ESWC 2008: 5th European Semantic Web Conference
Published 2 years ago by James Simmons
The 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) is being held in Tenerife, Spain from June 1 to June 5, 2008. The conference is still in its early organizational stage so a list of speakers has not yet been included, nor has a schedule been set for the presentations. ESWC 2008 will feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops.
They welcome application papers which clearly show the benefits of Semantic Web technologies in practical settings, but hurry, the deadline for full paper submission is December 14, 2007! Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
- Ontology Management (creation, evolution, evaluation, etc.)
- Ontology Alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)
- Ontology Learning and Metadata Generation (e.g. HLT and ML approaches)
- Multimedia and Semantic Web
- Semantic Annotation of Data
- Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
- Query Languages and Optimization for the Semantic Web
- Rule Languages for the Semantic Web
- Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
- Data Semantics and Web Semantics
- Semantic Interoperability
- Logics for the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web Mining
- Reasoning on the Semantic Web
- Behavior in the Semantic Web
- Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
- Personalization and User Modeling
- User Interfaces and Semantic Web
- Semantics in P2P Computing and the Grid
- Semantic Web Services (description, discovery, invocation, composition, choreography, etc.)
- Semantics in Middleware
- Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
- Semantic Web for e-Business, e-Science, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Government, e-Learning and other application domains
- Evaluation of Semantic Web Technologies
- Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
- Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
The conference has the general theme that Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas including Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, and more.
About the author
It's my goal to help bring about the Semantic Web. I also like to explore related topics like natural language processing, information retrieval, and web evolution. I'm the primary author of Semantic Focus and I'm currently working on several Semantic Web projects.
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Posted by Chris on November 17, 2007 at 1:28pm
To James Simmons,
I've read your blogs, including the one concerning the Semantic Web Conference.
I am an LA based businessman with an interest inNatural Language Processing.
I’ve spent the last seven years building an ontology called ‘The Simple Interlingua.’
‘Simple’ is a reduced set defining language made of primitives from each of the grammatical classes that can be physically sensed. Verb primitives relate all words in Standard English.
The verb primitives also parent all the words, idioms, and phrasal verbs and are uniformly related to one another in multi-dimensional, hierarchical taxonomy.
For every word, there are one or more simple to understand actions (causes) and effects (or intents). For example, ‘give’ parents the verb ‘donate,’ and ‘take’ parents the verb ‘steal.’
The meaning of an a physical ‘object’ in this system is determined by what it does (its ‘action’) and/or by the ‘effect(s) it causes. For example a ‘bee’ is meaningful to us (can be understood) because it makes a ‘substance’ called ‘honey’ which is ‘sweet’ and that we ‘eat;’ it ‘buzzes’ which we ‘hear,’ it ‘stings,’ which ‘hurts’ us; it ‘flies’ which we ‘see,’ and it ‘pollinates’ plants that we ‘see,’ ‘smell’ and ‘use.’
Simple was inspired by CK Ogden's valiant, but ultimately failed attempt to create ‘Basic English’ in order to teach what he described as ‘clarity of thought’ to students studying English as a second Language (ESL).
I designed the Simple Interlingua to effectively disambiguate word sense during Natural Language Processing and to combine Natural Language Understanding with Natural Language Generation.
Each word in ‘Simple’ is assigned a ‘context’ and each context exists in a tangled hierarchy, in the same way each verb exists in a parent verb (primitive) hierarchy.
I’ve been at this process a long time and would like to find a collaborator. There are numerous applications.
Any interest in talking? I think when the classification process is complete, a machine can be programmed, using statistical probability algorithms relative to context, to mimic human learning/understanding and generation.
Chris Daniel
310-562-9308
Posted by markpeake on June 29, 2010 at 11:22pm
Hi James Simmons,Latent semantic indexing is a type of technology that works to understand what a page is about. Latent Semantic Indexing is merely one process within Googles complex ranking algorithm but it can affect your search engine listings considerably. thanks for sharing the information.
Posted by Ric Old on August 18, 2010 at 2:11pm
Havent heard about your exploring related topics like natural language processing, information retrieval, and web evolution. Thanks for the link.