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Hello Community! We are very pleased to announce the acceptance of two papers in ESWC 2017 research track. The ESWC 2017 is to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia from 28th of May to the 1st of June. In more detail, … Continue reading →

Hi all! The project website for the BMWi funded Smart Data Web Project “SAKE” is now on-line at www.sake-projekt.de. It already mentions the first SAKE-related publication by Saleem@AKSW and introduces our partners as well as the industry use cases which … Continue reading →

Hi all! The project website for the BMWi funded Smart Data Web Project “SAKE” is now on-line at www.sake-projekt.de. It already mentions the first SAKE-related publication by Saleem@AKSW and introduces our partners as well as the industry use cases which … Continue reading →

Hi all! One of AKSW’s Big Data Project, SAKE – Semantische Analyse Komplexer Ereignisse (SAKE – Semantic Analysis of Complex Events) kicked-off in Karlsruhe. SAKE is one of the winners of the Smart Data Challenge and is funded by the … Continue reading →

Hi all! One of AKSW’s Big Data Project, SAKE – Semantische Analyse Komplexer Ereignisse (SAKE – Semantic Analysis of Complex Events) kicked-off in Karlsruhe. SAKE is one of the winners of the Smart Data Challenge and is funded by the … Continue reading →

On November 21st, AKSW group was hosting the 1st meetup on “Question Answering” (QA) systems. In this meeting, researchers from AKSW/University of Leipzig, CITEC/University of Bielefeld, Fraunhofer IAIS/University of Bon, DERI/National University of ... [More] Ireland and the University of Passau presented the recent results of their work on QA systems. The following themes were discussed during the [...] [Less]

Dear all, We are happy to announce GERBIL – a General Entity Annotation Benchmark Framework, a demo can be found at! With GERBIL, we aim to establish a highly available, easy quotable and liable focal point for Named Entity Recognition and Named ... [More] Entity Disambiguation (Entity Linking) evaluations: GERBIL provides persistent URLs for experimental settings. By [...] [Less]

BioASQ is a series of challenges aiming to bring us closer to the vision of machines that can answer questions of biomedical professionals and researchers. The second BioASQ challenge started in February 2013. It comprised two different tasks: ... [More] Large-scale biomedical semantic indexing (Task 2a), and biomedical semantic question answering (Task 2b). In total 216 users [...] [Less]

Dear followers, 9 members of AKSW have been participating at the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) at Riva del Garda, Italy. Next to listening to interesting talks, giving presentations or discussing with fellow Semantic Web ... [More] researchers, AKSW won 4 significant prizes: Best Research Paper Award: AGDISTIS – Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities using Linked [...] [Less]

Recently AKSW members were at the city of Dessau for an internal group meeting. The meeting took place between 8th and 10th of October, in the modern university of architecture of Bauhaus were we also stayed hosted. Bauhaus is located in the city of Dessau, about one hour from Leipzig. Bauhaus operated from 1919 to [...]