Dan Gillick and Dave Orr recently wrote, “Language understanding systems are largely trained on freely available data, such as the Penn Treebank, perhaps the most widely used linguistic resource ever created. We have previously released lots of linguistic data ourselves, to contribute to the language understanding community as well as encourage further research into these […]
Press Release: Semantic Technology and Business Conference Announces Late Breaking News, Updates, and Changes to the Conference Program
Semantic Technology and Business Conference Announces Late Breaking News, Updates, and Changes to the Conference Program San Jose, CA – Today DATAVERSITY™ Education, LLC, and SemanticWeb.com announced the addition of several special programs to the agenda for the tenth annual Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz). To view the updated and complete three-day agenda or […]
LODLAM Training Day at Semantic Technology & Business Conference
by Eric Franzon Among the many exciting activities at the 10th Annual Semantic Technology & Business Conference (#SemTechBiz) is the partnership with the Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives, and Museums (LODLAM) Community. On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, LODLAM will hold a full day of trainings at the SemTechBiz Conference in San Jose, California. Registration […]
Add schema.org Actions to Your Own Knowledge Graph (Video — Part 3)
[Editor’s note: this is Part 3 of a series. See Part 1 and Part 2] by Eric Franzon In Part 3 of this series, Jarek Wilkiewicz details activating the small Knowledge Graph (built on Cayley) with Schema.org Actions. He begins by explaining how Actions can be thought of as a combination of “Entities” (things) and […]
How to Build Your Own Knowledge Graph (Video – Part 1)
by Eric Franzon Straight out of Google I/O this week, came some interesting announcements related to Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data. Included in the mix was a cool instructional video series about how to “Build a Small Knowledge Graph.” Part 1 was presented by Jarek Wilkiewicz, Knowledge Developer Advocate at Google (and SemTechBiz speaker). Wilkiewicz […]
Cambridge Semantics Launches ‘Anzo Smart Data Integration’
by Eric Franzon Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and the business problem ETL solves — Data Integration — are complex to say the least. As the team at Cambridge Semantics points out: Data integration and data on-boarding are time-consuming, manual, costly & error-prone processes. Complex integrations require developing a large number of point-to-point source-target mappings. […]
DATAVERSITY and SemanticWeb.com Launch Cognitive Computing Forum
by Eric Franzon DATAVERSITY™ and SemanticWeb.com have announced the first Cognitive Computing Forum in San Jose, California, on August 20-21, 2014. This two-day conference was developed to help attendees understand the new world of Cognitive Analytics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reasoning and next generation Artificial Intelligence. Visit www.cognitivecomputingforum.com to view speakers, the agenda, registration options, and to learn […]
Schema.org Introduces Concept of Role
by Eric Franzon In a post yesterday at the official schema.org blog, Vicki Tardif Holland (Google) and Jason Johnson (Microsoft) have announced that schema.org has created a way to more richly describe relationships between entities in structured markup. The addition of the “Role” schema allows for the description of more complex relationships than were previously […]
New schema.org Technical Brief Available from LRMI and Cetis
by Eric Franzon The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) has released a technical briefing about schema.org. The paper was co-authored by Phil Barker and Lorna M. Campbell of Cetis, the Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards. LRMI, which we have reported on here, “has developed a common metadata framework for describing or ‘tagging’ learning […]
End of Support for the Sindice.com search engine: history, lessons learned, and legacy (Guest Post)
[Editor’s Note: Since 2007, Sindice.com has served as a specialized search engine allowing Semantic Web practitioners and researchers to locate structured data on the Web. At the peak of its activity, Sindice.com had an index of over 700M pages and processed 20M pages per day. In a post last week, the founding team announced the […]