Exploring Semantic Technologies and Their Application
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 737
Special Issue Editors
Interests: data mining; cloud computing; natural language processing; web development; sentiment analysis
Interests: data mining; cloud computing; natural language processing; web development; sentiment analysis
Interests: big data; Internet of Things; knowledge management; software engineering; artificial intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,
Semantic technologies provide advanced means for categorizing and processing data, enhancing data comprehensibility, and uncovering meaning within data to help systems understand language and process information like humans do. Semantic technologies involve the Semantic Web, Ontologies, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Search, Linked Data, and Data Mining, among others.
Semantic technologies have become a key driver of innovation and change in many areas, including healthcare, e-commerce, software engineering, entertainment, intelligent agents, data governance, and emerging cognitive applications. However, these technologies still face the challenge of effectively managing the increasing complexity and volume of data generated in the digital world. This fact has encouraged the development of scientific research that expands the limits of how we understand, develop, and use semantic technologies. Advances in this field are reflected in methodologies, methods, tools, and standards that facilitate the development and implementation new solutions for attaining enhanced data interoperability and more sophisticated reasoning abilities.
The Special Issue on "Exploring Semantic Technologies and Their Application" welcomes recent research works within Semantic technologies and ontological engineering that provide effective solutions to key unsolved problems. The call is open to a broad thematic range of papers covering recent applications of the theoretical foundations of Semantic technologies and ontology engineering, as well as innovative applications and real-world implementations.
Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to:
- Intelligent Agents;
- Cognitive Applications;
- Knowledge Graphs and Applications;
- Natural Language Processing and Semantic Technologies;
- Semantic Web and Linked Data;
- Ontology Engineering;
- Semantic Technologies and Education;
- Semantic Technologies in Government and Public Sector;
- Semantic Technologies in Finance and Business Applications;
- Semantic Technologies for Scientific Research;
- Semantic Technologies for IoT and Smart Environments;
Dr. María del Pilar Salas-Zárate
Dr. Mario Paredes-Valverde
Prof. Dr. Giner Alor-Hernández
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent agents
- cognitive applications
- knowledge graphs and applications
- natural language processing and semantic technologies
- semantic web and linked data
- ontology engineering
- semantic technologies and education
- semantic technologies in government and public sector
- semantic technologies in finance and business applications
- semantic technologies for scientific research
- semantic technologies for IoT and smart environments
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