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Workshop on Ontology and Semantics of Explanations and Trustworthy AI

The workshop will be held on 21st September 2026 in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, as a part of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2026):

Keynote
9.00 - 10.00"Causality and neuro-symbolic AI: The two neglected pillars of XAI," invited keynote lecture by D.S. Dhami
(coffee break until 10.30)
OSETAI session #1
10.30 - 11.15"Trustworthiness as a local-to-global property: A sheaf-theoretic account of multi-source information" by E.H. Haeusler et al.
11.15 - 12.00"Can LLMs abduce over ontologies? A first experience report" by J. Pukancová et al.
(lunch break until 14.00)
OSETAI session #2
14.00 - 14.45"Provenance-aware judicial draft generation" by M.Z. Costa et al.
14.45 - 15.30"Introducing multiboxes: Increasing the trustworthiness of ontology embeddings" by G. Federico et al.
(coffee break until 16.00)
OSETAI session #3
16.00 - 16.45"A neuro-symbolic and contrastive semantic framework for explainable judicial AI" by E.C.B. Pacheco and C. Russo
16.45 - 17.30"PACE: A neuro-symbolic framework for plausible and actionable counterfactual explanations" by P. Iakovets et al.

DigiPass CSA is funded from the EC's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under GA no. 101137725.