We are proud to announce the public service of our STICS search engine:
http://stics.mpi-inf.mpg.de
developed at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, presented at the SIGIR 2014 as a demo.
By extending the Google slogan of "things, not strings" to support also entity categories, STICS provides powerful functionality for querying and analyzing news and other text corpora in terms of entities, semantic classes, and text phrases. STICS is based on state-of-the-art methods for named entity recognition and disambiguation (AIDA [1]), linking them to knowledge bases like YAGO and the Wikipedia category system. The online service currently has indexed 1,000,000 news articles since June 2013, with more than 22 million entity occurrences of 300,000 distinct entities.
You can search, for example, for presidents of the United States and the JFK airport, and see how STICS distinguishes between JFK and JFK:
https://stics.mpi-inf.mpg.de/view?entity=YAGO:John_F\u002e_Kennedy_Internat…
We are looking forward to your feedback!
The STICS team
at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics
References:
[1] J. Hoffart, M. A. Yosef, I. Bordino, H. Fürstenau, M. Pinkal, M. Spaniol, B. Taneva, S. Thater, G. Weikum. Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text. EMNLP 2011 ( http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/yago-naga/aida - source available under the CC-BY-SA-NC license )
[2] J. Hoffart, D. Milchevski, G. Weikum. STICS: Searching with Strings, Things, and Cats. Demo at SIGIR 2014. ( http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/yago-naga/stics )
Hi everyone,
I just read an article from BBC titled, "Wiki wars: Do Wikipedia's
internal tiffs deter newcomers?"
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28426674
It introduces the general public to Wikipedia edit wars, inclusionism
vs. deletionism, talk page battles, the male editor overrepresentation,
and Wikipedia's organized anarchy. I found it a generally accurate
treatment of a delicate topic, and it's filled with lots of great,
specific examples.
Regards,
Chitu Okoli
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Associate Professor in Business Technology Management
John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montréal
http://chitu.okoli.org/pro
Dear colleagues and fellow enthusiast of the semantic web,
we are pleased to announce that the SEMANTiCS conference on Sep 4-5,
2014 in Leipzig, will become a major industry conference on semantic web
and linked data applications in Europe.
With partners such as PoolParty, STI2, Eccenca, IntraFind, LOD2 Project,
MarkLogic, Ontos and Wolters Kluwer as well as more than 50% of our
currently registered attendees being from the industry sector, SEMANTiCS
has lifted the primarily academic topic of semantic web to the next
level of business application.
From our keynote speakers Sofia Angeletou (BBC), Thomas Kelly
(Cognizant), Phil Archer (W3C) and Orri Erling (OpenLink) to 40+
speakers on 5 parallel tracks and special events like the vocabulary
carnival, H2020 networking event and conference dinner, SEMANTiCS offers
a wide variety of industry insights and networking chances. You can see
our programm here: http://www.semantics.cc/programme/
Hence, this year's SEMANTiCS conference is your chance to get in touch
with potential business clients and industry partners to push your own
projects and developments in the semantic web sector.
You can still submit to the Vocabulary Carnival:
http://www.semantics.cc/vocarnival/ as well as the H2020 networking
session. Furthermore, we will collect and print your H2020 organisation
profile description in the program guide, so you can be approached at
the conference for potential projects.
Being a fellow enthusiast in this future-defining field, we'd like to
offer you a special discount of 20% on your ticket to the conference.
Simply go to www.semantics.cc/registration/discount and claim your
discount with the following promo code: “semantic-web-fellow”
This offer is valid until 15th of August.
For further information on the programme and our keynote speaker, please
visit www.semantics.cc
Feel free to forward this email to any interested fellow.
See you in Leipzig,
Sebastian Hellmann
on behalf of the all conference committee members
--
Sebastian Hellmann
AKSW/NLP2RDF research group
Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) and DBpedia Association
Events:
* *Sept. 1-5, 2014* Conference Week in Leipzig, including
** *Sept 2nd*, MLODE 2014 <http://mlode2014.nlp2rdf.org/>
** *Sept 3rd*, 2nd DBpedia Community Meeting
<http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014>
** *Sept 4th-5th*, SEMANTiCS (formerly i-SEMANTICS) <http://semantics.cc/>
Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org,
http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt
<http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Thesis:
http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summaryhttp://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis
More general work on encyclopedias, in case it's of interest...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jutta Haider <jutta.haider(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:37 AM
Subject: [Air-L] "Changing Orders of Knowledge. Encyclopaedias in
Transition". Thematic section/special issue of Culture Unbound.
To: Air-L <Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org>, Jutta Haider <jutta.haider(a)kultur.lu.se
>
Dear colleagues!
We are happy to announce the publication of the thematic section "Changing
orders of Knowledge: Encyclopaedias in transition", part of Culture Unbound.
Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol. 6, 2014. Please find the section
here: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html#block3
*Table of Contents: *
Jutta Haider & Olof Sundin: Introduction: Changing Orders of Knowledge?
Encyclopaedias in Transition.
- Research Articles:
Katharine Schopflin: What do we think an Encyclopaedia is?
Seth Rudy: Knowledge and the Systematic Reader: The Past and Present of
Encyclopedic Reading.
Siv Frøydis Berg & Tore Rem: Knowledge for Sale: Norwegian Encyclopaedias
in the Marketplace
Vanessa Aliniaina Rasoamampianina: Reviewing Encyclopaedia Authority .
Ulrike Spree: How readers Shape the Content of an Encyclopedia: A Case
Study Comparing the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (1885-1890) with
Wikipedia (2002-2013).
Kim Osman: The Free Encyclopaedia that Anyone can Edit: The Shifting Values
of Wikipedia Editors.
Simon Lindgren: Crowdsourcing Knowledge: Interdiscursive Flows from
Wikipedia into Scholarly Research.
*Tales from the field:*
Georg Kjøll and Anne Marit Godal: Store Norske Leksikon: Defining a New
Role for an Edited Encyclopaedia.
Lennart Guldbrandsson: Wikipedia.
Molly Huber: Land of 10,000 Facts: Minnesota’s New Digital Encyclopedia.
Michael Upshall: What future for Traditional Encyclopedias in the Age of
Wikipedia?
(Download as pdf:
http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v6/cul14v6_Changing_Orders_of_Knowledge…
)
Kind regards,
Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin
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Jutta Haider
Assistant professor
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences,
Lund University Sweden
E: jutta.haider(a)kultur.lu.se
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Hi all,
FYI, for those who do not regularly follow wikimedia-l, there's a
discussion going on there about Wikipedia surveys (sparked off by one
particular survey) that may be of interest to this list. See
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-July/073367.html
Briefly, the meta-question seems to be: we set up some researcher best
practices such that researchers should get approval via RCOM, but that
process is now not active. So now what? What should researchers do?
(Personally, I think the answer should be to resuscitate RCOM, but that's
easy to say and harder to do!)
-- phoebe
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