Courseware: Ontology & Semantic Web (Web 3.0)

Web 3.0 course at Vietnam National University in Hanoi

Description

The ontologies have various origins, from philosophy to knowledge engineering through cognitive sciences. The use of ontologies, or knowledge, is increasingly important in information systems (IS). This course allows the student to deepen the methodological and technical foundations of knowledge engineering based on ontologies. It aims to present the basic concepts of ontological engineering, formalization languages, methodologies for the construction of an ontology and the validation of an ontology, as well as applications based on ontologies such as Generative AI (AI Assistant, ChatGPT…). In addition, this course aims to provide an opening on research in the field of the semantic web.

Content

• General presentation: ontologies and semantic web
• Representation of ontologies: semantic network, conceptual graph, frame language
• Langage XML : parsing, namespace, DTD, XMLSchema
• RDF language: model, syntax, schema, query language
• Description logic: syntax and semantics, reasoning model
• OWL ontology language: syntax, semantics, ontology life cycle
• Rules and logic for the semantic web: DLP, SWRL, …
• Representation languages ​​of ontologies (eg, F-logic, LOOM, KIF, …)
• Storage and query languages ​​for ontologies (eg, RQL, TRIPLE), inference engines
• Semantic web service (eg, OWLS, WSMO, Glue); Research project.

Lecturer:

• Dr. Hoai-Tuong NGUYEN (Titops) <nhtuong@titops.com>
• Lecturer & Director of VNU-IFI NEXT Lab: https://ifi.vnu.edu.vn/vi/news/Nghien-cuu/Next-Lab-943.html 

References

• IFI Moodle: http://fad.ifi.edu.vn/ififad/course/view.php?id=33
• Spinning Semantic Web. D. Fensen and J. Hendler (2003)
• A semantic Web Primer , 3rd edition Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen (2012).
• Description Logic Handbook, 2nd edition. F. Baader, D. Calvanese, D.L. McGuinness, D. Nardi, P.F. Patel-Schneider (2010)

Planning

Week 1 Planning Course material W1 Reference documents: A Semantic Web Primer programming-the-semantic-web Agency.and.the.Semantic.Web

Week 2 Supports Course material W2

Week 3 Course material W3

Week 4 TD: XML

Week 5 Course material W5

Week 6 Course material W6

Week 7 Course material W7 Reading & summary subject (20% points) : Subject: XML query and transformation languages: XPath, XSLT, XQuery; RDF query languages: RQL, TRIPLE, Versa; Topic Maps: XTM, TMQL, TMCL; Le web service : SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, OWL-S Submission: 1 PPT file summerizing the subject Mini-project (30% points) : Subject: Create an ontology OWL file on the subject chosen by student (school, house, medecine, media,…) Submission: 1 zip file for your mini project containing: 1 – A report of up to five pages documenting your work: • What you have done • What you would like to do but couldn’t because it was outside the OWL paradigm • What you would like to have done but didn’t know how to • Bugs and problems with the starting ontology – Check regularly for updates. We will try to fix bugs as they are found. • A sample of how the ontology might be used to mark up some known resources – informally 2 – The ontology itself