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==Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) 2024==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3749/SEMMES_Preface_2024.pdf
Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES)
2024
Pasquale Lisena1 , Simon Gottschalk2 and Inès Blin3,4
1
EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France
2
L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
3
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4
Sony Computer Science Laboratories-Paris, Paris, France
Abstract
The aim of the Workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) was to offer an
opportunity to discuss the challenges related to dealing with events and stories, and how we can use
semantic methods to tackle them, also in combination with methods from other fields, including machine
learning, narratology or information extraction.
In this second edition of the workshop, large space has been given to the study of alternative and
multiple directions that a story can take, in different domain such as Digital Humanities and Cultural
Heritage, but also in Smart Cities scenarios.
Keywords
Semantic Web, Events, Stories, Narratives
1. Introduction
Representing and instantiating events has always been a crucial task for the Semantic Web
community, with some relevant contributions such as specialised ontologies [1] and event-
centric knowledge graphs [2] such as EventKG, which serve as data models and resources of
event knowledge [3]. While several workshops recently focused on events, stories and their
coverage in the news from different angles, SEMMES specifically wants to bring these topics
into the Semantic Web community. We addressed works which use semantic formalisms and
technologies to solve challenges related to events, stories and narratives. Semantically struc-
tured information can bring an essential contribution to AI applications involving generating,
managing and understanding events and stories, also in combination with other techniques.
With this workshop, we intended to come closer to understand events and stories and thus the
world that is formed by them. This has been the second edition of the workshop, after a first
one held at ESWC 2023 [4].
ESWC 2024 Workshops and Tutorials Joint Proceedings, May 28-29, Heraklion, Greece
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2. Overview on the Program
The workshop has been held on May 29th, 2023, opened by the keynote talk “More than one
side to every story” of our invited speaker Victor de Boer, Associate Professor (UHD) at the
User-Centric Data Science group at the Computer Science department of the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam (VU) and a co-director of the Cultural AI Lab. The keynote highlighted the impor-
tance of polyvocality, i.e. the need to go beyond the common version of the information that we
have in our system, embracing different points of view and a multiplicity of interpretations [5].
The workshop has been followed by the presentation of 5 papers, of which 3 long papers and
2 short papers, organised in two sessions.
He Tan et al. introduced A Semantic Representation of Pedestrian Crossing Behavior, proposing
an RDF representation of the latter in order to help systems in predicting future ones. Guillem
Anais et al. presented their work for representing and visualising the different possible alterna-
tives in the reconstruction of the destroyed parts of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, titled Let the
fallen voussoirs of Notre-Dame de Paris speak: Scientific Narration and 3D Visualization of Virtual
Reconstruction Hypotheses and Reasoning; this work has been awarded with the best paper award
of the workshop. The GOLEM Triple Store: A Graph-based Representation of Narrative and Fiction
has been presented by Franziska Pannach et al. as a way to represent fanfictions as pieces of
cultural heritage in evolution. Cosimo Palma presented a way to compute interestingness with
formal metrics proposed in Modelling Interestingness: a Workflow for Surprisal-based Knowledge
Mining in Narrative Semantic Networks. Lastly, Myrto Koukouli et al. presented their work on
storytelling in the cultural domain called Creating and applying a data model for an Augmented
Documentation of Cultural Heritage.
The workshop attracted over 20 attendees in this edition. Details about the workshop,
including the Program Committee, are available at https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/.
Acknowledgments
This workshop has been partially supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
within the kFLOW project (Grant n°ANR-21-CE23-0028), the MUHAI project (Horizon 2020,
Grant n°951846) and the Sony Computer Science Laboratories-Paris.
References
[1] R. Piryani, N. Aussenac-Gilles, N. J. Hernandez, Comprehensive Survey on Ontologies about
Event, in: Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES), volume 3443, ceur-ws.org,
Hersonissos, Greece, 2023, pp. 1–15.
[2] M. Rospocher, M. van Erp, P. Vossen, et al., Building Event-centric Knowledge Graphs from
News, Journal of Web Semantics 37-38 (2016) 132–151.
[3] S. Gottschalk, E. Demidova, EventKG – the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web – and
Biographical Timeline Generation, Semantic Web 10 (2019) 1039–1070.
[4] P. Lisena, I. Tiddi, S. Gottschalk, L. Steels, Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, in:
ESWC 2023 Workshops and Tutorials Joint Proceedings, Hersonissos, Greece, 2023.
[5] M. van Erp, V. de Boer, A Polyvocal and Contextualised Semantic Web, in: The Semantic
Web, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021, pp. 506–512.