Ontology Engineering Group of the Facultad de informática UPM wins two international awards
The Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) based in the Facultad de Informática Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,has received two awards at the International Conference I-SEMANTICS 2011 held last week in Austria.
The first prize went to the OEG in the open track of Triplification Challenge 2011, which each year organizes the conference referred to reward promising application in the field of Linked Data. Last year, the OEG was already a finalist in this competition.
The application awarded in this section focuses on the integration of the contents produced by newspapers and digital platforms belonging to Prisa group: “Suplemento El País” , ”Guías Aguilar” , “Canal Viajar” and “Prisa Digital”. It also includes the recommendations of the users (more than 1000 published), their images (more than 2000 availables from the web) and blogs in which the different users express their travelling experiences through the earth (with mote than 600 blogs).
The application also includes recommendations of the users (more than 1,000 published), photos (more than 2,000 accessible from the web) and various blogs where users report their experiences travelling around the world (having a total of more than 600 blogs).
This project includes the content of the Santillana guide (owned by Prisa Digital) as Linked Data. The guide contains information about more than 1500 Spanish restaurants and more than 1500 Spanish hotels. The ontology that has been used for publishing the Linked Data dataset models the tourist domain represented in the project, and partially reuses the Infutur ontology. Furthermore, information about some of the restaurants described by the Open Data Euskadi initiative has been integrated.
Winning article
The second award received by the OEG corresponds to the best research paper issued by the I-SEMANTICS 2011 conference. This recognition is awarded to an article resulting from the collaboration of one of the members of OEG (Dr. Andrés García) with a research group in Berlin.
The winning application in this section is called DBpedia Spotlight, and allows you to annotate (Additional information) in any kind of texts related to the findings with Wikipedia pages, through DBpedia, which is an RDF database extracted from the Wikipedia.
In this way, if the word “Madrid” appears in a text and the system identifies it as the city of Madrid, an additional link appears associated with this word that will lead to Madrid page on Wikipedia. This application will allow the user to surf the Web in a richer way.