Alani, Harith, Szomszor, Martin, Cattuto, Ciro, Van Den Broeck, Wouter, Correndo, Gianluca, Barrat, Alain
Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates data from the semantic web,...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2009)
Martin Szomszor, Ciro Cattuto, Harith Alani, Andrea Baldassarri, Vittorio Loreto
Abstract. While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale...
Preliminary Results in Tag Disambiguation using DBpedia (2009)
Garcia, Andres, Szomszor, Martin, Alani, Harith, Corcho, Oscar
The availability of tag-based user-generated content for a variety of Web resources (music, photos, videos, text, etc.) has largely increased in the last years. Users can assign tags freely and then...
A Community Based Approach for Managing Ontology Alignments (2009)
Gianluca Correndo, Harith Alani, Paul Smart
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Enriching Ontological User Profiles with Tagging History for Multi-Domain Recommendations (2009)
Iván Cantador, Martin Szomszor, Harith Alani, Miriam Fernández, Pablo Castells
{mns2, ha} @ ecs.soton.ac.uk Abstract. Many advanced recommendation frameworks employ ontologies of various complexities to model individuals and items, providing a mechanism for the expression of...
Social Support for Ontological Mediation and Data Integration (2009)
Correndo, Gianluca, Alani, Harith, Salvadores, Manuel
Most organisations store their data in several databases with no flexible mechanism for integration and access, and with no common vocabulary in place. Maintaining local vocabularies while realising...
Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt, Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen, Nigam Shah
As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the “right ” ontologies becomes much harder. In this paper, we address the problem of ontology search: finding a collection of ontologies...
Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group (2008)
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Collaborative Support for Community Data Sharing (2008)
Correndo, Gianluca, Alani, Harith
The Semantic Web aims to create a web of data where contents can be easily discovered and integrated using metadata. Many ontologies have been proposed over the years in different domains, thus...
172 Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2008)
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries...
An Approach to Cope with Ontology Changes for Ontology-based Applications (2008)
Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, David Dupplaw, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications because updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology...
Semantic Modelling of User Interests based on Cross-Folksonomy Analysis (2008)
Szomszor, Martin, Alani, Harith, Cantador, Ivan, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
The continued increase in Web usage, in particular participation in folksonomies, reveals a trend towards a more dynamic and interactive Web where individuals can organise and share resources....
A Community Based Approach for Managing Ontology Alignments (2008)
Correndo, Gianluca, Alani, Harith, Smart, Paul R
The Semantic Web is rapidly becoming a defacto distributed repository for semantically represented data, thus leveraging on the added on value of the network effect. Various ontology mapping...
Demo: A Community Based Approach for Managing Ontology Alignments (2008)
Correndo, Gianluca, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Smart, Paul R, Alani, Harith
The Semantic Web is rapidly becoming a defacto distributed repository for semantically represented data, thus leveraging on the added on value of the network effect. Various ontology mapping...
Correlating User Profiles from Multiple Folksonomies (2008)
Szomszor, Martin, Cantador, Iván, Alani, Harith
As the popularity of the web increases, particularly the use of social networking sites and Web2.0 style sharing platforms, users are becoming increasingly connected, sharing more and more...
Correlating User Profiles from Multiple Folksonomies (2008)
Szomszor, Martin, Cantador, Iván, Alani, Harith
As the popularity of the web increases, particularly the use of social networking sites and Web2.0 style sharing platforms, users are becoming increasingly connected, sharing more and more...
Enriching Ontological User Profiles with Tagging History for Multi-Domain Recommendations (2008)
Cantador, Iván, Szomszor, Martin, Alani, Harith, Fernández, Miriam, Castells, Pablo
Many advanced recommendation frameworks employ ontologies of various complexities to model individuals and items, providing a mechanism for the expression of user interests and the representation of...
Enriching Ontological User Profiles with Tagging History for Multi-Domain Recommendations (2008)
Cantador, Iván, Szomszor, Martin, Alani, Harith, Fernández, Miriam, Castells, Pablo
Many advanced recommendation frameworks employ ontologies of various complexities to model individuals and items, providing a mechanism for the expression of user interests and the representation of...
Advanced knowledge system for coatings and the gas turbine MRO industry (2008)
Chandler, Peter, Hall, Wendy, Shadbolt, Nigel, Alani, Harith, Szomszor, Martin
The growth of data generated within thermal spraying is, for many, a daunting business. Yet, this growing resource represents a largely untapped and potentially valuable asset capable of providing...
Advanced knowledge system for coatings and the gas turbine MRO industry (2008)
Chandler, Peter, Hall, Wendy, Shadbolt, Nigel, Alani, Harith, Szomszor, Martin
The growth of data generated within thermal spraying is, for many, a daunting business. Yet, this growing resource represents a largely untapped and potentially valuable asset capable of providing...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2008)
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Features for Killer Apps from a Semantic Web Perspective (2008)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. Information Technology generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited...
Changing Ontology Breaks the Queries (2008)
Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the knowledge base, dependent ontologies and applications/services. Current research concentrates...
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, (2008)
Gary Wills, Harith Alani, Ronald Ashri, Richard Crowder, Yannis Kalfoglou, Sanghee Kim
Abstract. While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the...
Nigel Shadbolt, Harith Alani, Steve Harris, Nick Gibbins, Yannis Kalfoglou, Bo Hu, ...
www.aktors.org
Techniques to rank ontologies are crucial to aid and encourage the re-use of publicly available ontologies. This paper presents a system that obtains a list of ontologies from a search engine that...
Unlocking the Potential of Public Sector Information with Semantic Web Technology (2008)
Harith Alani, John Sheridan, John Darlington, Nigel Shadbolt, Carol Tullo
Abstract. Governments often hold very rich data and whilst much of this information is published and available for re-use by others, it is often trapped by poor data structures, locked up in legacy...
The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction (2008)
Natalya F. Noy, Abhita Chugh, Harith Alani
The great success of Web 2.0 is mainly fuelled by an infrastructure that allows web users to create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge easily. The tools for developing structured...
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Features for Killer Apps from a Semantic Web Perspective (2008)
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Shadbolt, Nigel
There are certain features that that distinguish killer apps from other ordinary applications. This chapter examines those features in the context of the semantic web, in the hope that a better...
Features for Killer Apps from a Semantic Web Perspective (2008)
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Shadbolt, Nigel
There are certain features that that distinguish killer apps from other ordinary applications. This chapter examines those features in the context of the semantic web, in the hope that a better...
The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction (2008)
Noy, Natasha F., Chugh, Abhita, Alani, Harith
Web 2.0’s great success is fueled mainly by an infrastructure that lets users easily create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge. In general, the knowledge created in today’s...
The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction (2008)
Noy, Natasha F., Chugh, Abhita, Alani, Harith
Web 2.0’s great success is fueled mainly by an infrastructure that lets users easily create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge. In general, the knowledge created in today’s...
Building a Pragmatic Semantic Web (2008)
Alani, Harith, Hall, Wendy, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Chandler, Peter, Szomszor, Martin
One of the great benefits that Semantic Web (SW) technology offers is facilitating large scale integration and sharing of distributed data sources. Transferring this technology from the lab...
Mining for Social Serendipity (2008)
Passant, Alexandre, Mulvany, Ian, Mika, Peter, Maisonneauve, Nicolas, Löser, Alexander, Cattuto, Ciro, ...
A common social problem at an event in which people do not personally know all of the other participants is the natural tendency for cliques to form and for discussions to mainly happen between...
Alani, Harith, Staab, Steffen, Stumme, Gerd
Blogs, Wikis, and Social Bookmark Tools have rapidly emerged on the Web. The reasons for their immediate success are that people are happy to share information, and that these tools provide an...
08391 Executive Summary -- Social Web Communities (2008)
Alani, Harith, Staab, Steffen, Stumme, Gerd
Blogs, Wikis, and Social Bookmark Tools have rapidly emerged on the Web. The reasons for their immediate success are that people are happy to share information, and that these tools provide an...
08391 Group Summary -- Mining for Social Serendipity (2008)
Passant, Alexandre, Mulvany, Ian, Mika, Peter, Maisonneuve, Nicolas, Löser, Alexander, Cattuto, Ciro, ...
A common social problem at an event in which people do not personally know all of the other participants is the natural tendency for cliques to form and for discussions to mainly happen between...
08391 Abstracts Collection -- Social Web Communities (2008)
Alani, Harith, Staab, Steffen, Stumme, Gerd
From September 21st to September 26th 2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08391 ``Social Web Communities'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the...
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, (2007)
Gary Wills, Harith Alani, Ronald Ashri, Richard Crowder, Yannis Kalfoglou, Sanghee Kim
Abstract. While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the...
Harith Alani, An Dasmahapatra, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Steve Harris, Yannis Kalfoglou, ...
Abstract. The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses signicant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent...
Douglas Tudhope, Harith Alani, Christopher Jones
This paper discusses issues concerning the augmentation of thesaurus relationships, in light of new application possibilities for retrieval. We first discuss a case study that explored the retrieval...
Ontologies as Facilitators for Repurposing Web Documents (2007)
Weal, Mark J., Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Lewis, Paul H., Millard, David E., Sinclair, Patrick A. S., ...
This paper investigates the role of ontologies as a central part of an architecture to repurpose existing material from the Web. A prototype system called ArtEquAKT is presented, which combines...
Ontologies as Facilitators for Repurposing Web Documents (2007)
Weal, Mark J., Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Lewis, Paul H., Millard, David E., Sinclair, Patrick A. S., ...
This paper investigates the role of ontologies as a central part of an architecture to repurpose existing material from the Web. A prototype system called ArtEquAKT is presented, which combines...
Ontologies as Facilitators for Repurposing Web Documents (2007)
Weal, Mark J., Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Lewis, Paul H., Millard, David E., Sinclair, Patrick A. S., ...
This paper investigates the role of ontologies as a central part of an architecture to repurpose existing material from the Web. A prototype system called ArtEquAKT is presented, which combines...
Ontologies as Facilitators for Repurposing Web Documents (2007)
Weal, Mark, Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Lewis, Paul, Millard, Dave, Sinclair, Patrick, ...
This paper investigates the role of ontologies as a central part of an architecture to repurpose existing material from the Web. A prototype system called ArtEquAKT is presented, which combines...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2007)
Potter, Stephen, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Carvalho, Rodrigo, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2007)
Szomszor, Martin, Cattuto, Ciro, Alani, Harith, O’Hara, Kieron, Baldassarri, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio, ...
While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale community...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2007)
Szomszor, Martin, Cattuto, Ciro, Alani, Harith, O’Hara, Kieron, Baldassarri, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio, ...
While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale community...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2007)
Szomszor, Martin, Cattuto, Ciro, Alani, Harith, O’Hara, Kieron, Baldassarri, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio, ...
While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale community...
Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation - Scenario Specification (2007)
Huynh, Trung Dong, Alani, Harith
This report provides a piloting scenario for MIMEX development which involves UK military operations in the Helmand province, Afghanistan. The scenario aims to highlight some of the challenges and...
Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation - Scenario Specification (2007)
Huynh, Trung Dong, Alani, Harith
This report provides a piloting scenario for MIMEX development which involves UK military operations in the Helmand province, Afghanistan. The scenario aims to highlight some of the challenges and...
Searching Ontologies Based on Content: Experiments in the Biomedical Domain (2007)
Alani, Harith, Noy, Natasha, Shah, Nigam, Shadbolt, Nigel, Musen, Mark
As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the "right" ontologies becomes much harder. In this paper, we address the problem of ontology search: finding a collection of ontologies from an...
Unlocking the Potential of Public Sector Information with Semantic Web Technology (2007)
Alani, Harith, Dupplaw, David, Sheridan, John, O'Hara, Kieron, Darlington, John, Shadbolt, Nigel, ...
Governments often hold very rich data and whilst much of this information is published and available for re-use by others, it is often trapped by poor data structures, locked up in legacy data...
Searching Ontologies Based on Content: Experiments in the Biomedical Domain (2007)
Alani, Harith, Noy, Natasha, Shah, Nigam, Shadbolt, Nigel, Musen, Mark
As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the "right" ontologies becomes much harder. In this paper, we address the problem of ontology search: finding a collection of ontologies from an...
Unlocking the Potential of Public Sector Information with Semantic Web Technology (2007)
Alani, Harith, Dupplaw, David, Sheridan, John, O'Hara, Kieron, Darlington, John, Shadbolt, Nigel, ...
Governments often hold very rich data and whilst much of this information is published and available for re-use by others, it is often trapped by poor data structures, locked up in legacy data...
Searching Biomedical Ontologies based on Content (2007)
Alani, Harith, Noy, Natasha, Shah, Nigam, Shadbolt, Nigel, Musen, Mark
As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the "right" ontologies becomes much harder. In this paper, we introduce a new ontology search technique which is based on corpus analysis. In...
Searching Biomedical Ontologies based on Content (2007)
Alani, Harith, Noy, Natasha, Shah, Nigam, Shadbolt, Nigel, Musen, Mark
As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the "right" ontologies becomes much harder. In this paper, we introduce a new ontology search technique which is based on corpus analysis. In...
The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction (2007)
Noy, Natalya F, Chugh, Abhita, Alani, Harith
The great success of Web 2.0 is mainly fuelled by an infrastructure that allows web users to create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge easily. The tools for developing structured...
The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction (2007)
Noy, Natalya F, Chugh, Abhita, Alani, Harith
The great success of Web 2.0 is mainly fuelled by an infrastructure that allows web users to create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge easily. The tools for developing structured...
Survey of tools for collaborative knowledge construction and sharing (2007)
Correndo, Gianluca, Alani, Harith
The fast growth and spread of Web 2.0 environments have demonstrated the great willingness of general Web users to contribute and share various type of content and information. Many very successful...
Survey of tools for collaborative knowledge construction and sharing (2007)
Correndo, Gianluca, Alani, Harith
The fast growth and spread of Web 2.0 environments have demonstrated the great willingness of general Web users to contribute and share various type of content and information. Many very successful...
Ontologies as facilitators for repurposing web documents (2007)
Mark J. Weal, Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, Paul H. Lewis, David E. Millard, ...
This paper investigates the role of ontologies as a central part of an architecture to repurpose existing material from the web. A prototype system called ArtEquAKT is presented, which combines...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Enabling traceable ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Enabling traceable ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Enabling traceable ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Ontologies Change and Queries Break: Towards a Solution (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Ontologies Change and Queries Break: Towards a Solution (2006)
Liang, Mr. Yaozhong, Alani, Dr. Harith, Shadbolt, Prof. Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
An Approach to Cope with Ontology Changes for Ontology-based Applications (2006)
Liang, Mr. Yaozhong, Alani, Dr. Harith, Shadbolt, Prof. Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications because updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Ontology Construction from Online Ontologies (2006)
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than building new ones from...
Winnowing Ontologies based on Application Use (2006)
Alani, Harith, Harris, Stephen, O'Neil, Ben
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their intended...
Metrics for Ranking Ontologies (2006)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher
Representing knowledge using domain ontologies has shown to be a useful mechanism and format for managing and exchanging information. Due to the difficulty and cost of building ontologies, a number...
Content-based Ontology Ranking (2006)
Techniques to rank ontologies are crucial to aid and encourage the re-use of publicly available ontologies. This paper presents a system that obtains a list of ontologies from a search engine that...
An Approach to Cope with Ontology Changes for Ontology-based Applications (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Dupplaw, David, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications because updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2006)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher, Shadbolt, Nigel
Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries and search...
Ontologies Change and Queries Break: Towards a Solution (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Changing Ontology Breaks the Queries (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the knowledge base, dependent ontologies and applications/services. Current research concentrates on the...
Ontology Construction from Online Ontologies (2006)
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than building new ones from...
Winnowing Ontologies based on Application Use (2006)
Alani, Harith, Harris, Stephen, O'Neil, Ben
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their intended...
Metrics for Ranking Ontologies (2006)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher
Representing knowledge using domain ontologies has shown to be a useful mechanism and format for managing and exchanging information. Due to the difficulty and cost of building ontologies, a number...
Content-based Ontology Ranking (2006)
Techniques to rank ontologies are crucial to aid and encourage the re-use of publicly available ontologies. This paper presents a system that obtains a list of ontologies from a search engine that...
An Approach to Cope with Ontology Changes for Ontology-based Applications (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Dupplaw, David, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications because updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2006)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher, Shadbolt, Nigel
Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries and search...
Ontologies Change and Queries Break: Towards a Solution (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Changing Ontology Breaks the Queries (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the knowledge base, dependent ontologies and applications/services. Current research concentrates on the...
Ontology Construction from Online Ontologies (2006)
One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than building new ones from...
Winnowing Ontologies based on Application Use (2006)
Alani, Harith, Harris, Stephen, O'Neil, Ben
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their intended...
Metrics for Ranking Ontologies (2006)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher
Representing knowledge using domain ontologies has shown to be a useful mechanism and format for managing and exchanging information. Due to the difficulty and cost of building ontologies, a number...
Content-based Ontology Ranking (2006)
Techniques to rank ontologies are crucial to aid and encourage the re-use of publicly available ontologies. This paper presents a system that obtains a list of ontologies from a search engine that...
An Approach to Cope with Ontology Changes for Ontology-based Applications (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Dupplaw, David, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications because updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2006)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher, Shadbolt, Nigel
Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries and search...
Ontologies Change and Queries Break: Towards a Solution (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Changing Ontology Breaks the Queries (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the knowledge base, dependent ontologies and applications/services. Current research concentrates on the...
Hu, Bo, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Dupplaw, David, Alani, Harith, Lewis, Paul, Shadbolt, Nigel
In the context of the Semantic Web, many ontology-related operations, e.g. ontology ranking, segmentation, alignment, articulation, reuse, evaluation, can be boiled down to one fundamental operation:...
Hu, Bo, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Dupplaw, David, Alani, Harith, Lewis, Paul, Shadbolt, Nigel
In the context of the Semantic Web, many ontology-related operations, e.g. ontology ranking, segmentation, alignment, articulation, reuse, evaluation, can be boiled down to one fundamental operation:...
AKTing for the Consumer (2006)
Knowledge management is all about delivering data to the right person at the right time and in the right format. Yet there are massive amounts of very valuable data stored in inaccessible databases,...
AKTing for the Consumer (2006)
Knowledge management is all about delivering data to the right person at the right time and in the right format. Yet there are massive amounts of very valuable data stored in inaccessible databases,...
B.: Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use (2006)
Abstract. The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are designed and built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their...
Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2006)
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries...
Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2006)
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries...
B.: Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use (2006)
Abstract. The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their...
Metrics for Ranking Ontologies (2006)
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster
Representing knowledge using domain ontologies has shown to be a useful mechanism and format for managing and exchanging information. Due to the di#culty and cost of building ontologies, a number of...
N.Shadbolt. Semantic Metrics (2006)
Bo Hu, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract In the context of the Semantic Web, many ontology-related operations, e.g. ontology ranking, segmentation, alignment, articulation, reuse, evaluation, can reduced to one fundamental...
B.: Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use (2006)
Abstract. The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Successful Semantic Web-based applications not only need large amounts of underlying well-organised and well-interrelated ontologies to support their infrastructures, but also need to provide the...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Successful Semantic Web-based applications not only need large amounts of underlying well-organised and well-interrelated ontologies to support their infrastructures, but also need to provide the...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Successful Semantic Web-based applications not only need large amounts of underlying well-organised and well-interrelated ontologies to support their infrastructures, but also need to provide the...
Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies (2005)
Alani, Harith, Gibbins, Nicholas, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Stephen, Shadbolt, Nigel
In the current research environment, funding agencies are increasingly required to demonstrate that the projects they fund represent value for money. When funds are disbursed in a speculative manner,...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving,and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
Ontology Change Management in Protégé (2005)
Liang, Mr. Yaozhong, Alani, Dr. Harith, Shadbolt, Prof. Nigel
Ontology schemas tend to change and evolve over time to meet new requirements. This change may invalidate dependent applications if there is no dynamic adaptation to the changes made to underlying...
Change Management: The Core Task of Ontology Versioning and Evolution (2005)
Liang, Mr. Yaozhong, Alani, Dr. Harith, Shadbolt, Prof. Nigel
Change management as a key issue in ontology versioning and evolution is still not fully addressed, which to some extent forms a barrier against the smooth process of ontology evolution. The key...
Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies (2005)
Alani, Harith, Gibbins, Nicholas, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Stephen, Shadbolt, Nigel
In the current research environment, funding agencies are increasingly required to demonstrate that the projects they fund represent value for money. When funds are disbursed in a speculative manner,...
Common Features of Killer Apps: A Comparison with Prot´eg´e (2005)
Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps creating new...
Ontology Change Management in Protégé (2005)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Ontology schemas tend to change and evolve over time to meet new requirements. This change may invalidate dependent applications if there is no dynamic adaptation to the changes made to underlying...
Change Management: The Core Task of Ontology Versioning and Evolution (2005)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Change management as a key issue in ontology versioning and evolution is still not fully addressed, which to some extent forms a barrier against the smooth process of ontology evolution. The key...
Ontology Ranking based on the Analysis of Concept Structures (2005)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher
In view of the need to provide tools to facilitate the reuse of existing knowledge structures such as ontologies, we present in this paper a system, AKTiveRank, for the ranking of ontologies....
Towards a Killer App for the Semantic Web (2005)
Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps to create new...
Ontology Winnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology (2005)
Alani, Harith, Harris, Steven, O'Neil, Ben
Many ontologies are built for the main purpose of representing a domain, rather than to meet the requirements of a specific application. When applications and services are deployed over an ontology,...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving, and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies (2005)
Alani, Harith, Gibbins, Nicholas, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Stephen, Shadbolt, Nigel
In the current research environment, funding agencies are increasingly required to demonstrate that the projects they fund represent value for money. When funds are disbursed in a speculative manner,...
Common Features of Killer Apps: A Comparison with Prot´eg´e (2005)
Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps creating new...
Ontology Change Management in Protégé (2005)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Ontology schemas tend to change and evolve over time to meet new requirements. This change may invalidate dependent applications if there is no dynamic adaptation to the changes made to underlying...
Change Management: The Core Task of Ontology Versioning and Evolution (2005)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Change management as a key issue in ontology versioning and evolution is still not fully addressed, which to some extent forms a barrier against the smooth process of ontology evolution. The key...
Ontology Ranking based on the Analysis of Concept Structures (2005)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher
In view of the need to provide tools to facilitate the reuse of existing knowledge structures such as ontologies, we present in this paper a system, AKTiveRank, for the ranking of ontologies....
Towards a Killer App for the Semantic Web (2005)
Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps to create new...
Ontology Winnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology (2005)
Alani, Harith, Harris, Steven, O'Neil, Ben
Many ontologies are built for the main purpose of representing a domain, rather than to meet the requirements of a specific application. When applications and services are deployed over an ontology,...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving, and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies (2005)
Alani, Harith, Gibbins, Nicholas, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Stephen, Shadbolt, Nigel
In the current research environment, funding agencies are increasingly required to demonstrate that the projects they fund represent value for money. When funds are disbursed in a speculative manner,...
Common Features of Killer Apps: A Comparison with Prot´eg´e (2005)
Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps creating new...
Ontology Change Management in Protégé (2005)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Ontology schemas tend to change and evolve over time to meet new requirements. This change may invalidate dependent applications if there is no dynamic adaptation to the changes made to underlying...
Change Management: The Core Task of Ontology Versioning and Evolution (2005)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Change management as a key issue in ontology versioning and evolution is still not fully addressed, which to some extent forms a barrier against the smooth process of ontology evolution. The key...
Ontology Ranking based on the Analysis of Concept Structures (2005)
Alani, Harith, Brewster, Christopher
In view of the need to provide tools to facilitate the reuse of existing knowledge structures such as ontologies, we present in this paper a system, AKTiveRank, for the ranking of ontologies....
Towards a Killer App for the Semantic Web (2005)
Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps to create new...
Ontology Winnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology (2005)
Alani, Harith, Harris, Steven, O'Neil, Ben
Many ontologies are built for the main purpose of representing a domain, rather than to meet the requirements of a specific application. When applications and services are deployed over an ontology,...
Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Alani, Harith, Sleeman, Derek, Brewster, Christopher
The number of ontologies available online is increasing constantly. Tools that are capable of searching, retrieving, and ranking ontologies are becoming crucial to facilitate ontology search and...
Ontology Versioning and Evolution for Semantic Web-Based Applications (2005)
Yaozhong Liang, Supervised Prof, Nigel Shadbolt, Dr. Harith Alani
A nine-month progress report submitted as per the requirements for the continuation of study for the degree of MPhil/PhD
Ontology Change Management in Protege (2005)
Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology schemas tend to change and evolve over time to meet new requirements. This change may invalidate dependent applications if there is no dynamic adaptation to the changes made to...
Towards a killer app for the semantic web (2005)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps to...
Towards a killer app for the semantic web (2005)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps to...
Monitoring research collaborations using semantic web technologies (2005)
Harith Alani, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Stephen Harris, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract In the current research environment, funding agencies are increasingly required to demonstrate that the projects they fund represent value for money. When funds are disbursed in a...
Trust Strategies for the Semantic Web (2004)
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Shadbolt, Nigel
Everyone agrees on the importance of enabling trust on the SemanticWeb to ensure more efficient agent interaction. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing computational models,...
Trust Strategies for the Semantic Web (2004)
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Shadbolt, Nigel
Everyone agrees on the importance of enabling trust on the SemanticWeb to ensure more efficient agent interaction. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing computational models,...
Trust Strategies for the Semantic Web (2004)
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Shadbolt, Nigel
Everyone agrees on the importance of enabling trust on the SemanticWeb to ensure more efficient agent interaction. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing computational models,...
CS AKTiveSpace: Building a Semantic Web Application (2004)
Glaser, Hugh, Alani, Harith, Carr, Les, Chapman, Sam, Ciravegna, Fabio, Dingli, Alexiei, ...
In this paper we reflect on the lessons learned from deploying the award winning [1] Semantic Web application, CS AKTiveSpace. We look at issues in service orientation and modularisation, harvesting,...
Trust Strategies for the Semantic Web (2004)
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Shadbolt, Nigel
Enabling trust on the Semantic Web to ensure more efficient agent interaction is an important research topic. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing computational models, semantic...
CS AKTive Space: Building a Semantic Web Application (2004)
Glaser, Hugh, Alani, Harith, Carr, Les, Chapman, Sam, Ciravegna, Fabio, Dingli, Alexei, ...
In this paper we reflect on the lessons learned from deploying the award winning [1] Semantic Web application, CS AKTiveSpace. We look at issues in service orientation and modularisation, harvesting,...
Data Driven Ontology Evaluation (2004)
Brewster, Christopher, Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Wilks, Yorick
The evaluation of ontologies is vital for the growth of the Semantic Web. We consider a number of problems in evaluating a knowledge artifact like an ontology. We propose in this paper that one...
Using Protege for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2004)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
This paper gives an overview on the use of Protégé in the Artequakt system, which integrated Protégé with a set of natural language tools to automatically extract knowledge about artists from web...
On the emergent Semantic Web and overlooked issues (2004)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, Schorlemmer, Marco, Walton, Chris
The emergent Semantic Web, despite being in its infancy, has already received a lot of attention from academia and industry. This resulted in an abundance of prototype systems and discussion most of...
The Semantic Web as a Semantic Soup (2004)
Cox, Simon, Alani, Harith, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Stephen
The Semantic Web is currently best known for adding metadata to web pages to allow computers to 'understand' what they contain. This idea has been applied to people by the Friend of a Friend project...
CS AKTive Space: Building a Semantic Web Application (2004)
Glaser, Hugh, Alani, Harith, Carr, Les, Chapman, Sam, Ciravegna, Fabio, Dingli, Alexei, ...
In this paper we reflect on the lessons learned from deploying the award winning [1] Semantic Web application, CS AKTiveSpace. We look at issues in service orientation and modularisation, harvesting,...
Data Driven Ontology Evaluation (2004)
Brewster, Christopher, Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Wilks, Yorick
The evaluation of ontologies is vital for the growth of the Semantic Web. We consider a number of problems in evaluating a knowledge artifact like an ontology. We propose in this paper that one...
Using Protege for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2004)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
This paper gives an overview on the use of Protégé in the Artequakt system, which integrated Protégé with a set of natural language tools to automatically extract knowledge about artists from web...
On the emergent Semantic Web and overlooked issues (2004)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, Schorlemmer, Marco, Walton, Chris
The emergent Semantic Web, despite being in its infancy, has already received a lot of attention from academia and industry. This resulted in an abundance of prototype systems and discussion most of...
The Semantic Web as a Semantic Soup (2004)
Cox, Simon, Alani, Harith, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Stephen
The Semantic Web is currently best known for adding metadata to web pages to allow computers to 'understand' what they contain. This idea has been applied to people by the Friend of a Friend project...
CS AKTive Space: Building a Semantic Web Application (2004)
Glaser, Hugh, Alani, Harith, Carr, Les, Chapman, Sam, Ciravegna, Fabio, Dingli, Alexei, ...
In this paper we reflect on the lessons learned from deploying the award winning [1] Semantic Web application, CS AKTiveSpace. We look at issues in service orientation and modularisation, harvesting,...
Data Driven Ontology Evaluation (2004)
Brewster, Christopher, Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Wilks, Yorick
The evaluation of ontologies is vital for the growth of the Semantic Web. We consider a number of problems in evaluating a knowledge artifact like an ontology. We propose in this paper that one...
Using Protege for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2004)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
This paper gives an overview on the use of Protégé in the Artequakt system, which integrated Protégé with a set of natural language tools to automatically extract knowledge about artists from web...
On the emergent Semantic Web and overlooked issues (2004)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, Schorlemmer, Marco, Walton, Chris
The emergent Semantic Web, despite being in its infancy, has already received a lot of attention from academia and industry. This resulted in an abundance of prototype systems and discussion most of...
The Semantic Web as a Semantic Soup (2004)
Cox, Simon, Alani, Harith, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Stephen
The Semantic Web is currently best known for adding metadata to web pages to allow computers to 'understand' what they contain. This idea has been applied to people by the Friend of a Friend project...
N.: Using Protégé for automatic ontology instantiation (2004)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal
This paper gives an overview on the use of Protégé in the Artequakt system, which integrated Protégé with a set of natural language tools to automatically extract knowledge about artists from web...
CS AKTive Space: Building a Semantic Web Application (2004)
Hugh Glaser, Harith Alani, Sam Chapman, Alexiei Dingli, Nicholas Gibbins, Stephen Harris, ...
In this paper we reflect on the lessons learned from deploying the award winning [1] Semantic Web application, CS AKTiveSpace. We look at issues in service orientation and modularisation, harvesting,...
On the Emergent Semantic Web and Overlooked Issues (2004)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Marco Schorlemmer, Chris Walton
The emergent Semantic Web, despite being in its infancy, has already received a lot of attention from academia and industry. This resulted in an abundance of prototype systems and discussion most of...
Trust strategies for the semantic web (2004)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Enabling trust on the Semantic Web to ensure more efficient agent interaction is an important research topic. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing computational models,...
On the Emergent Semantic Web and Overlooked Issues (2004)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Marco Schorlemmer, Chris Walton
Abstract. The emergent Semantic Web, despite being in its infancy, has already received a lot of attention from academia and industry. This resulted in an abundance of prototype systems and...
Data driven ontology evaluation (2004)
Christopher Brewster, Harith Alani, An Dasmahapatra
The evaluation of ontologies is vital for the growth of the Semantic Web. We consider a number of problems in evaluating a knowledge artifact like an ontology. We propose in this paper that one...
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis (2003)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice—groups of individuals interested in a particular job, procedure, or work domain—informally swap insights on work-related tasks, often through quick chats by the water...
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis (2003)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice—groups of individuals interested in a particular job, procedure, or work domain—informally swap insights on work-related tasks, often through quick chats by the water...
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis (2003)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice—groups of individuals interested in a particular job, procedure, or work domain—informally swap insights on work-related tasks, often through quick chats by the water...
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis (2003)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice—groups of individuals interested in a particular job, procedure, or work domain—informally swap insights on work-related tasks, often through quick chats by the water...
Automatic Ontology-Based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David, Weal, Mark, Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul, ...
To bring the Semantic Web to life and provide advanced knowledge services, we need efficient ways to access and extract knowledge from Web documents. Although Web page annotations could facilitate...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Population (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David, Weal, Mark, Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul, ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
Generating Adaptive Hypertext Content from the SemanticWeb (2003)
Millard, David, Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Weal, Mark, Lewis, Paul, Hall, Wendy, ...
Accessing and extracting knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realisation of the SemanticWeb and the provision of advanced knowledge services. The Artequakt project is an ongoing...
TGVizTab: An Ontology Visualisation Extension for Protégé (2003)
Ontologies are gaining a lot of interest and many are being developed to provide a variety of knowledge services. There is an increasing need for tools to graphically and interactively visualise such...
Automatic Ontology-Based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
To bring the Semantic Web to life and provide advanced knowledge services, we need efficient ways to access and extract knowledge from Web documents. Although Web page annotations could facilitate...
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Web Documents (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Lewis, Paul H., Hall, Wendy, ...
A large amount of digital information available is written as text documents in the form of web pages, reports, papers, emails, etc. Extracting the knowledge of interest from such documents from...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
TGVizTab: An Ontology Visualisation Extension for Protégé (2003)
Ontologies are gaining a lot of interest and many are being developed to provide a variety of knowledge services. There is an increasing need for tools to graphically and in-teractively visualise...
Generating Adaptive Hypertext Content from the Semantic Web (2003)
Millard, David E., Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Weal, Mark J., Lewis, Paul, Hall, Wendy, ...
Accessing and extracting knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realisation of the Semantic Web and the provision of advanced knowledge services. The Artequakt project is an ongoing...
Automatic Ontology-Based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
To bring the Semantic Web to life and provide advanced knowledge services, we need efficient ways to access and extract knowledge from Web documents. Although Web page annotations could facilitate...
Automatic Ontology-Based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
To bring the Semantic Web to life and provide advanced knowledge services, we need efficient ways to access and extract knowledge from Web documents. Although Web page annotations could facilitate...
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Web Documents (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Lewis, Paul H., Hall, Wendy, ...
A large amount of digital information available is written as text documents in the form of web pages, reports, papers, emails, etc. Extracting the knowledge of interest from such documents from...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
TGVizTab: An Ontology Visualisation Extension for Protégé (2003)
Ontologies are gaining a lot of interest and many are being developed to provide a variety of knowledge services. There is an increasing need for tools to graphically and in-teractively visualise...
Generating Adaptive Hypertext Content from the Semantic Web (2003)
Millard, David E., Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Weal, Mark J., Lewis, Paul, Hall, Wendy, ...
Accessing and extracting knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realisation of the Semantic Web and the provision of advanced knowledge services. The Artequakt project is an ongoing...
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Web Documents (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Lewis, Paul H., Hall, Wendy, ...
A large amount of digital information available is written as text documents in the form of web pages, reports, papers, emails, etc. Extracting the knowledge of interest from such documents from...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2003)
Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Millard, David E., Weal, Mark J., Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul H., ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
TGVizTab: An Ontology Visualisation Extension for Protégé (2003)
Ontologies are gaining a lot of interest and many are being developed to provide a variety of knowledge services. There is an increasing need for tools to graphically and in-teractively visualise...
Generating Adaptive Hypertext Content from the Semantic Web (2003)
Millard, David E., Alani, Harith, Kim, Sanghee, Weal, Mark J., Lewis, Paul, Hall, Wendy, ...
Accessing and extracting knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realisation of the Semantic Web and the provision of advanced knowledge services. The Artequakt project is an ongoing...
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis (2003)
Harith Alani, An Dasmahapatra, Nigel Shadbolt
Ontocopi, a tool for identifying communities of practice by analyzing ontologies of relevant working domains. Ontocopi spots patterns in ontological formal relations, traversing the ontology from...
Automatic Ontology-based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents (2003)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, ...
automatically extracts knowledge about artists from the Web, populates a knowledge base, and uses it to generate personalized biographies.
Generating Adaptive Hypertext Content from (2003)
David Millard, Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, Mark Weal, Paul Lewis, Wendy Hall, ...
Accessing and extracting knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realisation of the Semantic Web and the provision of advanced knowledge services. The Artequakt project is an ongoing...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2003)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Web Documents (2003)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Paul H. Lewis, Wendy Hall, ...
A large amount of digital information available is written as text documents in the form of web pages, reports, papers, emails, etc. Extracting the knowledge of interest from such documents from...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2003)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
ONTOCOPI: Methods and Tools for Identifying Communities of Practice (2002)
Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
The paper describes ONTOCOPI, a tool for identifying communities of practice (COPs) by analysing ontologies of the relevant working domain. COP identification is currently a resource-heavy process...
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and manage. In this...
ONTOCOPI: Methods and Tools for Identifying Communities of Practice (2002)
Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
The paper describes ONTOCOPI, a tool for identifying communities of practice (COPs) by analysing ontologies of the relevant working domain. COP identification is currently a resource-heavy process...
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and manage. In this...
ONTOCOPI: Methods and Tools for Identifying Communities of Practice (2002)
Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
The paper describes ONTOCOPI, a tool for identifying communities of practice (COPs) by analysing ontologies of the relevant working domain. COP identification is currently a resource-heavy process...
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and manage. In this...
Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems (2002)
Middleton, Stuart E., Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel R., Roure, David C. De
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems (2002)
Middleton, Stuart E., Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel R., Roure, David C. De
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems (2002)
Middleton, Stuart E., Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel R., Roure, David C. De
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems (2002)
Middleton, Stuart E., Alani, Harith, De Roure, David C.
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
An important problem for many kinds of knowledge systems is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in such systems, and the right information is also a...
Managing Reference: Ensuring Referential Integrity of Ontologies for the Semantic Web (2002)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Gibbins, Nicholas, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Steve, Kalfoglou, Yannis, ...
The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses significant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent and...
Kim, Sanghee, Alani, Harith, Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul, Millard, David, Shadbolt, Nigel, ...
The Artequakt project seeks to automatically generate narrative biographies of artists from knowledge that has been extracted from the Web and maintained in a knowledge base. An overview of the...
Design Issues for Agent-based Resource Locator Systems (2002)
Wills, Gary, Alani, Harith, Ashri, Ronald, Crowder, Richard, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Kim, Sanghee
While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the location of...
Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
An important problem for many kinds of knowledge systems is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in such systems, and the right information is also a...
Initiating Organizational Memories Using Ontology Network Analysis (2002)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right information is...
Managing Reference: Ensuring Referential Integrity of Ontologies for the Semantic Web (2002)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Gibbins, Nicholas, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Steve, Kalfoglou, Yannis, ...
The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses significant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent and...
Kim, Sanghee, Alani, Harith, Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul, Millard, David, Shadbolt, Nigel, ...
The Artequakt project seeks to automatically generate narrative biographies of artists from knowledge that has been extracted from the Web and maintained in a knowledge base. An overview of the...
Design Issues for Agent-based Resource Locator Systems (2002)
Wills, Gary, Alani, Harith, Ashri, Ronald, Crowder, Richard, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Kim, Sanghee
While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the location of...
Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
An important problem for many kinds of knowledge systems is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in such systems, and the right information is also a...
Initiating Organizational Memories Using Ontology Network Analysis (2002)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right information is...
Managing Reference: Ensuring Referential Integrity of Ontologies for the Semantic Web (2002)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Gibbins, Nicholas, Glaser, Hugh, Harris, Steve, Kalfoglou, Yannis, ...
The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses significant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent and...
Kim, Sanghee, Alani, Harith, Hall, Wendy, Lewis, Paul, Millard, David, Shadbolt, Nigel, ...
The Artequakt project seeks to automatically generate narrative biographies of artists from knowledge that has been extracted from the Web and maintained in a knowledge base. An overview of the...
Design Issues for Agent-based Resource Locator Systems (2002)
Wills, Gary, Alani, Harith, Ashri, Ronald, Crowder, Richard, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Kim, Sanghee
While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the location of...
Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
An important problem for many kinds of knowledge systems is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in such systems, and the right information is also a...
Initiating Organizational Memories Using Ontology Network Analysis (2002)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right information is...
Abstract: Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and...
Initiating Organizational Memories using Ontology Network Analysis (2002)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right...
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
An important problem for many kinds of knowledge systems is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in such systems, and the right information is also a...
Exploiting synergy between ontologies and recommender systems (2002)
Stuart E. Middleton, Harith Alani
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Exploiting synergy between ontologies and recommender systems (2002)
Stuart E. Middleton, Harith Alani
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Exploiting synergy between ontologies and recommender systems (2002)
Stuart E. Middleton, Harith Alani, Nigel R. Shadbolt
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Ontocopi: Methods and tools for identifying communities of practice (2002)
Abstract: The paper describes ONTOCOPI, a tool for identifying communities of practice (COPs) by analysing ontologies of the relevant working domain. COP identification is currently a resource-heavy...
Automatic Ontology-based Knowledge Extraction and Tailored Biography Generation from the Web (2002)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Wendy Hall, ...
This paper presents recent developments in the Artequakt project which seeks to automatically extract knowledge about artists from the Web, populate a knowledge base, and use it to generate...
Managing reference: Ensuring referential integrity of ontologies for the semantic web (2002)
Harith Alani, An Dasmahapatra, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Steve Harris, Yannis Kalfoglou, ...
Abstract. The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses significant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent...
Exploiting synergy between ontologies and recommender systems (2002)
Stuart E. Middleton, Harith Alani, Nigel R. Shadbolt
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however,...
Sanghee Kim, Harith Alani, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, David E. Millard, Nigel R. Shadbolt, ...
Abstract. The Artequakt project is working towards automatically generating narrative biographies of artists from knowledge that has been extracted from the Web and maintained in a knowledge base. An...
Geographical terminology servers – closing the semantic divide (2002)
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhope
The user interfaces of most geographical information systems are project specific, imposing upon the user a particular organisation's view of the information content. As geographical information...
Sanghee Kim, Harith Alani, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, David E. Millard, Nigel R. Shadbolt, ...
Abstract. The Artequakt project is working towards automatically generating narrative biographies of artists from knowledge that has been extracted from the Web and maintained in a knowledge base. An...
Spatial and Thematic Ontology in Cultural Heritage Information Systems (2001)
This project investigated the design and implementation of a knowledge-based system for thematic and spatial access to information about archaeological artefacts. The project explored the use of an...
Spatial and Thematic Ontology in Cultural Heritage Information Systems (2001)
This project investigated the design and implementation of a knowledge-based system for thematic and spatial access to information about archaeological artefacts. The project explored the use of an...
Spatial and Thematic Ontology in Cultural Heritage Information Systems (2001)
This project investigated the design and implementation of a knowledge-based system for thematic and spatial access to information about archaeological artefacts. The project explored the use of an...
Voronoi-Based Region Approximation for Geographical Information Retrieval with Gazetteers (2001)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
Gazetteers and geographical thesauri can be regarded as parsimonious spatial models that associate geographical location with place names and encode some semantic relations between the names. They...
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place (2001)
Jones, Christopher B., Alani, Harith, Tudhope, Douglas
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical space only by means of...
Voronoi-Based Region Approximation for Geographical Information Retrieval with Gazetteers (2001)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
Gazetteers and geographical thesauri can be regarded as parsimonious spatial models that associate geographical location with place names and encode some semantic relations between the names. They...
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place (2001)
Jones, Christopher B., Alani, Harith, Tudhope, Douglas
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical space only by means of...
Voronoi-Based Region Approximation for Geographical Information Retrieval with Gazetteers (2001)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
Gazetteers and geographical thesauri can be regarded as parsimonious spatial models that associate geographical location with place names and encode some semantic relations between the names. They...
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place (2001)
Jones, Christopher B., Alani, Harith, Tudhope, Douglas
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical space only by means of...
Spatial and thematic ontology in cultural heritage information systems. (2001)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glamorgan, 2001.
Augmenting Thesaurus Relationships: Possibilities for Retrieval (2001)
Douglas Tudhope, Harith Alani, Christopher Jones
This paper discusses issues concerning the augmentation of thesaurus relationships, in light of new application possibilities for retrieval. We first discuss a case study that explored the retrieval...
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place (2001)
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhope
Abstract. Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical space only by...
Associative and Spatial Relationships in Thesaurus-based Retrieval (2000)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
The OASIS (Ontologically Augmented Spatial Information System) project explores terminology systems for thematic and spatial access in digital library applications. A prototype implementation uses...
Associative and Spatial Relationships in Thesaurus-based Retrieval (2000)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
The OASIS (Ontologically Augmented Spatial Information System) project explores terminology systems for thematic and spatial access in digital library applications. A prototype implementation uses...
Associative and Spatial Relationships in Thesaurus-based Retrieval (2000)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
The OASIS (Ontologically Augmented Spatial Information System) project explores terminology systems for thematic and spatial access in digital library applications. A prototype implementation uses...
Thesaural and Spatial Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval Systems (2000)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
There is an increasing interest by cultural heritage organisations in developing hypermedia information systems to provide efficient ways to document, maintain, and search their data collections, and...
Thesaural and Spatial Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval Systems (2000)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
There is an increasing interest by cultural heritage organisations in developing hypermedia information systems to provide efficient ways to document, maintain, and search their data collections, and...
Thesaural and Spatial Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval Systems (2000)
Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher, Tudhope, Douglas
There is an increasing interest by cultural heritage organisations in developing hypermedia information systems to provide efficient ways to document, maintain, and search their data collections, and...
OntologyDriven Geographical Information Retrieval." GIScience 2000 (2000)
Harith Alani, Christopher Jones, Douglas Tudhope
A common problem in information retrieval is that the terms employed by a user to refer to some concept may not be equivalent to the terms employed in a database to refer to the same concept. In a...
Artequakt: Generating Tailored Biographies with Automatically Annotated Fragments from the Web
Sanghee Kim, Harith Alani, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, David E. Millard, Nigel R. Shadbolt, ...
The Artequakt project is working towards automatically generating narrative biographies of artists from knowledge that has been extracted from the Web and maintained in a knowledge base. An overview...