Big congrats to Mirek Miroslav Vacura, a #Philosophy & #AI scientist and my long-term friend and colleague, for being awarded a 3Y grant by #GACR for his project "Look Who's Talking: The #Pragmatics and #Ethics of #LargeLanguageModels in #Democracy"! Looking forward to the first results!

Truly, LLMs don't hallucinate. People are said to hallucinate if they see constellations of things that do not exist in reality. But LLMs, through their probability glasses, TRULY SEE such constellations. And I second Juan Sequeda that @KnowledgeGraphs could change the game!

Great achievement, with very high quality of 1st-issue papers (as far as I can judge) despite the rather short time! Congrats to the brilliant EiCs and all involved. (And proud to be part of this adventure as an AE.)

Forgot to mention in the pre-holiday mess: our paper on Focused Categorization Power of Ontologies is eventually out in Semantic Web Journal, see content.iospress.com/articles/seman…. It basically introduces a new approach to #OntologyReuse, relying on #OntologyPatterns. Big thanks to all co-authors!

Great opportunity for our group at KIZI_VSE to boost the continuous collab with Comenius University Bratislava, progress with #OntologyEngineering topics such as the jointly developed #PUROmethod of ontology drafting and real-world situation visualization... and get more in touch with TAILOR EU Network!

Our research on explaining #misinformation via #knowledgegraph (part of CIMPLE_XAI project) is accepted well: forthcoming papers at Beyond Facts The Web Conference beyondfacts2024.wordpress.com/accepted-papers and PhD Symposium @eswc_con. Katka Haniková is the first/sole author.

Interested in research on truly interpretable white-box AI? Rule-technologies may be the way to go. The RuleML+RR 2024 conference will cover theoretical advancements, novel technologies, and innovative applications of knowledge representation and reasoning with rules.

Excited to start the collaboration with Onto-DESIDE + LiU Semantic Web team, on #ontology matching and transformation methods applied on #circulareconomy. Thanks to Eva Blomqvist (and other LIU folks) for being a great host during the visit of Ondrej Zamazal and me in Linkoping, May 13-16.

Happy to share that the research spearhead of @KIZI_FIS, the Data Science & Explainable AI (DSXAI) team kizi.vse.cz/dsxai, was approved and announced as one of the 12 university-wide "teams of excellence", researching on focus areas of VŠE v Praze. #datascience #explainableAI

Thx to Dana Malcova for representing VSE at #FOIS 2024 utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2…, incl. her talk at Early career symp. - which was itself about early career researchers and modelling the processes of their funding! Thx also to G. Guizzardi, her internship host! #ontology #phd #funding

Our "early researcher" delegate Steven Chun Tak Wong and his poster on universal-particular distinction in biomed ontologies, at ICBO: Int'l conference on Biological Ontology 2024 in Enschede (sidekick: Dana Malcova). Very preliminary work, but I am excited about it! #ontology #biomedicine

Honored to be a part of this project team, locally led (at KIZI_VSE) by Ondrej Zamazal, and consortiumwise by the amazing Eva Blomqvist! First tangible results on #ontology + #knowledgegraph structural adaptability soon to come!

We're thrilled by all 5 P/D submissions involving our team being accepted to #EKAW24 event.cwi.nl/ekaw2024! They address a range of KE topics from #ontologypatterns through tailored use of #LLM to #linkeddata #developerexperience. Looking forward to coming to A'dam as crowd!

A great time we had yesterday at the Prague Ontology Engineering Meetup #POEM2024 kizi.vse.cz/english/public… - with our brilliant keynote speaker Nicola Guarino on explanatory #conceptualmodels, and talks by PhD students KIZI_VSE #ontologyengineering #explainableAI

🗓️ Exciting news! This Friday, Nov 15th, at 10 AM, Dr. Martin Berger from the University of Sussex will present "Towards GPU-accelerated Automated Reasoning" at the KIZI_VSE scientific seminar (KEG). Join us live at FIS or via Zoom! Details: kizi.vse.cz/seminare-keg/ #AI #GPUs

All travel arrangements set up, thrilled to join this big #knowledgeengineering research party again after a time!

So happy to be at #EKAW24 event.cwi.nl/ekaw2024 = my 8th edition (out of the total 20 in history). From the first talks on, the program is awesame! And with my 3 teammates, we make #Czechia the 7th largest national delegation here. We will present 4 papers in the P/D session.

Congrats! Tremendously deserved!

#EKAW24 event.cwi.nl/ekaw2024 slowly nearing to its end, 3 days full of excellent talks, plus a vivid P/D session. Ondřej Zamazal, Katka Haniková and I were busy answering questions and getting feedback to our demo+posters, adressing #ontology transformation and analysis.

March 12-13, 2025, our KIZI_VSE team had the privilege of hosting the kick-off meeting of a new EU CHIST-ERA project, #ClimateSense. It is coordinated by Harith Alani and addresses #climate #misinformation surveillance using #AI and multidimensional #GIS. See research.open.ac.uk/news/climate-m….