The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) was set up in 1995 in recognition of the need for The Open University to be at the forefront of research and development in a convergence of areas that impacted on the OU's very nature: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies, and Multimedia. We chose to call this convergence Knowledge Media.
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I am the Executive Assistant to the Director of KMi, Professor John Domingue. I also support and PA for KMi's Executives, Alan Fletcher (Lab Manager) and Jane Whild (Administration Manager).
My current research at KMi is focused on the analysis of online communities (Social Web). My aim is to understand users' behaviour and needs and to develop prediction models to foreseen risks and...
Publications
Daquino, M., Daga, E., d'Aquin, M., Gangemi, A., Holland, S., Laney, R., Penuela, A. and Mulholland, P. (2017) Characterizing the Landscape of Musical Data on the Web: State of the Art and Challenges, Workshop: Second Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web - WHiSe II at Co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Vienna, Austria
Mannocci, A., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2017) 2100 AI: Reflections on the mechanisation of scientific discovery, Workshop: Re-coding Black Mirror at The 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC '17), Wien
Liu, S., Allocca, C., d'Aquin, M. and Motta, E. (2017) TAA: A Platform for Triple Accuracy Measuring and Evidence Triples Discovering, Demo at The International Semantic Web Conference 2017
Future Seminars
Blockchains as a Component of the Next Generation Internet
This event will take place on Tuesday 31 October 2017
Prof John Domingue - KMi, The Open University
Blockchains are best known as the technological underpinning for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency highlighted for its potential to revolutionise the financial world. For example, a World Economic...
Recent Seminars
Drahomira Herrmannova
Mining Scholarly Publications for Research Evaluation
This event took place on Monday 16 October 2017
Anita Khadka
Can we do better than Co-Citations? Bringing Citation Proximity Analysis from idea to practice in research paper recommendation
This event took place on Wednesday 11 October 2017
Trung Huynh
Learning word representations with deep learning
This event took place on Wednesday 04 October 2017
Prof Ian Witten - University of Waikato
Mining MOOCs to assist second language learners
This event took place on Thursday 28 September 2017
