Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous WEBIST conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021
2024
Fast Thinking vs Slow Thinking: AI Implications for Software and Information Systems Engineering
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Escaping the Echo Chamber: The Quest for the Normative News Recommender System and a New Notion of Computer Science
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland Implementing the FAIR Principles: Progress and Pitfalls
Mark Wilkinson, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
2023
Gpt-4 Versus Bert: Which Foundation Model Is More Suitable for Integrating Data from the Web?
Christian Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Recommendation Systems in Scholarly Publishing
Yannis Manolopoulos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2022
Word Association Thematic Analysis: Insight Discovery from the Social Web
Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Causal Inference: Why We Should Care
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany Knowledge-based Confidentiality-preserving Query Answering
Riccardo Rosati, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Diving Deep into the Murky Web of Social Media
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
2021
Knowledge Graphs: Theory, Applications and Challenges
Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Knowledge Graphs: Empower AI with Knowledge
Dieter A. Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria From Ontology Engineering to Ontology Governance Models
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain