Category Archives: Colloquium

AKSW Colloquium, 12 October, 3pm, A High Performance Approach to String Distance using Most Frequent K Characters

Andre Valdestilhas will present the current state of his work “A High Performance Approach to String Distance using Most Frequent K Characters”. Abstract The idea is to reduce the computation in Link Discovery using and improving a String Distance Function called Most … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 28 September, 3pm, Overcoming Challenges of Question Answering in the Semantic Web

Konrad Höffner will present the current state of the survey “Overcoming Challenges of Question Answering in the Semantic Web”, which will be submitted to the Semantic Web Journal. It is a joined work with the QA experts in the group and … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 21 September, 3pm, An Open Question Answering Framework

This Colloquium will be presented by Edgard Marx and Diego Moussallem. Edgard Marx will present the progress of his PhD titled “An Open Question Answering Framework”. Billions of facts pertaining to a multitude of domains are now available on the Web … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 14 September, 3pm, Learning Metrics for Link Discovery

In this Colloquium, Tommaso Soru will present the progress of his PhD titled “Learning Metrics for Link Discovery”. The discovery of new links is essential for the construction of the Linked Data cloud. The use of links to other URIs … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 7 September, 3pm, Practice Talks

Afterwards, Claus Stadler will give a practice talk on Unsupervised Learning of an Extensive and Usable Taxonomy for DBpedia on behalf of Marco Fossati, Dimitris Kontokostas and Jens Lehmann. ABSTRACT: In the digital era, Wikipedia represents a comprehensive cross-domain source … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 31 August, 3pm, Dockerizing Linked Data

In this colloquium, Natanael Arndt will present his paper “Knowledge Base Shipping to the Linked Open Data Cloud“. Abstract: Popular knowledge bases that provide SPARQL endpoints for the web are usually experiencing a high number of requests, which often results … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 24 August, 3pm, Lucene, SOLR, FEASIBLE

In this colloquium, first, Kay Müller and Nilesh Chakraborty will give an overview of Lucene and SOLR and how they can be used in information retrieval scenarios, along with a short peek into ElasticSearch, introducing a few recent features, their … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 17-08-2015, Relational Machine Learning for Knowledge Graphs, Zoo Keeper, Apache Mesos

Relational Machine Learning for Knowledge Graphs In this colloquium Patrick Westphal will present the paper “A Review of Relational Machine Learning for Knowledge Graphs” by Nickel, Murphy, Tresp and Gabrilovich. Abstract: Relational machine learning studies methods for the statistical analysis … Continue reading

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Michael Röder at AKSW Colloquium, Monday, 10th August 2015, 3pm

Crawling the Linked Open Data Cloud by Michael Röder In the recent years the Linked Open Data Cloud matured to support various applications, e.g., question answering, knowledge inference or database enrichment. Such applications have to be supported by the recent data, … Continue reading

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Hajira Jabeen and Ricardo Usbeck at AKSW Colloquium, Monday, 3rd August 2015, 3pm

Hybrid Question Answering at QALD 5 challenge by Ricardo Usbeck The plethora of datasets on the web, both structured and unstructured, enables answering complex questions such as “Which anti-apartheid activist was born in Mvezo?” Some of those hybrid (source) question answering … Continue reading

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