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	Meetup	Location	RSVPs
Feb 08 21 2008 6:30 PM	Automatic Machine Translation & Natural Language Processing 33 attended (est.) – 5.0012 6:30 Networking 7:00 An Introduction to ANTLR 7:45 Automatically Linking Structured and Unstructured Data 8:30 Open Discussion An Introduction to ANTLR Andy Tripp President, Jazillian Inc http://www.jazillian.com/ Automatic machine translation and language parsing. ANTLR, Another Tool for Language Recognition, is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing actions in a variety of target languages. The SPARQL query language grammar for ANTLR v3 was recently updated to version 1.1 and provides an implementation of the W3C SPARQL grammar specification. http://www.antlr.org/ Automatically Linking Structured and Unstructured Data: Connecting Databases to Text Breck Baldwin President, Alias-i Inc http://www.alias-i.com Natural language processing for text analytics, text data mining and search. LingPipe is a state-of-the-art suite of natural language processing tools written in Java that performs tokenization, sentence detection, named entity detection, coreference resolution, classification, clustering, part-of-speech tagging, general chunking, fuzzy dictionary matching. These general tools support a range of applications. Breck will discuss the thorny problem of linking entities in a database to text mentions of those entities. The challenges are: - The John Smith problem: You have a text mention of "John Smith" and many possible John Smiths in the database. How to pick? - The name variant problem: Your database has an incomplete list of aliases for a gene. Serpina3 has the alias 'ACT', but is also called 'AACT' in the literature but you don't know that. - The new entity problem: You want to discover new performers when they show up in your entertainment text sources. Those new performers are not in your database yet, how is that handled? Breck will discuss how you can approach these problems using the LingPipe suite of tools in context of entertainment news and bioinformatics.	KONA New York, NY, 10010 40.742561,-73.992264	32 Yes 7 Maybe
Jan 08 10 2008 6:30 PM	The New York Semantic Web OWL Ontology Meetup 20 attended (est.) – 5.009 Semantic Web Ontology Development 101: Not just data, processing information on the Web. This is your opportunity to discuss the Web Ontology Language and RDF application in real world projects. This is a hands on session with code examples and ontology development with a Semantic Web overview. We will develop some ontologies with TopBraid Composer/Protege and query our data with Leigh Dodds new Twinkle release a Jena / SPARQL query wrapper. Happy New Year! PS: "David Siegel writes a book on the Semantic Web for the Harvard Business School Press. He is looking for case studies, ideas, news, anything people can tell him about what's new in the world of the Semantic Web!" He will give us a short update about his project.	Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup	28 Yes 8 Maybe
Nov 07 1 2007 7:00 PM	The New York Semantic Web Post Halloween Meetup 12 attended (est.) – 5.002 Social Semantic Web Meet the social graph at the New York Semantic Web Post Halloween Meetup. This is your opportunity to discuss recent and future talks in an informal setting. We will explore ideas and trends in the semantic technologies space and their application in the city and beyond.	Bxl Cafe New York, NY, 10036 40.755780,-73.984240	12 Yes 10 Maybe
Oct 07 1 2007 7:00 PM	The New York Semantic Web October Meetup 20 attended (est.) – 5.004 Community Driven Ontology Development - Memomics.com Marc Hadfield, Alitora Systems, Inc. The Semantic Web, or the "Data Web", needs a number of technologies, standards, protocols, and services to be widespread before value can be fully realized. Progress has been made in standards such as RDF, OWL, and Microformats, but there are many gaps to be filled. One such gap is a unified source of Ontologies that can be easily utilized by the entire Internet Community in a seamless fashion, with Ontology development driven by the Internet Community. This service is critical to the continued growth of the Semantic Web. An uncoordinated proliferation of ontologies does not enable sharing of information beyond the local ontology "walled garden"; it is a reimplementation of another level of "Babel". It serves no purpose for wide spread data sharing on the web to move from not speaking the same XML to not speaking the same Ontology. Thus, a Community driven service must encourage Ontology re-use rather than re-invention, and allow ontology experts, domain experts, and "consumers" of ontologies to co-exist, and in fact, leverage each other.	American National Standards Institute New York, NY, 10036 40.754480,-73.981180	27 Yes 6 Maybe
Aug 07 24 2007 6:30 PM	The New York Semantic Web August Meetup 15 attended (est.) – 4.004 The Ontological Semantic Perspective on the Semantic Web Slides: http://www.swnyc.org/index.php?title=Slides Victor Raskin, Purdue University & hakia.com, vraskin@purdue.edu Christian F. Hempelmann, hakia.com, chempelmann@hakia.com The Semantic Web is a good and obvious idea. Its successful implementation, however, depends on two major components, the adequacy of the formalism used to represent the content and the methods of rendering texts into that formalism. The paper will focus on the general and current issues with both components. It will underscore Bar Hillel's early criticism of mathematical logicians for favoring the manipulation of the logical format to define rules of inference and similar issues over the adequacy of the format. It will also claim that the Semantic Web's (and now, apparently, Google's) idea of relying on manual tagging of web pages with OWL or something like it by individual website owners is a Mao-like dream and a fatal error. What is Ontological Semantics? http://ontologicalsemantics.com	This location is no longer available	27 Yes 5 Maybe
Jun 07 28 2007 6:45 PM	The New York Semantic Web June Meetup 20 attended (est.) – 5.007 Rules and the Semantic Web Michel Dufresne Advances in Semantic Web technologies, in particular, in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and it's Description Logic flavor (OWL DL) can be used as a foundation for a model-driven architecture for business applications requiring business rules and policies be enforced by the application. A short presentation of OWL DL and it's ability to be used as a modeling language for domain models of business applications will be given. However, it is not the intend to go through the details of OWL specification, but rather to show why Description Logic (or more generally Mathematical Logic) is important for specifying domain models in a model-driven architecture. Also it will be shown that by using RDF as an internal graph to the business application for representing the domain model provides great flexibility and easy integration with a rule engine that can enforce the axioms of the OWL DL model and be augmented with forward and backward chaining rules. Proposed Agenda: * Web Ontology Language o Why using Description Logic for modeling domain model? o Open World vs Closed World * Integrating OWL DL into a model-driven architecture o Using RDF as domain-model representation o Integration with a rule engine o Querying the RDF graph * Model for web-based business application o Decoupling of domain-model/business rules specification from web application construction This presentation is focused on the integration of OWL DL as a modeling language for business applications. Future talks could focus on "using tagging techniques and folksonomies for simplifying the management of the business rules." Slides: http://www.swnyc.org/index.php?title=Slides	This location is no longer available	17 Yes 2 Maybe
May 07 17 2007 7:00 PM	The New York Semantic Web May Meetup 7 attended (est.) – 4.502 New York City Semantic Web Meetup! Let's meet to talk about your Semantic Web / Web projects and ideas! ------------------------- Join us for an overview and discussion of UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture.) This is a mature, large, well-documented code base to: ... "analyze large volumes of unstructured information in order to discover knowledge that is relevant to an end user." ?"UIMA is a component framework for analyzing unstructured content such as text, audio and video. It comprises an SDK and tooling for composing and running analytic components written in Java and C++, with some support for Perl, Python and TCL." Apache UIMA UIMA will become increasingly useful, as more and more data mining techniques will have to work together to maximize results. There is already much talk in the commercial, academic, and standards community to support this framework in the near future. Come join us for an interesting, informative meeting focusing on this semantic building and standards compliant tool.	Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup	12 Yes 1 Maybe
Apr 07 19 2007 6:30 PM	The New York Semantic Web April Meetup 8 attended (est.) – 4.502 New York City Semantic Web Meetup! Let's meet to talk about your Semantic Web / Web projects and ideas! In this meeting, we'll take a look at Query Languages for RDF	Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup	5 Yes 3 Maybe
Mar 07 22 2007 6:30 PM	The New York Semantic Web March Meetup 6 attended (est.) – 5.001 New York City Semantic Web Meetup! Let's meet to talk about your Semantic Web / Web projects and ideas!	themechanism\|eEmerge New York, NY, 10001	5 Yes 3 Maybe
Feb 07 21 2007 7:00 PM	The New York Semantic Web February Meetup 10 attended (est.) – 5.001 First New York City Semantic Web meetup! I will be on the XPNYC Google session, we can meet at 18.15 for a chat about Semantic Web topics: http://xpnyc.panoptic.com/ please RSVP on the wiki page.	Google New York, NY, 10011 40.741090,-74.001526	3 Yes 2 Maybe