Data Semantics Lab presentation during the Linked Data Switzerland Workshop 2016 in Bern. For any further information : http://www.hevs.ch/fr/rad-instituts/institut-informatique-de-gestion/events/ldsw-2016-linked-data-switzerland-workshop-11888

1. HES-SO Valais/Wallis – Institute of Information Systems
• 80 staff members
– 21 Professors
– 19 Research scientists
– 31 Research assistants
– 9 Administrative collaborators and
interns
• 105 scientific publications
• 307 projects (2015)
• CHF 8,1 millions (Turnover in
2015)
90%
10%
Ra&D
Consultancy
services

2. IIG CORE COMPETENCIES (website)
eHealtheEnergy
BPM
Cloud Computing
Data Intelligence
Ergonomy, Usability
Intelligent Agents
Internet of Things
Medical Information
Processing
Semantic Web
Software Engineering
eGov ERP eServices

3. Data Semantics Lab (website)
• Specialized in: Semantic Computing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Management, Natural
Language Processing (NLP), Data Visualization, Business process modeling, Mobile technologies
• Research in Semantic Web/Linked Data/Web of Data since 2003 (list of projects):
– ontology design (RDFs, SKOS, OWL)
– multilingual ontology generation from wikipedia
– use of existing ontologies and data sources as Wordnet, DBPedia, BabelNet, Wikipedia, Wiktionary,
Wikidata, Geonames, schema.org, etc.
– RDFization of structured data (CSV, RDBMs, etc.) using existing tools and creating specific scripts (XSLT, etc.)
– RDFization of unstructured data based on NLP technologies to link texts to concepts of an ontology, some
basic algorithm for disambiguation (as well as commercial tools as Babelfy)
– Triple store management (Jena, OWLIM-GraphDB, Oracle Semantics, Marmotta, etc.)
– SPARQL querying over RDF and non-RDF data sources (RDBMs, MongoDB, etc.)
– Semantic tagging
– Semantic search
– Linked Open Data (and ontology) publication
– Data visualization
– Web of Data and SEO
– LOD data consumption framework (based on Apache Marmotta)