The 12th International Semantic Web Conference
and the 1st Australasian Semantic Web Conference
21-25 October 2013, Sydney, Australia

Best Paper Awards

SWSA Ten-Year award

  • Reducing OWL Entailment to Description Logic Satisfiability
    Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider

Research Track Best Paper Award

Winner:

  • The Combined Approach to OBDA: Taming Role Hierarchies using Filters.
    Carsten Lutz, Inanc Seylan, David Toman and Frank Wolter.

Nominees:

  • FedSearch: efficiently combining structured queries and full-text search in a SPARQL federation.
    Andriy Nikolov, Andreas Schwarte and Christian Hütter. 
  • Incremental Reasoning in OWL EL without Bookkeeping.
    Yevgeny Kazakov and Pavel Klinov. 
  • The Combined Approach to OBDA: Taming Role Hierarchies using Filters.
    Carsten Lutz, Inanc Seylan, David Toman and Frank Wolter.
  • TRank: Ranking Entity Types Using the Web of Data.
    Alberto Tonon, Michele Catasta, Gianluca Demartini, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux and Karl Aberer

Research Track Best Student Paper Award 

Winner:

  • Knowledge Graph Identification.
    Jay Pujara, Hui Miao, Lise Getoor, William Cohen

Nominees:

  • Semantic Rule Filtering for Web-Scale Relation Extraction.
    Andrea Moro, Hong Li, Sebastian Krause, Feiyu Xu, Roberto Navigli and Hans Uszkoreit
  • Knowledge Graph Identification.
    Jay Pujara, Hui Miao, Lise Getoor and William Cohen
  • QODI: Query as Context in Automatic Data Integration.
    Aibo Tian, Juan F. Sequeda and Daniel Miranker
  • TRank: Ranking Entity Types Using the Web of Data.
    Alberto Tonon, Michele Catasta, Gianluca Demartini, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux and Karl Aberer

In-Use Track Best Paper Award 

Winner:

  • Using Semantic Web in ICD-11: Three Years Down the Road.
    Tania Tudorache, Csongor I Nyulas, Natasha F. Noy and Mark Musen.

Nominees:

  • Using Semantic Web in ICD-11: Three Years Down the Road. 
    Tania Tudorache, Csongor I Nyulas, Natasha F. Noy and Mark Musen. 

  • Entity recommendations in Web Search. 
    Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Peter Mika, Nicolas Torzec. 

  • Reasoning on crowd-sourced semantic annotations to facilitate cataloguing of 3D artefacts in the cultural heritage domain. 
    Chih-Hao Yu, Tudor Groza, Jane Hunter. 

Evaluation Track Best Paper Award

Winner:

  • SPARQL Web-Querying Infrastructure: Ready for Action?
    Carlos Buil-Aranda, Aidan Hogan, Jürgen Umbrich, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche

Nominees:

  • Evaluating and benchmarking SPARQL query containment solvers. 
    Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Jérôme Euzenat, Pierre Genevès, Nabil Layaïda

  • Introducing Statistical Design of Experiments to SPARQL Endpoint Evaluation.
    Kjetil Kjernsmo, John S. Tyssedal
 
  • SPARQL Web-Querying Infrastructure: Ready for Action?
    Carlos Buil-Aranda, Aidan Hogan, Jürgen Umbrich, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche

Doctoral Consortium Best Paper Award

  • The effects of Licensing on Open Data: Computing a measure of health for our Scholarly Record
    Richard Hosking and Mark Gahegan

Best Demo Award

Best Poster Award 

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