- From: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:59:40 -0400
- To: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org, Ahmed Yousri Salama <ahmed.yousri@computer.org>, Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
- Message-ID: <CANfjZH0T2JiTt=AdgvpSKi10K14O+ySZ9hamSdk+uWy6h-3ARA@mail.gmail.com>
On Oct 26, 2013 9:12 PM, "Sören Auer" <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > > Dear Ahmed, > > I think you indeed hit an important aspect - how do we as a community > identify promising research topics and reduce duplicate work. We are > currently starting to set up a bachelor, lab and master topics database > for the students in Bonn [1], which we aim to publish via the Exhibit > faceted browser soon and which you can also check for some inspiration. > > I guess its always good to choose a topic related to an open-source > software project, where you have a small community around to help. We > for example (co-)develop the OpenCourseWare authoring platform SlideWiki > (http://slidewiki.org), LinkedGeoData.org, DBpedia.org, the semantic > data wiki OntoWiki (http://ontowiki.net) and there are many other great > semantic web open-souce projects as well. If you're motivated by grammars and graph validation, there's lots of math and code to develop for Shape Expressions http://www.w3.org/2013/ShEx/SimpleShExDemo . > Best, > > Sören > > [1] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkWMg97xNy0udE5qM3l4Y2ZtZDVMVlVWLXdDZHpWWmc&usp=sharing > > Am 26.10.2013 18:45, schrieb Kjetil Kjernsmo: > > On Friday 11. October 2013 01.48.12 Ahmed Yousri Salama wrote: > >> [apologies for cross posting] > >> > >> Dear Semantic Web list members, > >> > >> I would like to ask if any one can provide or share with me > >> some problems on Semantic Web domain for my MSc. thesis to work on > >> since we haven't any expert or researchers here in any Sudanese University > >> on this field. > > > > I was just catching up on old email, and saw your request. I can imagine this > > being difficult indeed, someone has to start! :-) Then, I noticed there wasn't > > any responses on the list. > > > > I don't think I can offer a lot of advice, but it seems that your most urgent > > problems are related to multilingualism. On the major conferences, this is > > often a topic of a workshop, so I would suggest searching for such papers, and > > see what the authors write in their "Future work" section. See e.g. > > http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-936/ > > > > That should give you an idea of open research problems in the multilingual > > area, and then you can see which of those problems are most related to the > > problems you experience. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Kjetil > > > >
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