Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers (ages 18 and older, BSc, MSc, PhD) stipends to write code for various open source software projects. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 6,000 successful student participants and over 3,000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code.
DBpedia participated successfully in last’s year GSoC as DBpedia Spotlight. We were allowed with 4 students (out of a total 37 applications) and managed to enhance DBpedia Spotlight in time performance, accuracy and extra functionality. We are thrilled to announce, that we were accepted again in GSoC 2013. We are participating with all DBpedia-family products this time – that is DBpedia, DBpedia Spotlight and DBpedia Wiktionary – and we hope we share the same luck, again.
This year we have brand new and exciting ideas so, if you know energetic students (BSc, MSc, PhD) interested in working with DBpedia, text processing, and semantics, please encourage them to apply!
If you are a student, the application period starts in 2 weeks (deadline May 3rd). Judging from last year’s competition, writing a good application can be a really hard task so you should start preparing from now. We already created a dedicated mailing list and a few warm-up tasks ( to get you familiar with our technologies) and we will of course be always available to any questions.
So go ahead, choose your idea, write your application and impress us;)
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/dbpediaspotlight
On behalf of the DBpedia GSoC team,
Dimitris Kontokostas
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