Deadline Extended: PriSeT workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies at K-CAP 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Mathieu d'Aquin
--- CALL FOR PAPERS 1^st International Workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013) 23^rd June, 2013 Banff, Canada (collocated with K-CAP 2013) _http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/

DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear fellow DBpedians, I am very excited to announce that DBpedia and DBpedia Spotlight have again been been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2013!!! If you know energetic students (BSc,MSc,PhD) interested in working with DBpedia, text processing, and semantic

CfP Extended deadline - Challenge: Doing Good by Linking Entities

2013-04-11 Thread Giuseppe Rizzo
[Apologies for cross-posting] We are now also accepting papers describing ideas of applications! Please spread the word! Extended deadline: April 24th === Doing Good by Linking Entities, Developer's Challenge http://wole2013.eurecom.fr/challenge 2nd

RE: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Neil McNaughton
Hello all, There is something unseemly about the way academia regards acceptance by Google as an accolade. This, from the multi billion company that spies on individuals, sniffing wifi passwords and gaming search to its own "do no evil" ends. What is the world coming to I ask? Neil McNaught

AST 2013: 2nd Call for Papers (7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies)

2013-04-11 Thread Juergen Bock
(apologies for cross-posting) = 7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST 2013) http://ast2013.fzi.de/ at INFORMATIK 2013 (16-20 Septemb

Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Barry Norton
While there are privacy concerns, which one hopes a strong government will keep in check, why was your first criticism 'multi billion dollar'? I welcome the interest in the combination of graph knowledge with text analysis by big, successful companies - it vindicates the effort my friends a

Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Leon Derczynski
Hi, Well, funding from (D)ARPA is also readily accepted, and doesn't always lead to bad things.. Leon On 11 April 2013 10:24, Neil McNaughton wrote: > ** ** ** ** > > Hello all, > > ** ** > > There is something unseemly about the way academia regards acceptance by > Google as an accolade.

Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Pablo N. Mendes
In this particular case, I believe the excitement comes from the fact that this program supports the scientific community in key activities such as: 1) communicating research results, 2) funding; and 3) reproducibility. First, the academics involved will get their research publicized to thousands

Open position at iSOCO

2013-04-11 Thread José Manuel Gómez Pérez
Apologies for multiple posting Job offer: Experienced researcher/product manager in data management iSOCO Lab, Intelligent Software Components S.A., Madrid, Spain http://www.isoco.com Knowledge Driven Data Exploitation (K-Drive

Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Tom Morris
Congratulations on getting accepted to GSoC! I mentored for 3 years (for a different project) and it's a great opportunity for all involved. Ignore Mr. McNaughton's weird little diatribe. Perhaps when he's fixed the oil industry he can come back and work on the computer industry. Tom On Thu,

Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-04-11 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I'm not relate to DBpedia, but I have been involved in a GSoC last year. It's a nice event to motivate students to participate in open source projects, to rise the awareness of open source solutions and even to exchange ideas among people (thinking about the summit). I think it's good to be

Open Positions for PostDocs, PhD Students and Developers

2013-04-11 Thread Sören Auer
Dear all, We have several open positions for postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students and software developers at AKSW research group (http://aksw.org/) in Leipzig. More information can be found here: http://wiki.aksw.org/Jobs Applicants will become part of an very international, innovative an