Tetherless World Constellation

Advanced Semantic Technologies: Week 3

Scribe: Peter

Future Scribes

Next Week's scribe: Ping
Week 5: Scott
Week 6: Patrick
Week 7: Tim
Week 8: Dylan

Attendance:

• Joanne
• Deborah
• Patrick
• Peter
• Dylan Enloe
• Eric
• Jin
• Scott

Watson Discussion

• Watson is cool
  • Uses advanced algorithms to scour known documents in order to collect data and organize it in a useful way.
  • Class may end early on Feb 15 (for panel discussion @ EMPAC)
  • Jeopardy (Watson vs.

Instructors

• Deborah McGuinness
• Joanne Luciano

Students

• Dylan Enloe
• Eric Rozell
• Jin Guang Zheng
• Joanne Luciano
• Patrick West (Sitting In)
• Peter Ragone
• Ping Wang
• Scott Yaninas
• Tim Lebo

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Adavanced Semantic Technologies 2011 Week 2

"Snow advisory in effect"

Scriber: Jin Zheng
Next Week Scriber: Peter

Attendance

• Eric Rozell
• Jin Zheng
• Tim Lebo
• Deborah McGuinness (dlm @ cs.rpi.edu)
• Joanne Luciano (jluciano @ cs.rpi.edu)
• Evan
• Peter
• Scott
• Patrick "Smiley" West
• Ping
• Dylan (Remote)

Class Discussion/Notes

• Post homework on the course web page, both presentation and write up

http://tw.rpi.edu/web/Courses/AdvancedSemTech/2011/Week2

Course Website discussion

• Problem: can't pull all hws, readings.

In this class we will have the presentations of the final projects.

• Final project presentation.
• All groups have write ups due. Each group needs to submit one group writeup. It should include the sections typical to any research paper submission:
• Abstract
• Introduction - including motivating use cases
• Methods - Technical Approach (with appropriate subsections for your topic)
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5PM - 7:50 *** NOTE: Date and time change *** Grant Proposal Workshop

Guest Lecturer: Tim Clark http://madrc.mgh.harvard.edu/timothy-w-clark-ms
Title: Dynamic Semantic Metadata on Web Resources in Biomedicine [Download]
Guest Lecturer: Alyssa Goodman https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~agoodman/
Title: The Visual Display of Information: The Art of Numbers"

Reading Assignment for this class:

• http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3349 From Alyssa Goodman
• Read a paper that Tim Clark assigns (TBD)

Written Assignment for this class:

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Titanpad Notes

Advanced Semantic Technologies (Spring 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stories that persuade with data [Download]
The Future of the Journal? [Download]
From Proteins to Fairytales [Download]

‘Stories, That Persuade With Data: the research paper, and the knowledge within'
Anita de Waard, Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs, http://elsatglabs.com/labs/anita/

This week we will discuss the Translational Medicine Ontology and Knowledge Base paper.

Revised TMO Paper [Download]

titanpad for today

Topics to discuss:

(a) The problems addressed in the paper


(b) The Semantic technologies that were used


(c) Discussion of the benefit of semantic technologies in grounded example showing something that would be hard to do without semantic technologies.
(e) claims that you expect to include in your write up.