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A Semantic Web for Mathematics - Logic, Linguistics, and Management
This event took place on Wednesday 19 May 2010 at 11:30

 
Prof. Michael Kohlhase Jacobs University, Germany

This talk gives an overview over recent work on the building a Semantic Web for Mathematics (SWM). We want to realize this envisioned SWM as a flexiformal digital library that contains semantically annotated mathematical documents ranging from from informal (rigorous developments of mathematics in natural language with formulae) to documents expressed in formal logical systems.

We are approaching this SWM from five directions:

  • OMDoc, a modular representation frameworks for integrated
    flexiformal libraries,

  • TNTBase/JOMDoc: a versioned XML-based storage and web application
    framework for OMDoc

  • arXMLiv: automatically annotating semantic features in LaTeX-based
    corpora

  • JOBAD: embedding semantic services into mathematical web documents.

  • using Semantic Web (linked-data) techniques on mathematical corpora.


We are currently integrating these components to our own SWM, I will try
to outline the successes and open problems involved in this project.

 
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Semantic Web and Knowledge Services is...


Semantic Web and Knowledge Services
"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation" (Berners-Lee et al., 2001).

Our research in the Semantic Web area looks at the potentials of fusing together advances in a range of disciplines, and applying them in a systemic way to simplify the development of intelligent, knowledge-based web services and to facilitate human access and use of knowledge available on the web. For instance, we are exploring ways in which tnatural language interfaces can be used to facilitate access to data distributed over different repositories. We are also developing infrastructures to support rapid development and deployment of semantic web services, which can be used to create web applications on-the-fly. We are also investigating ways in which semantic technology can support learning on the web, through a combination of knowledge representation support, pedagogical theories and intelligent content aggregation mechanisms. Finally, we are also investigating the Semantic Web itself as a domain of analysis and performing large scale empirical studies to uncover data about the concrete epistemologies which can be found on the Semantic Web. This exciting new area of research gives us concrete insights on the different conceptualizations that are present on the Semantic Web by giving us the possibility to discover which are the most common viewpoints, which viewpoints are mutually inconsistent, to what extent different models agree or disagree, etc...

Our aim is to be at the forefront of both theoretical and practical developments on the Semantic Web not only by developing theories and models, but also by building concrete applications, for a variety of domains and user communities, including KMi and the Open University itself.