Semantic Computing

PHILLIP C.-Y. SHEU , PhD, is Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a Fellow of the IEEE. Dr. Sheu studies complex biological systems, knowledge-based medicine, semantic software engineering, proactive Web technologies, and large real-time knowledge systems for defense applications. He has authored two books and published more than 100 papers investigating object-relational data and knowledge engineering and their applications and biomedical computations. HEATHER YU , PhD, is a Senior Scientist at Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Laboratory. C. V. RAMAMOORTHY , PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. ARVIND K. JOSHI , PhD, is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania. LOTFI A. ZADEH , PhD, is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Preface. 1 Semantic Computing. PART I: SEMANTIC ANALYSIS. 2 What Computers Need to Know about Verbs. 3 Content-based Retrieval of Videos. 4 Semantic Approaches for Speech Recognition. 5 Link Analysis in Web Mining. 6 Analysis of Online Blogs and Chats. 7 Speaker Identification and Diarization: State-of-the-art and Applications. 8 Machine Learning Methods for Ontology Mining. 9 Visual Ontology Development and Large Scale Semantic Concept Detection. 10 Process Mining and Description. PART II: SEMANTIC LANGUAGES AND INTEGRATION. 11 Semantic Integration: The Hawkeye Approach. 12 Semantics of Software Modeling. 13 Semantic-Driven Component-Based Automated Code Synthesis. 14 Semantic Web Services. PART III: SEMANTIC APPLICATIONS. 15 Knowledge Work. 16 Video Search in Visual Semantic Space. 17 Social and Expert Search in Online Communities. 18 Phase-Coherence in Conceptual Spaces for Conversational Agents. 19 The Role of Semantics in Question Answering. 20 Developing and Using a National Cross-domain Semantic Web Infrastructure. 21 Semantic Computing Challenges in MM Security. PART IV: SEMANTIC PROGRAMMING AND INTERFACE. 22 Semantic Languages for Software Engineering. 23 From Semantic Objects to Structured Natural Language.