CENG 685: Semantic Web

You are all invited to the following seminar tomorrow in the central campus. Related to semantic web in a way.

Applications of Probabilistic Graphical Models on Information Extraction 

Sherzod Hakimov

PhD Candidate

Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University

When: Jan 4, 2018 at 11:00am

Where: Engineering Faculty Meeting Room, 4th floor

Abstract 

Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) is a task of identifying the correct references of named entities that appear in a text. NERFGUN is a system that is trained using machine learning algorithms to link named entities to Wikipedia articles.   Question Answering (QA) is a task of retrieving information from a database or text using natural language queries. AMUSE is a multilingual QA system that uses Factor Graphs. 

Biography 

Sherzod Hakimov studied computer science at TOBB ETU He also finished his master's degree at the same University. Later on he joined Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University, Germany to pursue his Doctorate Degree. He's been working on developing Natural Language Processing systems using Machine Learning algorithms.

The teaching staff has posted a new lecture notes resource.

Title: Midterm 2014 (Sample Test)
http://www.piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/j80ohv5m2fe3eb/jajfh15tf9l77v

Lecture date: Nov 28, 2017

You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/cankaya.edu.tr/fall2017/ceng685/resources

Considering a lot of request for postponing the exam, it is granted. The exam will be next week same time and hour (Nov 28, 6pm). Today we will complete OWL lecture, review the course material, and answer your questions.

-Erdoğan

Today's class is cancelled due to a meeting I have. Class notes are posted (OWL, 1 and 2). Please read those and read the book. I will post an assignment today or tomorrow about those so that you are ready for the exam :-)

Please submit your asg 2 to webonline. The assignment submit is open now.

Best wishes,

-Erdoğan