This special issue aims to explore the latest research trends and enhance the state of the art in the field of knowledge graph construction from semi-structured data. While many methods and systems were proposed to construct knowledge graphs from existing semi-structured data stored in databases or available on the Web, knowledge graph construction is a complex task and there are still many open research questions.
It's been about 15 years ago that I was approached by IOS Press about starting the Semantic Web journal. I was immediately enthusiastic about this opportunity because it would give me a chance to try to improve upon common practice in running journals that had so disappointed me in past years.
Hajo Rijgersberg, Wageningen University & Research
Mark van Assem, NWO
Jan Top, Wageningen University & Research and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (retired)
This special issue aims to discuss the latest research proposals and on the use of machine learning for ontology matching, data interlinking, and data integration in general.