CATCH meeting at BRIDGE

22 oktober 2010

INVITATION 

The CATCH programme secretariat and the project team of BRIDGE would like to invite you to attend the CATCH Meeting to be held on Friday, 22 October 2010 at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam (http://www.boijmans.nl/).  

The meeting consists of two sessions: (a) matchmaking for CATCH2010 and (b) scientific meeting organised by BRIDGE. Both sessions are open to any interested party.

Matchmaking CATCH2010
The CATCH research programme intends to announce the Call for Proposal2010 at the meeting. Interested researchers from computer science and humanities and heritage specialists are invited to this meeting. This is an opportunity for those with ideas to meet potential collaborators - and those who want to team up and to find out the possibilities of working on someone's else ideas. If you're interested, please register yourself for this meeting. Details on the matchmaking session will follow soon.  

BRIDGE scientific meeting
The theme is: "Finding, Linking and Organizing Sources for Media Research"This CATCH meeting focuses on the roll of entities in connecting news sources to programs from audiovisual archives. The presentations and discussions will focus on the organization and annotation of television material as well as on methods for identifying entities and relations. 

Final Programme

Abstract Paul Buitelaar:
Finding, Linking and Organizing Resources with Linked Data & Natural Language Processing
The talk will be concerned with the use of 'Linked Open Data' and natural language processing in an object-driven approach to the discovery and organization of information resources and links between them. The Linked Open Data initiative aims at making available (all) freely available information in a meaningful way, i.e., in a standardized format and with formal links to semantic metadata. To illustrate the potential and current limits of Linked Open Data I will give a brief overview of some recent applications and tools that are currently under development at DERI. An interesting research direction that emerges from this is the combined use of and interaction between Linked Open Data and natural language processing as will be discussed in this talk.

Biografie Paul Buitelaar:
Paul Buitelaar is a senior research fellow and head of the Unit for Natural Language Processing of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Before joining DERI in 2009, he was a senior researcher at the DFKI Language Technology Lab and co-head of the DFKI Competence Center Semantic Web in Saarbruecken, Germany. His main research interests are in language technology for semantic-based information access. He has been involved in a large number of national and international funded projects, e.g. on concept-based and cross-lingual information retrieval (MuchMore), semantic navigation (VIeWs), ontology-based information extraction and ontology learning (SmartWeb, Theseus-MEDICO), semantic-based multimedia analysis (K-Space). Currently, his work has a focus on the use of NLP-based methods in the analysis of research collaboration, i.e. through topic extraction from scientific literature for identifying experts, research areas, technologies and scientific communities (Lion2 project funded by Science Foundation Ireland). Another line of research is on 'lexicalized ontologies', i.e. on the linguistic grounding of knowledge representation in ontologies with multilingual terminology and linguistic information (Monnet project on Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge funded by the EU). For all further information see http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/

Abstract Yves Raimond:
In this talk, we'll detail several steps the BBC has made towards automated programme support on the Web. We will describe the thinking and the technologies behind BBC programmes, a platform providing a unique and persistent web presence for each BBC programme, and in particular its use of Semantic Web technologies. We will also describe
how BBC programmes is leading the way towards a more integrated bbc.co.uk, by detailing its relationships with BBC Music, BBC Wildlife Finder and external web resources, and how they improve programme discoverability."

Location:
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam

Route description

Please forward this announcement to any interested parties!! 

You can not register anymore.

For more information please contact the CATCH secretariat. 

CATCH programme secretariat
NWO - Chemical and Physical Sciences Division
E-mail: catch@nwo.nl
www.nwo.nl/catch