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		<rdfs:label><![CDATA[Semantic Web Technology: Recent Successes and Research Challenges]]></rdfs:label>
		<event:title><![CDATA[Semantic Web Technology: Recent Successes and Research Challenges]]></event:title>
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<person:Collaborator rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/person/html/Amit/Sheth"><person:name><![CDATA[Amit Sheth]]></person:name><rdfs:label><![CDATA[Amit Sheth]]></rdfs:label></person:Collaborator>
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		<event:startDate rdf:datatype="&xsd;dateTime">2005-03-01T14:30:00-05:00</event:startDate>
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		<event:abstract><![CDATA[Semantics is seen as the key ingredient in the next phase of the Web
infrastructure as well as the next generation of information systems
applications.

Ontology-driven techniques and systems have already enabled new
generation of Semantic Applications in such markets as bioinformatics,
financial services, business intelligence, and national security.  We
begin the talk with a sampling of semantic applications already
developed for Enterprises.  We review the capabilitiies for creating
and maintaining large domain ontologies and automatic semantic
metadata extraction that play key role in powering these applications,
as well as review key requirements of Enterprise class semantic
applications in terms on size and freshness of populated ontologies,
content diversity, types of computing involving complex queries and
link analysis over ontology instances and metadata, etc.
 
The second part of the talk addresses the research opportunities
enabled by the current capabilities described above.  Specifically, we
discuss our current research agenda in the LSDIS lab for more powerful
Semantic Web capabilities related to

<ul>
<li> complex relationships discovery (including the SemDis project in
     which we collaborate with UMBC),
<li> support for implicit, formal and powerful semantics, and
<li> Semantic Web Processes.
</ul>
 

Background information for this talk can be found at:
<ul>
<li> <a
href="http://wwwt.semagix.com/documents/SemanticWebTechinAction.pdf">Article
in Data Engineering</a> special issue on Making the Semantic Web Real
(Dec. 2003)

<li> <a href="http://www.semagix.com/download.html">Commercial
Technology</a>

<li> Semantic Discovery Projects at UGA and UMBC: SemDis

<li> <a
href="http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/library/download/SRT05-IJ-SW-IS.pdf">
Semantics for the Semantic Web: the Implicit, the Formal and the
Powerful</a>
</ul>
]]></event:abstract>
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<person:Faculty rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/person/html/Yelena/Yesha"><person:name><![CDATA[Yelena Yesha]]></person:name><rdfs:label><![CDATA[Yelena Yesha]]></rdfs:label></person:Faculty>
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