About the Knowledge Engineering Group
The Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG) is an informal research group at the University of Economics, Prague. It is centered around the Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering (DIKE) and covers most of its research activities.
This website should give you a brief overview of the research topics addressed, people involved, participation and coordination of projects, regular research seminars and KEG's publications.
Seminar
There no presentations planned for the seminars in this moment.
News
- 2011-12-07 – 2011-12-08: We enjoyed a short visit of Uwe Stoll from the University of Bundeswehr, Munich. We discussed our cooperation within the Web Semantization project, with particular focus on Information Extraction from eCommerce websites.
- 2011-11-24: Within the annual Dean's Award for Best Publication, five awarded publications out of 21 were co-authored by KEG members. The awarded authors were Jan Rauch (twice: for a journal paper and an in-book paper), Tomáš Kliegr (twice: for a journal paper and a PhD paper), Vojtěch Svátek, Martin Ralbovský and Milan Šimůnek (all three for a journal paper), Ondřej Zamazal (for his PhD thesis) and Radek Palovský (for a textbook). See also: Year 2010 Dean Award announcement
- 2011-11-22: In 2011 the KEG team was again successful in the Rector's Award for best publication: the JIIS article "SEWEBAR-CMS: semantic analytical report authoring for data mining results" was placed 3rd in the article category, and the PIKM paper "Entity Classification by Bag of Wikipedia Articles" was placed 2nd in the PhD student publication category. (Tomáš Kliegr was the lead author of the former and the only author of the latter.) See also: 2011 Article award page, 2011 PhD award page
- 2011-10-28 – 2011-11-02: The baby boom at KEG continues! Now with two little ladies: Magdalénka Hazuchová on Oct 28 and Kristýnka Labská on Nov 2. (Never mind Jakoubek Praks born Oct 10 - his father Pavel Praks is our respected project alumnus...)
- 2011-10-18: After some hesitation, František Květoslav Kliegr decided to be born! Hurrah!
- 2011-10-01: A new EU FP7 project with KEG team participation (Tomáš Kliegr as Scientific Representative etc.) is starting. It is an Integrated project called LinkedTV (for: Television Linked to the Web), to run till end March 2015. See also: LinkedTV record at Cordis
- 2011-09-21: Three new PhD students joined the group: Stanislav Vojíř, Jan Procháček and Ondřej Vadinský
- 2011-09-12 – 2011-09-18: Vojtěch Svátek is giving a lecture at the 'Indian-Summer School on Linked Data' in Leipzig See also: Summer school page
- 2011-09-01: The KEG team officially joined the EU LOD2 project, as full partner (University of Economics) and leader of a new workpackage addressing a Public Procurement use case of Linked Data. It will be strongly supported by colleagues from the Charles University XRG and the OpenData.cz project See also: Homepage of XML RG at Charles Univ., LOD2 project website, OpenData.cz website
- 2011-08-22 – 2011-09-03: Dr. Fazel Famili from NRCC, Canada, visited our group and gave a course on special topics in Knowledge Discovery in Databases See also: Fazel's homepage
Complete list of history is available as well.
See also
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