IC 2026: 37es Journées de l'Ingénierie des Connaissances

IC 2026, the 37th Journées de l'Ingénierie des Connaissances, is France's foremost annual conference on knowledge engineering—the discipline concerned with how to represent, acquire, reason over, and maintain structured knowledge in computational systems. As large language models reshape knowledge engineering practice, IC 2026 engages critically with both the opportunities and the conceptual challenges they pose for the field.

Researchers in ontology design, knowledge graph construction, automated reasoning, semantic annotation, and neuro-symbolic learning attend alongside knowledge engineers building applied systems in medicine, law, cultural heritage, and industry. IC 2026 is particularly attentive to the integration of symbolic knowledge representations with neural approaches—a central challenge as the community asks how LLMs can acquire and reliably deploy structured knowledge. The conference is conducted primarily in French and is an essential gathering for the Francophone knowledge representation and reasoning community.

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