Seminar Semantics & Search

April 28, IDI/NTNU, Trondheim, Norway


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Part I: 09-12
Location: F1 (IT-bygget/ IT building)
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09.15 - Opening of Seminar
Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU

09.20 - The Semantic Web and ontologies: what assumptions, what justifications?
Karen Sparck-Jones, Cambridge

09.50 - Emerging Semantic Web Trends: Transparent and Trustworthy Applications
Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford

10.20 - Break (30 min)

10.50 - XML full-text search and entity extraction
Aleksander Øhrn, Fast Search & Transfer

11.20 - Semantics for Personalized Search - An Example
Per Gunnar Auran, Yahoo!

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12.00-13.00 Lunch
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Part II: 13-16
Location: ITV-454 (IT-bygget/ IT building)
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13.00 - Web Spam and the Search Engines
Per Holager, NTNU

13.20 - Document space adapted ontology. Application in IR
Stein L. Tomassen, NTNU

13.40 - Folksonomies and Ontologies (20)
Csaba Veres, NTNU

14.00 - Break (30 min)

14.30 - AlViz ontology alignment visualization tool (maybe DEMO)
Jennifer Sampson, NTNU

14.50 - Performance Semantics in a Continuously Changing Enterprise
Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, NTNU

15.10 - Ontology Value in Information Management
Darijus Strasunskas, NTNU

15.40 - Discussion and Closing of Seminar
Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU