Session Type: Technical-Applied-Business
Session Level: Beginner-Intermediate

Meetup with Christine Connors Global Director, Semantic Technology Solutions at Dow Jones.

Join this session for a "day in the life" view of content from creation through processing and on to delivery. Learn how taxonomies and ontologies integrate with entity extraction and rules-based processing to enable near real-time delivery of business critical multimedia content from thousands of sources. See how Dow Jones uses Synaptica, and the 1.5 million+ proprietary codes of Dow Jones Intelligent Indexing, as the foundation of a technical stack that allows content to be processed in less than a minute in a 24x7 global coding and publishing operation.

Session Type: Technical-Applied
Session Level: Intermediate

Thomas ("Tom") Tague, Calais initiative lead, will provide you with an overview of the free Calais Web service, the developer community at http://www.OpenCalais.com and ways to add value with the open Calais API. In particular, he will offer insight into Calais 4.0, Thomson Reuters latest innovation in automated semantic metadata generation.

Debuting in January, 2009, Calais 4.0 will go beyond the ability to extract semantic metadata from your content. It will link the extracted semantic metadata to datasets from dozens of other information sources -- from Wikipedia, to Freebase, to the CIA World Fact Book and more. In short - instead of being limited to the contents of the document you're processing, Calais 4.0 will enable you to develop solutions that leverage a large and rapidly growing information asset: the Linked Data Cloud.

http://www.opencalais.com/node/9501

Thank You goes to Krista Thomas from Thomson Reuters for co-organizing this event!

http://www.swnyc.org/index.php?title=Trends_in_Semantic_Technologies_with_Marko_Grobelnik

Yes it's a Monday and it's December 15 and we invite you to join the New York Semantic Web Meetup for a last time this year before we take a break for the holidays. In this session You will learn about trends in Semantic Technologies. Marko will introduce you to the state of the art in Semantic Technologies and how he sees the immediate future for the introduction of Semantic Technologies in business and R&D.

This is a joint session with the New York Business Intelligence Meetup.

Welcome
Marco Neumann, KONA
Yuriy Krylov

Raghavachari K. Madhavan
Managing Director and CTO of Investment Banking Applications at Morgan Stanley

Intelligence for the Next-Generation Information Worker. What should Information Workers expect from technology in the near future? What is BI for the next generation? Why are Semantics the next major step?

Marko Grobelnik
Department for Intelligent Systems
Jozef Stefan Institute

Marko Grobelnik is an expert in the analysis of large amounts of complex data with the purpose to extract useful knowledge. In particular, his areas of expertise comprise: Data Mining, Text Mining, Information Extraction, Link Analysis, and Data Visualization as well as more integrative areas such as the Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence. Apart from research on theoretical aspects of unconventional data analysis techniques, he has valuable experience in the field of practical applications and development of business solutions based on innovative technologies. Marko works with industry leaders such as Microsoft Research, The New York Times, British Telecom amongst others. He has published papers regularly in refereed conferences and journals.

Blaz Fortuna
Department of Knowledge Technologies
Jozef Stefan Institute

Blaz Fortuna is a researcher and PhD student at the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jozef Stefan Institute

Venue
1633 is a large office building. Security is tight. You must be on the RSVP list to gain admittance to the 26th Floor. Please call my cell phone if you have trouble gaining entrance: 646.206.9827 . Take the middle elevator bank to the 26th floor. The event takes place in a large Conference Room. It is located directly behind the back door which stands opposite to the main, glass doors onto the floor with the security desk. If you enter through the front door you will have to walk all the way around. A sign will be posted on the back door to help you identify the location of the conference room.

The Story of Topic Maps and Beyond
Michel Biezunski
Infoloom - New York

Michel will present Topic Maps and how he sees the future of Topic Maps in context of the emerging Semantic Web. Michel Biezunski is an internationally recognized expert in the field of information management. He has invented and promoted new ways of finding information, accelerating access to information which is really needed, and helping organize vast corpora of information assets. His working experience covers various domains, including the publishing, finance, healthcare, and media industries, and governmental agencies.

Michel's focus is in the area of semantic integration, auditable information systems, XML/SGML Applications, navigation models within complex information sets, and hyperlink-based models. He participated in the development of the HyTime standard, and is recognized as the inventor of the Topic Maps standards, together with Steven R. Newcomb. He has written many articles and developed and conducted numerous workshops centered on these new technologies. Michel is now working on innovative solutions for auditability and integration of information systems.

Building AltLaw.org
Stuart Sierra
Columbia University School of Law

http://altlaw.org/

AltLaw was conceived by law professor Tim Wu (best known for coining the term "net neutrality") as a project to make common law -- the court opinions that determine what "The Law of the Land" actually is -- freely available and easy to search. Historically, court opinions have only been available to those with access to a law library or an expensive subscription to commercial
databases like Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis. AltLaw is an open-source project that provides a sophisticated search interface to over 800,000 court opinions.

This informal discussion may cover:
1. Using Solr/Lucene for both search and storage, without a database
2. Using Hadoop, EC2, and S3 for bulk data processing
3. Clojure, a great Lisp variant that integrates with Java
4. Getting semantic data from government data
5. How can AltLaw benefit from Semantic Web technology?
6. Should AltLaw be designing its own ontologies?

The law is meant to belong to the people, but it can be surprisingly hard to find. Case reports, a major part of the laws of the United States, are hard to get at, and even when on the Internet, rarely searchable. To get full access you generally need either a library of law reports, or an expensive subscription to an online database, which can cost hundreds of dollars per hour.

AltLaw is a small effort to change that—to make the common law a bit more common. AltLaw provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. It is a resource for attorneys, legal scholars, and the general public.

RDFa Session
Led by Sergey Chernyshev

Susie Stephens

Principal Research Scientist at Eli Lilly

Susie Stephens joined Eli Lilly in early 2007 as a Principal Research Scientist. Her role involves the creation of an Open Innovation Center in Boston in support of Lilly’s tailored therapeutics strategy. Her responsibilities include determining the business model for open innovation, and identifying and investing in external collaborations. Previously, Susie worked at Oracle where she led the development of the company’s core infrastructure product to enhance its capabilities for the life sciences industry. As such, she was heavily involved in providing support for RDF and OWL within the Oracle Database. Prior to joining Oracle, she was a Global Life Sciences Market Segment Manager at Sun Microsystems. Susie was previously chair of the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group, and now co-chairs the W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. She is well known speaker at conferences, has published over 30 industry papers, and is on the advisory board of three companies. Susie has a Ph.D. in physiology.