In case of questions please contact the conference Secretary:

Committee

SEMANTiCS 2014 chaired by

Sebastian Hellmann

Conference Chair

E-Mail-Adresse : hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Head of the AKSW/NLP2RDF research group at University of Leipzig. Researcher in the LOD2 and LIDER EU-funded Projects and Executive Director of the DBpedia Association. In his recently completed thesis, Sebastian researched the application of Semantic Technologies in Natural Language Processing and Linguistics. His current focus is to bridge the gap between research and industry and to continue the tradition of DBpedia of providing best practises for the Web of Data.

Christian Dirschl

Industry Chair

E-Mail-Adresse : cdirschl@wolterskluwer.de

Christian is responsible for the content structures, metadata, taxonomies, and thesauri within Wolters Kluwer Germany. He manages text mining and automatic topical classification projects.

Marco Neumann

Industry Chair
Current: Distributed Information Syndication and Contexts for the Semantic Web, dynamic schema evolution in structured data, information visualisation, ontology based knowledge management, reputation based ranking in collaborative online communities, and last but not least the Semantic GeoSpatial Web.

Andreas Blumauer

Industry Chair

E-Mail-Adresse : a.blumauer@semantic-web.at

Andreas Blumauer has been a pioneer in the area of the semantic web since 2002, he is co-editor and editor of one of the first comprehensive books in the area of the semantic web for the german speaking community. Andreas is co-founder of the SEMANTiCS conference series.

Agata Filipowska

Scientific Chair

E-Mail-Adresse : a.filipowska@kie.ue.poznan.pl

Teaching and Research Assistant at Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems.

Harald Sack

Scientific Chair

E-Mail-Adresse : harald.sack@hpi.uni-potsdam.de

Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Group 'Semantic Technologies' at HPI.

Jens Lehmann

Scientific Chair

E-Mail-Adresse : lehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Researcher in semantic technologies and structured machine learning and co-leader of the AKSW Research Group at the University of Leipzig.

Permanent Advisory Board

Sören Auer, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
Christian Dirschl, Wolter Kluwer Germany

Anna Fensel, FTW – Telecommunications Research Center Vienna and STI Innsbruck
Dieter Fensel, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck

Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
Mike Heininger, GfWM - Austria, wissen.io

Michael Dekner, GfWM - Austria

Dieter Weitz, GfWM - Austria, wissensentwicklung.at

Sebastian Hellmann, Institute of Applied Informatics e.V. at the University of Leipzig

Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company
Tassilo Pellegrini, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

Axel Polleres, Institute for Information Business of WU Wien
Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the University Potsdam

Organising Committee

F&U confirm

Ogarit Uhlmann MSc.

fon: +49 341 • 235-2264

e-mail: semantics2014 # fu-confirm.de

Name		website
Ricardo Usbeck	Workshop and Organising Committee Chair	aksw.org
Mike Heininger	Sponsorship Chair	www.linkedin.com
Kingsley Idehen	Publicity Chair	www.linkedin.com
Martin Kaltenböck	Publicity Chair	www.semantic-web.at
Thomas Thurner	Exhibition	www.semantic-web.at