Member
Francesco Osborne 
Research Associate
+44 (0)1908 332948
I am a Research Associate at the Knowledge Media institute (KMi) of the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. My research focuses on Semantic Web, Semantic Publishing, User Modelling, Data Mining and Human Computer Interaction. Currently, I am working on the Rexplore project (http://technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk/rexplore/) and on the MKSmart project (http://www.mksmart.org/).
I am the main developer of Rexplore, a system which 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.
For the MKSmart Project, I am working on the Garden Monitor, a mobile application which supports efficient water management in gardens (http://www.mksmart.org/gardenmonitor/).
More information about my work at http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/francesco/.
Keys: Semantic Web, Semantic Publishing, Data Mining, User Modelling, Knowledge Extraction, Ontologies, Scholarly Data.
News
28 Oct 2016
29 Sep 2016
25 Apr 2016
28 Oct 2015
05 Jun 2014
Publications
Basave, A., Osborne, F. and Salatino, A.A. (2016) Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction based on Innovation-Adoption Priors, 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016)
Osborne, F., de Ribaupierre, H. and Motta, E. (2016) TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications, 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016), Bologna, Italy
Osborne, F., Salatino, A.A., Birukou, A. and Motta, E. (2016) Automatic Classification of Springer Nature Proceedings with Smart Topic Miner, 15th International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan
Osborne, F., Salatino, A.A., Birukou, A. and Motta, E. (2016) Smart Topic Miner: Supporting Springer Nature Editors with Semantic Web Technologies, Demo at International Semantic Web Conference 2016, Kobe, Japan
de Ribaupierre, H., Osborne, F. and Motta, E. (2016) Combining NLP and semantics for mining software technologies from research publications, Poster at World Wide Web 2016
