Harith Alani

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Enabling Active Ontology Change Management within Semantic Web-based Applications. Mini-thesis: PhD upgrade report (2006)

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...

Enabling Active Ontology Change Management within Semantic Web-based Applications. Mini-thesis: PhD upgrade report (2006)

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...

Enabling Active Ontology Change Management within Semantic Web-based Applications. Mini-thesis: PhD upgrade report (2006)

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...

Enabling Active Ontology Change Management within Semantic Web-based Applications. Mini-thesis: PhD upgrade report (2006)

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)

Alani, Harith

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)

Jones, Mathew, Alani, Harith

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)

Alani, Harith

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)

Jones, Mathew, Alani, Harith

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)

Alani, Harith

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)

Jones, Mathew, Alani, Harith

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)

Alani, Harith

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...