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The Semantic Web is a vision for extending the Web so that machines can more intelligently integrate and process the wealth of information that is available. Unlike HTML and ordinary XML, Semantic Web languages allow semantics (i.e., meaning) to be explicitly associated with the content. The semantics are formally specified in ontologies, which can be shared via the Internet and extended for local needs. The current standard for the Semantic Web is OWL, a W3C Recommendation.
The Semantic Web and Agent Technologies (SWAT) lab is investigating many of the issues needed to realize the Semantic Web vision. The lab's research includes:
- evaluating the ability of Semantic Web systems to reason with large scale data and building systems that improve the state-of-the-art
- designing a theory of distributed ontologies that, among other things, explictly addresses the ontology versioning problem
- building Semantic Web agents and systems that can integrate data from multiple heterogeneous sources
News: Please visit our news archive for more news.
| 11/27/07 - 11/29/07 | SWAT member Zhengxiang Pan have attended the ODBASE 2007 conference in Algarve, Portugal and presented "Hawkeye: A Practical Large Scale Demonstration of Semantic Web Integration" in the Scaleable Semantic Web System Workshop. |
| 11/11/07 - 11/15/07 | SWAT members Fabiana Prabhakar and Abir Qasem attended ISWC 07 in Busan, Korea. They presented "Efficient Selection and Integration of Data Sources for Answering SemanticWeb Queries" in the New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scaleable, tolerant and dynamic workshop and "Benchmarking Reasoners for Multi-Ontology Applications" in the Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools workshop. They also gave a demonstration of the Hawkeye knowledge base in the poster and demo session. |
| 4/25/2007 | SWAT members participated in the departmental poster competition and Zhengxiang Pan's poster won the people's choice award. |
| 3/15/2007 | Our colleague Yuanbo (George) Guo has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Reasoning and Querying the Semantic Web - A Document-Centric Perspective." Congratulations George! We hope you continue to spread the wisdom of Semantic Web in Microsoft. |
| 6/27/2006 | HAWK1.5 was released, now supports MySQL! |
| 6/5/2006 | Our paper "A Requirements Driven Framework for Benchmarking Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems" was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering: Special Issue: Knowledge and Data Engineering in the Semantic Web Era |