Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)

The Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI).

Goals

  • Development of methods, tools and applications for adaptive Knowledge Engineering in the context of the Semantic Web
  • Research of underlying Semantic Web technologies and development of fundamental Semantic Web tools and applications
  • Maturation of strategies for fruitfully combining the Social Web paradigms with semantic knowledge representation techniques

AKSW is committed to the free software, open source, open access and open knowledge movements.

Projects

AKSW has launched a number of high-impact R&D projects. Please look at the projects page for a comprehensive description of AKSW's funded as well as community, open source and past projects.

Demos

Please have a look at our demos:

  • ASSESS is a tool for automatic self assessment.

  • AutoSPARQL allows you to create queries for over RDF knowledge bases with low effort

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  • Boa is a tool for pattern-based knowledge extraction.

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  • conTEXT Lightweight Text Analytics using Linked Data

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  • conTEXT Lightweight Text Analytics using Linked Data

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  • CubeViz The RDF DataCube Visualization Tool

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  • DeFacto is an algorithm for validating statements by finding confirming sources for it on the web.

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  • Facete JavaScript SPARQL-based Faceted Search Library and Browsing Widgets.

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  • Fox is a Federated Knowledge Extraction Framework

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  • HANNE Holistic Application for Navigational Knowledge Engineering

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  • LGD Browser / Editor is a javascript-based fullscreen browser and editor for geo-spatial data.

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  • Linked Data Stack is an integrated demonstrator application for the tools of the LOD2 and GeoKnow projects.

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  • LODStats collected statistics from all LOD datasets registered on the OKFN datahub.

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  • OntoWiki is a semantic data wiki for publishing and consuming Linked Data in agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios.

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  • openQA Open Source Question Answering Framework

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  • RDFaCE is an RDFa Content Editor based on TinyMCE

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  • SlideWiki is a collaboration platform which enables communities to build, share and play online presentations

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  • Stanford Core NIF implementation.

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News

AKSW Colloquium “Combination of Topic Modeling and Semantic Web” on Monday, June 30 ( 2014-06-26T10:12:50+02:00 by Konrad Höffner)

2014-06-26T10:12:50+02:00 by Konrad Höffner

Combination of Topic Modeling and Semantic Web On Monday, June 30, at 3.00 p.m. in room Paulinum 702, Michael Röder will present his yearly PhD progress report “Combination of Topic Modeling and Semantic Web”. The presentation addresses the usage of Topic Modeling in the area of Semantic Web. Read more about "AKSW Colloquium “Combination of Topic Modeling and Semantic Web” on Monday, June 30"

AKSW Colloquium Guest Talk “SWeeT Web of Heritage” on Wednesday, July 2 ( 2014-06-26T10:03:13+02:00 by Konrad Höffner)

2014-06-26T10:03:13+02:00 by Konrad Höffner

SWeeT Web of Heritage On Wednesday, July 2, at 1.30 p.m. in room P702, T B Dinesh from Janastu, a non-profit organisation providing free open source software, will present the SWeeT Web of Heritage. Read more about "AKSW Colloquium Guest Talk “SWeeT Web of Heritage” on Wednesday, July 2"

AKSW successful at ESWC 2014 ( 2014-06-03T16:20:48+02:00 RicardoUsbeck)

2014-06-03T16:20:48+02:00 RicardoUsbeck

Greetings! After a week full of exciting presentations, demos, posters and especially keynotes AKSW members are back from the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ESWC). Furthermore, we bring happy news with us. AKSW members won four prizes this year! Read more about "AKSW successful at ESWC 2014"

AKSW Colloquium PhD student talks of Martin Brümmer and Ricardo Usbeck on Monday, May 19, 3.00 p.m. ( 2014-05-16T10:23:51+02:00 by Konrad Höffner)

2014-05-16T10:23:51+02:00 by Konrad Höffner

“Exploitation scenarios for Wikipedia abstracts” by Martin Brümmer Martin Brümmer has started as a researcher at AKSW in Dec. 2013. He is a contributor to the NLP2RDF and the DBpedia Project and was co-chair of the Multilingual Linked Data for Enterprises (MLODE) 2012 workshop. Read more about "AKSW Colloquium PhD student talks of Martin Brümmer and Ricardo Usbeck on Monday, May 19, 3.00 p.m."

SEMANTiCS 2014 — Workshops, Tutorials and Meetings ( 2014-05-12T12:26:15+02:00 by Konrad Höffner)

2014-05-12T12:26:15+02:00 by Konrad Höffner

From September 1 to 3, the preliminary SEMANTiCS conference program offers a wide range of workshops, tutorials and meetings (programme). Meetings will be in the Paulinum, one of the main buildings of the University Leipzig. To participate in one of the workshops or tutorials, please visit our registration website. All workshops will be free! Read more about "SEMANTiCS 2014 — Workshops, Tutorials and Meetings"