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5th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2016)

At next year’s LREC conference, AKSW/KILT members Bettina Klimek and Sebastian Hellmann will co-organize the next Linked Data in Linguistics Workshop. Please find the call for paper below. Thank you for submitting. Call for Papers: 5th Workshop on Linked Data … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 07-12-2015, LODVader

On the 7th of December at 3 PM, Ciro Baron will present LODVader, a new hybrid system which combines LOD Visualisation, Analytics and DiscovEry in Real-time. Abstract The Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud is in danger of becoming a black … Continue reading

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Session on Management of Ontology Evolution during the ALIGNED project meeting on Dec 3rd, 15:45

The fourth ALIGNED project meeting will be held in Leipzig between December 2-4, 2015. During the meeting, we welcome our guest presenters Ralph Schäfermeier and Dr. Anika Groß who will give presentations about the topic of Management of Ontology Evolution … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 30-11-2015, SCARO + Large-scale multilingual knowledge extraction & quality assessment

On November 30 at 3 PM, Klaus Lyko (right) will present SCARO. Afterwards, Dimitris Kontokostas (left) will present the progress of his PhD thesis “Large-scale multilingual knowledge extraction & quality assessment”. About the AKSW Colloquium This event is part of … Continue reading

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AKSW Colloquium, 09-11-2015, Versioning of Arbitrary RDF Data (PhD progress report) and GraphLab Platform

GraphLab Platform – Overview and History  by Simon Bin GraphLab is a graph-based distributed computation framework. It was developed from 2009 at Carnegie Mellon University. At that time it was competing with Hadoop on Graph processing. The typical example algorithm demonstrated … Continue reading

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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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