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Discovering new concepts for enhancing the Designing Buildings Wiki

21st February 2019

The Designing Buildings Wiki (https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk) is an online Wiki publicly accessible by the general public and maintained by Designing Buildings Ltd. It contains over 7500 articles and concepts related to building construction, civil and structural engineering, architecture, policies, legislation and much more.By leveraging state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, the CityLABS […]

The CSO Classifier: Ontology-Driven Detection of Research Topics in Scholarly Articles

25th January 2019

Abstract. Classifying research papers according to their research topics is an important task to improve their retrievability, assist the creation of smart analytics, and support a variety of approaches for analysing and making sense of the research environment. In this paper, we present the CSO Classifier, a new unsupervised approach for automatically classifying research papers […]

The Open University and Springer Nature launch the Computer Science Ontology

10th January 2019

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University and Springer Nature are partnering to provide a comprehensive Computer Science Ontology (CSO) to a broad range of communities engaged with scholarly data. CSO can be accessed free of charge through the CSO Portal, a web application that enables users to download, explore, and provide feedback […]

CityLabs Collaborations: IoT and Blockchain trial to guarantee transparency and accountability in regulatory compliance

8th January 2019

In November 2018, CityLabs and Akeman Solutions successfully began trialling IoT and Blockchain technologies to support the development of the Hygieneat smartphone app. The trial takes place in one of the restaurants located in the Open University (OU) campus in Milton Keynes. In particular, researchers in the Intelligent Systems and Data Science (ISDS) group at […]

Biztech BrightSparc Awards

18th December 2018

The CityLabs team have so far connected with over 70 SMEs in the region and provided valuable business and technical support, as well as forming research collaborations. Across all categories of awards, SMEs who have engaged with CityLABS were well represented. The CityLabs Innovation Award was won by LivingWell at Home. Emma Luddington and the […]

SKM3 at ISWC 2018

19th November 2018

Every year the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the main destination for many researchers in the Semantic Web community. The 17th edition of the conference was held last week at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey, California, and it hosted around 500 researchers coming from all around the world.This year the SKM3 presented three full papers, covering all the main tracks, […]

Geospatial exploration of job adverts with an innovative platform for teachers’ recruiting in SEMLEP

21st October 2018

CityLABS celebrates the launch of a “new to the market” feature on the Eduvocation platform www.mynewterm.org dedicated to job advertising and brokering in education. From their website: “MyNewTerm is the leading jobs platform for all teaching jobs, school support vacancies and education roles across Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Bedford.“ The CityLABS team supported Eduvocation on […]

AUGUR presented at JCDL 2018

12th June 2018

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2018 (JCDL 2018) took place last week in Fort Worth (Texas). Angelo attended the conference to discuss his recent advances showed in the research paper “AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics”. In brief, Augur is a framework analysing the diachronic relationships between research areas and […]

Great success for the SKM3 team at ISWC 2018

7th June 2018

The SKM3 team, the KMi research group on scholarly analytics, will present three full papers at the 2018 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), the premiere international venue for the Semantic Web and Linked Data communities, which will be held in October in Monterey, California. The SKM3 team succeeded in having a paper accepted in each […]

Runner-Up at Springer Nature Hack Day in Berlin

1st June 2018

On 26-27 April 2018, Angelo and Francesco attended the third edition of the Springer Nature Hack Day, which was held in its headquarter in Berlin. The Springer Nature Hack Day is an event that allows researchers, developers, tech companies, and Springer Nature itself, to gather together and tackle current research issues. Offering also opportunities for potential […]