“Semantic Search – Fact and Fiction” Workshop

“Semantic Idol” Demonstration Booklet

Thursday November 12, 2009

Friday November 13, 2009Roma / Italy

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Planning

Selected project will have:-

5 minutes introduction-

10 minutes demo-

5 minutes Q&ADue to the tight planning, no overtime will be authorized.The expert panel will be composed of:-

Wernher Behrendt

(http://www.salzburgresearch.at/contact/team_detail.php?person=35): SemanticExpert. Werner will represent the interests of IKS-

Sandro Groganz

(http://sandro.groganz.com/

). Open Source Marketing expert.Sandro will represent the interests of the end-users.-

Stéphane Croisier

(http://stephanecroisier.jahia.com/

). Co-Founder and ProductStrategy Manager at Jahia. Stéphane will represent the interests of the CMSindustry.

Thursday November 12, 2009

17.15 - 18:301.

Deri

(Axel Polleres -http://axel.deri.ie/~axepol/ - and Juergen Umbrich)2.

Trialox

(Reto Bachmann-Gmür -http://trialox.org/ )3.

Kiwi

(Rolf Sint -http://showcase.kiwi-project.eu/KiWi/wiki/home.seam?cid=9588)

Friday November 13, 2009

10:00 - 13:004.

Yahoo! Research

(Peter Mika -http://research.yahoo.com/Peter_Mika)5.

Salsadev

(Stéphane Gamard -http://www.salsadev.com/ )6.

Scribo / Nuxeo

(Olivier Grisel and Stefane Fermigier -http://www.scribo.ws/ http://www.nuxeo.com)7.

Zemanta

(Tomaž Šolc - http://www.zemanta.com/)8.

Trezorix

(Sander van der Meulen -http://www.trezorix.com)9.

Sourcesense

(Tommaso Teofili -http://www.sourcesense.com/ )10.

Semantic Technology LAB

(Aldo Gangemi and Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo -http://stlab.istc.cnr.it/ )11.

Semantic MediaWiki

(Tran Duc Thanh, Markus Kroetsch - Karlsruher Institutfür Technologie -http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ )(Moderated by Stéphane Croisier from Jahia –http://www.jahia.com)

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Some related user stories

http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/User-stories Feel free to add new user stories to complete the use cases.

Story 01: Search and Disambiguation in Docs

I have a collection of 30'000 documents, and I want to find the five documents that talkabout or where edited by John Smith. Problem is, there are three John Smiths in mycompany, and the two others appear in lots of documents.

Story 03: Similarity-based Image Search

I'm working with a digital asset management system, and I want to find images that aresimilar to the one I'm looking at, either in terms of the real-world objects that the imagesrepresent, or in terms or graphical similarity (colors, shapes, etc.)

Story 04: Spatio-temporal Content Queries in near-natural Language

When visiting a house rental website, I can formulate queries like “recent pages that talkabout houses to rent in the French part of Switzerland” and the website search engineunderstands them.

Story 05: Assistance with Semantic Tagging

To create content in my CMS, I type plain text, and the system offers a list of tags thatdescribe my content, and a list of links to entities (people, companies, etc.) that my texttalks about. I can then interactively refine those lists of tags and links.

Story 06: Context-aware Content Delivery

I'm a hotel manager and I'm adding info about a music show that takes place in my hotelnext Friday. Internet users should be able to find this info using queries like "events thattake place at the end of next week within 10km of where I am now", without having toknow about my website.

Story 09: Similarity based document search

I consult or create a new document in my CMS by typing in a HTML edit form or byuploading a document with textual content (PDF, office file, XML file, ...). I want theuser interface to show the list of the 5 most similar documents already in the CMS basedon the latent semantic meaning of the terms occurring in those document without havingto manually tag structured document properties such as DublinCore : subjects.