SRA's proprietary product, NameTag TM, which provides fast and accurate name recognition, has been reused in many applications in recent and ongoing efforts, including multilingual information retrieval and browsing, text clustering, and assistance to manual text indexing. This paper reports on SRA's experience in embedding name recognition in these three specific applications, and the mutual i...

Semantic Wikis have demonstrated the power of combining Wikis with Semantic Web technology. The KiWi system goes beyond Semantic Wikis by providing a flexible and adaptable platform for building different kinds of Social Semantic Software, powered by Semantic Web technology. This article describes the main functionalities and components of the KiWi system with respect to the user interface and ...

SRA's proprietary product, NameTag TM, which provides fast and accurate name recognition, has been reused in many applications in recent and ongoing efforts, including multilingual information retrieval and browsing, text clustering, and assistance to manual text indexing. This paper reports on SRA's experience in embedding name recognition in these three specific applications, and the mutual i...

The Internet provides unlimited opportunities for “narrowcasting,” or individualized advertising, in the automobile industry. While car manufacturers attempt to drive sales with targeted advertising, efforts collapse at the dealership as customers with diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and preferences are presented with an identical sales pitch. Likewise, existing automobile commerce sites fail ...

An increasing number of datasets and analytics resources have been made available on the Web. Often, those resources are hosted on portals that are related to dedicated topics (e.g. online social network analytics) or dedicated communities (e.g. Web Science researchers). A Web Observatory portal brings together communities to contribute or engage with datasets and analytic (or visualisation) ap...

Modern Information Science deals with tasks which include classifying, searching and browsing large numbers of digital objects. The problem today is that our computerized tools are poorly adapted to our needs as they are often too formal: we illustrate this matter in the rst section of this article with the example of multimedia collections. We then propose a software tool, ReCollection, for de...

Several ontology repositories provide access to the growing collection of ontologies on the Semantic Web. Some repositories collect ontologies automatically by crawling the Web; in other repositories, users submit ontologies themselves. In addition to providing search across multiple ontologies, the added value of ontology repositories lies in the metadata that they may contain. This metadata m...

The World Health Organization is currently developing the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). ICD is the standard diagnostic classification used in health care all over the world. In contrast to previous ICD revisions that did not have a formal representation and were mainly available as printed books, ICD-11 uses OWL for the formal representation of its cont...

A systematic web site development process needs to start from a sound knowledge of the organization's activities and tasks to be supported. The necessary knowledge can be captured by means of expressive scenarios or refined use cases, covering the relevant aspects of these activities. In our approach we start web site development from such a collection to derive a formal task model focussing on...

The Behavior Exchange is an AgentSheets-based forum employing the web for the collaborative creation of SimCityTM-like interactive simulations. While initially the Behavior Exchange was geared to empower geographically distant users to build and exchange simulation pieces it turned out to be just as useful in facilitating collaboration between kids working in the same class room. Example applic...