Concordia july2015

Mozaika The Humanizing Technologies Lab

Mariana Damova, PhD 13.07.2015 Montreal

Data Science - Use Cases

The meaning …

1. Humanizing technologies - technologies that humanize (their users)

2. Humanizing technologies - technologies that are human (close to the human)

3. Humanizing technologies - technologies that enable human to better use ICT

human-centric technology

How technology works …

The phrase “humanizing emerging technologies” is about reducing the amount of mystery around how a technology works and about helping people retain a sense of control over their changing environments.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/04/humanizing-emerging-technologies.html

Big Data, Linked Data and The Clouds

Volume Variety

Velocity

- Structured - Unstructured - Semi-structured - All of the above

- Terabytes - Records - Transactions - Tables, files

- Batch - Near time - Real time - Stream

Natural Interfaces

• Gesture control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91aDt0UHcUo

• Wearables • Google Glass

• Samsung watch

• Voice biometrics • Voice control • Dialogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjpVAB06O4

Nuance Voice Biometrics

IVR Authentication Use Case

“At VB Bank, my voice is my password”

Carol Foster

ID VERIFIED a

Slide credit: Nuance Communications

Virtual Personal Assistant

2010 Denise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W52TL9Akv4

2012 Denise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQkpobxbHTY

2014 Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana - http://www.cnet.com/how-to/google-now-vs-siri-virtual-assistants-duke-it-out-video/ - http://www.cnet.com/news/cortana-vs-siri-vs-google-now/ Use for search: Google Search, Wolfram Alpha, Bing Siri uses Nuance for speech recognition

empathy

In the future insight

trust

reliance

actionable knowledge

Better Human Understanding,

not Big data

is the Future of Business.

That is where Mozaika is going

Mozaika is an SME and a Research Center

- semantic data mining, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, data science

- information infrastructures serving variety of applications such as enhancing creativity

- cultural heritage cataloguing, smart cities

- consulting in project development

- etc.

Implied technologies

Semantic Web Technologies - Breaking the data siloes

Linked Open Data Cloud

Linked Open Vocabularies

FactForge

Natural Language and the Semantic Web

DBpedia URI

@Davidcamposh has visto el de Una verdad incomoda de <Al Gore>...es muy bueno tambi Davidcamposh’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth of <Al Gore> ... is very good also

positive sentiment topic: Al Gore

Person DBpedia URI

Politician

United States

hasProfession

bornIn

EN FR DE

Who painted Mona Lisa? Qui a paint Mona Lisa? Wer hat Mona Lisa gemahlt?

Who is Mona Lisa’s painter? Qui est le paintre de Mona Lisa? Wer ist der Mahler von Mona Lisa ?

Who created Mona Lisa? Qui a créé Mona Lisa? Wer hat Mona Lisa geschöpft?

Different language Different syntax Different lexicon

Same semantics

RDF

:Painter :Painting

:painted

Mona Lisa ? rdf:typ

e rd

f:ty

pe

Leonardo Mona Lisa

RDF Repository

SPARQL

Missing Piece A Multilingual SPARQL-Based Retrieval Interface for Cultural Heritage Objects

Reason-able View Linked Open Data

from the Cultural Heritage domain Gothenburg City Museum

Europeana, DBPedia, CIDOC-CRM

SPARQL End-point

Coverage: 1159 query patterns in 15 languages: Bulgarian, Finish, Norwegian, Catalan, French, Romania, Danish, Hebrew, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Swedish 10 characteristics of cultural heritage objects: creation date, time period, material, title, dimension, current location (museum and city), color, author, type

Evaluation Random queries in 7 languages with very few native informants corrections

Extendibility Writing a new query grammar requires 150 lines of code

Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud

Multilingual Single Digital Market

• Break the language blocking – Single languages address no more than 20% of the Digital Single

Market

• Enable seamless use of all official languages of the EU – Ensure open access to over 50% of the world’s online

population and 73% of the world online market – Approximately 60% of individuals in non-Anglophone countries

seldom or never make online purchases from English-language sites

• Language technology made in Europe – will transform Europe into a world-wide leader in technology

innovation – Will secure Europe’s future as a world-wide trader and

exporter of goods, services and information

6/4/2015 EuroDIG 2015

META and LT-Innovate

Multilingual Europe: The Crowning Touch to the Digital Single Market

Mozaika’s Current and Past projects …

Human Resources Management

• Semantic representation of skills, competences, geographical information industries relatedness, organizational and personal information • Semantic matching

with ProfiCV

From module of the ProfiCV system towards DaaS

CITYSUMMARIES

with Digital Spaces Living Lab

Real time multi-modal summarization of city experiences and information - trip planning - while visiting - trip memories catcher

mobile and web-based

Smart Cities application

Information Management for Cosmic Studies

Small Communication Satellite Mission Space Technology and Research Insitute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Sofia State University University “Kliment of Ohrid”

RaySat Ltd. (satellite networks ompany)

• Support and enhancement of science research and human activities in Antarctica

• Hi-speed two-way backhaul data transfer for scientific, safety and other applications

• Off-line two-way operational communication services for professional personal or rescue purposes

• Continental surface measurements of biological and natural phenomena

• Weather monitoring and forecasting

Communications project, aiming to mobilize scientific and industrial effort to build a purely Bulgarian product with international impact.

10-60 Mbps data-transfer bit rate

1500-600-km orbit altitude

remote sensing of Earth exploration

with

Geo Linked Data

Interactive map of the Bulgarian Dialects

with IBL - BAS

http://ibl.bas.bg//bulgarian_dialects/

DM2E – Digital Manuscripts to Europeana

Codex Suppraliensis

metadata in DM2E format

http://csup.ilit.bas.bg/node/1

with ILI – BAS and DM2E project

http://dm2e.eu/

Virtual itineraries

http://bulgarianheritage.bulgariana.eu/jspui/handle/pub/624/browse?type=name&submit_browse=%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8

Idea initiated from 3D laser scanned architectural objects and an undergraduate course in Multimedia at NBU

The shown items are made with Europeana and Geocad93. They are part of Bulgariana collection and are currently hosted at Ontotext.

starting with Sofia Holy Forest

Publishing

• Linked Open Data publishing • E-Publishing, E-books • Intelligent reading and writing assistants • Scientific literature publishing

with Springer Verlag with Sofia University and others

Text and Image

- Association based natural language processing - Sentiment expression - Lexical semantics - Visual lexicon

Capturing human and personal characteristics based on the tags chosen for an image

So, it will be …

These are the Humanizing Technologies

Image Credit: Robin Bertolletti

Thank you for your attention

Contact:

mariana.damova@mozajka.co