Application Service Provision of Semantic Annotation, Aggregation, Indexing and Routing of Textual, Multimedia, and Multilingual Web Content

Esperonto ServicesIST-2001-34373

http://www.esperonto.net

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Project Rationale and Objectives

Rationale• We want to build the SW (Info overload, task delegation), but do not want to loose content of

current Web- HTML will remain a dominant web language for many years- Database generated pages will gain popularity (.com)

• XML/RDF/... family will slowly take over Objectives

• Bridge between current Web and SW (Upgrading existing content)• Added value applications on top of SW

Applicationknowledge

User application /Agent

User

AnnotationSemantic Service

Provider

Semantic IndexSemantic Wrapper

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

The Semantic Web

The current web

Applicationknowledge

User application /Agent

User

AnnotationSemantic Service

Provider

Semantic IndexSemantic Wrapper

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

ContentProvider

The Semantic Web

The current web

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Main Innovations

Annotation beyond static pages• Dynamic pages (DB generated)• Webservices

Multiple ontology management Multi lingual

• UI level, annotation level, ontology level

(3D) visualization of SW content Semantic Indexes and P2P routing for localization and

retrieval of SW content by agents

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Expected results, application domains

Expected Results• A(nnotation)SP (Wrappers:

tools and methodology)

• Ontology construction, management and alignment tools and methodology

• Multilingual facilities at the ontology, content and user interface level

• Navigation and visualization techniques for Semantic Web content

Application domains• Virtual cultural tour

• Fund finder

• Scientific discovery

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R&D Topics and Infrastructure Issues for FP6

Ontologies are moving objects• Lifecycle methodologies and tools• Ontology alignment

Semantic Web organization vs current web organization

• Semantic indexes• Semantic routers (P2P)

Business models of SW technology

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Consortium Details and Contact Information

Intelligent Software Components – iSOCO (ES)

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – UPM (ES)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – VU (NL)

Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz – DFKI (DE)

University of Liverpool – Uniliv (UK)

Residencia de Estudiantes (ES) Centre d'Innovació i

Desenvolupament Empresarial – CIDEM (ES)

Richard Benjamins – iSOCOrichard@isoco.comTel. +34-91 334 9797Fax +34-91 334 9799

www.esperonto.netesperonto.semanticweb.org

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First SW projects: IBROW3 (Esprit), IBROW (IST)

The World-Wide Web is changing the nature of software development to a distributive plug & play process.

IBROW3 integrates research on heterogeneous databases, interoperability and web technology with knowledge-system technology and ontologies.

The project, thus, aims at providing intelligent reasoning services on the Web, as opposed to the more common information services.

The broker needs to reason about characteristics of PSMs, for example about their competence

Web services

Agents@SW

Semantics

From Info Overload to Task

Delegation

Annotation

Then (1998) Now