Semantic Technology Laboratory

The Semantic Technology Laboratory (STLab) makes applied and basic research on semantic technologies as a hybridisation of Semantic Web, (linked) data semantics, NLP, lexical resources, cognitive semantics. Applications include organisational knowledge engineering (competence management, data integration, semantic CMS), knowledge extraction from text and data, empirical research on knowledge patterns, ontology design methods and tools.

Web page:

http://stlab.istc.cnr.it

Address:

Via Nomentana 56, 00161, Roma

web of data

semantic web

semantic technologies

semantic social networks

knowledge engineering

empirical knowledge representation

design patterns

cognitive linguistics

CMS

Additional info

Profile

What? The Semantic Technology Laboratory (STLab), within the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology (ISTC,http://www.istc.cnr.it) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR, http://www.cnr.it), has been founded in the Autumn of 2008, and partly originates from the past Rome branch of the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (http://www.loa-cnr.it).

Why? The Lab aims at performing research and development in semantic technologies. Besides its European and Italian research projects, it has one motivating use case in the development of semantic web applications for the CNR scientific organization and Italian Public Administration, jointly with the Information Systems Unit of CNR.

Who? STLab people include either local collaborators working partly or full time for the Lab, or external people that share R&D interests with the Lab (see also people page). The founders are Aldo Gangemi (scientific coordinator), Alfio Gliozzo, Valentina Presutti, and Alberto Salvati (technology coordinator). Researchers include also Alessandro Adamou (PhD), Andrea Nuzzolese (PhD), Paolo Ciancarini (associate researcher), Eva Blomqvist, Francesco Draicchio, Alberto Musetti, Antonio d'Agata, Enrico Daga, Gianluca Troiani, Geri Steve, Claudio Baldassarre, Stefania Capotosti. Former researchers include Jos Lehmann (currently at Un. of Edinburgh), Carola Catenacci, Massimilano Ciaramita (currently at Google Research), Malvina Nissim (currently at Un. of Bologna), and Alfio Gliozzo (currently at IBM Watson Research Center).

Know How STLab competences include methods, best practices, tools and reusable models for ontology design, linked data, knowledge engineering, Web science, natural language processing, and knowledge extraction that hybridizes ontology and natural language engineering.

Themes Current research at STLab (see also research page) focuses on the following aspects of semantic technologies: Semantic Web and Web of Data (Web 3.0); ontology design patterns; empirical knowledge engineering; semantic search and corporate knowledge management based on ontologies and linked data; ontology-driven document generation and semantic wikis; collaborative tools for ontology design; adaptive eLearning; semantic interoperability.

Applications Typical application domains include organizational, business, industrial, legal, biomedical, e-government, and agricultural information systems. The Web is the main context for STLab technologies and data.

Associates

Unità Sistemi Informativi del CNR (Alberto Salvati, Enrico Daga, Gianluca Troiani)
Daria Spampinato (modulo conoscenza legale, Catania)
Università di Bologna (Paolo Ciancarini, Fabio Vitali)
Università di Roma Tor Vergata (Maria Teresa Pazienza, Roberto Basili)
Knowledge Media Institute, Open University (Enrico Motta, Mathieu d'Aquin)
Free University of Amsterdam (Lora Aroyo, Guus Schreiber)
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Asuncion Gomez-Perez)
Université Paris 13 (Adeline Nazarenko, Haïfa Zargayouna, Rim Djedidi)
IBM Watson Research Center (Chris Welty, Alfio Gliozzo, Bonaventura Coppola)
UN-FAO (Johannes Keizer)
RAI
European Media Lab, Heidelberg

Members

Former Members:

Gliozzo Alfio - Name: alfio.gliozzo

Ciaramita Massimiliano - Name: massimiliano.ciaramita

Nissim Malvina - Name: malvina.nissim

Catenacci Carola - Name: carola.catenacci

Lehman Jos - Name: jos.lehman

Publications

Articolo

2017

Aemoo: Linked Data exploration based on Knowledge Patterns

Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Presutti, Valentina, Gangemi, Aldo, Peroni, Silvio, Ciancarini, Paolo

Source: Semantic web (Print) 8 (2017): 87–112. doi:10.3233/SW-160222, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni; Presutti, Valentina; Gangemi, Aldo; Peroni, Silvio; Ciancarini, Paolo/titolo:Aemoo: Linked Data exploration based on Knowledge Patterns/doi:10.3233/SW-160222/rivista:Semantic web (Print)/anno:2017/pag

Producing Linked Data for Smart Cities: The Case of Catania

Consoli, Sergio, Presutti, Valentina, Reforgiato Recupero, Diego, Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Peroni, Silvio, Mongiovì, Misael, Gangemi, Aldo

Source: Big data research (Print) 7 (2017): 1–15. doi:10.1016/j.bdr.2016.10.001, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Consoli, Sergio; Presutti, Valentina; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego; Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni; Peroni, Silvio; Mongiovì, Misael; Gangemi, Aldo/titolo:Producing Linked Data for Smart Cities: The Case of Catania/doi:10.1016/j.bdr.2

2016

An ontological investigation over human relations in linked data

Vacura, Miroslav, Svatek, Vojtech, Gangemi, Aldo

Source: Applied ontology 11 (2016): 227–254. doi:10.3233/AO-160169, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Vacura, Miroslav; Svatek, Vojtech; Gangemi, Aldo/titolo:An ontological investigation over human relations in linked data/doi:10.3233/AO-160169/rivista:Applied ontology/anno:2016/pagina_da:227/pagina_a:254/intervallo_pagine:227–2

From hyperlinks to Semantic Web properties using Open Knowledge Extraction

Presutti Valentina, Nuzzolese Andrea Giovanni, Consoli Sergio, Gangemi Aldo, Reforgiato Recupero Diego

Source: Semantic web (Print) 7 (2016): 351–378. doi:10.3233/SW-160221, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Presutti Valentina; Nuzzolese Andrea Giovanni; Consoli Sergio; Gangemi Aldo; Reforgiato Recupero Diego/titolo:From hyperlinks to Semantic Web properties using Open Knowledge Extraction/doi:10.3233/SW-160221/rivista:Semantic web

Identifying motifs for evaluating open knowledge extraction on the Web

Gangemi, Aldo, Reforgiato Recupero, Diego, Mongiovi, Misael, Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Presutti, Valentina

Source: Knowledge-based systems 108 (2016): 33–41. doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2016.05.023, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Gangemi, Aldo; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego; Mongiovi, Misael; Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni; Presutti, Valentina/titolo:Identifying motifs for evaluating open knowledge extraction on the Web/doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2016.05.023/rivista

Merging Open Knowledge Extracted from Text with MERGILO

M Mongiovi and D Reforgiato and A Gangemi and V Presutti and S Consoli

Source: Knowledge-based systems 108 (2016). doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2016.05.014, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:M Mongiovi and D Reforgiato and A Gangemi and V Presutti and S Consoli/titolo:Merging Open Knowledge Extracted from Text with MERGILO/doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2016.05.014/rivista:Knowledge-based systems/anno:2016/pagina_da:/pagina_a

Semantic Web Machine Reading with FRED

A. Gangemi and V. Presutti and D. Reforgiato Recupero and A.G. Nuzzolese and F. Draicchio and M. Mongiovi

Source: Semantic web (Online) (2016). doi:10.3233/SW-160240, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:A. Gangemi and V. Presutti and D. Reforgiato Recupero and A.G. Nuzzolese and F. Draicchio and M. Mongiovi/titolo:Semantic Web Machine Reading with FRED/doi:10.3233/SW-160240/rivista:Semantic web (Online)/anno:2016/pagina_da:/pag

The Publishing Workflow Ontology (PWO)

A Gangemi and S Peroni and D Shotton and F Vitali

Source: Semantic web (Print) (2016)., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:A Gangemi and S Peroni and D Shotton and F Vitali/titolo:The Publishing Workflow Ontology (PWO)/doi:/rivista:Semantic web (Print)/anno:2016/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume:

Contributo in atti di convegno

2017

Entity Deduplication on ScholarlyData

Zhang, Ziqi, Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Gentile, Anna Lisa

Source: 14th International Conference, ESWC 2017, pp. 85–100, Portoroz, Slovenia, 28/05/2017-01/06/2017

2016

Adjective semantics in open knowledge extraction

Gangemi, Aldo, Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Presutti, Valentina, Reforgiato Recupero, Diego

Source: 9th Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conference, FOIS 2016, pp. 167–180, Annecy, France, 06-09/07/2016, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Gangemi, Aldo; Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni; Presutti, Valentina; Reforgiato Recupero, Diego/congresso_nome:9th Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conference, FOIS 2016/congresso_luogo:Annecy, France/congresso_data:06-09/07/20

Conference linked data: The scholarlydata project

Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Gentile, Anna Lisa, Presutti, Valentina, Gangemi, Aldo

Source: 15th International Semantic Web Conference, pp. 150–158, Kobe, Japan, 17-21/10/2016, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni; Gentile, Anna Lisa; Presutti, Valentina; Gangemi, Aldo/congresso_nome:15th International Semantic Web Conference/congresso_luogo:Kobe, Japan/congresso_data:17-21/10/2016/anno:2016/pagina_da:150/pagina

Enhancing open data to Linked Open Data with ODMiner

Poggi, Francesco, Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Cigna, Gabriele

Source: Fourth International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction co-located with 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), pp. 44–50, Kobe, Japan, 18/10/2016

Libro o curatela

2016

Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns: Foundations and Applications

P. Hitzler and A. Gangemi and K. Janowicz and A. Krishnadi and V. Presutti

Source: Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2016, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:P. Hitzler and A. Gangemi and K. Janowicz and A. Krishnadi and V. Presutti/titolo:Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns: Foundations and Applications/editore: /anno:2016

Contributo in volume

2016

ACM: Article content miner for assessing the quality of scientific output

Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni, Peroni, Silvio, Reforgiato Recupero, Diego

Source: Semantic Web Challenges, edited by Sack, Harald; Dietze, Stefan; Tordai, Anna; Lange, Christoph, pp. 281–292. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2016

The second open knowledge extraction challenge

Nuzzolese Andrea Giovanni, Gentile Anna Lisa., Presutti Valentina, Gangemi Aldo, Meusel Robert, Paulheim Heiko

Source: The second open knowledge extraction challenge, edited by Dietze S.; Tordai A.; Lange C.; Sack H., pp. 3–16. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2016, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Nuzzolese Andrea Giovanni; Gentile Anna Lisa.; Presutti Valentina; Gangemi Aldo; Meusel Robert; Paulheim Heiko/titolo:The second open knowledge extraction challenge/titolo_volume:The second open knowledge extraction challenge/cu