6.1.1 CORESE

• Name:
  COnceptual REsource Search Engine
• Keywords:
  Semantic Web, Search Engine, RDF, SPARQL
• Functional Description:

  Corese is a Semantic Web Factory, it implements W3C RDF, RDFS, OWL RL, SHACL, SPARQL 1 .1 Query and Update as well as RDF Inference Rules.

  Furthermore, Corese query language integrates original features such as approximate search and extended Property Path. It provides STTL: SPARQL Template Transformation Language for RDF graphs. It also provides LDScript: a Script Language for Linked Data. Corese provides distributed federated query processing.

• URL:
  http://­project.­inria.­fr/­corese
• Contact:
  Olivier Corby
• Participants:
  Erwan Demairy, Fabien Gandon, Fuqi Song, Olivier Corby, Olivier Savoie, Virginie Bottollier
• Partners:
  I3S, Mnemotix

6.1.2 DBpedia

• Name:
  DBpedia
• Keywords:
  RDF, SPARQL
• Functional Description:
  DBpedia is an international crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the semantic Web as linked open data. The DBpedia triple stores then allow anyone to solve sophisticated queries against Wikipedia extracted data, and to link the different data sets on these data. The French chapter of DBpedia was created and deployed by Wimmics and is now an online running platform providing data to several projects such as: QAKIS, Izipedia, zone47, Sépage, HdA Lab., JocondeLab, etc.
• Release Contributions:
  The new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps and the inclusion of the DBpedia history extraction of the pages.
• URL:
  http://­wiki.­dbpedia.­org/
• Contact:
  Fabien Gandon
• Participants:
  Fabien Gandon, Elmahdi Korfed

6.1.3 Fuzzy labelling argumentation module

• Name:
  Fuzzy labelling algorithm for abstract argumentation
• Keywords:
  Artificial intelligence, Multi-agent, Knowledge representation, Algorithm
• Functional Description:
  The goal of the algorithm is to compute the fuzzy acceptability degree of a set of arguments in an abstract argumentation framework. The acceptability degree is computed from the trustworthiness associated with the sources of the arguments.
• Contact:
  Serena Villata
• Participant:
  Serena Villata

6.1.4 Corese Server

• Name:
  Corese Server
• Keywords:
  Semantic Web, RDF, SPARQL
• Scientific Description:
  This library provides a Web server to interact with Corese via HTTP requests. In includes a SPARQL endpoint and the STTL display engine to generate portals from linked data (RDF).
• Functional Description:
  This library provides a Web server to interact with Corese via HTTP requests. In includes a SPARQL endpoint and the STTL display engine to generate portals from linked data (RDF).
• Contact:
  Olivier Corby
• Participants:
  Alban Gaignard, Fuqi Song, Olivier Corby
• Partner:
  I3S

6.1.5 CREEP semantic technology

• Keywords:
  Natural language processing, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence
• Scientific Description:
  The software provides a modular architecture specifically tailored at the classification of cyberbullying and offensive content on social media platforms. The system can use a variety of features (ngrams, different word embeddings, etc) and all the netwok parameters (number of hidden layers, dropout, etc) can be altered by using a configuration file.
• Functional Description:
  The software uses machine learning techniques to classify cyberbullying instances in social media interactions.
• Release Contributions:
  Attention mechanism, Hyperparameters for emoji in config file, Predictions output, Streamlined labeling of arbitrary files
• Publications:
  hal-01906096v1, hal-01920266v1
• Contact:
  Michele Corazza
• Participants:
  Michele Corazza, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata

6.1.6 Licentia

• Keywords:
  Right, License
• Scientific Description:
  In order to ensure the high quality of the data published on the Web of Data, part of the self-description of the data should consist in the licensing terms which specify the admitted use and re-use of the data by third parties. This issue is relevant both for data publication as underlined in the “Linked Data Cookbook” where it is required to specify an appropriate license for the data, and for the open data publication as expressing the constraints on the reuse of the data would encourage the publication of more open data. The main problem is that data producers and publishers often do not have extensive knowledge about the existing licenses, and the legal terminology used to express the terms of data use and reuse. To address this open issue, we present Licentia, a suite of services to support data producers and publishers in data licensing by means of a user-friendly interface that masks to the user the complexity of the legal reasoning process. In particular, Licentia offers two services: i) the user selects among a pre-defined list those terms of use and reuse (i.e., permissions, prohibitions, and obligations) she would assign to the data and the system returns the set of licenses meeting (some of) the selected requirements together with the machine readable licenses’ specifications, and ii) the user selects a license and she can verify whether a certain action is allowed on the data released under such license. Licentia relies on the dataset of machine-readable licenses (RDF, Turtle syntax, ODRL vocabulary and Creative Commons vocabulary) available at http://datahub.io/dataset/rdflicense. We rely on the deontic logic presented by Governatori et al. to address the problem of verifying the compatibility of the licensing terms in order to find the license compatible with the constraints selected by the user. The need for licensing compatibility checking is high, as shown by other similar services (e.g., Licensius5 or Creative Commons Choose service6 ). However, the advantage of Licentia with respect to these services is twofold: first, in these services compatibility is pre-calculated among a pre-defined and small set of licenses, while in Licentia compatibility is computed at runtime and we consider more than 50 heterogeneous licenses, second, Licentia provides a further service that is not considered by the others, i.e., it allows to select a license from our dataset and verify whether some selected actions are compatible with such license.
• Functional Description:

  Licentia is a web service application with the aim to support users in licensing data. Our goal is to provide a full suite of services to help in the process of choosing the most suitable license depending on the data to be licensed.

  The core technology used in our services is powered by the SPINdle Reasoner and the use of Defeasible Deontic Logic to reason over the licenses and conditions.

  The dataset of RDF licenses we use in Licentia is the RDF licenses dataset where the Creative Commons Vocabulary and Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Ontology are used to express the licenses.

• URL:
  http://­licentia.­inria.­fr/
• Contact:
  Serena Villata
• Participant:
  Cristian Cardellino

6.1.7 SPARQL micro-services

• Name:
  SPARQL micro-services
• Keywords:
  Web API, SPARQL, Microservices, LOD - Linked open data, Data integration
• Functional Description:
  The approach leverages the micro-service architectural principles to define the SPARQL Micro-Service architecture, aimed at querying Web APIs using SPARQL. A SPARQL micro-service is a lightweight SPARQL endpoint that typically provides access to a small, resource-centric graph. Furthermore, this architecture can be used to dynamically assign dereferenceable URIs to Web API resources that do not have URIs beforehand, thus literally “bringing” Web APIs into the Web of Data. The implementation supports a large scope of JSON-based Web APIs, may they be RESTful or not.
• URL:
  https://­github.­com/­frmichel/­sparql-micro-service
• Publications:
  hal-02060966, hal-01722792, hal-01947589, hal-02168164
• Author:
  Franck Michel
• Contact:
  Franck Michel

6.1.8 ACTA

• Name:
  A Tool for Argumentative Clinical Trial Analysis
• Keywords:
  Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing, Argument mining
• Functional Description:
  Argumentative analysis of textual documents of various nature (e.g., persuasive essays, online discussion blogs, scientific articles) allows to detect the main argumentative components (i.e., premises and claims) present in the text and to predict whether these components are connected to each other by argumentative relations (e.g., support and attack), leading to the identification of (possibly complex) argumentative structures. Given the importance of argument-based decision making in medicine, ACTA is a tool for automating the argumentative analysis of clinical trials. The tool is designed to support doctors and clinicians in identifying the document(s) of interest about a certain disease, and in analyzing the main argumentative content and PICO elements.
• URL:
  http://­ns.­inria.­fr/­acta/
• Contact:
  Serena Villata

6.1.9 WebAudio tube guitar amp sims CLEAN, DISTO and METAL MACHINEs

• Name:
  Tube guitar amplifier simulators for Web Browser : CLEAN MACHINE, DISTO MACHINE and METAL MACHINE
• Keyword:
  Tube guitar amplifier simulator for web browser
• Scientific Description:
  This software is one of the only ones of its kind to work in a web browser. It uses "white box" simulation techniques combined with perceptual approximation methods to provide a quality of guitar playing in hand comparable to the best existing software in the native world.
• Functional Description:
  Software programs for creating real-time simulations of tube guitar amplifiers that behave most faithfully like real hardware amplifiers, and run in a web browser. In addition, the generated simulations can run within web-based digital audio workstations as plug-ins. The "CLEAN MACHINE" version specializes in the simulation of acoustic guitars when playing electric guitars. The DISTO machine specializes in classic rock tube amp simulations, and METAL MACHINE targets metal amp simulations. These programs are one of the results of the ANR WASABI project.
• Release Contributions:
  First stable version, delivered and integrated into the ampedstudio.com software. Two versions have been delivered: a limited free version and a commercial one.
• News of the Year:
  Best paper at WebAudio Conference 2020.
• Publications:
  hal-01721463, hal-01893681, hal-02337828, hal-03087768, hal-01721483, hal-01735478, hal-02366725, hal-02557901, hal-01589330, hal-03087763, hal-01893660, hal-01589229
• Contact:
  Michel Buffa
• Participant:
  Michel Buffa
• Partner:
  Amp Track Ltd, Finland

6.1.10 Morph-xR2RML

• Name:
  Morph-xR2RML
• Keywords:
  RDF, Semantic Web, LOD - Linked open data, MongoDB, SPARQL
• Functional Description:

  The xR2RML mapping language that enables the description of mappings from relational or non relational databases to RDF. It is an extension of R2RML and RML.

  Morph-xR2RML is an implementation of the xR2RML mapping language, targeted to translate data from the MongoDB database, as well as relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MonetDB). Two running modes are available: (1) the graph materialization mode creates all possible RDF triples at once, (2) the query rewriting mode translates a SPARQL 1.0 query into a target database query and returns a SPARQL answer. It can run as a SPARQL endpoint or as a stand-alone application.

  Morph-xR2RML was developed by the I3S laboratory as an extension of the Morph-RDB project which is an implementation of R2RML.

• URL:
  https://­github.­com/­frmichel/­morph-xr2rml/
• Publications:
  hal-01207828, hal-01330146, hal-01280951
• Author:
  Franck Michel
• Contact:
  Franck Michel

6.1.11 ARViz

• Name:
  Association Rules Visualization
• Keyword:
  Information visualization
• Scientific Description:
  ARViz supports the exploration of data from named entities knowledge graphs based on the joint use of association rule mining and visualization techniques. The former is a widely used data mining method to discover interesting correlations, frequent patterns, associations or casual structures among transactions in a variety of contexts. An association rule is an implication of the form X -> Y, where X is an antecedent itemset and Y is a consequent itemset, indicating that transactions containing items in set X tend to contain items in set Y. Although the approach helps to reduce and focus the exploration of large datasets, analysts are still confronted with the inspection of hundreds of rules in order to grasp valuable knowledge. Moreover, when extracting association rules from named entities knowledge graphs, the items are NEs that form antecedent -> consequent links, which the user should be able to cross to recover information. In this context, information visualization can help analysts to visually identify interesting rules that are worthy of further investigation, while providing suitable visual representation to communicate the relationships between itemsets and association rules.
• Functional Description:
  ARViz supports the exploration of thematic attributes describing association rules (e.g. confidence, interestingness, and symmetry) through a set of interactive, synchronized, and complementary visualisation techniques (i.e. a chord diagram, an association graph, and a scatter plot). Furthermore, the interface allows the user to recover the scientific publications related to rules of interest.
• Release Contributions:
  Visualization of association rules within the scientific literature of COVID-19.
• URL:
  http://­covid19.­i3s.­unice.­fr:8080/­arviz/
• Publication:
  hal-03292140
• Contact:
  Marco Antonio Alba Winckler
• Participants:
  Aline Menin, Lucie Cadorel, Andrea Tettamanzi, Alain Giboin, Fabien Gandon, Marco Antonio Alba Winckler

6.1.12 MGExplorer

• Name:
  Multivariate Graph Explorer
• Keyword:
  Information visualization
• Scientific Description:
  MGExplorer (Multidimensional Graph Explorer) allows users to explore different perspectives to a dataset by modifying the input graph topology, choosing visualization techniques, arranging the visualization space in meaningful ways to the ongoing analysis and retracing their analytical actions. The tool combines multiple visualization techniques and visual querying while representing provenance information as segments connecting views, which each supports selection operations that help define subsets of the current dataset to be explored by a different view. The adopted exploratory process is based on the concept of chained views to support the incremental exploration of large, multidimensional datasets. Our goal is to provide visual representation of provenance information to enable users to retrace their analytical actions and to discover alternative exploratory paths without loosing information on previous analyses.
• Functional Description:
  MGExplorer is an information visualization tool suite that integrates many information visualization techniques aimed at supporting the exploration of multivariate graphs. MGExplorer allows users to choose and combine the information visualization techniques creating a graph that describes the exploratory path of dataset.
• Release Contributions:
  Visualization of data extracted from linked data datasets.
• URL:
  http://­covid19.­i3s.­unice.­fr:8080/
• Publications:
  hal-03292172, hal-03404572, hal-03404580
• Contact:
  Marco Antonio Alba Winckler
• Participants:
  Aline Menin, Marco Antonio Alba Winckler, Olivier Corby
• Partner:
  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

7.1.1 MGExplorer: A Visual Approach for Representing Analytical Provenance in Exploration Processes

Participants: Marco Winckler, Aline Menin, Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Alain Giboin, Fabien Gandon, Maroua Tikat, Michel Buffa.

Visualization techniques are useful tools to explore datasets, enabling the discovery of meaningful patterns and causal relationships. Nonetheless, the discovery process is often exploratory and requires multiple views to support analyzing different or complementary perspectives to the data. In this context, analytic provenance shows great potential to understand users' reasoning process through the study of their interactions on multiple view systems. Thus, we present an approach based on the concept of chained views to support the incremental exploration of large, multidimensional datasets. Our goal is to provide visual representation of provenance information to enable users to retrace their analytical actions and to discover alternative exploratory paths without loosing information on previous analyses. We demonstrate that our implementation of the approach, MGExplorer (Multidimensional Graph Explorer), allows users to explore different perspectives to a dataset by modifying the input graph topology, choosing visualization techniques, arranging the visualization space in meaningful ways to the ongoing analysis and retracing their analytical actions. The tool combines multiple visualization techniques and visual querying while representing provenance information as segments connecting views, which each supports selection operations that help define subsets of the current dataset to be explored by a different view. The resulting publication 55 presents a flexible visualization approach based on the concept of chained views, capable of depicting analytical provenance via a sequence of views, while supporting one or more visualization techniques applied to one or more datasets. Thus, it supports visual analysis via multiple alternative exploration scenarios that can be retraced and modified. We compare our solution with other existing approaches, highlighting the need for innovative and flexible tools for exploring large datasets, and demonstrate the feasibility of the chained views approach through an interactive visual tool called MGExplorer, created to assist the exploration of multivariate networks, and available online.

7.1.2 LDViz: Linked Data Visualization

Participants: Marco Winckler, Aline Menin, Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Alain Giboin, Fabien Gandon, Maroua Tikat, Michel Buffa.

Over the recent years, Linked Open Data (LOD) has been increasingly used to support decision-making processes in various application domains. For that purpose, an increasing interest in information visualization has been observed in the literature as a suitable solution to communicate the knowledge described in LOD data sources. Nonetheless, transforming raw LOD data into a graphical representation (the so-called visualization pipeline) is not a straightforward process and often requires a set of operations to transform data into meaningful visualizations that suit users' needs. Contrariwise to typical visualizations, which uses specific datasets whose structure and nature are known, enabling one to easily define indicators and visualization techniques that are suitable to support the data exploration, visualizing linked data requires a preceding RDF graph processing to retrieve suitable data that may originate from different endpoints. Moreover, it may sometimes require combining data from different endpoints, resulting in datasets that may contain quality issues (e.g., missing data, inconsistency) and which structure and nature are unknown to the visualization. Although the design process of every visualization tool follows a well-known pipeline (i.e., import -> transform -> map -> render -> interact), we could not find any definition of these stages and the issues that arise from applying such visualization pipeline for LOD exploration. Particularly, a visualization pipeline for LOD data should take into account the linked nature of these datasets by leveraging/supporting/exploiting these links, while being capable of processing and visualizing the data appropriately. This requires a high level of flexibility in every step of the pipeline, which could be seen in the drafting of SPARQL queries in a way that appropriately addresses the links in the linked data, the possibility of tuning the parameters of the graphic display and the associated interaction, and the availability of multiple visualization techniques that can help users see data according to diverse and complementary viewpoints.

In the paper 56 we propose a LOD generic visualization pipeline and discuss the implications of the internal operations for creating meaningful visualizations of LOD datasets. To demonstrate the feasibility of this generic visualization pipeline, we implement it as the tool LDViz (Linked Data Visualizer), which integrates a SPARQL query management interface, a data transformation engine, and a visualization interface to support the automatic visualization of data extracted from any SPARQL endpoint. Our implementation allows any expert user to access the SPARQL endpoint of their choice, perform searches with SPARQL queries, and visualize the results via a visualization interface, MGExplorer, designed to assist the exploration of any multivariate network. The tool is available online.

7.1.3 FollowUp Queries: Incremental exploration of linked data

Participants: Marco Winckler, Aline Menin, Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Alain Giboin, Maroua Tikat, Michel Buffa.

Information visualization techniques are useful to discover patterns and causal relationships within LOD datasets. However, since the discovery process is often exploratory (i.e., users have no predefined goal and do not expect a particular outcome), when users find something interesting, they should be able to (i) retrace their exploratory path to explain how results have been found, and (ii) branch out the exploratory path to compare data observed in different views or found in different datasets. Furthermore, as most of LOD datasets are very specialized, users often need to explore multiple datasets to obtain the knowledge required to support decision-making processes. Thus, the design of visualization tools is confronted with two main challenges: the visualization system should provide multiple views to enable the exploration of different or complementary perspectives to the data; and the system should support the combination of diverse data sources during the exploration process. To our knowledge, the existing tools before our work, are limited to visualizing a single dataset at a time and, often, use static and preprocessed data. Thus, we proposed the concept of follow-up queries to allow users to create queries on demand during the exploratory process while connecting multiple LOD datasets with chained views. Our approach relies on a exploration process supported by the use of predefined SPARQL queries that the user can select on-the-fly to retrieve data from different SPARQL endpoints. It enables users to enrich the ongoing analysis by bringing external and complementary data to the exploration process, while also supporting the visual analysis and comparison of different subsets of data (from the same or different SPARQL endpoints) and, thus, the incremental exploration of the LOD cloud. The resulting paper 31 (accepted for publication at IJHCI) presents a generic visualization approach to assist the analysis of multiple LOD datasets based on the concepts of chained views and follow-up queries. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach via four use case scenarios and a formative evaluation where we explore scholarly data described by RDF graphs publicly available through SPARQL endpoints. These scenarios demonstrate how the tool supports (i) composing, running, and visualizing the results of a query; (ii) subsetting the data and exploring it via different visualization techniques; (iii) instantiating a follow-up query to retrieve external data; and (iv) querying a different database and compare datasets. The usability and usefulness of the proposed approach is confirmed by results obtained with a series of semi-structured interviews. The results are encouraging while showing the relevance of the approach to explore big linked data.

7.1.4 Association Rules Visualization

Participants: Marco Winckler, Aline Menin, Lucie Cadorel, Andrea Tettamanzi, Alain Giboin, Fabien Gandon.

In order to extend the palette of tools for exploring the COVID-19 litterature (which part is described by the CovidOnTheWeb dataset), an association rules mining approach was proposed 81 to assist the discovery of interesting knowledge, hidden by the deluge of data, that could be helpful for assisting decision-making processes. This data mining method is widely used to discover interesting correlations, frequent patterns, associations, or casual structures among transactions in a variety of contexts. An association rule is an implication of the form X -> Y, where X is an antecedent itemset and Y is a consequent itemset, indicating that transactions containing items in set X tend to contain items in set Y.

Although the approach helps to reduce and focus the exploration of large datasets, analysts are still confronted with the inspection of hundreds of rules in order to grasp valuable knowledge. Moreover, when extracting association rules from named entities knowledge graphs, the items are NEs that form antecedent -> consequent links, which the user should be able to cross to recover information. In this context, information visualization can help analysts to visually identify interesting rules that are worthy of further investigation, while providing suitable visual representation to communicate the relationships between itemsets and association rules. Thus, we proposed a visualization interface, called ARViz (Association Rules Visualization), to assist the exploration of association rules over RDF knowledge graphs and their measures of interest, supporting tasks of comparison, identification, and overview of items and rules. The resulting publication 54 presents the proposed visualization approach, as well as a comparative review of existing visualization interfaces/techniques for association rule exploration regarding task support, and the results of a formative evaluation performed with expert users in Semantic Web and biomedical research to assess the feasibility and usefulness of our approach. The tool is available covid19.i3s.unice.fr:8080/arviz/. Although ARViz is currently applied to the CovidOntheWeb RDF dataset, its architecture is generic enough to represent association rules datasets extracted from data of different type (beyond RDF) and describing different phenomena (i.e. relationship between products frequently bought together in a supermarket).

7.1.5 Interactive WebAudio applications

Participants: Michel Buffa, Shihong Ren.

7.1.6 Timelining Knowledge Graphs in the browser

Participant: Damien Graux.

Knowledge graphs, available on the Web via SPARQL endpoints, provide practitioners with various kinds of information from general considerations to more specific ones such as temporal data. In this effort, we propose a light-weight solution to visually grasp, navigate, and compare, in a Web browser, temporal information available from SPARQL endpoints.

In particular, we wanted our approach to be lightweight and to do so we exploited SPARQL as much as possible. Indeed, the information necessary to build the timelines is extracted through a pair of SPARQL queries. This allows the approach to be easy deployed on alternative endpoints and even to visually compare temporal information coming from various sources (as shown on the online demonstrator).

This solution was presented at the Voila! workshop co-located with ISWC'21  45. Furthermore, we use the Wikidata public SPARQL endpoint to demonstrate our solution and allow users to navigate Wikidata's temporal information.

7.2.1 Autonomous agents in a social and ubiquitous Web

Participants: Andrei Ciortea, Olivier Corby, Fabien Gandon, Franck Michel.

Recent W3C recommendations for the Web of Things (WoT) and the Social Web are turning hypermedia into a homogeneous information fabric that interconnects heterogeneous resources: devices, people, information resources, abstract concepts, etc. The integration of multi-agent systems with such hypermedia environments now provides a means to distribute autonomous behavior in worldwide pervasive systems. A central problem then is to enable autonomous agents to discover heterogeneous resources in world wide and dynamic hypermedia environments. This is a problem in particular in WoT environments that rely on open standards and evolve rapidly—thus requiring agents to adapt their behavior at runtime in pursuit of their design objectives. To this end, we developed a hypermedia search engine for the WoT that allows autonomous agents to perform approximate search queries in order to retrieve relevant resources in their environment in (weak) real time. The search engine crawls dynamic WoT environments to discover and index device metadata described with the W3C WoT Thing Description, and exposes a SPARQL endpoint that agents can use for approximate search. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we implemented a prototype application for the maintenance of industrial robots in worldwide manufacturing systems. The prototype demonstrates that our semantic hypermedia search engine enhances the flexibility and agility of autonomous agents in a social and ubiquitous Web  82.

7.2.2 Abusive language detection

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata, Anais Ollagnier.

Recent studies have highlighted the importance to reach a fine-grained online hate speech characterisation to provide appropriate solutions to curb online abusive behaviours. In this direction, we have proposed a full pipeline that enables to capture targeting characteristics in hatred contents (i.e., types of hate, such as race and religion) aiming at improving the understanding on how hate is conveyed on Twitter. Our contribution is threefold: (1) we leverage multiple data views of a different nature to contrast different kinds of abusive behaviours expressed towards targets; (2) we develop a full pipeline relying on a multi-view clustering technique to address the task of hate speech target characterisation; and (3) we propose a methodology to assess the quality of generated hate speech target communities. Relying on multiple data views built from multilingual pre-trained language models (i.e., multilingual BERT and multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder) and the Multi-view Spectral Clustering (MvSC) algorithm, the experiments conducted on a freely available multilingual dataset of tweets (i.e., the MLMA hate speech dataset) show that most of the configurations of the proposed pipeline significantly outperforms state-of-the-art clustering algorithms on all the tested clustering quality metrics on both French and English (paper under submission).

In addition, we have carried out a data collection in the context of the UCA IDEX OTESIA project “Artificial Intelligence to prevent cyberviolence, cyberbullying and hate speech online.” 2 to created a dataset of aggressive chats in French collected through a role-playing game in high-schools. The collected conversations have been annotated with the participant roles (victim, bully and bystanders), the presence of hate speech (content that mocks, insults, or discriminates against a person or group based on specific characteristics such as colour, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristics) and whether utterances use different humour figurative devices such as sarcasm or irony. Moreover, we have also introduced a new annotation layer referring to the different types of verbal abuse present in the message, defined as a type of psychological/mental abuse that involves the use of written language relying on derogatory terms, the delivery of statements intended to demean, humiliate, blame or threaten the victim with the aim of decreasing its self-confidence and making it feel powerless. The identification of the different types of verbal abuse will allow to investigate (and learn, from a computational perspective) strategies used by cyberhate perpetrators to cause emotional harm, and to reach insights about how victims respond to bullying/victimisation.

7.2.3 Propaganda detection and classification

Participants: Vorakit Vorakitphan, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata.

7.2.4 Using Agent-Based Modeling to explore the role of socio-environmental interactions on Ancient Settlement Dynamics

Participant: Andrea Tettamanzi.

Within the framework of a mult-disciplinary project involving archaeologists, economists, geographers, and computer scientists, we used Agent-Based Modelling to explore the respective impacts of environmental and social factors on the settlement pattern and dynamics during the Roman period in South-Eastern France 64.

7.2.5 Web Futures: Inclusive, Intelligent, Sustainable The 2020 Manifesto for Web Sciences

Participant: Fabien Gandon.

We co-authored the manifesto produced from the Perspectives Workshop 18262 entitled "10 Years of Web Science" that took place at Schloss Dagstuhl from June 24-29, 2018. At the Workshop, we revisited the origins of Web Science, explored the challenges and opportunities of the Web, and looked ahead to potential futures for both the Web and Web Science. We outline the need to extend Web Science as the science that is devoted to the analysis and engineering of the Web, to strengthen our role in shaping the future of the Web and present five key directions for capacity building that are necessary to achieve this: (i), supporting interdisciplinarity, (ii), supporting collaboration, (iii), supporting the sustainable Web, (iv), supporting the Intelligent Web, and (v), supporting the Inclusive Web. Our writing reflects our background in several disciplines of the social and technical sciences and that these disciplines emphasize topics to various extents.  26

7.2.6 Analysing the use of OpenStreetMap solutions in H2020 European projects

Participant: Damien Graux.

Since 1984, the European Commission has been supporting research through various successive programmes. Recently, from 2014 to 2020, the EU invested approximately 80 billion euros into its eighth programme, named Horizon 2020. Among various focuses such as the excellence of science or industrial secondments, H2020 emphasised on supporting an open access policy for all the research results. Moreover, H2020 projects were strongly encouraged to use open source software and tools.

In this study, we systematically analysed all the available H2020 deliverables, searching for cartographic service references, with a specific focus on OpenStreetMap. Our efforts show that OSM is the most used cartographic service in European H2020 projects in terms of mentions in the deliverable’s texts, followed by GoogleMaps with one order of magnitude less mentions. It is worth noting that these projects involving OSM were backed by almost 4 billion euros of public money.

We presented our results at the State-of-the-Map event  44 (the international forum dedicated the OpenStreetMap community); and made our results available online.

7.3.1 Publication and exploitation of the Covid-on-the-Web dataset

Participants: Franck Michel, Fabien Gandon, Valentin Ah-Kane, Anna Bobasheva, Elena Cabrio, Olivier Corby, Raphaël Gazzotti, Alain Giboin, Santiago Marro, Tobias Mayer, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

The Covid-on-the-Web project aims to allow biomedical researchers to access, query, and make sense of COVID-19 related literature. Launched in Mars 2020, it involved multiple skills of the team in knowledge representation, text, data and argument mining, as well as data visualization and exploration. A first outcome was the publication of the Covid-on-the-Web RDF dataset genetared by analyzing and enriching the “COVID-19 Open Research Dataset” (100K+ full-text scientific articles related to the coronaviruses), comprising (1) named entities mentioned in the articles and (2) arguments extracted using the ACTA platform.

In 2021, we carried on this work with a paper at the 32es Journées francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances that received a best paper award 63. We also pushed forward the reflection on the adaptation of visualization and exploration methods for linked data sources 32. This was implemented in the LDViz tool that assists the exploration of different views of the data by combining a querying management interface, which enables the definition of meaningful subsets of data through SPARQL queries, and a visualization interface based on a set of six visualization techniques integrated in a chained visualization concept, which also supports the tracking of provenance information.

Finnaly, we also proposed a method to identify owl:sameAs relationships of a resource relying on online SPARQL querying of distributed datasets and to correct results using declarative curation rules. We also exploit and inspect the quality of owl:InverseFunctionalProperty and owl:FunctionalProperty relationships, using the definitions given by their schemata, endpoints and a voting approach. We evaluated our method on an existing benchmark and compare to state of the art baselines. We showed that a heuristic approach can retrieve high quality equivalence links without requiring the extraction of all the alleged existing equivalence relations.  40

7.3.2 Publication of the WASABI dataset

Participants: Michel Buffa, Franck Michel, Fabien Gandon, Elena Cabrio, Alain Giboin, Marco Winckler, Maroua Tikat, Michael Fell.

Since 2017, a two-million song database consisting of metadata collected from multiple open data sources and automatically extracted information has been constructed in the context of the WASABI project. The goal is to build a knowledge graph linking collected metadata (artists, discography, producers, dates, etc.) with metadata generated by the analysis of both the songs' lyrics (topics, places, emotions, structure, etc.) and audio signal (chords, sound, etc.). It relies on natural language processing and machine learning methods for extraction, and semantic Web frameworks for integration. The dataset describes more than 2 millions commercial songs, 200K albums and 77K artists. It can be exploited by music search engines, music professionals or scientists willing to analyze popular music published since 1950. It is available under an open license in multiple formats and is accompanied by online applications and open source software including an interactive navigator, a REST API and a SPARQL endpoint. This work has been described in 65

Wasabi dataset Web site.

7.3.3 Semantic Web for Biodiversity

Participants: Franck Michel, Catherine Faron.

This activity addresses the challenges of exploiting knowledge representation and semantic Web technologies to enable data sharing and integration in the biodiversity area. The collaboration with the ”Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle” of Paris (MNHN) goes on along several axes.

First, since 2019 the MNHN has been using our SPARQL Micro-Services architecture and framework to help biologists in editing taxonomic information by confronting multiple, heterogeneous data sources  88. This collaboration is going on and has been strengthened over 2020 and 2021, the MNHN now heavily relies on those services for daily activities.

Second, the work initiated within the Bioschemas.org W3C community group seeks the definition and adoption of common biology-related markup terms. The schema.org/Taxon term is now officially published and new term TaxonName is being pushed forward.

Lastly, we co-organized the symposium "Connecting biodiversity data with knowledge graphs" at the yearly TDWG 2021 international conference, and we presented advances of our work in terms of biodiversity knowledge modeling 57.

7.3.4 Enriching the WASABI Song Corpus with Lyrics Annotations.

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Michael Fell, Michel Buffa.

The WASABI Song Corpus is a large corpus of songs enriched with metadata extracted from music databases on the Web, and resulting from the processing of song lyrics and from audio analysis. Given that lyrics encode an important part of the semantics of a song, we have focused on the design and application of methods to extract relevant information from the lyrics, such as their structure segmentation, their topics, the explicitness of the lyrics content, the salient passages of a song and the emotions conveyed. So far, the corpus contains 1.73M songs with lyrics (1.41M unique lyrics) annotated at different levels with the output of the above mentioned methods. Such corpus labels and the provided methods can be exploited by music search engines and music professionals (e.g. journalists, radio presenters) to better handle large collections of lyrics, allowing an intelligent browsing, categorization and recommendation of songs.

7.3.5 Ontology alignment in the sourcing domain

Participants: Molka Dhouib, Catherine Faron, Andrea Tettamanzi.

Ontology alignement plays a key role in the management of heterogeneous data sources and metadata. In this context, various ontology techniques have been proposed to discover correspondences between the entities of different ontologies. We proposed a new ontology alignement approach based on a set of rules exploiting the embedding space and measuring clusters of labels to discover the relationship between entites. We tested our system on several open datasets from the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) benchmark and then applied it to aligning ontologies in a real-world case study provided by Silex cie and the “Office National d’Information sur les Enseignements et les Professions” (ONISEP) 34.

7.3.6 A feature-based comparative analysis of legal ontologies

Participants: Serena Villata.

Ontologies represent the standard way to model the knowledge about specific domains. This holds also for the legal domain where several ontologies have been put forward to model specific kinds of legal knowledge. Both for standard users and for law scholars, it is often difficult to have an overall view on the existing alternatives, their main features, and their interlinking with the other ontologies. To answer this need, we address an analysis of the state-of-the-art in legal ontologies and we characterize them along with some distinctive features. This work aims to guide generic users and law experts in selecting the legal ontology that better fits their needs and in understanding its specificity so that proper extensions to the selected model could be investigated  87.

7.3.7 Evolutionary agent-based evaluation of the sustainability of different knowledge sharing strategies in open multi-agent systems

Participants: Stefan Sarkadi, Fabien Gandon.

7.4.1 Uncertainty Evaluation for Linked Data

Participants: Ahmed Elamine Djebri, Fabien Gandon, Andrea Tettamanzi.

7.4.2 Extended SPARQL Service

Participants: Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Franck Michel, Damien Graux.

In the context of the D2KAB ANR project, we have investigated federated SPARQL queries. We have introduced the concept of Extended SPARQL Service where the URL of the service endpoint can be provided with URL parameters in order to tune client and server behavior.

In addition, we have designed a service execution mode which enables us to provide a service execution report in such a way that the user can trace the execution of service clauses. We have also introduced the concept of ”Linked Result” where the SPARQL Query Results are provided with additional information in the form of linked documents, e.g. a geographical map generated for geolocalized data.

This work has been published at WEBIST 36.

7.4.3 Tracking RDF updates using SPARQL hashing features

Participant: Damien Graux.

The recent increase of RDF usage has witnessed a rising need of “verification” around data obtained from SPARQL endpoints. It is now possible to deploy Semantic Web pipelines and to adapt them to a wide range of needs and use-cases. Practically, these complex ETL pipelines relying on SPARQL endpoints to extract relevant information often have to be relaunched from scratch every once in a while in order to refresh their data. Such a habit adds load on the network and is heavy resource-wise, while sometimes unnecessary if data remains untouched.

In this effort, we present a useful method to help data consumers (and pipeline designers) identify when data has been updated in a way that impacts the pipeline's result set. This method is based on standard SPARQL 1.1 features and relies on digitally signing parts of query result sets to inform data consumers about their eventual change. Additionally, we also declined this approach to the case of SPARQL queries using federation features with the SERVICE keyword. In particular, our solution divides the coming query into pieces following the SERVICE calls and generated a sort of Merkle-tree to better locate the potential RDF data updates.

This effort has been published at ISWC'21 as a poster  47 and in MEPDaW'21  46. In addition, an online interface, implemented in JavaScript, is available online: dgraux.github.io/SPARQL-hash/

7.4.4 Using Formal Concept Analysis to compress RDF data versions

Participant: Damien Graux.

Recent years have witnessed the increase of openly available RDF knowledge graphs online. With this availability of information comes the challenge of coping with dataset versions as information may change in time and therefore deprecates the former knowledge graph. Several solutions have been proposed to deal with data versioning, mainly based on computing data deltas and having an incremental approach to keep track of the version history. In this effort, we describe a novel method that relies on aggregating graph versions to obtain one single complete graph. Our solution semantically compresses similar and common edges together to obtain a final graph smaller than the sum of the distinct versioned ones. Technically, our method takes advantage of FCA to match graph elements together. We also describe how this compressed graph can be queried without being unzipped, using standard methods.

This effort has been published in the ninth FCA4AI workshop co-located with IJCAI 2021  41.

7.4.5 A decentralized triplestore managed via the Ethereum blockchain

Participant: Damien Graux.

The growing Web of data warrants better data management strategies. Data silos are single points of failure and they face availability problems which lead to broken links. Furthermore the dynamic nature of some datasets increases the need for a versioning scheme. In this work, we propose a novel architecture for a linked open data infrastructure, built on open decentralized technologies. IPFS is used for storage and retrieval of data, and the public Ethereum blockchain is used for naming, versioning and storing metadata of datasets.

We furthermore exploit two mechanisms for maintaining a collection of relevant, high-quality datasets in a distributed manner in which participants are incentivised. The platform is shown to have a low barrier to entry and censorship-resistance. It benefits from the fault-tolerance of its underlying technologies. Furthermore, we validate the approach by implementing our solution.

These results were presented at SEMANTiCS  67.

7.4.6 A Semantic Model for Meteorological Knowledge Graphs

Participants: Nadia Yacoubi Ayadi, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Olivier Corby, Fabien Gandon.

7.4.7 Corese Semantic Web Factory

Participants: Rémi Ceres, Olivier Corby.

In the context of the National research program in artificial intelligence (PNRIA) 3 and in collaboration with the Mnemotix cooperative 4 we work on the ”industrialization” of Corese.

We introduced the concept of external Property to tune Corese behavior.

We improved Corese GUI by adding graphical editors for Turtle and SHACL.

We have implemented the RDF4J 5 model API in Corese. This allows users to request and manipulate a Corese Graph through a standard RDF4J API.

We have designed a ”Broker” architecture to plug the SPARQL interpreter to external RDF graph implementations. This will allow the use of Corese SPARQL engine with triple storage system and prepare for the implementation of persistency.

7.4.8 Linked Data Crawling

Participants: Fabien Gandon, Hai Huang.

A Linked Data crawler performs a selection to focus on collecting linked RDF (including RDFa) data on the Web. From the perspectives of throughput and coverage, given a newly discovered and targeted URI, the key issue of Linked Data crawlers is to decide whether this URI is likely to dereference into an RDF data source and therefore if it is worthy downloading the representation it points to. Current solutions adopt heuristic rules to filter irrelevant URIs. But when the heuristics are too restrictive this hampers the coverage of crawling. We proposed and compared approaches to learn strategies for crawling Linked Data on the Web by predicting whether a newly discovered URI will lead to an RDF data source or not. We detailed the features used in predicting the relevance and the methods we evaluated including a promising adaptation of FTRL-proximal online learning algorithm. We compared several options through extensive experiments including existing crawlers as baseline methods to evaluate their efficiency 53.

7.4.9 Semantic Overlay Network for Linked Data Access

Participants: Fabien Gandon, Mahamadou Toure.

We proposed and evaluated MoRAI (Mobile Read Access in Intermittent internet connectivity), a distributed peer-to-peer architecture organized in three levels dedicated to RDF data exchanges by mobile contributors. We presented the conceptual and technical aspects of this architecture as well as a theoretical analysis of the different characteristics. We then evaluated it experimentally and results show the relevance of considering geographical positions during data exchanges and of integrating RDF graph replication to ensure data availability in terms of requests completion rate and resistance to crash scenarios 24.

7.4.10 SHACL Extension

Participants: Olivier Corby, Iliana Petrova, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron.

In the context of a collaboration with Stanford University, we worked on extensions of W3C SHACL Shape Constraint Language 6.

We conducted a study on large, active, and recognized ontology projects (ex. Gene Ontology, Human Phenotype Ontology, Mondo Disease Ontology, Ontology for Biomedical Investigations, OBO Foundry, etc.) as well as an analysis of several existing tools, methodologies and guidelines for ontological engineering.

As a result we identified several sets of ontology validation constraints that fall into six big clusters: i) formalization/modeling checks; ii) terminological/writing checks; iii) documentation/ editorial practices, terminology-level checks; iv) coherence between terminology and formalization; v) metamodel-based checks; vi) integration/interoperability/data checking, and can be further refined depending on whether they are specific to RDFS/OWL meta-model, domain/ontology specific, or Linked Data specific. This precise categorization of the ontology validation constraints allowed us to analyse the needs and impact of the extension we are targeting in terms of semantic expressiveness, computational complexity of the validation and current syntax of the SHACL language.

We then concentrated on the formalization of the semantic extensions and their validation methods and came up with a proposal of a corresponding syntactic extensions of SHACL.

The formal specification of the identified extensions enabled us to proceed with the implementation of a prototype plugin for Protégé (Stanford’s widely used ontology editor) based on the Corese engine and which extends the SHACL standard with these newly proposed capabilities.

7.4.11 Injection of Knowledge in a Sourcing Recommender System

Participants: Molka Dhouib, Catherine Faron, Andrea Tettamanzi.

7.4.12 Identifying argumentative structures in clinical trials

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata, Tobias Mayer, Santiago Marro.

7.4.13 Qualitative evaluation of arguments in persuasive essais

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata, Santiago Marro.

Following these guidelines, we created a new quality annotated dataset that enables us to propose different neural network models with the objective to automatically assess the argument(ation) quality in persuasive essays. The results obtained with the proposed models are promising and are still being adjusted for further publication.

7.4.14 Identification of the information captured by Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Participants: Antonia Ettorre, Anna Bobasheva, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel.

The recent growth in the utilization of Knowledge Graphs has been powered by the expanding landscape of Graph Embedding techniques, which facilitates the manipulation of the vast and sparse information described by such Knowledge Graphs. Although the effectiveness of Knowledge Graph Embeddings has been proved on many occasions and for many contexts, the interpretability of such vector representations remains an open issue. To tackle it, we provided a systematic approach to decode and make sense of the knowledge captured by Graph Embeddings. We proposed a technique for verifying whether Graph Embeddings are able to encode certain properties of the graph elements they represent and we presented a categorization for such properties 38.

7.4.15 Embedding Knowledge Graphs Attentive to Positional and Centrality Qualities

Participant: Damien Graux.

Knowledge graphs embeddings (KGE) are lately at the center of many artificial intelligence studies due to their applicability for solving downstream tasks, including link prediction and node classification. However, most Knowledge Graph embedding models encode, into the vector space, only the local graph structure of an entity, i.e., information of the 1-hop neighborhood. Capturing not only local graph structure but global features of entities is crucial for prediction tasks on Knowledge Graphs.

This work proposes a novel KGE method named Graph Feature Attentive Neural Network (GFA-NN) that computes graphical features of entities. As a consequence, the resulting embeddings are attentive to two types of global network features. First, the relative centrality of nodes is based on the observation that some of the entities are more “prominent” than the others. Second, comes the relative position of entities in the graph. GFA-NN computes several centrality values per entity, generates a random set of reference nodes' entities, and computes a given entity's shortest path to each entity in the reference set. It then learns this information through optimization of objectives specified on each of these features.

We investigate GFA-NN on several link prediction benchmarks in the inductive and transductive setting and show that GFA-NN achieves on-par or better results than state-of-the-art KGE solutions. We presented our findings at ECML-PKDD  68.

7.4.16 RDF Mining

Participants: Ali Ballout, Rémi Felin, Thu Huong Nguyen, Andrea Tettamanzi.

In the wake of Nguyen Thu Huong's thesis 19, which was successfully defended at the beginning of July, a new PhD student, Rémi Felin, was hired after an internship, during which he refactored existing software developed within this project and applied it to discover OWL class disjointness axioms involving complex class expressions 39.

On the other hand, our evolutionary approach critically relies on (candidate) axiom scoring. In practice, testing an axiom boils down to computing an acceptability score, measuring the extent to which the axiom is compatible with the recorded facts. Methods to approximate the semantics of given types of axioms have been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, but a promising alternative to their direct computation is to train a surrogate model on a sample of candidate axioms for which the score is already available, to learn to predict the score of a novel, unseen candidate axiom. This is the main objective Ali Ballout's thesis, whose first results are forthcoming.

7.4.17 Capturing Geospatial Knowledge from Real-Estate Advertisements

Participants: Lucie Cadorel, Andrea Tettamanzi.

In the framework of a CIFRE thesis with Kinaxia, we have proposed a workflow to extract geographic and spatial entities based on a BiLSTM-CRF architecture with a concatenation of several text representations and to extract spatial relations, to build a structured Geospatial knowledge base. This pipeline has been applied it to the case of French housing advertisements, which generally provide information about a property's location and neighbourhood. Our results show that the workflow tackles French language and the variability and irregularity of housing advertisements, generalizes Geoparsing to all geographic and spatial terms, and successfully retrieves most of the relationships between entities from the text 35.

7.4.18 ISSA: semantic indexing of scientific articles and advanced services

Participants: Franck Michel, Marco Winckler, Anna Bobasheva, Olivier Corby.

Project ISSA started in October 2020. In 2021 we have recruited a part-time engineer and supervised a 6-month Master 2 intership. We have set up a framework for the semantic indexing of the scientific publications from Agritrop, Cirad's scientific archive. Indexing is performed on two levels: thematic and geographic descriptors characterizing the article as a whole, and named entities extracted from the articles text. Descriptors and named entities are linked with reference knowlegde bases such as Wikidata, DBpedia, Geonames, and Agrovoc. We have deployed a pipeline to transform the outcome of this indexing phase to produce a knowledge graph that shall be made public in the following of the project in 2022. We have also prototyped basic visualization services that render the entities and descriptors extracted during the indexing process.

7.4.19 IndeGx: A Model and a Framework for Indexing Linked Datasets and theirKnowledge Graphs with SPARQL-based Test Suits

Participants: Pierre Maillot, Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Franck Michel.

The joint exploitation of RDF datasets relies on the knowledge of their content, of their endpoints, and of what they have in common. Yet, not every dataset contains a self-description, and not every endpoint can handle the complex queries used to generate such a description.

As part of the ANR DeKaloG, we proposed a standard-based approach to generate the description of a dataset. The description generated as well as the process of its computation are expressed using standard vocabularies and languages. We have implemented our approach into a framework, called IndeGx, to automatically generate the description of datasets and endpoints and collect them in an index. We have experimented IndeGx on a set of 197 active knowledge bases.

Several visualisations wer also generated from IndeGx and are available online: IndeGx Web Site.

7.4.20 Evaluation of Explanations for Relational Graph Convolutional Network Link Prediction on Knowledge Graph

Participants: Nicholas Halliwell, Fabien Gandon, Freddy Leccue.

This collaboration is considering the fundamental problem of evaluating the quality of explanations generated by some of the latest AI systems 48.

We first proposed a rule-based and ontology based generator for a simplified benchmark focusing on providing non-ambiguous explanations for knowledge graph link prediction using Relational Graph Convolutional Networks (RGCN)  50, 49, 51.

We then proposed an extended method to support user-scored evaluation of non-unique explanations for link prediction by RGCNs integrating the constraint of having multiple possible explanations for a prediction of different value for a user  52.

7.4.21 Extending electronic medical records vector models with knowledge graphs to improve hospitalization prediction

Participants: Raphael Gazzoti, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon.

We proposed to address the problem of hospitalization prediction for patients with an approach that enriches vector representation of EMRs with information extracted from different knowledge graphs before learning and predicting. In addition, we performed an automatic selection of features resulting from knowledge graphs to distinguish noisy ones from those that can benefit the decision making. We evaluted our results with experiments on the PRIMEGE PACA database that contains more than 600,000 consultations carried out by 17 general practitioners (GPs). A statistical evaluation shows that our proposed approach improves hospitalization prediction. More precisely, injecting features extracted from cross-domain knowledge graphs in the vector representation of EMRs given as input to the prediction algorithm significantly increases the F1 score of the prediction. By injecting knowledge from recognized reference sources into the representation of EMRs, it is possible to significantly improve the prediction of medical events.  29

PREMISSE Collaborative Project

Participants: Molka Dhouib, Catherine Faron, Andrea Tettamanzi.

This collaborative project with the SILEX France company started in March 2017, funded by the ANRT (CIFRE PhD). It ended in December 2021. SILEX France is developing a B2B platform where service providers and consumers upload their service offers or requests in free natural language; the platform is intended to recommend service providers to the applicant, which are likely to fit his/her service request. The aim of this project was to propose a decision support system by exploiting the semantic knowledge that is extracted from the textual descriptions of requests for services and providers, in order to recommend relevant providers for a service request.

HealthPredict Collaborative Project

Participants: Raphaël Gazzotti, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon.

This collaborative project with the Synchronext company started in April 2017, funded by the ANRT (CIFRE PhD). It ended in April 2021. Synchronext is a startup aiming at developing Semantic Web business solutions. The aim of this project was to design a digital health solution for the early management of patients through consultations with their general practitioner and health care circuit. The goal was to develop a predictive Artificial Intelligence interface that allows to cross the data of symptoms, diagnosis and medical treatments of the population in real time to predict the hospitalization of a patient.  29, 10

Curiosity Collaborative Project

Participants: Catherine Faron, Oscar Rodríguez Rocha, Molka Dhouib.

This collaborative project with the TeachOnMars company started in October 2019. TeachOnMars is developping a platform for mobile learning. The aim of this project is to develop an approach for automatically indexing and semantically annotating heterogeneous pedagogical resources from different sources to build up a knowledge graph enabling to compute training paths, that correspond to the learner's needs and learning objectives.

CIFRE Contract with Doriane

Participants: Andrea Tettamanzi, Rony Dupuy Charles.

This collaborative contract for the supervision of a CIFRE doctoral scholarship, relevant to the PhD of Rony Duput Charles, is part of Doriane's Fluidity Project (Generalized Experiment Management), the feasibility phase of which has been approved by the Terralia cluster and financed by the Région Sud-Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur and BPI France in March 2019. The objective of the thesis is to develop machine learning methods for the field of agro-vegetation-environment. To do so, this research work will take into account and address the specificities of the problem, i.e. data with mainly numerical characteristics, scalability of the study object, small data, availability of codified background knowledge, need to take into account the economic stakes of decisions, etc., as explained in the section on the context of the project. To enable the exploitation of ontological resources, the combination of symbolic and connective approaches will be studied, among others. Such resources can be used, on the one hand, to enrich the available datasets and, on the other hand, to restrict the search space of predictive models and better target learning methods.

The PhD student will develop original methods for the integration of background knowledge in the process of building predictive models and for the explicit consideration of uncertainty in the field of agro-plant environment.

CIFRE Contract with Kinaxia

Participants: Andrea Tettamanzi, Lucie Cadorel.

This thesis project is part of a collaboration with Kinaxia that began in 2017 with the Incertimmo project. The main theme of this project was the consideration of uncertainty for a spatial modeling of real estate values in the city. It involved the computer scientists of the Laboratory and the geographers of the ESPACE Laboratory. It allowed the development of an innovative methodological protocol to create a mapping of real estate values in the city, integrating fine-grained spatiality (the street section), a rigorous treatment of the uncertainty of knowledge, and the fusion of multi-source (with varying degrees of reliability) and multi-scale (parcel, street, neighbourhood) data.

This protocol was applied to the Nice-Côte d'Azur metropolitan area case study, serving as a test bed for application to other metropolitan areas.

The objective of this thesis, which will be carried out by Lucie Cadorel with the advice of Andrea Tettamanzi, is, on the one hand, to study and adapt the application of methods for extracting knowledge from texts (or text mining) to the specific case of real estate ads written in French, before extending them to other languages, and, on the other hand, to develop a methodological framework that makes it possible to detect, explicitly qualify, quantify and, if possible, reduce the uncertainty of the extracted information, in order to make it possible to use it in a processing chain that is finalized for recommendation or decision making, while guaranteeing the reliability of the results.

9.1.1 Associate Teams in the framework of an Inria International Lab or in the framework of an Inria International Program

9.1.2 Participation in other International Programs

9.2.1 FP7 & H2020 projects

9.2.2 Other european programs/initiatives

PIA GDN ANSWER

Participants: Fabien Gandon, Hai Huang, Vorakit Vorakitphan, Serena Villata, Elena Cabrio.

ANSWER stands for Advanced aNd Secured Web Experience and seaRch. It is a GDN project (Grands Défis du Numérique) from the PIA program (Programme d’Investissements d'Avenir) on Big Data. The project is between four Inria research teams and the Qwant company.

The aim of the ANSWER project is to develop the new version of the Qwant search engine by introducing radical innovations in terms of search criteria as well as indexed content and users’ privacy.

The purpose is to strengthen everyone’s confidence in the search engine and increase the effectiveness of Web search. Building trust in the search engine is based on innovations in (1) Security: computer security, privacy; (2) Completeness: completeness and heterogeneity of (re)sources; and (3) Neutrality: analysis, extraction, indexing, and classification of data.

Increasing the effectiveness of Web-based research relies on innovations related to (1) Relevance: variety and value of content taken into account, measurement of emotions carried by query results; (2) Interaction with the user: adaptation of the interfaces to the types of research; and (3) Performance: perceived relevance of results and response time.

The proposed innovations include:

• Design and develop models and tools for the detection of emotions in query results:
  • Ontology, thesaurus, linguistic resources
  • Metrics, indicators, classification of emotions
• Design and develop new crawling algorithms:
  • Dynamic crawling strategies
  • Crawlers and indexes for linked open data
• Ensure respect for privacy:
  • Detection of Internet tracking
  • Preventive display of tracing techniques
  • Certified security of automatic adaptation of ads to keywords entered by the user

Ministry of Culture: MonaLIA 3.0

Participants: Anna Bobasheva, Fabien Gandon, Frédéric Precioso.

The objective of the MonaLIA project is to exploit the crossover of the automatic learning methods particularly applied to image analysis and knowledge-based representation and reasoning, in particular for the semantic indexing of annotated works and images in JocondeLab. The goal is to identify automated or semi-automatable tasks to improve the annotation. This project follows the preliminary project “MonaLIA 1” which established the state of the art in order to evaluate the potential and the combination of learning (notably deep learning) and the semantization of annotations on the case of JocondeLab. In the project MonaLIA we now want to go beyond the preliminary study and to design and build a prototype and the methods assisting the creation, the improvement, and the maintenance of the metadata of the image database in order to assist the actors of the cultural world in their daily tasks. The preliminary study identified several possible coupling points between deep learning from non-necessarily structured data and reasoning from structured data. This project proposes to select the most promising of them to carry out a proof of concept combining these methods by focusing on the assistance to the annotation and curation tasks of the metadata of a real base to improve the contents, the course and exploitation thereafter.

ANR WASABI

Participants: Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Catherine Faron, Alain Giboin.

The ANR project WASABI started in January 2017 with IRCAM, Deezer, Radio France and the SME Parisson, consists in building a 2 million songs knowledge base of commercial popular music (rock, pop, etc.). Its originality is the joint use of audio-based music information extraction algorithms, song lyrics analysis algorithms (natural language processing), and the use of the Semantic Web. Web Audio technologies will then explore these bases of musical knowledge by providing innovative applications for composers, musicologists, music schools, and sound engineers, music broadcasters and journalists. This project is in its mid-execution and gave birth to many publications in international conferences as well as some mainstream coverage (i.e for “la fête de la Science”). Participation in the ANR OpenMiage project aimed at offering online Bachelor and Master degrees.

The project also led to industrial transfer of some of the results (partnership with AmpedStudio.com/Amp Track company) for the integration of our software into theirs), SATT PACA.

Web site: Wasabi HomePage

ANR SIDES 3.0

Participants: Catherine Faron, Olivier Corby, Antonia Ettore, Anna Bobasheva, Fabien Gandon, Alain Giboin, Franck Michel.

Partners: Université Grenoble Alpes, Inria, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Viseo, Theia.

SIDES 3.0 is an ANR project which started in fall 2017. It is led by Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and its general objective is to introduce semantics within the existing SIDES educational platform 7 for medicine students, in order to provide them with added value educational services. Within this project we are developing an approach to predict the success of students on training quizzes based on the knowledge graph representing their interactions with the pedagogical resources within the SIDES platform.

Web site: SIDES 3.0 Project

ANR D2KAB

Participants: Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Franck Michel, Nadia Yacoubi Ayadi.

Partners: LIRMM, INRAE, IRD, ACTA

D2KAB is an ANR project which started in June 2019, led by the LIRMM laboratory (UMR 5506). Its general objective is to create a framework to turn agronomy and biodiversity data into knowledge –semantically described, interoperable, actionable, open– and investigate scientific methods and tools to exploit this knowledge for applications in science and agriculture. Within this project the Wimmics team is contributing to the lifting of heterogeneous dataset related to agronomy coming from the different partners of the project and is responsible to develop a unique entry point with semantic querying and navigation services providing a unified view on the lifted data.

Web site: D2KAB Project

ANR DeKaloG

Participants: Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Pierre Maillot, Franck Michel.

Partners: Université Nantes, INSA Lyon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée

DeKaloG (Decentralized Knowledge Graphs) aims to: (1) propose a model to provide fair access policies to KGs without quota while ensuring complete answers to any query. Such property is crucial for enabling web automation, i.e. to allow agents or bots to interact with KGs. Preliminary results on web preemption open such perspective, but scalability issues remain; (2) propose models for capturing different levels of transparency, a method to query them efficiently, and especially, techniques to enable web automation of transparency. (3) propose a sustainable index for achieving the findability principle.

DeKaloG Web site

DBpedia.fr

Participants: Fabien Gandon, Franck Michel, Célian Ringwald.

The DBpedia.fr project ensures the creation and maintenance of a French chapter of the DBpedia knowledge base. This project was the first project of the Semanticpedia convention signed by the Ministry of Culture, the Wikimedia foundation and Inria.

A new project proposal was selected in 2021 between Inria and the Ministry of Culture to support evolutions and long-term sustaining of this project.

Convention between Inria and the Ministry of Culture

Participant: Fabien Gandon.

We supervise the research convention with the Ministry of Culture to foster research and development at the crossroad of culture and digital sciences. This convention signed between Inria and the Ministry of Culture provides a framework to support projects at the crossroad of the cultural domain and the digital sciences.

Qwant-Inria Joint Laboratory

Participant: Fabien Gandon.

We supervise the Qwant-Inria Joint Laboratory where joint teams are created and funded to contribute to the search engine research and development. The motto of the joint lab is Smart Search and Privacy with five research directions:

• Crawling, Indexing, Searching
• Execution platform, privacy by design, security, ethics
• Maps and navigation
• Augmented interaction, connected objects, chatbots, personnal assistants
• Education technologies (EdTech)

We released the final, but confidential, report of the Qwant-Culture short-term project. This project aimed at identifying possibilities of exploiting the Qwant search engine to improve the search for information in the digital cultural resources of the French Ministry of Culture. Some possibilities have been selected to be the subject of research actions in the context a long-term project.

CovidOnTheWeb - Covid Inria program

Participants: Valentin Ah-Kane, Anna Bobasheva, Lucie Cadorel, Olivier Corby, Elena Cabrio, Jean-Marie Dormoy, Fabien Gandon, Raphaël Gazzotti, Alain Giboin, Santiago Marro, Tobias Mayer, Aline Menin, Franck Michel, Andrea Tettamanzi, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

The Covid-On-The-Web project aims to allow biomedical researchers to access, query and make sense of COVID-19 scholarly literature. To do so, we designed and implemented a pipeline levereding our skills in knowledge representation, text mining, argument mining and visualization techniques to process, analyze and enrich the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) that gathers 100,000+ full-text scientific articles related to the coronaviruses.

The generated RDF dataset comprises the Linked Data description of (1) named entities (NE) mentioned in the CORD-19 corpus and linked to DBpedia, Wikidata and other BioPortal vocabularies, and (2) arguments extracted using ACTA, a tool automating the extraction and visualization of argumentative graphs, meant to help clinicians analyze clinical trials and make decisions.

On top of this dataset, we have adapted visualization and exploration tools (MGExplorer, Arviz) to provide Linked Data visualizations that meet the expectations of the biomedical community.

ISSA (AAP Collex-Persée)

Participants: Franck Michel, Marco Winckler, Anna Bobasheva, Olivier Corby.

Partners: CIRAD, Mines d'Alès

The ISSA project started in October 2020 and is led by the CIRAD. It aims to set up a framework for the semantic indexing of scientific publications with thematic and geographic keywords from terminological resources. It also intends to demonstrate the interest of this approach by developing innovative search and visualization services capable of exploiting this semantic index. Agritrop, Cirad's open publications archive, serves as a use case and proof of concept throughout the project. In this context, the primarily semantic resources are the Agrovoc thesaurus, Wikidata and GeoNames.

Wimmics team is responsible for (1) the generation and publication of the knowledge graph representing the indexed entities, and (2) the development of search/visualization tools intended for researchers and/or information

3IA Côte d'Azur

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Freddy Limpens, Andrea Tettamanzi, Serena Villata.

We have four 3IA chairs for tenured researchers of Wimmics and several grants for PhD and postdocs.

We also have an industrial 3IA Affiliate Chair with the company Mnemotix focused on the industrialisation and scalability of the CORESE software.

UCA IDEX OTESIA project “Artificial Intelligence to prevent cyberviolence and hate speech online”

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata, Anais Ollagnier.

The project will cross the approaches of mediation / remediation: it is planned to develop a software to detect hate messages based on an analysis of natural language, but also to understand their argumentative structure (not a simple detection of isolated words, insults) and to develop the critical spirit of the victims and therefore, to do this, to develop a counter-speech. Hence interventions in 6 secondary schools for role-playing games that will serve as a basis for data collection. This data, once analysed, will support the development of software to detect hate and violent speech online. As part of a restitution of the work carried out, the institutions will participate in a collaborative manner in the development of counter-speech.

Member of organizing committees

Participants: Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Damien Graux, Benjamin Molinet, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

• Damien Graux: organizer of the 7th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW) co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021), organizer of the 1st Ph.D. Workshop on Big Data Analytics from the LAMBDA Network.
• Michel Buffa and Shihong Ren : organizers of the "WebAudio Plugin" workshop at the WebAudio Conference 2022 (WAC 2022), July 5-7, 2022.
• Serena Villata: co-chair of the “Sister Conference Best Papers” track of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2021).9.
• Elena Cabrio: co-chair of the “Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence workshop” (NL4AI@AI*IA 2021).
• Benjamin Molinet: Technical staff of the Inria hackAtech 24 - 26 October 2021 event, presentation and support for the argumentative mining tool ACTA based on this work.
• Marco Winckler: co-chair of the track Demonstrations/posters for the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2021), May 18-21, 2021 - Biarritz, France. Also member of the advisory board of the (INTERACT 2021) - IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, August 30th-September 3rd 2021 - Bari, Ital.

10.1.1 Scientific events: selection

Participants: Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Alain Giboin, Damien Graux, Pierre Maillot, Aline Menin, Amaya Nogales Gómez, Shihong Ren, Andrea Tettamanzi, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

10.1.2 Journal

Participants: Michel Buffa, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Alain Giboin, Aline Menin, Andrea Tettamanzi, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

10.1.3 Invited talks

Participants: Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Olivier Corby, Fabien Gandon, Damien Graux, Franck Michel, Shihong Ren, Serena Villata.

• Olivier Corby:
  • Inrae workshop on Semantic Linked Data, Sète, 11-13 october 2021:
    • Tutorial: Semantic Web languages.
    • Talk: Extended SPARQL Service for federated queries.

• Michel Buffa and Shihong Ren:
  • "Etat de l'art sur les plugins WebAudio", Journées d'Informatique Musicale 2021 (JIM 2021)
  • "WebAudio Modules 2.0, a standard for WebAudio plugins", W3C TPAC conference 2022.

• Damien Graux:
  • “Hints to Save Time when Dealing with Big Data”, keynote at the 1st Ph.D. Workshop on Big Data Analytics from the LAMBDA Network

• Shihong Ren:
  • Post-doctoral seminar "Intelligently generate Faust digital audio processors from block diagrams" at Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China)
  • Seminar "From Diagram to Code: a Web-based Interactive Graph Editor for Digital Sound Processing Design and Code Generation" (Inria)

• Franck Michel:
  • “Bioschemas: Marking up biodiversity websites for data discovery & integration”, TDWG webinars series.
  • “Marking up biodiversity web pages with structured information to make them discoverable and reusable”, Mini-symposium Open Science and Interoperability in Bioinformatics (OSIBIO), Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques (JOBIM).
  • “Web Pages, Databases, Knowledge Graphs... Considering Separated Web Data Sources as a Continuum”. Minisymposium Toward Semantic Integration of Biological Resources, PASC 2021 conference

• Fabien Gandon:
  • Keynote at ENDORSE 2021 on “Web open standards for linked data and knowledge graphs as enablers of EU digital sovereignty”, 19/03/2021
  • short talk at online workshop ADEME-Inria "demain l'IA" 18/06/2021
  • short talk at online workshop CWI-Inria " Data and Intelligent Systems" 05/07/2021
  • short talk at online workshop La Poste-Inria "SOLID" 13/01/2021
  • short talk 3IA Côte d'Azur days 30/11/2021

• Serena Villata:
  • Keynote speaker at the 3rd International Workshop on Argument Strength on "Towards assessing natural language argument strength: results and open challenges", October 11th-13th, 2021, online event.
  • Invited speaker at the 2nd International Workshop on Deceptive AI (co-located with IJCAI-2021) on "Deceptive Argumentation: identification, reasoning and ethical challenges", August 19th, 2021, online event.
  • Keynote speaker of the EuropeaN Data conference On Reference data and SEmantics (ENDORSE-2021): "Key findings and future challenges in AI & Law", invited by the Publications Office of the European Union, March 17, 2021, online event.
  • Invited lecture (advanced course) at the Institut d'Automne en Intelligence Artificielle (IA2 2021) on "Argumentation, natural language, and explanation", September 27th, 2021, Paris.
  • Invited lecture at the 1st International Munich Legal Tech Summer School on "Argument Mining", August 4th, 2021, online event.
  • Invited lecture at the SKEMA Hakathon 2021 on "Algorithmic bias", September 13th-17th, 2021.
  • Invited talk at the APPLY TV on "Towards argument-based explanatory dialogues: from argument mining to (explanatory) argument generation", April 28th, 2021, online event.
  • Invited talk at the CLORA webinair on "New research in the fight against disinformation", June 7th, 2021.

• Elena Cabrio:
  • Invited speaker at third edition of the Symposium MaDICS on “L’intelligence artificielle au service de la prévention de la cyberviolence, du cyberharcèlement et de la haine en ligne”, July 5-8 2021, online event.

10.1.4 Leadership within the scientific community

Participants: Fabien Gandon, Marco Winckler.

Fabien Gandon is a member of Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) a non-profit organisation for promotion and exchange of the scholarly work in Semantic Web and related fields throughout the world ans steering committee of the ISWC conference.

Marco Winckler is French representative at the IFIP TC13 and member of the Association Francophone pour l'Interaction Homme-Machine.

10.1.5 Scientific expertise

Participants: Michel Buffa, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon.

• Catherine Faron: member of the ANR scientific evaluation committe “Artificial Intelligence” (CE23) ; reviewer for the HAISCoDe programme of Normandie region; scientific referent of the Inria Learning Lab.
• Michel Buffa : member of the scientific council of the GRAME laboratory (Lyon).
• Fabien Gandon is member of the Choose France committee ; member of the evaluation committee for 3IA Côte d'Azur chairs ; member of the jury DR0 Inria.

10.1.6 Research administration

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Andrea Tettamanzi, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

• Olivier Corby: member of the working group on environmental issue at I3S laboratory.
• Catherine Faron: board member of the French Society for Artificial Intelligence (AFIA) ; member of the steering committee of the AFIA college on Knowledge Engineering.
• Fabien Gandon : Leader of the Wimmics team ; Vice-director of Research Inria Sophia Antipolis ; co-president of scientific and pedagogical council of the Data Science Technical Institure (DSTI) ; vice-president of the Jury for CRCN-ISFP Inria Côte d'Azur 2021 contest ; Supervision of evaluation of two teams in HPC and DIG domains of Inria ; Member of the Evaluation Committee of Inria ; W3C Advisory Committee Representative (AC Rep) for Inria ; Leader of the convention Inria - Ministry of Culture ; Leader of Workgroup for the evaluation of the team proposal BOREAL.
• Serena Villata: Deputy Scientific Director of 3IA Côte d'Azur Institute.
• Elena Cabrio is member of the Conseil d’Administration (CA) of the French Association of Computational Linguistics (ATALA) ; Member of the Bureau of the Académie 1 of IDEX UCA JEDI.
• Andrea Tettamanzi is the leader of the SPARKS team at I3S laboratory.
• Marco Winckler is joint-director of the SPARKS team at the I3S Laboratory, Secretary for the IFIP TC13 on Human-Computer Interaction, member of the Steering Committee of INTERACT.

10.2.1 Teaching

Participants: Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Damien Graux, Aline Menin, Amaya Nogales Gómez, Andrea Tettamanzi, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

• Michel Buffa:
  • Licence 3, Master 1, Master 2 Méthodes Informatiques Appliquées à la Gestion des Entreprises (MIAGE) : Web Technologies, Web Components, etc. 192h.
  • DS4H Masters 3D games programming on Web, JavaScript Introduction: 40h.
• Olivier Corby:
  • Licence 3 IOTA UCA 25 hours Semantic Web
  • Licence 3 IA DS4H UCA 25 hours Semantic Web
• Catherine Faron :
  • Master 2/5A SI PNS: Web of Data, 32 h
  • Master 2/5A SI PNS: Semantic Web 32h
  • Master 2/5A SI PNS: Ingénierie des connaissances 15h
  • Master DSAI UCA: Web of Data, 30h
  • Master 1/4A SI PNS and Master2 IMAFA/5A MAM PNS: Web languages, 28h
  • Licence 3/3A SI PNS and Master 1/4A MAM PNS: Relational Databases, 60h
  • Master DSTI: Data pipeline, 50h.
• Fabien Gandon : Master: Integrating Semantic Web technologies in Data Science developments, 78 h, M2, DSTI, France.
• Aline Menin :
  • Master 1, Data Sciences & Artificial Intelligence, UCA, 15h (CM/TP), Data visualization.
  • Master 1, Mobiliquité, Big Data et intégration de systèmes, UCA, 9h (CM/TP), Data visualization.
  • Master 1, Méthodes Informatiques Appliquées à la Gestion des Entreprises (MIAGE), UCA, 12h (TP), Javascript programming.
  • Licence 3, Licence MATHÉMATIQUES ET INFORMATIQUE APPLIQUÉES AUX SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES Parcours Méthodes Informatiques Appliquées à la Gestion des Entreprises (MIASHS/MIAGE), UCA, 48h (CM/TD/TP), Human-computer interaction.
• Amaya Nogales Gómez:
  • Master 1, Data Sciences & Artificial Intelligence, UCA, 20h (CM/TD), Security and Ethical Aspects of Data.
  • Licence 2, Licence Informatique, UCA, 36h (TP), Structures de données et programmation C.
• Serena Villata:
  • Master II Droit de la Création et du Numérique - Sorbonne University: Approche de l'Elaboration et du Fonctionnement des Logiciels, 15 hours (CM), 20 students.
  • Master 2 MIAGE IA - University Côte d'Azur: I.A. et Langage : Traitement automatique du langage naturel, 28 hours (CM+TP), 30 students.
  • Master Communication et Langage Politique - University Côte d'Azur: Argumentation, 15 hours (CM+TD), 10 students.
• Elena Cabrio:
  • Master I Computer Science, Text Processing in AI, e. 30 hours (eq. TD).
  • Master 2 MIAGE IA - University Côte d'Azur: I.A. et Langage : Traitement automatique du langage naturel, 28 hours (CM+TP), 30 students.
  • Master 1 EUR CREATES, Parcours Linguistique, traitements informatiques du texte et processus cognitifs. Introduction to Computational Linguistics, 30 hours.
  • Master 1 EUR CREATES, Parcours Linguistique, traitements informatiques du texte et processus cognitifs. Textual Data Analysis, 30 hours.
  • Master Modeling for Neuronal and Cognitive Systems. Text analysis, deep learning and statistics, 18.5 hours.
  • License 2, Computer Science. Web Technologies, 54 hours.
• Andrea Tettamanzi
  • Licence: Andrea Tettamanzi, Introduction à l'Intelligence Artificielle, 45 h ETD, L2, UCA, France.
  • Master: Andrea Tettamanzi, Logic for AI, 30 h ETD, M1, UCA, France.
  • Master: Andrea Tettamanzi, Web, 30 h ETD, M1, UCA, France.
  • Master: Andrea Tettamanzi, Algorithmes Évolutionnaires, 24.5 h ETD, M2, UCA, France.
  • Master: Andrea Tettamanzi, Modélisation del l'Incertitude, 24.5 h ETD, M2, UCA, France.
• Marco Winckler
  • Licence 3: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction, 45 h ETD, UCA, Polytech Nice, France.
  • Master 1: Accessibility and Universal Design, 10 h ETD, UCA, DS4H, France.
  • Master 1: Methods and tools for technical and scientific writing, Master DSAI, 15 h ETD, UCA, DS4H, France.
  • Master 1: Introduction to Information Visualization, Master DSAI, 15 h ETD, UCA, DS4H, France.
  • Master 2: Introduction to Scientific Research, 10 h ETD, UCA, DS4H, France.
  • Master 2: Introduction to Scientific Research, 15 h ETD, UCA, Polytech Nice, France.
  • Master 2: Data Mining Visualisation, 8 h ETD, UCA, Polytech Nice, France.
  • Master 2: Data Visualization, 15 h ETD, UCA, MBDS DS4H, France.
  • Master 2: Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces, 45 ETD, UCA, Polytech Nice, France.
  • Master 2: Multimodal Interaction Techniques, 15 ETD, UCA, Polytech Nice, France.
  • Master 2: coordination of the TER (Travaux de Fin d'Etude), UCA, Polytech Nice, France.
  • Master 2: coordination of the track on Human-Computer Interaction at the Informatics Department, UCA, Polytech Nice, France.

E-learning

• Mooc: Fabien Gandon, Olivier Corby & Catherine Faron, Web of Data and Semantic Web (FR), 7 weeks, FUN, Inria, France Université Numérique, self-paced course 41002, Education for Adults, 14164 learners registered at the time of this report, MOOC page.
• Mooc: Fabien Gandon, Olivier Corby & Catherine Faron, Introduction to a Web of Linked Data (EN), 4 weeks, FUN, Inria, France Université Numérique, self-paced course 41013, Education for Adults, 5614 learners registered at the time of this report, MOOC page.
• Mooc: Fabien Gandon, Olivier Corby & Catherine Faron, Web of Data (EN), 4 weeks, Coursera, self-paced course Education for Adults, 4224 learners registered at the time of this report, MOOC page.
• Mooc: Michel Buffa, HTML5 coding essentials and best practices, 6 weeks, edX MIT/Harvard, self-paced course Education for Adults, more than 500k learners at the time of this report (2015-2022), MOOC page.
• Mooc: Michel Buffa, HTML5 Apps and Games, 5 weeks, edX MIT/Harvard, self-paced course Education for Adults, more than 150k learners at the time of this report (2015-2022), MOOC page.

• Mooc: Michel Buffa, JavaScript Introduction, 5 weeks, edX MIT/Harvard, self-paced course Education for Adults, more than 250k learners at the time of this report (2015-2022), MOOC page.

  Curriculum

  • Damien Graux: Participation to the creation of a curriculum dedicated to teaching Big Data and associated technologies and use case. Initially dedicated to the West Balkan region, the curriculum was later (re-)thought as a set of lectures globally useful. This initiative as been presented at the 26th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE)  43. This curriculum is also available online through an open platform, also presented at ITiCSE 2021  42.

10.2.2 Supervision

Participants: Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Damien Graux, Aline Menin, Andrea Tettamanzi, Serena Villata, Marco Winckler.

• PhD in progress: Ali Ballout, Active Learning for Axiom Discovery, Andrea Tettamanzi, UCA.
• PhD in progress: Lucie Cadorel, Localisation sur le territoire et prise en compte de l'incertitude lors de l’extraction des caractéristiques de biens immobiliers à partir d'annonces, Andrea Tettamanzi, UCA.
• PhD in progress: Ahmed El Amine Djebri, Uncertainty in Linked Data, UCA, Andrea Tettamanzi, Fabien Gandon.
• PhD in progress: Rony Dupuy Charles, Combinaison d'approches symboliques et connexionnistes d'apprentissage automatique pour les nouvelles méthodes de recherche et développement en agro-végétale-environnement, Andrea Tettamanzi, UCA.
• PhD in progress: Antonia Ettore, Artificial Intelligence for Education and Training: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for the development of intelligent services in pedagogical environments, UCA, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel.
• PhD in progress: Rémi Felin, Découverte évolutive d’axiomes à partir de graphes de connaissances, UCA, Andrea Tettamanzi, Catherine Faron.
• PhD in progress: Nicholas Halliwell, Explainable and Interpretable Prediction, UCA, Fabien Gandon.
• PhD in progress: Santiago Marro, Argument-based Explanatory Dialogues for Medicine, UCA 3IA, Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata.
• PhD in progress: Benjamin Molinet, Explanatory argument generation for healthcare applications, UCA 3IA, Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata.
• PhD in progress: Pierpaolo Goffredo, Natural Language Counter-argumentation to Fight Online Disinformation, UCA 3IA, Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata.
• PhD defended: Thu Huong Nguyen, Mining the Semantic Web for OWL axioms, Andrea Tettamanzi, July 2 70.
• PhD in progress: Maroua Tikat, Visualisation multimédia interactive pour l’exploration d’une base de métadonnées multidimensionnelle de musiques populaires. Michel Buffa, Marco Winckler.
• PhD in progress: Florent ROBERT, Analyzing and Understanding Embodied Interactions in Extended Reality Systems. Co-supervision with Hui-Yin Wu, Lucile Sassatelli, and Marco Winckler.
• Post-Doc in progress: Aline MENIN, Interactive Visulization of Semantic Databases of Publications about Covid-19. (18 months)
• PhD defended: Molka Tounsi Dhouib, Knowledge engineering in the sourcing domain for the recommendation of providers, UCA, Catherine Faron, Andrea Tettamanzi, March 23.
• PhD defended: Mahamadou Toure, Local peer-to-peer mobile access to linked data in resource-constrained networks, UCA, Fabien Gandon, Moussa Lo (UGB, Senegal). 24
• PhD defended: Vorakit Vorakitphan, Fine-Grained Classification of Polarized and Propagandist Text in News Articles and Political Debates, UCA, Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata.

Internship

• Master 1 Internship: Minh Nhat Do, A visualization approach based on chained views and follow-up queries to explore large datasets. UCA. Marco Winckler & Aline Menin.
• Master 2 Internship (MIAGE parcours IA2): Rémi Felin, Evolutionary Axiom Discovery from Populated Knowledge Bases. Supervised by Andrea Tettamanzi.
• Master 2 Internship (MIAGE parcours IA2): Pierre Saunders, Towards a Holistic Benchmarking Platform for Semantic Web Data Storage Systems. Supervised by Damien Graux.
• Master 2 Internship (MIAGE): Manon Audren, Annotation of hate speech messages. Supervised by Elena Cabrio.
• Licence 3 Internship (MIAGE): Yessine Ben El Bey, A demo system for propaganda detection. Supervised by Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata.
• Licence 3 Internship (MIAGE): Saad El Din Ahmed, Named Entity Recognition in Legal Texts. Supervised by Serena Villata.
• Master 2 internship: Youssef MEKOUAR Development of augmented visualisation for Web contents. Co-superved by Franck Michel, Anne Toulet, and Marco Winckler.
• Master 2 internship: Florent Robert ROBERT, Florent. “Creating a virtual reality serious game using a DSL for interactive 3D environments”. Co-supervised by Hui-Yin Wu, Lucile Sassatelli, and Marco Winckler.

10.2.3 Juries

Participants: Elena Cabrio, Catherine Faron, Fabien Gandon, Aline Menin, Andrea Tettamanzi, Marco Winckler.

• Catherine Faron:
  • examiner of Federico Ulliana's HDR thesis entitled “Rule-based languages for reasoning on data: analysis, design, and applications", Université de Montpellier.
  • reviewer of Yu Du's PhD thesis entitled “Des données aux connaissances : vers des recommandations plus pertinentes, diversifiées et transparentes", Université de Montpellier, IMT Mines Alès.
  • reviewer of Stella Zevio's PhD thesis entitled “Découverte et enrichissement de connaissances à partir de textes pour la recherche d’experts", Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
  • examiner of Huong Nguyen's PhD thesis entitled “Mining the semantic web for OWL axioms", Université Côte d’Azur.
• Fabien Gandon:
  • reviewer of Hicham Hossayni's PhD thesis entitled “Web Preemption for Querying the Linked Open Data”, defended on December 17th, 2021 at Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
  • president of Vorakit Vorakitphan's PhD thesis entitled “Fine-Grained Classification of Polarized and Propagandist Text in News Articles and Political Debates”, defended on December 15th, 2021 at Université Côte d'Azur.
  • reviewer of the HDR Thesis of Antoine Zimmermann entitled “Interoperability for the Semantic Web: A Loosely Coupled Mediation Approach”, University Jean Monner - Saint-Etienne, 23/02/2021.
  • examiner HDR Claudia-Lavinia Ignat entitled “Large Scale Trustworthy Distributed Collaborative Systems”, Université de Lorraine, 23/04/2021.
  • president PhD jury of Thu Huong NGUYEN on “Mining the Semantic Web for OWL Axioms”, at Université Côte d'Azur, 02/07/2021.
• Aline Menin : reviewer of Arthur Back's MSc thesis entitled “The Landscape of XR Evaluation: Tertiary Review and Visualizations”, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brésil. Defended on December 14th, 2021 ; online.
• Andrea Tettamanzi: examiner of seven PhD theses of the University of Milan Bicocca:
  • Giulia Bernardini, “Combinatorial Methods for the Analysis of Related Genomic Sequences”, February 24, 2021.
  • Anna Ferrari, “Personalization of Human Activity Recognition Methods using Inertial Data”, February 24, 2021.
  • Adriano De Marino, “iSwap: a bioinformatics pipeline for index switching in Illumina sequencing platforms”, April 28, 2021.
  • Intissar Khalifa, “Deep psychology recognition based on automatic analysis of non-verbal behaviors”, April 28, 2021.
  • Riccardo Perego, “Automated Deep Learning through Constrained Bayesian Optimization”, April 28, 2021.
  • Davide Ginelli, “Understanding and Improving Automatic Program Repair: A Study of Code-removal Patches and a New Exception-driven Fault Localization Approach”, April 28, 2021.
  • Vincenzo Cutrona, “Semantic Table Annotation for Large-Scale Data Enrichment”, April 28, 2021.
• Elena Cabrio:
  • Reviewer and member of the PhD committee of Pablo Accuosto “Mining arguments in scientific abstracts and its application to argumentative quality assessment.”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), November 26 2021.
  • Reviewer and member of the PhD committee of Francois Torregrossa “Representation des mots et des connaissances”, Université de Rennes (France), December 16, 2021.
  • Reviewer and member of the PhD committee of Patricia Chiril “Hate speech detection on social media”, Université de Toulouse (France), November 16 2021.
  • Reviewer and member of the PhD committee of M. Mozafari “Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection using Transfer Learning Approaches”, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Mines-Telecom, May 28 2021.
  • Member of the PhD committee of Karim Ibrahim “Personalized Audio Auto-tagging as a Proxy for Context-aware Music Recommendation”, Telecom ParisTech, December 16, 2021.
  • Member of the PhD committee of Lucia Siciliani “Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs”, University of Bari (Italy), February 22 2021.
• Marco Winckler: examiner of 3 PhD theses and 1 master thesis overseas :
  • Jingya YUAN. “Data centered Usage based Protection in a SMACIT context”. July 8th, 2021, at the INSA Lyon, France. (President of the Jury).
  • Itziar OTADUY IGARTUA. “Promoting End-User Involvement in Web-based tasks: A Model-Driven Engineering Approach to Form-filling and User-Acceptance Testing". February 26th 2021, at the Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU), Spain. (Rapporteur).
  • Elodie BOUZEKRI. “Notation et processus outillé pour la description, l'analyse et la compréhension de l'automatisation dans les systèmes de commande et contrôle”. January 14th 2021, Université of Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (President of the Jury).
  • Carlos Victor QUIJANO CHAVES. An immersive Approach for Exploring Multiple Coordinated 3D Visualizations in Immersive Virtual Environments. Presented on November 30th, 2021. (Virtual) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

10.3.1 Articles and contents

Participants: Michel Buffa, Elena Cabrio, Fabien Gandon, Serena Villata.

• Fabien Gandon:
  • article Binaire, Le Monde, “Dessine-moi un graphe de connaissances” 75.
  • interview Chut! Magazine, N°7 - Lost in election “Le CERN a fait don du web au monde”, 23/09/2021.
  • podcast Chut! Radio “La Puce à l’Oreille, ep 5 : Faut-il sauver le world wide web ?” 29/09/2021.
  • Interview in Comics / Bande Dessinée “Les défis de l'intelligence artificielle : un reporter dans les labos de recherche” 83.
  • short talk at online Café-In "Mission Covid-19" about "CovidOnTheWeb", 06/05/2021.
  • Inria news article IA : bâtir la confiance et garantir la souveraineté, 09/11/2021.
  • contributor of the white paper/book of Inria “Internet of Things (IoT): Societal Challenges & Scientific Research Fields for IoT”  78.
• Michel Buffa:
  • Talk at online Inria Café-In about "WebAudio, WebMidi, WebComponents, WebAssembly, panorama de la MAO dans le browser", 06/05/2021.
• Serena Villata:
  • Participation to the round table on "Gender bias in AI" organised by the Institut français de Slovaquie, June 2021.
  • Participation to the online conference "Women and Artificial Intelligence", September 2021.
  • TV interview together with Elena Cabrio, FranceInfo, "L'intelligence artificielle pour lutter contre le harcèlement scolaire sur les réseaux sociaux", November 2021.
• Elena Cabrio:
  • Comment prevenir la cyberviolence, cyberharcelement et la haine en ligne ?, Festival de la Science de Nice, September 2021.
  • Interview as Argument Mining expert “Nature Podcast, March 2021 “The AI that argues back”.

International journals

• 26 articleB.Bettina Berendt, F.Fabien Gandon, S.Susan Halford, W.Wendy Hall, J.Jim Hendler, K. E.Katharina E Kinder-Kurlanda, E.Eirini Ntoutsi and S.Steffen Staab. Web Futures: Inclusive, Intelligent, Sustainable The 2020 Manifesto for Web Science.Dagstuhl Manifestos2021
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• 27 articleM.Michael Fell, Y.Yaroslav Nechaev, G.Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal, E.Elena Cabrio, F.Fabien Gandon and G.Geoffroy Peeters. Lyrics segmentation via bimodal text–audio representation.Natural Language Engineering2021, 1-20
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• 28 articleD. A.Damián Ariel Furman, S.Santiago Marro, C.Cristian Cardellino, D. N.Diana Nicoleta Popa and L.Laura Alonso Alemany. You can simply rely on communities for a robust characterization of stances.Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society341April 2021
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• 29 articleR.Raphaël Gazzotti, C.Catherine Faron Zucker, F.Fabien Gandon, V.Virginie Lacroix-Hugues and D.David Darmon. Extending electronic medical records vector models with knowledge graphs to improve hospitalization prediction.Journal of Biomedical Semantics2021
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• 30 articleT.Tobias Mayer, S.Santiago Marro, S.Serena Villata and E.Elena Cabrio. Enhancing Evidence-Based Medicine with Natural Language Argumentative Analysis of Clinical Trials.Artificial Intelligence in MedicineMay 2021, 102098
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• 31 articleA.Aline Menin, M. N.Minh Nhat Do, C.Carla Dal Sasso Freitas, O.Olivier Corby, C.Catherine Faron Zucker, A.Alain Giboin and M.Marco Winckler. Using Chained Views and Follow-up Queries to Assist the Visual Exploration of the Web of Big Linked Data.International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction2022
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• 32 articleA.Aline Menin, F.Franck Michel, F.Fabien Gandon, R.Raphaël Gazzotti, E.Elena Cabrio, O.Olivier Corby, A.Alain Giboin, S.Santiago Marro, T.Tobias Mayer, S.Serena Villata and M.Marco Winckler. Covid-on-the-Web: Exploring the COVID-19 Scientific Literature through Visualization of Linked Data from Entity and Argument Mining.Quantitative Science StudiesNovember 2021
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• 33 articleA.Aline Menin, R.Rafael Torchelsen and L.Luciana Nedel. The effects of VR in training simulators: Exploring perception and knowledge gain.Computers and GraphicsOctober 2021
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• 34 articleM.Molka Tounsi Dhouib, C.Catherine Faron and A. G.Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi. Measuring Clusters of Labels in an Embedding Space to Refine Relations in Ontology Alignment.Journal on Data SemanticsOctober 2021
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International peer-reviewed conferences

• 35 inproceedingsL.Lucie Cadorel, A.Alicia Blanchi and A. G.Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi. Geospatial Knowledge in Housing Advertisements: Capturing and Extracting Spatial Information from Text.K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture Conference, Virtual Event, USA, December 2-3, 2021K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture ConferenceVirtual Event USA, United StatesACMDecember 2021, 41-48
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• 36 inproceedingsO.Olivier Corby, C.Catherine Faron, F.Fabien Gandon, D.Damien Graux and F.Franck Michel. Beyond Classical SERVICE Clause in Federated SPARQL Queries: Leveraging the Full Potential of URI Parameters.International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST)Online, PortugalOctober 2021
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• 37 inproceedingsA. E.Ahmed El Amine Djebri, A.Antonia Ettorre and J.Johann Mortara. Towards a Linked Open Code.The Semantic WebESWC 2021 - 18th Extended Semantic Web ConferenceESWC 2021Heraklion / Virtual, GreeceMay 2021
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• 38 inproceedingsA.Antonia Ettorre, A.Anna Bobasheva, C.Catherine Faron and F.Franck Michel. A systematic approach to identify the information captured by Knowledge Graph Embeddings.IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-IAT ’21)IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-IAT ’21)ESSENDON, VIC, AustraliaDecember 2021
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• 39 inproceedingsR.Rémi Felin and A. G.Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi. Using Grammar-Based Genetic Programming for Mining Subsumption Axioms Involving Complex Class Expressions.IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-IAT ’21)20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent TechnologyMelbourne, Australia2022
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• 40 inproceedingsR.Raphaël Gazzotti and F.Fabien Gandon. When owl:sameAs is the Same: Experimenting Online Resolution of Identity with SPARQL queries to Linked Open Data Sources.WEBIST 2021 - 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and TechnologiesVirtual, FranceOctober 2021
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• 41 inproceedingsD.Damien Graux, D.Diego Collarana and F.Fabrizio Orlandi. Formal Concept Analysis for Semantic Compression of Knowledge Graph Versions.FCA4AI 2021 - 9th International Workshop "What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?"Montréal (Virtual Event), CanadaAugust 2021
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• 42 inproceedingsD.Damien Graux, V.Valentina Janev, H.Hajira Jabeen and E.Emanuel Sallinger. A Big Data Learning Platform for the West Balkans and Beyond.ITiCSE 2021: 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science EducationVirtual Event, GermanyACMJune 2021, 617-618
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• 43 inproceedingsD.Damien Graux, V.Valentina Janev, H.Hajira Jabeen and E.Emanuel Sallinger. Deploying a Strategy to Unlock Big Data Research and Teaching Activities in the West Balkan Region.ITiCSE 2021: 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science EducationVirtual Event, GermanyACMJune 2021, 491-497
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• 44 inproceedingsD.Damien Graux and T.Thibaud Michel. Involvement of OpenStreetMap in European H2020 Projects.Proceedings of the Academic Track at State of the Map 2021Virtual Event, GermanyJuly 2021
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• 45 inproceedingsD.Damien Graux, F.Fabrizio Orlandi, T.Tanmay Kaushik, D.David Kavanagh, H.Hailing Jiang, B.Brian Bredican, M.Matthew Grouse and D.Dáithí Geary. Timelining Knowledge Graphs in the Browser.VOILA! 2021- 6th International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked DataVirtual Event, United StatesOctober 2021
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• 46 inproceedingsD.Damien Graux, F.Fabrizio Orlandi and D.Declan O'sullivan. De-icing federated SPARQL pipelines: a method for assessing the "freshness" of result sets.MEPDaW 2021 - 7th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data WebVirtual Event, United StatesOctober 2021
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• 47 inproceedingsD.Damien Graux, F.Fabrizio Orlandi and D.Declan O'sullivan. Hash-ssessing the freshness of SPARQL pipelines.ISWC 2021 - International Semantic Web Conference : Posters, Demos and Industry TracksVirtual Event, United StatesOctober 2021
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• 48 inproceedingsN.Nicholas Halliwell. Evaluating Explanations of Relational Graph Convolutional Network Link Predictions on Knowledge Graphs.AAAIVancouver, CanadaFebruary 2022
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• 49 inproceedingsN.Nicholas Halliwell, F.Fabien Gandon and F.Freddy Lecue. A Simplified Benchmark for Ambiguous Explanations of Knowledge Graph Link Prediction using Relational Graph Convolutional Networks.36th AAAI Conference on Artificial IntelligenceVancouver, CanadaFebruary 2022
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• 50 inproceedingsN.Nicholas Halliwell, F.Fabien Gandon and F.Freddy Lecue. A Simplified Benchmark for Non-ambiguous Explanations of Knowledge Graph Link Prediction using Relational Graph Convolutional Networks.International Semantic Web ConferenceProceedings of International Semantic Web ConferenceTroy, United StatesOctober 2021
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• 51 inproceedingsN.Nicholas Halliwell, F.Fabien Gandon and F.Freddy Lecue. Linked Data Ground Truth for Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Explanations for Relational Graph Convolutional Network Link Prediction on Knowledge Graphs.International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent TechnologyMelbourne, AustraliaDecember 2021
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• 52 inproceedingsN.Nicholas Halliwell, F.Fabien Gandon and F.Freddy Lecue. User Scored Evaluation of Non-Unique Explanations for Relational Graph Convolutional Network Link Prediction on Knowledge Graphs.International Conference on Knowledge CaptureVirtual Event, United StatesDecember 2021
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• 53 inproceedingsH.Hai Huang and F.Fabien Gandon. Learning URI Selection Criteria to Improve the Crawling of Linked Open Data (Extended Abstract).IJCAI 2020 - 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial IntelligenceYokohama, JapanJanuary 2021
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• 54 inproceedingsA.Aline Menin, L.Lucie Cadorel, A. G.Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, A.Alain Giboin, F.Fabien Gandon and M.Marco Winckler. ARViz: Interactive Visualization of Association Rules for RDF Data Exploration.IV 2021 - 25th International Conference Information Visualisation252021 25th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)Melbourne / Virtual, Australia2021, 13-20
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• 55 inproceedingsA.Aline Menin, R.Ricardo Cava, C. M.Carla Maria Dal Sasso Freitas, O.Olivier Corby and M.Marco Winckler. Towards a Visual Approach for Representing Analytical Provenance in Exploration Processes.IV 2021 - 25th International Conference Information Visualisation252021 25th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)Melbourne / Virtual, Australia2021, 21-28
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• 56 inproceedingsA.Aline Menin, C.Catherine Faron Zucker, O.Olivier Corby, C. M.Carla Maria Dal Sasso Freitas, F.Fabien Gandon and M.Marco Winckler. From Linked Data Querying to Visual Search: Towards a Visualization Pipeline for LOD Exploration.Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST)Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST)Online Streaming, France2021
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• 57 inproceedings F.Franck Michel, A.Antonia Ettorre, C.Catherine Faron, J.Julien Kaplan and O.Olivier Gargominy. Biodiversity Knowledge Graphs: Time to move up a gear! TDWG 2021 annual virtual conference 5 Biodiversity Information Science and Standards Virtual, France Pensoft Publishers; Sofia : Pensoft Publishers, 2017- August 2021
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• 58 inproceedingsS.Shihong Ren, L.Laurent Pottier and M.Michel Buffa. Build WebAudio and JavaScript Web Applications using JSPatcher: A Web-based Visual Programming Editor.Web Audio Conference 2021Barcelone, SpainJune 2021
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• 59 inproceedingsF. A.Florent Alain Sauveur Robert, H.-Y.Hui-Yin Wu, M.Marco Winckler and L.Lucile Sassatelli. Creating serious game with a domain specific language for embodied experience in virtual reality.Les journées Françaises de l'Informatique GraphiqueBiot, FranceNovember 2021
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• 60 inproceedingsM.Maroua Tikat, M.Marco Winckler and M.Michel Buffa. Interactive multimedia visualization for exploring and fixing a multi-dimensional metadata base of popular musics.7th MEPDaW Workshop at ISWC'217th MEPDaW Workshop at ISWC'21Virtual, France2021
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• 61 inproceedingsV.Vorakit Vorakitphan, E.Elena Cabrio and S.Serena Villata. "Don't discuss": Investigating Semantic and Argumentative Features for Supervised Propagandist Message Detection and Classification.RANLP 2021 - Recent Advances in Natural Language ProcessingVarna / Virtual, BulgariaSeptember 2021
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• 62 inproceedingsV.Vorakit Vorakitphan, E.Elena Cabrio and S.Serena Villata. PROTECT - A Pipeline for Propaganda Detection and Classification.Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it 2021)Milan, ItalyJanuary 2022
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National peer-reviewed Conferences

• 63 inproceedingsF.Franck Michel, F.Fabien Gandon, V.Valentin Ah-Kane, A.Anna Bobasheva, E.Elena Cabrio, O.Olivier Corby, R.Raphaël Gazzotti, A.Alain Giboin, S.Santiago Marro, T.Tobias Mayer, M.Mathieu Simon, S.Serena Villata and M.Marco Winckler. Covid-on-the-Web: Graphe de Connaissances et Services pour faire Progresser la Recherche sur la COVID-19.IC 2021 - 32es Journées francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (32st French Knowledge Engineering Conference)Bordeaux, FranceJune 2021, 1-9
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Scientific book chapters

• 64 inbookF.Frédérique Bertoncello, M.-J.Marie-Jeanne Ouriachi, C.Célia Da Costa Pereira, A. G.Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, L.Louise Purdue and R.Rami Ajroud. Using ABM to explore the role of socio-environmental interactions on Ancient Settlement Dynamics..Human history and digital future, Proceeding of the 46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology international conference (CAA 2018), Tübingen, mars 2018.2021
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• 65 inbookM.Michel Buffa, E.Elena Cabrio, M.Michael Fell, F.Fabien Gandon, A.Alain Giboin, R.Romain Hennequin, F.Franck Michel, J.Johan Pauwels, G.Guillaume Pellerin, M.Maroua Tikat and M.Marco Winckler. The WASABI Dataset: Cultural, Lyrics and Audio Analysis Metadata About 2 Million Popular Commercially Released Songs.The Semantic Web. ESWC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12731.May 2021, 515-531
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• 66 inbookA.Alain GIBOIN. Common frame of reference.Ergonomie : 150 notions clésDunodSeptember 2021, pp. 412-415
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• 67 inbookD.Damien Graux and S.Sina Mahmoodi. A Fully Decentralized Triplestore Managed via the Ethereum Blockchain.Further with Knowledge GraphsStudies on the Semantic WebIOS PressAugust 2021
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• 68 inbookA.Afshin Sadeghi, D.Diego Collarana, D.Damien Graux and J.Jens Lehmann. Embedding Knowledge Graphs Attentive to Positional and Centrality Qualities.12976Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research TrackLecture Notes in Computer ScienceSpringer International PublishingSeptember 2021, 548-564
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• 69 inbookH.-Y.Hui-Yin Wu, J.Johanna Delachambre, L.Lucile Sassatelli and M.Marco Winckler. Through the Eyes of Women in Engineering: An immersive VR experience.Texts of DiscomfortCarnegie Mellon University: ETC PressNovember 2021, 387 - 414
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Doctoral dissertations and habilitation theses

• 70 thesisT. H.Thu Huong Nguyen. Mining the semantic Web for OWL axioms.Université Côte d'AzurJuly 2021
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• 71 thesisM.Molka Tounsi Dhouib. Knowledge engineering in the sourcing domain for the recommendation of providers.Université Côte d'AzurMarch 2021
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• 72 thesisM.Mahamadou Toure. Local peer-to-peer mobile access to linked data in resource-constrained networks.Université Côte d'Azur; Université de Saint-Louis (Sénégal)October 2021
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Reports & preprints

• 73 miscN.Nacira Abbas, K.Kholoud Alghamdi, M.Mortaza Alinam, F.Francesca Alloatti, G.Glenda Amaral, M.Martin Beno, F.Felix Bensmann, C.Claudia d'Amato, L.Luigi Asprino, R.Russa Biswas, L.Ling Cai, R.Riley Capshaw, V. A.Valentina Anita Carriero, I.Irene Celino, A.Amine Dadoun, S.Stefano De Giorgis, H.Harm Delva, J.John Domingue, M.Michel Dumontier, V.Vincent Emonet, M.Marieke Van Erp, P. E.Paola Espinoza Arias, O.Omaima Fallatah, S.Sebastián Ferrada, M. G.Marc Gallofré Ocaña, M.Michalis Georgiou, G. A.Genet Asefa Gesese, F.Frances Gillis-Webber, F.Francesca Giovannetti, M. G.Marìa Granados Buey, I.Ismail Harrando, I.Ivan Heibi, V.Vitor Horta, L.Laurine Huber, F.Federico Igne, M. Y.Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh, N.Neha Keshan, A.Aneta Koleva, B.Bilal Koteich, K.Kabul Kurniawan, M.Mengya Liu, C.Chuangtao Ma, L.Lientje Maas, M.Martin Mansfield, F.Fabio Mariani, E.Eleonora Marzi, S.Sepideh Mesbah, M.Maheshkumar Mistry, A. C.Alba Catalina Morales Tirado, A.Anna Nguyen, V. B.Viet Bach Nguyen, A.Allard Oelen, V.Valentina Pasqual, H.Heiko Paulheim, A.Axel Polleres, M.Margherita Porena, J.Jan Portisch, V.Valentina Presutti, K.Kader Pustu-Iren, A. R.Ariam Rivas Mendez, S.Soheil Roshankish, S.Sebastian Rudolph, H.Harald Sack, A.Ahmad Sakor, J.Jaime Salas, T.Thomas Schleider, M.Meilin Shi, G.Gianmarco Spinaci, C.Chang Sun, T.Tabea Tietz, M. T.Molka Tounsi Dhouib, A.Alessandro Umbrico, W. v.Wouter van den Berg and W.Weiqin Xu. Knowledge Graphs Evolution and Preservation -- A Technical Report from ISWS 2019.January 2021
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Other scientific publications

• 74 inproceedingsR.Rémi Felin and A. G.Andrea G B Tettamanzi. RDFMiner : Grammar-Based Genetic Programming for Mining OWL 2 Axioms.3IA Annual Scientific MeetingBiot, FranceNovember 2021
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• 75 misc F.Fabien Gandon. Dessine-moi un graphe de connaissances ! October 2021
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• 76 thesisY.Youssef Mekouar. Visualisation augmentée d'articles scientifiques s'appuyant sur un index sémantique..Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, Université Côte d'AzurSeptember 2021
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• 77 inproceedingsA.Anaïs OLLAGNIER, E.Elena Cabrio and S.Serena Villata. Multi-view Clustering for Hate Speech and Target Community Detection on Social Media.Soph.I.A Summit 2021sophia antipolis, FranceNovember 2021
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