Hi everyone,
I started on a web based bilingual dictionary based on Wiktionary
which can be found at http://www.wikdict.com . It's still very young,
so expect to find problems. I'm interested in some early feedback, so
please let me know what you think of it.
If you need a specific language pair to judge WikDict, let me know and
I might be able to add it soon.
Karl
DBpedia Meeting in Dublin 2015 - #DBpediaDublin
February 9th, 2015, Dublin, Ireland
Highlights
======
Keynote Speaker: Christian Dirschl, Chief Content Architect, Wolters Kluwer
Hot topics:
* DBpedia and Digital Humanities
* The future of the DBpedia ontology
Program: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015 (in progress)
Submission of presentations open:
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015#h451-8
People attending: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meet/dublin2015/people.html
Quick Facts
=======
URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2014
When: February 9th, 2015
Where: Dublin, Ireland
Host: Trinity College Dublin (https://www.tcd.ie) and the DBpedia Gaelic
Chapter
Call for Contribution: http://goo.gl/forms/a2K1WDg5HW
Registration: Free but required
After the big success of the first two DBpedia Community Meeting in
Amsterdam and Leipzig with more than 70 international participants, the
third edition of the event will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on
February 9, 2015.
The meeting will have a special focus on DBpedia in Digital Humanities,
the bootstrapping of an Irish DBpedia Community, discussion for the
directions of the DBpedia ontology and the new structure of the DBpedia
Association.
The DBpedia Project has developed from a hosted data set to the public
data infrastructure for the Web of Data. The DBpedia Community Meeting
aims to get together three major groups being involved in DBpedia: the
DBpedia developers and maintainers, the communities of the individual
DBpedia language chapters and, of course, the DBpedia users.
Acknowledgements
============
* The ALIGNED and CENDARI projects for hosting and organisational support.
* Trinity Long Room Hub
* ADAPT Centre
* Digital Repository of Ireland
* OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) for continuous
hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint
Preliminary Agenda
============
The meeting will be held at Trinity Long Room Hub (2nd floor), break-out
sessions will also be in the School of Computer Science and Statistics,
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland on Feb. 9, 2015. The first session will
contain talks and discussions about the DBpedia State-of-Play, where
core members of the DBpedia community present certain aspects of DBpedia
and the audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions. The
second session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. A detailed program
will be continuously updated on the DBpedia Website. There will be a
dedicated break-out session on DBpedia and Digital Humanities as well as
the future directions of the DBpedia Ontology. Again, we also plan to
have several break-out sessions for trending DBpedia topics to enable
further discussion on how to improve DBpedia.
Call for Contributions
=============
We would like to invite companies, organisations, research groups and
other projects to shortly present their use cases for DBpedia and give
input on how we can improve DBpedia for users. Free slots still
available and will be handled on a first come first serve basis.
Contribution proposals include (but are not limited to) presentations,
posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions. For Dublin we
are especially interested to hear from DBpedia users, developers
involved in the Digital Humanities area.
* Submission Upload Form: http://goo.gl/forms/a2K1WDg5HW
* Deadline for contributions: January 31, 2015
About DBpedia
=========
Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf
The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual
knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using Semantic
Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge, comprising more
than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to an ontology
maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained from different
Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than 100 languages, and
mapped to the community ontology. The resulting data sets are linked to
more than 30 other data sets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. The
DBpedia project was started in 2006 and has meanwhile attracted large
interest in research and practice. Being a central part of the LOD
cloud, it serves as a connection hub for other data sets. For the
research community, DBpedia provides a testbed serving real world data
spanning many domains and languages. Due to the continuous growth of
Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an increasing added value for data
acquisition, re-use and integration tasks within organisations. In this
system report, we give an overview over the DBpedia community project,
including its architecture, technical implementation, maintenance,
internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular DBpedia
applications.
Travel Grants / Sponsorship
=================
Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time and
will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting. Therefore,
we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as well as coffee
and food for the sessions). If you are interested to sponsor this
meeting, please fill out this form to request more information:
http://goo.gl/forms/a2K1WDg5HW
Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel
grant here: http://goo.gl/forms/a2K1WDg5HW.
These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the community
and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code participation or Git
Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc.
We hope to see you all in Dublin:
* Rob Brennan, ALIGNED Project, ADAPT Centre, KDEG, Trinity College Dublin
* Jennifer Edmond, CENDARI Project, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity
College Dublin
* Kevin Feeney, ALIGNED Project, ADAPT Centre, KDEG, Trinity College
Dublin
* Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy
* Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig
* Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig
LDQ 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd Workshop on Linked Data Quality
co-located with ESWC 2015, Portorož, Slovenia
May 31 or June 1, 2015
http://ldq.semanticmultimedia.org/
Important Dates
* Submission of research papers: March 6, 2015
* Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015
* Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015
Since the start of the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud, we have seen an
unprecedented volume of structured data published on the web, in most
cases as RDF and Linked (Open) Data. The integration across this LOD
Cloud, however, is hampered by the ‘publish first, refine later’
philosophy. This is due to various quality problems existing in the
published data such as incompleteness, inconsistency,
incomprehensibility, etc. These problems affect every application
domain, be it scientific (e.g., life science, environment),
governmental, or industrial applications.
We see linked datasets originating from crowdsourced content like
Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap such as DBpedia and LinkedGeoData and also
from highly curated sources e.g. from the library domain. Quality is
defined as “fitness for use”, thus DBpedia currently can be appropriate
for a simple end-user application but could never be used in the medical
domain for treatment decisions. However, quality is a key to the success
of the data web and a major barrier for further industry adoption.
Despite the quality in Linked Data being an essential concept, few
efforts are currently available to standardize how data quality tracking
and assurance should be implemented. Particularly in Linked Data,
ensuring data quality is a challenge as it involves a set of
autonomously evolving data sources. Additionally, detecting the quality
of datasets available and making the information explicit is yet another
challenge. This includes the (semi-)automatic identification of
problems. Moreover, none of the current approaches uses the assessment
to ultimately improve the quality of the underlying dataset.
The goal of the Workshop on Linked Data Quality is to raise the
awareness of quality issues in Linked Data and to promote approaches to
assess, monitor, maintain and improve Linked Data quality.
The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
* Concepts
* - Quality modeling vocabularies
* Quality assessment
* - Methodologies
* - Frameworks for quality testing and evaluation
* - Inconsistency detection
* - Tools/Data validators
* Quality improvement
* - Refinement techniques for Linked Datasets
* - Linked Data cleansing
* - Error correction
* - Tools
* Quality of ontologies
* Reputation and trustworthiness of web resources
* Best practices for Linked Data management
* User experience, empirical studies
Submission guidelines
We seek novel technical research papers in the context of Linked Data
Quality with a length of up to 8 pages (long) and 4 pages (short)
papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Other supplementary
formats (e.g. html) are also accepted but a pdf version is required.
Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please
submit your paper via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldq2015. Submissions that do not
comply with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed the page limit will be
rejected without review. We note that the author list does not need to
be anonymized, as we do not have a double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers.
Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop.
Important Dates
All deadlines are, unless otherwise stated, at 23:59 Hawaii time.
* Submission of research papers: March 6, 2015
* Notification of paper acceptance: April 3, 2015
* Submission of camera-ready papers: April 17, 2015
* Workshop date: May 31 or June 1, 2015 (half-day)
Organizing Committee
* Anisa Rula – University of Milano-Bicocca, IT
* Amrapali Zaveri – AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE
* Magnus Knuth – Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, DE
* Dimitris Kontokostas – AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE
Program Committee
* Maribel Acosta – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, AIFB, DE
* Mathieu d’Aquin – Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
* Volha Bryl – University of Mannheim, DE
* Ioannis Chrysakis – ICS FORTH, GR
* Jeremy Debattista – University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS, DE
* Stefan Dietze – L3S, DE
* Suzanne Embury – University of Manchester, UK
* Christian Fürber – Information Quality Institute GmbH, DE
* Jose Emilio Labra Gayo – University of Oviedo, ES
* Markus Graube – Technische Universität Dresden, DE
* Maristella Matera – Politecnico di Milano, IT
* John McCrae – CITEC, University of Bielefeld, DE
* Felix Naumann – Hasso Plattner Institute, DE
* Matteo Palmonari – University of Milan-Bicocca, IT
* Heiko Paulheim – University of Mannheim, DE
* Mariano Rico – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
* Ansgar Scherp – Kiel University, DE
* Jürgen Umbrich – Vienna University of Economics and Business, AT
* Miel Vander Sande – MultimediaLab, Ghent University, iMinds, BE
* Patrick Westphal – AKSW, University of Leipzig, DE
* Jun Zhao – Lancaster University, UK
* Antoine Zimmermann – ISCOD / LSTI, École Nationale Supérieure des
Mines de Saint-Étienne, FR
* Andrea Maurino – University of Milan-Bicocca, IT
More details can be found on the workshop website:
http://ldq.semanticmultimedia.org/
Dear all,
We would like to inform you about the project Wiktionary Meets Matica
Srpska [1]. This project aims to increase support for Open Knowledge /
Free Content movement through establishing long term strategic
partnership with the venerable cultural institution Matica Srpska [2]
and to increase the quality, accuracy and volume of Wiktionaries through
digitization of two dictionaries, while developing a potential model for
future development of cooperation across Wiktionaries through targeted
mobilization of the communities.
There are two activities within the project that we need your support
for. First, we are preparing a list of lexicographical terms (it would
contain approximately 100 terms) that needs to be translated into as
many languages as possible, in order to ensure further work on the
project and to create the foundations for other lexicographical projects
in the future. For this task, we would use a separate application, but
all of the terms would be inserted into Wiktionaries, as well (making
approximately 10,000 new entries per Wiktionary, counting that the
terminology would be translated into 100 languages). That would also
serve as the preparation for translating the Serbian Ornithological
dictionary, which is the second activity.
The Serbian ornithological dictionary encompasses all local names of
birds living on the Serbian speaking territory. All names are specified
under the appropriate Latin name in accordance with the contemporary
classification system. This creates the opportunity to translate it
easily to various languages, since the basic list of terms is in Latin
and it is fairly small (370 species of birds).
We would like to try and motivate as many Wiktionary communities as
possible to participate in translating these two dictionaries,
especially since the benefit for each particular Wiktionary would be
great - for example, if we succeed to motivate people from 100
Wiktionaries to participate, the amount of primary entries to these 100
Wiktionaries would be 3,700,000 (37,000 per Wiktionary). If we succeed
to motivate just 20 Wiktionaries, the amount of entries to these 20
Wikitionaries would be 148,000 basic entries. Of course, these entries
would be incorporated into the respective Wiktionaries according to the
interest and the rules of each community.
With this project, we are opening cooperation with the venerable Serbian
cultural institution Matica srpska and we believe that this partnership
will have major impact on future cooperation between Wikimedia
organizations and similar institutions in Slavic countries. If this
cooperation could be relevant to any other partnership you are trying to
establish in your country or globally, we would be more than willing to
share our knowledge and contacts.
Besides support in translation, we are open for Wikimedia volunteers to
participate more substantially and thus build knowledge inside of the
community on how to deal with this kind of data. For example, if you are
willing to join the core team and help us in communication with the
Wiktionary communities of the languages which you are speaking, please
contact Milica (milica.gudovic(a)yahoo.com) or Milos (millosh(a)gmail.com)
via email. The same goes if you are willing to contribute by coding in
Python and/or PHP.
Please join us on project's discussion page [3] or send us an e-mail.
If you are willing to participate but are not sure in your knowledge of
English please check the list of languages organizational team is
speaking - there is a chance we can communicate in your native language.
We are very excited about this projects and hope that you will be part
of it as well!
Looking forward to hear from you!
Milica Gudovic
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Interglider.ORG/Wiktionary_Mee…
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matica_srpska
[3]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/Interglider.ORG/Wiktionar…
[apologies for cross-posting]
Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015
Submission of presentations open:
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015#h451-8
After the big success of the first two DBpedia Community Meeting in
Amsterdam and Leipzig with more than 70 international participants, the
third edition of the event will take place in Dublin, Ireland, on
February 9, 2015.
The meeting will have a special focus on DBpedia in Digital Humanities,
the bootstrapping of an Irish DBpedia Community and the new structure of
the DBpedia Association.
The DBpedia Project has developed from a hosted data set to the public
data infrastructure for the Web of Data. The DBpedia Community Meeting
aims to get together three major groups being involved in DBpedia: the
DBpedia developers and maintainers, the communities of the individual
DBpedia language chapters and, of course, the DBpedia users.
Quick Facts
=======
Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015
When: February 9th, 2015
Where: Dublin, Ireland
Host: Trinity College Dublin and the DBpedia Gaelic Chapter
Call for Contributions: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015#h451-8
Registration: Free to participate but only through registration.
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015
Twitter: #DBpediaDublin
Acknowledgements
============
* The ALIGNED and CENDARI projects for hosting and organisational
support.
* OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) for continuous
hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint
Preliminary Agenda
=============
The meeting will be held at Trinity Long Room Hub (2nd floor), break-out
sessions will also be in the School of Computer Science and Statistics,
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland on Feb. 9, 2015. The first session will
contain talks and discussions about the DBpedia State-of-Play, where
core members of the DBpedia community present certain aspects of DBpedia
and the audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions. The
second session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. A detailed program
will be continuously updated on the DBpedia Website. There will be a
dedicated break-out session on DBpedia and Digital Humanities. Again, we
also plan to have several break-out sessions for trending DBpedia topics
to enable further discussion on how to improve DBpedia.
Call for Contributions
===============
We would like to invite companies, organisations, research groups and
other projects to shortly present their use cases for DBpedia and give
input on how we can improve DBpedia for users. Free slots still
available and will be handled on a first come first serve basis.
Contribution proposals include (but are not limited to) presentations,
posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions. For Dublin we
are especially interested to hear from DBpedia users, developers
involved in the Digital Humanities area.
* Submission Upload Form: http://goo.gl/forms/a2K1WDg5HW
* Deadline for contributions: January 31, 2015
==== About DBpedia ====
Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf
The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual
knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using Semantic
Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge, comprising more
than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to an ontology
maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained from different
Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than 100 languages, and
mapped to the community ontology. The resulting data sets are linked to
more than 30 other data sets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. The
DBpedia project was started in 2006 and has meanwhile attracted large
interest in research and practice. Being a central part of the LOD
cloud, it serves as a connection hub for other data sets. For the
research community, DBpedia provides a testbed serving real world data
spanning many domains and languages. Due to the continuous growth of
Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an increasing added value for data
acquisition, re-use and integration tasks within organisations. In this
system report, we give an overview over the DBpedia community project,
including its architecture, technical implementation, maintenance,
internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular DBpedia
applications.
Travel Grants / Sponsorship
=================
Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time and
will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting. Therefore,
we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as well as coffee
and food for the sessions). If you are interested to sponsor this
meeting, please fill out this form to request more information:
http://goo.gl/forms/a2K1WDg5HW
Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel
grant here: http://goo.gl/forms/a2K1WDg5HW.
These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the community
and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code participation or Git
Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc.
We hope to see you all in Dublin:
* Rob Brennan, ALIGNED Project, ADAPT Centre, KDEG, Trinity College
Dublin
* Jennifer Edmond, CENDARI Project, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity
College Dublin
* Kevin Feeney, ALIGNED Project, ADAPT Centre, KDEG, Trinity College
Dublin
* Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig
* Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig
--
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