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Research interests
- Entity-centric web: enabling the vision
of the semantic web as a web of entities. The vision is that
the web will be populated with self-merging distributed datasets
based on a clear identification of entities described in each of
them. See How to Publish OKKAMized Data on the Web
...and connect to Linked Data for a comparison of this
idea with the concept of linked data.
- Lightweight data integration: entity-centric
methods and tools for integrating data (e.g. relational data)
without assuming a full schema integration. The idea is to provide
fast and reliable techniques for retrieving anything which is
known about an entity (e.g. person, location, oranization, product,
event, etc.) in a decentralized set of data sources with very high
precision and recall.
- Business models for semantic web technologies:
understanding how semantic web technologies can effectively improve
the way people work and do business today. Really.
- Semantic Coordination: models and
techniques for coordinating the use of multiple knowledge
sources (e.g. ontologies) in a highly distributed and
heterogeneous environment (e.g. peer-to-peer knowledge sharing
networks)
- Distributed Knowledge Management:
development of models and techniques for supporting the
representation, management and sharing of knowledge in
organizational settings
- Context-dependent knoweldge representation and
reasoning: formal models of how context impact on the
representation of what an agent knows about his/her/its world,
and the kind of reasoning which can be done on it. Examples of
application are: the qualification problem in AI,
reasoning about beliefs, belief reports, and
semantics of indexical expressions
- Mental models: cognitive background of
contextual reasoning and communication. My current research is
described in a paper
published at CogSci2005 and in a web site on
external mental models
Research projects
- APARSEN:
APARSEN is a Network of Excellence that aims to bring together an
extremely diverse set of practitioner organisations and researchers in
order to bring coherence, cohesion and continuity to research into
barriers to the long-term accessibility and usability of digital
information and data, exploiting our diversity by building a
long-lived Virtual Centre of Digital Preservation Excellence.
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(Enabling the Web of Entities): OKKAM is a EU funded Integrated project in FP7, which
will start in 2008. The overall goal of the OKKAM project is to enable the
Web of Entities, a global digital space for publishing and managing
information about entities, where every entity is uniquely identified,
and links between entities can be explicitly specified and exploited in
a variety of scenarios. Compared to the WWW, the main differences are
that the domain of entities is extended beyond the realm of digital
resources to include objects in other realms like products, organizations,
associations, countries, events, publications, hotels or people; and that
links between entities are extended beyond hyperlinks to include
virtually any type of relation. However, to make this happen, the Web of
Entities must trigger (as the WWW did) what economists call network
externality effect, and this requires at least three pillars to be in place:
(i) a suitable infrastructure which can support the open and sustainable
growth of the Web of Entities; (ii) a critical mass of new entity-aware
content and data accessible to a very large number of users in a relatively
short time; a collection of exemplary and high impact applications, which
can prove to the key players in ICT that investing on the Web of Entities
is worthwhile. The OKKAM project presents a strategy and an effective work
plan to build the three pillars of this Web of Entities, not only from a
technical point of view, but also from a social, organizational and
business-oriented perspective.
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VIKEF:
the goal of this EU funded Integrated Project is to use Semantic Web languages and tools
to create Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments in
different application scenarios. My contribution is mainly on the
representation and management of semantic information, with special
attention to the integration of data (e.g. from text documents) into
one or more domain ontologies, and on schema matching. I'm responsible
for two project workpackages (WP5 and WP8: Context and
Interoperability) and for a so-called Project Competence Area (PCA-4:
Semantic representation, management and reuse).
- Knowledge Web: the goal
of this EU funded Network of Excellence is to create awareness on
Semantic Web technologies and to deploy theoretical results, language
specifications and tools that can foster the adoption of Semantic Web
concepts in real applications. My personal contribution is mainly in
the area of ontology mapping and alignment. I'm responsible for a
project deliverable (D2.2.1: Specification of a Common Framework for
Characterizing Alignment)
- WISDOM (Web
Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies): an Italian national
project funded by the Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR) which
aims at developing intelligent techniques and tools, based on domain
ontologies, to perform effective and efficient information search on
the WEB. I'm responsible for the Unit at the University of Trento,
whose main contribution is related to semantic matching across web
resources
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