A paper that takes the work that we are doing at Totuba as an example of the power of the Web 2.0 and Semantic Web was accepted at AICI’09, the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. The conference will take place in Shanghai, 7./8. November 2009.

Here is the abstract:
The Web is still changing at a rapid rate. Principles that define the Web 2.0 are now better understood than a few years ago, but continue to evolve. The Semantic Web is coming of age, resulting, for instance, in a significant amount of data now being available as Linked Open Data. Advanced Web services make sophisticated functionality such as entity extraction and location-data available for free. Against this background, we feel that the potential of today’s Web for intelligent technology-supported learning is under-exploited. Especially for AI exciting research opportunities arise from building on top of available data and services. In this paper, we sketch the current state of the art of Web data and services, highlight potential future development and point out opportunities and challenges for Web-based technology-supported learning.

Download the preprint here. What do you think? I’m looking forward to your comments!