The AI Mashup Challenge accepts and awards mashups that use AI technology, including but not restricted to machine learning and data mining, machine vision, natural language processing, reasoning, ontologies in the context of the semantic web. Such services may run on any medium, including web browsers, hand-held devices, mobile phones, etc. As a challenge heavily leaning on semantic web concepts, the AI Mashup Challenge finds an apt home, co-located together with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).
The proceedings opens an invited paper by Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, exploring the evolution of mashup applications from the very beginning to the future and advocating the ultimate intelligent reuse of networked resources in next generation mashups. Three of the following research papers present mashups for entity resolution and content enrichment, while the remaining two papers explore ways to build intuitive but also powerful mashup platforms for the broad user audience.
In order to determine the final winner of the 2014 finalist mashups, the Conference participants were asked to vote for their favorite mashups during the poster session of the AI Mashup Challenge. The voting scores of each mashup were added to the review scores of the Program Committee, yielding the final ranking for the 2014 Challenge: 1. conTEXT: A Mashup Platform for Lightweight Text Analytics. By Khalili Ali, Soren Auer, and
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo 3. ECSTASYS: Augmented Participation to Live Events through Social Network Content Enrichment. By Marco Brambilla, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Andrea Mauri, Riccardo Volonterio
The Organizing Committee would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their valuable contribution in the reviewing process, the Chair of ESWC 2014 dr. Valentina Presutti, as well as the Challengers for helping in the success of the AI Mashup Challenge 2014.