Year of the Monkey: Lessons from the first year of SearchMonkey

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Title: Year of the Monkey: Lessons from the first year of SearchMonkey

Feb 17, 2009 at Tetherless World Constellation, RPI.

Abstract:

In this presentation we reflect on the experiences we have gained in the year since Yahoo's groundbreaking Semantic Web application platform launched in May, 2008. We discuss the development of the Semantic Web field through the uptake of technology and discuss the experiences of our communities of developers and publishers who got acquainted with semantic technologies for the very first time through SearchMonkey. This presentation provides key insights to those interested in what the Semantic Web looks like in action and at a large scale, viewed from the perspective of a search engine provider. It also highlights critical bottlenecks in the adoption of semantic technologies on the Web and therefore should be also of interest for Semantic Web researchers and developers.

Bio:

Peter Mika is a researcher at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona. He received his BS in computer science from Eötvös Loránd University and his MSc and PhD in computer science (cum laude) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary work in social networks and the Semantic Web earned him a Best Paper Award at the 2006 International Semantic Web Conference and a First Prize at the 2005 Semantic Web Challenge. He has been cochair of the Semantic Web Challenge since 2007. Mika is the youngest member elected to the editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics. He is the author of the book 'Social Networks and the Semantic Web' (Springer, 2007). In 2008 he has been selected as one of "AI's Ten to Watch" by the editorial board of the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal.