Semantic Search meets the Web (2009)
Miriam Fern, Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabou, Victoria Uren, David Vallet, Enrico Motta, ...
While semantic search technologies have been proven to work well in specific domains, they still have to confront two main challenges to scale up to the Web in its entirety. In this work we address...
Uncertain Reasoning for Creating Ontology Mapping on the Semantic Web (2009)
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Mapping ontologies with high precision on the Semantic Web is a challenging problem that needs to be addressed in various domains. One of the main problems with any mapping process, which...
Introducing Fuzzy Trust for Managing Belief Conflict over Semantic Web Data (2009)
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Interpreting Semantic Web Data by different human experts can end up in scenarios, where each expert comes up with different and conflicting ideas what a concept can mean and how they...
Ontology Mapping with domain specific agents in the AQUA Question Answering system (2009)
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
Abstract. This paper describes a domain specific multi-agent ontologymapping solution in the AQUA query answering system. In order to incorporate uncertainty inherent to the mapping process, the...
Detecting Quality Problems in Semantic Metadata without the Presence of a Gold Standard (2009)
Yuangui Lei, Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Detecting quality problems in semantic metadata is crucial for ensuring a high quality semantic web. Current approaches are primarily focused on the algorithms used in semantic metadata...
Relation Discovery from the Semantic Web (2009)
Several Semantic Web specific tasks such as ontology learning/extension or ontology matching rely on identifying relations between two given concepts. Scarlet 1 is a technique for discovering...
Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture (2009)
Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Anne De Roeck
Abstract. Finding RDF individuals that refer to the same real-world entities but have different URIs is necessary for the efficient use of data across sources. The requirements for such...
What can be done with the Semantic Web? An Overview of Watson-based Applications ⋆ (2009)
Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta, Sofia Angeletou, Vanessa Lopez, Fouad Zablith
Abstract. Thanks to the huge efforts deployed in the community for creating, building and generating semantic information for the Semantic Web, large amounts of machine processable knowledge are now...
Semantic Search meets the Web (2009)
Miriam Fern, Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabou, Victoria Uren, David Vallet, Enrico Motta, ...
While semantic search technologies have been proven to work well in specific domains, they still have to confront two main challenges to scale up to the Web in its entirety. In this work we address...
Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham-shum, John Domingue, Walton Hall
Abstract. In this paper we present an approach to document enrichment, which consists of associating formal knowledge models to archives of documents, to provide intelligent knowledge retrieval and...
Reusing Knowledge from the Semantic Web with the (2009)
Watson Plugin, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
Ontology reuse is a complex process involving activities such as searching for relevant ontologies for reuse, assessing the quality of the knowledge to reuse, selecting parts of it and, finally,...
Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture (2009)
Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Anne De Roeck
Abstract. Finding RDF individuals that refer to the same real-world entities but have different URIs is necessary for the efficient use of data across sources. The requirements for such...
IRS-III: A Platform and Infrastructure for Creating WSMO-based Semantic Web Services (2009)
John Domingue, Liliana Cabral, Farshad Hakimpour, Denilson Sell, Enrico Motta
Abstract. The IRS project has the overall aim of supporting the automated or semi-automated construction of semantically enhanced systems over the internet. IRS-I supported the creation of knowledge...
Achieving higher-level learning through adaptable Semantic Web aplications (2009)
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Arthur Stutt
Abstract: In this paper we propose refocusing the research from knowledge portals towards frameworks, which the end user can apply in many decision-making scenarios and which we call ‘personal...
Developing ontologies in OWL: An observational study 1 (2009)
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Carlos Buil, Jose Gomez, Olaf Görlitz, Holger Lewen
As is known in the human-computer interaction (HCI) domain, interactions involve the user, the technology, and the ways they work together. We expand these notions to human-ontology interaction with...
SCARLET: SemantiC relAtion discoveRy by harvesting onLinE onTologies (2009)
Abstract. We present a demo of SCARLET, a technique for discovering relations between two concepts by harvesting the Semantic Web, i.e., automatically finding and exploring multiple and heterogeneous...
Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping (2009)
Abstract. In this paper we propose an ontology matching paradigm based on the idea of harvesting the Semantic Web, i.e., automatically finding and exploring multiple and heterogeneous online...
FABilT – Finding Answers in a Billion Triples (2009)
Abstract. This submission presents the application of two coupled systems to the Billion Triples Challenge. The first system (Watson) provides the infrastructure which allows the second one...
Combining Web2.0 and the Semantic Web in a Reviewing Site (2009)
Tom Heath, Enrico Motta, Tom Heath, Enrico Motta, Tom Heath, Enrico Motta
This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo...
interface the Semantic Web (2009)
Vanessa Lopez, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Michele Pasin
Abstract The semantic web vision is one in which rich, ontology-based semantic markup will become widely available. The availability of semantic markup on the web opens the way to novel,...
Mathieu d’Aquin Knowledge Media Institute, (2009)
We present an efficient mechanism for finding equivalent ontologies motivated by the development of the Semantic Web search engine Watson. In principle, it computes a canonical form for the...
Identifying key concepts in an ontology, through the integration of cognitive principles with statistical and
The Hoonoh Ontology for describing Trust Relationships in Information Seeking (2009)
Abstract. When seeking information through mechanisms such as word of mouth, people choose information sources and make trust judgments about these...
Identifier Deliverable 1.1, Chapter 1. Class Deliverable (2008)
Dieter Fensel, Enrico Motta, V. Richard Benjamins, Stefan Decker, Mauro Gaspari, Rix Groenboom, ...
Abstract. Problem-solving methods provide reusable architectures and components for implementing the reasoning part of knowledge-based systems. The Unified Problem-solving Method description Language...
Deliverable Co-ordinator, Claudio Baldassarre, Enrico Motta, ...
Priority: IST-2004-2.4.7 – “Semantic-based knowledge and content systems”
Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta
When authors publish their interpretations of the ideas, opinions, claims or rebuttals in the literature, they are drawing on a repertoire of well understood moves, contributing to an extended...
Abstract. The semantic web offers new possibilities in the eLearning area, which are dependent at least on two factors: the increasing availability of resources on the web and the semantic power of...
Towards a Parametric Ontology Modularization Framework Based on Graph Transformation (2008)
Paul Doran, Enrico Motta, Valentina Tamma
Abstract. Several tools and techniques have been proposed recently for extracting modules from ontologies. Being focused on some particular application scenario, modularization tools generally rely...
Semantic Search Components: a blueprint for effective query language interfaces (2008)
Abstract. Formulating complex queries is hard, especially in heterogeneous information environments, where users do not understand all the data structures of multiple complex knowledge bases. We see...
DSSim- Managing Uncertainty on the Semantic Web (2008)
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Managing uncertainty on the Semantic Web can potentially improve the ontology mapping precision which can lead to better acceptance of systems that operate in this environment. Further...
Semantic Web Technology to Support Learning about the Semantic Web (2008)
designed using the Magpie framework with an aim to support students learning about the Semantic Web research area. In particular, we describe the evolution of ASPL and illustrate how we used the...
J. Domingue, Enrico Motta, Paul Mulholl, Zdenek Zdrahal, Philip Cimiano, J. Domingue, ...
This document presents the KM evaluation strategy for Dot.Kom. The KM approach taken in Dot.Kom is based on the ENRICH methodology investigating how text mining and information extraction...
Abstract. Personalization efforts to date have centred on presenting web users with novel items by predicting what they may find relevant. This approach has utility where the user is unsure of...
Oscar Corcho, Mariano Fernández-lópez, Asunción Gómez Pérez, Ontoweb Consortium, Contactperson Dieter Fensel, Fabien G, ...
Version date 30/11/01
Nigel Shadbolt, Harith Alani, Steve Harris, Nick Gibbins, Yannis Kalfoglou, Bo Hu, ...
www.aktors.org
Watson: A Gateway for Next Generation Semantic Web Applications (2008)
Claudio Baldassarre, Laurian Gridinoc, Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
The amount of knowledge published on the Semantic Web – i.e, the number of ontologies and semantic documents available online – is rapidly increasing. Following this evolution, changes appear in...
Tom Heath, Enrico Motta, Marian Petre
Abstract. Social networks can serve as both a rich source of new information and as a filter to identify the information most relevant to our specific needs. In this paper we present a methodology...
Characterizing Knowledge on the Semantic Web with Watson (2008)
Claudio Baldassarre, Laurian Gridinoc, Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Watson is a gateway to the Semantic Web: it collects, analyzes and gives access to ontologies and semantic data available online with the objective of supporting their dynamic exploitation...
Demo of IRS-III: A Platform and Infrastructure for Creating WSMO-based Semantic Web Services (2008)
John Domingue, Liliana Cabral, Farshad Hakimpour, Denilson Sell, Enrico Motta
Claudio Baldassarre, Laurian Gridinoc, Marta Sabou, Sofia Angeletou, Enrico Motta
Watson is a gateway to the Semantic Web: it collects, analyzes and gives access to ontologies and semantic data available online. Its objective is to support the development of next generation...
Nikolaos Nanas, John Domingue, Stuart Watt, Enrico Motta
2. FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 2.1. The Japanese point of view. 2.2. A more clarifying point of view: the role of action.
Lexicon Generation by Extraction of Context Patterns (2008)
Abstract. Semantic browser technologies such as Magpie require the construction of lexicons to support the identification of terms in Web pages which are linked to a user’s chosen ontology. We...
Evaluating the Semantic Web: A Task-based Approach (2008)
Marta Sabou, Jorge Gracia, Sofia Angeletou, Enrico Motta
Abstract. The increased availability of online knowledge has led to the design of several algorithms that solve a variety of tasks by harvesting the Semantic Web, i.e., by dynamically selecting and...
Solving Semantic Ambiguity to Improve Semantic Web based Ontology Matching (2008)
Jorge Gracia, Vanessa López, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta, Eduardo Mena
Abstract. A new paradigm in Semantic Web research focuses on the development of a new generation of knowledge-based problem solvers, which can exploit the massive amounts of formally specified...
in the Expert Search task of the Enterprise Track (2008)
Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Stefan Rüger, Marc Eisenstadt, Enrico Motta
in TREC 2006. We have proposed to address three main innovative points in a two-stage language model, which consists of a document relevance model and a cooccurrence model, in order to improve the...
Revyu.com: a Reviewing and Rating Site for the Web of Data (2008)
Abstract. Revyu.com is a live, publicly accessible reviewing and rating Web site, designed to be usable by humans whilst transparently generating machinereadable RDF metadata for the Semantic Web,...
Semantic Web Technology to Support Learning about the Semantic Web (2008)
designed using the Magpie framework with an aim to support students learning about the Semantic Web research area. In particular, we describe the evolution of ASPL and illustrate how we used the...
Ontology Mapping with domain specific agents in the AQUA Question Answering system (2008)
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
Abstract. This paper describes a domain specific multi-agent ontologymapping solution in the AQUA query answering system. In order to incorporate uncertainty inherent to the mapping process, the...
Developing ontologies in OWL: An observational study 1 (2008)
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Carlos Buil, Jose Gomez, Olaf Görlitz, Holger Lewen
As is known in the human-computer interaction (HCI) domain, interactions involve the user, the technology, and the ways they work together. We expand these notions to human-ontology interaction with...
Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management (2008)
Jianhan Zhu, Re L. Gonçalves, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta, Roberto Pacheco, Marc Eisenstadt, ...
In current organizations, valuable enterprise knowledge is often buried under rapidly expanding huge amount of unstructured information in the form of web pages, blogs, and other forms of human text...
Study on Integrating Semantic Applications with Magpie (2008)
Abstract. This paper describes two approaches to integrating standalone information processing techniques into a semantic application capable of acquiring and maintaining knowledge, which we...
AQUA: A Question Answering System for Heterogeneous Sources (2008)
Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
This paper describes AQUA our question answering over the Web. AQUA was designed to work over heterogeneous sources. This means that AQUA is equipped to work as closed domain and in addition to...
José Iria, Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Enrico Motta, Luca Gilardoni, Eddie Moench
Abstract. Ontology-based approaches to Knowledge Management promise better access to relevant knowledge by providing a domain-specific vocabulary that is used for describing the contents of knowledge...
AQUA: A Knowledge-Based Architecture for a Question Answering (2008)
Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
This paper describes AQUA, a question answering system. AQUA combines Natural Language processing (NLP), Ontologies, Logic, and Information Retrieval technologies in a uniform framework. AQUA makes...
José Iria, Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Enrico Motta, Luca Gilardoni, Eddie Moench
Abstract. Ontology-based approaches to Knowledge Management promise better access to relevant knowledge by providing a domain-specific vocabulary that is used for describing the contents of knowledge...
Additions and suggestions from (2008)
Asunción Gómez-pérez, Mariano Fernández-lópez, Óscar Corcho, Ontoweb Consortium, Contactperson Dieter Fensel, Manuel Lama, ...
Version date 25/11/02
Building Semantic Intranets: What is Needed in the Annotation Toolbox? (2008)
Walton Hall, Victoria Uren, José Iria, Siegfried H, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, ...
While much of a company's explicit knowledge can be found in text repositories, current content management systems only provide limited capabilities for structuring and making sense of...
Semantically enriching folksonomies with FLOR (2008)
Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
Abstract. While the increasing popularity of folksonomies has lead to a vast quantity of tagged data, resource retrieval in folksonomies is limited by being agnostic to the meaning (i.e., semantics)...
Using background knowledge for ontology evolution. To appear in (2008)
Fouad Zablith, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
Abstract. One of the current bottlenecks for automating ontology evolution is resolving the right links between newly arising information and the existing knowledge in the ontology. Most of existing...
Semantically enriching folksonomies with FLOR (2008)
Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
Abstract. While the increasing popularity of folksonomies has lead to a vast quantity of tagged data, resource retrieval in these systems is limited by them being agnostic to the meaning (i.e.,...
Enrico Motta, Wenjin Lu, Walton Hall
Abstract. In this document we present a library of generic, reusable components whose purpose is to support the specification and operationalization of classification problem solvers. In addition, it...
Collaborators (VITAL Partners in bold are involved in this task): (2007)
Syseca Syseca, Enrico Motta, Arthur Stutt, Bull Bull, Cediag Ac, Andersen Consulting
: In this paper the architecture of the VITAL-KR is described. Author: Enrico Motta and Arthur Stutt Collaborators (VITAL Partners): SYSECA - SYSECA TEMPS REEL (Coordinator) * NOTT - UNIVERSITY OF...
Alkula R (2000) From plain character strings to meaningful words. Doctoral Thesis (2007)
Md Maruf Hasan, Enrico Motta, John B. Domingue, Simon Buckingham-shum, Maria Vargas, Jiacheng Tan, ...
This research investigates a unique Indexing Structure and Navigational Interface which make use of (1) ontologydriven knowledge (2) statistically derived indexing parameters, and (3) experts '...
Visualizing Internetworked Argumentation (2007)
In this chapter, we outline a project which traces its source of inspiration back to the grand visions of Vannevar Bush (scholarly trails of linked concepts), Doug Engelbart (highly interactive...
c ○ World Scientific Publishing Company ISSUES WITH META-KNOWLEDGE (2007)
Tim Menzies, Klaus-dieter Althoff, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta
At the SEKE’99 conference, knowledge engineering researchers held a panel on the merits of meta-knowledge (i.e. problem solving methods and ontologies) for the development of knowledge-based...
navigating knowledge with ontology-driven (2007)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, John Domingue, Leslie Carr, Leslie Carr, ...
On the integration of technologies for capturing and navigating knowledge with ontology-driven services
Meta-Knowledge in systems design: (2007)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Tim Menzies, Enrico Motta
panacea...or undelivered promise?
THE KNOWLEDGE MODELLING PARADIGM IN KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (2007)
The essence of knowledge-level modelling (henceforth knowledge modelling) is to represent a system at a level which abstracts from implementation considerations and focuses instead on its competence:...
Knowledge Modelling in WebOnto and OCML -- A User Guide -- Version 2.4 (2007)
John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Oscar Corcho Garcia
This document is composed of three parts. The first part describes WebOnto, a tool providing web-based visualisation, browsing and editing support for developing and maintaining ontologies and...
Md Maruf Hasan, Md Maruf Hasan, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta, John B. Domingue, ...
This research investigates a unique Indexing Structure and Navigational Interface which integrates (1) ontology-driven knowledge-base (2) statistically derived indexing parameters, and (3) experts...
navigating knowledge with ontology-driven (2007)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, John Domingue, Leslie Carr, Leslie Carr, ...
On the integration of technologies for capturing and navigating knowledge with ontology-driven services
Magpie: experiences in supporting semantic web browsing (2007)
Dzbor, Martin, Motta, Enrico, Domingue, John
Magpie has been one of the first truly effective approaches to bringing semantics into the web browsing experience. The key innovation brought by Magpie was the replacement of a manual annotation...
Using ontologies for defining tasks, problem-solving methods and their mappings. (2007)
Fensel, Dieter, Motta, Enrico, Decker, Stefan, Zdrahal, Zdenek
Making knowledge engineering technology work. (2007)
Benjamins, Richard, Fensel, Dieter, Pierret-Golbreich, Christine, Motta, Enrico, Studer, Rudi, Wielinga, Bob
Semantic web technology to support learning about the semantic web (2007)
This paper describes ASPL, an Advanced Semantic Platform for Learning, designed using the Magpie framework with an aim to support students learning about the Semantic Web research area. We describe...
AquaLog: an ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets (2007)
Lopez, Vanessa, Uren, Victoria, Motta, Enrico, Pasin, Michele
The semantic web vision is one in which rich, ontology-based semantic markup will become widely available. The availability of semantic markup on the web opens the way to novel, sophisticated forms...
Sereno, Bertrand, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Motta, Enrico
When authors publish their interpretations of the ideas, opinions, claims or rebuttals in the literature, they are drawing on a repertoire of well understood moves, contributing to an extended...
Evaluating the semantic web: a task-based approach (2007)
Sabou, Marta, Gracia, Jorge, Angeletou, Sofia, D'Aquin, Mathieu, Motta, Enrico
The increased availability of online knowledge has led to the design of several algorithms that solve a variety of tasks by harvesting the Semantic Web, i.e. by dynamically selecting and exploring a...
Bridging the Gap Between Folksonomies and the Semantic Web: An Experience Report (2007)
Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou, Lucia Specia, Enrico Motta
Abstract. While folksonomies allow tagging of similar resources with a variety of tags, their content retrieval mechanisms are severely hampered by being agnostic to the relations that exist between...
Magpie: Experiences in supporting Semantic Web browsing (2007)
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Magpie has been one of the first truly effective approaches to bringing semantics into the web browsing experience. The key innovation brought by Magpie was the replacement of a manual annotation...
WATSON: A Gateway for the Semantic Web (2007)
Marta Sabou, Martin Dzbor, Claudio Baldassarre, Sofia Angeletou, Enrico Motta
Abstract. As the Semantic Web is gaining momentum, more and more semantic data is available online. The second generation of Semantic Web applications already exploit this phenomenon by relying on...
Integrating Folksonomies with the Semantic Web (2007)
Abstract. While tags in collaborative tagging systems serve primarily an indexing purpose, facilitating search and navigation of resources, the use of the same tags by more than one individual can...
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Magpie has been one of the first truly effective approaches to bringing semantics into the web browsing experience. The key innovation brought by Magpie was the replacement of a manual annotation...
Bridging the Gap Between Folksonomies and the Semantic Web: An Experience Report (2007)
Sofia Angeletou, Marta Sabou, Lucia Specia, Enrico Motta
Abstract. While folksonomies allow tagging of similar resources with a variety of tags, their content retrieval mechanisms are severely hampered by being agnostic to the relations that exist between...
Integrating folksonomies with the semantic web (2007)
Abstract. While tags in collaborative tagging systems serve primarily an indexing purpose, facilitating search and navigation of resources, the use of the same tags by more than one individual can...
Developing ontologies in OWL: An observational study (2006)
Dzbor, Martin, Motta, Enrico, Buil, Carlos, Gomez, Jose, Goerlitz, Olaf, Lewen, Holger
No abstract.
PowerMap: mapping the real semantic web on the fly (2006)
Lopez, Vanessa, Sabou, Marta, Motta, Enrico
ISWC is the premier international conference in the field. This paper describes innovative work on dynamic mapping of heterogeneous knowledge structures, a fundamental enabling technology for the...
An Infrastructure for acquiring high quality semantic metadata (2006)
Lei, Yuangui, Sabou, Marta, Lopez, Vanessa, Zhu, Jianhan, Uren, Victoria, Motta, Enrico
Because metadata that underlies semantic web applications is gathered from distributed and heterogeneous data sources, it is important to ensure its quality (i.e., reduce duplicates, spelling errors,...
Language technologies and the evolution of the semantic web (2006)
The availability of huge amounts of semantic markup on the Web promises to enable a quantum leap in the level of support available to Web users for locating, aggregating, sharing, interpreting and...
PowerAqua: fishing the semantic web (2006)
Lopez, Vanessa, Motta, Enrico, Uren, Victoria
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a large scale opens the...
An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata (2006)
Lei, Dr. Yuangui, Sabou, Dr. Marta, Lopez, Miss Vanessa, Zhu, Dr. Jianhan, Uren, Dr. Victoria, Motta, Prof. Enrico
Because metadata that underlies semantic web applications is gathered from distributed and heterogeneous data sources, it is important to ensure its quality (i.e., reduce duplicates, spelling errors,...
An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals (2006)
Lei, Dr. Yuangui, Lopez, Miss Vanessa, Motta, Prof. Enrico
One important task of semantic web portals is to offer both end users and applications a seamless access to knowledge contained in heterogeneous data sources in specific user communities. As such it...
Ontology Selection: Ontology Evaluation on the Real Semantic Web (2006)
Sabou, Marta, Lopez, Vanessa, Motta, Enrico, Uren, Victoria
The increasing number of ontologies on the Web and the appearance of large scale ontology repositories has brought the topic of ontology selection in the focus of the semantic web research agenda....
An ontology for the description and navigation through philosophical resources (2006)
What does it mean for a student to come to an understanding of a philosophical standpoint and can the explosion of resources now available on the web support this process, or is it inclined instead...
Uren, Victoria, Cimiano, Philipp, Iria, Jose, Hanndschuh, Siegfried, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Motta, Enrico, ...
While much of a company's knowledge can be found in text repositories, current content management systems have limited capabilities for structuring and interpreting documents. In the emerging...
Ontology Selection on the Real Semantic Web: How to Cover the Queens Birthday Dinner? (2006)
Sabou, Dr. Marta, Lopez, Vanessa, Motta, Prof. Enrico
Robust mechanisms for ontology selection are crucial for the evolving Semantic Web characterized by rapidly increasing numbers of online ontologies and by applications that automatically use the...
Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping (2006)
Sabou, Dr. Marta, D'Aquin, Dr. Mathieu, Motta, Prof. Enrico
While current approaches to ontology mapping produce good results by mainly relying on label and structure based similarity measures, there are several cases in which they fail to discover important...
Modularization: a Key for the Dynamic Selection of Relevant Knowledge Components (2006)
D'Aquin, Dr. Mathieu, Sabou, Dr. Marta, Motta, Prof. Enrico
Ontology selection is crucial to support knowledge reuse on the ever increasing Semantic Web. However, applications that rely on reusing existing knowledge often require only relevant parts of...
Using the Semantic Web as background knowledge for ontology mapping (2006)
Abstract. While current approaches to ontology mapping produce good results by mainly relying on label and structure based similarity measures, there are several cases in which they fail to discover...
Poweraqua: Fishing the semantic web (2006)
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren
Abstract. The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a large scale...
An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata (2006)
Yuangui Lei, Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Because metadata that underlies semantic web applications is gathered from distributed and heterogeneous data sources, it is important to ensure its quality (i.e., reduce duplicates,...
Modularization: a Key for the Dynamic Selection of Relevant Knowledge Components (2006)
Abstract. Ontology selection is crucial to support knowledge reuse on the ever increasing Semantic Web. However, applications that rely on reusing existing knowledge often require only relevant parts...
Poweraqua: Fishing the semantic web (2006)
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren
Abstract. The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a large scale...
A Generic Library of problem Solving Method for Scheduling Applications (2006)
Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Enrico Motta, Zdenek Zdrahal
In this paper we describe a generic library of problemsolving methods (PSMs) for scheduling applications. Although, some attempts have been made in the past at developing libraries of scheduling...
Ontology Selection on the Real Semantic Web: How to Cover the Queens Birthday Dinner (2006)
Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Robust mechanisms for ontology selection are crucial for the evolving Semantic Web characterized by rapidly increasing numbers of online ontologies and by applications that automatically...
Poweraqua: Fishing the semantic web (2006)
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren
Abstract. The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a large scale...
Next Generation Semantic Web Applications (2006)
Abstract. In this short paper, we examine current Semantic Web application and we highlight what we see as a shift away from first generation Semantic Web applications, towards a new generation of...
An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals (2006)
Yuangui Lei, Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta
Abstract. One important task of semantic web portals is to offer both end users and applications a seamless access to knowledge contained in heterogeneous data sources in specific user communities....
Language Technologies and the Evolution of the Semantic Web (2006)
The availability of huge amounts of semantic markup on the Web promises to enable a quantum leap in the level of support available to Web users for locating, aggregating, sharing, interpreting and...
Ontology Selection: Ontology Evaluation on the Real Semantic Web (2006)
Marta Sabou, V. Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren
The increasing number of ontologies on the Web and the appearance of large scale ontology repositories has brought the topic of ontology selection in the focus of the semantic web research agenda....
Abstract Relation Extraction for Semantic Intranet Annotations (2006)
Lucia Specia, Claudio Baldassarre, Enrico Motta, Short Versions, Lucia Specia, Claudio Baldassarre, ...
• A hybrid approach for extracting semantic relations from texts. 2nd Workshop on Ontology
M.: A hybrid approach for extracting semantic relations from texts (2006)
We present an approach for extracting relations from texts that exploits linguistic and empirical strategies, by means of a pipeline method involving a parser, partof-speech tagger, named entity...
M.: A hybrid approach for extracting semantic relations from texts (2006)
We present an approach for extracting relations from texts that exploits linguistic and empirical strategies, by means of a pipeline method involving a parser, partof-speech tagger, named entity...
SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web (2006)
Yuangui Lei, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Semantic search promises to produce precise answers to user queries by taking advantage of the availability of explicit semantics of information in the context of the semantic web. Existing...
E.: PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly (2006)
Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Ontology mapping plays an important role in bridging the semantic gap between distributed and heterogeneous data sources. As the Semantic Web slowly becomes real and the amount of online...
Ontology Selection on the Real Semantic Web: How to Cover the Queens Birthday Dinner (2006)
Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Robust mechanisms for ontology selection are crucial for the evolving Semantic Web characterized by rapidly increasing numbers of online ontologies and by applications that automatically...
DSSim-ontology Mapping with Uncertainty (2006)
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta
Abstract. This paper introduces an ontology mapping system that is used with a multi agent ontology mapping framework in the context of question answering. Our mapping algorithm incorporates the...
An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals (2006)
Yuangui Lei, Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta
Abstract. In this paper, we present our KMi semantic web portal infrastructure, which supports two important tasks of semantic web portals, namely metadata extraction and data querying. Central to...
OntoWeaver: an ontology-based approach to the design of data-intensive web sites (2005)
Lei, Yuangui, Motta, Enrico, Domingue, John
OntoWeaver is an ontology-based approach, which provides high level support for web site design and development. It relies on the following major components to achieve its task: i) a site view...
Achieving Higher-level Learning Through Adaptable Semantic Web Applications (2005)
Dzbor, Martin, Motta, Enrico, Stutt, Arthur
In this paper we propose refocusing the research from knowledge portals towards frameworks, which the end user can apply in many decision-making scenarios and which we call ‘personal portals’....
Mining Web Data for Competency Management (2005)
Zhu, Dr. Jianhan, Gonçalves, Mr. Alexandre, Uren, Dr. Victoria, Motta, Prof. Enrico, Pacheco, Prof. Roberto
We present CORDER (COmmunity Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition) an un-supervised machine learning algorithm that exploits named entity recognition and co-occurrence data to associate...
ESpotter: Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Web Browsing (2005)
Zhu, Dr. Jianhan, Uren, Dr. Victoria, Motta, Prof. Enrico
Browsing constitutes an important part of the user information searching process on the Web. In this paper, we present a browser plug-in called ESpotter, which recognizes entities of various types on...
Semantic Learning Narratives (2005)
In this paper we highlight the importance of an interpreta-tion of the learning process from a narrative perspective and show how Semantic Web technologies, in particular ontologies, can serve to...
The semantic web offers new possibilities in the eLearning area, which are dependent at least on two factors: the increasing availability of resources on the web and the semantic power of their...
Uren, Victoria, Motta, Enrico, Dzbor, Martin, Cimiano, Philipp
The realization of the Semantic Web is constrained by a knowledge acquisition bottleneck, i.e. the problem of how to add RDF mark-up to the millions of ordinary web pages that already exist....
ESpotter: adaptive named entity recognition for web browsing (2005)
Zhu, Jianhan, Uren, Victoria, Motta, Enrico
Browsing constitutes an important part of the user information searching process on the Web. In this paper, we present a browser plug-in called ESpotter, which recognizes entities of various types on...
Context as a foundation for a semantic desktop (2005)
Tom Heath, Enrico Motta, Martin Dzbor
Abstract. Adoption of semantic web technologies and principles presents an opportunity to change the conceptual model of desktop computing. Moving from a traditional position where the desktop is...
ESpotter: Adaptive named entity recognition for web browsing (2005)
Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta
{j.zhu, v.s.uren, e.motta} @ open.ac.uk Web users are facing information overload problems, i.e., it is hard for them to find desired information on the web. Hence the growing interest in named...
NeOn - Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies (Overview and Objectives) (2005)
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Rudi Studer, York Sure, Peter Haase, Asuncion Gomez-Perez, ...
We have now reached a stage in the lifecycle of semantic technologies, where a major integrative effort is needed, so as to produce the infrastructure that the community requires. A large-scale...
OntoWeaver: an Ontology-based Approach to the Design of Data-intensive Web Sites (2005)
Yuangui Lei, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Building a data-intensive web site is a complex task. Ad hoc rapid prototyping approaches easily lead to unsatisfactory results, e.g. poor maintainability and extensibility. To address this problem,...
Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Martin Dzbor
The realization of the Semantic Web is constrained by a knowledge acquisition bottleneck, i.e. the problem of how to add RDF mark-up to the millions of ordinary web pages that already exist....
system for organizational semantic intranets (2005)
Vanessa Lopez, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Michele Pasin
The semantic web vision is one in which rich, ontology-based semantic markup will become widely available. The availability of semantic markup on the web opens the way to novel, sophisticated forms...
A Semantic Web based Architecture for Analytical Tools (2005)
Denilson Sell, Liliana Cabral, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Farshad Hakimpour, Roberto Pacheco
Despite the importance of analytical tools to organizations, there are challenges that should be tackled in order to leverage the impact of those tools in the decision making process. These...
Experiences of Two Task Driven User Studies of Hypermedia Information Systems (2005)
Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta
Abstract. We present two small scale user studies of hypermedia information systems: a hypermedia discourse system designed as an environment for researchers to summarize and share key ideas from...
Uses of contextual information to support online tasks (2005)
Tom Heath, Enrico Motta, Martin Dzbor
Abstract. In this paper we make a case for the role of user context information in supporting task performance online, examine previous attempts at representing and making use of user context...
AquaLog: An Ontology-portable Question Answering System for the Semantic Web (2005)
Vanessa Lopez, Michele Pasin, Enrico Motta
Abstract. As semantic markup becomes ubiquitous, it will become important to be able to ask queries and obtain answers, using natural language (NL) expressions, rather than the keyword-based...
E.: Semantic Web Service Composition in IRS-III: The Structured Approach (2005)
Farshad Hakimpour, Denilson Sell, Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
Semantic Web Services facilitate activities including automatic discovery and composition of Web Services. Research initiatives such as WSMO have been developing specifications for this technology....
Mediation of Semantic Web Services in IRS-III (2005)
Roberto Confalonieri, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
Abstract. In this paper we describe our orchestration model for IRS-III. IRS-III is a framework and platform for developing WSMO based semantic web services. Orchestration specifies how a complex web...
E.: Supporting User Tasks and Context: Challenges for Semantic Web Research (2005)
Tom Heath, Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Whilst the tasks users perform online are often complex and wideranging, the tools currently available may not adequately support them. Attempts to classify user behaviors online have...
Opening up Magpie via semantic services (2004)
Dzbor, Martin, Motta, Enrico, Domingue, John
Magpie is a suite of tools supporting a ‘zero-cost’ approach to semantic web browsing: it avoids the need for manual annotation by automatically associating an ontology-based semantic layer to...
Iria, Jose`, Ciravegna, Fabio, Cimiano, Philipp, Lavelli, Alberto, Motta, Enrico, Gilardoni, Luca, ...
Ontology-based approaches to Knowledge Management promise better access to relevant knowledge by providing a domain-specific vocabulary that is used for describing the contents of knowledge as well...
By 2020, microprocessors will likely be as cheap and plentiful as scrap paper,scattered by the millions into the environment, allowing us to place intelligent systems everywhere. This will change...
Collaborative semantic web browsing with Magpie (2004)
Domingue, John, Dzbor, Martin, Motta, Enrico
Web browsing is often a collaborative activity. Users involved in a joint information gathering exercise will wish to share knowledge about the web pages visited and the contents found. Magpie is a...
Magpie: supporting browsing and navigating on the semantic web (2004)
Domingue, John, Dzbor, Martin, Motta, Enrico
We describe several advanced functionalities of Magpie – a tool that assists users with interpreting the web resources. Magpie is an extension to the Internet Explorer that automatically creates a...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparison (2004)
Cabral, Liliana, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Payne, Terry R., Hakimpour, Farshad
Abstract. The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparison (2004)
Cabral, Liliana, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Payne, Terry R., Hakimpour, Farshad
Abstract. The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to...
Sereno, Bertrand, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Motta, Enrico
Le travail ici décrit s'intéresse aux difficultés sous-jacentes à la transformation d'annotations de documents académiques (exprimant leurs contributions ou relations) dans des arbres de...
Sereno, Bertrand, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Motta, Enrico
Le travail ici décrit s'intéresse aux difficultés sous-jacentes à la transformation d'annotations de documents académiques (exprimant leurs contributions ou relations) dans des arbres de...
An Ontological formalization of the planning task (2004)
Rajpathak, Dnyanesh, Motta, Enrico
In this paper we propose a generic task ontology, which formalizes the space of planning problems. Although planning is one of the oldest researched areas in Artificial Intelligence and attempts have...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparison (2004)
Cabral, Liliana, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Payne, Terry R., Hakimpour, Farshad
Abstract. The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to...
Sereno, Bertrand, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Motta, Enrico
Le travail ici décrit s'intéresse aux difficultés sous-jacentes à la transformation d'annotations de documents académiques (exprimant leurs contributions ou relations) dans des arbres de...
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparisons (2004)
Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Terry Payne, Farshad Hakimpour
Abstract. The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to...
Semantic annotation support in the absence of consensus (2004)
Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta
Abstract. We are interested in the annotation of knowledge which does not necessarily require a consensus. Scholarly debate is an example of such a category of knowledge where disagreement and...
munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
Semantic Webs for Learning: A Vision and Its Realization (2004)
Abstract. Augmenting web pages with semantic contents, i.e., building a ‘Semantic Web’, promises a number of benefits for web users in general and learners in particular. Semantic technologies...
Ontology-driven Question Answering in AquaLog (2004)
Vanessa Lopez, Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta
Abstract The semantic web vision is one in which rich, ontology-based semantic markup is widely available, both to enable sophisticated interoperability among agents and to support human web users in...
Collaborative Semantic Web browsing with Magpie (2004)
John Domingue, Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Web browsing is often a collaborative activity. Users involved in a joint information gathering exercise will wish to share knowledge about the web pages visited and the contents found....
Bertrand Sereno, Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta
The work described here looks at the difficulties hidden behind the transformation of typical scholarly document annotations (expressing their contributions or their connections) into...
Integration of OWL-S into IRS-III (2004)
Farshad Hakimpour, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Liliana Cabral, Yuangui Lei
IRS-III is the first WSMO compliant system for supporting the Semantic Web Services technologies and it is based on the IRS-II [3]. This paper presents how we integrated the OWL-S [5] service...
Interactive Composition of WSMO-based Semantic (2004)
Web Services In, Denilson Sell, Farshad Hakimpour, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
The discovery and integration of services in a composition are challenging tasks due to the lack of semantic in the Web services description. WSMO community is working on developing ontologies and...
Modelling Data-Intensive Web Sites with OntoWeaver (2004)
Yuangui Lei, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Abstract. This paper illustrates the OntoWeaver modelling approach, which relies on a set of comprehensive site ontologies to model all aspects of dataintensive web sites and thus offers high level...
A Knowledge-Based Approach to Ontologies Data Integration (2004)
Maria Vargas-vera, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta
This paper describes a proposal of multiple ontology data integration system for a question answering framework called AQUA. We propose an approach for mediating between a given query and a set of...
An Ontology-driven Similarity Algorithm (2004)
Maria Vargas-vera, Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta
Abstract. This paper presents our similarity algorithm between relations in a user query written in FOL ( first order logic) and ontological relations. Our similarity algorithm takes two graphs and...
OntoWeaver-S: Supporting the Design of Knowledge Portals (2004)
Yuangui Lei, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Abstract. This paper presents OntoWeaver-S, an ontology-based infrastructure for building knowledge portals. In particular, OntoWeaver-S is integrated with a comprehensive web service platform,...
Opening up magpie via semantic services (2004)
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Abstract. Magpie is a suite of tools supporting a ‘zero-cost ’ approach to semantic web browsing: it avoids the need for manual annotation by automatically associating an ontology-based semantic...
munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta, Bertrand Sereno, Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta
©ACM, 2005. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of...
Educational Semantic Web. ISSN:1365-893X (2004)
By 2020, microprocessors will likely be as cheap and plentiful as scrap paper, scattered by the millions into the environment, allowing us to place intelligent systems everywhere. This will change...
Collaborative Semantic Web browsing with Magpie (2004)
John Domingue, Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Web browsing is often a collaborative activity. Users involved in a joint information gathering exercise will wish to share knowledge about the web pages visited and the contents found....
Opening Up Magpie via Semantic Services (2004)
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Abstract. Magpie is a suite of tools supporting a ‘zero-cost ’ approach to semantic web browsing: it avoids the need for manual annotation by automatically associating an ontology-based semantic...
Supporting Online Shopping through a Combination of Ontologies and Interface Metaphors (2003)
Domingue, John, Stutt, Arthur, Martins, Maria, Tan, Jaicheng, Petursson, Helgi, Motta, Enrico
In this paper we describe some results of the Alice project. Alice is an ontology-based e-commerce project which aims to support online users in the task of shopping. Ontologies describing customers,...
A Generic library of problem-solving methods for scheduling applications (2003)
Rajpathak, Dnyanesh, Motta, Enrico, Zdrahal, Zdenek, Roy, Rajkumar
In this paper we describe a generic library of problem-solving methods (PSMs) for scheduling applications. Although, some attempts have been made in the past at developing libraries of scheduling...
Magpie: towards a semantic web browser (2003)
Dzbor, Martin, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico
Web browsing involves two tasks: finding the right web page and then making sense of its content. So far, research has focused on supporting the task of finding web resources through ‘standard’...
IRS II: a framework and infrastructure for semantic web services (2003)
Motta, Enrico, Domingue, John, Cabral, Liliana, Gaspari, Mauro
In this paper we describe IRS–II (Internet Reasoning Service) a framework and implemented infrastructure, whose main goal is to support the publication, location, composition and execution of...
AQUA: an ontology driven question answering system (2003)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Motta, Enrico, Domingue, John
This paper describes AQUA our question answering over the Web. AQUA was designed to work over heterogeneous sources. This means that AQUA is equipped to work as closed domain and in addition to...
Scholarly Publishing and Argument in Hyperspace (2003)
Uren, Victoria, Shum, Simon Buckingham, Li, Gangmin, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico
The World Wide Web is opening up access to documents and data for scholars. However it has not yet impacted on one of the primary activities in research: assessing new findings in the light of...
Scholarly publishing and argument in hyperspace (2003)
Uren, Victoria, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Li, Gangmin, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico
The World Wide Web is opening up access to documents and data for scholars. However it has not yet impacted on one of the primary activities in research: assessing new findings in the light of...
Gangmin Li, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue
Abstract. The usability of research papers on the Web would be enhanced by a system that explicitly modelled the rhetorical relations between claims in related papers. We describe ClaiMaker, a system...
Magpie - towards a semantic web browser (2003)
Martin Dzbor, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Web browsing involves two tasks: finding the right web page and then making sense of its content. So far, research has focused on supporting the task of finding web resources through...
Semantic Layering with Magpie (2003)
John Domingue, Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta
Browsing the web involves two main tasks: finding the right resource and making sense of its content. A significant amount of research has gone into supporting the task of finding web resources,...
IRS-II: A Framework and Infrastructure for Semantic Web Services (2003)
Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Liliana Cabral, Mauro Gaspari
In this paper we describe IRS-II (Internet Reasoning Service) a framework and implemented infrastructure, whose main goal is to support the publication, location, composition and execution of...
AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System (2003)
The use of the web has become popular and also the need of services that could exploit the vast amount of information in it. Therefore, there is a need for automated question answering systems. These...
MnM: A Tool for Automatic Support on Semantic Markup, KMi (2003)
Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Arthur Stutt, Fabio Ciravegna
Abstract. An important precondition for realizing the goal of a semantic web is the ability to annotate web re-sources with semantic information. In order to carry out this task, users need...
Supporting Online Shopping through a Combination of Ontologies and Interface Metaphors (2003)
John Domingue, Arthur Stutt, Maria Martins, Jiacheng Tan, Enrico Motta
Abstract. In this paper we describe some results of the Alice project. Alice is an ontology based e-commerce project which aims to support online users in the task of shopping. Ontologies describing...
Magpie - towards a semantic web browser (2003)
Martin Dzbor, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Web browsing involves two tasks: finding the right web page and then making sense of its content. So far, research has focused on supporting the task of finding web resources through...
IRS-II: A Framework and Infrastructure for Semantic Web Services (2003)
Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Liliana Cabral, Mauro Gaspari
framework and implemented infrastructure, whose main goal is to support the publication, location, composition and execution of heterogeneous web services, augmented with semantic descriptions of...
Magpie - Towards a Semantic Web Browser (2003)
Martin Dzbor, John Domingue, Enrico Motta
Abstract. Web browsing involves two tasks: finding the right web page and then making sense of its content. So far, research has focused on supporting the task of finding web resources through...
Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, Gangmin Li, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren, ...
The World Wide Web is opening up access to documents and data for scholars. However it has not yet impacted on one of the primary activities in research: assessing new findings in the light of...
Semantic Layering with Magpie (2003)
John Domingue, Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta
Browsing the web involves two main tasks: finding the right web page and then making sense of its content. A significant amount of research has gone into supporting the task of finding web resources...
The Epistemology of scheduling problems (2002)
Motta, Enrico, Rajpathak, Dnyanesh, Zdrahal, Zdenek, Roy, Rajkumar
Scheduling is a knowledge-intensive task spanning over many activities in day-to-day life. It deals with the temporally-bound assignment of jobs to resources. Although scheduling has been extensively...
The Unified Problem-solving Method Development Language UPML (2002)
Fensel, Dieter, Motta, Enrico, Benjamins, V. Richard, Crubezy, Monica, Decker, Stefan, Gaspari, Mauro, ...
Problem-solving methods provide reusable architectures and components for implementing the reasoning part of knowledge-based systems. The Unified Problem-solving Method description Language UPML has...
MnM: ontology driven semi automatic and automatic support for semantic markup (2002)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Motta, Enrico, Domingue, John, Lanzoni, Mattia, Stutt, Arthur, Ciravegna, Fabio
An important precondition for realizing the goal of a semantic web is the ability to annotate web resources with semantic information. In order to carry out this task, users need appropriate...
The Epistemology of Scheduling Problems (2002)
Enrico Motta, Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Zdenek Zdrahal, Rajkumar Roy
Abstract. Scheduling is a knowledge-intensive task spanning over many activities in day-to-day life. It deals with the temporallybound assignment of jobs to resources. Although scheduling has been...
Configuring Online Problem-Solving Resources with the Internet Reasoning Service (2002)
Monica Crubézy, Wenjin Lu, Enrico Motta, Mark A. Musen
Abstract: Existing services on the World-Wide Web tend to be “integral. ” For instance, online services for data analysis are available, but usually it is neither possible to modify the...
An Ontology-Driven Approach to Web Site Generation and Maintenance (2002)
Yuangui Lei, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
Abstract. Building and maintaining a data-intensive web site is costly and time-consuming and a number of approaches have addressed this problem using a model-based methodology. This paper presents...
MnM: Ontology Driven Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup (2002)
Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Fabio Ciravegna
Abstract. An important precondition for realizing the goal of a semantic web is the ability to annotate web resources with semantic information. In order to carry out this task, users need...
ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers (2002)
Gangmin Li, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue
Abstract. The usability of research papers on the Web would be enhanced by a system that explicitly modelled the rhetorical relations between claims in related papers. We describe ClaiMaker, a system...
Simon Buckingham Shum, Victoria Uren, Gangmin Li, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Clara Mancini
www.kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto Abstract: We discuss issues arising from the design, implementation and first use of a prototype infrastructure for distributed collective practice (IDCP), and...
Configuring Online Problem-Solving Resources with the Internet Reasoning Service (2002)
Monica Crubézy, Wenjin Lu, Enrico Motta, Mark A. Musen
Abstract: Existing services on the World-Wide Web tend to be “integral. ” For instance, online services for data analysis are available, but usually it is neither possible to modify the...
Supporting ontology driven document enrichment within communities of practice (2001)
Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Shum, Simon Buckingham, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Kalfoglou, Yannis
Supporting ontology driven document enrichment within communities of practice (2001)
Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Shum, Simon Buckingham, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Kalfoglou, Yannis
Supporting ontology driven document enrichment within communities of practice (2001)
Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Shum, Simon Buckingham, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Kalfoglou, Yannis
Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies (2001)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Domingue, John, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico, Shum, Simon Buckingham
We address the integration of information extraction(IE) and ontologies. In particular, using an ontology to aid the IE process, and using the IE results to help populate the ontology. We perform IE...
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Shum, Simon Buckingham
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies (2001)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Domingue, John, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico, Shum, Simon Buckingham
We address the integration of information extraction(IE) and ontologies. In particular, using an ontology to aid the IE process, and using the IE results to help populate the ontology. We perform IE...
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Shum, Simon Buckingham
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies (2001)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Domingue, John, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico, Shum, Simon Buckingham
We address the integration of information extraction(IE) and ontologies. In particular, using an ontology to aid the IE process, and using the IE results to help populate the ontology. We perform IE...
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Shum, Simon Buckingham
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Carr, Leslie, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham Shum, Simon
Nowadays, many distinct communities are researching for knowledge capturing, modelling, and navigation. Moreover, advances in Internet technology makes it possible to perform most of these task on...
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Carr, Leslie, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Shum, Simon Buckingham
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Dominque, John, Carr, Lesley, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham-Shum, Simon
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Carr, Leslie, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Shum, Simon Buckingham
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Dominque, John, Carr, Lesley, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham-Shum, Simon
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Carr, Leslie, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Shum, Simon Buckingham
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Dominque, John, Carr, Lesley, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham-Shum, Simon
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham Shum, Simon
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies (2001)
Vargas-vera, Maria, Domingue, John, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham Shum, Simon
We address the integration of information extraction(IE) and ontologies. In particular, using an ontology to aid the IE process, and using the IE results to help populate the ontology. We perform IE...
Supporting ontology-driven document enrichment within communities of practice (2001)
Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Vargas-vera, Maria, Kalfoglou, Yannis
Formative work by Lave and Wenger has articulated how practices emerge through the interplay of informal processes with symbolic codifications and artifacts. In this paper, we describe how ontologies...
Semantically Marked Up... Now What? (2001)
Buckingham Shum, Simon, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico
"Wired...now what?",was the challenge from Apple's Mark Miller to educationalists as the Internet took off. A new infrastructure was being laid, but even now we still barely know how to use it...
Supporting ontology driven document enrichment within communities of practice (2001)
Dominque, John, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham-Shum, Simon, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Kalfoglou, Yannis
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham-Shum, Simon
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies (2001)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Dominque, John, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham-Schum, Simon
We address the integration of information extraction(IE) and ontologies. In particular, using an ontology to aid the IE process, and using the IE results to help populate the ontology. We perform IE...
Supporting ontology driven document enrichment within communities of practice (2001)
Dominque, John, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham-Shum, Simon, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Kalfoglou, Yannis
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham-Shum, Simon
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies (2001)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Dominque, John, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham-Schum, Simon
We address the integration of information extraction(IE) and ontologies. In particular, using an ontology to aid the IE process, and using the IE results to help populate the ontology. We perform IE...
The Knowledge modelling paradigm in knowledge engineering (2001)
This is the first handbook to cover comprehensively both software engineering and knowledge engineering — two important fields that have become interwoven in recent years. Over 60 international...
Supporting ontology driven document enrichment within communities of practice (2001)
Dominque, John, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham-Shum, Simon, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Kalfoglou, Yannis
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Vargas-Vera, Maria, Buckingham-Shum, Simon
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontology-driven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies (2001)
Vargas-Vera, Maria, Dominque, John, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico, Buckingham-Schum, Simon
We address the integration of information extraction(IE) and ontologies. In particular, using an ontology to aid the IE process, and using the IE results to help populate the ontology. We perform IE...
Supporting Ontology Driven Document Enrichment Within Communities of Practice (2001)
John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-vera, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nick Farnes
Formative work by Lave and Wenger has articulated how practices emerge through the interplay of informal processes with symbolic codifications and artifacts. In this paper, we describe how ontologies...
Knowledge Extraction by using an Ontology-based Annotation Tool (2001)
Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Simon Buckingham Shum, Mattia Lanzoni
This paper describes a Semantic Annotation Tool for extraction of knowledge structures from web pages through the use of simple user-defined knowledge extraction patterns. The semantic annotation...
Structured Development of Problem Solving Methods (2001)
Problem solving methods (PSMs) are domain-independent reasoning components, which specify patterns of behavior which can be reused across applications. While the availability of extensive PSM...
Compendium: Making Meetings into Knowledge Events. Knowledge Technologies 2001 (2001)
Albert Selvin, Simon Buckingham Shum, Maarten Sierhuis, Jeff Conklin, Beatrix Zimmermann, Charles Palus, ...
In this paper, we describe the Compendium methodology and suite of tools. Compendium is the result of over a decade’s research and development at the intersection of collaborative modeling,...
Knowledge Extraction by using an Ontology-based Annotation Tool (2001)
Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Simon Buckingham Shum, Mattia Lanzoni
This paper describes a Semantic Annotation Tool for extraction of knowledge structures from web pages through the use of simple user-defined knowledge extraction patterns. The semantic annotation...
Supporting Ontology Driven Document Enrichment Within Communities of Practice (2001)
John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, Maria Vargas-vera, Yannis Kalfoglou
Formative work by Lave and Wenger has articulated how practices emerge through the interplay of informal processes with symbolic codifications and artifacts. In this paper, we describe how ontologies...
Monica Crubézy, Wenjin Lu, Enrico Motta, Mark A. Musen
Existing services on the Web tend to be ‘holistic’. For instance, online services for data analysis are available, but usually it is neither possible to modify the underlying reasoning system,...
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta, ...
www.kmi.open.ac.uk/tr/papers/kmi-tr-102.pdf
MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta, ...
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontologydriven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Structured Development of Problem Solving Methods (2001)
Abstract. Problem solving methods are reasoning components, which specify patterns of behavior which can be reused across applications. While the availability of extensive problem solving method...
myPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Yannis Kalfoglou John, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-vera, Simon Buckingham Shum
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontologydriven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Supporting Ontology Driven Document Enrichment (2001)
Within Communities Of, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-vera, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nick Farnes
Formative work by Lave and Wenger has articulated how practices emerge through the interplay of informal processes with symbolic codifications and artifacts. In this paper, we describe how ontologies...
myPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service (2001)
Yannis Kalfoglou John, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-vera, Simon Buckingham Shum
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontologydriven personalised Web-based service. We ex- tended the existing infrastructure of the Plane- tOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
navigating knowledge with ontology-driven (2001)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, John Domingue, Leslie Carr, Leslie Carr, ...
Nowadays, many distinct communities are researching on technologies for knowledge capturing, modelling, and navigation. Moreover, advances in Internet technology makes it possible to perform most of...
Integration of Information Extraction with an Ontology (2001)
M. Vargas-vera, J. Domingue, Y. Kalfoglou, E. Motta, S. Buckingham Shum, Maria Vargas-vera, ...
www.kmi.open.ac.uk/tr/papers/kmi-tr-109.pdf
Knowledge Extraction by using an Ontology-based Annotation Tool (2001)
Maria Vargas-vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Simon Buckingham Shum, Mattia Lanzoni
This paper describes a Semantic Annotation Tool for extraction of knowledge structures from web pages through the use of simple user-defined knowledge extraction patterns. The semantic annotation...
Compendium: Making Meetings into Knowledge Events. Knowledge Technologies 2001 (2001)
Albert Selvin, Simon Buckingham Shum, Maarten Sierhuis, Jeff Conklin, Beatrix Zimmermann, Charles Palus, ...
In this paper, we describe the Compendium methodology and suite of tools. Compendium is the result of over a decade’s research and development at the intersection of collaborative modeling,...
Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Maria Vargas-vera, Simon Buckingham Shum, Yannis Kalfoglou, ...
In this paper we present myPlanet, an ontologydriven personalised Web-based service. We extended the existing infrastructure of the PlanetOnto news publishing system. Our concerns were mainly to...
Meta-Knowledge in systems design: panacea ...or undelivered promise? (2000)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-dieter, Motta, Enrico
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially-defined term...
Meta-Knowledge in systems design: panacea ...or undelivered promise? (2000)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-Dieter, Motta, Enrico
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially-defined term...
Meta-Knowledge in systems design: panacea ...or undelivered promise? (2000)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-dieter, Motta, Enrico
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially-defined term...
Meta-Knowledge in systems design: panacea ...or undelivered promise? (2000)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-Dieter, Motta, Enrico
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially-defined term...
Meta-Knowledge in systems design: panacea ...or undelivered promise? (2000)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-dieter, Motta, Enrico
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially-defined term...
Meta-Knowledge in systems design: panacea ...or undelivered promise? (2000)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-Dieter, Motta, Enrico
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially-defined term...
Issues with Meta-Knowledge (2000)
Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-dieter, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico
At the SEKE'99 conference, knowledge engineering researchers held a panel on the merits of meta-knowledge(i.e. problem solving methods and ontologies) for the development of knowledge-based systems....
Issues with Meta-Knowledge (2000)
Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-Dieter, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico
At the SEKE'99 conference, knowledge engineering researchers held a panel on the merits of meta-knowledge(i.e. problem solving methods and ontologies) for the development of knowledge-based systems....
Issues with Meta-Knowledge (2000)
Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-dieter, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico
At the SEKE'99 conference, knowledge engineering researchers held a panel on the merits of meta-knowledge(i.e. problem solving methods and ontologies) for the development of knowledge-based systems....
Issues with Meta-Knowledge (2000)
Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-Dieter, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico
At the SEKE'99 conference, knowledge engineering researchers held a panel on the merits of meta-knowledge(i.e. problem solving methods and ontologies) for the development of knowledge-based systems....
Issues with Meta-Knowledge (2000)
Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-dieter, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico
At the SEKE'99 conference, knowledge engineering researchers held a panel on the merits of meta-knowledge(i.e. problem solving methods and ontologies) for the development of knowledge-based systems....
Issues with Meta-Knowledge (2000)
Menzies, Tim, Althoff, Klaus-Dieter, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Motta, Enrico
At the SEKE'99 conference, knowledge engineering researchers held a panel on the merits of meta-knowledge(i.e. problem solving methods and ontologies) for the development of knowledge-based systems....
Planet-onto: From news publishing to integrated knowledge management support (2000)
most organizations of a significant size produce and distribute an internal publication. KMI Planet is a Web-based news server that facilitates such communication in our laboratory—the Knowledge...
Meta-knowledge in systems design: panacea...or undelivered promise (2000)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Tim Menzies, Klaus-dieter Althoff, Enrico Motta
In this study we present a review of the emerging field of meta-knowledge components as practised over the past decade among a variety of practitioners. We use the artificially-defined term...
Planet-onto: From news publishing to integrated knowledge management support (2000)
most organizations of a significant size produce and distribute an internal publication. KMI Planet is a Web-based news server that facilitates such communication in our laboratory—the Knowledge...
ScholOnto: An Ontology-Based Digital Library Server for Research Documents and Discourse (2000)
Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
. The internet is rapidly becoming the first place for researchers to publish documents, but at present they receive little support in searching, tracking, analyzing or debating concepts in a...
Representing Scholarly Claims in Internet Digital Libraries: A Knowledge Modelling Approach (1999)
Shum, Simon Buckingham, Motta, Enrico, Domingue, John
This paper is concerned with tracking and interpreting scholarly documents in distributed research communities. We argue that current approaches to document description, and current technological...
The Unified Problem-solving Method Development Language UPML (1999)
Dieter Fensel, Enrico Motta, Frank Van Harmelen, V. Richard Benjamins, Monica Crubezy, Mauro Gaspari, ...
developed to describe and implement such architectures and components to facilitate their semiautomatic reuse and adaptation. In a nutshell, UPML is a framework for developing knowledge-intensive...
Representing scholarly claims in internet digital libraries: A knowledge modelling approach (1999)
Buckingham Shum, Simon Buckingham Shum, Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, ...
Abstract. This paper is concerned with tracking and interpreting scholarly documents in distributed research communities. We argue that current approaches to document description, and current...
The Unified Problem-solving Method Development Language UPML (1999)
Dieter Fensel, Enrico Motta, V. Richard Benjamins, Monica Crubezy, Stefan Decker, Mauro Gaspari, ...
developed to describe and implement such architectures and components to facilitate their semiautomatic reuse and adaptation. In a nutshell, UPML is a framework for developing knowledge-intensive...
Ontology-Driven Document Enrichment: Principles and Case Studies (1999)
Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue
. In this paper we present an approach to document enrichment, which consists of associating formal knowledge models to archives of documents, to provide intelligent knowledge retrieval and...
. We consider a knowledge management scenario in which members of an academic community collaboratively construct and share a common archive of news items. Given this scenario, a number of knowledge...
Automatic Selection of Problem Solving Libraries based on Competence Matching (1999)
Mauro Gaspari, Enrico Motta, Dieter Fensel
. We describe an automatic approach to the selection of problem solving libraries based on semantic matching. Problem solving libraries are specified exploiting UPML an architectural description...
Ontology-Driven Document Enrichment: Principles, Tools and Applications (1999)
Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue
. In this paper we present an approach to document enrichment, which consists of developing and integrating formal knowledge models with archives of documents, to provide intelligent knowledge...
The Component Model Of Upml In A Nutshell (1999)
Dieter Fensel Richard, V. Richard Benjamins, Stefan Decker, Mauro Gaspari, Rix Groenboom, William Grosso, ...
. Problem-solving methods provide reusable architectures and components for implementing the reasoning part of knowledge-based systems. The Unified Problem-solving Method description Language UPML...
The Component Model Of Upml In A Nutshell (1999)
Dieter Fensel, Richard Benjamins, Stefan Decker, Mauro Gaspari, Rix Groenboom, William Grosso, ...
. Problem-solving methods provide reusable architectures and components for implementing the reasoning part of knowledge-based systems. The Unified Problem-solving Method description Language UPML...
UPML: A framework for knowledge system reuse (1999)
Dieter Fensel, V. Richard Benjamins, Enrico Motta, V. Richard, Benjamins Enricomotta, Bob Wielinga
Problem-solving methods provide reusable architectures and components for implementing the reasoning part of knowledge-based systems. The Unified Problem-solving Method Development Language, UPML,...
Specifications of Knowledge Components for Reuse (1999)
Enrico Motta, Dieter Fensel, Mauro Gaspari, Richard Benjamins, Walton Hall
. The IBROW 3 project aims to support semi-automatic configuration of intelligent problem solvers out of reusable components. The project takes a holistic approach to reuse and is developing...
The Unified Problem-solving Method Development Language UPML (1999)
Dieter Fensel, Enrico Motta, V. Richard Benjamins, Monica Crubezy, Stefan Decker, Mauro Gaspari, ...
developed to describe and implement such architectures and components to facilitate their semiautomatic reuse and adaptation. In a nutshell, UPML is a framework for developing knowledge-intensive...
Reusable components for knowledge modelling. (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University, 1998.
Structured Development of Problem Solving Methods (1998)
Dieter Fensel And, Dieter Fensel, Enrico Motta
. Problem solving methods (PSMs) are domain-independent reasoning components, which specify patterns of behavior which can be reused across applications. While the availability of extensive PSM...
An Overview of the OCML Modelling Language (1998)
. This paper provides an overview of the OCML modelling language: it illustrates the underlying philosophy, describes the main modelling constructs provided, and compares it to other modelling...
Structured Development of Problem Solving Methods (1998)
. Problem solving methods (PSMs) are domain-independent reasoning components, which specify patterns of behavior which can be reused across applications. While the availability of extensive PSM...
IBROW3 - An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web (1998)
V. Richard Benjamins, Enric Plaza, Enrico Motta, Dieter Fensel, Rudi Studer, Bob Wielinga, ...
Data Types Wirsing, 1990. If we want to exchange our problem-solving methods with other groups, then we have to build a wrapper. A KIF wrapper (Knowledge Interchange Format) Gruber, 1993, Genesereth...
IBROW3 - An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web (1998)
V. Richard Benjamins, Stefan Decker, Dieter Fensel, Enrico Motta, Enric Plaza, Guus Schreiber, ...
. The World-Wide Web is changing the nature of software development to a distributive plug & play process. This requires a new way of managing software by so-called intelligent software brokers....
Making knowledge engineering technology work. (1997)
Benjamins, Richard, Fensel, Dieter, Pierret-Golbreich, Christine, Motta, Enrico, Studer, Rudi, Wielinga, Bob
Using ontologies for defining tasks, problem-solving methods and their mappings. (1997)
Fensel, Dieter, Motta, Enrico, Decker, Stefan, Zdrahal, Zdenek
Making Knowledge Engineering Technology Work (1997)
Richard Benjamins, Dieter Fensel, Christine Pierret-golbreich, Enrico Motta, Rudi Studer Aifb, Bob Wielinga Swi, ...
The rapid-prototyping approach of the early 1980's failed to deliver high-quality knowledge-based systems. As a reaction, in the early 90's, there has been a large activity in the knowledge...
Solving VT in VITAL: A Study in Model Construction and Knowledge Reuse (1996)
Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Stutt, Arthur, Zdrahal, Zdenek
Solving VT in VITAL: A Study in Model Construction and Knowledge Reuse (1996)
Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Stutt, Arthur, Zdrahal, Zdenek
Solving VT in VITAL: A Study in Model Construction and Knowledge Reuse (1996)
Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Stutt, Arthur, Zdrahal, Zdenek
Improving Competence by Integrating Case-Based Reasoning and Heuristic Search (1996)
Zdenek Zdrahal, Enrico Motta, Walton Hall
. We analyse the behaviour of a Propose & Revise architecture in the VT elevator design problem and we show that this problem solving method cannot solve all possible cases covered by the...
An Open Framework for Cooperative Problem Solving (1995)
Mauro Gaspari, Enrico Motta, Arthur Stutt
Hybrid, knowledge-based systems comprise a number of heterogeneous agents, which make use of different knowledge representation languages. The VITAL-KR is a software architecture providing the basic...
The Trouble with What: Issues in method-independent task specifications (1995)
Enrico Motta, Zdenek Zdrahal, Walton Hall
. In this paper we discuss some issues concerning the organization of knowledge for reuse and we critically examine the ideas of knowledge separation and minimal ontological commitments.. Because...
A VITAL Solution to the Sisyphus II Elevator Design Problem (1994)
Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Stutt, Arthur, Zdrahal, Zdenek
A VITAL Solution to the Sisyphus II Elevator Design Problem (1994)
Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Stutt, Arthur, Zdrahal, Zdenek
A VITAL Solution to the Sisyphus II Elevator Design Problem (1994)
Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Stutt, Arthur, Zdrahal, Zdenek
Symbol-level Requirements for Agent-level Programming (1994)
In this paper we discuss the notion of programming at the knowledge level in the context of distributed AI systems. In particular, we show that although a number of languages defining abstract...
Grounding GDMs: A Structured Case Study (1994)
Enrico Motta, Nigel Shadbolt, Walton Hall, Mk Aa
In this paper a solution to the Sisyphus room allocation problem is discussed,which uses the generalised directive model (GDM) methodology developed in the ACKnowledge project, together with the...
VITAL Knowledge Representation Language Specification (1991)
Enrico Motta, Arthur Stutt, Kieron O'Hara, Juha Kuusela, Hannu Toivonen, Han Reichgelt, ...
: In this document the knowledge representation component of the VITAL workbench is specified. Authors: Enrico Motta, Arthur Stutt, Kieron O'Hara, Juha Kuusela, Hannu Toivonen, Han Reichgelt,...
An Architecture for the Integration of Heterogenous Inference Systems (1991)
Bull Bull, Cediag Ac, Andersen Consulting, Enrico Motta, Enrico Motta, Arthur Stutt, ...
: Embedded approaches to the design of hybrid architectures for knowledge representation and reasoning organize the component inference tools around a designated kernel, which provides the basic...
Methodological Foundations of Keats, The Knowledge Engineers' Assistant (1991)
Enrico Motta, Tim Rajan, John Domingue, Marc Eisenstadt
: The numerous tasks required by the knowledge engineering process and their inherent complexity combine to make building knowledge-based systems both a time consuming and arduous activity. The key...
Initial Formulation of the Vital-KR Framework (1991)
Enrico Motta, Bull Bull, Cediag Ac, Andersen Consulting
: In this document we propose and discuss a framework for the knowledge representation component of the Vital workbench. We argue that the framework described here, organized around a two-layer...
Integration of Heterogeneous Languages in the VITAL Project (Architectural Issues) (1991)
Enrico Motta, Arthur Stutt, Bull Bull, Cediag Ac, Andersen Consulting
: The EKB layer is expected to integrate a number of knowledge representation languages. In this document we discuss the issues related to the specification of hybrid architectures, and we propose a...
Knowledge Acquisition as a Process of Model Refinement (1990)
Enrico Motta, Tim Rajan, Marc Eisenstadt
: The strengths and weaknesses of our earlier system, KEATS-1, have led us to embark upon the design and implementation of a new knowledge engineering environment, KEATS-2, which provides a novel,...
A Methodology and Tool for Knowledge Acquisition (1988)
Enrico Motta, Tim Rajan, Marc Eisenstadt
: Because knowledge is a critical factor affecting the performance of an expert system, knowledge acquisition is a priori a fundamental task of any knowledge engineering enterprise. A number of...
Support for Knowledge Acquisition in the Knowledge Engineer's Assistant (KEATS) (1988)
Enrico Motta, Marc Eisenstadt, Kent Pitman
: The 'Knowledge Engineer's Assistant' (KEATS) is a software environment suitable for constructing knowledge based systems. In this paper, we discuss its role in supporting the...