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Web Science

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Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter Office: Beate Kühner

 

Description

The Research Group Web Science at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, mathematicians, industrial engineers. We are one of the world-wide leading institutions in the Semantic Web research community. Relevant research topics within the Semantic Web area include Big Data Management and Analytics, Semantic Search, Semantic Web 2.0 methodologies, Linked Open Data and RESTful Services, Ontology engineering, Web Science as well as Data and Text mining.

Our News and Links

Our Partner Institutes FZI-IPE KSRI

Student Program advance!

OWL Annotations OWL

Publications

Publications

Team

• Maribel Acosta
• Boulos El-Asmar
• Shengjia Feng
• Matthias Frank
• Lars Heling
• Cedric Kulbach
• Tobias Käfer
• Nicole Merkle
• Anna Nguyen

• Patrick Philipp
• Achim Rettinger
• Dominik Riemer
• Viliam Simko
• Yulia Svetashova
• Steffen Thoma
• Tobias Weller
• Patrick Wiener
• Philipp Zehnder

List of former members

Tools and Datasets

Cognitive Process Desginer Cognitive Process Designer allows to model and annotate BPMN processes in MediaWiki External link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cognitive_Process_Designer

CumulusRDF Distributed RDF triple store External link: https://code.google.com/p/cumulusrdf/

KB Statistics A framework for running statistical analysis on knowledge bases. External link: http://people.aifb.kit.edu/mfa/research/kb-stats

LDSpider Linked Data Crawler. External link: https://code.google.com/p/ldspider/

LinkSUM External link: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/services/link

Linked Data-Fu An engine for a Linked Data processing/scripting language. External link: http://linked-data-fu.github.io/

nLDE: Network of Linked Data Eddies An Adaptive SPARQL Query Engine over RDF Data via Triple Pattern Fragments External link: http://people.aifb.kit.edu/mac/nLDE/

Novel Triple Extraction

nxparser A Java parser and API for RDF in N-Triples, N-Quads and RDF/XML External link: https://code.google.com/p/nxparser/

OLAP4LD Open Java API for OLAP over Linked Data External link: https://code.google.com/p/olap4ld/

Semantic MediaWiki Graph Semantic MediaWiki Graph visualises the structured information of a Semantic MediaWiki in a Force-directed graph External link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki_Graph

Semantic MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki extends the Wikipedia software MediaWiki with semantics External link: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

Semantic OLAP Semantic OLAP allows users to analyse structured data, stored in a Semantic MediaWiki, by using OLAP functionality External link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_OLAP

Semantic Text Annotator Semantic Text Annotator allows users to create annotations for wiki pages External link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Text_Annotator

Semweb4j: RDF2Go and RDFReactor Home of RDF2Go and RDFReactor External link: https://code.google.com/p/semweb4j/

SparqlCharts SparqlCharts allows to query SPARQL endpoints and display the query result in different formats in a MediaWiki. External link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SparqlCharts

Spartiqulation A tool that verbalization SPARQL queries in English External link: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/spartiqulator/

X-LiSA: Cross-lingual Semantic Annotation A system for annotating unstructured text in one language with resources in the structured KBs in any other language External link: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/sites/xlisa/

XKnowSearch!: Cross-lingual Semantic Search A system for entity-based cross-lingual information retrieval External link: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/sites/XKnowSearch/

Billion Triples Challenge data set Tera-scale snapshot of a part of the Linked Data web Externer Link: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/btc-2014/

Crowdsourced DBpedia Quality Assessment Externer Link: http://people.aifb.kit.edu/mac/DBpediaQualityAssessment/

DBpedia PageRank PageRank over all Wikipedia-internal links as extracted by DBpedia (DBpedia "Wikipedia pagelinks" dataset). Externer Link: http://people.aifb.kit.edu/ath/#DBpedia_PageRank

Dynamic Linked Data Observatory data set Monitoring Linked Data on the Web weekly since 2012 Externer Link: http://purl.org/dyldo/

Eurostat Linked Data Wrapper An EXPERIMENTAL Eurostat wrapper to Linked Data. Externer Link: http://estatwrap.ontologycentral.com/

xLiD-Lexica: Cross-lingual Linked Data Lexica Various associations between linguistic elements and linked data resources across languages Externer Link: https://km.aifb.kit.edu/sites/xlid-lexica

Teaching

• Angewandte Informatik I: Modellierung, lecture (takes place in winter semester)
• Applications of AI, lecture (takes place in winter semester)
• Grundlagen der Informatik I, lecture (takes place in summer semester)
• Knowledge Discovery, lecture (takes place in winter semester)
• Knowledge Management, lecture (takes place in winter semester)
• Semantic Web Technologies, lecture (takes place in summer semester)
• Service Oriented Computing, lecture (takes place in summer semester)
• Web Science, lecture (takes place in winter semester)
• AI for Decision Making and Game Playing Computers (S/P), seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Ambient Assisted Living: Intelligente Umgebungen und Mobile Informationssysteme für ein selbständiges Leben im Alter, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Applications of Semantic MediaWiki, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Applications of Semantic MediaWiki, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Applications of Semantic MediaWiki, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Applications of Semantic MediaWiki, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Collective Intelligence: Crowdsourcing, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Collective Intelligence: Crowdsourcing, seminar (takes place in summer semester)
• Collective Intelligence: Crowdsourcing, seminar (takes place in summer semester)
• Developing Business Models for the Semantic Web, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• General Game Playing, seminar (takes place in summer semester)
• Knowledge Management, seminar (takes place in )
• Smart Services and the IoT, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Technologiegestütztes Lernen, seminar (takes place in summer semester)
• The role of ontologies in Linked Data, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• graph based knowledge representation, seminar (takes place in winter semester)
• Cooperation seminar for Innovative Applications, practical course (takes place in winter semester)
• Data Science & Real-time Big Data Analytics, practical course (takes place in summer semester)
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, practical course (takes place in summer semester)
• Linked Open Data basierte Web 3.0 Anwendungen und Services, practical course (takes place in winter semester)
• Smart Services and the IoT, practical course (takes place in winter semester)

Active Projects

AFAP

Abiturprüfungspraxis und Abituraufsatz 1882 bis 1972

PPT

ProData External Link: http://www.pro-data.org

SCAN

SMW External Link: http://semantic-mediawiki.org

STEP

STI2 External Link: http://www.sti2.org

SoRa External Link: http://www.sora-projekt.de

Software Campus External Link: http://www.softwarecampus.de

List of completed projects