The Smart Data Analytics group [1] is happy to announce the candidate release (0.8.0 RC1) for SANSA Scalable Semantic Analytics Stack. SANSA employs distributed computing via Apache Spark in order to allow scalable machine learning, inference and querying capabilities for large knowledge graphs. You can find the FAQ and usage examples at http://sansa-stack.net/faq/. We look forward to your comments on the new features to make them permanent in our upcoming release 0.8. Kindly note that the candidate is not in the Maven Central, please follow the readme.

Artificial intelligence/machine learning and semantic technologies/knowledge graphs are central topics for SDA. Throughout the year, we have been able to accomplish a range of interesting research achievements. One particularly active area was question answering and dialogue systems (with and without knowledge graphs). We acquired new projects for more than a million Euro this year and were able to transfer our expertise to industry via successful projects at Fraunhofer. External interest in our results has been remarkably high. Furthermore, we extended our already established position in scalable distributed querying, inference, and analysis of large RDF datasets. Among the race for ever-improving achievements in AI, which has gone far beyond what many could have imagined 10 years ago, our researchers were able to deliver important contributions and continued to shape different sub-areas of the growing AI research landscape.

We are happy to announce SANSA 0.2 – the second release of the Scalable Semantic Analytics Stack. SANSA employs distributed computing for semantic technologies in order to allow scalable machine learning, inference and querying capabilities for large knowledge graphs. You can find the FAQ and usage examples at http://sansa-stack.net/faq/. We want to thank everyone who helped to create this release, in particular, the projects Big Data Europe, HOBBIT, SAKE and Big Data Ocean.

The Smart Data Analytics group is very happy to announce SANSA 0.1 – the initial release of the Scalable Semantic Analytics Stack. SANSA combines distributed computing and semantic technologies in order to allow powerful machine learning, inference and querying capabilities for large knowledge graphs. You can find the FAQ and usage examples at http://sansa-stack.net/faq/. We want to thank everyone who helped to create this release, in particular, the projects Big Data Europe, HOBBIT and SAKE.