WEB-CUBE Team: Fuzziness, Alignments, Data & Ontologies

Arnaud Castelltort

Head

Anne LAURENT

Deputy

WEB3 Team

WEB Architecture X WEB Semantic X WEB of Data = WEB-CUBE

The WEB³ team aims to work on the issues, scientific and technological obstacles underlying the Web. It works more particularly on the architectural issues of the web, to exploit and extend the protocols of representation and exchange of data and knowledge; to allow better understanding and better processing of information and data.

The team’s work revolves around three major axes:

Web architectures
Semantic Web
Web of Data

The team is interested in fundamental topics (e.g., knowledge extraction, recommendation of datasets, alignment of ontologies, linking and merging of data, knowledge graphs, ontologies) but also in applications to many fields, in particular cultural heritage, health, finance, agronomy-environment and sociology. The specificity of the team is to address these three dimensions of the Web simultaneously.

Axis I: Web Architecture The objective is to take interest in architectural issues and the changes underlying the Web:

Challenges: those are related to modeling and data processing in the Web (graph-oriented knowledge representation & treatments), scalability, resilience, distributed processing, interoperability and the emergence of new architectures and paradigms.
Keywords: Web Oriented Architecture, Property Graphs, Scalability, Data Mesh, Databases & Fuzziness, D-APP/Blockchain
Key areas: Finance, Security, Digital forensic science, Health

Axis II: Semantic Web The objective is to address the protocols and methods of representation and exchange of data and knowledge.

Challenges: those are linked to data binding, to the alignment of data and ontologies of different types (work on the entire cycle), to the extraction of knowledge (for example, in clinical data), to the challenges related to semantic annotation (relationship detection, disambiguation, use of learning methods)
Keywords: ontologies, knowledge graphs, ontology alignment, ontology-based services, text and graph embeddings
Key areas: social sciences (fact-checking, points of view, journalism), environment, agronomy, health, social networks, digital forensic science

Axis III: Web of Data The objective of this axis is to allow a better understanding and better processing of data and information.

Challenges: those are related to the exploitation of web of data; approaching data lakes (data storage pending their use); the conservation of potentially relevant data, alone or in combination; interdisciplinary work (cognitive sciences, anthropology, history, law, evolution, etc.); data governance.
Keywords: Linked Open Data, Data Science, Data Lakes, Databases & Fuzziness, Property Graphs, NoSQL, FAIR Data, Blockchain, Applied machine learning
Key ares: Environment, Health, SHS, Finance, Digital forensic science

Members

Staff
François Scharffe, Maître de conférences, UM
Arnaud Castelltort, Maître de conférences, UM
Anne Laurent, Professeur des universités, UM
Alexandre Bazin, Maître de conférences, UM
Michel Sala, Maître de conférences, UM

Associates & Students
Anton Dolhopolov, UM
Salim Hafid, UM
Deperias Kerre, CF
Deperias Kerre, U Strathmore

Regular Co-workers
Syphax Bouazzouni, CDD Ingénieur-Technicien, UM
Gwenaelle Donadieu, CDD Chercheur, CNRS
Bill Gates Happi Happi, Doctorant externe, IRD

Clément Jonquet (Mistea)

Pierre Larmande (IRD)