Grant: Engage Grants Program
Athabasca University
$24,507.00
Structured knowledge aggregation from the Web
FY 2011-12
Summary
Information is becoming accessible over the World Wide Web at unprecedented speeds as a result of the
collective contribution of many parties ranging from individuals to large enterprises. The small contributions of
the masses (as in crowd sourcing) have given rise to incredible amounts of information. For instance, until
early 2008, eBay had listed and sold 3.4 billion items based on the contributions of its users, which is
approximately 8 items sold per second. Regardless of the tremendous business opportunities, this is an example
of the wealth of data that is being distributed (information about products and services in this case). Most of
this data is unstructured and is presented in natural language textual formats, which is not understandable and
processable by machines. Unlike humans, machines' processing capabilities are restricted to precise syntactical
knowledge representations with clear semantics. Information described by humans, especially when informally
stated, often lacks the required syntactical and semantic precision.
Program
Engage Grants Program
Recipient
Location
Alberta, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
419820-2011
Name nom
Bagheri, Ebrahim
Department département
Computing & Information Systems, School of
Organization id
15
Institution établissement
Athabasca University
Province en
Alberta
Province fr
Alberta
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2011
Competition year année de concours
2011
Award amount
24507
Program id
EGP
Program nane en
Engage Grants Program
Program name fr
Programme de subventions d'engagement partenariat
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1555
Committee name en
Prairie Internal Decision Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de décision interne pour les Prairies
Area of application code
800
Area of application group en
Information and communication services
Area of application group fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Area of application en
Information and communication services
Area of application fr
Services d'information et de télécommunications
Research subject code
2700
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Information technology
Research subject fr
Technologie de l'information
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Structured knowledge aggregation from the Web
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Information is becoming accessible over the World Wide Web at unprecedented speeds as a result of the
collective contribution of many parties ranging from individuals to large enterprises. The small contributions of
the masses (as in crowd sourcing) have given rise to incredible amounts of information. For instance, until
early 2008, eBay had listed and sold 3.4 billion items based on the contributions of its users, which is
approximately 8 items sold per second. Regardless of the tremendous business opportunities, this is an example
of the wealth of data that is being distributed (information about products and services in this case). Most of
this data is unstructured and is presented in natural language textual formats, which is not understandable and
processable by machines. Unlike humans, machines' processing capabilities are restricted to precise syntactical
knowledge representations with clear semantics. Information described by humans, especially when informally
stated, often lacks the required syntactical and semantic precision.
