DDS 2026: Data-Driven Storytelling @ ISWC 2026

Bridging Knowledge Graphs, Generative AI, and Narrative

https://data-driven-storytelling-workshop.replit.app/

How can we turn data into stories that people can understand, trust, and act on?

The DDS 2026 Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, generative AI, and narrative design. As data becomes increasingly central to communication, decision-making, and public understanding, storytelling offers a powerful way to make complex information accessible, engaging, and meaningful.

At the same time, recent advances in large language models and generative AI create new opportunities and challenges for data-driven storytelling. These include questions of grounding, coherence, provenance, transparency, bias, and trust. DDS 2026 aims to provide a forum for discussing methods, tools, and evaluations for narrative-centered approaches to working with data.

The workshop welcomes contributions from the Semantic Web community and related fields, including NLP, HCI, information retrieval, digital humanities, visualization, and creative practice.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers: 9-14 pages including references
• Short papers: 4-8 pages including references

Contributions must be written in English and submitted in PDF formatted according to the CEUR-WS single-column style (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk).

Please note that CEUR-WS required a mandatory Declaration on Generative AI (see https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html).

All submissions will undergo single-anonymous peer review.

List of Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to: 

• knowledge graphs and ontologies for narrative representation and generation 
• linked data and semantic annotation for storytelling
• large language models and generative AI for data-driven narrative creation 
• narrative grounding using structured and semi-structured data 
• benchmarking narrative coherence and storytelling quality 
• trustworthiness in automated storytelling, including bias, hallucination, provenance, and transparency 
• human-AI collaborative authoring 
• interactive and participatory storytelling systems 
• multimodal storytelling and narrative interfaces 
• tools and platforms for creating data-driven stories storytelling applications in journalism, education, and cultural heritage 
• interdisciplinary approaches combining semantic technologies, AI, HCI, and the arts 

Committees

Organizing committee

• Pasquale Lisena - EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France - pasquale.lisena@eurecom.fr
• Maria Angela Pellegrino - Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy - mapellegrino@unisa.it
• Lisa-Yao Gan - Technical University Munich, Germany - lisa.gan@tum.de
• Yihang Zhao - King's College London, UK - yihang.zhao@kcl.ac.uk
• Yiwen Xing - University of Oxford, UK - yiwen.xing@eng.ox.ac.uk

Program Committee

• Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• Andras Micsik, HUN-REN SZTAKI, Hungary
• Andrea Schimmenti, University of Bologna, Italy
• Andrea Sillano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Angelo Salatino, The Open University, UK
• Anisa Rula, University of Brescia, Italy
• Antonio Lieto, University of Salerno, Italy
• Belén Dìaz Agudo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Blerina Spahiu, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Daniel Schwabe, Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Davide Picca, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
• Inès Blin, Sony Computer Science Laboratories-Paris, France
• Luigi de Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Marilena Daquino, University of Bologna, Italy
• Marieke van Erp, KNAW Humanities Cluster / DHLab, The Netherlands
• Mark Alan Finlayson, Florida International University, United States
• Paul Mulholland, The Open University, UK
• Rossana Damiano, University of Turin, Italy
• Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Simon Gottschalk, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
• Veruska Zamborlini, KNAW Humanities Cluster / DHLab, The Netherlands

Venue

The conference will be colocated with ISWC 2026 held in Bari, Italy at The Nicolaus Hotel.

Contact

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dds2026

Conference website: https://data-driven-storytelling-workshop.replit.app/   

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organizing commitee.