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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  • 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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  • 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 with Lemon – Lexicon Model for Ontologies on Wednesday, February 26 ( 2014-02-07T15:01:58+01:00 by Konrad Höffner)

2014-02-07T15:01:58+01:00 by Konrad Höffner

Lemon – Lexicon Model for Ontologies On Wednesday, Feb 26th, 2014, at 1.30 – 4:00 p.m. in Room P702 (Paulinum). Philipp Cimiano is the head of the Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University. He is also affiliated with the Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Cluster. Read more about "AKSW Colloquium with Lemon – Lexicon Model for Ontologies on Wednesday, February 26"

AKSW Colloquium with JavaScript Tools and Libraries Workshop on Monday, February 17 ( 2014-02-07T14:51:33+01:00 by Konrad Höffner)

2014-02-07T14:51:33+01:00 by Konrad Höffner

JavaScript Tools and Libraries Workshop On Mon, Feb 17th, 2014, 1.30 – 4:00 p.m. in Room P702 (Paulinum)  Claus Stadler and Patrick Westphal hold a  workshop to exchange knowledge and experiences concerning the software development with JavaScript. Read more about "AKSW Colloquium with JavaScript Tools and Libraries Workshop on Monday, February 17"

AKSW Colloquium with NIF Release Preparation on Monday, February 10 ( 2014-02-07T14:23:29+01:00 by Konrad Höffner)

2014-02-07T14:23:29+01:00 by Konrad Höffner

NIF Release Preparation On Monday, February 10, at 1. Read more about "AKSW Colloquium with NIF Release Preparation on Monday, February 10"

Webinar recording on crowdsourced OpenCourseWare authoring with SlideWiki available ( 2014-01-20T00:53:17+01:00 by Prof. Dr. Sören Auer)

2014-01-20T00:53:17+01:00 by Prof. Dr. Sören Auer

On Jan 21, 2014 at 15:00 CET we were hosting a webinar on crowdsourced, multilingual OpenCourseWare authoring with http://SlideWiki.org: https://plus.google.com/events/c2sc6p89v67g91uhrn7ofeu6j1c SlideWiki.org is a platform for OpenCourseWare authoring and publishing. Similar as Wikipedia allows the collaborative authoring of encyclopedic texts, GitHub of sourceode or OpenStreetMaps of maps, SlideWiki enables communities to create comprehensive open educational resources. Read more about "Webinar recording on crowdsourced OpenCourseWare authoring with SlideWiki available"

Preview release of conTEXT for Linked-Data based text analytics ( 2014-01-17T15:04:51+01:00 by Ali Khalili)

2014-01-17T15:04:51+01:00 by Ali Khalili

We are happy to announce the preview release of conTEXT — a platform for lightweight text analytics using Linked Data. conTEXT enables social Web users to semantically analyze text corpora (such as blogs, RSS/Atom feeds, Facebook, G+, Twitter or SlideWiki.org decks) and provides novel ways for browsing and visualizing the results. Read more about "Preview release of conTEXT for Linked-Data based text analytics"