Hello everybody, first off I'd like to introduce myself . I'm Robert, a current Masters student at the Mannheim University. I'm studying Business Informatics and pursuing the Data and Web Science Specialization Track. One of my major interests lies in Data Mining and I constantly complement my studies with Data Mining related online courses (MOOCs) during my free time. Alongside my studies I'm also employed as a student researcher at the Data and Web Science research group [1] under the supervision of Prof. Bizer. You will find many professors mentioned in many of the papers you suggest as a starting point. A major part of the research is particularly dedicated at Open Linked Data, hence the education is close-knit with examples and from research projects.
Furthermore, during one of my previous internships I have been involed in building an Active Learning system for Named Entity Recognition which has also enhanced my experience within this field. The first time I got in touch with NLP and Machine Learning was during my Bachelor Thesis that concerned with the classification of Scientific Papers. Now coming to the GSoC project: My first priority would be to work on "5.7. Reverse Engineering and Aligning Freebase with DBpedia." I have a working knowledge of Sparql and the Freebase MQL query language if needed. During my prior semester I have used DBPedia and Freebase to perform web data integration in a closed domain. So I'm aware of schema integration and schema matching procedures, which I think qualifies me along with my programming experience fairly well. After digging into the proposal of the project there are some uncertainties that aroused. In the descriptin you mention the introduction of new properties and classes if needed. Your first reference [2] concerns mainly with the reduction/fusion of closely related or equivalent properties. - Can you give me an intuition of a situation where a need for a new class or property would arise? - Can you also please give an example of tools that are based on freebase and that should be easily migrated to DBpedia? - Speaking of the current approaches of mapping classes and properties, is there any work currently going on that deal with hierarchies of subjects and objects? - Related to [2], do S1 and O1 represent actual subjects and objects or rdf:type classes of S1 and O1? I think one problem could (at least partially) solve the other, namely using a trustful class mapping could assist in working out equivalent property mappings and vice versa. I would be available full-time during the time period of GSoC and it comes naturally for me that I get myself into the latest research prior the start of the GSoC period. - Can you please advise me what would be the next step? - The project mentioned above is only one of my interests given your proposals. Do I have to elaborate my interest to my second and third priority in a similar way? Best regads Robert [1] http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/en/home/ [2] http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Property_Alignment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-gsoc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-gsoc
