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Advanced Semantic Technologies

Deborah McGuinness

CSCI 6965 - 01, 97543,

CSCI 4967 - 01, 97014,

ITWS 6962 - 01, 98113,

ITWS 4963 - 01, 98438

TA: Abigail Fuller

Week 1, January 24, 2012

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

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

, hendler@cs.rpi.edu, jluciano@cs.rpi.edu • TA: Abigail Fuller: fullea@rpi.edu• Scribe for each meeting – volunteer today?• Course web site:• http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Courses/AdvancedSemanticTe

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Introductions• Who are you?

• Why are you here?

• 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?

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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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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 6

Topics from:• ISWC – International Semantic Web Conference - next: Boston –

http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/ Nov 11-15.• ESWC – Extended Semantic Web conference – next: Greece May 27-31

http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/ • IAAI / AAAI – Innovative Applications of AI and Association for the

Advancement of AI – next: Toronto – July 22 -26 www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/iaai12.php

• SemTech - Semantic Technology – next: San Francisco June 3-7 - http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/

• International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management – next:Maui – Oct 29-Nov 2 - http://www.cikm2012.org/

• Web Science – http://www.websci12.org/ June 22-24 chicago• IPAW – International Provenance and Annotation Workshop – next

meeting http://ipaw2012.bren.ucsb.edu/index.php/IPAW_2012_-_4th_International_Provenance_and_Annotation_Workshop previous at RPI tw.rpi.edu/portal/IPAW2010

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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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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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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

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Some project inspirations• Preparing a proposal

– NSF Smart Health –

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12512/nsf12512.htm - NSF Expeditions in Computing - http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?

pims_id=503169

- Preparing a paper for publication- Look at the conferences and workshops

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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– USGS opportunity– WHOI opportunity

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Logistics summary• This weeks assignment:

– Research survey of topics, come prepared with a 1-page description of a research topic and be prepared to talk about it for 10 minutes

– 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

– Re-read PPSR – Public Participation in Scientific Research http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/about/defining-citizen-science

– Make a connection between your research interest and this paper and PPSR

– Write one paragraph on one of the interesting ideas from either social machines or PPSR and why it is interesting to you

– Review conference calls for papers• Next class (week 2 – Jan 31, 2012):

– 10 minute presentations each on research agendas• Questions?

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