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Wisdom of Crowds vs. Wisdom of Linguists
This event took place on Wednesday 08 December 2010 at 11:30

 
Dr. Torsten Zesch Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Computing the semantic relatedness between words is a pervasive task in natural language processing. So far, insufficient coverage of linguistic knowledge resources has been a major impediment for using semantic relatedness measures in large-scale applications. Recently, rapidly growing collaboratively constructed resources like Wikipedia and Wiktionary have been discovered as a new kind of semantic resource.

In the talk, I will shortly introduce these new resources and show how existing semantic relatedness measures can be adapted to the new resources. I will then compare the performance of traditional resources (Wisdom of Linguists) with that of the new resources (Wisdom of Crowds), and show under which conditions collaboratively constructed semantic resources can be used as a proxy for linguistically constructed semantic resources.

Additionally, I will introduce freely available application programming interfaces to Wikipedia and Wiktionary that have been used to conduct the experiments described in my talk.

 
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Future Internet
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

  • Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

  • Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection

  • Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated

  • Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities

  • Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities