SKM3 at ISWC 2023

SKM3 at ISWC 2023

The 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023), a leading global event for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph Community, has successfully wrapped up, marked by notable involvement from...

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Tanay Aggarwal joins the SKM team

Tanay Aggarwal joins the SKM team

On 1 October 2023, Tanay Aggarwal joined our team, starting his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr Angelo Salatino, Dr Francesco Osborne, and Prof Enrico Motta. Tanay will investigate...

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SKM3 at STI 2023

SKM3 at STI 2023

This week STI 2023 – the 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators – took place. The Scientometrics community from all around the world gathered in Leiden,...

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SKM3 at SEMANTiCS 2023

SKM3 at SEMANTiCS 2023

Last week, the Semantic Web Community gathered once again for another yearly top-notch event: the 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems; commonly known as SEMANTiCS 2023. The SEMANTiCS...

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Alessia Pisu joins the SKM team

Alessia Pisu joins the SKM team

On 19 June 2023, KMi’s Scholarly Knowledge Modelling (SKM) team welcomed Alessia Pisu, a visiting PhD student from the University of Cagliari (IT). Over the next six months, Alessia will...

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Francisco joins the SKM team

Francisco joins the SKM team

On 1 February 2023, KMi’s Scholarly Knowledge Modelling (SKM) team welcomed Francisco Bolaños Burgos, who is starting his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr Francesco Osborne, Dr Angelo...

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AIDA Dashboard team wins Best In-use Paper Award at ISWC 2022

AIDA Dashboard team wins Best In-use Paper Award at ISWC 2022

Members of KMi’s Scholarly Knowledge Modelling Research Group have been announced as winners of the In-Use Paper Award at the International Semantic Web Conference, which is the premiere...

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KMi Researchers Launch the AIDA Dashboard

KMi Researchers Launch the AIDA Dashboard

In partnership with Springer Nature and the University of Cagliari, the Scholarly Knowledge Research Group at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute has developed the AIDA Dashboard, an...

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SPIROCCO’s App for community-based care

SPIROCCO’s App for community-based care

As part of the H2020 GATEKEEPER, we are developing an App with the SME SPIROCCO to support community-based care. SPIROCCO is a winner of €50k funds of the 1st GK Open Call, addressing our challenge...

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Agnese presents her research on robots with common sense at the AAAI Spring Symposium

The 2022 AAAI Symposium on Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering for Hybrid Intelligence (AAAI-MAKE) took place on March 21-23. The symposium is aimed at bringing together researchers and...

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SPARQL Anything at the meeting of the Knowledge Graph Construction W3C community group

SPARQL Anything at the meeting of the Knowledge Graph Construction W3C community group

On 14 February, Enrico Daga joined the biweekly meetings of the Knowledge Graph Construction community group to give a presentation on SPARQL Anything. W3C is a community group that aims to support...

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Testing the GATEKEEPER robotic intervention in KMi

Testing the GATEKEEPER robotic intervention in KMi

As part of the GATEKEEPER project, our Gianluca is working on autonomous inspection of home environments aimed to identify and map objects of daily living and identify potential hazards. In...

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Testing Robotic Vision through VR

Testing Robotic Vision through VR

As a part of the GATEKEEPER project, we are collaborating with Extend Robotics on the development of VR software for remote presence through the TiaGo robot. The first step is the reconstruction of...

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The Semantic Web Community Celebrates its 20th Birthday

The Semantic Web Community Celebrates its 20th Birthday

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the ‘official’ birth of the Semantic Web community, as 2001 saw both the publication of the landmark paper on the Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee, Jim...

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Watch the video from the 2021 SciRoc Challenge!

Watch the video from the 2021 SciRoc Challenge!

Well… what an event! A huge thank you again to all of our teams, sponsors, volunteers and members of the public for joining us to support the 2021 SciRoc Challenge, and to the city of Bologna for...

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Event news: The Future and the Past of Reading (18.11.2021), Milano, Italy

Event news: The Future and the Past of Reading (18.11.2021), Milano, Italy

READ-IT members will take part in a workshop, ‘The Future and the Past of Reading. New Research Methods for new Perspectives’ at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, on Thursday 18...

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The Open University’s project period ends

The Open University’s project period ends

On 30 September 2021, The Open University’s funded period on the project READ-IT comes to an end. While the project team Dr. Shafquat Towheed (UK Lead), Dr. Alessio Antonini, Dr. Francesca Benatti,...

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Conference news: “Reading Popular Culture Offline and Online”

Conference news: “Reading Popular Culture Offline and Online”

READ-IT members Dr. Alessio Antonini, Dr.Francesca Benatti and Prof. Corinna Norrick-Rühl have co-written a paper titled “Reading Popular Culture Offline and Online: Outlining a Comparative Study...

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ISDS Team at Semantics 2021

ISDS Team at Semantics 2021

Last week saw the latest edition of the Semantics series of conferences, Semantics 2021, which took place in Amsterdam, Holland. Since 2005, the Semantics conferences provide the main European...

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Highlights from SciRoc 2021

Highlights from SciRoc 2021

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The Winners of SciRoc 2021 Are Announced!

The Winners of SciRoc 2021 Are Announced!

SciRoc 2021 took place at the historic Palazzo Re Enzo, from Monday 6th – Friday 10th September 2021. 13 international teams joined the competition. Given the restrictions and uncertainty around...

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ISDS win at the SciRoc 2021 challenge

Last week, from the 6th to the 10th of September, the 2nd International Smart Cities and Robotics Challenge (SciRoc) was held in Bologna  (Italy) in the historic location of Palazzo Re Enzo. As a...

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SciRoc arrives in Bologna

SciRoc arrives in Bologna

SciRoc has officially arrived in Bologna! The competition will take place at Palazzo Re Enzo, in the main square and heart of Bologna. We are busy preparing the venue for our teams and audience...

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Stream SciRoc 2021 Live!

Stream SciRoc 2021 Live!

WATCH NOW: Stream the full SciRoc competition live! We have three streams available to cover all Episodes of the competition. Click on any stream below to begin watching: Stream 1: WATCH NOW Stream...

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Conference news: “Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext”

Conference news: “Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext”

The paper “Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext” has been accepted, and will be presented at the upcoming ACM HyperText conference (30 August – 2 September 2021). The...

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Publication news: “Reconnecting with the evolving journey of reading” (July 2021)

Publication news: “Reconnecting with the evolving journey of reading” (July 2021)

In “Reconnecting with the evolving journey of reading”, READ-IT project PI Prof Brigitte Ouvry-Vial (Le Mans University) and READ-IT team member Dr Alessio Antonini (The Open University) reflect...

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Full list of Sponsors confirmed for SciRoc 2021

Full list of Sponsors confirmed for SciRoc 2021

We are thrilled to announce our full list of sponsors who join us for the 2nd edition of our Smart Cities Robotics Challenge (SciRoc) that will take place in Bologna, Italy in September. A...

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Annual SHARP conference ‘Moving Texts: From Discovery to Delivery’ (26-30.07.2021)

Annual SHARP conference ‘Moving Texts: From Discovery to Delivery’ (26-30.07.2021)

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) will meet virtually in Münster, Germany, from July 26 to 30, 2021. Over 400 delegates will be attending to discuss research...

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Our 2021 SciRoc Teams Are Confirmed!

Our 2021 SciRoc Teams Are Confirmed!

Our call for registration is now closed and we’re thrilled to share the list of our 2021 participating teams. 16 international teams will join us to compete in the 2nd edition of our SciRoc...

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International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference (23-26.05.2021)

International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference (23-26.05.2021)

The Open University READ-IT colleagues Dr. Francesca Benatti and Dr. Alessio Antonini will attend the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference, 23-26 June 2021. They...

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Full registration for SciRoc 2021 is now open!

Full registration for SciRoc 2021 is now open!

Full registration for SciRoc 2021 is now open! Teams can register via our online form. The deadline for registration is Tuesday 15th June, 2021 and all qualifying teams will be announced the...

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PAL Robotics confirmed as Platinum Sponsors of the SciRoc event!

PAL Robotics confirmed as Platinum Sponsors of the SciRoc event!

We’re thrilled to announce that PAL Robotics will sponsor the SciRoc event for the second year running! PAL played a huge role in the 1st edition of our Smart Cities Robotics Challenge held in...

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Ready to take on SCIROC 2021?

Ready to take on SCIROC 2021?

SMART CITIES ROBOTICS CHALLENGE (SCIROC) 2021 : Call for interest now open! Deadline: Friday 30th April 2021. After the outstanding success of our first Smart Cities Robotics Challenge in Milton...

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Successful Conclusion to the MK:5G Project

Successful Conclusion to the MK:5G Project

A final virtual consortium meeting celebrated the successful conclusion of the MK:5G project, a flagship city initiative centred around the deployment of 5G technologies in Milton Keynes. In...

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E04: Delivery of Emergency Medicines

E04: Delivery of Emergency Medicines

This episode will be part of the 2021 competition. For a detailed and up to date description please refer to the official rule book (to be released in April). General Description. Delivery of...

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Episodes released for SciRoc 2021!

Episodes released for SciRoc 2021!

The 2nd Smart City event is set to take place this coming September in Bologna, Italy. This year, the challenge will be focused around the theme of ‘Smart Inclusion’ and, as with our first SciRoc...

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E03: Shopping Cart

E03: Shopping Cart

This episode will be part of the 2021 competition. For a detailed and up to date description please refer to the official rule book (to be released in April). General description Episode 3 aims at...

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E05: Pick & Pack

E05: Pick & Pack

This episode will be part of the 2021 competition. For a detailed and up to date description please refer to the official rule book (to be released in April). General Description. This episode...

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E02: Sign Language Generation / Interpretation

E02: Sign Language Generation / Interpretation

This episode will be part of the 2021 competition. For a detailed and up to date description please refer to the official rule book (to be released in April). General Description. A specific...

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E01: Coffee Shop

E01: Coffee Shop

This episode will be part of the 2021 competition. For a detailed and up to date description please refer to the official rule book (to be released in April). General Description. In this episode...

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READ-IT Dutch chatbot launched (10.03.2021)

READ-IT Dutch chatbot launched (10.03.2021)

The READ-IT project team are delighted to announce the launch of the Dutch version of our chatbot. The chatbot asks you a series of five different prompt questions, to encourage you to share your...

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Springer Nature and KMi extend their strategic collaboration until March 2022

Springer Nature and KMi extend their strategic collaboration until March 2022

KMi’s Scholarly Knowledge Mining team (SKM) and Springer Nature have formally agreed to extend their strategic collaboration agreement until March 2022. The new contract...

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The Conference Dashboard

The Conference Dashboard

The Conference Dashboard (also known as AIDA Dashboard) is a tool for exploring and making sense of scientific conferences which integrates statistical analysis, semantic technologies, and visual...

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READ-IT Italian chatbot launched (16.02.2021)

READ-IT Italian chatbot launched (16.02.2021)

The READ-IT project team are delighted to announce the launch of the Italian version of our chatbot. The chatbot asks you a series of five different prompt questions, to encourage you to share your...

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The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction (18, 19, 25, 26.03.21)

The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction (18, 19, 25, 26.03.21)

The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction, a conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies, will take place on 18, 19, 25 and 26 March 2021. It is not hard to find...

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READ-IT French chatbot launched (05.02.2021); Le Mans conference (31.03-02.04.2021)

READ-IT French chatbot launched (05.02.2021); Le Mans conference (31.03-02.04.2021)

The READ-IT project team are delighted to announce the launch of the French version of our chatbot, ahead of the “Voisins” conference at Le Mans Université, 31 March to 2 April 2021. The...

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Transmedia Beyond Definitions

Transmedia Beyond Definitions

The UK team members Francesca Benatti and Alessio Antonini are organizing the workshop “Transmedia Beyond Definitions” to bootstrap a cross-disciplinary discussion on the emerging practices of...

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UK-RED & READ-IT

UK-RED & READ-IT

The UK Reading Experience Database (UK-RED) is a pioneering project collecting reading experiences, for over 20 years. On 4 January 2021, the UK team of READ-IT released a new version of the UK-RED...

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Circuits, Cycles, Configurations: an Interaction Model of Web Comics

Circuits, Cycles, Configurations: an Interaction Model of Web Comics

In November 2020, Francesca Benatti and Alessio Antonini from the UK team of READ-IT, with Sam Brooker of the Richmond University of London, presented a new paper on Webcomics at the International...

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ISWC2020 – Best Demo of the Day Award

ISWC2020 – Best Demo of the Day Award

Last November, at the 19th International Semantic Web Conference, we presented one of our latest research efforts: the AIDA Dashboard. The AIDA Dashboard, is a tool that we developed in...

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READ-IT launches its friendly chatbot

READ-IT launches its friendly chatbot

Fancy having a chat about your reading in realtime? Now you can, with the project chatbot. Our friendly bot will ask you questions about your reading, interact with your answers, and suggest further...

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Bologna confirmed as Smart City host for SciRoc 2021!

Bologna confirmed as Smart City host for SciRoc 2021!

We are thrilled to announce that the second edition of our Smart City Robotics Challenge (SciRoc) will take place in the beautiful city of Bologna, Italy from the 6th – 11th September...

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READ-IT Consortium Meetings, 20-21.10.2020 (online)

READ-IT Consortium Meetings, 20-21.10.2020 (online)

The Open University were pleased to host the most recent consortium meeting on the 20-21 October 2020. On 20 October, we focussed on individual reports from all colleagues on different work...

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Presentation title: Towards a Framework for Visual Intelligence in Service Robotics: Epistemic Requirements and Gap Analysis

Agnese’s presentation at KR 2020 tops the charts

The 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020) was held virtually on September 12-18. This year, a special track was devoted to research...

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Finalists at DataIQ 2020 Awards

Finalists at DataIQ 2020 Awards

The Smart Topic Miner, which is an innovative state-of-the-art AI application for automating editorial processes at Springer Nature and improving access to scientific knowledge, has been shortlisted...

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Crowdsourcing Evidences

Crowdsourcing Evidences

The READ-IT UK technical team have published an ontology for describing the READ-IT crowdsourcing of reading experiences on GitHub. This new ontology is used to describe the data collected...

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Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Memorial Symposium and SciRoc Camp

Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Memorial Symposium and SciRoc Camp

The Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Memorial Symposium and the SciRoc Camp will be held from Monday 21 September to Friday 25 September, 2020. The symposium is a week long summit of robotics talks to...

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AIDA: a Knowledge Graph about Research Dynamics in Academia and Industry

AIDA: a Knowledge Graph about Research Dynamics in Academia and Industry

ABSTRACT: Academia and industry share a complex, multifaceted, and symbiotic relationship. Analysing the knowledge flow between them, understanding which directions have the biggest potential, and...

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Release of the Experience & Observation

Release of the Experience & Observation

We’re pleased to announce the Release of the Experience & Observation (E&O). E&O is an ontology design pattern for describing the research case studies on experience. The E&O...

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OU researchers to contribute to international conference on interactive digital storytelling

OU researchers to contribute to international conference on interactive digital storytelling

The Open University researchers Alessio Antonini and Francesca Benatti have had a paper accepted to the 13th international conference on interactive digital storytelling, ICDIS 2020, taking place on...

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Award for FASS authors at Hypertext 2020 conference

Award for FASS authors at Hypertext 2020 conference

On 15th July 2020, a paper by Open University researchers Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti and Sally Blackburn-Daniels was awarded the Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award at the 31stACM...

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Mediation as Calibration: A Framework for Evaluating the Author/Reader Relation

Mediation as Calibration: A Framework for Evaluating the Author/Reader Relation

The paper ‘Mediation as Calibration: A Framework for Evaluating the Author/Reader Relation’ tackles one the key findings of the modelling of the reading experience: the centrality of media in the...

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On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2

On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2

READ-IT project members Alessio Antonini and Francesca Benatti, and Sally Blackburn-Daniels of the Holographic Lee project, in collaboration with the Holographic Vernon Lee project, have...

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Agnese secures 2nd place at the 2020 OU poster competition

Great result of Agnese Chiatti, PhD student in KMi and member of the Intelligent Systems and Data Science group, at the 15th Edition of the Postgraduate Research Student Poster Competition,...

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Major milestone reached: Reading Experience Ontology released on GitHub

Major milestone reached: Reading Experience Ontology released on GitHub

After an intense year and half of project work, Dr. Alessio Antonini (The Open University) and colleagues from Le Mans University and CNRS-IRISA have released the Reading Experience Ontology (REO)...

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AIDA: a Knowledge Graph about ResearchDynamics in Academia and Industry

AIDA: a Knowledge Graph about ResearchDynamics in Academia and Industry

Abstract: Academia and industry share a complex, multifaceted, and symbiotic relationship. Analysing the knowledge flow between them, understanding which directions have the biggest potential, and...

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ResearchFlow: Understanding the Knowledge Flow between Academia and Industry

ResearchFlow: Understanding the Knowledge Flow between Academia and Industry

ABSTRACT: Understanding, monitoring, and predicting the flow of knowledge between academia and industry is of critical importance for a variety of stakeholders, including researchers, policymakers,...

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Full program announced for ERF 2020 Workshop

Full program announced for ERF 2020 Workshop

We are happy to announce the full program of the Workshop “Empowering robotics research and tech transfer via competitions” taking place on 5th March from 8:30 to 10:00 and 10:45 to 12:15 at the...

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Join us at the European Robotics Forum this March!

Join us at the European Robotics Forum this March!

We are very excited to invite you to join us at our workshop: Empowering Robotics Research and Tech Transfer via Competitions, taking place at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2020 in Málaga, Spain...

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Klink-2 among the top-cited ISWC papers in the past 5 years

Klink-2 among the top-cited ISWC papers in the past 5 years

We are extremely pleased to see that our paper about Klink-2 is included in the list generated by Google Scholar (link), which presents the most cited papers published in the past 5 years at the...

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READ-IT workshop at ‘The Reader in the Book’ conference, London 19-20.03.2020

READ-IT workshop at ‘The Reader in the Book’ conference, London 19-20.03.2020

Members of the READ-IT team from The Open University will be presenting the READ-IT project, running an annotation workshop, and encouraging public contribution via our QR enabled postcards as part...

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KMi Fest at The Open University

KMi Fest at The Open University

On the 14th of November 2019, the Knowledge Media Institute celebrated its 25th anniversary in the OU Library: a KMi Festival. Among the showcase of KMi cutting-edge research, Dr. Alessio Antonini...

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Re-live the Action from the Sciroc Challenge with the SciRoc-Replay Application

Re-live the Action from the Sciroc Challenge with the SciRoc-Replay Application

Following the success of the recent SciRoc Challenge, the team at The Open University have been analysing the wealth of data that were exchanged between the robots taking part in the competition...

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Robotics competition looks for new European host city for 2021!

In September 2019, Milton Keynes, UK successfully hosted the first Smart City Robotics competition ‘SciRoc’ funded by the H2020 EU programme. The aim of the competition is to highlight...

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Watch the video from the 2019 SciRoc Challenge!

Watch the video from the 2019 SciRoc Challenge!

Well… what an event! A huge thank you to all of our sponsors, teams, volunteers and members of the public for getting involved and supporting the 2019 SciRoc Challenge, and to Milton Keynes for...

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Meet HanS: the Health & Safety Robot Inspector (Oct. 2019 demo)

In this video, the Health & Safety robot inspector under development at ISDS, which is called HanS, is navigating KMi searching for a set of relevant everyday objects. The robot’s location...

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Images from the SciRoc Challenge

Images from the SciRoc Challenge

Below is a selection of photos from the 1st SciRoc Challenge, held in Milton Keynes (UK) on September 18-21, 2019...

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 SciRoc Challenge!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 SciRoc Challenge!

Congratulations to the winners of the 1st SciRoc Challenge, held in Milton Keynes (UK) on September 18-21, 2019 Episode 3 – Deliver Coffee Shop Orders: Leeds Autonomous Service Robots –...

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The CSO Classifier nominated for the Best Paper Award

The CSO Classifier nominated for the Best Paper Award

Last week, Angelo was in Oslo for the 23rd edition of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2019). Every year, this conference attracts many researchers...

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Public Q&A Friday 20th Sept: Scared or excited about the future of AI?

Public Q&A Friday 20th Sept: Scared or excited about the future of AI?

Experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from around Europe are coming to Milton Keynes this week and will be taking part in a Question-Time type debate with the general public. Surveys carried out in...

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SciRoc paper accepted for presentation at the the IEEE-Roman 2019 conference

SciRoc paper accepted for presentation at the the IEEE-Roman 2019 conference

As part of the SciRoc project, a team of researchers from La Sapienza University in Rome (Lun Wang, Luca Iocchi, Andrea Marrella and Daniele Nardi) has developed a dedicated questionnaire to...

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READ-IT presented at DH2019 conference, Utrecht, Netherlands (July 2019)

READ-IT presented at DH2019 conference, Utrecht, Netherlands (July 2019)

READ-IT team members François Vignale (Le Mans University), Francesca Benatti (The Open University, pictured above) and Alessio Antonini (The Open University) presented a paper, entitled “Reading...

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KMi member wins ISWS Summer School 2019 Award

KMi member wins ISWS Summer School 2019 Award

The 2nd edition of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) was organised by STLab-ISTC National Research Council at the University Residential Centre of Bertinoro between 30th...

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Linked Data Tutorial @ DH2019

Linked Data Tutorial @ DH2019

"Linked Data for the Humanities: methods and techniques" is the title of the tutorial on foundational Semantic technologies held in Utrecht, last 8th July, in the context of the Digital Humanities...

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SciRoc at MK Futures 2050

SciRoc at MK Futures 2050

The SciRoc team (specifically, Matthew Studley and Mark Wilson from UWE and Enrico Motta, Ian Pulford, Gianluca Bardaro and Agnese Chiatti from the OU) are currently camping in Middleton Hall in...

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The official sponsors for the 2019 SciRoc Challenge are announced!

The 2019 SciRoc Challenge will involve several industrial and academic partners.   PAL Robotics is on-board for the project-level organisation. This company, leader in the Research and...

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SciRoc Challenge Call for Participation closed – Who are the participating teams?

The call for participation to the world’s first smart city robot competition was officially closed on June 30th. 15 teams from 8 countries will be competing across 5 different robotic tasks (or...

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SMART TOPIC MINER – Improving Editorial Workflow and Metadata Quality at Springer Nature

SMART TOPIC MINER – Improving Editorial Workflow and Metadata Quality at Springer Nature

Smart Topic Miner Smart Topic Miner (STM) is an application that assists the Springer Nature editorial team in classifying the scientific literature in Computer Science in terms of a catalogue of...

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CSO-Classifier available on PIP

CSO-Classifier available on PIP

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...

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Angelo succeeds in his VIVA

Angelo succeeds in his VIVA

Congratulations to Angelo Salatino for succeeding in his viva! On 31st May 2019, Angelo Salatino successfully defended his PhD thesis on Early Detection of Research Trends. The thesis is a body of...

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How to find listening experiences in books? The LED Project at the DARIAH EU annual event.

Last week, DARIAH EU The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities....

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Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) at the DARIAH Annual Event

The first meeting of the Artificial Intelligence and Music WG has been held in Warsaw, May 17, within the DARIAH Annual Event, featuring an introductory keynote by Lev Manovich. The Artificial...

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ISDS seminar at University of Bologna: The discovery of Listening Experiences

Last 11th April, Dr Enrico Daga visited University of Bologna to give a seminar with students of  the Degree programme (LM) in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge. He presented his research on...

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New release: CSO Classifier v2.1

New release: CSO Classifier v2.1

We are pleased to announce that we recently created a new release of the CSO Classifier (v2.1), an application for automatically classifying research papers according to the Computer Science...

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CSO Classifier

CSO Classifier

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...

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Eduvocation scales up thanks to CityLABS collaboration

Eduvocation scales up thanks to CityLABS collaboration

Eduvocation scales up thanks to CityLABS collaboration. The CityLABS technical support team led by Dr Enrico Daga contributed to the development of a geospatial navigation of job adverts, released...

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Discovering new concepts for enhancing the Designing Buildings Wiki

Discovering new concepts for enhancing the Designing Buildings Wiki

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...

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

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

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...

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The Open University and Springer Nature launch the Computer Science Ontology

The Open University and Springer Nature launch the Computer Science Ontology

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...

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

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

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...

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Biztech BrightSparc Awards

Biztech BrightSparc Awards

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...

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SKM3 at ISWC 2018

SKM3 at ISWC 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...

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

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

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:...

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AUGUR presented at JCDL 2018

AUGUR presented at JCDL 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...

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Great success for the SKM3 team at ISWC 2018

Great success for the SKM3 team at ISWC 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...

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Runner-Up at Springer Nature Hack Day in Berlin

Runner-Up at Springer Nature Hack Day in Berlin

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...

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Best Paper Award at SAVE-SD 2018

Best Paper Award at SAVE-SD 2018

The SKM³ team is proud to announce that the paper “Geographical trends in research: a preliminary analysis on authors’ affiliations” presented by Andrea at the workshop...

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CityLabs Technical Workshop – Developing IoT solutions with the SigFox Network

CityLabs Technical Workshop – Developing IoT solutions with the SigFox Network

The first CityLabs Technical workshop – Developing IoT solutions with the SigFox Network – organised with the collaboration of WND UK, took place the 30th and 31st of January at the...

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The Computer Science Ontology (CSO)

The Computer Science Ontology (CSO)

The Computer Science Ontology (CSO) is a large-scale ontology of research areas that was automatically generated using the Klink-2 algorithm on the Rexplore dataset , which consists of about 16...

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Technology-Topic Framework

Technology-Topic Framework

The Technology-Topic Framework (TTF) is a novel approach which uses a semantically enhanced technology-topic model to forecast the propagation of technologies to research areas. TTF characterizes...

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Augur – Early Forecasting of Research Trends

Augur – Early Forecasting of Research Trends

Augur is a novel approach to the early detection of research topics. Augur analyses the diachronic relationships between research areas and is able to detect clusters of topics that exhibit dynamics...

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Springer Nature HackDay Summary Video

Springer Nature HackDay Summary Video

Couple of months ago, the SKM3 attended the Springer Nature HackDay (here is the post). Just not long ago, Springer Nature released a short video featuring us. Summarised is also Angelo’s...

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SAVE-SD 2018

SAVE-SD 2018

After the great success of the past three editions, we are pleased to announce the SAVE-SD 2018 workshop. SAVE-SD aims to bring together publishers, companies and researchers from different fields...

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Supporting editorial activities at Springer Nature

Supporting editorial activities at Springer Nature

The Open University team and Springer Nature have launched a new research project with the aim of developing new innovative solutions to support editorial activities at Springer Nature. The project...

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Rexplore

Rexplore

Rexplore leverages novel solutions in large-scale data mining, semantic technologies and visual analytics, to provide an innovative environment for exploring and making sense of scholarly data. In...

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Smart Book Recommender

Smart Book Recommender

The Smart Book Recommender(SBR) is semantic application designed to support the Springer Nature editorial team in promoting their publications at Computer Science venues. It takes as input the...

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Our paper is among the top 5 most read in its areas

Our paper is among the top 5 most read in its areas

Great news for our team! A paper authored by Angelo A. Salatino, Francesco Osborne and Enrico Motta, published last June to PeerJ Computer Science journal, was one of the top 5 most viewed in...

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K-CAP 2017 SLIDES – Forecasting the Spreading of Technologies in Research Communities

K-CAP 2017 SLIDES – Forecasting the Spreading of Technologies in Research Communities

Forecasting the Spreading of Technologies in Research Communities @ K-CAP 2017 from Francesco Osborne  ...

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Runner-Up at Springer Nature Hack Day in London

Runner-Up at Springer Nature Hack Day in London

On the 29th November 2017, Angelo, Andrea and Thiviyan attended the second edition of SpringerNature HackDay in London (@ SpringerNature Campus). Aliaksandr Birukou, Executive Editor of...

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Springer Nature HackDay

Springer Nature HackDay

On the 29th November 2017, the SKM3 team attended the second edition of SpringerNature HackDay in London (@ SpringerNature Campus). Aliaksandr Birukou, Executive Editor of Computer Science at...

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CityLabs – Supporting high growth entrepreneurs

CityLabs – Supporting high growth entrepreneurs

In November CityLabs team Cathy Tate, Alan Fletcher and Ian Pulford were asked to present CityLabs at the Barclays High Growth and Entrepreneur dinner at Stadium MK.  Barclays are building a...

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CityLabs – Proud to celebrate with Biztech

CityLabs – Proud to celebrate with Biztech

This Years Biztech BrightSparc Awards was held at the MK e-Spark venue in central Milton Keynes. The Biztech BrightSparc Awards celebrates all that is great about local innovation in tech, awarding...

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CityLabs – Off to a flying start

CityLabs – Off to a flying start

On the 19th October the CityLabs team hosted over 40 SMEs at the Open University to kick start the support programme. This event saw the project partners and supporters come together to outline the...

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ISWC 2017 SLIDES – Supporting Springer Nature Editors by means of Semantic Technologies

ISWC 2017 SLIDES – Supporting Springer Nature Editors by means of Semantic Technologies

Supporting Springer Nature Editors by means of Semantic Technologies from Francesco Osborne...

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How are topics born? Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas

How are topics born? Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas

 “How are topics born? Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas” is a peer-reviewed paper submitted to PeerJ Computer Science. The paper has been...

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Department Research Seminar: Early Detection of Research Topics

Department Research Seminar: Early Detection of Research Topics

On the 8th February, Angelo delivered a seminar to the KMi in which he described the work he has been doing in the last two years for his postgraduate research. He started with a little bit of...

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Klink-2: Automatic generation of large scale taxonomies of research areas

Klink-2: Automatic generation of large scale taxonomies of research areas

Klink-2 is an application which takes as input large amounts of scholarly metadata and automatically generates an OWL ontology containing all the research areas mined from the input data and their...

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TechMiner

TechMiner

Techminer Architecture. TechMiner is a novel approach, which combines natural language processing, machine learning and semantic technologies, for mining technologies from research publications and...

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Smart Topic Miner

Smart Topic Miner

Smart Topic Miner (STM) is a web application which uses Semantic Web technologies to classify scholarly publications on the basis of Computer Science Ontology (CSO), a very large automatically...

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The Rexplore team and Springer Nature launch a new collaboration

The Rexplore team and Springer Nature launch a new collaboration

The Rexplore team and Springer Nature have launched a new research project with the aim of developing new innovative solutions to support business processes in Springer Nature. This new initiative...

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SAVE-SD 2017: a meeting point for the Scholarly Data Community

SAVE-SD 2017: a meeting point for the Scholarly Data Community

After the success of the past two editions, the third edition of the Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data workshop (SAVE-SD) has been recently announced. SAVE-SD aims to...

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Strong presence of the Rexplore team at EKAW 2016

Strong presence of the Rexplore team at EKAW 2016

Last week Francesco Osborne presented two research papers of our team at the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) in Bologna, Italy. The first...

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EKAW 2016 SLIDES – TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications

EKAW 2016 SLIDES – TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications

EKAW 2016 – TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications from Francesco Osborne...

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EKAW 2016 SLIDES – Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction Based on Innovation-Adoption Priors

EKAW 2016 SLIDES – Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction Based on Innovation-Adoption Priors

EKAW 2016 – Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction Based on Innovation-Adoption Priors from Francesco Osborne...

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ISWC 2016 SLIDES – Automatic Classification of Springer Nature Proceedings with Smart Topic Miner

ISWC 2016 SLIDES – Automatic Classification of Springer Nature Proceedings with Smart Topic Miner

Automatic Classification of Springer Nature Proceedings with Smart Topic Miner from Francesco Osborne...

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Smart Topic Miner shines at ISWC 2016

Smart Topic Miner shines at ISWC 2016

Last week Francesco Osborne attended the 15th edition of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016) where he presented our work on the Smart Topic Miner (STM), the innovative application...

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A new solution for classifying scholarly publications: Smart Topic Miner

A new solution for classifying scholarly publications: Smart Topic Miner

The process of classifying scholarly outputs is crucial to ensure timely access to knowledge. This process is typically carried out manually by expert editors, leading to high costs and slow...

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Best Paper Award at SAVE-SD 2016 (WWW2016)

Best Paper Award at SAVE-SD 2016 (WWW2016)

On the 11th of April 2016, Angelo and Enrico won the Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2016) of the 25th...

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Rexplore at ISWC 2015

Rexplore at ISWC 2015

Francesco Osborne attended the 14th edition of the prestigious International Semantic Web Conference where he presented the paper “Klink-2: Integrating Multiple Web Sources to Generate Semantic...

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ISWC 2015 SLIDES – Klink-2: integrating multiple web sources to generate semantic topic networks

ISWC 2015 SLIDES – Klink-2: integrating multiple web sources to generate semantic topic networks

Klink-2: integrating multiple web sources to generate semantic topic networks from Francesco Osborne...

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Ekaw2014 – Inferring Semantic Relations by User Feedback

Ekaw2014 – Inferring Semantic Relations by User Feedback

Ekaw2014 – Inferring Semantic Relations by User Feedback from Francesco Osborne...

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EKAW2014 – A Hybrid Semantic Approach to Building 
Dynamic Maps of Research Communities

EKAW2014 – A Hybrid Semantic Approach to Building 
Dynamic Maps of Research Communities

EKAW2014 – A Hybrid Semantic Approach to Building 
Dynamic Maps of Research Communities from Francesco Osborne...

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Clustering Citation Distributions for Semantic Categorization and Citation Prediction

Clustering Citation Distributions for Semantic Categorization and Citation Prediction

Linked science presentation 25 from Francesco Osborne...

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First Prize for Rexplore at ESWC Semantic Publishing Challenge

First Prize for Rexplore at ESWC Semantic Publishing Challenge

The groundbreaking Rexplore system for analysing scholarly data was awarded first prize, as Best Semantic Publishing Application, at the “Semantic Publishing Challenge”, which was held in...

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KMi attends the 12th International Semantic Web Conference

KMi attends the 12th International Semantic Web Conference

Enrico Motta and Francesco Osborne presented their paper “Exploring Scholarly Data with Rexplore” (co-authored with Paul Mulholland) in the highly competitive Research Track (21%...

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