- From: Jeff Pan <jeffpan.sw@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 17:41:07 +0100
- To: public-ontolex@w3.org
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PhD Research Project - Possible Funding for a Highly Qualified Student Ontology Reasoning with Texts University of Aberdeen We find an abundance of information on the internet that is presented in natural language, e.g. written English. Such information is “unstructured'' in the sense that it is not machine-readable, thus making it infeasible to formally or automatically analyse for the purposes of information extraction, querying, linking, or repurposing. Making natural language machine readable would enable development of many different applications with significant impact such as question-answering on the internet, interactive dialogue systems, reasoning tools using natural language, text summarisation, and others. There have been advances the last several years, resulting in improved tools that parse and semantically represent text, then process it into a machine-readable format, e.g. RDF, that is highly suited to extraction, querying, linking, and so on. Thus, there exists a processing “pipeline'' to take natural language into machine-readable formats. While the pipeline functions, it is very limited. The objective of this PhD project is to exploit the above “pipeline” so as to extend the capabilities of current ontology reasoners with the feature of reasoning with texts, with the assumption that the ontologies generated from the texts inputs should be able to cover a given set of competency questions. The outcome of the project will be evaluated in terms of both performance and quality with comparisons to state-of-the-art systems. During the project, student will also be supervised on the methodology of scientific research, experimenting, writing, presenting, team-working. For further details: http://qr.net/y2lc Jeff Z. Pan: http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/jeff.z.pan/pages/ Adam Wyner http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/people/profiles/azwyner
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