2 PhD and 1 PostDoc Position at Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences
For collaborative international research projects in the area of intelligent information management, the Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences (BUAS) in cooperation with research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at Universität Leipzig opens positions for: 2 PhD and 1 PostDoc Position in Knowledge Engineering / Semantic Web The positions are [...]

AKSW tools prominently featured in TÜB?TAK
Börtecin Ege wrote an article on the Semantic Web in the December issue of TÜB?TAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) prominently featuring DBpedia, Relfinder, LIMES, SPARQL Benchmark and other AKSW related research projects. See Semantik Web Tübitak Bilim Teknik 12 2011.

NLP Interchange Format (NIF) 1.0 Spec, Demo and Reference Implementation
The NLP Interchange Format (NIF) is an RDF/OWL-based format that aims to achieve interoperability between Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, language resources and annotations. The core of NIF consists of a vocabulary, which can represent Strings as RDF resources. A special URI Design is used to pinpoint annotations to a part of a document. These [...]