This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2015, formerly known as ISemantics. SEMANTiCS is the annual meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, ITarchitects, software engineers and researchers from organisations ranging from research facilities, NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world.
SEMANTiCS offers a forum for the exchange of latest scientific results in semantic systems and complements these topics with new research challenges in the area of social software, semantic content engineering, logic programming and Semantic Web technologies. The conference is in its 11th year and has developed into an internationally visible and professional academic event.
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Crowdsourced semantic annotation of scientific publications and tabular data in PDF
Significant amounts of knowledge in science and technology have so far not been published as Linked Open Data but are contained in the text and tables of legacy PDF publications. Making such information available as RDF would, for example, provide ...
Complex event extraction from real-time news streams
Information overload on news data is a known problem these days. People and organizations have an increasing demand for extraction of relevant information from massive amounts of news data arriving in real-time as news streams. In this paper, we present ...
An elastic and scalable spatiotemporal query processing for linked sensor data
Recently, many approaches have been proposed to manage sensor data using Semantic Web technologies for effective heterogeneous data integration. However, our research survey revealed that these solutions primarily focused on semantic relationships and ...
Toward a statistical data integration environment: the role of semantic metadata
In most government and business organizations alike, statistical data provides the foundation for strategic planning and for the management of operations. In this context, the use of increasingly abundant statistical data available on the web creates ...
The role of reasoning for RDF validation
For data practitioners embracing the world of RDF and Linked Data, the openness and flexibility is a mixed blessing. For them, data validation according to predefined constraints is a much sought-after feature, particularly as this is taken for granted ...
Accessing and reasoning with data from disparate data sources using modular ontologies and OBDA
This paper proposes a distributed framework for accessing, integrating and reasoning with data from heterogeneous, disparate data sources. The proposed solution combines the E -- SHIQ modular ontology representation framework with the Ontop ontology-...
Making sense of description logics
Description Logics are commonly used for the development of ontologies. Yet they are well-known to present difficulties of comprehension, e.g. when confronted with the justification for a particular entailment during the debugging process. This paper ...
TailR: a platform for preserving history on the web of data
Linked data provides methods for publishing and connecting structured data on the web using standard protocols and formats, namely HTTP, URIs, and RDF. Much like the web of documents, linked data resources continuously evolve over time, but for the most ...
Integrating custom index extensions into virtuoso RDF store for e-commerce applications
Triple stores are the backbone of the evolution of the Linked Data Web. However, even standard queries on many attributes can result in high query response times using available triple stores. For use in commercial search applications, particularly for ...
Knowledge base shipping to the linked open data cloud
Popular knowledge bases that provide SPARQL endpoints for the web are usually experiencing a high number of requests, which often results in low availability of their interfaces. A common approach to counter the availability issue is to run a local ...
iCM-Hydraulic: semantics-empowered condition monitoring of hydraulic machines
We present the first system, called iCM-Hydraulic, for intelligent condition monitoring (CM) of hydraulic machines that combines statistical, probabilistic and semantic data analysis for fault detection and diagnosis with semantic explanations. The ...
A linked data platform for finite element biosimulations
Biosimulation models have been recently introduced to understand the exact causative factors that give rise to impairment in human organs. Finite Element Method (FEM) provides a mathematical framework to simulate dynamic biological systems, with ...
Cross-lingual lexical matching with word translation and local similarity optimization
Cross-Lingual Mapping (CLM) establishes semantic relations between source and target concepts to align two resources lexicalized in different languages, e.g., ontologies, thesauri, or concept inventories, or to enrich a multilingual resource. In this ...
Updating OWL2 ontologies using pruned rulesets
Evolution in Semantic Web content produces difference files (deltas) that track changes between ontology versions. These changes may represent ontology modifications or simply changes in application data. An ontology is typically expressed in a ...
A semantic method for multiple resources exploitation
Being able to extract and exploit information that is included in multiple resources (repositories, corpora, etc.) is essential to benefiting from the increasing availability and complementary nature of such data scattered across the World Wide Web. ...
SemaGrow: optimizing federated SPARQL queries
Processing SPARQL queries involves the construction of an efficient query plan to guide query execution. Alternative plans can vary in the resources and the amount of time that they need by orders of magnitude, making planning crucial for efficiency. On ...
Streaming transformation of XML to RDF using XPath-based mappings
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become a widely adopted data interchange format. With the rise of Linked Data published using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a number of tools for transforming XML to RDF have been developed. ...
LODFlow: a workflow management system for linked data processing
The extraction and maintenance of Linked Data datasets is a cumbersome, time-consuming and resource-intensive activity. The cost for producing Linked Data can be reduced by a workflow management system, which describes plans to systematically support ...
Machine-interpretable dataset and service descriptions for heterogeneous data access and retrieval
The rdf data model allows the description of domain-level knowledge that is understandable by both humans and machines. rdf data can be derived from different source formats and diverse access points, ranging from databases or files in csv format to ...
Data licensing on the cloud: empirical insights and implications for linked data
This paper investigates necessities and pitfalls in existing data licensing practices on the World Wide Web. The authors analyzed four open data portals with respect to the available licenses and drew conclusions about the quantity and quality of ...
An overview of the tourpedia linked dataset with a focus on relations discovery among places
Tourpedia (http://tour-pedia.org) is an open initiative which contains a linked dataset of tourism places, i.e. accommodations, attractions, points of interest (POIs) and restaurants. Tourpedia extracts and integrates information about places from four ...
An optimization approach for load balancing in parallel link discovery
Many of the available RDF datasets describe millions of resources by using billions of triples. Consequently, millions of links can potentially exist among such datasets. While parallel implementations of link discovery approaches have been developed in ...
MEX vocabulary: a lightweight interchange format for machine learning experiments
- Diego Esteves,
- Diego Moussallem,
- Ciro Baron Neto,
- Tommaso Soru,
- Ricardo Usbeck,
- Markus Ackermann,
- Jens Lehmann
Over the last decades many machine learning experiments have been published, giving benefit to the scientific progress. In order to compare machine-learning experiment results with each other and collaborate positively, they need to be performed ...
Unsupervised learning of an extensive and usable taxonomy for DBpedia
In the digital era, Wikipedia represents a comprehensive cross-domain source of knowledge with millions of contributors. The DBpedia project transforms Wikipedia content into RDF and currently plays a crucial role in the Web of Data as a central ...
Living semantic platform
The Living Semantic Platform (LSP) is a web-based and collaborative development environment for lightweight ontologies based on OWL2 QL. Moreover, it includes an integrated OWL2 QL reasoner which allows for efficient query answering based on SPARQL ...
SimplePARQL: a new approach using keywords over SPARQL to query the web of data
The SimplePARQL is a new and intuitive approach to query the Web of Data through existing SPARQL endpoints by using keywords in addition to SPARQL elements. Thus, the user is able to write more expressive pseudo-SPARQL queries where knowing the ontology ...
The DBpedia wayback machine
DBpedia is one of the biggest and most important focal point of the Linked Open Data movement. However, in spite of its multiple services, it lacks a wayback mechanism to retrieve historical versions of resources at a given timestamp in the past, thus ...
Updating SPARQL results in real-time with client-side fragment patching
A lot of Linked Data on the Web is dynamic. Despite the existing query solutions and implementations, crucial unresolved issues remain. This poster presents a novel approach to update sparql results client-side by exchanging fragment patches. We aim at ...
Procurement notice enrichment using product ontologies
Linked data resources supporting matchmaking supply and demand on the procurement market are so far limited. Precise match could be obtained by enriching the procurement notices with detailed types and parameters of the product/service that are ...
Online ontology shortest paths searcher
Entities within an ontology are connected via different paths. Connection of entities can be even considered within an ontology merged with its import closure constituting an ontology network. This demo paper presents a web-based tool for search of ...
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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SEMANTiCS 2016 | 85 | 18 | 21% |
SEMANTICS '15 | 97 | 22 | 23% |
Overall | 182 | 40 | 22% |