SW ACTIVITY IN RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES

Dmitry MouromtsevNRU ITMO

RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA

• Most of research work are performed by small group of SW enthusiasts, but the number of supported project is growing quickly.

• Raise of interest to SW in 2013

• The most popular research area in Russia:

✴ NLP and text mining (math linguistic is quite well developed in Russian universities)

✴ Ontology engineering (many project using light-weight ontologies, but few based on DL and semantic science)

✴ Linked data (applied works using semantic wiki and RDF storages)

• Many (probably most) project are run by students and young researchers.

EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS IN NRU ITMO

• Linked learning project (started in 2013)

• Domain ontology visualization and graphcal editing web application (for knowledge engineers and knowledge base access)

• IoT and IoD projects (smart environment, semantic base of food data)

• Open Data for Government (Open Budget of St.Petersburg)

• Semantic search and text mining (scientific publications, eTourism)

• Semantic Data integration of University data

POSSIBLE KEY TOPICS OF SW ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA DURING THE NEXT FEW

YEARS

• Open Gov Data (Both Federal and Regional)

• LOD in education

• Digital libraries

RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

AND SEMANTIC WEB

KESWhttp://kesw.ru

PAST EVENTS

• 2010 - was planned as local event, but only in two month people from all around Russia were attracted

• 2011- two events: SW school and the conference

• 2012 - three events (school, hackathon, conference), STi was a Gold sponsor, the woking language in English. SW school in two tracks (thanks to Leipzig University and LOD2 project for support of LD track)

KESW 2013

• 3 events during 10 days

• International team and about 50 PC members from all around the world

• Proceeding will be published in Springer and indexed in Scopus

• Many participants from outside of Russia

• Industry track (Russian non academic projects will be present)