Alex Genadinik, founder of SemanticValley will present a general overview of the semantic web and its benefits. After that he will give a tutorial session on how to program for the semantic web with a Java framework like JENA. Next, Alex will give a short demo of the semantic shopping assistant software on milderwilder.com that runs on the backend technology developed by semanticvalley.com. That will be followed by an explanation of how taxonomies, ontologies, and Natural Language Processing were used in the project to ultimately improve the user experience. If the audience is interested, there can also be discussion of semantic companies and technologies in the marketplace like PowerSet (now Bing), other semantic search engines, future of semantic search and semantic matching.

Here is the rough agenda for this presentation:

• 25-30 min intro and background to the semantic web (General Semantic Web slides)
  
• 30 min intro to semantic web programming using Java (JENA framework slides)
  
• 5 min demo of shopping assistant software we built using the semantic technologies (Live product demo)
  
• 30 min discussion of practical use of technologies like: Taxonomy, Ontolgoy, NLP, LinkedData cloud as it was used in this project
  
• 5 min Q&A
  

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