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The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events (ESWC 2017)

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Enticing users into exploring Open Data remains an important challenge for the whole Open Data paradigm. Standard stock interfaces often used by Open Data portals are anything but inspiring even for tech-savvy users, let alone those without an articulated interest in data science. To address a broader range of citizens, we designed an open data search interface supporting natural language interactions via popular platforms like Facebook and Skype. Our data-aware chatbot answers search requests and suggests relevant open datasets, bringing fun factor and a potential of viral dissemination into Open Data exploration. The current system prototype is available for Facebook (https://m.me/OpenDataAssistant) and Skype (https://join.skype.com/bot/6db830ca-b365-44c4-9f4d-d423f728e741) users.

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    https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/open-data-portals.

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    https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/highlights/barriers-working-open-data.

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    https://m.me/OpenDataATAssistant/.

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    https://dev.botframework.com.

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    https://pypi.python.org/pypi/langdetect.

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    https://babelfy.org/guide.

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    https://github.com/vendi12/oda_evaluation.

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    https://allo.google.com.

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    http://linghub.lider-project.eu.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) under the projects ADEQUATe (grant no. 849982) and CommuniData (grant no. 855407).

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  1. Institute for Information Business, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Sebastian Neumaier, Vadim Savenkov & Svitlana Vakulenko

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  1. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Eva Blomqvist

  2. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Katja Hose

  3. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Heiko Paulheim

  4. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Agnieszka Ławrynowicz

  5. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Fabio Ciravegna

  6. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Olaf Hartig

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Neumaier, S., Savenkov, V., Vakulenko, S. (2017). Talking Open Data. In: Blomqvist, E., Hose, K., Paulheim, H., Ławrynowicz, A., Ciravegna, F., Hartig, O. (eds) The Semantic Web: ESWC 2017 Satellite Events. ESWC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10577. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_25

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