# Extended Semantic Web Conference

The Extended Semantic Web Conference (abbreviated as ESWC), formerly known as the European Semantic Web Conference, is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the Semantic Web. The event began in 2004, as the European Semantic Web Symposium. The goal of the event is "to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web".
Topics covered at the conference include linked data, machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval, ontologies, reasoning, semantic data management, services, processes, and cloud computing, social Web and Web science, in-use and industrial, digital libraries and cultural heritage, and e-government.

## List of conferences

Past and future ESWC conferences include:
| Year | Conference | City | Country | Awards |
| 2023 | ESWC2023 | Hersonissos | Greece |
| 2022 | ESWC2022 | Hersonissos | Greece | Best Paper: Never Mind the Semantic Gap: Modular, Lazy and Safe Loading of RDF Data by Eduard Kamburjan, Vidar Norstein Klungre, and Martin Giese Best Student Paper: The Problem with XSD Binary Floating Point Datatypes in RDF by Jan Martin Keil & Merle Gänßinger |
| 2021 | ESWC2021 | | Online |
| 2020 | ESWC2020 | Heraklion | Greece |
| 2019 | ESWC2019 | Portorož | Slovenia | Best Paper: Hai Huang and Fabien Gandon: Learning URI Selection Criteria to Improve the Crawling of Linked Open Data Best Student Paper: Matthäus Zloch, Maribel Acosta, Daniel Hienert, Stefan Dietze and Stefan Conrad: A Software Framework and Datasets for the Analysis of Graph Measures on RDF Graphs |
| 2018 | ESWC2018 | Heraklion | Greece |
| 2017 | ESWC2017 | Portorož | Slovenia | Best Paper: Patrik Schneider, Thomas Eiter and Josiane Xavier Parreira: Spatial Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Mobility Streams Best Student Paper: Sarven Capadisli, Amy Guy, Christoph Lange, Sören Auer and Tim Berners-Lee: Linked Data Notifications |
| 2016 | ESWC2016 | Anissaras, Crete | Greece | Best Paper: Géraud Fokou, Stéphane Jean, Allel Hadjali, and Michael Baron: RDF Query Relaxation Strategies Based on Failure Causes |
| 2013 | ESWC2013 Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine | Montpellier | France | Best Paper: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Lars Kolb, Norman Heino, Michael Hartung, Sören Auer and Erhard Rahm: When to Reach for the Cloud: Using Parallel Hardware for Link Discovery Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata and Fabien Gandon: A Support Framework for Argumentative Discussions Management in the Web |
| 2012 | ESWC2012 | Heraklion | Greece | Best Paper: Uta Lösch, Stephan Bloehdorn, Achim Rettinger: Graph Kernels for RDF Data |
| 2011 | ESWC2011 | Heraklion | Greece | Best Paper: Carlos Buil Aranda, Oscar Corcho and Marcelo Arenas: Semantics and optimization of the SPARQL 1.1 federation extension |
| 2010 | ESWC2010 | Heraklion | Greece | Best Paper: Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt: Leveraging Terminological Structure for Object Reconciliation |
| 2009 | ESWC2009 | Heraklion | Greece | Best Paper: Olaf Hartig: Querying Trust in RDF Data with tSPARQL |
| 2008 | ESWC2008 | Tenerife | Spain |
| 2007 | ESWC2007 | Innsbruck | Austria |
| 2006 | ESWC2006 | Budva | Montenegro |
| 2005 | ESWC2005 | Heraklion | Greece |
| 2004 | ESWS2004 | Heraklion | Greece |