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Fully funded PhD position on Pragmatic Semantics for the Web of Data at VU University Amsterdam.

Stefan Schlobach — 2012-05-23T08:47:17

Fully funded PhD position (KRR group < at > VU University Amsterdam)
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JOB OPENING: The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group,
headed by Prof. Frank van Harmelen at the VU University Amsterdam
is looking for an enthusiastic PhD student for a 4 year full time
position on the project Pragmatic Semantics for the Web of Data funded
by the Dutch Science Foundation NWO.

WHAT WE OFFER: A world-class research team in semantic technologies,
a stimulating work environment, and life in a vibrant and multicultural
city that always ranks among the highest on the quality of life indexes.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR: A talented and motivated individual with a thorough
background in Computer Science and/or Artificial Intelligence. We are
particularly looking for students with experience with formal logical
methods, the ability to turn theories into practical programs and an
interest in validating their theories empirically in practical applications.

PROJECT DESCRIPT

researcher job to open soon: Semantic Web/Semantic Audio

George Fazekas — 2012-05-21T17:07:02

Dear All,

There will be a job opening soon at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London.

We just received notification of funding for an 8 month project due to start early next month. The project aims to extend a Semantic Web ontology for audio features building on prior work in our group including the Music Ontology (http://musicontology.com/), with wide community involvement. Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies and Audio DSP or Semantic Audio are essential. Due to the short time before the project start we would like interested applicants to contact us by email and send a short expression of interest. 

A formal job posting and specification will be sent out soon, so please do not send job applications yet.

Please contact me (gyorgy.fazekas< at >eecs.qmul.ac.uk) and/or Simon Dixon (simon.dixon< at >eecs.qmul.ac.uk) if you are interested.

Best wishes,
George


George Fazekas
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Centre for Digital Music (room 109)
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Sci

Re: ANN: UMBEL v 1.05

Frederick Giasson — 2012-05-21T17:38:35

Hi Dan!


Well, all the currently linked ontologies/schemas to UMBEL are 
aggregated here:

     
https://github.com/structureddynamics/UMBEL/tree/master/External%20Ontologies

So:

(a) dbpedia ontology
(b) geonames
(c) proton
(d) schema.org

This goes along with the modularization of UMBEL (the geo module only 
for now).

Thanks,

Fred

Upcoming RR deadlines and new TC format

Markus Krötzsch — 2012-05-21T13:47:43

Dear Web/ontology/semantics researchers,

the RR 2012 deadlines are near (papers next week, abstract registration 
this week [1]). Hence I'd like to draw attention to a new submission 
format this year: Technical Communications (TCs). The idea is to present 
ongoing or recently published work without submitting a full paper (TCs 
are 4 pages maximum; a full paper or report published elsewhere can back 
up the submission). Authors can thus reach a relevant audience and get 
valuable feedback (RR is well known for its lively discussions). To 
support this, the time given to talks is not determined by the 
submission format (see [1] for details).

This doesn't affect the importance of research papers. There will be 
Springer proceedings as usual. However, TCs can hopefully add some 
interesting features to the program. It is not too late to consider an 
own submission -- Vienna is always worth a visit.

Cheers,

Markus

P.S. Sorry for cross-posting this to multiple W3C lists. I wonder if one 
can configure one'

Re: ANN: UMBEL v 1.05

Thad Guidry — 2012-05-21T12:47:59

The splitting of UMBEL into natural and human artifacts is a MAJOR plus
towards furthering the Semantic Web.

Anyone, including Scientists will particularly love this.  For instance, an
Oceanographer will be delighted to be able to easily differ between a
natural artifact such as dealing with Carbis Bay "a bay of water" , against
the human artifact of Carbis Bay "the small resort town near that bay that
shares its name".

Kudos Mike and team !  Having more Types will broaden the future of the
Semantic Web, including having Natural Types that our Human Types tread all
over. :)

Call for Research Papers ISWC 2012

Oshani Seneviratne — 2012-05-21T11:12:02

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Call for Research Papers
http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/call-research-papers

11th International Semantic Web Conference
http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/
Boston - USA
November 11-15, 2012
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ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and
research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data. We
solicit the submission of original research papers for ISWC 2012's
research track, dealing with analytical, theoretical, empirical, and
practical aspects of all areas of the Semantic Web. Submissions to the
research track should describe original, significant research on the
Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies, and are expected to
provide some principled means of evaluation.

To maintain the high level of quality and impact of the ISWC series,
all papers will be reviewed by three program committee members and one
vice chair of the program comm

Re: ANN: UMBEL v 1.05

Dan Brickley — 2012-05-21T10:53:19

Great stuff! I've added a mapping section to
http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas#Mappings adding others including
various from schema.rdfs.org; are we missing anything else?

Dan

PhD Studenships - Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Mathieu D'Aquin — 2012-05-21T09:38:12

Dear all, 

Positions are available for PhD students at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, UK (see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships/vacancies.php) in topics relevant to this mailing list. 

The deadline for applications is June 7, 2012.

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is home to internationally recognised researchers in semantic technologies, educational multimedia, collaboration technologies, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction. KMi offers students an intellectually challenging environment with exceptional research and computer facilities. 

The following two PhD projects are in particular related to the use and development of knowledge technologies, ontologies, the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Please contact the relevant members of KMi for more information.

Web Data Mining
Contact: Mathieu d'Aquin (m.daquin< at >open.ac.uk)
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships/web-data-mining.php

The Web is currently being flooded with data, from information repo

ANN: UMBEL v 1.05

Mike Bergman — 2012-05-21T05:23:37

We have just released version 1.05 of UMBEL. It provides detailed 
mappings to schema.org and GeoNames. The overall ontology has also been 
modularized, which has allowed the development of a cool big graph 
visualization [1].

For more details, see my longer announcement [2].

Thanks, Mike

[1] http://umbel.org/content/umbel-graph
[2] 
http://www.mkbergman.com/999/new-umbel-release-gains-schema-org-geonames-capabilities/

8th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2012) - Call for Applications (Extended application deadline)

Thomas Krennwallner — 2012-05-20T05:27:56

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            * Extended application deadline: May 25, 2012 *
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                  CALL FOR APPLICATIONS/PARTICIPATION

                           REASONING WEB 2012
             The 8th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2012)
                 Vienna, Austria, September 03-08, 2012
                   http://www.reasoningweb.org/2012/

co-located with the

- 6th Int'l Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2012),
  September 10-12, 2012
  http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2012/

- 4th Int'l Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012),
  September 10-12, 2012
  http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/comma2012/

- 2nd Datalog 2.0 Workshop, September 11-13, 2012
  http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/datalog-2.0/

- 23rd Int'l Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  (DEXA 2012), September 03-07, 2012
  http://www.dexa.org/


The Reasoning Web Summer School 2012 is pri

Semantic GPU Function Resources

David Sheets — 2012-05-16T22:22:31

Hello, world!

You may be interested in a recent WebGL extension proposal
<https://www.khronos.org/webgl/public-mailing-list/archives/1205/msg00135.html>,
URI <http://ashima.github.com/webgl-uri/URI/>, which embeds the
Khronos Group's GPU shading language extension namespace
<http://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/> into RFC 3986
URIs.

I am very interested in your thoughts on this extension proposal.

Thank you,

David Sheets

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

adasal — 2012-05-18T22:51:48

Works for me. I doubt an algorithm. Just roll out in waves.
However, more to the point is
"Stings to Things that are Nameless" != Linked Data and the Semantic Web.
Thus, what's TimBL got to celebrate about such an effort?
And ironic is:-
If I was in Google's shoes, he would be the last person I would want
scrutinizing Google Knowledge Graph, seriously!

We want to insert ourselves into these anonymous algorithms, don't we?
Even to the point of nearly believing (imagining) we are in them.
Gradually we have to understand that a bargain is being struck.
For the utility of the technology our collective efforts are harvested but
our individual efforts have no influence:we are pretty powerless.
Is the balance of this bargain always going to be struck in the same way?
If it were strings to named things?


Adam
On 18 May 2012 23:30, Jürgen Jakobitsch <j.jakobitsch< at >semantic-web.at>wrote:

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Kingsley Idehen — 2012-05-18T22:47:51

Are you sure you are nobody? Personally, I don't think its possible to 
be nobody.

You have at least one digital identity expressible in graph form. That's 
always been the case.


I do know how much effort goes into it and can produce much better 
results with fewer computers. What you won't see is the page prettiness 
because in our case we believe data (linked data graph) and information 
(pretty pages) should be loosely coupled on the Web, so we've focused on 
producing an engine that can tackle the data query handling challenges.

Kingsley

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Kingsley Idehen — 2012-05-18T22:39:44

Interesting dimension you add.

I *theorize* that a majority of folks that couldn't see it yesterday, 
that contributed to the G+ thread, are now seeing the service, 
irrespective of location :-)

One day that will be a SPARQL query with a URL to results and query 
definition  :-)

Kingsley

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Enrique Pérez Arnaud — 2012-05-18T22:33:15

2012/5/18 Kingsley Idehen <kidehen< at >openlinksw.com>


I'm not sure I understand you correctly. I'm nobody, and I get the results.
Am I more likely to celebrate? It is almost the same as the regular
results... You need to know how much effort it is consuming to get the same
results to really appreciate it };-)

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Kingsley Idehen — 2012-05-18T19:15:39

LOL!

"Strings to Things that are Nameless"


Kingsley

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Jürgen Jakobitsch — 2012-05-18T19:05:20

did you mean "sphinx to rings"?

wkr j

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From: "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen< at >openlinksw.com>
To: "Eric Franzon" <eric< at >semanticweb.com>
Cc: "Ivan Herman" <ivan< at >w3.org>, "Aidan Hogan" <aidan.hogan< at >deri.org>, public-lod< at >w3.org, semantic-web< at >w3.org, public-rww< at >w3.org
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 8:59:45 PM
Subject: Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

On 5/18/12 1:41 PM, Eric Franzon wrote: 

Although, really, if TimBL doesn't yet see anything as he just reported, that may shoot the "influence" hypothesis right out of the water. ;) 

Quite the contrary, you over simplify :-) That's a little more inline with my theory i.e., release the service via nodes that will celebrate rather that scrutinize etc.. 

"Stings to Things that are Nameless" != Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Thus, what's TimBL got to celebrate about such an effort? If I was in Google's shoes, he would be the last person I would want scrutinizing Google Knowledge Graph, seriously! 

Kingsley 

Cheers, 
--Eric 

On

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Kingsley Idehen — 2012-05-18T18:59:45

Quite the contrary, you over simplify :-) That's a little more inline 
with my theory i.e., release the service via nodes that will celebrate 
rather that scrutinize etc..

"Stings to Things that are Nameless" != Linked Data and the Semantic 
Web. Thus, what's TimBL got to celebrate about such an effort? If I was 
in Google's shoes, he would be the last person I would want scrutinizing 
Google Knowledge Graph, seriously!

Kingsley

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Kingsley Idehen — 2012-05-18T18:45:02

Here are some posts that ultimately get you to context and pictures:

1. http://goo.gl/CH3qj -- my latest post about Google Knowledge Graph in 
relation to Linked Data and the Semantic Web
2. http://goo.gl/dZgxf -- initial post about this profile-driven (my 
theory) roll-out
3. http://goo.gl/6eemj -- my shared GDrive folder which has pictures 
(some have inline annotations re. Hyperlink based Names and lack thereof 
re. what Google offers).

Hope that helps :-)

Kingsley

RE: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Joshi, Amit Krishna — 2012-05-18T18:21:14

I found this old article about kngine in VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/09/kngine-semantic-search/). Does anyone know how far they have been successful in bringing similar Knowledge Graph to the masses?

After few random 'entity' queries I did on both, I found it worth spreading the comparison:

1) http://www.kngine.com/search?q=google   vs http://www.google.com/search?q=google
2 ) http://www.kngine.com/Search?q=boston  vs https://www.google.com/search?q=boston 

It's interesting to see companies realizing the value of Knowledge/entity/things/fact/semantic graph/data. 

-
Amit

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From: David Wood [david< at >3roundstones.com]
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:45 PM
To: Eric Franzon
Cc: Ivan Herman; Aidan Hogan; Kingsley Idehen; public-lod< at >w3.org; semantic-web< at >w3.org; public-rww< at >w3.org
Subject: Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

...or feed an interesting conspiracy theory :)

Regards,
Dave




On May 18, 2012, at 13:41, Eric Franzon wrote:

Although, really, if Ti

Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Dave Raggett — 2012-05-18T18:16:43

Worked for me from the UK.

On 18/05/12 18:31, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: