently working on the development of an AI toolkit composed of datasets, connectionist and symbolic models to address the multi-modal nature of food information. This work aims to empower Africa with FAIR data on food so as to impact the population’s health. Dr. Jiomekong is also contributing as a PC member to several AI conferences such as ICBO, NeSy, ECAI, WSDM. He is reviewer of several AI journals such as EAAI, SWJ, Frontiers in AI.
Prof. Dr. Sören Auer is Professor of Data Science and Digital Libraries at Leibniz Universität Hannover - one of the leading Technical Universities in Germany (German TU9), and Director of the TIB - Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology, a member of the Leibniz Association. His research interests are data science, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, information systems, databases, software engineering, and digital libraries, with a special focus on semantic data interlinking for artificial intelligence. Prof. Auer has made important contributions to semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, and information systems. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, which attracted more than 30.000 citations. He has received several awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, a SWSA ten-year award, the ESWC 7-year Best Paper Award, and the OpenCourseware Innovation Award. He has led several large collaborative research projects, such as the EU H2020 flagship project BigDataEurope. He is co-founder of high potential research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification project DBpedia, the Open Research Knowledge Graph, and the innovative technology start-up Eccenca. Prof. Auer was the founding director of the Big Data Value Association, led the semantic data representation in the Industrial/International Data Space, is an expert for industry, European Commission, W3C, the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
We will explore AI methodologies, tools, and models like SVMs and Neural Networks, along with datasets used for training.
AI tools such as knowledge graphs and ontologies will be highlighted for structuring and organizing extracted data.
We will examine usability challenges and focus on improving access to knowledge in different fields.