The NeOn project, a flagship KMi-led EU FP6 initiative, was launched in March 2006 and ran for 4 years. A key aim of the project was to advance the state of the art in using ontologies for large-scale semantic applications, in particular by providing innovative tools and methods to support the process of creating, managing,…
KMi researchers Andriy Nikolov and Keerthi Thomas travelled to Amsterdam last week for this year’s Ambient Intelligent Conference (AmI-11), where they presented the latest version of the SmartProducts Architecture for Proactive Problem Solving (SPAPS). Ambient Intelligence is a vision of the future where devices are integrated seamlessly in the environment and are able to co-operate…
KMi-ers were very much in evidence at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), which took place in Bonn, Germany on 23-27 October 2011. ISWC is the major international forum for research on the Semantic Web and the strong presence from KMi (13 members of the lab attended the conference) confirmed the lab’s reputation…
DiscoBro, an application developed by Mathieu d’Aquin from KMi, is one of the three winners of a developer competition organized by the Resource Discovery Task Force and also won the award for the best use of the MusicNet linked dataset. The aim of the competition was to demonstrate the benefits of open data and metadata…
The 8th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011) took place from 10 to 16 July in Cercedilla (Spain), confirming the SSSW series as the premiere educational event in the area of semantic technologies. Indeed, despite the plethora of educational events which have sprung up in the past few years…
Computer Science is a subject with rapid changes and always brimming with new ideas. One of the emerging hot topics is “knowledge discovery in the web”. Taking its roots in document understanding of single texts of early computer linguistics, knowledge discovery in the web goes far beyond looking up the odd article in wikipedia or…
Mathieu d’Aquin, Fouad Zablith and Enrico Motta have won the best demo award at this year’s Extended Semantic Web Conference, which took place in Crete last week. The demostration concerned wayOU, a mobile app based on Linked Data, which supports social location tracking at the Open University. wayOU enables Open University staff and students to…
The chair of information systems engineering of the Goethe University Frankfurt Prof. Holten invited KMi’s Fridolin Wild to tell the inside story of the latent semantic analysis research done in the EC-funded language technologies for lifelong learning (LTfLL) project. Background is research on competence and performance of consulting professionals done at Prof. Holten’s institute —…
One of China’s most prominent universities, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has featured KMi’s Fridolin Wild in a guest lecture, giving him the opportunity to present his new theory on how meaning is created and how machines can exploit this algorithmically. The new technique is called meaningful interaction analysis (MIA) and combines the semantic vector…
The Open University is one of the first universities worldwide to make eBooks available on iTunes U, adding 100 free, interactive titles today with a further 200 to come by the end of 2010. OU eBook content comes from the OUs OpenLearn website which contains over 6,600 hours of free, current course materials and has…
