This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Conference on Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web, KESW 2014, held in Kazan, Russia, in September/October 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 4 short system descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers address research issues related to semantic web, linked data, ontologies, natural language processing, knowledge representation.weiterlesen