"Knowledge Organization and Representation:
Convergences and New Opportunities"
University of Calabria, Rende (CS), April 10-11, 2025

The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) brings together scholars interested in how information contents can be structured in knowledge organization systems (KOSs) such as classifications, thesauri, taxonomies, ontologies, semantic networks, etc. The principles underlying these systems are conceptual in nature and have traditionally been identified intellectually. However, they are now increasingly supported by automatic natural language processing (NLP) techniques and other artificial intelligence techniques. The conference aims to connect these different aspects, viewing them not as competitors but as allies with the common goal of structuring and using knowledge, exploring them from an interdisciplinary perspective including information science, text and document science, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy. Contributions are invited on the following topics:
    - principles and techniques of knowledge organization;
    - documentary languages and knowledge organization systems (KOSs);
    - ontologies and Semantic Web representation languages (SKOS, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.);
    - knowledge graphs and artificial intelligence for knowledge organization;
    - applications based on the conceptual structuring of information;
    - application of KO solutions to information systems with specific purposes and/or targeted to particular user groups.



Organizers

The conference is organized by the Documentation Laboratory, Department of Cultures, Education and Society of the University of Calabria, the Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Unit of Cosenza, and the Italian Chapter of ISKO and will be held in person at the University of Calabria. As is customary, the event will also be an opportunity for the presentation of scientific activities related to the themes of the conference by ISKO members. 

 

Call for papers

Important dates
Deadline for extended abstract submission (1000-1200 words, including bibliography): December 20, 2024  January 12, 2025
Notification of acceptance to authors: January 31, 2025  February 10, 2025
Conference: April 10-11, 2025
Deadline for full paper submission: July 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance to authors: September 30, 2025
Camera-ready submission: October 20, 2025
Proceedings publication: December 2025

Participation Modes
Presenters in person, participants in person and/or online.

Contributions
Proposals, written in Italian or English, must be submitted anonymously in .doc or .docx format to the following address: iskoitalia2025@labdoc.it. Submitted proposals will undergo a double-blind review process and will be published in issue 3-4 July-December 2025 of AIDAinformazioni: Rivista di Scienze dell’Informazione (ISSN: 1121-0095, https://www.aidainformazioni.it).

 

Registration

ISKOI 2025 - Registration  (no later than March 21(no later than March 31)

ISKOI 2025 - Transfer service  (no later than March 21(no later than March 31)  



Programme

Keynote speaker
Georg Gottlob, University of Calabria

Gottlob

Georg Gottlob is a Professor of  Computer Science at the University of Calabria and a Professor Emeritus at Oxford University. Until recently, he was a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford,and a Fellow of Oxford's St John's College and an  Adjunct Professor at TU Wien. His interests include knowledge representation, database theory, query processing, web data extraction, and (hyper)graph decomposition techniques. Gottlob has received the Wittgenstein Award from the Austrian National Science Fund and  the Ada  Lovelace Medal in the UK. He  is an ACM Fellow, an ECCAI Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Europaea.

He chaired the Program Committees of IJCAI 2003 and ACM PODS 2000, is on the Editorial Board of JCSS, and was on the Editorial Board of  and was on the Editorial Boards of JACM and CACM. He was a founder of Lixto, a web data extraction firm acquired in 2013 by McKinsey & Company. In 2015 he co-founded Wrapidity, a spin out of Oxford University based on fully automated web data extraction technology developed in the context of an  ERC Advanced Grant. Wrapidity was  acquired by Meltwater, an internationally operating media intelligence company. Gottlob then co-founded the Oxford spin-out DeepReason.AI, which provided knowledge graph and rule-based reasoning software to customers in various industries. DeepReason.AI was also acquired by Meltwater.

 

 

Title:  Psychoanalysis (and Therapy)  of ChatGPT

 

Abstract: ChatGPT and other LLMs are the most recent major outcome of the ongoing  Ai revolution.  The talk begins with a brief discussion of such (text-based) generative AI  tools and showcases instances where these models excel, namely when it comes to generating beautifully composed texts. We then discuss shortcomings of LLM, especially where they produce erroneous information. This is often the case when they are prompted for data that are not already present in Wikipedia or other authoritative Web sources.  To understand why so many errors and "hallucinations" occur, we report about our findings about the "psychopathology of everyday prompting" and  identify and illustrate several  key reasons for potential failures in language models, which include, but are not limited to: (i) information loss due to data compression, (ii) training bias, (iii) the incorporation of incorrect external data, (iv) the misordering of results, and (v) the failure to detect and resolve logical inconsistencies contained in a sequence of LLM-generated prompt-answers. In the second part of the talk, we give a survey of  Chat2Data project, which endeavors to leverage language models for the automated verification and enhancement of relational databases, all while mitigating the pitfalls (i)–(v) mentioned earlier. 

Provisional program

April 10
“Aula Multimediale”, 20B cube, 2nd floor
University of Calabria, Rende (CS)

09.00 - 10.00
 Registration

10.00 - 10.15
 Opening of the conference

Welcome by the organizers
Roberto Guarasci, Università della Calabria
Claudio Gnoli and Carlo Bianchini, Università di Pavia
Gianluigi Greco, Università della Calabria

10.15 - 11.15
 Session 1
 

10.15 - 10.30
Che faccetta sei? Organizzazione della conoscenza a scuola col metodo MA.VI.
Claudio Gnoli and Emanuela Valenzano

10.30 - 10.45
Applying Integrative Levels Classification to Korean KOSs: Bridging Phenomena and Knowledge Systems
Ziyoung Park and SoYoung Yoon

10.45 - 11.00
Organization and representation of Sustainable Social Economic Development in the Lula government with a view to the 2030 Agenda
Carla Maria Martellote Viola, Milton Shintaku, Ingrid Torres Schiessl and Diego José Macêdo

11.00 - 11.15
 Q&A Session

 

11.15 - 11.45
 Coffee break

 

11.45 - 13.00
 Session 2
 

11.45 - 12.00
Exploring the relationships between the Cross-Cutting Women's Agenda - Multi-Year Plan 2024-2027 and the Knowledge Organization of legislative proposals under processing on women in Brazil
Carla Maria Martellote Viola and Carla Beatriz Marques Felipe

12.00 - 12.15
Transferability of Brilliance
Pontish Yeramyan and Alexander Murzaku

12.15 - 12.30
Domain Analysis on Data Management: A View from Brazilian Information Science
Carla Beatriz Marques Felipe, Carla Maria Martellote Viola and Raimunda Fernanda dos Santos

12.30 - 12.45
ISKO Italy in perspective: an analysis of the 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023 meetings from the ontological, epistemological and sociological dimensions of the domains
Ana Flavia Dias Zammataro, Giulia Crippa, Carlo Bianchini, Lucia Sardo, Ana Cristina de
Albuquerque and Maria Ligia Triques

12.45 - 13.00
 Q&A Session

 

13.00 - 14.30
 Lunch

14.30 - 15.30
 Keynote speaker

Psychoanalysis (and Therapy) of ChatGPT

Georg Gottlob, Università della Calabria

 

15.30 - 17.15
 Session 3
 

15.30 - 15.45

Knowledge obsolescence and attrition in Generative Artificial Intelligence Models
 Isaias Braga and João Sérgio


15.45 - 16.00

Identificazione di relazioni thesaurali con il supporto di ChatGPT e Gemini
Antonietta Folino, Maria Teresa Guaglianone, Giovanna Aracri and Marco Manna

 

16.00 - 16.30
 Coffee break

 

16.30 - 17.15
 Session 4
 

            16.30 - 16.45

Library Reference Model” (LRM) and Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT): user-oriented semantic perspectives for augmented Information Retrieval in library catalogs
Fabrice Papy and Micol Pasti

 

16.45 - 17.00

Elaboration of a medical knowledge organization system supported by automatic tools: towards ecological, intelligent and ethical action

Marcin Trzmielewski

 

17.00 - 17.15
 Q&A Session

 

19.30
 Guided tour 

20.30
 Social dinner
 

 

 

April 11
“Aula Multimediale”, 20B cube, 2nd floor
University of Calabria, Rende (CS)



09.00 - 09.30

 Registration

 


09.45 - 11.15
 Session 1

 

09.45 - 10.00

The Term “Vocabularies” in Digital Contexts: a Knowledge Organization (KO) Journal Analysis
Maria Ligia Triques and Ana Cristina de Albuquerque

 

10.00 - 10.15

L’univocità e la variabilità terminologica a supporto della rappresentatività delle risorse semantiche di organizzazione e gestione della conoscenza specialistica

Claudia Lanza


10.15 - 10.30

Modellizzazione delle conoscenze: Thesaurus Nuovo Soggettario e Wikidata, due strumenti a confronto

Elisabetta Viti, Camillo Pellizzari and Elena Cencetti


10.30 - 10.45

Thesaurus of cultural heritage objects in Brazilian museums and the use of guarantees
Larissa Moraes Martins, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Carvalho, Ana Cristina de Albuquerque e Mario Barite

10.45 - 11.00

Strumenti di convergenza tra archivi e biblioteche: i thesauri

Manuela Grillo


11.00 - 11.15
 Q&A Session


11.15 - 11.45
 Coffee break

 

11.45 - 13.00
 Session 2

11.45 - 12.00

Metadatazione delle tipologie di documenti clinici: un approccio alla standardizzazione mediante LOINC

Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti, Maria Teresa Guaglianone and Elena Cardillo


12.00 - 12.15

Identification of types of documents and knowledge organization: transparency and access in records management

Bianca Therezinha Carvalho Panisset, Lucia Maria Velloso de Oliveira, Leticia Souza da Costa Sampaio and Camilla Campoi


12.15 - 12.30

Analyzing Digital Health Concerns in the French Military: Methodological Challenges and Strategic Insights

Fetta Belgacem

 

12.30 - 12.45

Thesaurus for Gender and Women's Studies (1998): warrant criteria for the representation of black women

Sandra Mara Aguillera

12.45 - 13.00
 Q&A Session

 

13.00 - 14.30
 Lunch

 

14.30 - 16.30
 Session 3

14.30 - 14.45

Terminologia giuridica e organizzazione della conoscenza – metodo per la ricostruzione della struttura concettuale del diritto penale sostanziale e processuale in ottica contrastiva

Alessandra Bonsignori


 

14.45 - 15.00

L’evoluzione della struttura documentale nelle cartelle cliniche psichiatriche dell’archivio storico del manicomio di Girifalco (1881-1978)

Grazia Serratore, Maria Taverniti, Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti and Emanuela Nicole Donato

 

15.00 - 15.15

Costruire un modello descrittivo archivistico per rappresentare gli atti notarili in Linked Open Data (LOD) con estrazione automatica delle entità dai testi in latino medievale

Bianca La Manna

15.15 - 15.30

Manuscripts in the Digital Age. Leveraging LOD and IIIF to link images and text: a case study from the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Lorenza Talarico

 

15.30 - 15.45
 Q&A Session

 

15.45 - 16.00
 Conference closing


16.00 - 16.30
 Members meeting

 

      


Scientific Committee

Carlo Bianchini, University of Pavia
Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies
Luca GiustiISKO Italy
Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia
Koraljka Golub, Linnaeus University
Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria
Roberto Guarasci, University of Calabria
Piero Innocenti, formerly University of Tuscia
Riccardo RidiCa’ Foscari University of Venice
Anna Rovella, University of Calabria
Marcin Trzmielewski, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III



Organizing Committee

Giovanna AracriSTIIMA-CNR
Elena Cardillo, IIT-CNR
Susie Caruso, University of Calabria
Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti, IIT-CNR
Martin CritelliSorbonne University Abu Dhabi
Antonietta Folino, University of Calabria
Maria Teresa Guaglianone, IIT-CNR
Claudia Lanza, University of Calabria
Erika PasceriUniversity of Calabria

Technical secretariat
Camillo Arena, AdR CS-CNR
Antonio Stumpo, IIT CNR

Editorial secretariat
Valeria Rovella, University of Calabria
Grazia Serratore, University of Calabria

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