This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge
Engineering and the Semantic Web KESW 2017 held Szczecin Poland in November 2017. The 16
full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are
organized in topical sections on natural language processing knowledge representation and
reasoning ontologies and controlled vocabularies scalable data access and storage solutions
semantic Web and education linked data semantic technologies in manufacturing and business.
