CSE 398/428: Semantic Web Topics, Sping 2013

TTh 10:45am-noon, Packard 258

Course News

Regularly check here for updates about the class.

4/29/13 - My office hours during finals are T 4/30: 2-3:30pm, F 5/3: 10-11:30am, and by appointment
4/25/13 - Your project presentations will be Thrs. May 2, noon-3pm in Packard 258 (our usual room). Each team will should give a 25 minute presentation/demo followed by 5 minutes for questions from the audience. Be sure to discuss both design (how you did it) and functionality (what the system does). The project (including code, executables, instructions) is due Mon., May 6 at 5pm.
2/14/13 - I have started an FAQ for HW #2. I have also fixed a bug in swpub.rdf.
2/02/13 - I have started an FAQ for HW #1

Course Description

In this course you will learn what the Semantic Web and Linked Data are, and what these technologies enable. You will be introduced to many useful Semantic Web languages and tools. Finally, you will gain a broad understanding of the most challenging problems and what progress has been made towards solving these problems.

For details about course content, textbook, grading, assignments, and office hours, see the course syllabus.

Textbook

Antoniou, Grigoris, Paul Groth, Frank van Harmelen, and Rinke Hoekstra. A Semantic Web Primer, Third Edition. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. ISBN 978-0-262-01828-9.

Assignments

Each assignment will be made available here after it is handed out in class. The online versions of the assignments are in PDF format.

Homework #1 (due Feb. 5)
- Homework FAQ
- RDFS Entailment Rules
- Jena
- swpub.rdf - Semantic Web Publications Schema
- foundations.rdf - Sample RDF file for part of the Semantic Web Reading List
- SwPub.java - Java class containing useful constants for Jena models that use the swpub.rdf vocabulary
- Java FAQ - To help out students who are new to Java
Homework #2 (due Feb. 19)
- Homework FAQ
- swpub.rdf (revised) - Semantic Web Publications Schema (modified 2/14)
- ARQ - Application API - Programming with SPARQL in Jena
- Solutions
- Test Input Directory for #5
- Sample Output File for #5
Homework #3 (due Mar. 7)
Project #1 (due Mar. 28)
- Using OWL FAQ - Provides some answers to common questions regarding how to use OWL. Includes links to ontology editing, validation, browsing, and annotation tools. Note, this FAQ has an emphasis on annotating people's home pages; ignore anything that is irrelevant to the project.
- Semantic Web Tutorials from the Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group - Contains links to many Semantic Web courses and tutorials
- Peer-Self evaluation sheet
Research Paper Critique (due April 25)
- Presentation Schedule
Project #2 (due May 6)
- Peer-Self evaluation sheet

Readings

Your readings will be listed below as they are assigned. Readings marked SWP are from our textbook, "A Semantic Web Primer." We will also read research papers and technical specifications, and I provide links to online versions of these documents. Usually this is in HTML or PDF format, although a few papers may be in PostScript or Compressed PostScript format. Also, each online reading assignment is followed by a reference (in brackets) that links to the complete citation for the paper. The citations for the entire reading list can be found here.

Task	Due
Read SWP Ch. 1 (pp. 1-21)	1/17
Read SWP Sect. 2.1-2.6 (pp. 23-55)	1/22
Read SWP Sect. 2.8-2.9 (pp. 62-65) Read An Introduction to RDF and the Jena RDF API Read Sect. 3.1-3.3 (pp. 69-78)	1/24
Read Sect. 3.4-3.10 (pp. 78-88)	1/29
Read Benchmarking Database Representations of RDF/S Stores [TCK05] Read Hexastore: sextuple indexing for semantic web data management [WKB08]	1/31
Read Tutorial - Manipulating SPARQL using ARQ Read Linked Data - The Story So Far [BHB09]	2/5
Read DBPedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data [ABL07] Read When owl:sameAs isn't the Same: An Analysis of Identity in Linked Data [HHM10]	2/7
Read SWP Sect. 4.1 - 4.4.4 (pp. 91-111)	2/12
Read SWP Sect. 4.4.5 - 4.6 (pp. 111-128)	2/14
Read An Introduction to Description Logics [NB02]	2/19
Read Basic Description Logics [BN02], Sect. 2.1 - 2.2 (pp. 47-78) Read Reducing OWL Entailment to Description Logic Satisfiability [HPS03]	2/21
Read SWP Ch. 7 (pp. 193-213)	2/26
Read OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns [RDH04] Read A Survey of the Web Ontology Landscape [WPH06]	2/28
Read SWP Sect. 5.1-5.6 (pp. 131-155) Read Description Logic Programs: Combining Logic Programs with Description Logic [GHV03]	3/5
Read A Conjunctive Query Language for Description Logic ABoxes [HT00] Read LUBM: A Benchmark for OWL Knowledge Base Systems [GPH05]	3/7
Read SWP Ch. 6 (pp. 185-221) Read A Case Study in Integrating Multiple E-commerce Standards via Semantic Web Technology [YHS09]	3/19
Read ATOMate it! End-User Context Sensitive Automation using Heterogeneous Information Sources on the Web [VKA10]	3/21
Read A Comparison of Reasoning Techniques for Querying Large Description Logic ABoxes [MS06]	3/26
Read OWL reasoning with WebPIE: calculating the closure of 100 billion triples. [UKM10]	3/28
Read Schema Mediation in Peer Data Management Systems [HIS03]	4/2
Read Using Reformulation Trees to Optimize Queries over Distributed Heterogeneous Sources [LiH10]	4/4
Read The Pathetic Fallacy of RDF [KS06] Read Cross-Ontology Question Answering on the Semantic Web - an initial evaluation. [LSU09]	4/9
Read A Survey of Schema-Based Matching Approaches [SE05]	4/11
Read two of: Generic Schema Matching Using Cupid [MBR01] (presented by Tate) Constructing Virtual Documents for Ontology Matching [QHC06] (presented by Tessitore) A Self-Training Approach for Resolving Object Coreference on the Semantic Web [HCQ11] (presented by Luo)	4/16
Read Adaptive Information Extraction: Core Technologies for Information Agents [KT03] and one of: Learning Ontologies for the Semantic Web [MS01] (presented by Dannenhauer) Yago: A Core of Semantic Knowledge - Unifying WordNet and Wikipedia [SKW07] (presented by West)	4/18
Read two of: Machine Learning for Information Extraction from XML Marked-up Text on the Semantic Web [Col01] (presented by Hatalis) Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision [BM07] (presented by Xia) Open Information Extraction: the Second Generation [EFC11] (presented by Reynolds)	4/23
Read SWP Ch. 8 (pp. 221-225) and one of: TripleRank: Ranking Semantic Web Data by Tensor Decomposition [FSS09] (presented by Suess) DRAGO: Distributed Reasoning Architecture for the Semantic Web [SeT05] (presented by Priya)	4/25

Additional Class Materials

Syllabus

Contains information on course content, grading, assignments, and office hours

Supplemental Slides

Any slides that were used in class. These slides do not cover the full extent of the lectures.

Introduction (1/15)
RDF Examples (1/22-1/24)
OWL Examples (2/12-2/14)

Reading List

A list of relevant papers, organized by topic. Some of these papers will be assigned reading for the course; the others will be optional.

Semantic Web Tools

Here are some recommended tools for use in this class.

Jena - A Java framework for building Semantic Web applications. Includes RDF and OWL APIs, and the ability to read/write RDF/XML into these APIs.
Protege - An excellent ontology editor.
- Getting started
- Tutorial
Fact++ - A GPL-licensed OWL-DL reasoner

Links

The following sites contain additional information about the Semantic Web that you may find interesting.