Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web Principles, Methods and Applications

Dr. Paul Buitelaar is a senior research fellow and head of the Unit for Natural Language Processing of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Before joining Insight (formerly DERI) in 2009, he was a senior researcher at the DFKI Language Technology Lab and co-head of the DFKI Competence Center Semantic Web in Saarbrücken, Germany. His main research interests are in the development and use of Natural Language Processing methods and tools for semantic-based information access.

Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano is full professor of computer science at the University of Bielefeld and leads the Semantic Computing group at CITEC. Prior to this, he was assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, where he worked in the Web Information Systems Group. He has published over 100 research papers in NLP, Ontologies, Knowledge Acquisition and Semantic Web and was nominated one of “AI’s 10 to Watch” by the IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine.