Category Archives: Announcements

SlideWiki wins the creative innovation project award 2014 for OpenCourseWare excellence

Posted on April 27, 2014 by AliKhalili

Just a couple of days ago, a paper about SlideWiki was presented at OCW Consortium Global Conference 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The paper was addressing “Crowd-sourcing (semantically) Structured Multilingual Educational Content (CoSMEC)”. In the presentation, Darya Tarasowa gave a detailed … Continue reading →

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Five AKSW Papers at ESWC 2014

Posted on March 14, 2014 by AxelNgonga

Hello World! We are very pleased to announce that five of our papers were accepted for presentation at ESWC 2014. These papers range from natural-language processing to the acquisition of temporal data. In more detail, we will present the following … Continue reading →

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AKSW Colloquium “Current semantic web initiatives in the Netherlands” on Friday, March 14, Room P901

Posted on March 13, 2014 by KonradHoeffner

Current semantic web initiatives in the Netherlands: Heritage & Location, PiLOD 2.0 On Friday, March 14, at 10.00 a.m. in room P901, visiting researchers Tine van Nierop and Rein van ‘t Veer from the E&L will discuss, amongst several other … Continue reading →

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AKSW Colloquium “Towards a Computer Algebra Semantic Social Network” on Monday, March 17

Posted on March 11, 2014 by KonradHoeffner

Towards a Computer Algebra Semantic Social Network On Monday, March 17th, 2014 at 1.30 – 2:30 p.m. in Room P702 (Paulinum), Prof. Dr. Hans-Gert Gräbe will present and discuss a bootstrap process for a Semantic Social Network within a special … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 7, 2014 by KonradHoeffner

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

Posted on February 7, 2014 by KonradHoeffner

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

Posted on February 7, 2014 by KonradHoeffner

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

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Sören Auer

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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Preview release of conTEXT for Linked-Data based text analytics

Posted on January 17, 2014 by AliKhalili

We are happy to announce the preview release of conTEXT — a platform for lightweight text analytics using Linked Data. conTEXT enables social Web users to semantically analyze text corpora (such as blogs, RSS/Atom feeds, Facebook, G+, Twitter or SlideWiki.org … Continue reading →

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

Posted on December 13, 2013 by KonradHoeffner

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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