Seminar "Semantic Web Technologies", Summer 2010

Organization

Regular meetings are Thursdays at 16:00-17:00 s.t. in Room 021, Building E1.4 (MPI-Inf).
Daniel's introductory slides with a link to the DFKI video on Collaborative Semantic Interactions can be found here.

Contents of the Seminar

The seminar covers current trends in Semantic Web technologies and their application to multimodal interactions, dialogue systems, and databases. Talks are based on recent research papers on these topics.

Best Reports

Christina Teflioudi: Markov Logic Networks
Javeria Iqbal: Ontologies and Ontology Editors
Mahdi Ebrahimi: Semantic Mashups
Anh Tuan Tran: Linked Knowledge Repositories
Prashant Yadava: Principles of Multimodal Interaction

Essentials

Thursday, May 20, 2010, 16:00: Introduction to RDF(S)/OWL & Ontology Definitions

Semantic Web Technologies.
Brian Matthews. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2005.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition), W3C Rec.
RDF Primer & RDF Schema, W3C Rec.
OWL Web Ontology Language Overview, W3C Rec.
Further reading:
- Ontologies and Adaptivity in Dialogue for Question Answering, Chapter on Ontologies.
  Daniel Sonntag. IOS Press, 2010.
- Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies.
  Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, and Sebastian Rudolph. Chapman & Hall, 2009.
- RDF Tutorial.
  Pierre-Antoine Champin. Université de Lyon, 2001.
Speaker: Wenkai Dai
Opponent: Javeria Iqbal
Tutor: Martin Theobald
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, May 27, 2010, 16:00: Simple Ontologies & Ontology Editors

Towards a Standard Upper Ontology.
Ian Niles and Adam Pease. SIGART/FOIS, 2001.
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology.
Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness. Stanford University, 2000.
Further reading:
- A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies Using the Protégé-OWL Plugin and CO-ODE Tools.
  Matthew Horridge, Holger Knublauch, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens, and Chris Wroe. University of Manchester, 2004.
Speaker: Javeria Iqbal
Opponent: Martin Vasileski
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, May 27, 2010, 17:00: Efficiently Indexing and Querying RDF Data

SPARQL Query Language for RDF, W3C Rec.
The RDF-3X engine for scalable management of RDF data.
Thomas Neumann and Gerhard Weikum. VLDB Journal, 2010.
Scalable join processing on very large RDF graphs.
Thomas Neumann and Gerhard Weikum. SIGMOD, 2009.
Speaker: Timm Meiser
Opponent: Anh-Tuan Tran
Tutor: Martin Theobald
Slides [PDF]

Multimodal Interaction and Dialogue Systems

Thursday, June 10, 2010, 16:00: Principles of Multimodal Interaction

Ten myths of multimodal interaction.
Sharon Oviatt. Comm. ACM, 1999.
Human Computing and Machine Understanding of Human Behavior: A Survey.
Maja Pantic, Alex Pentland, Anton Nijholt, and Thomas S. Hunag. ICMI, 2006.
Speaker: Prashant Yadava
Opponent: Bibek Paudel
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, June 10, 2010, 17:00: Ontology-based Dialogue Systems

Question answering on the Semantic Web.
Deborah L. McGuinness. Intelligent Systems, 2004.
Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources.
J. William Murdock, Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Chris Welty, and David Ferrucci. Stanford University, 2006.
Towards Ontology-driven Discourse: From Semantic Graphs to Multimedia Presentations.
Joost Geurts, Stefano Bocconi, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman. CWI, 2003.
Further reading:
- Ontologies and Adaptivity in Dialogue for Question Answering.
  Daniel Sonntag. IOS Press, 2010.
Speaker: Andrey Tikhomirov
Opponent: Erdal Kuzey
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, June 17, 2010, 16:00: Application: SmartWeb

SmartWeb Handheld - Multimodal Interaction with Ontological Knowledge Bases and Semantic Web Services.
Daniel Sonntag, Ralf Engel, Gerd Herzog, Alexander Pfalzgraf, Norbert Pfleger, Massimo Romanelli, Norbert Reithinger. AI for Human Computing, Springer, 2007.
Speaker: Martin Vasileski
Opponent: Wenkai Dai
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, June 17, 2010, 17:00: Application: Image Annotation with MEDICO

A Multimodal Dialogue Mashup for Medical Image Semantics.
Daniel Sonntag and Manuel Möller. IUI, 2010.
RadSem: Semantic Annotation and Retrieval for Medical Images.
Manuel Möller, Sven Regel, and Michael Sintek. ESWC, 2009.
A Generic Framework for Semantic Medical Image Retrieval.
Manuel Möller and Michael Sintek. KAMC, 2007.
Speaker: Hassan Issa
Opponent: Hanna Mousa
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PDF]

Statistical Relational Learning with Applications to Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, and Databases

Thursday, June 24, 2010, 16:00: Markov Logic

Markov Logic Networks.
Matthew Richardson and Pedro Domingos. Machine Learning, 2006.
Speaker: Christina Teflioudi
Opponent: Andrey Tikhomirov
Tutor: Martin Theobald
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, June 24, 2010, 17:00: Snowball/KnowItAll/TextRunner

Snowball: Extracting Relations from Large Plain-Text Collections.
Eugene Agichtein and Luis Gravano. Digital Libraries, 2000.
Web-Scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll.
Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stanley Kok, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, and Alexander Yates. WWW, 2004.
Open Information Extraction on the Web.
Michele Banko, Michael J. Cafarella, Stephen Soderland, Matt Broadhead, and Oren Etzioni. IJCAI, 2007.
Speaker: Arif Khan
Opponent: Mahdi Ebrahimi
Tutor: Martin Theobald
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, July 8, 2010, 16:00: Boostrapping in Information Extraction Systems

Bootstrapping an Ontology-based Information Extraction System.
Alexander Maedche, Gunter Neumann, and Steffen Staab. Intelligent exploration of the web, Physika-Verlag, 2003.
Speaker: Hanna Mousa
Opponent: Sameera Mahajani
Tutor: Martin Theobald
Slides [PDF]

Ontology Matching

Thursday, July 15, 2010, 16:00: DBpedia, YAGO, NAGA & SOFIE

DBpedia Homepage
DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data.
Soren Auer, Christian Bizer, Jens Lehmann, Georgi Kobilarov, Richard Cyganiak, and Zachary Ives. ISWC, 2007.
Yago - A Core of Semantic Knowledge.
Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci, and Gerhard Weikum. WWW, 2007.
NAGA: Searching and Ranking Knowledge.
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifrim, Maya Ramanath, and Gerhard Weikum. ICDE, 2008.
SOFIE: A Self-Organizing Framework for Information Extraction.
Fabian M. Suchanek, Mauro Sozio, and Gerhard Weikum. WWW, 2009.
Speaker: Bibek Paudel
Opponent: Timm Meiser
Tutor: Martin Theobald
Slides [PDF]

Thursday, July 15, 2010, 17:00: Semantic Mashups

Ontology Matching.
Jerome Euzenat and Pavel Shvaiko. Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007.
Rapid Prototyping of Semantic Mash-Ups through Semantic Web Pipes.
Danh Le-Phuoc, Axel Polleres, Manfred Hauswirth, Giovanni Tummarello, and Christian Morbidoni. WWW, 2009.
Towards understanding the needs of cognitive support for ontology mapping.
Sean M. Falconer, Natalya F. Noy, and Margaret-Anne Storey. Ontology Matching, 2006.
Speaker: Mahdi Ebrahimi
Opponent: Prashant Yadava
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, July 22, 2010: NO MEETING!

Linked Data

Thursday, July 29, 2010, 16:00: Browsing

LENATR: Browsing Linked Open Data Across Knowledge-Aspects.
Thomas Franz, Jörg Koch, Renata Dividino, Steffen Staab. AAAI Spring Symposia, 2010.
Faceted Browsing over Linked Data
Zhenning Shangguan and Deborah L. McGuinness. AAAI Spring Symposia, 2010
Further reading:
- Linked Data: The Story So Far.
  Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, and Tim Berners-Lee. IJSWIS, 2009.
Speaker: Sameera Mahajani
Opponent: Hassan Issa
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PPT]

Thursday, July 29, 2010, 17:00: Linked Knowledge Repositories

Using Linked Data for Semi-Automatic Guesstimation.
Jonathan Abourbih, Alan Bundy and Fiona McNeill. AAAI Spring Symposia, 2010.
ANGIE: Active Knowledge for Interactive Exploration.
Nicoleta Preda, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci, Thomas Neumann, Maya Ramanath, and Gerhard Weikum. VLDB, 2009.
Speaker: Anh-Tuan Tran
Opponent: Arif Khan
Tutor: Daniel Sonntag
Slides [PPT] [PDF]