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  <title><![CDATA[Looking back at the ebiquity research group's 2006]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/38/Looking-back-at-the-ebiquity-research-group-s-2006</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Maybe it's a bit of a cliché, but this is the traditional time to look back on the past year and reflect on how things are going.  It has been an active productive year.  Here's a rundown of our past year by the numbers.

205,000 is the number of visits to the Ebiquity web site.  Our monthly page visits increased five fold over the year and we currently receive about 25,000 visits a month.


   



743 people have
registered as users of the Swoogle
semantic web search system.  By ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-01-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[UMBC researchers investigate the Blogosphere]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Research on detecting "splogs" by Professors Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Tim Oates and PhD students Pranam Kolari and Akshay Java of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department was mentioned in an article in the September issue of Wired Magazine.  Splogs are spam weblogs that are automatically generated to host advertisements or to raise the rank or affiliated web sites.  The UMBC group recently published a study showing that more than half of the active English language blogs ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Parr gives invited talk at ESA 2006]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/36/Parr-gives-invited-talk-at-ESA-2006</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Dr. Cynthia Parr was invited to present on the work of SPIRE at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of  America in Memphis, TN on August 8, 2006 (91st ESA)

Her talk was part of a symposium on the application of graph theory to ecology. She described our work on ELVIS (appropriately enough, as the conference was in Memphis), a prototype system that generates species lists and then uses the Food Web Constructor to predict feeding links among the species. She also described the UMBC ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-08-23</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Swoogle 2006 released]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/35/Swoogle-2006-released</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Swoogle 2006 is a a major
new version of Swoogle, a search engine for the Semantic Web.
Swoogle helps knowledge engineers and software agents find
knowledge on the web encoded in the semantic web languages RDF
and OWL.  It crawls the Web looking for documents that consists
of RDF or have embedded RDF within them.  USing Swoogle, people
and agents can discover Semantic Web ontologies, terms and data.

 Swoogle 2005 is a nearly complete rewrite of Swoogle Classic, which
now answers to ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-02-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[SemNews: news text to Semantic Web]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/33/SemNews-news-text-to-Semantic-Web</link>
  <description><![CDATA[SemNews Understands the News 

 Prototype UMBC system interprets online news stories  and  publishes text meaning on the Semantic Web

      SemNews is a prototype
application being developed by UMBC Ph.D. student Akshay Java that
uses a sophisticated text understanding system to interpret summaries
of news stories, publishes the results on the semantic web and
provides browsing and query services over them.  The project is the
result of a collaboration between the UMBC's Institute ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-01-12</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Splogosphere]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/31/Welcome-to-the-Splogosphere</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Splogosphere!

UMBC study estimates that 75% of posts to English language weblogs are spam


Baltimore, December 16, 2005

 A weblog monitoring system developed by UMBC Ph.D. student Pranam
Kolari shows that a new form of spam -- spam blogs or splogs --
has quickly become a serious problem. 

 Splogs are "fake"
weblog sites that have been set up to carry paid advertisements,
promote affiliated web sites by increasing their PageRank, and to get
new sites noti...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-12-16</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Zhongli Ding defends dissertation]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/32/Zhongli-Ding-defends-dissertation</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Zhongli Ding successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation
entitled "BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in
Semantic Web" on December 5, 2005.  Dr. Ding came to UMBC in the Fall
of 1999 after receiving her undergraduate degree from the University
of Science and Technology of China in Hefei.  She joined the ebquity
lab in 2000 and has worked closely with Professor Yun Peng, who was
her mentor and dissertation supervisor.  She received a Masters degree in
Computer Scie...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-12-05</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[ELVIS poster wins award]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/30/ELVIS-poster-wins-award</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Our ELVIS
poster presented by Joel Sachs and Cyndy Parr at the NBII All-Nodes Meeting was
given an award for the poster generating the most interest.
The poster describes a suite of tools being build as part of the NSF
and USGS sponsored SPIRE project
that is exploring how semantic web technologies can be used by
ecological biologists.

The ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Information
System) tool suite is motivated by the belief that food web structure
plays a role i...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-10-28</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Finin to serve as editor-in-chief of  Journal of Web Semantics]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/24/Finin-to-serve-as-editor-in-chief-of-Journal-of-Web-Semantics</link>
  <description><![CDATA[UMBC faculty member Tim Finin has accepted a post as an
editor-in-chief of the 
Journal of Web Semantics, joining co-editors-in-chief Carol Gobel
and Rudi Struder.

 The Journal of Web Semantics is an interdisciplinary journal based
on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute
to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service
Web. These areas include: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents,
databases and the semantic grid, obviously di...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-09-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[McNamee receives best paper award]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/28/McNamee-receives-best-paper-award</link>
  <description><![CDATA[PhD student Paul
McNamee received a best paper award at the 2005 SIGIR Doctoral
Consortium for his paper 

Advancing Corpus-Based Bilingual
Retrieval,
28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conferenc, 
Doctoral Consortium, Salvador, Brazil, 15 August 2005.

In addiiton to being a PhD student in the Computer Science program at UMBC, Paul is a Senior Computer Scientist in the Research and
Technology Development Center of the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-08-15</dc:date>
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