Making the Web Searchable
Event details
| Date | 13.05.2015 |
| Hour | 10:15 |
| Speaker | Peter Mika is a Director of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in London, UK, where he is working on the applications of semantic technology to Web search. He received his MSc and PhD in computer science (summa cum laude) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of the book 'Social Networks and the Semantic Web' (Springer, 2007). In 2008 he has been selected as one of "AI's Ten to Watch" by the editorial board of the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal. Peter is a regular speaker at both academic and technology conferences and serves on the advisory board of a number of public and private initiatives. He also represents Yahoo! in the leadership of the schema.org collaboration with Google, Bing and Yandex. |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The key idea of the Semantic Web is to make information on the Web easily consumable by machines. As machines start to understand web pages as sources of data, search on the Web will move well beyond the current paradigm of retrieving pages by keywords. Instead, search engines will start to answer complex queries based on the cumulative knowledge of the Web. In this presentation, we will review the brief history of Semantic Search in academic research and in developments across the search industry. We also look ahead to highlight the research challenges that have surfaced and remain unsolved.
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