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NSF Support for Semantic Web Research
Frank OlkenNational Science Foundation
CISE/IIS
Presentation toInternational Semantic Web Conference
Athens, GA
Nov. 7, 2006
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Semantic Web Funding at NSF
NSF is routinely funding semantic web research proposals as part of its
normal research programs and solicitations.
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Semantic Web Proposals Funded by NSF (active awards)
25 awards= “semantic web” in title/abstract 92 awards = “semantic” and “web” in title/abstract 91 awards = “ontology” in title/abstract 16 awards = “ontology” in title only 48 awards = “semantic” in title only 280 awards = “semantic” in title/abstract
Some of these are traditional linguistics or programming language semantics
28 awards = “knowledge representation” in title/abstract Total IIS active awards = 1,000
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Funding of Semantic Web Proposals by NSF Divisions
CISE/IIS – DM, KM, IR, science informatics, ecoinformatics, AI, machine learning, ...
CISE/CCF -theory CISE/CNS – systems SBE/BCS – e.g., linguistics BIO/DBI – bioinformatics OCI – cyberinfrastructure
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Why does NSF care about semantic web technologies?
Formalization of scientific knowledge Facilitate sharing of scientific data Facilitate access to scientific data and knowledge Natural language processing (information extraction,
digital libraries, ...) Support for digital government (semantic rules
languages, disaster support, ...) Support for machine learning Support for math/science education
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Debates about support of semantic web research
Skepticism about adoption of semantic tagging by the masses
NSF is concerned about scientific / govt uses, not My Space
Skepticism by the database research community
Still somewhat an issue, because semantic proposals often go to to DB panels
Skepticism about scalability of semantic search and inference engines
Open research issue
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Where to apply for NSF funding for semantic web research?
CISE/IIS Division III (Information Integration and Informatics)
Funds data management, information retrieval, knowledge management, digital libraries, digital government
RI (Robust Intelligence) Funds machine learning, artificial intelligence, speech,
vision, ...
CISE CNS Division (systems) CISE CCF Division (theory)
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Where to apply for NSF funding for semantic web research?
Biology, Geosciences, ... directorates Fund domain specific ontologies for their specific
research areas May fund software tools for particular research
areas – e.g., bioinformatics sequence annotation, ...
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Where to apply for NSF funding of semantic web development?
CISE/CRI Funds infrastructure for computer science research
OCI (Office of CyberInfrastructure) Funds software development for tools of use to
broad scientific communities (biology, etc.) Anticipates funding data exchange standards and
domain specific ontologies Note: CRI and OCI support infrastructure,
not direct research support !
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Proposal Deadlines for 06-572
NSF 06-572 Program Solicitation Deadline for small (<$450K) proposals is Dec. 6,
2006 Deadlines for large ($900K-$1.8M) and medium
($450K-$900K) proposals have past Only one solicitation for IIS division this year Future solicitations expected annually with similar
deadlines.
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Contact Information for NSF CISE / IIS / III Frank Olken, folken@nsf.gov
data semantics, data/ontology integration, workflow, eng./sci. informatics, metadata registries, ...
Maria Zemankova, mzemanko@nsf.gov
Knowledge management, information retrieval, workflow, vizualization, ...
Sylvia Spengler, sspengle@nsf.gov, III Cluster Leader
Ontologies, bioinformatics, ...
Steve Griffin, sgriffin@nsf.gov
Digital libraries
Larry Brandt, lbrandt@nsf.gov
Digital government
Le Gruenwald, lgruenwa@nsf.gov
Data management, security and privacy, ...
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Contact InformationNSF/CISE/IIS
Tanya Korelsky, tkorelsky@nsf.gov Natural Language Processing
Edwina Rissland, erissland@nsf.gov Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation
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Contact InformationNSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure Chris Greer, cgreer@nsf.gov
Data Management cyberinfrastructure, bioinformatics, data collections
Kevin Thompson, kthompso@nsf.gov Software / middleware cyberinfrastructure
To be hired, Additional staff in data collections, knowledge
management
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