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University of Trento
Fall 2014

CONTENTS

The course this year is organized into 5 modules:
(a) The INTRODUCTION module will provide an introduction to logical modeling;
(b) The DESCRIPTION LOGIC module will give an overview of the description logic language;
(c) The SEMANTIC WEB module will provide a brief overview of the Web Languages and the Semantic Web;
(d) The APPLICATIONS module will cover a broad range of applications, from databases to ontologies, access control, and media;
(e) With the LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES module we will go through some notable examples of vocabularies, ontologies and knowledge bases exploring strengths and weaknesses.

LESSONS

Official Lectures Time and Location:
Mondays 15:00 - 17:00, Faculty of Science, room B103
Wednesdays 09:00 - 11:00, Faculty of Science, room A212

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SYLLABIUS

Slides and handouts will be put online some days after each lesson.

Date
Lecturer
Topic
Slides
INTRODUCTION
15/09
Fausto
Introduction to logics
DESCRIPTION LOGIC
17/09
Fausto
Propositional DL: syntax and semantics
22/09
Fausto
Propositional DL: TBox
24/09
Fausto
Propositional DL: ABox
29/09
Enzo
Propositional DL: exercises
01/10
Enzo
Propositional DL: exercises (cont.)
08/10
Fausto
DL family of languages
10/10
Enzo
DL: exercises
SEMANTIC WEB
13/10
Feroz
Introduction to the semantic web
15/10
Feroz
RDF
20/10
Feroz
SPARQL
22/10
Feroz
OWL
APPLICATIONS
27/10
Fausto
DL tableaux
29/10
Fausto
DL as query language
03/11
Fausto
Lightweight Ontologies
05/11
Ronald
Access Control with Relbak
10/11
Ivan
Semantics and media
12/11
Aliaksandr
Semantic Matching
17/11
Aliaksandr
Semantic Matching LAB
LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES
24/11
Enzo
Introduction: the semantic heterogeneity problem
01/12
Enzo
Linguistic resources
05/12
Enzo
Knowledge resources
15/12
Enzo
Capturing diversity: the UKC and Entitypedia
17/12
Enzo
The DERA methodology
       
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