Browsing Tetherless World Publications by Author "Zheng, Jin"

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    • A Semantic Portal for Next Generation Monitoring Systems 

      Wang, Ping; Zheng, Jin; Fu, Linyun; Patton, Evan; Lebo, Tim; Ding, Li; Liu, Qing; Luciano, Joanne; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2011-10-23)
      We present a semantic technology-based approach to emerging monitoring systems based on our linked data approach in the Tetherless World Constellation Semantic Ecology and Environment Portal (SemantEco). Our integration ...

    • Assessing Health Effects of Water Pollution Using a Semantic Water Quality Portal 

      Patton, Evan; Wang, Ping; Zheng, Jin; Fu, Linyun; Lebo, Tim; Ding, Li; Liu, Qing; Luciano, Joanne; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2011-10-25)
      We demonstrate a semantically enabled approach for environmental monitoring as embodied in our semantic water quality portal. The portal assesses water quality utilizing two data sources, the United States Environmental ...

    • Entity Linking for Biomedical Literature 

      Zheng, Jin; Howsmon, Daniel; Zhang, Boliang; Hahn, Juergen; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A.; Ji, Heng (2014-11-07)
      The Entity Linking (EL) task links entity mentions from an unstructured document to entities in a knowledge base. Although this problem is well-studied in news and social media, this problem has not received much attention ...

    • Entity linking for biomedical literature 

      Zheng, Jin; Howsmon, Daniel; Zhang, Boliang; Hahn, Juergen; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A.; Ji, Heng (BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2015-05-20)
      Background The Entity Linking (EL) task links entity mentions from an unstructured document to entities in a knowledge base. Although this problem is well-studied in news and social media, this problem has not received ...

    • Language and Domain Independent Entity Linking with Quantified Collective Validation 

      Wang, Han; Zheng, Jin; Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter; Ji, Heng (2015-09-17)
      Linking named mentions detected in a source document to an existing knowl- edge base provides disambiguated entity referents for the mentions. This allows better document analysis, knowledge ex- traction and knowledge base ...

    • Next Generation Environmental Informatics as exemplified by the Tetherless World Semantic Water Quality Portal 

      Wang, Ping; Zheng, Jin; Fu, Linyun; Patton, Evan; Lebo, Tim; Ding, Li; Luciano, Joanne; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2011-12-05)
      In late 2009 in Bristol County, RI there was a case of E. Coli contaminating the public water supply resulting in illnesses in the population, particularly young children. Residents requested information concerning when ...

    • Ontology engineering in provenance enablement for the National Climate Assessment 

      Ma, Xiaogang; Zheng, Jin; Goldstein, Justin; Zednik, Stephan; Fu, Linyun; Duggan, Brian; Aulenbach, Steven; West, Patrick; Tilmes, Curt; Fox, Peter (Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014-08-28)
      The National Climate Assessment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) analyzes and presents the impacts of climate change on the United States. The provenance information in the assessment is important because ...

    • Producing and Using Linked Open Government Data in the TWC LOGD Portal 

      Lebo, Tim; Erickson, John S.; Graves, Alvaro; Williams, Gregory; DiFranzo, Dominic; Li, Xian; Michaelis, James; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; Shangguan, Zhenning; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2011-11-04)
      As open government initiatives around the world pub- lish an increasing number of raw datasets, citizens and communities face daunting challenges when organiz- ing, understanding, and associating disparate data re- lated ...

    • Provenance Representation for the National Climate Assessment in the Global Change Information System 

      Tilmes, Curt; Fox, Peter; Ma, Xiaogang; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Privette, Ana; Smith, Aaron; Waple, Anne; Zednik, Stephan; Zheng, Jin (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2013-07-12)
      The important topic of global climate change builds on a huge collection of scientific research. It is common for agencies releasing climate change information to be served with requests for all supporting materials resulting ...

    • Provenance-aware Faceted Search in Drupal 

      Shangguan, Zhenning; Zheng, Jin; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2010-06-16)
      As the web content is increasingly generated in more diverse situations, provenance is becoming more and more critical. While a variety of approaches have been investigated for capturing and making use of provenance metadata, ...

    • RPI Map on Semantic Wiki 

      Zheng, Jin; Bao, Jie; Ding, Li (2008-01-01)

    • Semantic Similarity Computation and Concept Mapping in Earth and Environmental Science 

      Zheng, Jin; Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter (2013-12-04)
      Ontologies have been widely adopted and used by Earth and Environmental Science community to capture and represent knowledge in the domain. One of the major problems that prevent us to combine and reuse these ontologies ...

    • Tensor Factorization that Utilizes Semantics behind Objects 

      Nakatsuji, Makoto; Fujiwara, Ysuhiro; Toda, Hiroyuki; Sawada, Hiroshi; Zheng, Jin; Hendler, James A. (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2015)
      Predicting human activities is important for improving recommender systems or analyzing social relationships among users. Those human activities are usually represented as multi-object relationships (e.g. user's tagging ...

    • The Web is My Back-end: Creating Mashups with Linked Open Government Data 

      DiFranzo, Dominic; Graves, Alvaro; Erickson, John S.; Ding, Li; Michaelis, James; Lebo, Tim; Patton, Evan; Williams, Gregory; Li, Xian; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (Linking Government Data, 2011-01-01)
      Governments around the world have been releasing raw data to their citizens at an increased pace. The mixing and linking of these government datasets enhances their value and makes new insights possible. The use of mashups, ...

    • TWC International Open Government Dataset Catalog 

      Erickson, John S.; Rozell, Eric; Shi, Yongmei; Zheng, Jin; Ding, Li; Hendler, James A. (ACM, 2011)
      The TWC International Open Government Dataset Catalog (IOGDC) integrates a diverse selection of more than 70 government dataset catalogs from around the world. IOGDC demonstrates a practical dataset catalog metadata model ...

    • TWC LOGD: A Portal for Linked Open Government Data Ecosystems 

      Ding, Li; Lebo, Tim; Erickson, John S.; DiFranzo, Dominic; Williams, Gregory; Li, Xian; Michaelis, James; Graves, Alvaro; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (Journal of Web Semantics, 2011-06-22)
      International open government initiatives are releasing an increasing volume of raw government datasets directly to citizens via the Web. The transparency resulting from these releases creates new application opportunities ...

    • TWC LOGD: A Portal for Linking Open Government Data 

      DiFranzo, Dominic; Ding, Li; Erickson, John S.; Li, Xian; Lebo, Tim; Michaelis, James; Graves, Alvaro; Williams, Gregory; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; Gervasio, Gino; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2010-11-11)
      International open government initiatives are releasing an increasing number of “raw” government datasets directly to citizens via the Web, creating new opportunities but imposing burdens inherent to the problems of ...

    • TWC-SWQP: A Semantic Portal for Next Generation Environmental Monitoring (Technical Report) 

      Wang, Ping; Zheng, Jin; Fu, Linyun; Patton, Evan; Lebo, Tim; Ding, Li; Liu, Qing; Luciano, Joanne; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2011-06-26)
      We present a semantic technology-based approach to emerging environmental information systems. We used our linked data approach in the Tetherless World Constellation Semantic Water Quality Portal (TWC-SWQP). Our integration ...