Category Archives: Announcements

LOD2 STACK USABILITY SURVEY STARTED

In the recent years the LOD2 stack established a collection of applications developed in the context of the LOD2 project, presented as an unified environment. These applications are referred to as components although they can also be installed independently. However, having … Continue reading

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Preview release of RDFaCE special edition for Schema.org

We are happy to announce the preview release of our RDFaCE WYSIWYM content editor special edition for Schema.org. RDFaCE (RDFa Content Editor) extends the TinyMCE rich text editor to facilitate the authoring of semantic documents. This version of RDFaCE is … Continue reading

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European project BioASQ sets a challenge to push research in biomedical information retrieval and question answering

Every day, approximately 3000 new articles are published in biomedical journals. That averages to more than 2 articles every minute! Managing this large amount of data is a challenge in itself. Yet, ensuring that this wealth of knowledge is used … Continue reading

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Open Positions for PostDocs, PhD Students and Developers at AKSW

There are several open positions for postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students and software developers at AKSW research group in Leipzig. More information can be found here: http://wiki.aksw.org/Jobs Applicants will become part of an very international, innovative and social team, be embedded into an … Continue reading

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AKSW visits CeBIT2013

On Friday 8th March, a few member of AKSW visited CeBIT.CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. CeBIT 2013 was held in Hanover and in a trip taking around two and … Continue reading

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SlideWiki webinar tutorial during Open Education Week (March 15, 15:00 GMT)

We will perform a Webinar introducing SlideWiki and its features in the course of Open Education Week on March 15 at 15:00 GMT. While many Learning Content Management Systems are available, the collaborative, community-based creation of rich e-learning content is … Continue reading

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Two AKSW Papers at ESWC

Greetings World. We are happy to announce that the AKSW papers “COALA – Correlation-Aware Active Learning of Link Specifications” and “When to Reach for the Cloud: Using Parallel Hardware for Link Discovery” were selected for presentation at ESWC 2013. Each … Continue reading

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Two AKSW Papers at WWW

The AKSW papers “Sorry, I don’t speak SPARQL – Translating SPARQL Queries into Natural Language” and “Question Answering on Interlinked Data” were accepted as full research papers for presentation at WWW2013. The first paper presents SPARQL2NL, a framework which  deals … Continue reading

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Indian PhD Student in Tatort !!!

In a wonderful coincidence, an Indian PhD student from our group Amrapali Zaveri is going to appear in one of the episodes of Tatort. Now for those of you who do not know, Tatort (English title: Crime Scene) is a … Continue reading

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Xturtle: Turtle editing the Eclipse-way

We are happy to announce the first public version of our Turtle editor Xturtle. Xturtle is eclipse / Xtext2 based and provides a basic editing solution for the Turtle RDF syntax to allow for easy editing of textual representations of … Continue reading

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