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SHEFFIELD


Name: AKTive Media

Brief Description: AKTive Media is an ontology based cross-media annotation (Images and Text) system. Our goal is to automate the process of annotation by suggesting knowledge to the user in an interactive way while the user is annotating and hence minimizing user effort. The system actively works in the background, interacting with web services and queries our central annotational store to look for context specific knowledge.

Web page: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~ajay/html/cresearch.html

License Types: Academic Free License (AFL), Educational Community
License, GNU General Public License (GPL)


Name: Runes

Brief Description: Runes is a plugin-based framework that reverses the way of thinking about data processing: specify data accesses, and Runes will automatically choose an efficient representation for the data and execute the plugins to integrate it from different sources.

Web page: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jiria/runes

License Types: LGPL


Name: Saxon

Brief Description: Saxon is a rule based tool for annotating documents. Saxon rules are regular expressions over document features, such as tokens and sentences. The output of a rule can be either other annotations or unrestricted actions specified within the rule.

Web page: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/wig/tools/saxon/

License Types: LGPL


Name: jCC

Brief Description: jCC is java-based open source library that provides a collection of general-purpose algorithms for clustering. It can be applied to clustering tasks that work with text, images, and/or raw data.

Web page: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jiria/t-rex (not yet its own web page)
License Types: LGPL


Name: T-Rex

Brief Description: T-Rex (Trainable Relation Extraction) is a highly configurable machine learning-based Information Extraction from Text framework, which includes tools for supervised and semi-supervised document classification, entity extraction and relation extraction.

Web page: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jiria/t-rex

License Types: LGPL


Name: MIR-SDK

Brief Description: The multimedia information retrieval SDK is intended to help IR researchers and application developers. It offers applications new indexing and search functionalities, algorithms to create multimedia models, and an extensible application framework for new algorithms.

Web page: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jmag/mir-sdk/index.html

License Types: LGPL


Name: K-Views

Brief Description: Based on prefuse this currently has two visualisation options - a (rooted) network and a tree graph. The semantic network uses icons and/or text to summarise information of interest in (leaf) nodes, with the ability to retrieve the source documents/information on provenance. Colour and size of nodes can also be used to present information on confidence (e.g., the strength of the relationships between parent and child nodes, or other types of linked nodes, among others, or the confidence that the information retrieved does represent the specific assertion being made). Basic AND queries may also be built to highlight nodes of interest, based on properties defined for each node. The tree graph is being used to display (sub-parts of) ontologies.

Web page: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~aba-sah/k-views

License Types: open source, uses the (also open source) prefuse libraries http://prefuse.org



Open University


Name: Semsearch

Brief Description: A keyword-based semantic search engine for semantic web portals Semsearch is a keyword-based semantic search engine, which aims to wrap up the complexity of semantic search and make it suitable for naive users who are not necessarily familiar with the problem domain or with the specified query language.

Web page: http://code.google.com/p/semsearch/

License Type: GNU GPL v2



KARLSRUHE


Name: Pronto

Brief Description: Relation extraction based on Web-search and pattern matching. Can be configured for various sources (Google, Wikipedia) and various learning algorithms.

Web page: http://ontoware.org/projects/patternlearner/ (most content currently internal to X-Media)

License Type: to be defined in accordance with other X-Media tools.


Name: AccessKnow

Brief Description: This API feature a store-independent access of knowledge. It offers an abstraction over RDF and OWL knowledge base and supports entity- and axiom-based access / manipulation / storage functionalities. Access to a particular store will be enabled by adapter implementation. Currently, adapters for KAON2 and Sesame2 are available.

Web page: http://ontoware.org/projects/accessapi/
Download links given here: License Type: OPEN SOURCE; specific to be defined in accordance with other X-Media tools.


Name: xXploreKnow

Brief Description: It is an ontology-based application that supports exploration, search and analysis of semantic data. This semantic data are elements of RDF&OWL ontologies, which are manually added to the system using an annotation tool and automatically extracted from documents of various formats and web pages. For search, a combination of semantic search and classical keyword-based search on documents is supported. This means that the user can retrieve both semantic data and documents.

Web page: http://ontoware.org/projects/xxplore/
Download links given here: http://ontoware.org/frs/download.php/458/exxplore.zip

License Type: OPEN SOURCE; specific to be defined in accordance with other X-Media tools.



QUINARY


Name: AccessKnow Sesame2 adaptor(connector)

Brief Description: Implementation of an adaptor(connector) supporting Sesame2 as a backing store for AccessKnow

Web page: same as AccessKnow

License Type: same as AccessKnow



LJUBLJANA


Name: Pade

Our tool Pade is already released as open source within the collection of tools called Orange (www.ailab.si/orange). As mentioned at the web site:

Brief Description: "Orange is a component-based data mining software. It includes a range of preprocessing, modelling and data exploration techniques. It is based on C++ components, that are accessed either directly (not very common), through Python scripts (easier and better), or through GUI objects called Orange Widgets."

Web page: http://www.ailab.si/jure/pade/

License Type: Orange is free, it can be used/changed within terms of GNU GPL licence.



KOBLENZ


Name: LENA - a Fresnel LEns based RDF NAvigator with SPARQL selector support

Brief Description: LENA stands for LEns based NAvigator. A lens represents a particular view onto RDF data and is described by the Fresnel Display Vocabulary. LENA enables viewing RDF data in your web browser, rendered according to the lens descriptions you provide. LENA supports the use of multiple lenses and indicates if they are available for a resource, so that a different view onto the same data is always just one click away!

Web page: http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/Research/lena

License: Open Source


Name: X-Email: X-COSIM Email for the Semantic Desktop

Brief Description: X-Email is implemented as a plugin for the Thunderbird email client. X-Email makes available email data for reuse in further desktop applications based on the X-COSIM framework.

Web page: http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/Research/x-email

License: Open Source


Name: X-COSIM: A Framework for Cross-Context Semantic Information Management

Brief Description: X-COSIM stands for Cross(X)-COntext Semantic Information Management. X-COSIM consists of an ontology named X-COSIMO and an application programming interface (API) named X-COSIMA.

Web page: http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/Research/x-cosim

License: Open Source


Name: COMM: Core Ontology for Multimedia

Brief Description: Semantic descriptions of non-textual media available on the web can be used to facilitate retrieval and presentation of media assets and documents containing them. While technologies for multimedia semantic descriptions already exist, there is as yet no formal description of a high quality multimedia ontology that is compatible with existing (semantic) web technologies. We propose COMM - A Core Ontology for Multimedia based on both the MPEG-7 standard and the DOLCE foundational ontology.

Web page: http://comm.semanticweb.org/

License: Open Source


Name: MetaK - Meta Knowledge Management Framework for Semantic Web Applications

Brief Description: The Semantic Web is based on accessing and reusing RDF data from many different sources, which one may assign different levels of authority and credibility. Existing Semantic Web query languages, like SPARQL, have targeted the retrieval, combination and reuse of facts, but have so far ignored all aspects of meta knowledge, such as origins, authorship, recency or certainty of data, to name but a few. We propose an original, generic, formalized and implemented approach for managing many dimensions of meta knowledge, like source, authorship, certainty and others. The approach re-uses existing RDF modeling possibilities in order to represent meta knowledge. Then, it extends SPARQL query processing in such a way that given a SPARQL query for data, one may request meta knowledge without modifying the query proper. Thus, our approach achieves highly flexible and automatically coordinated querying for data and meta knowledge, while completely separating the two areas of concern.

Web page: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IFI/AGStaab/Research/MetaKnowledge

License: GPL



FBK


Name: jLSI

Brief Description: jLSI (java Latent Semantic Indexing) is an open source Java tool for Latent Semantic Indexing. jLSI requires only a shallow linguistic processing, such as tokenization, sentence splitting, part-of-speech tagging (optional) tagging and lemmatization (optional).

Web page: http://tcc.itc.it/research/textec/tools-resources/jlsi.html

License: Apache License, Version 2.0


Name: jWEB1T

Brief Description: jWeb1T is an open source Java tool for efficiently searching the Web 1T 5-gram corpus. It is based on a binary search algorithm that finds the n-grams and returns their frequency counts in logarithmic time. As the corpus is stored in many files a simple index is used to retrive the files containing the n-grams. The corpus must be installed and uncopressed on a hard drive (approx. 60 GB).

Web page: http://tcc.itc.it/research/textec/tools-resources/jweb1t.html

License: Apache License, Version 2.0


Name: jSRE

Brief Description: jSRE is a Java tool for Relation Extraction. It is based on a supervised machine learning approach which is applicable even when (deep) linguistic processing is not available or reliable. In particular, jSRE uses a combination of kernel functions to integrate two different information sources: (i) the whole sentence where the relation appears, and (ii) the local contexts around the interacting entities. jSRE requires only a shallow linguistic processing, such as tokenization, sentence splitting, Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging and lemmatization.

Web page: http://tcc.itc.it/research/textec/tools-resources/jsre.html

License: Apache License, Version 2.0



HILDESHEIM


Name: RelEns

Brief Description: RelEns is a java tool for classifying instances by using the relations to other instances (i.e. the classes of neighbors) and combining results of different relations with ensemble classification methods. The instances could be time series or of any other type.

Web page: http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de/software/index_en.html

License: Open Source



LABRI


Name: BCTools

Brief Description: Tools for manipulating image data structure.

Web page: http://girl.labri.fr/

License: LGPL


Name: GIRL

Brief Description: General Image Representation Library.

Web page: http://girl.labri.fr/

License: LGPL


Name: ISE

Brief Description: Image Segmentation Library.

Web page: http://girl.labri.fr/

License: LGPL