Logics for Data and Knowledge Representation

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Logics for Data and Knowledge Representation

• Projects and thesis introduction

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Projects

• People per group 1 or max 2 (first come first
  served)
• Amount of work 3-4 weeks of individual work full
  time (each person)
• Supervisors PhD and postdocs (3-4 quick meetings
  to discuss the problem, intermediate checks,
  index of the report)
• Content of the report Formal specification of
  the problem description of the work done
  example of usage with Protégé
• Length of the report max 15 pages appendixes,
  data files, code
• Delivery time at least 1 week before the exam
• Exam grading midterm (max 30/32) project (max
  30/35)
• Thesis 6 months full time

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Personal Events in the LOD Cloud

• Reference person P. Andrews, J. Paniagua
• Goal Extension of existing ontologies for
  sharing event-media representations
• Extended schema
• Examples of events-media links
• Requirements OWL/RDF knowledge, LOD principles
  understanding
• Notes
• Possible extension to a Master project on
  Event/Media annotation in Narratives

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Development of an OWL Parser and Writer

• Reference person Feroz Farazi
• Description
• Web Semantic Web
• HTML and XML RDF and OWL
• UK is a knowledge base developed at UNITN
• Goal To develop an OWL Parser and writer
• To retrieve knowledge from the OWL ontologies for
  the enrichment of the UK
• To publish UK as a set of ontologies in OWL
• Requirements The candidate must have a good
  knowledge of Java programming language. The
  knowledge of OWL and RDF is a plus.

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Entity store on top of a triple store

• Reference person Uladzimir Kharkevich
  http//www.ulakha.com/
• Goal Design and implement an entity-centric
  storage system on top of triple-centric standards
  and implementations.
• Requirements knowledge of semantic web
  technologies
• RDF(S) http//www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/
• OWL http//www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/
• SPARQL http//www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
• read about schema.org and HQL(hibernate query
  language)
• Notes
• The goal of this project is to design an entity
  store on top of a triple store
• The goal of master thesis will be to implement
  the designed architecture

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User evaluation of the entity search

• Reference person M. Menendez
• Goal Perform a user evaluation of the search
  functionality in an existing digital library for
  academics and researchers
• Provide a formal specification of entity search
• Obtain qualitative and quantitive data from real
  users
• Analysis and interpretation of the collected
  data.
• Requirements Attendance to the HCI course by
  Antonella de Angeli.
• Notes
• The project will be completed with a Master
  project on User evaluation of the entity search.

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Domain development

• Reference person Biswanath Dutta / Anand Kumar
  Pandey
• Goal
• Creating faceted classification of the domain
  following DERA methodology
• Available domains Soccer, Basketball, Tennis,
  Hockey,
• Linking domain classification to Linguistic part
  of Universal Knowledge Core (UKC)
• Requirements knowledge of ontology development
  (not mandatory)
• Note The work has to be described in a final
  report providing
• the formal specification of the domain
• the synthesis of the work done
• the faceted classification in tabular format and
  
• list of words, concepts, relations deleted and
  the new senses and relations created in UKC