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CSE 428 Semantic Web Topics Introduction

CSE 428 Semantic Web Topics Introduction. Jeff Heflin Lehigh University. The Semantic Web. “Semantic” + “Web” Semantic: "of or relating to meaning in language" (Def. Webster’s) Web: The World Wide Web Official Definition

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CSE 428 Semantic Web Topics Introduction

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  1. CSE 428Semantic Web TopicsIntroduction Jeff Heflin Lehigh University

  2. The Semantic Web • “Semantic” + “Web” • Semantic: "of or relating to meaning in language" (Def. Webster’s) • Web: The World Wide Web • Official Definition • The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. (Berners-Lee et al., Scientific American, May 2001)

  3. Why Study Semantic Web? • 2.4 million RDF/OWL documents on the Web (as of March 2008) • LiveJournal automatically creates data using the popular Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) schema for every user • Yahoo is starting to support Semantic Web standards (March 2008) • Open source Semantic Web tools • from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, etc. • Commercial software vendors • Oracle 10g DBMS supports RDF, Oracle 11g has some support for OWL • Adobe’s products use RDF to provide metadata for documents, photos • Semantic Web specific companies: TopQuadrant, Aduna Software, etc. • Companies that have invested in Semantic Web solutions • Boeing: integrate work of partners involved in airplane design • Chevron: manage the life cycle of power plants and oil refineries • British Telecom: online service to help vendors work together • Harper’s Magazine: web site that connects articles to events on a timeline • Many more…

  4. RDF(S) (1999, revised 2004) essentially semantic networks with URIs XML serialization syntax OWL (2004) extends RDF with more semantic primitives based on description logics (DLs) has a model theoretic semantics Semantic Web Standards World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendations rdfs:Class rdf:Property <owl:Class rdf:ID=”Band”> <rdfs:subClassOf> <owl:Restriction> <owl:onProperty rdf:resource=”#hasMember” /> <owl:allValuesFrom rdf:resource=”#Musician” /> </owl:Restriction> </rdfs:subClassOf></owl:Class> A Band is a subset of the groups which only have Musicians as members rdf:type rdf:type g:Person rdf:type rdfs:domain rdfs:subclassOf u:Chair g:name rdf:type g:name John Smith

  5. Description Logic (DL) • form of knowledge representation • useful for formally defining classes • studied extensively in 1990’s • mature reasoning software • e.g., FaCT, RACER, Pellet • benefits • optimized computation of subsumption • calculate implicit subClassOf relations • ontology integration • if two ontologies are related via class expressions then subsumption can be used to compute an integrated ontology

  6. Semantic Web Layer Cake From W3C (March 2007)

  7. The End

  8. Motivation • How to answer these queries? • find all bills dealing with “energy” that have been sponsored by Congressmen from states with populations less than 1 million • retrieve a list of all papers authored by NSF-funded individuals who are located in states in the Midwest • find a potential collaborator by identifying a friend-of-a-friend who has written an article on a related topic

  9. The Semantic Web • Definition • The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. (Berners-Lee et al., Scientific American, May 2001) • Ontology • a key component of the Semantic Web • ontologies define the semantics of the terms used in semi-structured web pages • identify context, provide shared definitions • has a formal syntax and unambiguous semantics • inference algorithms can compute what logically follows

  10. A Web of Ontologies S1 S2 commits to extends Dublin Core Foaf Region extends extends extends extends extends Congress Citeseer DBLP commits to commits to AIGP NSF Awards commits to S3 S4 S7 commits to commits to The answer to a user’s query might require the combination of data from S1, S2, S3, and S4. S5 S6

  11. URIs and Namespaces • URI • Uniform Resource Identifier • includes URLs • but also anything that you can design an identification scheme for • helps to prevent collision of names • all the “symbols” in RDF are either URIs or Literals • Namespace • a mechanism for abbreviating URIs • by assigning a prefix for a URI fragment

  12. OWL Class Constructors example taken from Ian Horrocks

  13. OWL Axioms example taken from Ian Horrocks

  14. Common Criticisms • Who will create all of the RDF/OWL data? • How do you integrate heterogeneous ontologies? • How can you handle spam / deceit / misinformation? • How can a system based on formal logic achieve Web scale?

  15. Semantic Web Challenges • The Web is distributed • many sources, varying authority • inconsistency • The Web is dynamic • representational needs may change • The Web is enormous • systems must scale well • The Web is an open-world

  16. Semantic Web Timeline May 2001 – Berners-Lee et al. Scientific American article Mar. 1996 - SHOE 0.90 (simple frames in HTML) Feb. 1998 – XML (semi-structured data for Web) Feb. 1999 – RDF (semantic nets in XML) Feb. 2004 – OWL (W3C Rec.) 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 Jan. 1998 – SHOE 1.0 (frames + Horn logic) Sep. 1998 – Berners-Lee’s Semantic Web Roadmap Mar. 2001 – DAML+OIL (expressive DL in RDF) June. 2002 – 1st Int’l Semantic Web Conference

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