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Resources (slides, examples and exercises) will be made available in ILIAS.
Please bring your laptop for all sessions marked U or V+U.
* V = Vorlesung / normal class; U = Übung / practice session, please bring your laptop.
The column "Chapters" refers to the chapters in the basic book (listed below) that discuss the class topic. It may be useful to read the corresponding chapter in one of the books to better understand the course content. More specific literature, links and tools for some topics can be found in the column "More references". This is not required to pass the course, but may be interesting background reading for those interested. Additional links will be added during the course, also all the basic books contain a lot of references.
Please install Protege Ontology Editor (for OWL ontologies, block 2) and Twinkle (for SPARQL queries, block 3) on your computer and bring it to the sessions marked U or V+U.
The Semantic Web is an initiative to make information in the web accessible to machines. In the first part of the course, basic concepts and technologies of the Semantic Web will be introduced (XML, RDF, RDFS). The second part focuses on ontologies, OWL for describing ontologies, ontology engineering, and reasoning with ontologies. In the third part, the query language SPARQL is intruduced and some applications and research topics inside the Semantic Web will be mentioned, e.g., semantic agents, semantic search or ontology learning. Apart from theoretical classes, the course will include practice sessions.
Basic text books (both cover basically parts 1 and 2 of this course):
A basic understanding of predicate logic is helpful (to the extent that is taught in the basic class of logic in the first year of Diplom and Bachelor).
This is a "V+PL" course.
To get admitted to the exam, you will have to pass the "Vorleistung". This includes a) to be present at all three practice sessions, b) to hand in the obligatory exercise on every exercise sheet, and c) to present at least one exercise in class.
M.Sc. CL students who take the course as part of the concentration StatNLP will have to do the "Vorleistung". The course will then be examined as part of the oral exam for the concentration.
For all other students there will be a written exam of 60 minutes at the end of February.
The final grade for the course will be the grade you get in the exam.
The written exam will be similar to the exercises done in the practice sessions plus a few more theoretical questions. You will be provided with a "cheat sheet" in case you need to write RDF, OWL or SPARQL, so that you do not need to memorize namespace URLs or the exact spelling of owl:equivalentProperty. You can find some old exams on this page.
The oral exam for the concentration will basically include the same topics as the written exam, but with less focus on XML syntax and more about understanding.
What you need to know from block 1:
What you need to know from block 2: Main focus of the exam!
What you need to know from block 3:
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