The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ontology
Résumé
Artificial Intelligence has long had the dream of making computers smarter. For quite some
time, this vision has remained just that: a dream. With the development of large knowledge
bases, though, we now have large amounts of semantic information at our hands. This changes
the game of AI. Computers have indeed become smarter. In this talk, we present the latest
developments in the field: The construction of general purpose knowledge bases (including
YAGO and DBpedia, as well as NELL and TextRunner), and their applications to tasks that
were previously out of scope, The extraction of fine-grained information from natural language
texts, semantic query answering, and the interpretation of newspaper texts at large scale.