Category Archives: Announcements

FOX Version 0.1

Posted on July 6, 2011 by AxelNgonga

We are thrilled to announce the first version of the Federated knOwledge eXtraction (FOX) framework. FOX integrates and merges the results of frameworks for Named Entity Recognition, Keyword/Keyphrase Extraction and Relation Extraction by using machine learning techniques. By these means, … Continue reading →

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Deutsche Biographie becomes part of the LOD cloud

Posted on July 6, 2011 by ThomasRiechert

During a workshop on June 27th at the Historical College in Munich, the AKSW group and the group of the New German Biography at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities presented their results of the LOD2-supported PUBLINK project. Within … Continue reading →

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AKSW @ Zingst

Posted on July 5, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

Last week, from June 26 to 30, all AKSW members were at Zingst for an internal group meeting. With the university villa located right by the sea, it seemed to be a perfect getaway and an awesome location for a … Continue reading →

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Official DBpedia Live Release

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Jens Lehmann

The AKSW group is pleased to announce the official release of DBpedia Live. The main objective of DBpedia is to extract structured information from Wikipedia, convert it into RDF, and make it freely available on the Web. In a nutshell, … Continue reading →

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AKSW at TU Dresden PLT

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Jens Lehmann

On June 8, I (Jens) visited the process control engineering research group (PLT) of Leon Urbas at the Dresden University of Technology. We first met on the Leipziger Semantic Web Day where Leon Urbas presented interactive Linked Data applications and … Continue reading →

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AKSW at ESWC Summer School and Conference 2011

Posted on June 9, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

This year the STI – International organized an ESWC summer school for Master and PhD students in the area of the Semantic Web to come together to learn about the latest ongoings from some of the leading researchers in the … Continue reading →

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Indian-Summer School on Linked Data

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sören Auer

ISSLOD takes place in late summer from Sep 12-18, 2011 in Leipzig with hopefully still a lot of Indian Summer (i.e. Altweibersommer / Бабье лето) sunshine rays. The Linked Data methodology is a light-weight approach to facilitate the transition from … Continue reading →

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LIMES at IKS Workshop

Posted on June 6, 2011 by AxelNgonga

LIMES will be presented at the IKS workshop in Paris on July 6th. The upcoming version of LIMES (version 0.5) is up to 6 orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art software and offers tons of new functionality. More info here. … Continue reading →

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Rückblick auf den LSWT 2011

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Nadine Jaenicke

Letzten Donnerstag veranstaltete das AKSW-Team erneut mit großem Erfolg den 3. Leipziger Semantic Web Tag auf dem Mediencampus in Leipzig. Der LSWT 2011, der wieder über 100 Besucher aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung anzog, bot vielfältige und praxisnahe Einblicke in … Continue reading →

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LinkedGeoData Release 2

Posted on April 27, 2011 by ThomasRiechert

The AKSW research group is happy to announce a new release of LinkedGeoData! The aim of the LinkedGeoData (LGD) project is to make the OpenStreetMap (OSM) datasets easily available as RDF. As such the main target audience is the Semantic … Continue reading →

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