2026 • In Chaves-Fraga, David; Dimou, Anastasia; Debruyne, Christopheet al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction (KGCW 2026) co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2026 (ESWC 2026)
Chaves-Fraga, David; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Dimou, Anastasia; KU Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Debruyne, Christophe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Montefiore Institute of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Iglesias, Enrique; Leibniz University of Hannover
Martinez-Balea, Adrian; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Sit Min Oo; UGent - Universiteit Gent
Language :
English
Title :
Preface for the 7th Edition of the International Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop
Publication date :
24 August 2026
Main work title :
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction (KGCW 2026) co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2026 (ESWC 2026)
Author, co-author :
Chaves-Fraga, David; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Dimou, Anastasia; KU Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Debruyne, Christophe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Montefiore Institute of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Iglesias, Enrique; L3S Research Center
Martínez, Adrián; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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