The Workshop on Semantic Web and New Technologies was held by third time at the Faculty of Computer Science of Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico in July 2010. The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Semantic Web technologies are beginning to play a significant role in many diverse areas, marking a turning point in the evolution of the Web.

Davide Buscaldi received his Ph.D. in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence at the UPV - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), with a thesis titled "Toponym Disambiguation in NLP Applications". His research interests are mainly focused on question answering, word sense disambiguation and geographical information retrieval. He obtained his DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) in 2008 with a dissertation on the "integration of resources for QA and GIR". He is the author of over 40 papers in different international conferences, workshops and journals. He has been awarded a FPI grant by the Valencian local government which allowed him to participate in the "LiveMemories" project during a stage at the FBK-IRST research institute in Trento, Italy, under the direction of Bernardo Magnini. He has been the UPV responsible of the organization of the QAST (Question Answering on Speech Transcript) track in CLEF 2009. Currently, he is member of the Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Lab of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.