Introduction to Knowledge Engineering- Course outline
Channel: Jarrar
Date: 2011-12-14

Knowledge Engineering Course - fall 2011

Lecture video by Mustafa Jarrar at Birzeit University, Palestine. 
See the coursehttp://jarrar-courses.blogspot.com/2011/09/knowledgeengineering-fall2011.html and http://www.jarrar.info

The course aims to enrich students with theoretical and practical skills in conceptual modeling, knowledge representation and management, and modern knowledge-based web applications. The course consists of four modules:
(i) Conceptual Modeling: conceptual analyses using Object Role Modeling, business rules, contradiction and implication between rules, conceptual schema optimization and engineering. 
(ii) Formal specifications languages, description logic reasoning, RDF, RDFS, OWL, Linked Data, RDFa 
(iii) Ontology Engineering and Lexical Semantics: methodologies for building and modeling application ontologies, Ontologies vs. data schemes, lexical semantics and linguistic ontologies, WordNet and Global WordNets, Arabic Ontology 
(iv) Modern knowledge-based applications, which may include data integration and interoperability, Semantic Web, multilingual search engines, bioinformatics and the Gene Ontology, Digital Libraries,