Doctoral Consortium Program

The Doctoral Consortium will be held on November 3, 2020. Times are Central European Time (CET) – that’s Paris/Berlin/Amsterdam time.

Time Session
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome from the chairs
09:10 – 09:30 Getting to know each other
● Interactive exercise, instructions will be presented on the day
09:30 – 10:15 Keynote and Q&A
● Academic Research: A Survival Guide, Payam Barnaghi, Imperial College London
10:15 – 10:20 Short break
10:20 – 10:50 Paper presentations 1
● Nassira Achich: Dealing with Data Imperfection in OWL 2 – Application to Alzheimer’s Patients Software (5 minutes pre-recorded presentation + 10 minutes discussion)
● Sabbir Rashid: Employing Hybrid Reasoning to Support Clinical Decision-Making (5 minutes pre-recorded presentation + 10 minutes discussion)
10:50 – 11:15 Group discussions 1
● What makes a good research topic for a PhD?
● Participants will be split into groups and will be asked to answer specific questions around choosing a PhD research topic.
11:15 – 11:20 Short break
11:20 – 11:50 Paper presentations 2
● Leila Feddoul: Semantics-driven Keyword Search over Knowledge Graphs (5 minutes pre-recorded presentation + 10 minutes discussion)
● Kristian Noullet: KG-Agnostic Entity Linking Orchestration (5 minutes pre-recorded presentation + 10 minutes discussion)
11:50 – 12:30 Long break
12:30 – 12:55 Group discussions 2
● How to evaluate your PhD research?
● Participants will be split into groups and will be asked to discuss, set and present an evaluation plan for a given research question or scientific experiment.
12:55 – 13:25 Paper presentations 3
● Shrestha Ghosh: Beyond Aggregations: Understanding Count Information for Question Answering
● Achim Reiz: An Evolutional Based Data-Driven Quality Model for Ontologies
13:25 – 13:30 Short break
13:30 – 13:55 Group discussions 3
● How to engage with the scientific community?
● Participants will be split into groups and will be asked to discuss ways to become an active part of the Semantic Web community.
13:55 – 14:00 Final remarks and closing

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