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Advanced Semantic Technologies

Prof. Deborah McGuinness and Dr. Patrice Seyed

CSCI 6965 - 01

CSCI 4967 - 01

ITWS 6962 - 01

ITWS 4963 - 01

TA: Justin Karpenski (kaprej2@rpi.edu)

Week 1, January 22, 2013

Admin info (keep/ print this slide)• Hours: 1pm-3:50pm Tuesdays• Location: Winslow 1140• Instructor: Deborah McGuinness and Patrice Seyed• Additional Instructors may include: Peter Fox, Jim

Hendler, Joanne Luciano• Instructor contact: dlm@cs.rpi.edu, seyeda2@rpi.edu ,

pfox@cs.rpi.edu, hendler@cs.rpi.edu, jluciano@cs.rpi.edu

• TA: Justin Karpenski: karpenski@gmail.com • Scribe for each meeting – Justin will do it today• Course web site:• http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Courses/AdvancedSemanticTechn

ologies/2013

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Class Goals• Prepare you for research in Semantic

Technologies by giving you practice and guidance on– Critically reading research papers– Making technical presentations – individually and

in groups– Preparing research papers and possibly proposals– Doing a semantic technology research project

– Also giving you the opportunity for practice talks, suggestions, literature review, etc.

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Introductions• Who are you?

– What year are you in?– What major/department?– Do you have much background in semantic

technologies and web science?

• What made you choose this class?

• Will you make the class (on time) each week?

• Do you know anyone else who is expecting to take this class who is not here today? 4

Making Web Applications that are “Smart”

-The application should have content that:

•Is machine interpretable

•Doesn’t require humans (who created it or are interpreting it) to make sense of information

Want applications that can do “interesting” things – suggest restaurants, wines, …, help classify science objects, etc.

Want applications that add something / would be hard to do without semantics

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Semantic Web Layers

http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/1023-iswc-tbl/slide26-0.html, http://flickr.com/photos/pshab/291147522/

Application Areas for SemanticsSome emerging areas:• Knowledge Provenance• Open Linked Data• Ontologies, their environments, and their “enablement” of applications

Other classes cover: Semantic eScience; Xinformatics; Data Science

Assorted specific topics• Smart search• Annotation (even simple forms), smart tagging• Explanation, Proof, Trust• Geospatial• Implementing logic (rules), e.g. in workflows• Data integration• Verification• Web services• Web content mining with natural language parsing and query• User interface development (portals)• Semantic desktop• Wikis - OntoWiki, SemanticMediaWiki• Sensor Web• Software engineering 7

Topics from:• ISWC – International Semantic Web Conference - Last Boston – Nov 12

next http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/ Oct 2013• ESWC – Extended Semantic Web conference – last Greece May 2012

http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/ - Montpellier France• IAAI / AAAI – Innovative Applications of AI and Association for the

Advancement of AI – last: Toronto – July 2012; next Seattle http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/iaai13.php

• SemTech - Semantic Technology – last/next: San Francisco June http://semtechbizsf2013.semanticweb.com/

• International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management – last:Maui/ next San Fran – Oct 27-Nov 2 - http://www.cikm2013.org/dates.php

• Web Science – http://www.websci13.org/ last Chicago / June / next Paris

• IPAW – International Provenance and Annotation Workshop – last http://ipaw2012.bren.ucsb.edu/index.php/IPAW_2012_-_4th_International_Provenance_and_Annotation_Workshop previous at RPI tw.rpi.edu/portal/IPAW2010 / next June 2014 cologne - http://lanyrd.com/2014/ipaw2014/

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Some Pointers• Journals

– Journal of Web Semantics:– Journal of AI Research:– International Journal On Semantic Web and

Information Systems:– International Journal of Semantic Computing

(IJSC):– International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and

Ontologies (IJMSO):– Journal of Data Semantics:– Journal of Semantics:

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Schedule – course web site• Reading assignments

• Assignments– Individual– Group

• Written assessments – your presentations and any 1-page submission

• Presentation assessments

• Sign up will be available on the course web site during the week – for the 10min talks next week and for during the term 10

What is expected• Attend class, complete assignments• Participate• Ask questions – be honest with yourself and others

about what you do and do not know• Work individually and when you are stuck, ask for

help• Work constructively in group and class sessions• Consider coming to TWC TWeds (not a requirement

but may be useful) http://tw.rpi.edu/web/TWed • Tomorrow –is particularly good – Health Challenge

https://github.com/jimmccusker/twc-healthdata/wiki/2013-Jan-23-twed 11

Some project inspirations• Semantic projects

– SemantAQUA - http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/SemantAQUA

– PopSciGrid –

http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/PopSciGrid – Wine Agent -

http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/Wineagent – Last term projects

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Logistics summary• This week’s assignment:

– Click through some of the resources listed on the web page– Initial reading “From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research

challenge for AI on the WWW” by Hendler and Berners-Lee.http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs227/Readings/hendler-berners-lee-semantic-web.pdf

– Initial reading on the wine agent by Patton and McGuinness (you will see why after the brainstorming exercise) http://wineagent.tw.rpi.edu/papers/sdow-2009-wineagent.pdf

– See Web page for specific questions to answer with respect to the readings.

– Come prepared with a 1-page description of a research topic that you could imagine using semantic technologies and be prepared to talk about it for 10 minutes

• Next class (week 2 – Jan 29, 2013): – 10 minute presentations each on homework – with your research

interest• Questions? Class page reminder

http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Courses/AdvancedSemanticTechnologies/2013

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Extra

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Preparing to Submit• Go to the web site• Look for important dates (submission, and conference)• Look at the call for papers • Review topics and keywords• Look at the organizers• Look at location – can you go? Do you have visa issues?

Do you have funding? Do they offer student support?• Review co-located events• Review past conference listings

• Do any of you have material you might be interested in submitting during the course of this class?

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