increased (at a higher cost).
4 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE
WORK
This paper presents the Self-Service Semantic Suite
(S4), a cloud platform providing on-demand access
to key capabilities for semantic data management:
access to large open knowledge graphs (Linked
Open Data), RDF databases as-a-service, and
various text analytics services.
Several existing platforms offer text analytics as-
a-service capabilities: Alchemy, Bitext, DatumBox,
MeaningCloud, OpenCalais, OpenAmplify, Saplo,
Semantria, etc. Dydra provides capabilities for RDF
databases as-a-service. Some of the platforms for
text analytics as-a-service already cover multiple
languages and provide support for sentiment
analytics as well. The main differentiation of the S4
platform is that it provides an integrated suite for
semantic analytics which allows for content from
unstructured data sources to be semantically
enriched and interlinked into an RDF knowledge
graph, so that semantic search and discovery can be
utilised for data analytics.
S4 has already been deployed in production
5
, but
a variety of improvements are planned or already in
development:
Availability of multilingual text analytics
services, including services for sentiment
analytics;
Asynchronous, batch processing of large
volumes of text, in addition to the current
synchronous mode of operation;
Adoption of JSON-LD (W3C, 2014a) for the text
analytics services output;
Integration of 3
rd
party tools for visual
exploration and navigation of large scale Linked
and RDF data;
Integration of Linked Data Fragment based
containers (Verborgh, 2014), as an alternative
approach for scalable querying of RDF data.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Some of the work related to S4 is partially funded by
the European Commission under the 7
th
Framework
Programme, project DaPaaS
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(No. 610988).
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http://s4.ontotext.com/
6
http://project.dapaas.eu/
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