This workshop generally targets the intersection between the Semantic Web field (and specifically the subset that is targeting neurosymbolic AI) and hybrid intelligence. By the latter, we are specifically interested in the human factors element, human-in-the-loop (HIL) techniques, how humans interact with knowledge-augmented agents, near-peers, or other AI systems that incorporate both neural systems and symbolic systems.

This community exists already in various places: the International Conference on Neurosymbolic AI3 and the Hybrid Human AI Conference4. In both cases, this workshop’s theme is understated. Historically, NeSyConf has focused on the neural side, with various flavors of symbolic data (but usually not, and only recently, knowledge graphs or ontologies).

HHAI, while having some notable overlap in research figures, the topics are not consistently leveraging lessons learnt in the SemWeb field. Various workshops are tangential to these topics (i.e., incorporating LLMs into various workflows), such as the previously held AAAI Fall Symposium Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph and Ontology Engineering.

These workflows, systems, and frameworks, even in their nascent stage, would find significant value in crossover from the human factors and hybrid intelligence communities. Yet a review of recent (within the last five years) workshops and publications at ESWC and ISWC indicates little (visible) overlap at the Semantic Web research. As such, the motivation for this workshop, in particular, is to bridge this gap between existing communities.

Based on the selection of papers submitted – and accepted to the workshop – we will invite papers to a Special Issue of Neurosymbolic AI journal, by SagePub. More information soon!