Dear All, My name is Shrey, a final year masters student at the *Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpu**r*.I'm currently pursuing a 5 Year Dual Degree Course (B.Tech + M.Tech Hons.) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.I have worked extensively in the field of Knowledge graph.
My ongoing masters project deals with the creation of Knowledge graph from crowdsourced knowledge bases like Wikipedia and Freebase.This project was also awarded *$1000 student research grant *from Yahoo! Inc.We have recently submitted a paper in KDD 2014 titled "An Entity Similarity Measure for Heterogeneous Knowledge Graph with Categories". Last summer on my internship with Yahoo! Research Labs Bangalore, I have also worked on *news recommendation based on twitter*, where I made extensive use of *wikipedia entity extraction* and using *Yago, Freebase,Wordnet and wikipedia abstract *of the entity to model the interest of the user.As a side result I was able to provide the ranked list of wiki-categories with scores (which is currently missing in wiki-categories).It has quite interesting results. I find the project titled *Yago integration in Stanbol *& *Topic Classification Framework for Stanbol *very interesting. I have already done similar work and I am quite familiar with Yago.I have also been using Stanbol extensively for NER in my masters project.This is one of the primary reasons that I want to contribute to the Apache Stanbol project. Please let me know on how to proceed. Sincerely, Shrey Sharma Senior Dual Degree Student Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
