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Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| I semestre | Oct 1, 2019 | Jan 31, 2020 |
| II semestre | Mar 2, 2020 | Jun 12, 2020 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione invernale d'esame | Feb 3, 2020 | Feb 28, 2020 |
| Sessione estiva d'esame | Jun 15, 2020 | Jul 31, 2020 |
| Sessione autunnale d'esame | Sep 1, 2020 | Sep 30, 2020 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione Estiva. | Jul 16, 2020 | Jul 16, 2020 |
| Sessione Autunnale. | Oct 15, 2020 | Oct 15, 2020 |
| Sessione Invernale. | Mar 18, 2021 | Mar 18, 2021 |
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2019 | Nov 1, 2019 |
| Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2019 | Dec 8, 2019 |
| Vacanze di Natale | Dec 23, 2019 | Jan 6, 2020 |
| Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 10, 2020 | Apr 14, 2020 |
| Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2020 | Apr 25, 2020 |
| Festa del lavoro | May 1, 2020 | May 1, 2020 |
| Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2020 | May 21, 2020 |
| Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2020 | Jun 2, 2020 |
| Vacanze estive | Aug 10, 2020 | Aug 23, 2020 |
Exam calendar
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Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University. Please select your Study Plan based on your enrolment year.
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Semantic web (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S02793
Teacher
Coordinatore
Credits
6
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
INF/01 - INFORMATICS
Language
Italian
Period
II semestre dal Mar 2, 2020 al Jun 12, 2020.
Learning outcomes
The course’s purpose is to provide the fundamental concepts of knowledge representation both respect to the abstract problem of defining a domain ontology and to the problem of indexing documental domains. Specifically, both logical techniques and machine learning techniques for classification and analysis of documents. At the end of the course the student shall have acquired knowledge bunches on knowledge representation and its applications, and also shall be comfortable with the technical aspects of statistical natural language processing, understanding and connecting both aforementioned aspects while relating them to document repositories, especially the world wide web. These bunches of knowledge shall habilitate the student in: i) building formal ontologies; ii) managing ontology alignement; iii) managing document retrieval with indices based on text content; iv) using formal methods for text analysis while combining these with automated reasoning techniques. At the end of the course the student will be able to: i) presenting a conceptual semantic analysis, describing the process that leads a domain expert to the delivery of information needed by the knowledge engineer to deliver a formal ontology describing the interest domain; ii) going further, potentially autonomously, study and research in the field of semantic technologies in several different application fields.
Program
1. Elements of Logic
a. Propositional languages
b. First order languages
c. Second order Languages
2. Introduction to computational logic
a. Reasoning tasks
b. Subsumption, satisfiability, consistency, disjointness
3. Structural description logic
a. The FL- language
i. Syntax
ii. Semantics
b. The AL Logic
i. Syntax and semantics
ii. Structural subsumption algorithm
c. ALU, ALE
d. ALN
4. Propositional description logics
a. ALC, ALCN
i. Syntax and semantics
ii. Tableau for ALCN
b. ALCI
c. ALCQIreg
i. Tableau inapplicability
ii. Two-ways alternate automata on infinite trees
5. Description logic systems
a. Protegè/OWL
6. Natural Language Processing
7. Social network analysis and techniques of social network mining
Bibliografia
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franz Baader | Introduction to Description Logic | Cambridge University Presse | 2017 | 9781139025355 |
Examination Methods
The exam consists in the preparation of a homework, in the oral discussion of that with further theoretical questions.
The homework shall consist in the implementation of one of the techniques presented in the lectures, particularly one of the following:
- ontology-driven social network crawling;
- ontology-based text analysis.
First part of the oral exam will detail the modalities of abstract solving and implementation on the chosen problem, that will be agreed with each student individually. Behind this, questions will be posed on discipline contents presented in class and discusses in the textbook.
Evaluation of the homework will consider:
- quality of the implemented solution, relatively to the complexity of the problem, with the regular parameters of effectiveness and efficiency in the field of algorithm theory;
- specific usage of formal ontologies, its formalization and complexity, quality in the adoption of design standards with respect to the current methodologies of domain ontology design;
- complexity of the implemented ontology in OWL-DL and its quality, relevance with respect to the implemented technique.
The oral evaluation will consider:
- completeness in answering to questions related to homework;
- competence on the themes specified in the Course Syllabus;
- correctness and amplitude of the answers to the questions.
Type D and Type F activities
| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° 2° | The fashion lab (1 ECTS) | D | Not yet assigned |
| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° 2° | Python programming language | D |
Maurizio Boscaini
(Coordinatore)
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| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° 2° | CyberPhysical Laboratory | D |
Andrea Calanca
(Coordinatore)
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| 1° 2° | C++ Programming Language | D |
Federico Busato
(Coordinatore)
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| 1° 2° | Matlab-Simulink programming | D |
Bogdan Mihai Maris
(Coordinatore)
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| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° 2° | Corso Europrogettazione | D | Not yet assigned |
| 1° 2° | The course provides an introduction to blockchain technology. It focuses on the technology behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tendermint and Hotmoka. | D |
Matteo Cristani
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