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SUMMARY:Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages - Gjergji Kasneci (Mi
 crosoft Research\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20100930T100000Z
DTEND:20100930T110000Z
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CONTACT:Simon Lacoste-Julien
DESCRIPTION:The rapid information growth on the Web calls for knowledge-or
 iented and context-aware search techniques that aim at retrieving knowledg
 e fragments instead of Web pages. Inspired by the advent of knowledge shar
 ing communities such as Wikipedia and the progress of information extracti
 on\, various scientific and industrial efforts are aiming at turning the W
 eb into the world’s most comprehensive knowledge base. This goal involve
 s various tasks such as information extraction\, knowledge representation\
 , ontology construction\, searching and ranking at entity-relationship lev
 el\, and many more. The talk will give an overview of the YAGO-NAGA approa
 ch to the above tasks.
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room 438
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