Teaching

Teaching and mentoring are important parts of academic research. Educating students is a part of this, but there are many other opportunities to share knowledge. In a sense, the purpose of all scientific communication is teaching (why else would we publish?). This page, however, is about teaching activities of an introductory nature: lectures, tutorials, textbooks and the like. More general information is found on my personal page.

Teaching materials and introductory texts

Each of the below texts mainly aims at introducing readers to a new topic, without requiring (much) preliminary knowledge. The topic (and language) should be obvious from the title in each case. Slides are not included here but can be found below and (esp. for invited talks) in the publication list.

• 语义Web技术基础 (2012)
• OWL 2 Profiles (2012)
• Growing Open Source Communities Around Academic Projects (2012)
• A Description Logic Primer (2012)
• Logik und Logikprogrammierung: Aufgaben und Lösungen (2011)
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer (27 October 2009)
• Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies (2009)
• A Brief Introduction to FCA (2009)
• Semantic Web – Grundlagen (2008)

Tutorials and Summer School Lectures

Materials can be found by following the links. For further teaching materials and slide sets, see semantic-web-book.org.

• Lecture Using Wikidata in Research, Web Intelligence Summer School, Saint-Étienne, August 2014.
• Lecture Rule-Based Reasoning in Lightweight Ontology Languages at ICCL Summer School 2013, Dresden
• Lecture OWL 2 Profiles: An Introduction to Lightweight Ontology Languages at Reasoning Web Summer School 2012, Vienna
• Course «Ontology Modelling Languages» at ESSLLI 2009, the 21st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2009), Bordeaux, July 20 – 31, 2009
• Tutorial «Semantic Web Modelling Languages» at IJCAI 2009, the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Passadena, Juli 11 – 17, 2009
• Tutorial «OWL 2 Rules» at ESWC 2009, the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), Heraklion, May 31 – June 4, 2009
• Tutorial «Practical Reasoning with OWL and DL-Safe Rules» at ESWC 2006, the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference.

University teaching

Below is an overview of my university teaching activities. For further teaching materials and slide sets, see semantic-web-book.org.

Lectures

• Lecture «Complexity Theory» at TU Dresden:
  • planned for Winter 2015/2016
• Lecture «Foundations of Databases and Query Languages» at TU Dresden:
  • Summer 2015 (exercise classes taught by Tomas Masopust)
• Lecture «Complexity Theory» at University of Oxford:
  • Hilary term 2013 (together with Ian Horrocks)
• Lecture «Knowledge Representation and Reasoning» at University of Oxford:
  • Class teaching 2010/2011 (together with Bernardo Cuenca Grau and Ian Horrocks)
• Lecture «Semantic Web Technologies I» at AIFB Karlsruhe:
  • Winter 2009/10 (together with Sebastian Rudolph)
  • Winter 2008/09 (together with Pascal Hitzler and Sebastian Rudolph)
  • Winter 2007/08 (together with Pascal Hitzler and Sebastian Rudolph)
• Lecture «Intelligente Systeme im World Wide Web» («Intelligent Systems on the WWW») at AIFB Karlsruhe
  • Summer 2006 (together with Anupriya Ankolekar, Pascal Hitzler, and York Sure)
  • Summer 2005 (together with Pascal Hitzler and York Sure)
• Seminar «Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for the Semantic Web» at TU Dresden in Winter 2005/06 (together with Pascal Hitzler)

PhD supervision

• Alexander Krause, PhD thesis in progress. Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden.
• Ignacio Lamata Martinez, D.Phil. The Integration of Earthquake Engineering Resources. Department of Engineering, University of Oxford, 2014.
• Despoina Magka, D.Phil. Foundations and Applications of Knowledge Representation for Structured Entities. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2013.

Student supervision

• Georg Wild, B.Sc. thesis Visualisierung räumlich-zeitlicher Inhalte aus Wikidata. Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, 2014.
• Fabian Howahl, B.Sc. thesis Integrating Semantic MediaWiki with Exhibit to Accelerate the Adoption of a Semantic Web. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 2009 (joint supervision with David Karger, MIT).
• Steffen Zimdars, Diplom thesis (M.Sc. equivalent) Wettbewerbsanalyse 3.0: Entwicklung einer semantischen IT-Architektur zum verbesserten Wissensmanagement in Unternehmen. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 2009.
• Sebastian Anselment, Diplom thesis (M.Sc. equivalent) Konzeption und Realisierung formularbasierter Nutzeroberflächen in semantischen Wikis. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 2007.
• Andreas Lang, Diplom thesis (M.Sc. equivalent) Four-valued Logics for Paraconsistent Reasoning, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, 2006.
• Wu Yining, project thesis Implementation of Transforming Fuzzy Description Logics into Classical Description Logics, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dresden, 2006.

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