1.
WDAqua ITN – Answering Questions using Web Data
http://wdaqua.informatik.uni-bonn.de
• WHO? – network → next slide
• 15 PhD students @ 6 organisations (coord.: University of Bonn, Germany)
• +6 industrial partners
• WHAT? – + training
• WHEN? – 2015–18; currently finishing recruitment; looking for input
• WHERE? – PhD students can spend up to 9 months with partners
• WHY? – need for data scientists; QA good use case for web science

2.
Our Network
NKU
Athens
context
disambiguation
3
12
BM
(Yahoo)
big social/Web data Unister
eCommerce
Data Publica
big public/private
sector data
UJM
St-Étienne
provenance
evolution
precision/recall
5
4
7
Antidot
data quality
Fraunhofer
IAIS
architecture
voice/speech
8
9
Wolters
Kluwer
legal publications
Uni
Bonn
data preparation
federated queries
1
6
2
ATC
social networks
ODI
reusability
(comprehensibility,
licensing)
11
15
Univ.
Southampton
HCI
Visualisation
14
10
13
awards PhD
degrees
# PhD student secondment
with possibility of
dual degree
… and you?
Partners
Train
Host internships
Provide systems & data
Advise