SeCo Welcomes You!

Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) researches machine-processable semantics related to, e.g., the Semantic Web. We are located at the Aalto University, School of Science, Department of Computer Science and HELDIG – Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Humanities. Our group consists of researchers both from the Aalto University, School of Science, Department of Computer Science and University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, and HELDIG.

Our research is focused on semantic technologies, such as the Semantic Web and intelligent web services. In addition to research and publications, we also create prototype applications that demonstrate the new possibilities of semantic technologies, such as semantic portals for end users, semantic infrastructural data and ontology services, and ontologies and tools for creating semantic applications.

The first video on the left, produced by the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia), introduces our work on Sampo portals. The second video on the right (in Finnish with English slides) is the emeritus lecture of Prof. Eero Hyvönen. It presents our way towards a Web of Wisdom starting from the history of AI, Semantic Web, and SeCo research in Finland, beginning from organizing the First Finnish AI Symposium in 1984 to the Semantic Web Kick-of in Finland seminar in 2001, and to publication of the system "SampoSampo - Connecting Everything to Everything Else" in 2026.

Application Domains

Our work is highly cross-disciplinary, including application domains, such as Digital Humanities, Health, Learning, Government, Commerce, Geography, and Biology.

SeCo Welcomes You!

Application Domains

Selected SeCo Applications and Demos for End Users

Selected Ontologies

Selected Semantic Web Infrastructure Services

Semantic Web Tools