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Scaling up the DBpedia extraction framework by Nilesh Chakraborty The DBpedia extraction framework extracts different kinds of structured information from Wikipedia to generate various datasets. Performing a full extraction of Wikipedia dumps of all languages (or even just the mapping-based languages) takes a significant amount of time. … Continue reading →

Automating RDF Dataset Transformation and Enrichment by Mohamed Sherif With the adoption of RDF across several domains, come growing requirements pertaining to the completeness and quality of RDF datasets. Currently, this problem is most commonly addressed by manually devising means … Continue reading →

This colloquium features two talks. First the Self-Service Semantic Suite (S4) platform is presented by Marin Dimitrov (Ontotext), followed up by Jörg Unbehauens report on Googles effort on using factual correctness as a ranking factor. RDF database-as-a-service (DBaaS) via Self-Service … Continue reading →

Linked Data Quality Assessment and its Application to Societal Progress Measurement Abstract: In recent years, the Linked Data (LD) paradigm has emerged as a simple mechanism for employing the Web as a medium for data and knowledge integration where both … Continue reading →

Combination of Topic Modeling and Semantic Web On Monday, June 30, at 3.00 p.m. in room Paulinum 702, Michael Röder will present his yearly PhD progress report “Combination of Topic Modeling and Semantic Web”. The presentation addresses the usage of … Continue reading →

SWeeT Web of Heritage On Wednesday, July 2, at 1.30 p.m. in room P702, T B Dinesh from Janastu, a non-profit organisation providing free open source software, will present the SWeeT Web of Heritage. Dinesh has a computer science background … Continue reading →

Knowledge Extraction and Presentation On Monday, July 28,  in room P702 at 3.00 p.m., Edgard Marx proposes a question answering system. He has a computer science background (BSc. and MSc. in Computer Science/PUC-Rio) and is a member of AKSW (Agile … Continue reading →

On November 16th, 2012 the DBpedia Data Quality group started a campaign for assessing the quality of DBpedia. To get the best of this effort we developed TripleCheckMate, a tool designed for crowd-sourcing the evaluation of Linked Data. Today, we … Continue reading →

We are happy to announce that this year seven papers from AKSW were accepted at the ISWC in different tracks and covering a wide range of topics as listed below: ISWC Research track: TITLE: DAW: Duplicate-AWare Federated Query Processing over the … Continue reading →