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Southwest Suburban Neurological Surgery relocates to Silver Cross Replacement Hospital Campus
Joliet, IL (Jan. 16, 2012) — Board certified neurosurgeon Thomas Hurley, M.D.,with Southwest Suburban Neurological Surgery has relocated to the Silver Cross Replacement Hospital campus at 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., Suite 450, Pavilion A, New Lenox, IL 60451.
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Joliet, IL (Jan 13, 2012)—In celebration of the opening of the new Silver Cross Hospital at I-355 and Route 6 in New Lenox, several local musical entertainers will perform on Sunday, Feb. 12 at the Housewarming Party between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The line-up includes the Sandburg High School Choir from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Joliet Folk Lorico Dancers from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m., Lincoln Way West High School Choir, from 2 to 3 p.m. and the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Music Ministry from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. The Joliet Slammers' mascots—Spikes and J.L. Bird will also be at the opening celebration along with 2011 Frontier League Championship Cup.
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Joliet, IL (January 10, 2011)— Do you know if you are at risk for heart disease—the the number one leading killer of both men and women? Now is the time to find out with a Baseline Cardiac Risk Assessment held at the Silver Cross Health Center in Homer Glen at 12701 W. 143rd St.; and the Silver Cross Center for Women's Health, 1870 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. This screening includes measurements of total cholesterol including HDL and LDL levels, blood glucose level, triglyceride level, blood pressure and body fat; 12-lead EKG, health and lifestyle evaluation, and a personal phone consultation with a registered cardiac nurse to review results and answer questions. A 12- hour fast is required. Cost is $40. To schedule an appointment, call (815) 300-7076.
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A bright and BOLD year in west central Minn. sports (with video)
It was quite a year in west central Minnesota sports. The BOLD baseball team won the Class A state championship behind brilliant pitching performances rarely witnessed in high-level postseason competition.
A New London-Spicer girls basketball player continued her push to become not only the best player in her traditionrich program but the top player in area history.
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High school football
Across the Midlands, high school football teams are breaking out the helmets and practice jerseys for spring football. S.C. High School League schools were allowed to begin practice on Wednesday. Regardless of where they finished at the end of the 2012 season, this year's squads are starting with the same end in mind: championships. Though they all hope to reach the same destination, the paths for Midlands teams will be different. Here's a look at a few of the story lines for this spring.
Getting with the program
Blythewood, White Knoll, Lexington, and A.C. Flora are among the local teams under new direction. White Knoll's new top play-caller, Dean Howell, had success at his previous post at A.C. Flora, and hopes his ability to inspire and motivate athletes will transfer to the Timberwolves, who are coming off one of the best seasons in program history. He is not the only coach looking to start getting players into a new system this month. Reggie Shaw will be conducting practices at A.C. Flora; Dan Morgan at Blythewood; and Josh Stepp at Lexington.
Getting their backs up
The 2012 season saw strong rushing games from several area teams, but many of the top performers were seniors — Gilbert's Omar Bethea, Ben Lippen's Tyler Renew and White Knoll's Lamar Ray among them. These programs are tasked with replacing major offensive production, and spring practice is the time for young team members to begin distinguishing themselves. At Dutch Fork, the Silver Foxes know rising junior Matt Colburn should be a major force in their running game. In his sophomore season, Colburn helped propel the Silver Foxes to the state finals with 1,444 yards in six starts.
Who's your passer?
Many area teams will be watching to see who their best choice under center might be for the 2013 season. A.C. Flora will look for someone to step into big-play maker Jake Lewis' cleats, and Lower Richland will look for a player who can drive its offense like Marcus Edmond did. At Irmo, coach Bob Hanna needs someone to own the quarterback position, which Grant Davitte held in 2012. Demetrius Lewis might be the frontrunner. As a junior, he posted 388 yards and two passing touchdowns in limited action behind Davitte.
Drawing the line
Ridge View is losing a substantial portion of its defensive line, including Curtis Bey and Obinna Ntiasagwe, a pair of all-stars who accounted for nearly 20 sacks. This spring, the Blazers look for players with the size and skill needed to get Ridge View back to the playoffs.
Catching a peek
Several area programs will close their spring practice with an intrasquad scrimmage. The admission costs are small and team booster clubs might run fundraisers through concessions sales. For the football-starved and the home-team obsessed, mid-May will offer a great opportunity to see and support local athletes and teams. Among the many teams who will be in action on the final day of spring practice, Blythewood hosts its annual game on May 21at 6:30 p.m.
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State Support for Higher Education Increases in FY05
December 15, 2004
In a reversal from last year, overall appropriations for higher education increased for the 2005 fiscal year, according to an annual study conducted by the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University. State budgets for the current fiscal year show that total appropriations increased by 3.8 percent from FY04, to a total of $63 billion.
Though this year's increase in state support is good news for higher education, it must be viewed within the context of the steady annual decline of state funding for colleges and universities over the past several years. In many cases, this year's increases are not enough to make up for the several previous years' cuts, and therefore budgets still remain lower than they were just two years ago. James C. Palmer of Illinois State University, who conducted the survey, cautioned that while institutions' costs for maintaining facilities and providing health benefits to employees continue to rise, states' costs are increasing as well, which could mean the amount of new revenue appropriated to support higher education in the near future is unlikely to reach the levels of increases seen in the 2000 and 2001 fiscal years.
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BDNF and NT-3 promote thalamocortical axon growth with distinct substrate and temporal dependency
Article first published online: 5 APR 2004
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03228.x
European Journal of Neuroscience
Volume 19, Issue 6, pages 1485–1493, April 2003
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Hanamura, K., Harada, A., Katoh-Semba, R., Murakami, F. and Yamamoto, N. (2004), BDNF and NT-3 promote thalamocortical axon growth with distinct substrate and temporal dependency. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19: 1485–1493. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03228.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 5 APR 2004
- Article first published online: 5 APR 2004
- Received 7 July 2003, revised 18 October 2003, accepted 15 December 2003
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- axon guidance;
- cortical development;
- diffusible factor;
- organ culture;
- neurotrophin;
- substrate dependency
The role of neurotrophins in thalamic axon growth was studied by culturing embryonic rat thalamus on collagen-coated substrate or fixed cortical slices in the presence of either brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) or neurotrophin-3 (NT-3). Both BDNF and NT-3 promoted axonal growth, but the axonal growth-promoting activity depended on culture substrates. Axonal growth on collagen-coated membrane was accelerated by BDNF, but not by NT-3. In contrast, axonal outgrowth on fixed cortex was significantly enhanced by NT-3, but not by BDNF. Semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis of cultured thalamic cells demonstrated that culture substrates did not alter the expression of their receptors, trkB and trkC. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labelling (TUNEL) staining further demonstrated that axonal growth promoted by neurotrophins was not due to reduction of cell death. Measurement of the developmental changes in BDNF and NT-3 levels revealed that, in contrast to the rapid elevation of BDNF after the arrival of thalamocortical axons to their target layer, the regulation of NT-3 protein accompanies the phase of their outgrowth in neocortex. These findings suggest that BDNF and NT-3 promote thalamic axon growth in different manners in terms of substrate dependency and developmental stage.


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The looking-glass world of Mr and Mrs Clowes
Peter Clowes has been free for a week, and already he has a plan: he's going to prove he was innocent. Peter Popham reports
Peter Popham
Peter is a foreign correspondent and feature writer with The Independent who has done long stretches in Japan, India and Italy.
Friday 01 March 1996
All the flashy accoutrements that made him the most garish symbol of Eighties greed are gone. He answers the door of the grimy, rented terraced house bordering a busy road in the centre of town in worn blue jeans and shirtsleeves; it's all a million light years away from his mansion up the road in leafy Whiteley Green, with its servants' quarters and swimming pool and acres of woodland.
The double chin and bulldog jowls, likewise, are gone, and with them the bumptious tycoon's grin. But he's unmistakably the same man: the elevator shoes, the fat white quiff shading his eyes, his chin sunk on his chest, the broad Mancunian vowels. And jail has failed, in a crucial sense, to knock the stuffing out of him. He talks of "regret", "remorse" and "responsibility", but still refuses to accept that he is a thief. "I have never stolen anybody's money," he says. "I have never lined my nest with anybody's money. My plan now is first to sue the Home Secretary for wrongful imprisonment, then to get my conviction overturned. It'll take time, maybe five or seven years - look how long it's taken Ernest Saunders - but that's what I'm determined to do."
This is delusion of a shocking order, self-deception on the grand scale. As the millions of words written since 1988 about his disastrous career make clear, Clowes was guilty of crime after crime after crime. He wove huge tangled webs of deceit around his businesses, sprawling across the world, to baffle investigators. But, as Alan Suckling QC for the Crown put it at the opening of his trial in February 1992, "The basic dishonest scheme was simple and as old as the hills. You persuade people to entrust their savings to you by telling them that they will be kept safe in a particular rock-solid investment. You don't put the money in a rock-solid investment but use it to live the life of Riley. You make good the deficiencies that come up with fresh money from new investors, and you lie and cheat to cover your tracks."
A fraud of this type has only a finite lifespan: sooner or later you run out of fresh money, existing investors can no longer be paid, and the whole thing splatters against a brick wall. If that happens, ruin and disgrace of the sort that have befallen Clowes are the only possible outcome - unless of course you do a Robert Vesco.
In 1970 the American financier Robert Vesco bought out a struggling organisation called Investors Overseas Service (IOS), a now-notorious investment company previously headed by Bernie Cornfeld. The following year Vesco embezzled pounds 146m, disappeared and was on the run for the next 24 years, finally turning up last year in a Cuban jail. Peter Clowes had joined a subsidiary of IOS as a life insurance salesman the same year that Vesco came on board; according to the director of a company which Clowes's firm took over, quoted in Lawrence Lever's book, The Barlow Clowes Affair, Clowes "idolised" Vesco.
But of course, as he is at pains to point out, Clowes has not disappeared. His solicitor, Milton Firman, says "I am absolutely certain that he has no hidden funds, otherwise he would not have received legal aid." On his doorstep, Clowes told me, "I could have gone into hiding, but instead I'm here, where everyone can find me." And of course he is on parole, and must report regularly to his probation officer. Ahead loom the long legal battles to clear his name, and his oft-repeated pledge to repay his creditors. He'll be far too busy to even think of doing a bunk.
Peter Clowes's tale is a story of one man's cleverness, greed and recklessness. But it is a story rooted in the realities of south Manchester, where post- industrial squalor rubs shoulders with the whitewashed, half-timbered gentility of villages like Prestbury and Whiteley Green, where Clowes and his family spent their glory days. It's an area which, like Clowes himself, has striven furiously to transcend the grime and penury of its past - often making a hideous spectacle of itself in the process. Macclesfield is a case in point: a modest town that must once have been very pleasant, lapping against the Peak District, it has gone to drastic and absurd lengths to modernise itself, filling the centre with tower blocks and elevated highways so it has become almost uninhabitable.
Clowes did not begin life here but in Moss Side: now a seedy ghetto, then an impoverished working-class quarter where his parents ran a hardware store. Both parents were themselves from impoverished backgrounds, and instilled a ferocious work ethic in their two sons: they got no pocket money, for example, but had to work for wages instead. Clowes was a solitary, awkward, industrious boy, small and prone to being bullied.
After leaving school early and working for 10 years in the family shop, Clowes took the leap that changed his life when in 1970 he followed his mistress, Elizabeth Barlow's suggestion and joined her as an insurance salesman in Cornfeld's IOS. It was an intoxicating environment in which to gain a first experience of finance. Cornfeld liked to inspire his salesmen with driving ambition - "Do you sincerely want to be rich?" he would demand of them rhetorically when he addressed sales conferences and seminars - and for the sharp but gauche and inexperienced Mancunian youngster the encounter with Cornfeld must have been deeply impressive. "IOS was very exciting," a fellow staffer of the firm said. "It was swashbuckling, very successful, and patchy in terms of business ethics." A key dictum of the firm, "write the business, fix the sweat later", might well have become Clowes's personal motto.
Barlow and Clowes left the firm after it was taken over, and went into partnership together, providing market analysis to financial middlemen, Barlow playing to her strengths as a saleswomman, Clowes developing his skills (grossly over-rated by himself, his enemies say) as a computer whizz. In time Barlow went her own way, and Clowes diversified into what he hoped would be the more profitable business of managing other people's investments. His chosen method was dealing in government-issued bonds, known as gilt-edged securities or gilts. These had the advantage in investors' eyes of being "as safe as the Bank of England" - having been issued and guaranteed by the government - yet at the same time, Clowes maintained that he could make them far more profitable by shrewdly buying and selling them.
This was the business he instigated in 1973, and that original appeal - borrowing the lustre of total security provided by the government - remained central to his business right up to the crash. By the early 1980s, however, he had added some irresistible refinements: investments were to be in gilts (his firm actually called itself "the gilt specialists"); but unlike gilts offered by a stockbroker in the normal way, which can go up and down, these gilts offered a guaranteed rate of interest with full capital to be returned on maturity.
Perfect security, guaranteed growth - "almost too good to be true," as Louise Botting burbled happily on Radio 4's Moneybox programme in May 1982; with national exposure Clowes transformed himself from a modest fraudster into a rapacious one.
Because it was indeed too good to be true: Clowes punctiliously paid interest and returned capital when required, but was only able to do so because new investment money was continuing to pour in. Most of the money was not going into gilts at all: of pounds 115m invested in Gibraltar-based Barlow Clowes International, only pounds 1.9m was in gilts. When the business was closed down in 1988, after years of procrastination by the Department of Trade and Industry, 18,000 investors lost their savings. Though the government later reluctantly coughed up pounds 150m in compensation, many of the pensioners who had sunk their savings in Barlow Clowes died in penury before they could receive anything.
There were numerous other victims of Clowes's fraudulence along the way, many of whom still live within a few miles of Clowes's humble new home. Sue and Robin Cottrill ran an old-established jewellery shop in the town which Clowes took over with their consent, then quietly stripped of its assets; when it was sold by the liquidators in 1989, the Cottrills were left with nothing. Another businessman in South Manchester saw his whole business - an employment agency, said to have been worth pounds 4m, go down the pan at the same time as the rest of Clowes's empire. He, too, waits without much hope to be compensated. Meanwhile, Clowes is back in their midst, still protesting his essential innocence.
His effrontery is perhaps the most unacceptable thing to these victims - the fact that sincere apology seems something he is incapable of. Sue Cottrill says, "He almost thinks he's God. He never believed he was doing wrong to anybody."
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We are very pleased to announce that two of our papers were accepted for presentation as full research papers at ESWC 2015.
With the adoption of RDF across several domains, come growing requirements pertaining to the completeness and quality of RDF datasets. Currently, this problem is most commonly addressed by manually devising means of enriching an input dataset. The few tools that aim at supporting this endeavour usually focus on supporting the manual definition of enrichment pipelines. In this paper, we present a supervised learning approach based on a refinement operator for enriching RDF datasets. We show how we can use exemplary descriptions of enriched resources to generate accurate enrichment pipelines. We evaluate our approach against eight manually defined enrichment pipelines and show that our approach can learn accurate pipelines even when provided with a small number of training examples.
The decentral architecture behind the Web has led to pieces of information being distributed across data sources with varying structure. Hence, answering complex questions often required combining information from structured and unstructured data sources. We present HAWK, a novel entity search approach for Hybrid Question Answering based on combining Linked Data and textual data. The approach uses predicate-argument representations of questions to derive equivalent combinations of SPARQL query fragments and text queries. These are executed so as to integrate the results of the text queries into SPARQL and thus generate a formal interpretation of the query. We present a thorough evaluation of the framework, including an analysis of the influence of entity annotation tools on the generation process of the hybrid queries and a study of the overall accuracy of the system. Our results show that HAWK achieves 0.68 respectively 0.61 F-measure within the training respectively test phases on the Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-4) hybrid query benchmark.
Working in a corporate environment like IBM offers many different opportunities to work on the bleeding edge of research and development. In this presentation Kay Müller, who is currently a Software Engineer in the IBM Watson Group, is going to give a brief overview of some of the projects he has been working on in IBM. These projects range from a CPU bring up using VHDL to the design and development of a semantic search framework for the IBM Watson system.
In a setup of distributed clients resp. applications with different actors writing on the same knowledge base (KB) a synchronization of distributed copies of the KB, an edit history with provenance information and a management for different versions of the KB in parallel are needed. The aim is to design and construct a Triple Store back end which records any change on triple-level and enables distributed curation of RDF-graphs. This should be achieved by using a distributed revision control system for holding a serialization of the RDF-graph. Natanael Arndt will present the paper "R&Wbase: Git for triples" by Miel Vander Sande et al. published at LDOW2013 as related work. Additionally, he will present his ideas towards a colaboration infrastructure using distributed version control systems for triples.
This event is part of a series of events about Semantic Web technology. Please see http://wiki.aksw.org/Colloquium for further information about previous and future events. As always, Bachelor and Master students are able to get points for attendance and there is complimentary coffee and cake after the session.
AKSW will lead the data quality engineering part of ALIGNED, controlling the data lifecycle and providing integrity and verification techniques, using state-of-the-art tools such as RDFUnit and upcoming standards like W3C Data Shapes. In this project, we will support our partners at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford Software Engineering as technical partners, Oxford Anthropology and Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan as data curators and publishers, as well as the Semantic Web Company and Wolters Kluwer, Germany providing enterprise solutions and use cases.
Find out more at aligned-project.eu and following @AlignedProject on Twitter.
Martin Brümmer on behalf of the NLP2RDF group
As within the typical entity-relationship model, unique and composite keys are of central importance also when their concept is applied on the Linked Data paradigm. They can provide help in manifold areas, such as entity search, question answering, data integration and link discovery. However, the current state of the art does not count approaches able to scale while relying on a correct definition of key. We thus present a refinement-operator-based approach dubbed ROCKER, which has shown to scale to big datasets with respect to the run time and the memory consumption. ROCKER will be officially introduced at the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web.
Tommaso Soru, Edgard Marx, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, "ROCKER – A Refinement Operator for Key Discovery". [PDF]
The uptaking use of the NLP Interchange Format (NIF) reveals its shortcomings on a number of levels. One of these is tracking metadata of annotations represented in NIF – which NLP tool added which annotation with what confidence at which point in time etc.
A number of solutions to this task of annotating annotations expressed as RDF statements has been proposed over the years. The talk will weigh these solutions, namely annotation resources, reification, Open Annotation, quads and singleton properties in regard to their granularity, ease of implementation and query complexity.
The goal of the talk is presenting and comparing viable alternatives of solving the problem at hand and collecting feedback on how to proceed.]]>
EDIT: Tommaso Soru's presentation was moved to March 2nd.
Abstract – Smart
Since the conception of the Web, search engines play a key role in making content available. However, retrieving of the desire information is still significantly challenging. Semantic Search systems are a natural evolution of the traditional search engines. They promise more accurate interpretation by understanding the contextual meaning of the user query. In this talk, we will introduce our audience to Smart, a search engine designed over the Semantic Search paradigm. Smart incorporates two of our currently designed approaches of dealing with the problem of Information Retrieval, as well as a novel interface paradigm. Moreover, we will present some of the former, as well as more recent state-of-the-art approaches used by the industry – for instance by Yahoo!, Google and Facebook.
Abstract – ROCKER
As within the typical entity-relationship model, unique and composite keys are of central importance also when their concept is applied on the Linked Data paradigm. They can provide help in manifold areas, such as entity search, question answering, data integration and link discovery. However, the current state of the art does not count approaches able to scale while relying on a correct definition of key. We thus present a refinement-operator-based approach dubbed ROCKER, which has shown to scale to big datasets with respect to the run time and the memory consumption. ROCKER will be officially introduced at the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web.
Tommaso Soru, Edgard Marx, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, "ROCKER – A Refinement Operator for Key Discovery". [PDF]]]>
Full document: available here
Summary slides: available here
Content is growing at an impressive, exponential rate. Exabytes of new data are created every single day. In fact, data has been recently referred to as the "oil" of the new economy, where the new economy is understood as "a new way of organizing and managing economic activity based on the new opportunities that the Internet provided for businesses" .
Content analytics, i.e. the ability to process and generate insights from existing content, plays and will continue to play a crucial role for enterprises and organizations that seek to generate value from data, e.g. in order to inform decision and policy making.
As corroborated by many analysts, substantial investments in technology, partnerships and research are required to reach an ecosystem consisting of many players and technological solutions that provide the necessary infrastructure, expertise and human resources required to make sure that organizations can effectively deploy content analytics solutions at large scale in order to generate relevant insights that support policy and decision making, or even to define completely new business models in a data-driven economy.
Assuming that such investments need to be and will be made, this roadmap explores the role that linked data and semantic technologies can and will play in the field of content analytics and will generate a set of recommendations for organizations, funders and researchers on which technologies to invest as a basis to prioritize their investment in R&D as well as on optimizing their mid- and long-term strategies and roadmaps.
Connection details: https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt/wiki/Main_Page#LD4LT_calls
Summary slides: available here
In addition, the call will briefly discuss progress of meta-share linked data metadata model.
The call is open to the public, no LD4LT group participation is required. Dial-in information is available. Please spread this information widely. No knowledge about linguistic linked data is required. We especially are interested in feedback from potential users of linguistic linked data.
Website: http://lider-project.eu
The project's mission is to provide the basis for the creation of a Linguistic Linked Data cloud that can support content analytics tasks of unstructured multilingual cross-media content. By achieving this goal, LIDER will impact on the ease and efficiency with which Linguistic Linked Data will be exploited in content analytics processes.
We aim at providing an ecosystem for the establishment of a new Linked Open Data (LOD) based ecosystem of free, interlinked, and semantically interoperable language resources (corpora, dictionaries, lexical and syntactic metadata, etc.) and media resources (image, video, etc. metadata) that will allow for free and open exploitation of such resources in multilingual, cross-media content analytics across the EU and beyond, with specific use cases in industries related to social media, financial services, localization, and other multimedia content providers and consumers.
Contact: http://lider-project.eu/?q=content/contact-us
The EU project LIDER has been tasked by the European Commission to put together a roadmap for future R&D funding in multilingual industries such as content and knowledge localization, multilingual terminology and taxonomy management, cross-border business intelligence, etc. As a leading supplier of solutions in one or more of these industries, we would need your input for this roadmap. We would like to conduct a short interview with you to establish your views on current and developing R&D efforts in multilingual and semantic technologies that will likely play an increasing role in these industries, such as Linked Data and related standards for web-based, multilingual data processing. The interview will cover the below 5 questions and will not take more than 30 minutes. Please let us know on a suitable time and date.]]>
Question answering systems provide intuitive access to data by translating natural language queries into SPARQL, which is the native query language of RDF knowledge bases. Statistical data, however, is structurally very different from other data and cannot be queried using existing approaches. Building upon a question corpus established in previous work, we created a benchmark for evaluating questions on statistical Linked Data in order to evaluate statistical question answering algorithms and to stimulate further research. Furthermore, we designed a question answering algorithm for statistical data, which covers a wide range of question types. To our knowledge, this is the first question answering approach for statistical RDF data and could open up a new research area.
See also the paper (preprint, under review) and the slides.
The WSDM conference is one of the major conferences for Web Search and Data Mining. Michael Röder was attending this years WSDM conference in Shanghai and wants to present a short overview over the conference topics. After that, he wants to take a closer look at FEL – an entity linking approach for search queries peresented at the conference.
This event is part of a series of events about Semantic Web technology. Please see http://wiki.aksw.org/Colloquium for further information about previous and future events. As always, Bachelor and Master students are able to get points for attendance and there is complimentary coffee and cake after the session.
A new InfAI project, FREME, kicked off in Berlin. FREME – Open Framework of E-Services for Multilingual and Semantic Enrichment of Digital Content is an H2020 funded project with the objective of building an open, innovative, commercial-grade framework of e-services for multilingual and semantic enrichment of digital content.
InfAI will play an important role in FREME by driving two of the six central FREME services, e-Link and the e-Entity. NIF will be used as a mediator between language services and data sources, serving as foundation for e-Link, while DBpedia Spotlight will be a prototype for e-Entity services, linking named entities in natural language texts to Linked Open Data sets like DBpedia.
InfAI will also help to identify and publish new Linked Data sets that can contribute to data value chains. Our partners in this open content enrichment effort will be DFKI, Tilde, Iminds, Agro-Know, Wripl, VistaTEC and ISBM.
Stay tuned for more info ! In the meanwhile join the conversation on twitter #FREMEH2020.
– Amrapali Zaveri on behalf of the NLP2RDF group
we are happy to announce DL-Learner 1.0.
DL-Learner is a framework containing algorithms for supervised machine learning in RDF and OWL. DL-Learner can use various RDF and OWL serialization formats as well as SPARQL endpoints as input, can connect to most popular OWL reasoners and is easily and flexibly configurable. It extends concepts of Inductive Logic Programming and Relational Learning to the Semantic Web in order to allow powerful data analysis.
Website: http://dl-learner.org
GitHub page: https://github.com/AKSW/DL-Learner
Download: https://github.com/AKSW/DL-Learner/releases
ChangeLog: http://dl-learner.org/development/changelog/
DL-Learner is used for data analysis in other tools such as ORE and RDFUnit. Technically, it uses refinement operator based, pattern based and evolutionary techniques for learning on structured data. For a practical example, see http://dl-learner.org/community/carcinogenesis/. It also offers a plugin for Protege, which can give suggestions for axioms to add. DL-Learner is part of the Linked Data Stack – a repository for Linked Data management tools.
We want to thank everyone who helped to create this release, in particular (alphabetically) An Tran, Chris Shellenbarger, Christoph Haase, Daniel Fleischhacker, Didier Cherix, Johanna Völker, Konrad Höffner, Robert Höhndorf, Sebastian Hellmann and Simon Bin. We also acknowledge support by the recently started SAKE project, in which DL-Learner will be applied to event analysis in manufacturing use cases, as well as the GeoKnow and Big Data Europe projects where it is part of the respective platforms.
Kind regards,
Lorenz Bühmann, Jens Lehmann and Patrick Westphal]]>
A survey or systematic literature review is a text of a scholarly paper, which includes the current knowledge including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews use secondary sources, and do not report new or original experimental work [1].
A systematic review is a literature review focused on a research question, trying to identify, appraise, select and synthesize all high quality research evidence and arguments relevant to that question. Moreover, a literature review is comprehensive, exhaustive and repeatable, that is, the readers can replicate or verify the review.
Select two independent reviewers
Look for related/existing surveys
If it exists, see how long back it was done. If it was 10 years ago, you can go ahead and update it.
Formulate research questions
Devise eligibility criteria
Define search strategy – keywords, journals, conferences, workshops to search in
Retrieve further potential article using search strategy and also directly contacting top researchers in the field
Compare chosen articles among reviewers and decide a core set of papers to be included in the survey
Perform Qualitatively and Quantitatively on the selected set of papers
Report on the results
There are several benefits/advantages of conducting a survey, such as:
A survey is the best way to get an idea of the state-of-the-art technologies, algorithms, tools etc. in a particular field
One can get a clear birds-eye overview of the current state of that field
It can serve as a great starting point for a student or any researcher thinking of venturing into that particular field/area of research
One can easily acquire updated information of a subject by referring to a review
It gives researchers the opportunity to formalize different concepts of a particular field
It allows one to identify challenges and gaps that are unanswered and crucial for that subject
However, there are a few limitations that must be considered before undertaking a survey such as:
Surveys can tend to be biased, thus it is necessary to have two researchers, who perform the systematic search for the articles independently
It is quite challenging to unify concepts, especially when there are different ideas referring to the same concepts developed over several years
Indeed, conducting a survey and getting the article published is a long process
In our group, three students conducted comprehensive literature reviews on three different topics:
Linked Data Quality: The survey covers 30 core papers, which focus on providing quality assessment methodologies for Linked Data specifically. A total of 18 data quality dimensions along with their definitions and 69 metrics are provided. Additionally, the survey contributes a comparison of 12 tools, which perform quality assessment of Linked Data [2].
Ubiquitous Semantic Applications: The survey presents a thorough analysis of 48 primary studies out of 172 initially retrieved papers. The results consist of a comprehensive set of quality attributes for Ubiquitous Semantic Applications together with corresponding application features suggested for their realization. The quality attributes include aspects such as mobility, usability, heterogeneity, collaboration, customizability and evolvability. The proposed quality attributes facilitate the evaluation of existing approaches and the development of novel, more effective and intuitive Ubiquitous Semantic Applications [3].
User interfaces for semantic authoring of textual content: The survey covers a thorough analysis of 31 primary studies out of 175 initially retrieved papers. The results consist of a comprehensive set of quality attributes for SCA systems together with corresponding user interface features suggested for their realization. The quality attributes include aspects such as usability, automation, generalizability, collaboration, customizability and evolvability. The proposed quality attributes and UI features facilitate the evaluation of existing approaches and the development of novel more effective and intuitive semantic authoring interfaces [4].
Also, here is a presentation on "Systematic Literature Reviews": http://slidewiki.org/deck/57_systematic-literature-review.
[1] Lisa A. Baglione (2012) Writing a Research Paper in Political Science. Thousand Oaks: CQ Press.
[2] Amrapali Zaveri, Anisa Rula, Andrea Maurino, Ricardo Pietrobon, Jens Lehmann and Sören Auer (2015), 'Quality Assessment for Linked Data: A Survey', Semantic Web Journal. http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/quality-assessment-linked-data-survey
[3] Timofey Ermilov, Ali Khalili, and Sören Auer (2014). ;Ubiquitous Semantic Applications: A Systematic Literature Review'. Int. J. Semant. Web Inf. Syst. 10, 1 (January 2014), 66-99. DOI=10.4018/ijswis.2014010103 http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijswis.2014010103
[4] Ali Khalili and Sören Auer (2013). 'User interfaces for semantic authoring of textual content: A systematic literature review', Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Volume 22, October 2013, Pages 1-18 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570826813000498]]>


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Ferraro, P. et al. 2013. More strictly protected areas are not necessarily more protective: evidence from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Thailand. Environ. Res. Lett. 8 025011 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/025011.
Do protected areas that are more strictly protected (IUCN category I-IV) have less deforestation than less strictly protected areas (IUCN category V-VI)?
The short answer is yes but not always.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Secretaries Gone Wild
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We've had some unusual cabinet secretaries in past administrations –Earl Butz, John Mitchell, and James Watt come to mind — but never anything quite like the present bunch.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has overseen some $5 trillion in new debt. To help pay for it, he wants the rich — the top 1 percent, which already contributes more in income taxes than does the bottom 90 percent — to pay more for what he calls "the privilege of being an American." Geithner, whose department oversees the IRS, should have taken his own advice: As a rich American one-percenter, he once failed to pay his own self-employment taxes, and improperly claimed his children's camp costs as a dependent-care deduction.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has pulled off the near-impossible: At a time when the known gas and oil reserves of the United States on public lands have soared, he has cut back on federal leasing of them to just about 2 percent of available offshore lands and 6 percent of onshore. Meanwhile, huge new amounts of oil are being found on private lands despite, not because of, the Interior Department. When he was a U.S. senator, Salazar claimed that even $10-a-gallon gas would not change his mind about voting to increase offshore drilling. And although he controls the leases of the richest oil and gas reserves in the Western world, he recently shrugged that no one knew whether gas would hit $9 a gallon....
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Singer was seen with tears in his eyes as he took to the stage as part of 1D for the final time
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Harry Styles (born February 1, 1994) is best known as a member of the English boy band One Direction. Raised in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, Harry worked in a bakery before auditioning as a solo act on the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010. He was then paired with fellow solo auditionees, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson by guest judge, Nicole Scherzinger to form a five-piece boy band. They later called themselves One Direction and went on to come third in the competition. Despite being runners-up, Simon Cowell signed them to his record company Syco Entertainment and they released their debut album, Up All Night in 2011 which went to number 1 in the US Billboard 100 charts. The band went on to release a second album, Take Me Home which went triple Platinum in the UK. Their third studio album, Midnight Memories went to number 1 in 20 countries and their fourth album FOUR also went to number 1 around the world. Harry is known for his cheeky demeanour and like his fellow bandmates is seen as very desirable to their fans, who call themselves Directioners. Styles has had a series of high profile relationships, and has been linked to Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne in the past. His romance with The Xtra Factor co-host Caroline Flack hit the headlines in late 2011, as Caroline was 14 years older than the pop star. Harry confirmed their split in January 2012.
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Five Ways Ban Ki-moon's Summit Has Changed International Climate Politics Forever – September 26, 2014
The UN climate summit in New York decided nothing – but it has helped put climate change back on the agenda
By Michael Jacobs
So 120 government leaders each made 4 minute speeches about climate change at the United Nations. Did it make any difference?
Yes, but not in the ways you might think.
The UN climate summit did not conclude in a grand 'agreement'. But that was not its purpose. This was not a negotiating meeting. Indeed it was barely a 'meeting' at all: the assembled leaders simply made speeches one after the other, with most of the real debate occurring in later sessions (on energy, forests, finance and so on) in which the main speakers were environment ministers and representatives from civil society and business.
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Global Warming Denial Rears Its Ugly Head Around the World, in English – August 18, 2014
In Australia, USA, UK, and Canada, politicians are rejecting evidence and expert opinion about climate change
As people's understanding of climate science grows, among both experts and non-experts alike, we become more accepting of the fact that humans are the driving force behind global warming. That's because the evidence supporting human-caused global warming is overwhelming; hence rejection of that reality is usually based on an incomplete understanding of the scientific evidence.
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It's Simple. If We Can't Change Our Economic System, Our Number's Up – May 29, 2014
It's the great taboo of our age — and the inability to discuss the pursuit of perpetual growth will prove humanity's undoing
Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic meter. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5 percent a year. How big would that stash have been by the Battle of Actium in 30BC? This is the calculation performed by the investment banker Jeremy Grantham.
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WWF Staff Receive Death Threats for Opposing Virunga Oil Exploitation – May 13, 2014
Phone calls follow attempted assassination of Congolese national park's chief warden and increased reports of intimidation
World Wildlife Fund staff members have been telephoned with death threats for opposing oil exploitation in Africa's oldest national park, which is home to one in four of the world's estimated 800 remaining mountain gorillas. It follows the attempted assassination of the Virunga national park's chief warden last month and the death of two Congolese park wardens in the last few months.
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High CO2 levels significantly reduces essential nutrients in wheat, rice, maize and soyabeans, Nature paper reveals
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Rising carbon dioxide emissions are set to make the world's staple food crops less nutritious, according to new scientific research, worsening the serious ill health already suffered by billions of malnourished people.
The surprise consequence of fossil fuel burning is linked directly to the rise in CO2 levels which, unlike some of the predicted impacts of climate change, are undisputed. The field trials of wheat, rice, maize and soybeans showed that higher CO2 levels significantly reduced the levels of the essential nutrients iron and zinc, as well as cutting protein levels.
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Scott Scheidly's Pink Series…it speaks for itself.
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There's no better way to start off Monday then with some music inspired by art. Unless it's with art inspired by music that is. So, for the sake of best case scenario, we're starting a weekly Mix Media Monday post, where a special musical guest will put together their favourite playlist and a special artist guest will use it to create an inspired playlist cover-art.
To kick things off, here's SPRUNG: a playlist that is meant to mimic the flow a perfect spring day, from morning till bedtime. Mixed by JOE BLOW and accompanying cover-art by Angélica Ramos Saavedra. We think this mix media is a perfect slice of spring.
Poemotion by Takahiro Kurashima. These mesmerizing effects are not computer generated.
The way to see a new world.
Stillness exists in motion.
Motion lives in stillness.
Stillness is not the only thing one sees,
nor is motion the only thing.
In between stillness and motion, a new vision rises.
Like in between thoughts and action, one finds a new vision.
From a new vision, comes a new force that generates a new world.
Poemotion is the way to see a new world.
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Is this rainy day making you feel extra meousy (read: cat-lousy)? Everyone knows cat's can't stand water. So, to help keep your paws out of the puddles, here's a badass dose of Ca(t)sual/pritate/overall rebel cat.
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