EDELWEISS : Exchanges, Documents, Extraction, Languages, Web, Ergonomics, Interactions, Semantics, Servers (project-team)

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This Research-Team is a follow-up of ACACIA Research-Team

Project-Team Presentation

The pluridisciplinary project-team EDELWEISS aims at offering models, methods and tools for supporting virtual communities of practice and/or interest to collaboratively manage their knowledge by interacting with information resources and persons through the Web. Resources and methods are "semantically annotated", i.e. indexed using "ontologies". Communities of practice and/or interest are informal groups of people who have a common interest or passion in some subject or problem, and who share ideas and experiences, and jointly find solutions.

Research themes

1. Semantic Annotation of Information Resources
2. • Ontology-guided annotation process
   • Contextualisation, Evolution, Heterogeneity of annotations
   • Reflective annotations and meta-annotations, use of linguistic techniques for annotations
   • Design and development of an Annotation toolkit
3. Interaction Design of Semantic Systems
4. • Supporting “Human Interoperability” in Semantic Activities through “Articulating Functionalities” and in Scenario Management Activities
   • Experimental evaluation of inferences for information retrieval and other tasks
   • Ontology-based intelligent interfaces
5. Knowledge-Graph-based Representation of the Semantic Web Knowledge
6. • Semantic Factory & Knowledge Graph Toolkit
   • Scaling graph representations and operations
   • Ontology-based Model Driven Engineering
   • Inferences characteristic to graphs

International and industrial relations

• SeaLife: European STREP project on a Semantic Grid Browser for the Life Sciences Applied to the Study of Infectious Diseases Project Reference: IST-2006-027269 (2006-2008)
• Palette: European integrated project on Pedagogically sustained Adaptative LEarning Through the exploitation of Tacit and Explicit knowledge. (2006-2008)
• SevenPro: European STREP project on Semantic Virtual Engineering Environment for Product Design (2006-2008)
• e-WOK Hub, Environment Web Ontology Knowledge Hub applied to CO2 sequestration, ANR Project 2006-2008
• ImmunoSearch : Replacements for toxicological tests on animals in the perfume and cosmetics industries. PASS Pole, 2007-2009.

Software

Corese, Sewese, SweetWiki

Scientific leader

Olivier CORBY     [homepage]
+33 4 92 38 78 71
Olivier.Corby@sophia.inria.fr
Secretary : +33 4 97 15 53 17