Advanced Semantic Technologies

1. Advanced Semantic Technologies Prof. Deborah McGuinness and Dr. Patrice Seyed CSCI 6965 - 01 CSCI 4967 - 01 ITWS 6962 - 01 ITWS 4963 - 01 TA: Justin Karpenski (kaprej2@rpi.edu) Week 1, January 22, 2013

2. Admin info (keep/ print this slide) • Hours: 1pm-3:50pm Tuesdays • Location: Winslow 1140 • Instructor: Deborah McGuinness and Patrice Seyed • Additional Instructors may include: Peter Fox, Jim Hendler, Joanne Luciano • Instructor contact: dlm@cs.rpi.edu, seyeda2@rpi.edu , pfox@cs.rpi.edu, hendler@cs.rpi.edu, jluciano@cs.rpi.edu • TA: Justin Karpenski: karpenski@gmail.com • Scribe for each meeting – Justin will do it today • Course web site: • http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Courses/AdvancedSemanticTechnologies/2013

3. Class Goals • Prepare you for research in Semantic Technologies by giving you practice and guidance on • Critically reading research papers • Making technical presentations – individually and in groups • Preparing research papers and possibly proposals • Doing a semantic technology research project • Also giving you the opportunity for practice talks, suggestions, literature review, etc.

4. Introductions • Who are you? • What year are you in? • What major/department? • Do you have much background in semantic technologies and web science? • What made you choose this class? • Will you make the class (on time) each week? • Do you know anyone else who is expecting to take this class who is not here today?

5. Making Web Applications that are “Smart” -The application should have content that: • Is machine interpretable • Doesn’t require humans (who created it or are interpreting it) to make sense of information Want applications that can do “interesting” things – suggest restaurants, wines, …, help classify science objects, etc. Want applications that add something / would be hard to do without semantics

6. Semantic Web Layers http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/1023-iswc-tbl/slide26-0.html, http://flickr.com/photos/pshab/291147522/

7. Application Areas for Semantics Some emerging areas: • Knowledge Provenance • Open Linked Data • Ontologies, their environments, and their “enablement” of applications Other classes cover: Semantic eScience; Xinformatics; Data Science Assorted specific topics • Smart search • Annotation (even simple forms), smart tagging • Explanation, Proof, Trust • Geospatial • Implementing logic (rules), e.g. in workflows • Data integration • Verification • Web services • Web content mining with natural language parsing and query • User interface development (portals) • Semantic desktop • Wikis - OntoWiki, SemanticMediaWiki • Sensor Web • Software engineering

8. Topics from: • ISWC – International Semantic Web Conference - Last Boston – Nov 12 next http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/ Oct 2013 • ESWC – Extended Semantic Web conference – last Greece May 2012 http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/ - Montpellier France • IAAI / AAAI – Innovative Applications of AI and Association for the Advancement of AI – last: Toronto – July 2012; next Seattle http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/iaai13.php • SemTech - Semantic Technology – last/next: San Francisco June http://semtechbizsf2013.semanticweb.com/ • International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management – last:Maui/ next San Fran – Oct 27-Nov 2 - http://www.cikm2013.org/dates.php • Web Science – http://www.websci13.org/ last Chicago / June / next Paris • IPAW – International Provenance and Annotation Workshop – last http://ipaw2012.bren.ucsb.edu/index.php/IPAW_2012_-_4th_International_Provenance_and_Annotation_Workshop previous at RPI tw.rpi.edu/portal/IPAW2010 / next June 2014 cologne - http://lanyrd.com/2014/ipaw2014/

9. Some Pointers • Journals • Journal of Web Semantics: • Journal of AI Research: • International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems: • International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC): • International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO): • Journal of Data Semantics: • Journal of Semantics:

10. Schedule – course web site • Reading assignments • Assignments • Individual • Group • Written assessments – your presentations and any 1-page submission • Presentation assessments • Sign up will be available on the course web site during the week – for the 10min talks next week and for during the term

11. What is expected • Attend class, complete assignments • Participate • Ask questions – be honest with yourself and others about what you do and do not know • Work individually and when you are stuck, ask for help • Work constructively in group and class sessions • Consider coming to TWC TWeds (not a requirement but may be useful) http://tw.rpi.edu/web/TWed • Tomorrow –is particularly good – Health Challenge https://github.com/jimmccusker/twc-healthdata/wiki/2013-Jan-23-twed

12. Some project inspirations • Semantic projects • SemantAQUA - http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/SemantAQUA • PopSciGrid – http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/PopSciGrid • Wine Agent - http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/Wineagent • Last term projects

13. Logistics summary • This week’s assignment: • Click through some of the resources listed on the web page • Initial reading “From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the WWW” by Hendler and Berners-Lee.http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs227/Readings/hendler-berners-lee-semantic-web.pdf • Initial reading on the wine agent by Patton and McGuinness (you will see why after the brainstorming exercise) http://wineagent.tw.rpi.edu/papers/sdow-2009-wineagent.pdf • See Web page for specific questions to answer with respect to the readings. • Come prepared with a 1-page description of a research topic that you could imagine using semantic technologies and be prepared to talk about it for 10 minutes • Next class (week 2 – Jan 29, 2013): • 10 minute presentations each on homework – with your research interest • Questions? Class page reminder http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Courses/AdvancedSemanticTechnologies/2013

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15. Preparing to Submit • Go to the web site • Look for important dates (submission, and conference) • Look at the call for papers • Review topics and keywords • Look at the organizers • Look at location – can you go? Do you have visa issues? Do you have funding? Do they offer student support? • Review co-located events • Review past conference listings • Do any of you have material you might be interested in submitting during the course of this class?