1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web at WWW2010

Although knowledge processing on the Semantic Web is inherently language-independent, human interaction with semantically structured and linked data will remain inherently language-based as this will be done preferably by use of text or speech input – in many different languages. Semantic Web development will therefore be increasingly concerned with knowledge access to and generation in/from multiple languages, i.e., in:

• multilingual querying of knowledge repositories and linked data
• multilingual knowledge and result presentation in semantic search
• multilingual verbalization of ontology structure in ontology engineering
• ontology-based information extraction from multilingual text and semi-structured data
• ontology learning from multilingual text and semi-structured data

Multilinguality is therefore an emerging challenge to Semantic Web development and to its global acceptance – across language communities around the world. The workshop will therefore be concerned with discussion of new infrastructures, architectures, algorithms etc. that will enable easy adaptation of Semantic Web applications to multiple languages, addressing issues in representation, extraction, integration, presentation etc.

Screencast: The Semantic Web and Drupal by Lin Clark

A brief overview of the Semantic Web and a review of the features that Drupal users can expect in Drupal 7 core and contributed modules, with a look at features on the horizon. This talk was first delivered at DrupalCamp Vienna in November of 2009.

The Semantic Web and Drupal, part 1 of 2

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The Semantic Web and Drupal, part 2 of 2

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Next week: the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) in Washington DC

The following papers will be presented next week at ISWC 2009 by DERI people - ISWC 2009 Program

Research Track

• Towards Lightweight and Robust Large Scale Emergent Knowledge Processing by Vit Novacek, Stefan Decker
• Using Naming Authority to Rank Data and Ontologies for Web Search by Andreas Harth, Sheila Kinsella, Stefan Decker
• Dynamic Querying of Mass-Storage RDF Data with Rule-Based Entailment Regimes by Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Krennwallner, Alessandra Martello, Axel Polleres

Semantic Web In use Track

• Bridging the Gap Between Linked Data and the Semantic Desktop by Tudor Groza, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
• Enrichment and Ranking of the YouTube Tag Space and Integration with the Linked Data Cloud by Smitashree Choudhury, John Breslin, Alexandre Passant
• Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal by Stéphane Corlosquet, Renaud Delbru, Tim Clark, Axel Polleres, Stefan Decker

Posters and Demos

• Web of Data Plumbing - Lowering the Barriers to Entry - Juergen Umbrich, Hugh Glaser, Tuukka Hastrup, Ian Millard, Michael Hausenblas
• sClippy: Connecting Personal Information and Linked Open Data - Tudor Groza, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
• SensorMasher: Enabling open linked data in sensor data mashup - Danh Le Phuoc, Manfred Hauswirth

Workshop

• SDoW2009 Social Data on the Web - Chaired by John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant and Sergio Fernandez, Fundation CTIC, Spain

All our publications are listed on our Website: http://www.deri.ie/publications/

Springer has released this week: Semantic Technologies for E-Government by Tomas Vitvar, Vassilios Peristeras, Konstantinos Tarabanis

Read this post to get more information

New: Inspector, Full Cache API – all with Online Data Reasoning

We’re happy to release today 2 distinct yet interplaying features in Sindice: The Sindice Inspector and the Sindice Cache API (both including Sindice’s Online Data Reasoning).

To read the entire post, visit Sindice Blog

2009 Semantic Technology Conference

The annual SemTech conference is starting on monday (june14-18) in San Jose, California.

"The conference represents virtually the entire spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity taking place within the emerging field of semantic technologies. It is the most extensive event ever assembled on the topic. " [1]

Once again, DERI has a strong presence at the conference : http://www.deri.ie/research/talks

Tutorials

Hello Open World - The Web of Data for the Pragmatic Developer
Passant Alexandre
Tummarello Giovanni

Semantic Enterprise 2.0 - Enabling Semantic Web technologies in Enterprise 2.0 environment
Passant Alexandre
Bojars Uldis
Breslin John
Decker Stefan

Conference

Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM)
Chan Eric S, Oracle Corporation
Decker Stefan

Semantic Process Overlays: Delivering Business Processes through Overlay Networks       
Haller Armin
Sapkota Brahmananda

Poster

SeDiCi: SEcure DIgital CredentIals      
Grzonkowski Slawomir

SQE - Semantic Query Expansion      
Porwol Lukasz Karol
Kruk Sebastian Ryszard
McDaniel Bill
Jankowski Jacek

digi.me - Semantic Information Discovery, Browsing and Sharing within Communities of Users       
Kruk, Sebastian Ryszard, KnowledgeHives.com
Kwoska, Arkadiusz, KnowledgeHives
Gzella, Adam, DERI NUI Galway
Cygan, Mariusz, DERI NUI Galway

FRM: Fair Rights Management      
Grzonkowski Slawomir


[1] : To get the full program and more information about it - visit their website : http://www.semantic-conference.com/

The deadline for X-tech is today  January the 25th.

Proposals for presentations and tutorials are invited for XTech 2008, Europe’s premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 25th, 2008.

XTech 2008 will be held from May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland.

XTech’s theme this year is “The Web on the Move”, focusing on the emerging portability of data, applications and identity on the internet. We will explore the benefits, issues, practicalities and fun of a web built on open standards, open source and commodity technology.

One of the highlights of October's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of 'Semantic Apps' as a force. Note that we're not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts technologies like RDF, OWL and other standards for metadata. Semantic Apps may use those technologies, but not necessarily. This was a point made by the founder of one of the Semantic Apps listed below, Danny Hillis of Freebase (who is as much a tech legend as Berners-Lee).

From Read/Write Web

Barney Pell gave the opening talk of the day at ISWC this morning. Barney is former CEO, now CTO of natural language search company Powerset.

He talked about how natural language (NL) helps the Semantic Web (SW), especially both sides of the chicken-and-egg problem (the chicken AND the egg). On one side, annotations can be created from unstructured text, and ontologies can be generated, mapped and linked. On the other side, NL search can consume SW information, and can expose SW services in response to NL queries.

The goal of Powerset is to enable people to interact with information and services as naturally and effectively as possible, by combining NL and scalable search technology. Natural language search interprets the Web, indexes it, interprets queries, searches and matches.

Historically, search has matched query intents with document intents, and a change in the document model has driven the latest innovations. The first is proximity: there’s been a shift from documents being a “bag of keywords” to becoming a “vector of keywords”. The second is in relation to anchor text: adding off-page text to search is next.

via Cloudlands

The 6th international Semantic Web conference is currently being held in Busan in South Korea.John Breslin recounts his tale of getting to his destination...

and includes some pictures

Intelligent applications at the Web 2.0 summit.

The Semantic Edge panel video found here.

 
“Web 2.0 is all about collective intelligence. The Semantic Web is all about collective intelligence too”.

“There's something really interesting cooking - platforms for building intelligent applications.”

Building collective intelligence via Nodalities conference reports?

The 2nd International Experts Finder Workshop will be held later this year at the International Semantic Web conference (ISWC 2007).