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AKSW Colloquium with Lemon – Lexicon Model for Ontologies on Wednesday, February 26

Lemon – Lexicon Model for Ontologies On Wednesday, Feb 26th, 2014, at 1.30 – 4:00 p.m. in Room P702 (Paulinum). Philipp Cimiano is the head of the Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University. He is also affiliated with the Cognitive … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium with JavaScript Tools and Libraries Workshop on Monday, February 17

JavaScript Tools and Libraries Workshop On Mon, Feb 17th, 2014, 1.30 – 4:00 p.m. in Room P702 (Paulinum)  Claus Stadler and Patrick Westphal hold a  workshop to exchange knowledge and experiences concerning the software development with JavaScript. A major goal … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium with NIF Release Preparation on Monday, February 10

NIF Release Preparation On Monday, February 10, at 1.30 pm in room P702 (Paulinum of the University of Leipzig main building at the Augustusplatz), Sebastian Hellmann will present the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Interchange Format (NIF) which is based on … Continue reading

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Webinar recording on crowdsourced OpenCourseWare authoring with SlideWiki available

On Jan 21, 2014 at 15:00 CET we were hosting a webinar on crowdsourced, multilingual OpenCourseWare authoring with http://SlideWiki.org: https://plus.google.com/events/c2sc6p89v67g91uhrn7ofeu6j1c SlideWiki.org is a platform for OpenCourseWare authoring and publishing. Similar as Wikipedia allows the collaborative authoring of encyclopedic texts, GitHub of … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium (Mon, 16.12.2013) about the SINA question answering system (as presented at IBM Watson)

Last week Saeedeh Shekarpour was invited to present her work at the IBM research center (Watson project, DeepQA) in New York. On Monday, December 16 at 1.30 pm in Room P-702 (Paulinum), Saeedeh Shekarpour will present SINA, a question answering … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium with Mohamed Morseys PhD defense practise talk on Monday, December 2

On Monday, December 2 at 1.30 pm in Room P-702 (Paulinum), Mohamed Morsey will give a final rehearsal for his PhD defense “Efficient Extraction and Query Benchmarking of Wikipedia Data”. Guests are encouraged to both provide feedback about improvements to the talk … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium on Monday, November 18

On Monday, November 18 at 3 – 4 pm (not 1.30 – 2.30 pm!) in Room P-702 (Paulinum), Andreas Nareike and Natanael Arndt will present their current project “Electronic Resource Management in context of Libraries”, current research and give an … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium with Semantic Web Challenge 2013 Winner on Monday, November 11

On Monday, November 11 at 1.30 – 2.15 pm in Room P-702 (Paulinum), Muhammad Saleem will present the ISWC Big Data Track Challenge winning paper “Fostering Serendipity through Big Linked Data” and “DAW: Duplicate-AWare Federated Query Processing over the Web … Continue reading

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AKSW wins Big Data Challenge

Greetings all! The best 12th ISWC to ever be was concluded with the traditional award ceremony and … we won! The Big Data Challenge award was attributed to our work on Fostering Serendipity Through Big Linked Data. The idea behind … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium on Monday, October 21

In our weekly AKSW Colloquium, we present research, technologies and tools of the Semantic Web. The colloquium is open to the public and we welcome interested students, colleagues and industry partners to experience bleeding edge work-in-progress presentations and discussion rounds as well as talks by invited experts of our AKSW lecture series. On Monday, October 21at … Continue reading

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