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Advanced Semantic Technologies (Spring 2012)
Instructor: Professor Deborah L. McGuinness - dlm at cs dot rpi dot edu
TA: Abigail Fuller - fullea6 at rpi dot edu (Office Hours: Thur 11:30-1:30 )
Meeting times: Tuesday 1:00 pm - 3:50 pm.
phone: 518-276-4464
Class Listing: CSCI 6965 - 01, 97543, CSCI 4967 - 01, 97014, ITWS 6962 - 01, 98113, ITWS 4963 - 01, 98438
Class Location Winslow 1140
Description
This course aims at showing the cutting edge research on semantic web and encouraging research capability for advanced students. Students attending this course should expect reading, presenting and evaluating important research papers on semantic web, identifying and surveying interesting semantic web research areas.
Schedule
- Week 1: January 24, 2012
- Week 2: January 31, 2012
- Week 3: February 7, 2012
- Week 4: February 14, 2012
- Week 5: February 21, 2012
- Week 6: February 28, 2012
- Week 7: March 6, 2012
- March 13 - Spring break
- Week 8: March 20, 2012
- Week 9: March 27, 2012
- Week 10: April 3, 2012
- Week 11: April 10, 2012
- April 17 - no class - Grand Marshall Weed
- Week 12: April 24, 2012
- Week 13: May 1, 2012
- Week 14: May 8, 2012
Weekly detail
Week 1 Jan 24, 2012
Class 1 - Advanced Semantic Technologies 2012 Lecture 1 [Download]
Notes - Jan-24 Titan Pad [Download]
- Introduction to course
- Outline of scope of Advanced Semantic Technologies
- Journals we will examine
- Journal of Web Semantics: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/description?navopenmenu=-2
- Journal of AI Research: http://www.jair.org/
- International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems: http://www.ijswis.org/
- International Journal of Semantic Computin g (IJSC): http://www.worldscinet.com/ijsc/
- International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO): http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmso
- Journal of Data Semantics: http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/Springer/
- Journal of Semantics: http://jos.oxfordjournals.org/
- Nature of articles - see the following conferences for additional topic/ subject areas
- http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/
- http://www.eswc2012.org/
- http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/
- http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/
- Semantic Web Keywords
- Form of presentations and evaluations
- this class will be most similar to the version of this class taught in 2010 -
http://tw.rpi.edu/portal/CSCI_6965_Emerging_Trends_in_Semantic_Technologies_%28Spring_2010%29
Week 2 - January 31, 2012
Notes - Jan-31 Titan Pad [Download]
Here are the Various Links from the Jan-31 Titan Pad:
- Mushroom Identification: http://bit.ly/wJ2SGk
- Water Quality Portal: http://tinyurl.com/6oxop3q
- Elsevier Sciverse Collaboration: http://bit.ly/wWUWuq, http://www.hub.sciverse.com/action/home, http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/gallery
- Air Quality Portal: http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Courses/AdvancedSemanticTechnologies/2012 (Look for Linyun)
- Linked Sensor Data: http://tw.rpi.edu/media/2012/01/31/ccd7/heiko-muller-slides.pdf
- Water Quality Monitoring: http://www.kirkjalbert.com/about-me/, http://bit.ly/z3Kt61, http://www.watershed-mapping.rpi.edu
- Linked Sensor Data and Data Quality: http://bit.ly/zQ8Ile, http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/demo/trends_in_smoking_prevalence_tobacco_policy_coverage_and_tobacco_prices
- School of Ants: http://schoolofants.org/
Homework:
1 - turn in your written statement of your research interests following the instructions below.
- Student 10 minute introduction - interests and experience
Instructions for written material
- 1/2 - 3/4 page
- should contain a clear statement of a research interest/ topic
- should provide a few sentences on why this research is important, or its application
- 3-5 keywords or phrases classifying the topic and if an index set or controlled vocabulary was used
- should indicate what this research builds upon
- should indicate (cite) related, or pre-cursor work
- should present or discuss (short paragraph) some current (or proposed) work on the topic
- should include citation references in a suitable format (i.e. indicating source)
- this assignment has no grade associated with it but is required to be handed in
2. Read
From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the WWW by Hendler and Berners-Lee.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs227/Readings/hendler-berners-lee-semantic-web.pdf
Instructions for presentation and sign up
- 10 mins, NO longer, some questions or comments should be anticipated
- slides are optional, if you use them, please post them alongside your name in the table below
- please sign up in 12 minute blocks starting at 1:20
- enrolled students (top of the list below) will start
- we will follow with others who wish to participate
Student 10 minute research interests presentation sign-up sheet
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linyun Fu | 1:20pm | Semantic Air Quality Portal | semantic-air-quality-portal.pptx [Download] | Notes/Questions |
| Yu Chen | Time | Topic | research-interest.ppt [Download] | Notes/Questions |
| Qi Pan | Time | Topic | personal-lib.ppt [Download] | Notes/Questions |
| Heiko Muller | Time | Topic | heiko-muller-slides.pdf [Download] | Notes/Questions |
| Ping Wang | Time | Topic | semantaqua.ppt [Download] | Notes/Questions |
| Han Wang | Time | Topic | mushroom.ppt [Download] | Notes/Questions |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions |
Week 3 - Feb 7, 2012
Notes - Feb-7 Titan Pad [Download]
Reading discussion and student presentations
Homework:
Write a short paragraph discussing how you would improve either Williams' or Subra's approach using semantic technologies. Email this to both Prof. McGuinness and Abigail before class next week. Please email no later than Feb 14, 12:30pm.
Please look at the water quality portal pages: http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/SemantAQUA
1 - review the static demo at http://inference-web.org/wiki/Semantic_Water_Quality_Portal
2 - look at the live demo
3 - note the publication page - http://tw.rpi.edu/web/project/SemantAQUA/Publications
4 - read the International Semantic Web Conference 2011 paper
Wang, P., Zheng, J., Fu, L., Patton, E.W., Lebo, T., Ding, L., Liu, Q., Luciano, J.S., and McGuinness, D.L. 2011. A Semantic Portal for Next Generation Monitoring Systems. In Proceedings of 10th International Semantic Web Conference (October 23-27 2011, Bonn, Germany).
and remembering the reading from the past classes - the social machines paper from the first week and the social papers from this past week,
write up a few pages on what it would take to take the current water quality portal and turn it into more of a community water portal.
1 - what kind of additional data would you be looking for?
2 - what kind of additional participation would you be looking for?
3 - what kind of additional technical challenges would you expect to encounter?
4 - what ideas do you have to overcome the technical challenges?
please be prepared to present a short discussion of your thoughts on these 4 questions in class.
Please turn in a write up of the answers to the 4 questions by 12:30 pm on Feb 14 to both abigail and deborah by email.
Week 4 February 14, 2012
Notes - Feb-14 Titan Pad [Download]
Reading for Next Week: Chinese Medicine [Download]
- presentation by Sky Bristol from USGS - see titanpad for details.
extracted from the bottom of last week's titanpad:
for next week, review the four links
london air quality portal: http://www.londonair.org.uk/LondonAir/Default.aspx - yu present highlights to class
http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/ - han will present to class
http://www.wlci.gov/ - amar will present to class
http://ecos.fws.gov/tat_services/ - linyun will present to class
for those not presenting - please send abigail and me a report for each of the 4 web sites above, what
1 - you found most interesting from the perspective of a potential semantic technology enabled project
2 - you found most confusing or most limiting in the current approach
also, abigail will upload a reading for the initial health information project. Please read that before class and submit a paragraph on highlights of the paper.
please submit your assignments by 12:30pm on Feb 21
Week 5 February 21, 2012
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/266
Notes - Feb-21 Titan Pad
- initial presentation from Anita de Waard on semantically integrating health information - topic area depression data.
Slides - Antidepressant Presentation [Download]
- student highlights of readings.
- breakout into project groups.
Homework-
Students should each post at most a 2 sentence description of an extension to the semantic water quality portal that brings in some notion of citizen science. This initial posting needs to be done by Friday Feb 24, 4pm. Everyone should read the other postings and then post at least one follow up question on another suggestion.
Forum Link - http://tw.rpi.edu/web/node/2193
Week 6 - Feb 28
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/267
Notes - Feb-28 Titan Pad
Outside speaker or research presentations
Week 7 March 6
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/268
Notes - Mar-6 Titan Pad
Small group presentations. Presentations include:
- Overview of material from 2-3 papers
- Highlights of how semantic technologies are providing contributions to the work
- Some ideas of how the work could be enhanced with the kind of technologies we are strong in
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
March 13 - Spring break =
Week 8 - March 20
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/269
Notes - Mar-20 Titan Pad
Review presentations.
Individual presentations will include:
- Overview of a single paper
- Critical reviewing according to format Deborah provides including technical merit, originality, etc. We will use the IJCAI review form so those of you possibly involved in IJCAI reviewing will get more practice. This will be posted soon.
- You should review a paper that you have not already reviewed and presented. It should be slightly outside your research area but not way out of your research area.
- 10mins presentation and 5 minutes for questions.
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
After presentations another round of research topic discussion and small group formation ~ 30-45 mins. Group composition is still to be determined.
Week 9 - March 27
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/270
Notes - Mar-27 Titan Pad
Either next set of critical review presentations or invited speaker
Week 10 - April 3
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/271
Notes - Apr-3 Titan Pad
Resume small group presentations. Presentations include:
- Overview of material from 2-3 papers
- Highlights of how semantic technologies are providing contributions to the work
- Some ideas of how the work could be enhanced with the kind of technologies we are strong in
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
Previous final assignment -
- FINAL assignment (due at last class, April 28)
- Three use case implementations from Semantic e-Science (Fall 2008): Sensors - orchard watering, stargazer, diabetic exchange portal
- Reform the three teams with original members
- Additional participants to nominate which project they wish to associated with - MUST verify this with professors before starting work with the groups - this is to ensure a balanced distribution of effort
- GOAL: to write up the project into a workshop/conference-style paper (format is ISWC, 8-10 pages)
- Will need to include an evaluation component to the paper
- Some extension/ improvement upon previously presented work is required
- Working demonstration in a stable location is required
- Will need to sort out authorship, order and contributions
- Paper to be handed in at last class (before 1pm, April 28)
- Present paper in class - group presentation, each person to present unless approve by professors
- 45 mins per presentation with 5-10 mins for questions, criticique
Week 11 - April 10, 2012
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/272
Notes - Apr-10 Titan Pad
Reviews of papers
- Individual presentations of paper reviews - choose a paper that you have been involved in presenting - either individual or group
- review the paper using the IJCAI review form
- 20 mins presentation of the review + 5 mins questions
- presentations will cover two weeks - please sign up in either of the week 9 or 10 slots
- PLEASE select paper and post the link by Wednesday March 18 5pm to allow others time to read the papers
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
Week 12 - April 17, 2012
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/273
Notes - Apr-17 Titan Pad
Continue reviews
- PLEASE select paper and post the link by Wednesday March 25 5pm to allow others time to read the papers
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
Week 13 - April 24, 2012
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/274
Notes - Apr-24 Titan Pad
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
Week 14 - May 1, 2012
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/275
Notes - May-1 Titan Pad
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
Week 15 - May 8, 2012
Titan Pad Link: http://twc.titanpad.com/276
Notes - May-8 Titan Pad
Project paper presentations
- Three use case implementations from Semantic e-Science (Fall 2008): Sensors - orchard watering, stargazer, diabetic exchange portal
- Reform the three teams with original members
- Additional participants to nominate which project they wish to associated with - MUST verify this with professors before starting work with the groups - this is to ensure a balanced distribution of effort
- GOAL: to write up the project into a workshop/conference-style paper (format is ISWC, 8-10 pages)
- Will need to include an evaluation component to the paper
- Some extension/ improvement upon previously presented work is required
- Working demonstration in a stable location is required
- Will need to sort out authorship, order and contributions
- Paper to be handed in at last class (before 4pm, April 28)
- Present paper in class - group presentation, each person to present unless approved by professors
- 45 mins per presentation including 5-10 mins for questions, criticique
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
| Presenter | Time | Topic | Presentation | Notes/Questions | Citation |
Course evaluation worksheet
Academic Integrity
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Attendance Policy
Enrolled students may miss at most one class without permission of instructor.
Once one class has been missed (with or without permission) no additional classes may be missed without permission.
Grading Policy
Grades will be determined based on homework assignments along with class participation. Late assignments will drop 10% of the possible value of the assignment for each day late.
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