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It is our great pleasure to publish the special issue on semantic technology. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together researchers in the Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic-related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. In this special issue, we solicit papers on various aspects of semantic technology from various fields such as ontology, semantic web, and novel applications of semantic technologies to promote research activities in the fields. Nineteen papers were submitted. All papers were referred in accordance with the usual rigorous standards of New Generation Computing. After several interactions with the authors, we accepted nine papers for this special issue. The topics covered mainly the novel applications of semantic technologies. In particular, many papers are related to ontologies. It shows …